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UPDATED: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 17:59
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:05 PM

FREMDFIRMA


Lemme share with you Peter Gutmann's writeup on the nightmare that is Windows Vista, and trying to get it to do *anything* but try to give you orders when it comes to "premium" (read: just about ANY) content.

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

This is why the box I am rebuilding right now runs XP/SP2.

-F

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Tuesday, December 23, 2008 5:59 PM

DREAMTROVE


I rebuilt mine to run on linux. Ubuntu 8.10 on an SSD. Oh, life is sweet. Meanwhile, my brother has gone all NWO on me, and that's just not good.

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