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Troll #

Posted Wednesday 14th January 2009 20:42 GMT

And, as any proper nerd knows, the only way to assuredly get rid of a troll is to hack it into smaller bits and light them on fire.

"Trolls are infamous for their regenerative abilities, able to recover from the most grievous of wounds or regenerate entire limbs given time. Severing a troll's head results merely in temporary incapacitation, rather than death. After cutting off a troll's head or other limbs, one must seal the wounds with fire or acid to prevent regeneration. Because of this, most adventurers will typically carry some sort of implement capable of creating fire."

James O'Brien

Never heard of them #

Posted Wednesday 14th January 2009 21:17 GMT

Trolls abound. Why wait this long to say anything? money hungry assholes

Tom

Not a true Troll #

Posted Wednesday 14th January 2009 22:03 GMT

This is a company that has developed and sold a working system.

A True troll is just a lawyer(s) who buys up questionable patents cheap so they can sue companies in the hope that they will be paid to go away... They never develop anything but lots of bits of paper. They are most common in Texas but have been seen in other parts of the world.

Not a troll #

Posted Wednesday 14th January 2009 22:03 GMT

I don't think its fair to call these guys trolls. After all, they have a business that has been licensing this technology as viable product and gave good-faith demonstrations of it to the likes of Intel / Dell / HP.

To me a troll would be where someone is granted a patent or buys a patent where its obvious that the won't be making a real product but they want to extort from existing users of the 'patent'.

kindaian

One button... one click... #

Posted Wednesday 14th January 2009 22:03 GMT

All your keys and buttons belong to me...

Anonymous Coward

Do this guys understand prior art? #

Posted Wednesday 14th January 2009 22:56 GMT

This is nice joke, right?

They filed for patent in 2002 and HP had product on the market in 1999? Just a quick Google search returns this press release:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1999_April_5/ai_54291373

You just have to love these patent trolls...

Jay Jaffa

Shower of C++unts #

Posted Wednesday 14th January 2009 23:16 GMT

I've arrived. America deserves these litiigous monkeys. When the Chinese take the place over for debt default they'll start a new era of real competition - which Troll lasts the longest in the noon-day sun. Tenko for C++unts. Wake up & start working

Alan Dougherty

Toshiba? #

Posted Thursday 15th January 2009 10:53 GMT

I remember old tosh laptops having a partitioned recovery drive from OEM setup, to restore without needing to use supplied discs.. timeline would be around 1995(ish)..

Damn I miss tosh lappy's.. you could kick them down the stairs, then jump on them after.. and still they would laugh at your futile attempts to get a warranty claim. Even had a BBC reporter come to us to fit more RAM to his 'hardened' tosh.. just a pity we couldn't physicaly open the metal armoured case to do the job.

It is irrelevent that these guys have a working business model.. as there is far too much prior art to validate the patent. That's why everybody they have been in contact with has looked at it and went.. 'no thanks'..

They might not look like trolls, but I bet their offices are still under a bridge.. and they just can't help but jump out every now and then (like when banks cancel their overdrafts)...

Meh.

Vista does this? #

Posted Thursday 15th January 2009 10:55 GMT

So why can I only recover a Vista system backing using my original Vista install disk and running the 'Restore' option? Surely if it was a second OS I wouldn't need to do this...

Anonymous Coward

Vista? #

Posted Thursday 15th January 2009 10:55 GMT

Aren't Vista backups made to a separate volume that doesn't contain a secondary OS? Aren't the restores made by booting into Win RE off the installation media, which is technically still Vista, and has existed since XP as Win PE?

Daniel B.