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So much for "pre-planning", try sticking to the doughnuts and coffee.
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"1 you must have physical access to the machine so that you can plug something into the FireWire port
2 whoever owns that machine must be daft enough to have automatic login turned on"
I could name 50 morons that do exactly that. We have students that leave their laptops in the computer room turned on, unattended with auto-login enabled while they go off to wander around aimlessly.
1) Considering some people prefer XP to windows 7 makes XP fair game for a comparison to a current release. In a way it is a compliment that XP is still so relevant to home users and particularly businesses.
2) Totally
3) I am both a Linux and windows expert and know that windows is far more trouble for users for many, many reasons.
[joke alert] Perhaps he may have stopped using his computer -- he may have actually completed the task he set out to achieve.
I had problems with connectivity on Black Ops (PS3) which was corrected by upgrading my Virgin throttled 10M connection to 50M, problem solved.
I found that if I watched a couple of iPlayer shows and had an hour on Black Ops I got throttled (punished) for using the bandwidth I was paying for.
Virgin's service has been growing progressively worse over the past two years, they seem incapable of delivering the bandwidth that they sell to their customers and then punish customers for using that which they are paying for.
"A spokesman for the British Library said the deal with Microsoft was simply different and there was no question of scale problems with its technology"
No just problems using it with software other than Microsoft's. At least partnering with Google will increase the number of folks that are able to use the digital archive.