Tuesday, August 27, 2002

Naked PC == Stealing -- 10:00 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

At least from Microsoft's point of view. Apparently when you buy into one of M$'s volume licensing plans you are only buying upgrades. Thus if a company buys "naked" (i.e. no OS) machines and format the drive with a standard install of Windows, you'd better hope you aren't audited. Yep, that's right, you get it twice: once when you buy the PC, and once when you buy M$'s volume license. I wonder how many companies are in non-compliance right now because of this? Check out this page on Microsoft's site for a good laugh. Or cry. Thanks Linux Today.

J.t.Qbe comments: But remember, Microsoft isn't a monopoly and is good for the economy. Bah. Qrap like this is the reason why I won't spend money on a M$ "OS" ever again. Yep, it's going to get tough when they force everyone to XP and there are no more games available for lowly 98/95/3.1/DOS, but you have to take a stand somewhere.

The Master comments: I remember looking at all their licensing crud online late last year and not understanding what they wanted of us, but knowing somehow we, as consumers, were getting hosed. Now I know I was right.

Qbe Is Back. . . -- 10:27 am CST, Update by J.t.Qbe

. . . and ornerier than ever. Well, maybe not. After 10 days offline, I finally got the cable modem and home network back on the internet last night; I'm officially back at work today. We're almost completely moved into our new house (I just need to go clean out the old one and get a few miscellaneous possessions). Now we get to enjoy the thrill of unpacking. For the first time in our married lives (and 11 moves) we're throwing away boxes. Hooray!

While offline I was able to spend some quality time with Age of Wonders II and Morrowind, both great games if you're a fan of turn-based strategy or first-person RPGs.

Ultimate Bar -- 9:50 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Hmmm, I'll have to see if I can convince my wife to let me pick up this baby and turn it into a bar for my basement. Oh the possibilities! Wouldn't a couple of homebrew taps look suh-weet coming out of that?

J.t.Qbe comments: Nah, what you want is a VAXbar.

Mozilla 1.1 Released -- 9:41 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

The Mozilla team has released version 1.1 of its open source web browser. Check out the release notes, then start downloading a build for your OS!

The Master comments: FWIW: I just downloaded the Mozilla 1.1 install for Win32, and gave it a whirl to check out my business website. Works perfectly and does an excellent job of rendering our site. I really like all the detailed page info you can get from Mozilla. Good stuff.

Monday, August 26, 2002

NWN 1.23 Patch Released -- 7:14 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Bioware has released the 1.23 patch for Neverwinter Nights. It is available via the updater in the NWN launcher and as a manual download (1-6M), although the latter method is not recommended. They list a lot of fixes, the most significant of which is that SecuROM disk checking has been removed. That was causing a lot of problems for a lot of people. If NWN was GPFing on launch for you, this probably will fix it. Hopefully that will also aid in the Linux port.

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