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Try running $ cat /dev/input/mice and wiggling the mouse. Control-C to kill it. If you get a screenful of garbage at least you'll know it's working. Edit: That command might require a sudo. Edit: Garbage and beeping

echo off set /P name="> " del %name% echo on

runas. Either the command-line utility or the shell extension. Similar to sudo but with more features. IIRC Vista is going to provide a more convenient UI as part of the effort to get people to stop using Administrator accounts.

I never have understood that view. The UIs don't look all that similar to me. Vista still looks like Win9x and OS X still looks like it can't decide whether it's OPENSTEP or MacOS. There are some broad similarities but most of them are historical (WIMP) or industry-wide trends (eye-candy). Apple likely wouldn't have been happy with the successors to the PPC970. IBM seems to be experimenting with the "narrow, deep, stupid, fast, parallel" school of microarchitecture. It didn't work when Intel tried it and it hasn't worked particularly well for IBM so far but they seem to determined to stick wi

It's in the dhcpcd package. Ubuntu must not include it in the base install.

It's dhcpcd.

Oh good: It's a General Protection Fault. The are at least 31 causes (really, I counted) of GPFs ranging from RAM bursting into flames to pointing an SSE instruction at the wrong place. It's the magical super-exception that does everything except produce useful diagnostics. If swapping RAM doesn't work it'll be easy to think of other solutions because it could be caused by anything. A blank blue screen would have been almost as useful.

Alarms going off... ...security has locked down my brain and activated counter-memes.... That would be the MBR. Oh noes.

Indeed. Power Options control panel, Advanced tab.

You're correct. The problem isn't the preview (or even opening the email) but the way in which the email is interpreted. In theory the interpretation of the email is orthogonal to the display: the app might interpret it in the background and trigger the payload without showing you anything, or it might show you the raw email without interpreting it. In practice I doubt there any email apps that run whatever they see for no reason but it's definitely possible. I can imagine a too-clever spam filter doing it.

Win9x error messages are pretty useless. SHELL32.DLL could be borken. Lots of other possibilities. Low resources seems improbable but not impossible.

Japan has yards?

SpeedSwitchXP, mentioned in SpeedStep page shanenin linked, works quite well. I use it to keep our laptop pinned at its minimum frequency most of the time.

Celestia supports Windows.

Correct.

FYI: There is a calendar extension for Firefox/Thunderbird/Seamonkey. It's also available as a standalone application as Sunbird.

The profit margin on (desktop) Windows is 85%. The development of WinXP was paid for by Win9x and W2k; if you bought WinXP you were really paying for Vista and Vienna.

I don't have access to KDE ATM. You could do the old $ find ~ -name '*Invasion.S01E14*torrent'

Huh. Every installation of KDE I've used has had more screen hacks than the standard installation of xscreensaver. KDE has about a dozen more in the K/Ubuntu installation I'm using now.

Well that's a great design. You aren't going to hurt the plane with a .22 but you might just lose a finger when the obstruction in the barrel causes the gun to explode upon firing. I didn't know that ACME was into small arms.

$ rm -- $FILENAME or $ rm ./$FILENAME

The screensaver knobs are in kcontrol somewhere. KDE usually ships with a superset of the xscreensaver screen hacks. The current Kubuntu version has some really nice OpenGL hacks that aren't (yet?) in the xscreensaver package. You should be able to use xclipboard under GNOME.

It's the license. The disc costs a couple cents and the information is free. The legal right to use the information on the other hand.... (Actually I think the it's only the permission to install the system that's provided by the EULA. You have a right to use a legally installed system even without agreeing to the licence.)

No doubt. ~115 million customers, ~10 million with broadband, lots of business customers, bound to be spammers and h4x0rs.

Crummy error message. test() takes zero positional arguments and zero or more keyword arguments. >>> def test(**foo): ... return foo ... >>> test(one=1) {'one': 1} >>> test(one=1, two=2) {'two': 2, 'one': 1}