I love listening to people attempt to put on a British accent here. Then I go home on Skype/Ventrilo/Mumble and hear a real accent, and everyone's way off it :p
it's a big problem because there weren't many cars here in the past
well I was going along the main highway and in the bike lane, going straight ahead
he pulled out and expected me to stop from my ridiculously fast speed - and basically he forced me into the main road (out of the bike lane) where you're not even allowed to go on a bike
so I slowed down right in front of him, turned round, and swore in English and Chinese
he basically pulled out when he should have waited
the reality is, there are no 'rules' in Beijing - the only one people seem to care about is stopping at a red light
@Gareth in our case its the other way around. we have cyclists who think its fine to ride along the expressways... 4-5 abreast.. or this particular street where traffic laws arn't understood ;p
@Borisyo: proxy = tunnel your internet connection through another system. VPN = securely connect to a lan. You can run a proxy in the VPN tho - which is what many vpn providers do, i suspect.
also, editing all these old posts from the past brings up a lot of junk that is good for a moderator to look at and clean up (like delete old closed posts)
yeah exactly - I'm trying to do that as well, but as I pointed out to @nhinkle I'm only human :) at least it's a good side effect of the edits bumping onto the front page
@Gareth FYI, I wouldn't bother editing any questions that are closed... only edit if they are closed as an exact duplicate... anything else is probably a waste of your time, as it will eventually get deleted. keep up the good work! :)
well... if they're not edited then the questions wouldn't surface and they'll just hang around being crap questions. So I guess by them being bumped you guys see them and can go ahead and delete.
and potentially they could be reopened :) (Unlikely though)
I already have a few ideas, but you should probably have a restriction (i.e. "you can only nominate X users")
I guess I'll need some help from a Windows specialist later on today. I've got a Windows 7 laptop here with a nasty bluescreen issue and don't know where to start.
I set up a Ubuntu server in VirtualBox following these guides:
http://mydebian.blogdns.org/?p=148&cpage=2#comment-7131
http://adigitalnotepad.com/post/howto-setup-ubuntu-server-on-virtualboxinstructions
The connection worked, including SSH. I signed up at dyndns.com and configur...
"Windows 7 Setup does its compliance checking before the phase of Setup where you format the disc. (Unlike with Windows Vista.) This means that you can format your existing hard drive, and blow away a previous Windows version, and not worry about activation. If it was there, Windows 7 will still activate."
That sounds like a typical "I just want to legally upgrade my operating system" problem nightmare where you seriously start thinking about just downloading a hacked version.
true, but there's usually all sorts of stub stuff it writes on the drive so it can recover the install when you reboot
it sounds like all you want to do is install Windows 7 and edit the partitions as part of that, not keeping XP
from reading that super long article that does sound possible (and normal)
I think MS would be weird to implement an installer that depended on you having a certain partition, but letting you remove that partition before it did its verification :)
Yup, but after verification they'd have to actually store it on the hard drive somewhere
because if the computer reboots before everything's fine and activated, how would the installer be able to perform the check again if the drive's already formatted?
