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I install window 7 on my computer maybe about 5 mouths ago then installed it on my laptop about 3 mouths ago and not the one on my laptop is saying it is not a genuine copy??? I only installed it twice.. any help would be appreciated....
thats gay i bought something and they are telling me that i can install it on two of my computers
You don't buy the software. You buy a licence that allows you to use the software and the medium, and any manuals that might have come with it. In this case, the licence states that you can only install the software in one computer.
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Let's see.... 20,000,000 users.... $200 for each license per computer... yeah, I'll stick with Linux.
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Microsoft has a really bad habit of trying to control authentication for its OSs in boneheaded ways. It's one of their defining traits, I would say (WGA anybody?).
And they still haven't found out about the guy in my school who was selling leaked versions of windows 7 last year for about 5 pounds (I really hate KDE -- I can't find out how to change the damn keyboard map to UK and I don't know where the pound sign is on a US QWERTY. Seriously unintuitive here -- surely the way to change the keyboard map would be in the System Settings -> Keyboard & Mouse section, but no. I know how to change keyboard maps for the kernel, but not KDE because KDE is retarded. That's the price I pay for trying to be open minded...).
There isn't a pound sign on US QWERTY. Unless you mean #, which is shift+3, but I doubt it.
What does the kernel have to do with keyboard layouts? That depends on X.
A bad worker quarrels with his tools.
| I know how to change keyboard maps for the kernel, but not KDE because KDE is retarded. |
| What does the kernel have to do with keyboard layouts? |
The virtual terminals (which the kernel/keyboard driver (which is inside the kernel) control) have the right keymap, it's just X/KDE that doesn't and I couldn't find out how to load a new keymap with KDE.
I might just use FreeBSD. I finally managed to get a working bootable FreeBSD disk (for some reason, none of the disks I made would boot) so I might install it instead.
The kernel just receives raw keycodes (e.g. 1 for escape, 2 for F1, etc.). It's up to the program to decide how to interpret them.
I disagree. Some of the scan codes are 2 bytes, so obviously the driver has to deal with them, to turn them into ASCII chars or whatever... There used to be a file (something like linux-x.x.xx.x/drivers/<???>/keyboard/keymap.c) that showed the keyboard map they used. Anyway that's besides the point; KDE still sucks. It looks good, yes, but it sucks in about every other way. In fact, everything sucks except what I use because I'm always right :^)
| Some of the scan codes are 2 bytes |
If the driver returned nothing but ASCII characters, user level programs would be unable to set keyboard layouts because they'd have no idea about the "shape" of the keyboard.
On KDE the keyboard layout chan be accessed in the international settings ( or however it's called, can't remember )
BTW how is this related to the subject of the thread?
BTW how is this related to the subject of the thread?
| BTW how is this related to the subject of the thread? |
It's not; I added it as a side note and an explanation as to why I said "five pounds" and not £5, and helios and firedraco responded to it.
Things in the lounge go off topic so easily.
Out of pure curiosity... does anybody like WGA?
Out of pure curiosity... does anybody like WGA?
A friend of mine once asked me to remove WGA from his system.
I think it's not much different from a trojan horse since it's a program that you didn't ask to have and it sends personal information over the internet which can break your system
I think it's not much different from a trojan horse since it's a program that you didn't ask to have and it sends personal information over the internet which can break your system
I don't like WGA. It sounds a lot like spyware to me... and it's useless. Who was it who said that they managed to trick WGA with Wine on Linux?
Also, speaking of trojans, I downloaded a bunch of music and was looking for a converter (I forgot that VLC can play over 9000 types of music files). Anyway, thinking "I don't care if it's a virus, I'm arrogant and stupid" I installed one. Anyway it turned out to be a trojan/rootkit.
Luckily, I had Cygwin so I just had to
and then
and make a new account, 'cause it disabled a bunch of stuff.
Good times :)
Also, @helios:
[ http://linux.die.net/man/1/loadkeys ]
Also, speaking of trojans, I downloaded a bunch of music and was looking for a converter (I forgot that VLC can play over 9000 types of music files). Anyway, thinking "I don't care if it's a virus, I'm arrogant and stupid" I installed one. Anyway it turned out to be a trojan/rootkit.
Luckily, I had Cygwin so I just had to
ps -eaWfand then
kill -SIGABRT <all relevant PIDs>and make a new account, 'cause it disabled a bunch of stuff.
Good times :)
Also, @helios:
| The program loadkeys reads the file or files specified by filename.... Its main purpose is to load the kernel keymap for the console. |
[ http://linux.die.net/man/1/loadkeys ]
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