Posts by Mark Harris
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Just noticed, you need to register and get a product key within 30 days of activation. FYI
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There's a Windows 7 beta on the cover DVD of the March NZ PC World. 32-bit only, expires on 01/08/09
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Having set a torch to my music cool, I should point out that the first record I ever bought with my own money (actually, with a record token from my dad's work's Christmas party in Greymouth) was 'Out on the Street' by Space Waltz. That's got to count for something ...
I remember seeing them on New Faces or something and my brother (7 years older than me and therefore the epitome of cool, of course) and I just went WTF to each other. 'Twas awesome. I was 12 and in New Plymouth. Went to see the Sweet play at Brooklands Bowl that year.
And I remember taping Rick Wakeman's "No Earthly Connection" from the radio from 2ZM on a Sunday night (I'm thinking John Hood? Mid 70's?) - I don't know if I've ever seen it on sale here.
Never really got punk, I have to say, except for the odd individual act. Mostly I saw it as "no talent required, make as much noise as you can and swear at your audience" - which in hindsight was a little over the top ;-) Though one of my prize possessions for a while was the first Ultravox album "__My sex, waits for me/like a mongrel dog/on the end of a tightrope leash__ " -magic!
Used to listen to the Mockers at the Terminus in Wellington (even when they were still the Ambitious Vegetables) but that was because they played in our pub, rather than because I wanted to see them. The Terminus had one of the early Ghostmuncher/Galaxian table units and we owned it on a Friday night. What they didn't have was proper 3 phase and so Fagan had to come and ask us to turn off the game as a) it was too noisy and b) it was tripping the circuit breaker.
Never taped them, but ;-)
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I'd be looking at getting a new case unit, Dan. What's the model?
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Go on, what have you got to lose?
Famous last fucking words, them ;-)
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saying "they made money in a boom" doesn't prove the point that copying media doesn't have a negative impact in income. The boom was there, it doesn't mean home taping caused that boom.
So why does the reverse of a boom mean that downloading caused that?
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I read Simon's point as being about the "loss" portion of the statement rather than the "sustainable" portion, as evidenced by him following it up with "especially when one considers that the recording industry enjoyed a massive boom during the 'home taping' era."
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And, IIRC, service packs don't install in safe mode anyway, as that's really only for doing diagnostics, but I may be mistaken on that.
In other news, my PPC Mac Mini had a HDD seizure the other night and is pretty much a paper weight. Iwasn't using it for much but it seems too pretty to just dispose of. Is it worth getting it fixed, d'you think?
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The PC came with Vista installed, but we also had a copy of Vista Ultimate and used that for the re-install last week.
Ah, something it could be is that the original (OEM) Vista left something behind (unless you reformatted the disk for the reinstall) which is fucking around with your reinstall. Not sure about that, but it would depend on what type of install you did. I've run into this a few times with OEM XP installs,which frankly is about the point where I reporpse the box and add it to a linux cluster, if it survived being tossed hard against the wall, that it)