[hblug] [OT] Vista Fun

[Daniel Faulknor]

chris morris wrote:
> Daniel Faulknor wrote:
>> As people may remember, at the last meeting we were talking about 
>> people getting locked out of their (vista) computers when vista 
>> detects that they are doing something illegal.
>> I have just proved that this is true.  Imaged my windows xp cd to my 
>> hard drive, and hey presto! a locked up system (even numlock/capslock 
>> etc had frozen) only fix was to reboot my system.
>>
>> Now if that isn't an invasion of privacy, i don't know what is.
>>
>> Apart from the glaringly obvious DRM/anti-piracy things, vista is no 
>> worse (i wont say its better, though it probably is in some aspects) 
>> than windows xp. Aero is pretty cool, not that it couldn't be done 
>> with linux.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
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> M$ are going to alienate a lot of their existing customers - which can 
> only be good for Linux ( and Mac )
> They are effectively branding you a criminal without proof that you've 
> done anything illegal. In their eyes you "might" be doing something 
> illegal so we'll step in and stop you.
> It would be interesting to see if it would let you ISO a CD or DVD of 
> other material ( home movies or personal data)  - or does it just 
> forbid making ISO's of any kind?
Most isos work fine.
> I've been told it wont let you install any p2p software either ( even 
> though there are non- illegal uses for p2p software )
I have uTorrent, frostwire etc installed, no problems
> Care to try it Dan and let us know?
>

Oh.. and it did it when i was copying PHP files too (ones that i have 
written)