Recent content by qwakrz

I took the plunge a week ago and removed Vista x64 from my gaming laptop and swapped to W7 full time. So far only a few little problems (hotkeys etc) but all have been sorted out by enabling the problematic program to run in Vista compatibility mode. This is working out alot better than Vista...

Is it me or are the RIAA / BMI the only company that successfully manages to get people to pay if they want to advertise an artist. Youtube did the right thing in the UK as the licence fee shot up like a NASA rocket and its right for them to take a stand about it. The sooner that the RIAA /...

They probably are on bread and water now after their safe and secure banking investments all collapsed. I think the music and film industry would do a lot better if they reduced the number of quick buck releases they did and make much better music and films. I mean, how many music remixes...

They have asked to block all file sharing? So, we just need to block places like iTunes, The RIAA websites and any other place you can download music from or view pictures. Technically these are all file sharing sites as there is one file on a server that is given out to people on request...

Alot of companies are after the quick buck nowadays. Blu-ray should have launched differently. Start off without the stupidly high licence costs that are needed to have anything to do with blu-ray on a disc or a player so that they are cheap to make then, as the production costs fall...

Green drives have their place. I use a green drive in my HTPC where it runs alot and access speed / data transfer rates are not the main thing needed. What I would really love is something like the old Quantum BigFoots where speed was second to size. It would mean 3-4TB of storage in a slow...

Not real.. The simple mention of breaking pins on an intel chip gave it away for me.

Ok, hands up who didn't see this coming..... Ok, all you RIAA employees you can put your hands down now. The RIAA don't like it when things don't go to plan and cannot stop the people they are suing using their own legal right to defend themselves. I expect to see the case dropped before...

and 99.995% of money obtained by the RIAA is never passed onto the final artist, this includes all legal sales.. I think mine is a more accurate statistic than theirs.

I will be either watching live OR downloading it. What's the betting the RIAA find a way to put a block on it either by finding a judge that is willing to stop it or use other means to DOS the service.

I will keep my CD's. No DRM to worry about (some have it but its now all removable) and the quality is the same or better than any of the download sites plus a system crash means I can still listen to my music while rebuilding my PC / waiting for the servers to come back online. I do see...

Sweet, got my key. I think this source may vanish soon when MS realise people are getting keys this way pre- release.

Technet subscribers have been able to download since Wed. Its the public beta people (like me and what seems like 18.99billion others are trying to get) that cannot get the key or download. I am willing to download from a torrent but as with everyone else I still need a BETA key or do a...

They have also pulled all the related sign up pages (had each step saved so I could go back 1 step every time it timed out).

It now says "Wondows 7 Beta coming soon!