Posts by Hugh Forsyth

Antique Hw win

@ Nuke

I installed Windows 7 Pro on a 5 1/2 year old Dell (*). I was expecting the worst as the Windows 7 compatability test said Aero wouldn't work (amongst many other things). Low and behold a smooth upgrade and everything is working fine (including aero).

Genuinely feels loads faster than when running XP (although I may achieved similar benefits by reinstalling XP). No crashes either. Ultimately saved me the cost of buying a new PC (for a while anyway).

So greener than an unripe tomato then.

* Reasonably high spec when I got it and have upgraded memory to 4GB and disk to 500GB over the years

@ ElReg!comments!Pierre

I thought the 1 year thing was quite funny.

This would reduce my legal music purchases

Re: Anonymous Coward's comment

"I'll remember a catchy lyric from the radio, on a jukebox or hear someone else singing it as they walk past. Then I'll go google that lyric to find the song. Then I'll head off to $legal_music_store and buy it (if available)."

I've just done a quick check of the last 10 CDs/Vinyl I bought and 4 of them fall into this category. In other words these sites have generated over £40 of legal sales.

That sounds to me more like free advertising than copyright theft.

Saying 40% of all my music purchased involved lyric sites is probably not very scientific but it feels about right (I'd guess 20-50% result from internet searches of some form). I buy way more music than most people I know too so am probably the sort of people record companies should keep sweet.

Kerching!

Well I just bought one anyway. I'll let you know how I get on if this article is still active when it arrives. I think this may be a couple of weeks so perhaps not.

I'm a Linux virgin so will be a good test subject (although I do have some average Unix skills so maybe not exactly a novice consumer).

Bring it on.