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Ask HN: Win 7 installation - misleading about multiboot? 
I am working on a compiler which i need working on linux
and windows. I have been developing on GNU/linux all
this time, but decided to now check that it works well
on windows too. So I purchased a copy of windows 7
Home premium - and installed it on my laptop.

It had 12 (1-3 primary and 5-13 xtended) partitions
and I have 3 GNU/linux variants installed on it
(you never know what you need on a rainy day)

When you reach the install screen on windows 7 there
are 2 links below the "Install Now" button.

1. What to know before installing windows
2. Repair your computer.

I clicked on the "What to know ..." link and it has
a note like this.

Heading:
"To install a custom (new) version of Windows 7"

Note:
"Use custom when you want to replace your
current operating system entirely;
When you want to keep your current operating
system and install Windows on an available,
separate partition of your hard disk (multiboot);
or when no operating system is currently installed"

When I read this note I was happy,
because it meant that I would not have to
tweak with the boot loader after installing windows.

However after it finished the installation,
there was no option to boot linux.

I called up microsoft support - first in the US
and then in India (this number +91 80 40103000).

In india i spoke to Shruti and then a technical supervisor
Sudhakar Bhagavanth - the IVR number is: 110414013468005

I pointed out the text to them,
both of them made me put in the installation DVD.

They said that I had installed windows
over my linux partiton etc
- i said no, the windows 7 installation is not
honouring the multiboot which was shown
on the initial screen. I had various arguments
with Sudhakar - he first tried to argue that
multi means 2, then said it did not work
because i had 3 installations of linux, but would have
worked it i had say 1 Mac OS, and 1 Windows and 1 Linux,
but not 3 versions of Linux, about how I had
installed windows on the linux partition,
or Other operating Systems means Windows XP
( it is clearly written in the note " ... keep
your current operating system ") - My current
operating system is linux.

No, dont believe me - it's all recorded on the call
and that tape is in the call center.

I feel that the information presented in the note is misleading and thought I would post here just to
figure out if others feel the same or is it just me.
I like without points, but would still prefer some way to know the quality of the comment. Maybe some visual indication (both color and a symbol maybe) would help. Then we would know a comment has been rated higher than normal. Set a cutoff small enough to be useful in smaller threads (like 5 or 10 points), and leave it at that.
Thanks, this sounds promising. I'll take a look. I never cease to be impressed by Amazon's collection of services.
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Any free email provider can be used for fake, one-time, temporary email addresses - it just takes a bit more time to register another one. It's just annoying when email is needed to create an account, and way more annoying when it filters email addresses for no reason.
Long time desktop Linux user here. I used Linux on the desktop in the late 90s when the only usable GUI apps were Netscape 4.7, Xemacs and terminal windows and there were some half-baked Windows95 like window managers. I got a heck of a lot of real work done on that config though.

The darkest day for Linux was when Windows 2000 came out. It was a Windows that didn't crash, had good networking and performed pretty well. A lot of people I knew who had been using Linux up to that point switched back.

I think with Android and Ubuntu over the last few years there's been a new dawn and Linux has caught back up as a end-user OS. For instance, I needed to scan a document and I was prepared for the hours of fiddling that I thought was probably necessary to get this to work with my Canon scanner/printer/copier. I used Simple Scan, it worked perfectly the first time I used it without reading the manual and with no configuration and it saved to a multi-page PDF. Mind=Blown!
I use Rackspace's cloud files: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/files/

Similar product to S3.
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Plus advertisers.
It mostly sucks for people that cannot get a premium account but have neat tricks to get free.

Living in germany, I usually head to starbucks (their access points are routed through the UK) to refresh my 2 weeks travel time on my free account every now and then. I would buy premium, because 'spotify is not available in this country'. We have Simfy, but they are far worse (especially their AIR client).

But in the end, its a hack with no benefit to spotify (I get advertisement for british social health plans) so I can understand they are cracking down on this.
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Or you can use the old username+SOMETERMYOUFILTEROUT@gmail.com.
The goal should be attracting customers that want to read your emails. If they are using disposable emails, that means you do something wrong. Maybe you should skip email requirement?
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If you're using Emacs and git, you might want to look into magit, which allows you to touch-type through common git operations. If you commit a lot, this will speed you up significantly.

http://philjackson.github.com/magit/

I use custom Elisp to combine magit, git-blame, and other commands into a unified git environment:

https://github.com/emk/elisp/blob/5db6db4e7d96a3ef1c0a5fee76...
https://github.com/emk/elisp/blob/5db6db4e7d96a3ef1c0a5fee76...
https://github.com/emk/elisp/blob/5db6db4e7d96a3ef1c0a5fee76...

It's especially handy to be able to pull up git-blame information for the current buffer with just a few keystrokes. This turns your git commit messages into a layer of hidden code comments.
I really don't understand how people can find such little value in music that they don't think it worth paying £10 or even £5 a month to listen to unlimited amounts of it on their computer and mobile.

Spotify is easily the best thing I subscribe to, it's fantastic value.

People's perceptions of price are just weird. They will pay £5 for a cocktail they can enjoy for 5 minutes, but not £5 for a whole month of music. People on the comments are complaining that it's not fair to students. Students always seem to have money for beer.
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Don't you know that having a plus sign in your email breaks half of the websites' regex.

"There is an invalid character in your email address,
please try again."
Yes, and this is a war that cannot be won. Measures like this will simply escalate it to the next level. The reason people use throwaway accounts is because they don't want to receive email as a consequence of signing up. The solution seems simple: don't require email to create an account.
I have no experience in submitting Apps to the App Store, so I might be talking rubbish. But one could simply submit two binaries - or linking to the Mac App Store version, as suggested in another comment.

It`s like a bundle; pay once, run everywhere. Cultured Code`s Things for instance could sell such a bundle with a discount.
I can imagine several different PHB deciding to require that the developers use this.

The problem is that if the user doesn't want to read you email, they won't.

This service is like selling megaphones to advertisers - it doesn't make people buy your service/read your email but it does increase the profit for the megaphone suppliers.
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And if a website enforces this, well, I didn't want to sign up anyway.
I blame "The Social Network" movie. That was the first movie that made software development look like a fun way to party, make tons of money and get hot chicks. The Palo Alto dev house pot smoking scenes and the fictional Sean Parker antics were quite amusing in that regard. That, and there's easy money in software these days.
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There's some heart breaking stories in the comments. A young student, supported by his lonely mother, is now forced to be a pirate again. Honest hard-working individuals now have to drink two whole beers less every month to pay for a subscription. It's a sad, sad day for cheapskates ;'(
Spotify isn't available in my country, Grooveshark is.

Care to guess which I use?

Care to guess which I will still use, if Spotify becomes available?
Since you are moving anyway, use this as an opportunity to pitch out as much stuff as you can.

Congrats on the marriage and good luck with the move.

Take care.
Yes, but Spotify fights free music. And there is no free beer!
I'm sure it's been brought up before, but what about only displaying comments either above or below a certain threshold. For example, hide the points on a comment once it's above 4.

Or show points after someone has upvoted or downvoted a comment?
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"... I would like to approach a person about a domain name they own. ..."

As an experiment I'd like you to open a nix console, type in whois* domain name and see who owns the domain and who the domain is registered with. Is it with GoDaddy? If it is GD are using their superior market knowledge against you.

Wishlist for startup ~ one that allows searches w/o selling info & negotiates for domains & makes the transfer stress free & transparent.
Here's a thought: instead of dealing with crap like this, what about a service for mailing lists that collects email addresses, and stores them internally.
Companies wanting to reach customers can put the signup form as js on their websites, but never get the actual email addresses. The mailing list service passes the newsletters on to subscribers, who are free to click links and form a more direct relationship with the client company, but guarantees to users that:

1. It will never directly pass email addresses to the client company or any third party.

2. All unsubscribes will be respected immediately.

So you can sign up with confidence. The downside for the client company is it doesn't get those sweet, juicy email addresses. The upside - lots more signups, and no fake addresses.
I completely agree with this, I pay for premium and £9.99 is the sweet spot, its about what I would normally spend on music a month (a lot more than in recent months).
My brother (17) has 4 accounts. There's tricks to everything.
I would wager that they are cutting bleeding so they can afford to launch in new markets. The current model would have killed them if they ever launched in the us with the number of users they would attract.
but it cannot overtake commercial software for consumers

This follows from the definition of "consumer". Consumption, in our society, means buying (and subsequent ownership). If you only use free software, you're not a consumer of software. You're simply using what people are choosing to share with you.
i particularly like the way he throws humor into his writing. like this: Joel's Totally Fair Method to Divide Up The Ownership of Any Startup

a little humor goes a long way
I would prefer if HN would let me configure if I want to see points or not.
A couple of things.

This is a terrible wall of text that's really hard to read.

Your asking a support question and this isn't the forum for that, I'd try LinuxQuestions.

Two quick notes, look for a partition recovery program (TestDisk from cgsecurity maybe). Also Windows installations can get wrongly marked as "recovery" by Grub (a popular boot manager).

Lastly, I flagged this.
I wonder if it's possible to fix that too -- that is, could the server receive and store encrypted data from a bunch of people without ever knowing who contributed which data?
Don't give away your ideas before you even start coding.
It was actually quite lengthy- I for one appreciate a TLDR on even the good reads to let me decide if I should spend the time on it right then.
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Imagine doing that all day long, every day.

And here's a version which has been automated with some strings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca0Ea_oPto8 and apparently got its inventor immediately fired.
I believe some companies have made agreements with Twitter which allows them to use Twitter in their name. I don't think Twitter does this anymore.
No, it's not about fairness; it's about loss aversion bias, and how it can lead to suboptimal economic outcomes. It leads to poor investment choices all over the place. People are worse off when they don't control for it.
So, where is the code?
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Exactly, and when there is a good commercial reason for going to the moon (or anywhere else).
>please avoid any sentence of the form "So what you're saying is...."

No, the point of that statement was to break down what you were saying for you because you might not have been aware (and still aren't apparently). The OP was saying the people posting here on HN were whinny people with an entitled mentality. So no, what I said was in no way a misrepresentation. Then you came on defending what he said without pointing out that you disagreed with his application of his theory to HN posters (you still haven't).

So you point out some mythical situation where you think someone would be behaving irrational. What does that have to do with this thread? No one has claimed to be mad about the money for the money's sake so this whole line is a straw man. Unless you (like the OP) are claiming other people here are behaving this way.

>et's say that I am making $50,000 and I am perfectly happy with it. More money would be nice, but I do not consider that more money to be at all essential to my happiness. Suddenly I find out my coworker is making $60,000, or even $100,000. It is irrational for me to now be unhappy with the same $50,000 I was happy about thirty seconds ago.

Again this is wrong. The mythical person was happy because he/she assumed the market rate for what they did was $50k. Now they've just seen evidence that it's actually $100k. The rational response is to take action as they're potentially leaving $50k (or more) of your value on the table. The person's happiness was based on a lie or misunderstanding and the new unhappiness is based on finding out the truth.

You're only going to live so long and you only have so much earning potential. Leaving money on the table for no other reason than some feeling of happiness is the furthest thing from rational.
Personally i'm a paying user because i want the mobile version and i find the ads annoying, but i'm happy to pay for it and i do think its good value. However, you can understand why people find this crappy, because they'll just take the path of least resistance, which is to pirate music again.
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I use sneakemail.com as a way of filtering mail and tracking email addresses I give out to web sites and mailing lists (/not/ as 'disposable' addresses), and both their domains (sneakemail.com and the newer snkmail.com) are blocked by this service.

Blocking these email addresses is counterproductive. The only site I've encountered in the past that blocked Sneakemail was Digg, and I didn't sign up as a result. They /may/ have blocked a few 'disposable' accounts with this strategy, but they /definitely/ lost at least one 'real' user because of it. In addition to this, I have no doubt that there were orders of magnitude more 'disposable' Hotmail and GMail addresses signed up for Digg that there would have been Sneakemail addresses, so they need to deal with the 'problem' of undetectable disposable accounts anyway.

Sneakemail is a great service, BTW. I hope stuff like this doesn't render it useless.
Feeds (atom, rss) solves this quite well already.
That title grabbed my attention right away!
so it is true - free plans never work.
Have been expecting this for a while, and I think their paid subscriptions are good value, but I wish companries would be more honest and open with anouncements like this rather than trying to spin it as a positive change.

They probably think this change sucks, lots of their user's certainly will but the truth is ad revenue can't support free users streaming unlimited tracks. Spotify needs to be profitable to continue the service. Just tell us that.
Replaced Icebird for me, love it :)
Sorry about the formatting. My main gripe was about the misleading multiboot mentioned in the Windows 7 pre-install notes screen.

Edit: I fixed it and removed the non-relevant tech question.
Hey, that's wonderful.

I'm just saying that you're not in any way going to avoid learning JS by starting with Coffee -- you still need to know:

* How JS numbers work.

* All about "this" (dynamic scope).

* Function vs. block-level scope.

* How the prototype chain is structured.

... and all those other un-obvious things about JavaScript.
I was a premium subscriber, but cancelled it for various reasons:

- Spotify had downtime every now and then, and it's annoying if you can't listen music during that time (except for tracks kept for offline mode).

- The sound quality for premium users is good, but not perfect. I hear the difference between lossless and lossy, or least I imagine that I do ;).

- I like to own my music, and use it across iTunes Home Sharing devices.

- I encountered artists that are absent.

So, for the time being I will buy CDs, and use the free Spotify as a discovery tool. I fully agree that the price points are fine for the casual music listener who doesn't care about the problems listed above.
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Disclaimer: I am talking there on WordPress, and will sort something out for HN readers outside of the UK next month.

If you're a HN'er and you're looking to come down tonight, do say hello.
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There's also Splenda:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Splenda

Of the artificial sweeteners I've tried, it tastes the most like table sugar to me.
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They made Touiteur (Twitter client for Android) change theirs to Plume for Twitter, which sucks. Not the new name (well, it does a bit), but the fact that they made them change a great name. Grrr.
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I use HN to hear about news and read interesting articles, and also to occasionally engage in conversation. Points on comments have absolutely no bearing on being able to do that, so I didn't even notice at first that they were gone.

It is handy to know the points of your own comments, which can help you adjust your behavior to fit in with community expectations -- but we haven't lost that ability, so I'm not even sure what 'cost' this poll is referring to.
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What an odd question? I guess a lot depends on the orientation of the fan and it's spin direction. If the fan is accelerated by blowing, then it may spin 'too fast' as the PC rep suggests. However, if the fan is accelerated by sucking then it may still spin 'too fast'.

Personally I find it a little strange that fans would be put at risk at all. Surely the fan speed is rated higher than the actual maximum spin from the power it normally receives?
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slightly related - does anyone have any tip on buying domain names from bulk dealers (not sure what they're called)

we own the .net name, but the .com name has a bunch of ads sitting on it. Made an inquiry and was told they wanted US$1000, which we don't have at the moment.

[Edit: name's for sale here http://www.buydomains.com/ if that helps]
Love this. First Twitter app I've got no complaints about. Hopefully will get push notifications at some point, then I can ditch the official app entirely.
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I missed the "Lisp is great, but the masses just don't get it" bit so thanks for the interpretation. Isn't a short blog comment (take it or leave it) enough for you? The author's got to produce a thesis with full supporting documentation on a point you suppose he's making? This is straw dog stuff. I wonder why it gets you hot under the collar?
It really depends on why you would want a PhD. There are many good reasons. I am just finishing up a PhD myself (after first completing a masters degree) and I tell everyone who is considering a PhD to only pursue it if they have a good idea of how a PhD fits into their future. For example, you may want to become a professor, or get access to some specific research jobs.
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Isn't ITMS the largest distributor of digital music in the world, and 3rd or so large of music generally? I can imagine if they let you stream your music/video purchases from the cloud that they'd end up with a few customers for that.
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True, but I would need to learn these regardless of which syntax I use to write my JavaScript. And coffee actually helped me to become aware of/understand some of these issues: -> vs. =>, for example, or the prototype code produced by your 'class' syntax.
I was fully expecting a very troll-ish article. Instead, I got a list of very interesting features I agree would be very nice to have and an excellent discussion here on HN.

I can sum it up with a smiley :-)
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Having a bit of aspergers I am seldom able to interpret feedback.

HN has been such a shelter of safety for me because of the clear (in comparison) and immediate feedback.