Hvis man fortæller Windows XP, at der er tale om en notebook, bliver grafikkort og IDE/SCSI-controller ikke inddraget i aktiveringen. Endelig skal hukommelsens størrelse også være identisk på begge computere.

Our only major beef with XP is the Activation Scheme. Frankly, it's terrible. Judging from the other online media who've posted about this "feature" as well, no one seems to like this thing. Unless Microsoft wants to seriously tick off their user base, they need to tone down the Activation policies and give the end users more control of the operating system that they're paying for.

Besides this, we really like XP. After messing around with a few previous builds, Windows XP looks and feels like a very solid operating system. It's got the stability of Windows 2000, a cool OSX-like graphical feel, and oogles of native hardware and software support. While it's not quite ready for full-on server/workstation/home deployment yet, it's safe to say that by the time they launch, XP will be the most advanced operating system on the planet. We like.

Biennale.py er kreeret af European Net Art Collective i samarbejde med epidemiC, som er kendt for sin programmerings-viden. Kunstnergruppen satser dog på, at udgivelsen af sourcekoden på 10 cd-rommer og et billede af sourcekoden – som desuden er trykt på 2.000 t-shirts – vil være den mest smitsomme distribution.

This new method of anti-piracy has a number of key benefits over existing, "lock out" schemes. Most mass market pirates would be unwilling to play each of their games through to such a level as to discover whether the FADE software had been cracked successfully, resulting in an influx of useless games appearing on the Net and at car boot fairs, two places renowned for Warez. "No matter what a pirate may say," thinks Codemasters, "anyone considering getting an illegal version will not be convinced they'll get the fully-playable game."