A Few More Appointments

[drplokta]

bohemiancost is Minion i/c Mandating Apple Computers.
frostfox is Minion i/c Creative Speling.
colaescent is Minion i/c Genres.
jhaelan is Minion i/c Minions, having convinced me that Minions can be considered to be a foodstuff.
smofbabe is Minion i/c Bagels.
yonmei is Minion i/c Slash.
swisstone has been promoted from Minion i/c Railways to Minion i/c Transport. armb needs to talk to him about cycling facilities.

The Minions i/c Tea, Potatoes, Cheese, Coffee, Transport, Mandating Apple Computers and Brassica/Legumes are doing good work -- keep it up. The Minion i/c Not Being Devoured by Cthulhoid Entities may have a tricky job on his hands. All other Minions are expected to legislate very soon.

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Who Wants To Be a Minionair!

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

What about the Minion i/c Vanuatu huh? *sob*

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Everything is proceeding as I have forseen.

[andrewducker]

I've always wanted to be i/c "Being geeky enough to hack around with Windows, but not actually geeky enough to use Linux"

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

If he appoints you, we'll each need a big office to manage all the consequent Inter-Minion Correspondence.

Minion i/c BGETHAWW,BNAGETUL
Yadda Yadda
Whitehall

Dear Andrew

WINDOWS HACKING

It was good to meet with you and your officials on Thursday. I thought it would be helpful if I dropped you a line to clarify a couple of issues that were raised at the meeting.

Firstly, use of the Windows OS. Although new instances of Windows are obviously banned, you raised the important point of the fairly-geeky wishing to reinstall their existing operating systems. I undersatnd that your sub-minions have been in discussion with mine for some months on this point. We are firmly committed to the Government's overall target of reducing Windows installations, with a view to completely ending the use of Windows in the UK by 2010. Nevertheless, I quite understand your point that Windows users find they have to reinstall their operating system frequently. Therefore I am content for this practice to continue for the time being. Your sub-minions have assured mine that you will monitor the situation and report regularly to ensure reinstallations are not becoming excessive.

However, you went on to raise the issue of transferring operating systems between machines. As this is not allowed under the Windows EULA for most copies of Windows, and, moreover, raises the risk that this could be used as a means of installing Windows on illegal new computers, I cannot agree at this time. You suggested it might be helpful to remit this point to the Supreme Dictator for his decision.

[hand written scribble at bottom] -- look forward to seeing you and Lil in Hinckley, yours as ever, Alison]

BOHEMIANCOAST
MINION I/C MANDATING APPLE COMPUTERS

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Whoops, that 'government' in the middle should be 'Supreme Dictator', obviously.

Windows EULA

[libertango.livejournal.com]

"(Y)ou went on to raise the issue of transferring operating systems between machines. As this is not allowed under the Windows EULA for most copies of Windows..."

Depends on one's definition of "most". From the standard Windows XP EULA:

"13. SOFTWARE TRANSFER. Internal. You may move the Software
to a different Workstation Computer. After the transfer,
you must completely remove the Software from the former
Workstation Computer. Transfer to Third Party. The
initial user of the Software may make a one-time
permanent transfer of this EULA and Software to another
end user, provided the initial user retains no copies of
the Software. This transfer must include all of the
Software (including all component parts, the media and
printed materials, any upgrades, this EULA, and, if
applicable, the Certificate of Authenticity). The
transfer may not be an indirect transfer, such as a
consignment. Prior to the transfer, the end user
receiving the Software must agree to all the EULA terms."

So, if one assumes that "most" installations of Windows are not XP, you may be correct.

However, given that XP has been the only version available for sale since October 2001, this seems unlikely. (Well, OK... I think Windows 2000 has also been available for some large customers.)

Re: Windows EULA

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Most installations of Windows are OEM, and you can't transfer those. That's the standard EULA. Anyway, this is getting away from the essentially trivial.

[andrewducker]

Ha! As if my department will follow the brief of _your_ department!

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

That's the entire point of inter-Minion correspondence. Otherwise you have anarchy and we have to prevail simply because our computers work, whereas your computers work fine after you've tweaked them a bit and taken the side off and cooled them with peanut butter and hang on a minute there's a dll violation oh, I'm sure I can sort it out if you just give me half an hour or so.

[andrewducker]

Your interminion correspondence has been filed.

It will be dealt with as soon as I acn get this Exchange server working.

or shortly after the heat-death of the universe, whichever occurs first.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Is there a position (or should one say 'seat on the bench') for Minion i/c Law?

MC

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Pah! GAZUMPED!

[peteyoung.livejournal.com]

Is there a position for Minion i/c In-Flight Service? 18 years ought to count for something, and I make an excellent cup of tea.