Microphone don't go

[Akzle]

I'm not exactly twiddling my thumbs and taking 2 hour lunches.

i don't put on pants till after lunch most days....

i'd heard of phoning M$ and re-activating keys but it just seems like such a pain in the arse when you can just delete the activatey part of windows.

there's a good chance he's on webmail, so none of his emails etc are saved, however, point taken.

XP doesn´t have good driver support for some SATA drives which could leave him in bigger trouble than he is already ie wiping his hard drive and not being able to install XP without a third party driver disc, Vista does have better driver support out of the box. Your worried about security issues but you use pirated software?? Suggesting he wipe his existing OS without using some of the free mirroring software available to get him back to where he is now is just retarded. Maybe think twice before handing out advice like this unless your prepared to help the guy undo your mistakes.

oh my bad. if you feel the need to put your HDD back to how it was
insert: get linux, work out your HDDs and do a dd if=srX of=*.iso
but srsly, with all your files backed up aforehand, i wouldn't bother.

i would put it to ya that XP has generic drivers that will get the SATA drive working/readable/installable to (also applies to network hardware), might not be full functionality and support (but ALL windows suffer HDD management problems and have no low-level support) but again, install the proprietary drivers after OS install

i have no issues with security. windows has issues with security. (although less and less as people get dumber)
pirated windows runs as well as/ better than not pirated windows. but the best windows is the one i don't run because i'm too busy playing with my penguin.

[jonbuoy]

i don't put on pants till after lunch most days....

i'd heard of phoning M$ and re-activating keys but it just seems like such a pain in the arse when you can just delete the activatey part of windows.

there's a good chance he's on webmail, so none of his emails etc are saved, however, point taken.


oh my bad. if you feel the need to put your HDD back to how it was
insert: get linux, work out your HDDs and do a dd if=srX of=*.iso
but srsly, with all your files backed up aforehand, i wouldn't bother.

i would put it to ya that XP has generic drivers that will get the SATA drive working/readable/installable to (also applies to network hardware), might not be full functionality and support (but ALL windows suffer HDD management problems and have no low-level support) but again, install the proprietary drivers after OS install

i have no issues with security. windows has issues with security. (although less and less as people get dumber)
pirated windows runs as well as/ better than not pirated windows. but the best windows is the one i don't run because i'm too busy playing with my penguin.

Dude your playing with your penguin too much, dont care where you "put it" XP won´t install on a lot of SATA drives without 3rd party drivers which you have to use a floppy for unless you patch the install disc with Nlite or similar , if you´d had practical experience you would have found this out. Stop giving shit advise, blaming an OS without even proving if its a hardware issue or not is ridiculous, as is installing another OS to cure a soundcard issue. And how easy is it for a hacker to write a backdoor route into a hacked version of windows?

Number one thing to do before you start "fixing" someone elses PC is to make a mirror so you can put it back to where it was at the beginning or be able to browse for documents or files that got forgotten. All operating systems have their pluses and minuses, why is it just because you have chosen to run Linux you have to try and convert other people, worse than bloody Jehovas witness MAC fanboys.

[scracha]

I'd heard of phoning M$ and re-activating keys but it just seems like such a pain in the arse when you can just delete the activatey part of windows.

90% of the time there's no need to...as I said.....my seat of pants experience says that as long as it's not activated more than twice in a 6 month period, it activates over the net no problemo. When it doesn't, then nowadays the phone call takes about 5 minutes and involves punching in lots of numbers to the auto attendant....no need to speak to Indira and Srl-Lanka anymore. Do it once...do it right.

Dude your playing with your penguin too much, dont care where you "put it" XP won´t install on a lot of SATA drives without 3rd party drivers which you have to use a floppy for unless you patch the install disc with Nlite or similar ,

I've got a slipstreamed XP Home and Pro for just this purpose....it made my head hurt following the NLite instructions. Non cracked, genuine so it needs a proper license key......if anyone wants the ISO ftp location then just pm me (can't post it publicly for obvious reasons). No...there's no charge.

Anyone tried any of these "black" edition "have a zillion drivers" XP ISO's you find on the torrent sites? I can still see us doing lots of Win XP re-installs for the next 3 or 4 years. DoubleDriver is great but in instances when old drive is borked, it's a PITA having to trawl sites to find drivers.

All operating systems have their pluses and minuses, why is it just because you have chosen to run Linux you have to try and convert other people, worse than bloody Jehovas witness MAC fanboys.

I think anyone working in IT these days has to have at least a working knowledge of all 3 (or 4 if you count BSD). I tried converting a few customers to using Suse Linux for their desktops about 5 years ago.....hell...they were mostly using RDP anyway but gave up after all the whining. That's "real world".

Main barrier to switching home and small business customers to Linux is a program called Microsoft Office (Large businesses with Win Server, ERP or CTI solutions are a completely different ballgame). Without Exchange Server, Outlook is generally a piece of shite so Thunderbird + various add_ons is an easy convert as it's free and pisses all over Outlook . Microsoft would be bonkers to release Word & Excel for Linux. OpenOffice/ApacheOffice/Libraoffice/whateveroffice is OK for "spare machines" in say a workshop but it takes a real effort to run a business that talks to other businesses without MS Office.

Integration with PDA's and other devices also a huge hurdle. "Cloud based" services are starting to change this but that comes with its own issues. Lot of customers using Linux on their servers (hosting virtual machines, caching proxies, etc), they just don't know it .

Microsoft have been savvy enough to realise the challenges from Linux/Apple which is why amongst other things they're a bit more security conscious, throwing in Office Starter and making system backup and recovery a lot easier. Compared to XP (which to be fair is now ancient) and Vista (yes...it was shite), I get very few customers with major Windows 7 issues that are not hardware related. I personally think for the average user running the average PC, Windows 7 running as a "standard user" is a very smooth, stable and productive operating system with good support.

I have an older MacBook but I really cant' see what all the fuss is about with Apple. Mostly use it for the firewire recovery thingie. It's better than XP/Vista but not as good as Win 7. Hopefully next OS-X release will not be so underwhelming but suspect Apple concentrating on marketing phones and tablets as their margins on that are far greater.

[Akzle]

Dude your playing with your penguin too much, dont care where you "put it" XP won´t install on a lot of SATA drives without 3rd party drivers which you have to use a floppy for unless you patch the install disc with Nlite or similar , if you´d had practical experience you would have found this out. Stop giving shit advise, blaming an OS without even proving if its a hardware issue or not is ridiculous, as is installing another OS to cure a soundcard issue. And how easy is it for a hacker to write a backdoor route into a hacked version of windows?

Number one thing to do before you start "fixing" someone elses PC is to make a mirror so you can put it back to where it was at the beginning or be able to browse for documents or files that got forgotten. All operating systems have their pluses and minuses, why is it just because you have chosen to run Linux you have to try and convert other people, worse than bloody Jehovas witness MAC fanboys.

care to answer your own question?
and i don't usually make "mirrors" i make "images".

when did i suggest replacing OS as a solution to this problem? or "blaming an OS" for the problem?
this thread has evolved since the OP and gone beyond a microphone that doesn't work.

have you contributed any solution here yet?

Many older mobos (the ones you're likely to install XP on) run their southbridge with IDE/ATA channel support either auto or emulation and a fantastic thing knows as AUTOMATIC HOST CONTROLLER INTERFACE, so XP will see it as a plain jane drive. as previously stated, you wont get full functionality/throughput but you can suss that after you've installed the OS.
thanks anyway.

i'm sorry if you felt pressured ot "covert" to linux. that wasn't my intention.

a good diagnostic tool is a linux liveCD

i just don't see how that can be misinterpreted. as "windows vista is to blame for your undiagnosed soundcard [sic] fault and you should install linux"

[sil3nt]

I installed XP over Vista (RC). Not a good idea.

[jonbuoy]

care to answer your own question?
and i don't usually make "mirrors" i make "images".

when did i suggest replacing OS as a solution to this problem? or "blaming an OS" for the problem?
this thread has evolved since the OP and gone beyond a microphone that doesn't work.

have you contributed any solution here yet?

Many older mobos (the ones you're likely to install XP on) run their southbridge with IDE/ATA channel support either auto or emulation and a fantastic thing knows as AUTOMATIC HOST CONTROLLER INTERFACE, so XP will see it as a plain jane drive. as previously stated, you wont get full functionality/throughput but you can suss that after you've installed the OS.
thanks anyway.

i'm sorry if you felt pressured ot "covert" to linux. that wasn't my intention.

i just don't see how that can be misinterpreted. as "windows vista is to blame for your undiagnosed soundcard [sic] fault and you should install linux"

OK the answer is its very easy for some people out there to build a back door into a hacked OS and upload it to a torrent site. You dont even know how old his motherboard is, he is running vista at the moment, is it a laptop/desktop? Mirrors/images just a word don´t get all hard about it. If he can´t suss out with unistalling/installing drivers or checking the basics which he has already done I would either get a shop/pro to look at it, or throw a USB sound card adaptor in and see if that works. I don´t feel pressure to convert to linux, I already use linux in some areas.

[slofox]