For those constantly rebuilding their XP computers

[Blakamin]

Nup. Don't work. If it did, why would Microsoft have bothered with the online activation nonsense and not just kept shipping things with use-anywhere install keys?

Read up on 'digital signatures' and 'authentication'. Inneresting stuff. It's what lies behind the necessity of l33tly cr4xx0rz1ng XP; ie, why you have to apply a patch to executable code on your machine to run it without activation.

it WILL activate copies of windows.... like i said , we use it at work... and have for a month...will take photos of the process if ya like... next time we do it...
none of our boxes are online or lan connected so it saves us $$$ in time by not ringing MS


[edit] just rang the manager and found out where we got the info....MS support...

[badlieutenant]

I got to agree to a certain extent. Since going with the BSD back end mOS and certainly increased in my ratings to the point where if someoe gave me a sexy 17" widescreen powerbook, I'd probably leave OSX on there.

Gotta say there is NOTHING I miss about windows. Mmmmm DoomIII on Linux (for those of you who were going to come back at me with "b..b...bbut what about games").

*how'd cajun get into my post*

ahhh fps ? does it run better on linux ?

[riffer]

ahhh fps ? does it run better on linux ?

Don't have any evidence but I would imagine it may very well run faster.

Carmack creates most of his code on a *nix box. I've heard the game is ported (albeit extremely well) to windows.

[Cajun]

I got to agree to a certain extent. Since going with the BSD back end mOS and certainly increased in my ratings to the point where if someoe gave me a sexy 17" widescreen powerbook, I'd probably leave OSX on there.

Gotta say there is NOTHING I miss about windows. Mmmmm DoomIII on Linux (for those of you who were going to come back at me with "b..b...bbut what about games").

*how'd cajun get into my post*

The banana man is everywhere

[toads]

I have four computers at home. An Acer Extensa 366T laptop in the lounge where I surf at home mostly running Windows 2000 Prof SP6, a Compaq Deskpro 4000 (5200MMX) running Mandrake 9.1, A Compaq EN running XP Pro SP2, and my beloved G4 Sawtooth running 10.3.5.

No particularly OS loyalty. I use what gets the job done. I started with a computer my Dad and I built from plans in an Electronics Australia magazine (hex code programming - urgh), then Commodore 64, then mainframe Unix, then went to VMS, then DOS, Windows 2, OS/2, MacOs 6.0.8, MacOs7, Windows 95, Windows NT, MacOs 8, Windows 2000, MacOs X Public Beta, MacOs X (all feline species up to Panther so far). Also tried a number of different *nixes on Macintosh before MacOs X came out. LinuxPPC was good, but the company went bust. Learnt a lot about Open Firmware on macs out of that one.

So I guess I've used just about all of them.

Not too bad for a guy who's never been in IT...

very impressive, I kknow everyone will shoot me down in flames for saying this but I love XP, and as for restore points, run spybot every few days and it creates restore points at the same time as removing spyware, couldn't be easier.