[rescue] Wooohhhooo XP -> 0 to BSOD in 12min23sec

[Steve Sandau]

I'm curious about the activation, too. I like my anonymity; what I
remember about the activation starts to eat away at that. I *think* that
the registration includes four numbers from hardware on your pc, like
CPU serial, hdd serial, and some others and includes them in the
registration somehow. I guess that relates to the re-registration under
some circumstances when hardware is changed. I guess there is also a
"developer" install or something that allows for a little more
flexibility in hardware changes. I believe that there are "ways around"
the "phone home" stuff, too. ;)

The biggest problem is that this is all done under the guise of being
for *our* protection somehow... I complained to my coworker about newer
versions of Windows treating users like complete, utter morons ("My
Network Places' and "Computers Near Me" in win2k for example). He says
"Well, look at some of the people using computers. Discouraging. The
appreciation for a stable, intelligent, useful operating system seems to
be disappearing. Users seem to want pretty icons, wizards and making
things work without having to know anything. I want to figure out how it
works and do things by hand so the do indeed work.

Oops, guess that was sort of a rant. Sorry. ;)

Ken Hansen wrote:
> 
> Tee-hee - I can't wait to see my $50 version of WinXP Professional (?) on a
> hand-built P3/1GHz - it should be fun, but I am really looking forward to
> the "mini" lava light that comes with the software (special MS channel
> offer).
> 
> I am curious about the activation mess they implemented...
> 
> Ken
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez" <lefa at cats.ucsc.edu>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 6:37 AM
> Subject: [rescue] Wooohhhooo XP -> 0 to BSOD in 12min23sec
> 
> > So they upgraded one of our feecees to winXP. After being disgusted by the
> > crappy aqua imitation (what the heck is this candy button shit?) running
> > on a VLSI design station, yup it looks "professional" running all of
> > these pastel blue themes..... I will proceed to relate all the fun we have
> > had so far with it.
> 
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Steve Sandau
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