Time to reformat....

[Foxxern]

...and install Windows XP. Because I, um, just got it. Yeah.... (that'll keep them less suspicious).

See you all on the other side.

"Let's hope this **** works"

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Change is the only constant

 

[zooropamanda]

hehe my bro installed XP and its working beautifully

 

[melon]

Heh...I only really mentioned my first point, because I think Foxxern didn't have a Pentium III when I talked to him on computers. And, considering the fact that it's been a few hours and he's not back online, I have a feeling there's a few problems here.

The only Windows OS I haven't had a problem with is Windows 2000, aside from a few inconvenient internet searches for drivers. If Windows XP is really like Windows 2000 as it claims to be, then there should be no problems, aside from computer speed problems. Inherently, Microsoft always makes your older computers obsolete, which I've found a bit corrupt in the first place, considering that Pentium III's are really not that old to begin with.

Melon

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"He had lived through an age when men and women with energy and ruthlessness but without much ability or persistence excelled. And even though most of them had gone under, their ignorance had confused Roy, making him wonder whether the things he had striven to learn, and thought of as 'culture,' were irrelevant. Everything was supposed to be the same: commercials, Beethoven's late quartets, pop records, shopfronts, Freud, multi-coloured hair. Greatness, comparison, value, depth: gone, gone, gone. Anything could give some pleasure; he saw that. But not everything provided the sustenance of a deeper understanding." - Hanif Kureishi, Love in a Blue Time

 

[melon]

I hope you have a Pentium III 233 MHz (300 MHz recommended) or higher, otherwise I think you're ****ed. But I guess it's really too late to tell you that now, now isn't it?

Melon

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"He had lived through an age when men and women with energy and ruthlessness but without much ability or persistence excelled. And even though most of them had gone under, their ignorance had confused Roy, making him wonder whether the things he had striven to learn, and thought of as 'culture,' were irrelevant. Everything was supposed to be the same: commercials, Beethoven's late quartets, pop records, shopfronts, Freud, multi-coloured hair. Greatness, comparison, value, depth: gone, gone, gone. Anything could give some pleasure; he saw that. But not everything provided the sustenance of a deeper understanding." - Hanif Kureishi, Love in a Blue Time

 

[Squid]

http://www.arachnoid.com/boycott/index.html

 

[melon]

Trust me, Squid, there are ways around the Product Activation. I don't have XP, but I know of at least a full corporate version without the activation floating around. I have no problem buying the software, per se, but I have every problem with this activation crap. This is a dangerous control precedent. And now that we have Mr. "Big Business" Bush as president, expect Microsoft to get away with more.

Melon

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"He had lived through an age when men and women with energy and ruthlessness but without much ability or persistence excelled. And even though most of them had gone under, their ignorance had confused Roy, making him wonder whether the things he had striven to learn, and thought of as 'culture,' were irrelevant. Everything was supposed to be the same: commercials, Beethoven's late quartets, pop records, shopfronts, Freud, multi-coloured hair. Greatness, comparison, value, depth: gone, gone, gone. Anything could give some pleasure; he saw that. But not everything provided the sustenance of a deeper understanding." - Hanif Kureishi, Love in a Blue Time

 

[Johnny Swallow]

Sometimes it just feel great to have a machine that I never update...as I watch all you tech-heads squirm in pain. Heh heh.