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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: an0n on October 06, 2004, 11:15:15 pm
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XP sold me the **** out!
It's automagically downloaded SP2, which means the next time I restart my computer, the ****ing thing is going to seize up and die because it'll realise I never activated the goddamn OS.
Piece of ****ing ****.
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which is why i have automagic updates off.
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I thought I did too. But apparently not.
God, ****ing dammit.
I wonder if I can delete the files before they're installed....
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I know someone who tried that and it just started BSODing on him constantly.
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Windows 98, how I do love thee.
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Amen.
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Just backup your important stuff before restarting. Just in case.
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*cries*
It keeps popping the damn auto-updater thingy up, even after I've killed pretty much every task, giving me a 5-minute countdown to an autorestart.
PIECE OF ****ING ****!
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Can you restart in DOS mode under XP?
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**** it.
I'll just have to hope my version isn't one of the blacklisted ones.
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Which brings us the question as of why you ever installed XP that requires activation when you can install XP which does not require activation. And no, I am not talking about useless activation cracks which are not worth your time.
Go to a mirror, point at yourself and repeat: "God, ****ing dammit. You're mother****er.
Gotta love a good job where I can get MS software for free even if these are corporate versions. Not to mention that I can receive games as soon as certain importer have them available, for free. If only I could get that raise in my pay and I would be a lot happier.
Back to topic, please continue to delight us an0n. You can sometimes turn a bad morning into a good one with just one of your threads.
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you have tried reset?
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I take it his absence is an indicator it didn't work? :p
... Karma? :D
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Piracy did not pay for him.
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I managed to delete/uninstall enough stuff that it hasn't implimented the changes, but it's still *****ing at me to update.
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I upgraded to sp2 and I have a ....well.... "unofficial" version of XP and it diddnt shut me down. Mayb it wont to you also.
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I use 98 like Rictor... What is this death-like sp2 you speak of?
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It's not so much SP2 that would kill him.
It's the fact that his copy of Windows XP is...somewhat less than...legal...and he's afraid that if it auto updates to Service Pack 2 that somehow it will either fail to function or notify Microsoft who would likely add his name/IP address to a list of people they're going to file a law suit against for software piracy.
Okay it will kill him.
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while we are on the subject of sp2. why is that effing "security center" popping up whenever I boot up, and how do I kill it off permanently? disabling "check for firewall" and crap doesn't work, it just comes back the next time I reboot.
I miss DOS.
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yeah. i go to Windows Update these days and the only thing under "critical updates" is "Windows XP Professional SP 2"... haven't downloaded it yet. i'm going to give it a few months, till they work (most of) the bugs out of it
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I'm staying as I am, protected behind the router firewall, till Longhorn comes out and is cracked.
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Originally posted by kode
I miss DOS.
That's Ms. Dos to you!
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Bought my copy of XP I weak ago still trying to get used to it hmmmm not much slow downs on a 450 mhz AMD...... :)
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I spend the first five minutes of every lab in uni turning the fisherprice interface back to Classic style.
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this is why noone should buy microsoft products, espcially win xp, its all a plot by bill to install internet connections into fridges and tvs so he can TAKE OVER THE WORLD, advice: all ive ever heard is how much better win 2000 is than xp, i use xp pro so i dont know if it is true, all i know is that some old games i want to play cant run on it and i have to use my old comp running 98 to play them. games are x-com and red alert off the top of my head, red alert works but i cant play over the lan.
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I can say only one thing: LOL @ this propagandistic crap...
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:D I never have trouble with Windows....:p
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Erm... I just don't like it because I know how bloody twisted it is, and how it's a prime example of how software shouldn't be engineered.
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*hugs Win98*
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Microsoft is a DUMMY corporation invented by Pinky & the Brain (any relation to Da Brain here?) to "TAKE OVER THE WORLD!" Muahahaha...
:lol:
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If you pirate, you pay the price. No sympathy here.
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i didn't have to activiate mine, i didn't pirate
suck my nuts mongoose
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Can we film this and sell it?
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Originally posted by Kazan
i didn't have to activiate mine, i didn't pirate
suck my nuts mongoose
Was anyone talking to or about you?
Oh that's right-- the world revolves around Kazan.
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he was implyin that not having activiated implied piracy
Does ZylonBane know what the **** he's talking about? No, as usual
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I said it before and I'll say it again. I'll be ****ed if I am paying for my OS.
Applications yes, OS no.
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Well, especially if it's a Microsoft OS; they are full of bugs and MS is already rich. At least Linux is free.
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Originally posted by an0n
I'm staying as I am, protected behind the router firewall, till Longhorn comes out and is cracked.
yeah, i'm waiting for that too. but in the meantime, XP's fine for me. never had any major problems with it... OK yeah i have, but the benefits outweigh the side-effects i think *shrugs*... hope for longhorn.
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Isn't longhorn the one that was going to have tracking hardcoded in?
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Kazan, you didn't even post in this thread before I did; why are you *****ing at me? I was not aware that there was some way to legally use XP without activation, but at any rate, from the tone of an0n's posts, I took his case to imply piracy, and I stand by my statement. If his copy was not pirated, then my statement does not apply. Don't make something out of a non-issue.
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The thing I absolutely hate about win98 (otherwise I would use it) is the Illegal Operations error. That thing has pissed me off so many times.
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Kazan you're ego is your biggest liability.
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The Illegal Operations error is pretty much constant through all Windows OSs, but 98 doesn't steal all you system memory, like XP.
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Originally posted by ZylonBane
That's Ms. Dos to you!
no. PC-DOS.
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[color=66ff00]Piracy = process of violently invading a seafaring vessel with intent to kill crew/take hostages/rape etc. and steal whatever valuables onboard.
Software theft = using software that you haven't paid for by means of illegally copying or disabling some form of protection.
The fact that so many people use the word piracy in place of software theft means that you're all playing into the hands of the corporations that use these terms in an attempt to make themselves look like victims of a horrible crime.
Information costs almost nothing to copy, the people who copy it would probably go without if they had to pay full price for it, therefore nothing of value is technically lost when such a person uses the software.
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Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]Piracy = process of violently invading a seafaring vessel with intent to kill crew/take hostages/rape etc. and steal whatever valuables onboard.
Software theft = using software that you haven't paid for by means of illegally copying or disabling some form of protection.
The fact that so many people use the word piracy in place of software theft means that you're all playing into the hands of the corporations that use these terms in an attempt to make themselves look like victims of a horrible crime.
Information costs almost nothing to copy, the people who copy it would probably go without if they had to pay full price for it, therefore nothing of value is technically lost when such a person uses the software.
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Amen.
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Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]The fact that so many people use the word piracy in place of software theft means that you're all playing into the hands of the corporations that use these terms in an attempt to make themselves look like victims of a horrible crime.[/color]
Then they picked a stupid term. Piracy is cool. No one holds an international talk like a murderer day :D
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Everyone wants to be a pirate.
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Ah, yes. But does everyone want to be a buttpirate?
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Yarr, not me butt!
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On a more serious point, even on a completely legal and paid for version of winXP SP2 kills me net conn.
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Originally posted by vyper
Erm... I just don't like it because I know how bloody twisted it is, and how it's a prime example of how software shouldn't be engineered.
Well. That's partly true. Wait until you'll have to install and configure a 100+ worsktation intranet. You'll go MS, anyway. Better support, better software compatibility, better User-Friendliness (admit it, anyway you see it, every Linux distro can become REALLY FRUSTRATING, if you have no idea where to look for info and help). That goes with a price, of course. If you're a paying customer, you'd get far. Otherwise, just shut up :) It's like complaining for a car who doesn't work knowing that you stole it.
n.b.: yes, i do use a *NIX Os. FreeBSD but i go MS for every kind of Software development. It's just a mattter of keeping Cross-Compatibility and not using any OS specific libraries. In better term GOOD DESIGN. (which i'm proud of).
n.b.: all this unless you have geeks under your who like to work for free 24/7. OpenSource is good until you start living on the software you produce. :)