From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

Mandrake sucks because you can't play any good games with it. XP sucks
because it's a resource pig so you have to buy a new computer. Windows 2000
sucks because it won't run Need for Speed High Stakes even though it says
on the box that it can (man was I unpolite to that poor bastard on the
other end of the customer service line - I feel a bit bad about it now...).
So here's my advice: install Windows 95! Runs on any old piece of crap
computer you have around, runs nicely on 64Mb memory, *and* you can most
likely get a copy for free. Hell I think I have a few dozen copies around
here somewhere, I'll send them over if you can't find any (wopee good
riddance to yet another few pounds of toxic waste)! 


Antti Kurenniemi
(damned if I know, I just don't like XP at all because it makes the 2.4Ghz
monster on my left side feel slower than the 600Mhz old-timer on my right
side running W2k)

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in
message news:8093bb.635e78{at}harborwebs.com...
> Dear All,
>
> Last night down at t'pub wi'mates of a techie nature. After discussing
> Middlesborough's recent cup win...... & Leeds'es
financial difficulties
 G>....
>
> Anyway...
>
> Mate has a PC (brandname). It came preloaded with XP. He has yet to open
the XP
> packet (or so he says...)
>
> Now he's building a new PC for himself & palming the old one off
on wife &
kids
> (basically kids.....)
>
> So he proposed installing his copy of XP onto 2'nd PC (tut tut). He says
that
> as XP came with the other machine he has never registered as he has never
been
> asked to register.
>
> My Position : Mandrake just as good so why bother with XP at all, I can
have
> legit copies copied for Friday eve (when we usually meet).
>
> This bod: "I like XP, I have never yet paid for an OS & don't intend to
start
> now. It's either come with the box or I've "reused" one
which did. I have
a
> legit XP install disk which I have yet to touch."
>
> Middlesborough supporting Oracle/Unix type: MS is evil go with linux on
moral
> grounds.
>
> Win2K user: Same basic position as Geo (i.e. stick with Win2K) etc. coz XP
is
> loaded with nasty anti-piracy "features"....
>
> This last bit lead onto the Win2K bod & Oranix bod making all sorts of
> suggestions/statements which I rubbished as insane myths wrt XP. However
truth
> be told I don't know if they're myths or facts so....here goes:
>
> OK both machines will be on same (home) LAN.
>
> Fact or Myth
>
> A) If you install the same copy of XP on 2 machines & XP realises (e.g.
via
> some sort of LAN traffic) it will turn off one of the machines/stop it
booting
> &/or will send a message to MS in some way.
>
> True or false?
>
> B) If you go to Winupdate, MS will "know" that you have the
same copy on 2
> machines & at that point MS will send a message to the machine which will
shut
> it down/ prevent it from rebooting or will send BSA stormtroopers around
to
> beat your children till you cough up the readies (cash to you yanks).
>
> True or false?
>
> C) That if you change hardware it will then check with MS &...yup you
guessed
> it...shut down the machine or prevent it from re-booting, send round the
BSA
> stormtroopers etc.
>
> True or false?
>
> D) That none of the above happen with Win2K.
>
> True or false?
>
> E) That XP OEM is different in it's behaviour wrt all this compared to XP
> "retail box set".
>
> True or false?
>
> F) Any other similar things wrt same XP copy on 2 machines?
>
>
> I'm hoping some of A,B or C are true but I am sceptical. Bod has promised
that
> if anything like the above myths are facts then he'll try out Mdk9.2
before
> going in search of a "less than legit" copy of Win2K.
>
> He jumped from Win98 to XP & he's not going back to 98.
>
> Me + Oraunix type kept making the point that he can legitimately install
an OS
> w/o paying by using Mandrake but he likes XP & is used to it (but post
convo
> with 2k user would "settle" for 2k) & frankly he's a bit
of a MSOS bigot
(& has
> been since about MSDOS 5).
>
> I am torn between wanting bod to go for Mandrake & wanting to prove the 2k
&
> oraunix bods are both tinfoil hat merchants.
>
> Answers before 7-8 pm UK time Friday please 
>
>
> Adam

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