From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

George Sherwood wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:53:16 -0400, Rich Gauszka wrote:
>
>> How many freakin times do I have to download this idiotic software before
>> MS gets the hint that I AM A VALID FREAKIN USER?
>>
>> Had to do it on 3of 4 PCs today
>
> I was annoyed the other day, when I had to call Microsoft to
> activate Office 2003.  I had purchased the teachers and students version
> which comes with 3 licenses.  I had Office 2000, but needed 2003 in order
> to get the proofing tools which really helped with my Russian.  Before we
> leave for overseas, I purchased my wife a new laptop.  I un-installed from
> the old laptop and then tried to install on the new one.  Of course I
> couldn't activate online since it thought it was the 4th install.  I ended
> up spending almost 30 minutes on line between hold and talking to a live
> person before I had it activated.  What a pain and I only see it getting
> worse.  I can't even imagine what a pain things like this are going to be
> in Azerbaijan.
>
> George


"I'm in Azerbaijan....A Z E R B A I J A N....it's north of Iran...no
not in Iran I know that's on a bad boys list....north of...just give me the
freaking key......" 

BTW in terms of proofing, I always quite liked the text > speech
proggies. There were some good locally produced ones (in Russian) but
they've probably been swallowed by some major comp by now...

Write your stuff & then listen to it. You pick up many more mistakes
esp if there is someone else in the room who is also fluent/a native
speaker.

Adam

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