[geeks] Re: Windows XP?

[Shawn Wallbridge]

Kurt Huhn wrote:

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>Since when does MS get to decide what the fuck I can do with my system?  So
>I add RAM, add a DVD drive, and remove the older CD drive in favor of a
>faster CDRW - suddenly Windows decides that it must be on another computer
>and needs to be reactivated?!?!  Not kidding, this actually happened to
>someoen I worked with.
>
>Furthermore, why should I trust an OS that MS says tries to keep record of
>all the software that gets installed on it, as well as digital media and
>other content?  What to prevent that 'license manager' from breaking and
>fucking up my media, my software, and my data?
>
>Yes I know it can be cracked, but why should I spend my time trying to find
>a way around MS's b0rken software?
>
>Greedy motherfuckers....
></Rant>
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I hear you brother. Everyone things I'm strange (partially ?) because I 
think XP is evil. Unfortunately, they fixed one critical 'bug' [0] in 
XP, it can now have one process that uses more than 1.5GB of ram (unlike 
WinNT4/Win2K) which is kinda critical for us, so we are moving all 
desktops to XP in the very near future.

shawn

[0] - it has been a known issue since Windows NT 4 was released (it's in 
the knowledge base), but they have never fixed it. If you needed that 
much memory, you had to run Enterprise or Advanced Server, which only 
cost $4k. I am sure it was just a really nasty bug that they couldn't 
find, and not that they just wanted more of your money.