[geeks] Im going to XP, wish me luck

[Andrew Weiss]

Ahh but installing SP1 means you have to have bought it in the first 
place... unless you know of unlicensed service packs.  Plus XP java is 
so screwed up that I refuse to use it.  Just try to get it to play nice 
with all the 2000 Apps that previously caused no problems.

Andrew

On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 02:09  AM, David Selders wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 11:59:17PM -0700, Chris Byrne wrote:
>> Well my fscking Sony NetMD has been giving me fits. I can get the 
>> burner
>> applciation to work fine, but the Open MG jukebox app screws up
>> completely on everything when run on any 2k box I've tried. I sent in 
>> a
>> support req to sony their response was, use XP or fuck off.
>>
>> Actually it was much more polite than that but anyway.
>>
>> Besides that theres a bunch of other crap I've got (software mostly, 
>> bt
>> some hardware) that wants me to use XP for "full functionality", and 
>> if
>> IBM gets me a new laptop it'll have XP on it anyway, so I might as 
>> well
>> get used to it.
>>
>> Im "upgrading" to XP tonight.
>>
>> Wish me luck, Im gonna need it.
>>
>> Chris Byrne
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>
> Running XP on $EMPLOYERS laptop and it's not bad, not to be confused 
> with it
> works wonderful and everyone should use it.  Install SP1 and you can 
> change
> the default programs for email and web browsing as well as instant 
> messaging.
> XP by default starts the microsoft chat client but once you install 
> SP1 you
> can disable that crap.
>
> -- 
> David Selders
> david at malleable.org
> Martinez, Ca
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