yeah, someone gave me a cracked corp copy of XP, and I wanted to know how/if it worked, so I installed it..
now my legit win2000pro machine on my network, and my XP machine, (no longer with the cracked version) both find No updates in windows update, even though this time last month, there were a heap of them, including .NET stuff etc.. So I can only assume that M$ has my static IP in a database somewhere and has locked me out of windows update regardless of what OS I have.. (although it did work with a 98SE machine I setup for a friend. (also legit.) (I'm gonna try going through an annonomiser proxy next and see if that works.) I think its time software became a possession, like a car, your PC's hardware your lounge etc.. instead of a lease. (which it more or less is now.) if I paid for it, I should own those binaries... and can do with them what I like. (with the exception of replicating them and selling the replicants.) (I'm talking about no source commercial software, not open source) Does anyone find it ironic that M$ chose the service packs to change the license agreement ?? they now give themselves the right to have your PC send them your product ID and other info if you accept the license on loading the service pack. I hope mdk9 rules, because I want to ditch all copies of winblows 2000/XP and just keep a win98SE machine around (or win4lin and run it in linux) for those things that just need winblows for now... I am so sick of crashes and sh!t, and the crap M$ are handing out to people to blind or stupid to realise that what they have been handed is brown, mushy and doesn't smell that hot.. If they think they are in trouble now, wait till they crush their own illusion that people own their windows operating system by introducing their subscription model as their main license.. then people will flock to *nix and macs like never before... I desperatly want that to happen, because once all the commercial companies start releasing their versions for linux (and driver support etc.) then the freefall will begin.. the masses will swarm linux and by then it will be more intuitative then ever and people will be saying "Bill who???" anyway, enough raving, I've gone and stayed up all night again surfing the net.. time for bed. rgds frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 6:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Interesting comparision. On Thursday August 15 2002 01:32 pm, frankie wrote: > Has anyone noticed how XP doesn't have scandisk like previous > versions of Winblows? > > instead they have chkdsk, which when running in "write mode" can only > run when the drive has nothing else running... (ie at boot do it can > dismount the drive if necessary.. > > sound familiar? they are now doing it the same way fsck does.. how > interesting is that.. Winblows always use to have 'chkdsk' which could only be run in DOS, before the win9x versions began sporting 'scandisk'. To this day, the DOS version of scandisk, /c/windows/command/scandisk.exe, and uses /c/windows/command/chkdsk.exe (that's from my W98 install and'a 'locate' from Linux, so forgive the 'backward' foward slashes ;), does a more thorough (also potentially more dangerous to non-M$ partitions) check/fix than the versions that can run under their bloaty GUI. You have to hack win9x/ME a touch to get to the underlying pure DOS tho. Same for their Registry fix/compress tools (scanreg /fix, scanreg /opt). M$ just keeps tryin harder an' harder to hide 'em from users 'cause can they can fsck up (both M$ and their users ;) So I don't believe they're "now" doin it, sounds more like business as usual or a regression (innnovation in M$peak) to me .... specially since they keep wanna stickin with proprietary file systems that suck, only improvement are that M$ continues to make them more proprietary. So I guess there's nothin new at all ;) Well, 'cept for needin to agree to give M$ root class privledges to your software, and rights to your personal information and some other user concessions just so you can apply their bug fix service packs to w2K or XP. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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