Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-10 Thread Michael Leone
I am actually curious as to how someone without internet access is supposed to get this unlock code. has microsoft addressed this You are offered the choice to register over the Internet, or read off the code to MS over the phone, who will then read you out the activation code, which you will

Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 08 Sep 2001 18:43:01 -0700, Ah Pook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 9/8/2001 7:18:43 AM, etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: about a million people are going to tell you (and they are correct) that the GIMP is every bit as good as photoshop, and they do not have the US gov. put people in

RE: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-09 Thread Siavash Sefidvash
PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: 09 September 2001 04:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ah Pook Subject: Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already On Sat, 08 Sep 2001 18:43:01 -0700, Ah Pook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 9/8/2001 7:18:43 AM, etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: about a million

Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-08 Thread etharp
about a million people are going to tell you (and they are correct) that the GIMP is every bit as good as photoshop, and they do not have the US gov. put people in jail for talking about how poor their encryption is under the DMCA. you might also consider that while dreamweaver sites appear

Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-08 Thread jennifer
On Saturday 08 September 2001 11:56, richied wrote: On September 8, 2001 09:42 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: Apologies for sounding naive, but is not fair to get paid for your efforts.? ...There's actually a bigger issue at stake. Win XP is actually taking a fingerpint of your system.

Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 8 Sep 2001 12:58:30 -0400, jennifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 08 September 2001 11:56, richied wrote: On September 8, 2001 09:42 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: Apologies for sounding naive, but is not fair to get paid for your efforts.? ...There's actually a bigger

Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-08 Thread nathan wainwright
] Subject: Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 12:58:30 -0400 On Saturday 08 September 2001 11:56, richied wrote: On September 8, 2001 09:42 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: Apologies for sounding naive, but is not fair to get paid for your efforts.? ...There's

Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 08 September 2001 12:57 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan escribió: Take a look at this article: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2810195,00.html Here's an excerpt: For those who haven't yet experienced it, the new scheme is concealed under the 'Product Activation'

FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-08 Thread Siavash Sefidvash
Apologies for sounding naive, but is not fair to get paid for your efforts.? If not Zhiang Zemin and Chinese polit bureaux would really like to hire you...that part of the world is Mecca for this sort of thing. I don't mind paying £100 for a developers application. However I realize that's

Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-08 Thread richied
On September 8, 2001 09:42 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: Apologies for sounding naive, but is not fair to get paid for your efforts.? ...There's actually a bigger issue at stake. Win XP is actually taking a fingerpint of your system. Your NIC, HDD, CD-ROM, CPU, etc all have unique serial

Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-08 Thread Ah Pook
9/8/2001 7:18:43 AM, etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: about a million people are going to tell you (and they are correct) that the GIMP is every bit as good as photoshop, and they do not have the US gov. put people in jail for talking about how poor their encryption is under the DMCA.

Re: FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-08 Thread civileme
On Saturday 08 September 2001 12:58, jennifer wrote: On Saturday 08 September 2001 11:56, richied wrote: On September 8, 2001 09:42 am, Siavash Sefidvash wrote: Apologies for sounding naive, but is not fair to get paid for your efforts.? ...There's actually a bigger issue at stake.

FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-07 Thread Siavash Sefidvash
Hi, I would want applications like Dreamweaver UltraDev and to a lesser extent PhotoShop before I could comfortably abandon Windows. Someone ought bring pressure to bare on Macromedia and thier ilk. Another issue would be that of plug n play. If LINUX could have that and take the headache of