The following Dodgers have been smited by the JDK for their crimes against Jam:
All the girls! for picking on the JDK and damaging his already delicate self esteem!
The Basserd Who Nicked Copper's Stuff For the offense of nicking Copper's stuff. You are a tw*t, whoever you are and we all hope you get run over by a tram in Nottingham. Or Liverpool. Or whereever else they have trams!
Copper For the crime of playing with her Wii instead of her Jammie pals!
So I've finally got round to re-installing Windows XP on my laptop, which died on me a month or so back. Frankly I was amazed that it started up at all, so imagine my excitement when, using the disk supplied to me with the laptop, Windows started installing and that lovely progress bar inched slowly and exorably towards the finish line.
And there I was at the very last hurdle! The serial number. But I was ready, oh yes. I had already flipped the laptop over and copied the serial number from the windows authentication sticker on the bottom of it, so, I reasonably thought, this should be a piece of cake. Easy as pie.
Mmmm... cake pie...
Er, anyway. I entered the serial number supplied by the retailer into the requisite field and guess what...
Your code, Windows politely informed me, is not valid.
So here I am with a laptop, a legal copy of Windows XP and a supposedly invalid serial number. Sadly the retailer that sold me the thing (with a 3 year service contract) 2 years ago went bust earlier this year. So I can't get onto them.
Next, I popped onto the Microsoft website to see what I should do next. Sadly, because I did not have a valid serial number, it seems that the only way I can make an enquiry is to pay 'em £70 to get someone to reply by e-mail to me. I suspect all he's likely to say is something alonmg the lines of 'Sorry, mate. If you don't got a valid serial number, then you don't got a valid serial number. But don't worry. Just give us £200 and we'll send you a new copy of XP!'
So here's me question. Can anyone think of a legal way for me to get my copy of Windows running without me having to spend a ton of cash?
No, didn't think so. In it's effort to stamp out software piracy, The big M has forced me down the route of dodgy copies of Windows. Yay!
mmmmmmmmmmm dodgy copies. I have never had a legal copy of an OS since my first computer (Windows 98). Even that one I replaced because it was polluted with a bunch of compaq filth. I wonder why your computer company went bust.........hmmmmm.
Anyway, do you have any friends on the Tech support staff at your company? See if they can get a you a copy of the Volume License version of Windows. Thats what I am running at home. No fuss, no muss. And really, I am not stealing from Micro$oft but just "borrowing" an unused license from work. Yay!
Really, I am against software piracy but sometimes its unavoidable (i'm cheap)
kingB and i proudly bought our first legal copy of the adobe cs2 suite - one each (we'd been testing the adobe suite in some shape or form for i'd say, oh about 4 years)
kingB and i proudly bought our first legal copy of the adobe cs2 suite - one each (we'd been testing the adobe suite in some shape or form for i'd say, oh about 4 years) yay to us
Well done, Mr and Mrs KingBilly!
As for Mac's... I'm starting to get more and more hacked of with Windows being shit. I may steal a G5...
If I could get away from MS Development I would shit can WIndows myself. I am getting more Java oriented in terms of programming so I could go the Apple or Linux route. But until I can kick MS the curb completely I am stuck.
I'm going to stick with the Windows is the schnizzle-grizzle when it comes to data porting and analysis...
There aren't many platforms that I know of where I can take a 1.5 gigabyte data dump and cut it in Access (which is cheap and not Mac-available) and spit out brilliant Excel reports from which I can recut the data and reupload elsewhere...
Macs drive me insane... I tried using one the other day and the single button/the way it manages active windows was driving me completely insane...
As for the original question, er, not sure, dude...
yay to us
it kinda is two buttons really
