Microsoft just killed somebody

[deathfisaro]

Creative MediaSource Organizer FTW
I think my WMP is like 7.x unless I accidentally/or M$ intentionally updated it.

 

[UncleChuckle]

And this is a big part of why, before I let any XP install anywhere near the net, I kill Windows Update. I'm happilly running SP1. "But... But... You're crazy... What about those bug fixes in SP2... You NEED SP2!"

The way I see it is this: If you bought a car, and the doors and wheels fell off when you left the dealership, would you trust that dealer when they said "Okay, honestly, it's all fixed now. Trust us!"

And as someone said, use Ubuntu. Story a week or two back of someone who did that managed to get validated as genuine Windows.

So far the only time this WGA crap has screwed me (and my XP is technically legit. I had to do a reinstall, but didn't want to use the recovery disk as the Norton install on said disk is botched leaving IE unable to open stuff from Microsoft's own website, so I used an old XP disk I had kicking around) was when I needed the .NET framework. But it took me 2 minutes to find it on another non-MS site.

Fuck Media Player... Videolan/VLC for video, Foobar or Musikcube for MP3's. Foobar includes a ripper, you just need LAME on your system.

Why anyone uses Media Player is beyond me.

 

[TLSpartan]

Just update to Ubuntu. Its easy. I will even give you a link to make it easier Ubuntu

 

[jimmy j]

Wow!

Ubuntu looks very nice indeed! I've been planning to format and reinstall XP, so I might use Ubuntu as a second OS.
My xp wi-fi drivers won't work, so maybe I can get some writing done without hopping online every 10 minutes

 

[Salamantis]

I've tried Ubuntu before, it was an older version, and still pwnd windows (doesn't deserve a capital w). Since there are newer versions, they probably pwn even more. I'm happy with my Macintosh (and I'm getting Leopard for sure).

 

[CockroachMan]

My firewall blocks Windows Update and Internet Explorer..

The funny thing is: I've never got a virus or a spyware since I did this

 

[Smuff]

That sir was one of the finest rants i have heard in a long long time. BRAVO!!!

Be sure to check out some of his other rants..... they are superb also

 

[bollocks]

I've had a pirated version of XP for years, it's never failed a validation check. And I got it before MS started the whole Genuine Advantage thing, so it can't have been specifically patched to pass the checks. go validation! \o/

 

[OSW]

lol. just the other day windows xp told me to reauthenicate my windows version and i was liek wtf? since i've don that at least twice before.

At least i don't run vista 0_0

 

[pikachucrackpipe]

Just update to Ubuntu. Its easy. I will even give you a link to make it easier Ubuntu

you sir just gained 3454238523423 respect points from me
although i constantly mention switching to linux and using the ubuntu flavor

 

[JPH]

I spent two hundred dollars on a Zune, MS just killed me

I'm getting an iPod nano...

 

[dg10050]

The funny thing is that Ubuntu actually passes the Windows Validation Check. I shit you not: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OfwC1XAy3Sc

 

[Yugge]

I used to use ubuntu, Recently switched to debian because i found it more stable, but yeah, good shit

 

[pikachucrackpipe]

The funny thing is that Ubuntu actually passes the Windows Validation Check. I shit you not: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OfwC1XAy3Sc

lol high quality programming right there

 

[Neko]

Do you know SPTD ?
Had to deinstall it if I wanted to update it.

: Windows needs to be activiated because of much changed hardware.
I was like WTF ?
So.
I pressed Internet Activation and it told me :
You already have activated using Internet.
Please use Phone Activiation.
But then I decided to Register at Microsoft and retryed it :
And it worked.
Microsoft just wants to know where you live, who you are, what you do and where you download ya porns. xD

 

[VmprHntrD]

Curious, with ubuntu, can you run apps from other os's such as my crap I've paid for over the years for DOS/Windows9X->XP?

Or is it just like other OS's where it just has its own set of things, and you use those and trash the stuff you got?

 

[chuckstudios]

Yeah, you can run Windows stuff in Ubuntu with WINE.

 

[dg10050]

Some of your may be interested in this. And no, it's not WINE.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i301/dg1.../Screenshot.png (Linked because of size.)

 

[pikachucrackpipe]

if that isn't wine or a vm - what is it
also is it just some gui overlay or does it allow for windows program functionality?

 

[pikachucrackpipe]

Curious, with ubuntu, can you run apps from other os's such as my crap I've paid for over the years for DOS/Windows9X->XP?

Or is it just like other OS's where it just has its own set of things, and you use those and trash the stuff you got?

here check out this link. it's a list of what works with wine and to what degree.