On Thu, 2006-04-06, Art Fore Wrote

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 07:35 -0400, Michael W Cocke wrote:

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I'm trying to laugh about this because the alternative will be to kick my computer off the roof.

I need to run XP occasionally so I have a dual-boot config. This morning I tried to boot Win XP and was told 'windows needs to be activated' - and it wouldn't log me in. I did that last year and I haven't changed anything, but what the hell - I have a legal copy, so I clicked yes. Then it said 'this copy of windows is already activated' and logged me off... rebooted - and the same thing. It won't let me log in and it won't activate. I have to reinstall from scratch AGAIN! What a design. <sigh>

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If you are connected to the internet, it might be there is another machine that is using the same serial that you are. For example, if you install XP on one machine, then using the same disk and install on another machine, the first machine that is logged on to the internet will get the registration, any other machine where XP was installed with the same disk would refuse to operate. They don't even have to be on the internet, if they are on the same network it can happen. We had this problem at a former company I was at.

Isn't that nice of Microsoft?

Art

Reading this post, and going back to some earlier posts about what's on a SuSE boxed set CD (GPL + Proprietary apps.) and what's available for download (just GPL), would it be legitimate to let a friend install SuSE from your purchased CD? I don't recall whether Novell required me to register my 10.0 product when I installed it, but, just the same, for any parties/companies who have allowed Novell to include their proprietary software as part of the SuSE boxed set, they would, in essence, be losing revenue when a single set of DVD's is passed around among friends (assuming they're getting a buck or two off of each boxed set sold). Then again, maybe I misunderstood those earlier posts regarding the proprietary products on the boxed set DVD's vs the downloads only having non-proprietary software. Greg Wallace