[Novalug] Firefox FUD

Ken Kauffman kkauffman@headfog.com
Sun Dec 2 11:55:47 EST 2007


I really REALLY mess with my hardware all the time and I rarely had issues
with re-activating XP.   I had to call one time in 5 years of re-installs,
mucking and morphing.

Ken

On 12/2/07, DonJr <djr1952@hotpop.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 09:35 -0500, Barnett Hsu wrote:
> > DonJr wrote:
> > > > Then by that logic I'd be more SECURE if I DO NOT upgrade any of my
> > > > systems still running XP to Vista. Since Vista is so new it just has
> to
> > > > be buggy and/or insecure.
> >
> > But since Vista has Internet Explorer 7 built-in and it's the first
> > version of the OS after Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Initiative,
> > doesn't that make it the most secure OS on the planet?   ;-)   ;-)   ;-)
> >   ;-)
>
> More secure for whom?
>
> > Plus it has Windows Genuine Advantage built-in too.  So changing a video
> > driver can be enough to deactivate the operating system and force you to
> > re-activate.
>
> But XP already had that {-: great :-} feature!!!
>
> All you have to do is increase the amount of visible system memory by
> more then three times and you have only a few days to re-register it or
> it will stop functioning.
>
>
> --
> --
>   Don E. Groves, Jr.
>
> ===============================================================
> A young man goes into a computer games shop. He says to an assistant "I
> want a challenging computer game with lots of graphics. It should be
> difficult, confusing and have plenty of contradictions to keep me busy".
>
> The assistant replies "Have you tried Windows XP?"
>
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