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| Bartman | posted on 09-30-2001 @ 12:52 AM |    | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Dec. 00  | ive been told that there is a special version for buisneses so they dont have to go through all of that user authentication crap Visit my webpage you can also email me E-Mail Me | ||||
| hornygoatweed I've Got A Vagina With Teeth. G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Dragoon Battalion My friends call me Weed | posted on 09-30-2001 @ 12:59 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | quote: I believe that is dubbed the "Gold Code" or "Gold" something - not sure, but I do know that prior to the events of 9/11, outside my building was a guy who sold software a few days a week. Well, the Monday before everything went crazy he had a copy of XP - "Gold Edition", whatever - and it had explicit directions printed on the label itself as to ho to get around the Authentication deal. Was it legit? I believe so, I've bought lots of other software from him and it worked just as described (its $30 for every CD on the table - no matter what titile or brand). I didn't pick it up then because I wanted to hear what other people's reviews of the OS were. So apparently there is a version out there thats been cracked. If I should come into possession of it, I'll let anyone interested know.  I've got two open seats. Email me here or AIM me at Organic999 to apply!! | ||||
| Bartman | posted on 09-30-2001 @ 1:06 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Dec. 00 | interesting horny ill have a copy of it tommorow and then ill kno more and let u kno Visit my webpage you can also email me E-Mail Me | ||||
| hornygoatweed I've Got A Vagina With Teeth. G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Dragoon Battalion My friends call me Weed | posted on 09-30-2001 @ 1:13 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | Cool - regardless of the authentication issue, I keep hearing people talk about the stability and game-friendlieness of this OS. If its as good as what people have claimed, I might actually go out and purchase this OS instead of "borrowing a copy from a friend", that old gag. I've got two open seats. Email me here or AIM me at Organic999 to apply!! | ||||
| Bartman | posted on 09-30-2001 @ 1:29 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Dec. 00 | i have no need to buy it cd burner is the key and when u have connections like i do even that much is not needed Visit my webpage you can also email me E-Mail Me | ||||
| hornygoatweed I've Got A Vagina With Teeth. G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Dragoon Battalion My friends call me Weed | posted on 09-30-2001 @ 1:33 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | quote: Do tell! Feel free to spread the love my way :) Connections make the world go 'round...... I've got two open seats. Email me here or AIM me at Organic999 to apply!! | ||||
| Bartman | posted on 09-30-2001 @ 1:40 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Dec. 00 | horny its called school and rings of kids who get there hands on software through parents legally then distribute it for a profite but then u help these kids out so they owe u alot and they give u what u wnat to get Visit my webpage you can also email me E-Mail Me | ||||
| hornygoatweed I've Got A Vagina With Teeth. G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Dragoon Battalion My friends call me Weed | posted on 09-30-2001 @ 1:45 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | Nice! Sounds almost like an episode of 21 Jump Street LMMFBO!! I need to get back into the extortion game, this legit-lifestyle just doesn't pay the bills.... I've got two open seats. Email me here or AIM me at Organic999 to apply!! | ||||
| Bartman | posted on 09-30-2001 @ 1:46 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Dec. 00 | horny in high school anything goes... if the cops were to raid the high school's they would overload the criminal justtice system each kid could get 40 years to life.....im hoping that this xp isnt shit and has the regestration if it does i get to bash this kids head in i told him if it did hes done for and he swore it didnt have the reg Visit my webpage you can also email me E-Mail Me | ||||
| adolescentmasturbator | posted on 09-30-2001 @ 3:04 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | If you are getting XP get Pro, Home version is a piece of shit. As for getting a test copy(yeah that's it lol). And I've seen XP on several warez sites when I was just curious as to what was on there;). Resident Board Socialist Email me here or IM me at stickysituation2 or pinkorag Webmaster of the Undergound Unofficial I Hate WhackBagKid Message Board I currently have brought no one into the International | ||||
| FoundryMusicHummercash | posted on 09-30-2001 @ 3:25 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: May. 00 | if u want a pirated copy of XP, get ur ass on IRC... they have channels devoted to serving the latest builds of XP. as for me, ill pass on XP, M$ can eat my asshole... maybe ill install it on one of my other computers just to c how it is... who knows. and for all u gamers out there, im LOVING my win2k pro and the detonator 4 drivers... i get 100fps in most games w/ all detail on high... and in my favorite game Tribes, i get 200fps :) Download my SCREENSAVER. | ||||
| Bartman | posted on 09-30-2001 @ 6:14 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Dec. 00 | im gettin the pro version of xp if it isnt like shit Visit my webpage you can also email me E-Mail Me | ||||
Pompous, Arrogant, Enigmatic, Bitter, Quirky, Misanthrope with a Weird Sense of Humor and an Iron Clad Memory while flooding the board with my Stream of Consciousness UFC STRIKE 3 (I'm a dick and I like to ruin people's plans) | posted on 10-04-2001 @ 10:03 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Aug. 00 | Will Windows XP provide a boost for tech? The technology industry could use a lift right now. The question is, can the launch of Windows XP on October 25th in New York City's Times Square fit the bill? By John Dickinson, Special to ZDNet COMMENTARY-- Microsoft is going to launch Windows XP on October 25th in New York City's Times Square--a place that can surely use a morale lift right now. Thank you Bill Gates, your launch plan is a great gesture. It is one that Microsoft can be proud of and one that will surely be remembered as helping New York City recover from a great tragedy and returning it to its proper place in the business and cultural world. The technology industry could also use a lift right now as well. Whether or not Windows XP will provide that lift is a the question. It's possible that Microsoft could provide the boost, but it's just as possible that this is the wrong time for anyone to think about new technology commitments. Certainly, the fact that both the consumer and professional versions of the Windows operating system will share the same code base and much of the same feature set will put to rest a host of problems that have plagued support people--especially IT support people--since the launch of Windows NT nearly 10 years ago. But is that enough to get Windows XP adopted on a wide front? There hasn't been much question in anybody's mind that the code in Windows NT and its successors, especially Windows 2000 and now Windows XP, provides a far more stable and secure computing environment than Windows 95 and its successors. Last year's launch of Windows ME proved that the Windows 9x code base could be fixed to provide a stable computing environment, but the goal of a uniform code base, high security and more compatibility across all operating systems could only be met if Microsoft consigned that product to an early demise and brought out a fully compatible consumer operating system. That alone makes sense of the consumer edition of Windows XP, and it's likely we'll see more of a lift in the consumer sector than last year's tepid launch of Windows ME provided. The consumer edition of Windows XP makes even more sense when you factor in the number of corporate desktop users who have preferred to use the somewhat less technical and less complex Windows 9x systems on their computers. Providing IT support for those people should come at a much lower cost with Windows XP. But how necessary or attractive is Windows XP Professional for IT managers? Windows 2000 Professional is nothing short of a spectacular achievement, providing just about everything IT professionals and serious business users could want in a stable, secure operating system. Not only that, it's easy to install over an older operating system, whether it's a version of Windows NT or a version of Windows 9x, a characteristic that fellow scribe Bill O'Brien tells us is not shared by Windows XP Professional. Help from Letterman To find out what IT professionals should look forward to in Windows XP Professional, I decided to check in with Microsoft, which has thoughtfully provided a Top 10 Reasons for Moving to Windows XP Professional on their Web site. Hey, if Letterman can do it on late night TV.... Anyway, after I looked through the list it occurred to me that most of the reasons IT professionals should switch to Windows XP were also reasons to switch to Windows 2000. It turned out that Microsoft had also published "Top 10 Reasons to Move to Windows 2000" when that product shipped and it was still on their Web site, so I compared the lists. Sure enough, almost half of the two Top 10 reasons lists contained the same, or very close to the same items. Those reasons included business-level reliability, advanced performance, remote desktop, and reliable resumes from Hibernate and Standby modes. The other reasons to move to Windows XP Professional included: 802.11 wireless networking support (which is easy enough to get for any Windows product), a spiffy new Windows Messenger that includes video teleconferencing (something that Yahoo Messenger already offers to all comers), better encryption for file systems (something we all welcome but that was originally promised as part of Windows 2000), a new task-oriented interface, the ability to restore a system to where it was before changes were made (commercially available to all Windows systems in Roxio's GoBack), and remote access to a help center. Frankly, Microsoft's list of reasons to get Windows XP Professional is kind of weak when you consider the trouble an IT staff has to go through to change operating systems on desktop computers, and especially when you add in the cost of supporting two or more operating systems at the same time. I have to also question the real value of any feature that even resembles a new interface because the training costs of implementing it are always going to be significant no matter how "cool" the new interface might be--although to be fair, you can turn that feature off in Windows XP. Productivity issues surrounding users chatting away on instant messaging systems of all stripes are up for grabs, but I don't want to get into that debate here. The bottom line for IT managers is hard to figure out. If your operation is running smoothly on Windows 2000, with maybe a Windows 9x machine or two thrown in, it's probably best to wait a while before moving to Windows XP because there isn't much in it for you right now. But if your shop is already running on multiple platforms, e.g., Windows 9x, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, and so on, it may be just as well to go ahead and buy into Windows XP now and begin the process of integrating all users on to one platform. Geek Factor:Of course any of you who insist that your operations run on the latest technology from Microsoft will want to move over to Windows XP just as soon as Mayor Giuliani and Bill Gates pull the string that launches Windows XP and helps re-launch some morale New York City. But the real bottom line is really the usual one that sooner or later Microsoft will no longer support or even offer Windows 2000 Professional and its software products will only run on Windows XP, and when that day comes, you'll all have to move over, and so will I. John Dickinson has worked in the computer industry for more than 30 years in positions ranging from systems analyst and software engineer to editor, writer, critic and industry analyst. His most recent engagement was at eMachines, where he managed the company's Internet and software business units.  Funny how ev'rything was roses When we held on to the guns Write To Me Here AIM: SmarterChild
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| Kid Afrika | posted on 10-04-2001 @ 10:47 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70 | quote: I couldn't agree with this statement more. The idea of always having the latest software is lost on me. I prefer to have software that works, not the latest version. I'll accept a few less features, if I can maintain reliability. WindowsXP is new technology, technology that has yet to be proven. Shit, I only switched to Windows 2000 Professional a few months ago. I say, let them iron out the bugs, let the manufacturers get the bugs out of their drivers and programs, and then, only then, make the switch. Having the best O/S available is useless if it conflicts with your hardware, or software.
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| Spuds_Buckley | posted on 10-05-2001 @ 5:44 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | quote: Going "Gold" means the software is in final release. There will be no more changes to the software until a service pack is released. This code is often to PC manufacturers to dick around with to see how to prepare their systems for the new OS. What you were talking about horny and whomever else mentioned it, was the corporate version that does not contain the activation. The corporation simply has to have this one disc and buy as many licenses as they need. Look for this "version" to be available on www.Pricewatch.com and other places that sell OEM software and hardware.  I hope he tells us to burn our pants...these things are driving me nuts! Hold on there maestro, there's a "New" Mexico? | ||||
| Disturbed G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Pac Man Power Pill Gunner | posted on 10-05-2001 @ 6:22 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Sep. 00 | Ive been using Windows XP Professional (Corp version, build 2600) for about a month now and its very good. I haven't had a stall yet. If a program crashes, Windows recovers pretty fast and no restarting. Ive used Win98, ME, and 2k. Don't see any speed differences. I played counter-strike, everquest, AO, DII, Vampire, Motor city online beta, UT, etc etc. So far the only problem ive had is with Anarchy Online, serious graphics glitches. The game sucks now anyway.
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| Spork | posted on 10-05-2001 @ 11:18 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jun. 01 | Yeah, I'm in an XP pilot program at my place o' business and it has been extremely stable so far. The GUI does seem to be chugging along a little bit more slowly, but that's because they've "glammed" it up a bit. You can revert to classic settings and specifically curtail certain other GUI behaviors to get better performance on slower machines though. There are some new things on the GUI that are cool, especially the start menu. When you're actually using you PC for server administration and the like, they have a cool feature where some of the last programs you've used pop up in the start menu. Doesn't sound like much, but it saves a lot of that Start, Run, "cmd" stuff. You can also get to "My computer" faster, etc. etc. So far most of the changes from my cursory overview of the thing seem to be largely astethic, although reading the latest issue of Windows 2000 magazine (must be time to change the name of the mag... AGAIN) I see there are some cool new command line utils that are built in. One of the best things about this is that they are unifying the code base for the home and office OS's. Going forward that will be a good thing because it means we can all know play all new games at work! :) Oh, and as far as using corporate editions at your home, that's cool, but remember not to contact Microsoft (through the web or phone or whatever) because that number can be traced back to the company who was given that number.  Thank you to all the brave volunteers who brought us all together as a country, and thank you to those of you brave soldiers who will fight and have fought for our country. We are a free people because of your efforts. | ||||
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