NixLuver's Journal: Is Installing XP a licence violation?

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Last night I did something (I am not sure I remember what it was, exactly, but it had to do with network filesystem access and a powered-down switch) on my workstation that caused XP to refuse to shut down. No biggie, this has happened before. I hit reset.

The machine boots back up, and I log in - and I see a dialog box I've never encountered before. "The hardware configuration of this machine has changed significantly, requiring Windows XP to be re-activated."

Well, I think, isn't that interesting. So I click on the button that says "next". After thinking about it for a minute, Windows tells me "This key has exceeded the number of times it can be activated. Please enter another key to continue."

Now, this key is one I purchased, and has only ever been installed or used with this sytem, although I have upgraded the motherboard and several other elements.

Piss on it. I don't need visio after all. I'll just look at network diagrams on my laptop. *sigh*

Just another way that Linux needs to catch up

[Sloppy]

I haven't seen this useful "activation" feature in Gentoo (or Slackware or Red Hat) yet. I guess GNU/Linux users have been too ignorant to ask for it. And while those dumb Linux hackers were off spending their effort on making filesystems faster, Microsoft was listening to its customers and implementing popularly-requested features such as this.

Now, this key is one I purchased

There's the problem, right there. You voted with your wallet, in favor of this. Microsoft really is listening to its customer

Re:Just another way that Linux needs to catch up

[NixLuver]

Good points all. Unfortunately, my company insists on providing all the network drawings in visio format, and that's one thing I've been unable to work around. I can get quicken running in win4lin or Wine, but visio is stubborn.

I'll just have to look at the visio diagrams on my laptop, cuz I'm not putting windows back on the workstation. Period.