banky's Journal: Magic Hate Ball plays "Windows XP administrator"

Hmm, Magic Hate Ball, I seem to be having a problem wherein domain users, even with oodles of permissions (way too much, in fact, up to and including "Administrator") still can't do things like install printer drivers.
(shake, shake, shake)

Perhaps it would work if you crammed the parallel port up your fat ass.

Oh, wait, my bad, that was Microsoft's online help system, not the Magic Hate Ball. The two appear similar on the surface, in that their sentences are in English and grammatically correct, but useless.

Note for everyone: Aloha Bob!, the PC relocator application, should be avoided at all costs up to and including turning down otherwise lucrative contracts. It will fuck you in ways whores haven't seen. It will turn an otherwise functional system into a mess of crap that won't run, and will TAKE XP DOWN like some kind of something-something.

Reinstall, don't relocate

[MonTemplar]

It's the only sensible option. Time-consuming? You bet! But then, you'll come prepared, having backups and software licences to hand. Won't you? If not, then you are the target audience for Aloha Bob and its ilk, because you're *that* desparate... :-)

Re:Reinstall, don't relocate

[banky]

Reinstallation is, of course, the only option, but...

1. They don't have all the registration info for the # of client machines. Most apps don't publish the reg# from within the app (probably recoverable, somehow, but it's sketchy to use apps written by RegHax0Rd00d in a business env) and we generally refuse to share reg#'s. They are a company and liable to the BSA, so if they were to get caught (and this place is a disgruntled-employee factory, lemme tell you) they'd say that it was all our fault.
2. Despit

Re:Reinstall, don't relocate

[neophenix]

Had the machine been "tight" I'm sure the migration would have worked

yeah tight like floam's mom

sorry i got nothing.

Re:Reinstall, don't relocate

[heliocentric]

yeah tight like floam's mom

sorry i got nothing.

Gee, thanks... I thought you left /. and all that is fun to go ruin your life with that woman who has thus far been ruining your life.

You remember, the one that manipulates you all the time by pretending to give you a glimmer of hope, only to use it to get you to look after the kid so she can go away with the flavor-of-the-month on some trip... yeah, that one.

And shouldn't you get arguing with that car dealer who is offering a car for sale at a high price?