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World's First XP System Sold
A reader writes "New zealands largest OEM PC Manufacturer, The PC Company sold the worlds first Windows XP system. Details can be found at this article on NZoom" And so, it begins.
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What do you mean first XP system? Iv'e been running XP for several wee- err, first *sold* XP system. Never Mind.
(The above is a complete falsity contrived to humor readers, any resemblence to actual people, places, or events is purely coincidental)
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- "Scientia non habet inimicum nisp ignorantem"
Well, I suppose that if your imagination only runs to the extent of calling a PC company "The PC Company" its not suprising you'll be first in line for Mr Gate's latest.
Get the EULA T-shirt
As if anybody in their right mind reads the EULA.
As if anybody would even care what it said if they did - it could lay claim to your first born for all the difference it makes to 99.999% of users.
M$ NZ gets its first XP tech support cal after the user added a new harddrive and XP told them they'd have to get permission from M$ before they continued ... and so it begins ...
XP system sold
t-minus 19 minutes: First sold XP system booted.
-19.5: First annoying XP nag message to open a Passport account
-20: First XP "MSN Network" desktop icon deleted
-25: First realization by first XP system buyer that most of his old system settings won't transfer.
-26: First XP-inspired burst of profanity.
-28: Attempt to use legacy scanner results in crash and second XP-inspired burst of profanity.
-30: First XP-related bug report files.
And so it begins!
leaving the Auckland showroom at one minute after midnight with a brand new, Windows XP-ready machine.
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I take this to mean people are actually standing in line for this? Isn't today's PC consumer a little smarter than they were in '95 and '98? Have we learned nothing? I mean, doesn't everybody read
A little smarter? You missed the part in the quote about being an All Black. For those not living in this part of the world, an All Black is a football player for the New Zealand team. Now football players never really were renouned for being smart people, so I think that probably explains everything.
TimC.
Three words: DMCA, UTICA, SSSCA!
Next step: Cancellation of the first amendment
Next next step: Death penalty for copyright violations.
Make even shorter URLs - 8LN.org
Indeed it is a sad world when a software company would dare to violate our civil liberties by designing an operating system that is hard to pirate.
Thoughtless bastards - what next, people fitting 'locks' on doors to make it harder for burglars? Selfish fuckers.
XP also happens to boot very fast.. in fact, it's faster than coming out of hibernation here, and certainly comparible to an equivilent Unix system.
:)
::pretends to think:: Oh...I could ask to be able to USE my computer freely, heh, since I've paid for it. ;)
::blue screen of death appears::
::resists temptation to hit a perfectly good laptop with a hammer::
;)
My Millennium system boots in about a minute, with a bunch of slow-loaders like Norton and the Office Shortcut Bar, and LILO just past the BIOS level. How fast are you talking?
It performs at least as well as 2k, with tweaks in most of the right places, hence making it Quite Good[tm]. And it runs vim, UT, Q3 and CS - what more could you ask for?
I've always been a faithful part of the MS fold before. But all this crap I read about with not being able to copy ripped MP3's to other computers, and problems intercepting audio streams at the hardware levels...sheesh.
I'll reserve my judgement until I actually get my hands on a copy and try it out. After all, I got most of my information on that topic from the print media, and you *know* how reliable they are.
However, I will say that if it's relatively crash-free, I may indeed upgrade. After six months of dealing with Millennium, I'm ready for a change...
(Myself) "Yeah, I want you to transfer a file, like."
(Millennium) "Ohh man, I'm not sure I can do this. This looks hard."
(Myself) "No, it's not that hard, it's a twenty-kb Word document."
(Millennium) "You're scaring me! MEESTER GATESSSS! HELP!"
(Myself)
And that's not even starting in on the fact I had to format and reinstall the day after I got my computer cos it loaded wrong at the factory...
But this is turning into a Millennium diatribe. Suffice it to say that the next OS is either something more stable from MS, or *nix. And I even loaded RH 7.0 in frustration one day after a particularly high number of BSODs.
Pain(n): when you're telnetting into a box doing somethin cool, and some luser calls for help with a 'critical error' ad
No, not really. Idiots with slightly improved accuracy are still idiots.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
> hey had a fairly hot chick do the demonstration too
Yes, I'm shallow too, Got any pics?
I read that as "World's First XP System Solid". I thought they were still a few years from a solid OS.
That was too easy. Mod me down, please.