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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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1st XP post...
||| I still can't believe Parkay's not butter.
...the first winxp box was owned!
The spate of conspiracy theories linking some aspect of WinXP to the number 666 or an obscure Nostradamus prediction...
Score:-1, Funny
the purchaser of the first WinXP system attempted to install the OS on his laptop so that he can take full advantage of the features on the road. Subsequently, a big 3D image of Bill Gates' head on a blue background encompassed the screen. Mr. Gates' single index finger then popped up and shook vigorously back and forth.
The purchaser immediately had an MI, not because he hadn't read the EULA, but because anyone would be scared s**tless by Windows' "new and improved" blue screen of death, which will now shut down computers everywhere not because of hefty codework but because Mr. Gates' head doesn't like bad licensing.
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I'm just an ordinary man with nothing to lose.
Good God man, you're right! What on earth was I thinking?!
The Evil Mr. Gates must be stopped! This cannot be allowed to come to pass...um...
They already mod down everything I post when I don't even mention Windows. How is this any different from normal, again?
My Webcomic: Asylum on 5th Street
This reference to "All Black" refers to the New Zealand Rugby Union team who are historically one of the most respected and best forces in Rugby.
Tell that to the Wallabies.
Aussie Aussie Aussie
OI OI OI!!!
...this is newsworthy? First (yet another) Monty Python lego story. Then stuff on PYRAMID KEYBOARDS (ie dumbest thing since bending over and ripping your anus wide open and posting it on a certain site). Now we have the "news" of the "First Windows XP system sold"? What's next? First AC who actually buys something from Think Geek? Osama bin Ladin says "George Bush has bad gas?" Cowboy Neal finally gets laid!?
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Sorry, but this was the dumbest thing I've read in a while.
Tell that to the Wallabies.
Aussie Aussie Aussie
Heh - he did say 'historically'
We will rise again! Without the mighty John Eales to protect you, we will crush you like the ants you are! Mwahahahahahaha!!!!!!
Now in Terriyaki flavor!
Not only that, but the vast quantities of fresh blood being sent to New York may trigger a vampire epidemic. I tell you, October in New York will be spooktacular indeed.
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I like to watch.
Gibson, that you?
Go back to sleep!
xp is perfect
My cat's name is Mittens.
We own you.
Brooklyn Bridge Sold; "What a Great deal!" cries hapless victim.
You can't buy it yet. This was NOT newsworthy.
Oh help us god XP is out.
On a different topic, God Help U.S.
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Yt another crippling bombshell hit th beleaguered *BSD community when last month IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of ll servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in th recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick nd its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For ll practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
*BSD is dying