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Free Upgrade From XP Home to XP Pro Lite

Posted by Zonk on from the think-these-things-through dept.

Novus writes "The Register reports that many of the features of Windows XP Pro, such as Remote Desktop and user management, can be enabled in Windows XP Home simply by changing two bytes in an installation data file. Another explanation can be found here."

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  1. jackoff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    heheh i love to sploodge on taco's wife

    muahaha ehehe ahehe

    yes babale balele ba

    sdfsdasadas

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    1. Re:jackoff by DroopyStonx · · Score: -1, Troll

      This is the best comment I've read on slashdot in the past month. Mod this up. I would if I had points.

      Amen, brother, Amen.

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  2. All of this and more... by Skiron · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... can be enabled by installing a GNU/Linux of your choice \o/

  3. Re:Linux Fans: How Brainwashed are YOU? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    1. Netscape as the primary gui browser. Need I say more?
    2. Email clients...Pine? Sendmail? Archaic kludges.
    3. Multimedia...Run antique versions of Real Player
    4. Graphics... Gimp? Name says it all.
    5. Internet? Call your favorite ISP and tell them you run Linux...
    6. Supported printers? Damn well better be a Postscript printer
    7. Have a scanner? read the above. same thing applies....
    8. Networking....Want to get the whole family pissed off at you? Take away their internet conection sharing, standard under Win98se, and try and set up the same deal under Linux...
    9. USB...Most devices barely, if at all, function.
    10. Graphics...Take a look at the shitty font display of Netscrape
    11. Linux is so fragmented it doesn't know where first base is let alone who is standing on it.
    12. No standards.
    13. RPMs from one distribution don't work on other RPM-based distributions.
    14. My mouse didn't work initially because there was a bug in the installer program. Unacceptable!
    15. I buy SuSe and then later I find out that it doesn't work with Oracle because the two uses different versions of glibc. I thought that dll hell in Windows was a problem until I encountered rpm hell in Linux.
    16. Linux hangs when using sa floppy.
    17. Configuration files
    18. Command line switches
    19. Try sharing your OpenOffice files with others using MSOffice. The Linodorks claim it works, but guess what? It doesn't. Bet your job on Linux? Not me.
    20. Linuxs GUI (X) is an antiquated system that sucks cycles from even the most modern hardware and slows it down to the point where the mouse lags going across the screen.

    Linux and Free Software are Not Perfect.

  4. With M$: j000 8315 |/|/|-|41 j000 p4y 4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    haha

  5. Re:Why not just download XP Pro, its just as illeg by JebusIsLord · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm sorry, but... the fact that microsoft made it possible for you to steal from them makes this an example THEM EXPLOITING YOU? Huh?? I really have to stop visiting /. I think... the logic here makes me ill.

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  6. Re:Why not just download XP Pro, its just as illeg by RevWhite · · Score: 0, Troll

    In Soviet Russia, gas pumps you!

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