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Pirates Find Proper Way to Crack Vista's Activation Schema
El_Oscuro writes "A genuine crack for Windows Vista has been released by pirate group Pantheon. The exploit allows a pirated, non-activated installation of Vista (Home Basic/Premium and Ultimate) to be properly activated and made fully-operational. 'It seems that Microsoft has allowed large OEMs like ASUS to ship their products with a pre-installed version of Vista that doesn't require product activation — apparently because end users would find it too inconvenient.'"
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Well, one of the side-effects of this crack is hallucinations. You've really been in a crack-induced haze for the apparent past year.
"I think an etch-a-sketch with an ethernet port would beat IE7 in web standards compliance."
I remember a CNN news snippet on YouTube... it's just not worth pirating Vista, unless one is a hardcore masochist, of course.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
It seems that Microsoft has allowed large OEMs like ASUS to ship their products with a pre-installed version of XP that doesn't require product activation -- apparently because end users would find using Vista too inconvenient.
Eh, it's an easy mistake to make. Whoever wrote the "Zonk" shell script just introduced an off-by-one error.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
"Please do not crack software and publish the crack on the net. It hurts my employer's feelings.
Thank you."
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the drivers weren't up to date?
Hey, calm down! ... I didn't pay for my copy of windows either ;)
I'm an equal opportunity f*tard
Another group has published an undocumented way to bypass the adult verification in the new Leisure Suit Larry game by pressing ALT+X.
How do these guys learn this stuff??
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Just need to wait a few more months and hopefully Microsoft will start paying people to use it.
If you haven't made a developer cry, you've wasted a day.
I still don't want it, though.
It was so embarassing to have to crack it the improper way.
Wasn't it 640K?
Oh, wait...
Ignore this signature. By order.
Ah. So it will just have to be cracked again.
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So old I've had it on my flashdrive for over a year!
The government can't save you.
Right on the front page of the article it clearly says "4th March 2007".
Most likely their "slashdot" button has received some current activity as someone has finally gotten around to trying Vista...
$64,000 should be enough for everyone!
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There is only one known way to get "full functionality" from Vista, and that is with an install of "Fedora Hack" which eliminates the approximately 80% of Vista that is bugs, and the 20% that constrains the user from doing anything useful. There are a number of Fedora hacks to Vista available, the most recent being Fedora Core 8.
"The Model T ford was sold in many colours, black was not even an option on the early models, and the later ones were always offered in multiple colours in all countries ...?"
oh yeah? then how come there black in all the pictures?
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