to everyone who didn't actually follow the link to the MS page here is the REAL un FUDed info -
"You can use Add or Remove Programs to view Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications, but you cannot use Add or Remove Programs to remove the notifications.
You can temporarily disable Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications. To do this, right-click the Notifier icon in the notification area and select Change Notifications Settings. Then, follow the prompts. This will disable the Notification Prompts until a new release of the Notification Update is released."
Notice the first sentence where it cleary states you cannot use Add/Remove to get rid of notifications....
RTFA!!!! before you post.. Oh wait, you are a Repugnican, well read this REAL SLOW then...
"As to NT->2000->XP, do you honestly believe anyone stood a chance against MSFT at any point post-DOS? People bought Microsoft because Microsoft is what you buy. Vista could be the biggest piece of shit since Windows ME (which would be quite an accomplishment), and it'd still outsell OSX and Linux by several orders of magnitude."
Just because Microsoft is what everybody uses doesn't automatically make their products crap, just as it doesn't automatically make them good. NT was about as stable and easy to use as any OS at the time, it was only natural to go forward with that base for further OS. XP to me, when configurated correctly and patched frequently, is one of the most stable OS that MS has produced. I maintain about 60 XP boxes at my job and they used to be a mix of 95, 98, NT etc. before 2000 and XP came out. Believe it or not, the maintenance has gotten much easier with XP. People that claim 2000 or 98 is a more stable OS are talking out of their asses, or running the minumum requirements for hardware.(Not recommended for any OS)
Did you take your Thorazine today?? Why in the world would do you hate MS "with a passion that might be called zealotry"?? Have they personally done something to wrong you?? Don't you think there are worse coprorations out there?? It's fine if you don't like their products or whatever, don't use them. But wanting them to fail?? I think if Apple, Novell, and IBM all combined their efforts it would still amount to a snowball's chance in hell of that succeeding...
Shifting a drive to an entirely new system with multiple new hardware devices will almost certainly never work in Windows. But the parent was talking about switching the motherboard only - and a motherboard using more or less the same chipset/drivers. World of difference.
"I do, in fact, believe that Linux needs to be improved to succeed. I simply don't believe that this particular incident is the fault of Linux, nor am I blaming MSFT nor the free market. You are continuing to falsely attribute ideas and beliefs and motivations to me. Please stop."
Okay, I'll bite. So please explain whose fault it is - not Linux, not MS, not the market - maybe the motherboard manufacturer??? The French?? The Dell Dude??
"Also, have you ever actually used Windows NT? That thing was a piece of shit and a perfect example of what happens when manufacturers depend on other parties to write their drivers. The idea that NT's survival and evolution to XP is due solely to NT being a superior product is laughable."
Obviously you have not ever used NT much. At the time, it was the best OS for business use that didn't require you to be a hardcore *nix geek or a programmer. The millions of copies used in the business world was not just a happy coincidence for MS - I mean christ look at Windows ME, nobody used that because it was a piece of crap. I still have a few areas where I work then run NT boxes.
And colud you explain what it is that made NT's "survival and evolution" in XP if it isn't because it works well???
It really depends on which branch of Dell you are dealing with. Home and Small Business tech support is outsourced to India and isn't very pleasant to use from what I have heard/read. The Corporate and Education branch tech support is all done from the good old USA. I have had plenty of experiences dealing with them, and out of 25-30 times I have called upon them in the last 5 years, only once was the experience less than stellar. 99% of the time I am on hold less than 5 minutes and have never been given the "third degree" about replacement parts - I tell them what failed and how I tested it, they send the part out (or one time a technician to replace a motherboard in a laptop) and I have it the next morning. I'm pretty sure I still have a few bungled hard drives and some memory I was supposed to send back, but never bothered - and never heard a word from Dell bugging me to send them back. These are my experinces with the Corp and Educational branch of Dell, with other branches, YMMV.
You really haven't heard of the Cuban Missle Crisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missle_Crisis before??
A little history refresher - Kennedy changed the tide of the cold war without a single shot fired...
" "Features" are the enemy of a shipping product in the same way the perfect is the enemy of the good. How do you know what "features" are really useful and what "features" are wastes of time and energy. "
Because Steve Jobs tells me which ones are good...
Heh, my "newest" car is a '91 and my other one is an '88 - but guess what?? They have both been paid for in full for over 10 years - so basically I am getting paid $500 a month to keep driving them. I'll take that paycheck!
Ok, I just saw another FAQ (not the official one) on ReplayTV that states you can use either. They should change their own website and FAQ - it is misleading.
Well, from their own website requirements... http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/dvr/whatdoIneed.a sp They state you NEED both..Only the internet conneciotn is listed as OPTIONAL.. Tivo also needs a land line (only once) for initial setup - this is just a stupid, stupid, stupid requirement these days...
Hear hear! Society has become broken due to freezing Darwinism in it's tracks... We need less laws protecting idiots from harm and a little more common sense.. It is not anybody else's job to protect you from your own stupidity.
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to everyone who didn't actually follow the link to the MS page here is the REAL un FUDed info -
"You can use Add or Remove Programs to view Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications, but you cannot use Add or Remove Programs to remove the notifications.
You can temporarily disable Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications. To do this, right-click the Notifier icon in the notification area and select Change Notifications Settings. Then, follow the prompts. This will disable the Notification Prompts until a new release of the Notification Update is released."
Notice the first sentence where it cleary states you cannot use Add/Remove to get rid of notifications....
RTFA!!!! before you post.. Oh wait, you are a Repugnican, well read this REAL SLOW then...
"We geeky women can, in mens' minds, secretly be sex fiends."
Men don't limit those thoughts to strictly geeky women, and I don't think it's any secret...
Then again, who would you trust to manufacture such a card?
Wilford Brimley. He just has a trusting face....
If you can also tell me how you would do that?
Sodium Pentathol - the weakest element in a password/cypher is always the human element.
"As to NT->2000->XP, do you honestly believe anyone stood a chance against MSFT at any point post-DOS? People bought Microsoft because Microsoft is what you buy. Vista could be the biggest piece of shit since Windows ME (which would be quite an accomplishment), and it'd still outsell OSX and Linux by several orders of magnitude."
Just because Microsoft is what everybody uses doesn't automatically make their products crap, just as it doesn't automatically make them good. NT was about as stable and easy to use as any OS at the time, it was only natural to go forward with that base for further OS. XP to me, when configurated correctly and patched frequently, is one of the most stable OS that MS has produced. I maintain about 60 XP boxes at my job and they used to be a mix of 95, 98, NT etc. before 2000 and XP came out. Believe it or not, the maintenance has gotten much easier with XP. People that claim 2000 or 98 is a more stable OS are talking out of their asses, or running the minumum requirements for hardware.(Not recommended for any OS)
In an unrelated story Sculptor Sanborn went missing last night...
Exactly - it's not a good reason to bag on them either - it works both ways.
I'm not praising them for implementing it, I'm just not pretending that they are the only ones doing it.
As long as Vista will run my pre-ordered copy of Duke Nukem Forever I don't care about the other features...
Um, DRM wasn't invented by Microsoft, nor are they the only ones using it.
Did you take your Thorazine today?? Why in the world would do you hate MS "with a passion that might be called zealotry"?? Have they personally done something to wrong you?? Don't you think there are worse coprorations out there?? It's fine if you don't like their products or whatever, don't use them. But wanting them to fail?? I think if Apple, Novell, and IBM all combined their efforts it would still amount to a snowball's chance in hell of that succeeding...
Shifting a drive to an entirely new system with multiple new hardware devices will almost certainly never work in Windows. But the parent was talking about switching the motherboard only - and a motherboard using more or less the same chipset/drivers. World of difference.
"I do, in fact, believe that Linux needs to be improved to succeed. I simply don't believe that this particular incident is the fault of Linux, nor am I blaming MSFT nor the free market. You are continuing to falsely attribute ideas and beliefs and motivations to me. Please stop."
Okay, I'll bite. So please explain whose fault it is - not Linux, not MS, not the market - maybe the motherboard manufacturer??? The French?? The Dell Dude??
"Also, have you ever actually used Windows NT? That thing was a piece of shit and a perfect example of what happens when manufacturers depend on other parties to write their drivers. The idea that NT's survival and evolution to XP is due solely to NT being a superior product is laughable."
Obviously you have not ever used NT much. At the time, it was the best OS for business use that didn't require you to be a hardcore *nix geek or a programmer. The millions of copies used in the business world was not just a happy coincidence for MS - I mean christ look at Windows ME, nobody used that because it was a piece of crap. I still have a few areas where I work then run NT boxes.
And colud you explain what it is that made NT's "survival and evolution" in XP if it isn't because it works well???
It really depends on which branch of Dell you are dealing with. Home and Small Business tech support is outsourced to India and isn't very pleasant to use from what I have heard/read. The Corporate and Education branch tech support is all done from the good old USA. I have had plenty of experiences dealing with them, and out of 25-30 times I have called upon them in the last 5 years, only once was the experience less than stellar. 99% of the time I am on hold less than 5 minutes and have never been given the "third degree" about replacement parts - I tell them what failed and how I tested it, they send the part out (or one time a technician to replace a motherboard in a laptop) and I have it the next morning. I'm pretty sure I still have a few bungled hard drives and some memory I was supposed to send back, but never bothered - and never heard a word from Dell bugging me to send them back. These are my experinces with the Corp and Educational branch of Dell, with other branches, YMMV.
You really haven't heard of the Cuban Missle Crisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missle_Crisis before??
A little history refresher - Kennedy changed the tide of the cold war without a single shot fired...
Apparently you haven't heard of Contra dancing http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc97/6_14_97/ mathland.htm
Wait wait wait just one minute here...We are having a legitimate deiscussion about porn and you guys want to steer the discussion towards grammar???
I've recently learned that porno is surprisingly difficult to burn.
Yep, but it least it doesn't burn when you pee afterwards...
as if the evolution team makes such flawless products
Excuse me? There are currently no possible exploits in my genetic-algorithm kernel. Give it a few more decades, and it might even become bootable...
Oh yeah? Then please explain how Celene Dion came about...
" "Features" are the enemy of a shipping product in the same way the perfect is the enemy of the good. How do you know what "features" are really useful and what "features" are wastes of time and energy. "
Because Steve Jobs tells me which ones are good...
Heh, my "newest" car is a '91 and my other one is an '88 - but guess what?? They have both been paid for in full for over 10 years - so basically I am getting paid $500 a month to keep driving them. I'll take that paycheck!
Yet when Apple adds unnecessary bloat to their OS, fanboys fall over themselves praising the "new features"...
Ok, I just saw another FAQ (not the official one) on ReplayTV that states you can use either. They should change their own website and FAQ - it is misleading.
Well, from their own website requirements...a sp
http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/dvr/whatdoIneed.
They state you NEED both..Only the internet conneciotn is listed as OPTIONAL.. Tivo also needs a land line (only once) for initial setup - this is just a stupid, stupid, stupid requirement these days...
Hear hear! Society has become broken due to freezing Darwinism in it's tracks... We need less laws protecting idiots from harm and a little more common sense.. It is not anybody else's job to protect you from your own stupidity.
They were hoping only one of you would come back - cheaper to afford college that way.