On every single machine that I have replaced hardware on, and then the OS says it needs to be activated, or even if I have replaced the whole machine and used the same copy of XP. A phone call to MS telling them that it is a replacement for the old machine, they have regenerated the activation key for me.
Not a single problem in all the years since XP came out. The Customer Services section at MS, expects you to upgrade/replace your machine. As long as your old machine goes into retirement, then there is no problem.:)
The sales guy telling you to re-purchase the OS, is an idiot or trying to increase his profit margin....more than likely both:)
I noticed when a friends ipod shuffle had an issue, the 'flashing lights of doom', I believe it was classified by the general populace. On the apple site, apparently the shuffle never suffered this problem, and any indication to there being an issue was promptly removed.
You know the deal...A Mac never breaks down...total BS there, when a Mac dies, it dies in a marvellous way that a reboot can't fix:)
As stated earlier, figure out the base system & apps, ie Win XP, Office 2003, Acrobat reader,... set-up printers Then make a ghost image. If you have enough hdd per machine, split the hdd into 2 partitions and install the ghost image on the second image, you can use gdisk to hide the second partition from the general user. Make sure that the users map all home directory's to a server(roaming profiles in action), then if a machine fails/gets infected by a virus you can boot off a boot cd, unhide the partition, ghost the first partition, rehide the partition. That should give you the ability to restore a machine in 5 minutes.
If you spend some time, you can even automate the whole process. Inventory all of the errors and mistakes that occur on the sites, then create a standard solution for solving it. Once you have that, teach the user so they won't repeat the mistake.
A lot of the people I have seen today always thought a croc would get him. Seems it happened during a shot off the Barrier Reef, a new documentry he was doing. He will be missed by a lot of people.
Yes, but you've got to take into consideration, that new machines will also end up with IE7, so those stats are going to change to be more in favour of the IE browser. So current polls are currently not worth the time looking up.
Though it is interesting that there are more beta testers for IE 7 than there are stable users of Opera.
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On every single machine that I have replaced hardware on, and then the OS says it needs to be activated, or even if I have replaced the whole machine and used the same copy of XP. A phone call to MS telling them that it is a replacement for the old machine, they have regenerated the activation key for me. Not a single problem in all the years since XP came out. The Customer Services section at MS, expects you to upgrade/replace your machine. As long as your old machine goes into retirement, then there is no problem. :)
The sales guy telling you to re-purchase the OS, is an idiot or trying to increase his profit margin....more than likely both :)
I noticed when a friends ipod shuffle had an issue, the 'flashing lights of doom', I believe it was classified by the general populace. On the apple site, apparently the shuffle never suffered this problem, and any indication to there being an issue was promptly removed. You know the deal...A Mac never breaks down...total BS there, when a Mac dies, it dies in a marvellous way that a reboot can't fix :)
As stated earlier, figure out the base system & apps, ie Win XP, Office 2003, Acrobat reader, ... set-up printers Then make a ghost image. If you have enough hdd per machine, split the hdd into 2 partitions and install the ghost image on the second image, you can use gdisk to hide the second partition from the general user. Make sure that the users map all home directory's to a server(roaming profiles in action), then if a machine fails/gets infected by a virus you can boot off a boot cd, unhide the partition, ghost the first partition, rehide the partition. That should give you the ability to restore a machine in 5 minutes.
If you spend some time, you can even automate the whole process. Inventory all of the errors and mistakes that occur on the sites, then create a standard solution for solving it. Once you have that, teach the user so they won't repeat the mistake.
A lot of the people I have seen today always thought a croc would get him. Seems it happened during a shot off the Barrier Reef, a new documentry he was doing. He will be missed by a lot of people.
Yes, but you've got to take into consideration, that new machines will also end up with IE7, so those stats are going to change to be more in favour of the IE browser. So current polls are currently not worth the time looking up. Though it is interesting that there are more beta testers for IE 7 than there are stable users of Opera.