[Boatanchors] [Milsurplus] OT: Win XP Assist

[Kludge]

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From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of mac
  Get a MAC!  :^)

You mean like the two (plus parts to make two more) that I just gave away?
:-D

Why should I spend more money that I can manage even on a good day buying a
machine that can't handle hardware & software that I need to use?  (This
goes for Linux too, by the way.)  Windows drivers for the hardware are
available; drivers for Mac and Linux not so much if at all.  For some of it,
XP is as far as drivers go with none for Win 7 which is what this @#$%^&*(
laptop uses.  The two CF-27s won't be connected to the internet so they're
not going to catch colds from errant downloads, and the big horse ... well,
in almost 20 years of running Windows (along with several versions of OS/2)
on the Internet, I have yet to get a virus.  

I do run Linux on a dual boot basis on my big machines since things like
Gimp run better under it rather than having to fiddle with making it work
under Windows.  Richard, I started with Knoppix then tried Ubuntu and now
have a media (mostly audio & video) oriented distro of Knoppix.  I think
there's one for Ubuntu as well but I haven't checked of late.  Jerry, I'll
look at Antix as an alternative for one of the two CF-27s if I can get the
touch screen to work under it but the other pretty much has to stay with
Windows.  

Also, Jerry ... that's how the disk I'm getting is only I think it only has
SP-2 since the machine was made before SP-3 was released.  

I would love to find another one like I had with a bare copy of XP so I can
slipstream the updates.  (I have since learned that there's good reason not
to install all the "fixes" since some do more harm than good.)  With it, I
bought a six-pack of COAs to cover any machines I would build although was
very tempted to buy a limited site license which has all kinds of benefits.
Since then I've bought machines like the current three that have COAs
attached but have barren HDs.  Somewhere in storage, I still have several of
the original COAs but, alas, not the CD nor any of the ones I made from it
to support the individual machines.  

Oh, yeah.  This is why it's easy for me to stay legal with XP and, oddly,
Win98 SE.  

So anyway, since Dell seems to have given up their evil ways (which I
encountered in the late 90s), I seem to be good to go and can relax.  :-)

Thanks all for the assist.

Best regards,
 
Michael, WH7HG BL01xh
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/NTH/index.aspx 
http://wh7hg.blogspot.com/ 
http://kludges-other-blog.blogspot.com 
Hiki Nô!