Tortorously Long

[davecobb]

I'm in a boring meeting in Charlotte; flying home later this afternoon. Thank goodness the conference room table has an ethernet jack.

A friend online just sent me an instant message that included my new phavorite phrase, "torturously long blow job". I snickered a bit loud, so I'll probably have to shut the laptop and actually participate in the meeting. Harumph.

On a different topic, Firefox is a *really* great new browser.



So far, I like it a whole lot -- even more than Safari on OSX. Snappy, snazzy, safe!

Comments

Re: JFirefox

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

I just remember that when they did the beta testing for XP that only 11 installs were allowed before one had to shell out for a renewel of the liscense. And that if you had to replace the MB for instance, it would not let you install without a new registration, that kind of thing. I was never sure if that made it to the final retail versions or not. And lets not forget it was only for the computer you orignaly installed it on, and that was it. I recall reading about that in computer magazines at the time.

I did try to find a second hand copy of 98 through Second Hand Books and they had been hard to find and while I've not looked in the past year. I've been busy and have been doing other things. When I had my old P133 box, it came with Win95, which as you know, won't work on later pc's, so had to borrow, originaly for short term stop gap measures, but financial hardships at the time prevented me from purchasing anything like that for the longest time. Now, I've got a decent job but had to purchase a new printer, a new monitor and am now having to deal with the main box and do intend to things more ligitimaly.

As for the free ride, since 2001 and like I said, was only meant to be stop gap, but life interviened and had to hold off much longer than orignaly planned.

Re: JFirefox

[cpratt.livejournal.com]

The "11 installs" bit doesn't sound remotely accurate... probably another instance of bad PR/marketing devolving into bad info. But yes, XP is typically licensed only for the hardware it ships on, unless you've paid the $$$ for a different copy that allows you to transfer it to new hardware.

Tell you what: E-mail me your shipping address [that would be cpratt at microsoft dot com] and I'll get a copy of XP Home [full version] shipped out to you on my own dime. Deal?

PC Help Desk

[e-ticket.livejournal.com]

Ummm... maybe you can help me. The cupholder on the front of my PC has broken off -- can you fix it for me?

Re: PC Help Desk

[cpratt.livejournal.com]

You bet! Just send me $180 for the plane ticket and $20 for spare parts...

Thank you for reading Dave Cobb's journal, where the elite meet to diagnose and solve PC problems... :)

Re: JFirefox

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

Deal, Email on it's way.

Re: JFirefox

[cpratt.livejournal.com]

Package'll be shipped this week.

If you run into me out and about, I demand a Guinness. :)

Re: JFirefox

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

You're on. Mmmm, love a Guinness too. :-)