Re: Lost XP product key - before install.

In article <slrndg1sm0.777.this.address.is.fake@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Tony
Houghton says...

> Just because you find something hard to use doesn't mean it's going to
> be unreliable. No matter how much you prefer MS, nobody can claim that
> Windows 98 is more reliable than Linux, and you'd have to grudgingly
> admit that even XP and 2000 aren't quite as reliable.
>
XP SP2 is far more reliable than Linux.

> In commercial software "beta" means not working yet.

Bull***. Beta means working candidate with a few bugs.

> In Linux it means
> there was no marketing department to insist on a "final release" label
> by a certain deadline regardless of the condition of the code.

No, it means that its not finished.

> There are some things in Unix that I can't get my head around either,
> most notably LaTeX and Emacs-Lisp. I use and even advocate alternatives,
> but I don't go around saying that Emacs and LaTeX are rubbish,
> amateurish or unreliable, just because I can't be bothered to learn
> them.
>
But you do about Windows.

> People have complained about editing text config files? Some of the
> files have horrible formats, but there's nothing wrong with the
> principle of text config files, and with a good format and sensible
> comments, they're an excellent way to configure many programs
> (especially text editors, where the excuse of not knowing how to use a
> text editor is even more stupid).
>
Trouble is that OSS writers can't/won't agree on a common format so you
end up with whatever Mr/Mrs X or Y has decided to use for their app.


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