Re: Lost XP product key - before install.

On 2005-08-15, Stuffed <talking@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> "Justin C" <justin.0507@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:55c3.42ffbefe.cb67e@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> On 2005-08-14, Conor <conor.turton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> > Yes you can.
>> > # Open HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ CLSID\ {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
>> > (you can also select Find from the Edit menu, and search for "Recycle
>> > Bin.")
>> > # Double-click (Default), and type the new name.
>>
>> You what? And you think Linux is difficult? At least our config files
>> make some sense.
>
> I can find the registry, I can search it, I can edit it. Or I can spend
> hours finding out which file I need to edit, trawl through to find the right
> line, and keep my fingers crossed it doesn't all go tits, otherwise I'll
> have to deal with a cli, something I neither know nor want to know.

Yes, I can find the registry too, but I certainly can make no sense of
the line conor quoted above. You find that stuff easy?

"spend hours finding which file I need to edit" hmm, lets have a little
look in /etc/ shall we?
X11 - that'll be for X11 stuff
bash.bashrc - ah, system wide bash config
crontab - that'll be for cron then
aumixrx - that's for aumix
csh.cshrc - for c shell
dhclient - hmmm, don't need that, not using dhcp
fstab - File System TABle

et cetera - if you can't figure out which file is for which app it's
surprising you can manage to turn a computer on in the first place.

>> Not only mine, a lot of other people came across it before me. I
>> couldn't solve it but when I posted the question a few years back I got
>> half a dozen replies within two hours. Each with the same solution, and
>> none of them involved the GUI which MS says is all you need.
>
> This is a few years back - Are you comparing current Linux with obsolete
> Windows again?

No, it was XP (before SP2, things may have changed) I posted it in a
different reply, but, here it is again:

net use lpt1 \\another_machine\printer /persistent:yes

Is it possible to do this from the GUI now?


>> Yeah, but XMMS command line blows WinAMP out of the water. You can't
>> control WinAMP from within your text editor, without leaving what you
>> are doing - xmms and emacs can (I've not done it myself mind, only read
>> of it's possibility).
>
> I wouldn't really want to control an mp3 player from a text editor, or
> anything other than the mp3 software! Call me odd, but rather than learning
> a whole new way of controlling a PC (what's wrong with point and click, drag
> and drop?), I'm quite happy to have each program doing what I've asked it to
> do, and nothing more or less.

No, I don't want to use my media player that way either, you are just
failing to see the point I am making and that is that the software has
been extended and people are able to use it in different ways if they
choose.

What's wrong with point and click? I can type faster than anyone I know
can take their hands off the keyboard, grab the mouse, locate the
cursor, locate the window, locate the start button, locate the menu
item, locate the icon and click.


> I keep looking at different operating systems, and without buying a Mac it
> seems the vast majority of non MS ones are written by people who think that
> because they like to control everything through the keyboard and in terminal
> windows, it's obviously the best way (although ReactOS have more of a clue,
> but are really literally a Windows clone). I've had this argument elsewhere,
> the real failings of MS are their ethics and behind the scenes coding. The
> GUI is very very good, people like visual pointers in the OS, they like a
> bit of eye candy to make things softer and more comfortable.

Fluffy dice? Go faster stripes? It is not very, very, good. The
experience that has been offered to end users has been incredibly
limited. The variations in eye-candy have just made people think they've
seen a lot of different types when they are all the same, just different
colours.


> If I'm trying
> to add a new bit of kit, I want a box that tells me what I need to do next,
> not a terminal window asking me if I want to use
> bi-proxy-bitset-xgasm-mumbo-jumbo version 1 or 2.

I've detected new hardware, do you want me to install software for it?
yes
This disk does not contain information relating to your hardware
it does
This disk does not contain information relating to your hardware
it does
etc.

If you are adding new kit then you aren't a novice user, read the
documentation relevant and go ahead and do it. It only gets to be a
biggy when it's cutting edge... but this is old ground.


Justin.

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