[lug] Oh my God, you killed Kenny!

[John Karns]

And soon it will be even more frequent when they initiate their new
installation procedure which will bind the install to the hardware, and
necessitate a phone call to solicit an activation key.  

I believe that I've already encountered this with W98 actually, back in
June of last year:  After W98 becoming corrupted on a (licensed) machine,
attempts to do an image copy of the OS from an identical machine were
unsuccessful.  The copy ran w/o problem on the source machine though.


On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Hugh Brown said:

> Maybe it's how many times will a man reinstall windows during any
> consecutive 43 day period.
> 
> Hugh
> 
> John Edwards wrote:
> > 
> > At 02:14 PM 2/5/01 -0700, you wrote:
> > >I thought we were all here to find the question that would
> > >match DeepThought's answer of 42.
> > 
> >          I always thought that was "How many time will a man re-install
> > windows in his lifetime." until I realized the number was too small....


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John Karns                                              jkarns at csd.net