Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 16:08 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
A little while ago, I bought a Thinkpad R40 at auction. It had Windows
XP SP2 professional more-or-less installed, ready for me to provide a
few personal details.
How confident were you that it wasn't trojaned already for you? It's
not the sort of thing I'd have much trust in.
I know the auction company fairly well, and it makes a decent effort at
identifying faults - way beyond what it's required to do, and it has a
reputation to preserve. Disks containing binary zeros are more common
than preinstalled software, install media are often included, licence
stickers are mostly in place.
It helps the vendor get better prices, buyers have better confidence in
what they're buying and the auction house gets more clients.
Besides, the XP side gets little use, I resized the partition and
installed OpenSUSE 10.2,
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Cheers
John
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