Today Grumpy did spake thusly:
On Monday 27 November 2006 07:42, Scott van Looy wrote:
Today Grumpy did spake thusly:
On Monday 27 November 2006 06:52, Timothy Murphy wrote:
There is no law that says a computer must be on the internet ...
Just wait until M$ gets going on that already you have to have net access
to activate Windows
No you don't. We'll see if you do with Vista, but I'm guessing they'll not
make that mandatory either...
have to have it to activate XP
Don't. You can do it by phone or mail...
BTW a good lock box is one in the closet bolted to the floor ;-)
My XP boxen hide behind a linux firewall...they're pretty happy
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