{"id":412,"date":"2006-07-03T21:26:18","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T02:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/03\/flirting-with-microsoft"},"modified":"2006-07-05T21:41:49","modified_gmt":"2006-07-06T02:41:49","slug":"flirting-with-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/03\/flirting-with-microsoft","title":{"rendered":"Flirting with Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After years of abstinence, I actually loaded Windows XP Home on my Thinkpad. Reason really being I found my recovery disks from IBM, and figured that I might as well pop the Windows license back on it, so that I can <em>experiment<\/em> with this OS that&#8217;s oh-so-popular.<\/p>\n<p>Man, Windows took the better part of the afternoon to get installed. If that&#8217;s not bad, it rebooted only like <em>four<\/em> times. Its funny how the whole install happens in FAT32, and then to make my life miserable, it converts it to NTFS on its final reboot. <em>Why?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Installing all the updates, and getting up to Service Pack 2, took the remainder of the afternoon. One thing I&#8217;ve found interesting, and a must install is: <a href=\"http:\/\/pack.google.com\/\">Google Pack<\/a>. For good protection from all those Windows virii, <a href=\"http:\/\/free.grisoft.com\/\">AVGFree<\/a> seems to make the most sense. And OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 is just out, and is the smallest download of all the OSes it would seem.<\/p>\n<p>Then I reboot to find that Windows XP SP1 support ends on October 10th 2006. I believe there are some benefits to becoming genuine (or Microsoft is trying hard to sell me that). 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Download, get the trial key, and use the Wizard to create a virtual machine. Defaults to 8GB for Windows, which does seem sensible. When booting it, there will be an error (doh, Windows isn't installed); fix this by popping the Windows XP CD into the SuperDrive and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1152,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/13\/fits-of-irony","url_meta":{"origin":412,"position":1},"title":"fits of irony","date":"13\/11\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In a fit of irony, its worth nothing that StarOffice has been dropped from the Google Pack while the Java Runtime Environment will now include the Microsoft Live Search Powered Toolbar on Windows. I always tell people who use Windows to download the Google Pack. 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