visions of effty <impeach_the_shrub@verizon.net> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> visions of effty <impeach_the_shrub@verizon.net> wrote:

>>> I'd use it as an excuse to get a nice, hacked version of XP and call it even.

>> Yeah, I do that just to avoid the activation stupidity too.

> Well the guy said it was packaged with Windows ME. That right there solves that.

Yeah, noticed that after I had posted that.

> No reason to keep the recovery discs, therefore no reason to get the same motherboard.

Yep.

> Hell, if the guy has been putting up with ME for a few years, Microsoft should have to
> give *him* some money!

I've never agree with that line about ME, it did work pretty well.

Tho XP certainly leaves it for dead.