Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!news-feed-01.tampabay.rr.com!news.rr.com!news-post.tampabay.rr.com!southeast.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Marvel" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan References: Subject: Re: Time to buy a Mac? Lines: 35 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response Message-ID: Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:10:33 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.75.112.166 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: southeast.rr.com 1151971833 71.75.112.166 (Mon, 03 Jul 2006 20:10:33 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 20:10:33 EDT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:163696 "CL" wrote in message news:e7vv81$75u$1@nnrp.gol.com... > Marvel wrote: >> It has been said that the new Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) update that >> is being force fed to every user on the planet via update has problems. >> >> For example a person with a perfectly authentic copy of Windows accepted >> the WGA unknowingly. The update wiped out several drivers and ruined his >> machine. >> He ran system restore and was o.k., but the update is trying to get in >> again. >> This could get real nasty fast. >> What are our choices? >> Read more here >> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=76 >> >> > http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-6087462.html?tag=nl.e550 > > Windows Update kept installing "fixes" that screwed up all of the > different USB hub, controller, and device drivers so that every time I > printed from my USB printer or made a Skype call from my USB phone, I got > a BSOD within five minutes. Normally, my PC would crash four times a day > at very predictable times. > > Xandros 4 came out on the 26th. I installed it over my old v.2.5 that is > on the other half of this HDD and I haven't had a crash yet. But, I _am_ > posting from the Windows side right now because it _is_ a bigger pain to > set the multilingual properties in Xandros and I have a learning curve > that others may not. > Microhard has a class action lawsuit over the WGA http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9001540