It must be Christmas. Re-installing Windows XP on a sickly family machine that's just had a new CPU fan fitted and the GFX card fan cleaned out. It's a fresh install of Windows XP SP2, since despite running malware cleansers and virus checkers, the machine is still mostly broken (soundcard won't work, USB wifi dongle won't work, frequent "critical error" dialog boxes popping up -- all of these issues confirmed as software not hardware thanks to an Ubuntu live CD). The budget wouldn't stretch to Mac Mini presents, sadly, and iTunes doesn't work on Ubuntu ... jumping from Office to OpenOffice will be tricky enough. Meanwhile:
Downloading Security Update for Windows XP (update 1 of 64)
Good job we have plenty of wine in the house.
Posted by savs at December 23, 2006 7:18 PMWhat was that you said about not supporting XP any more?
At least my remaining windows using relatives have learned that it's not worth asking me any more.
Posted by: John at December 26, 2006 11:27 PMDon't be slagging my machine off on your blog!!
Posted by: Angel at December 31, 2006 5:43 PM