so my laptop after almost a year of functioning on the default xp pro install it came with started flacking out really bad.
so i back up my data to my main comp. then i pop in my xp pro sp1 slipstreamed cd i made (my laptop didnt come with an xp pro cd grrr). i get to the cd key part. i punch in the cd key that legitimately comes with the laptop, and it will not work. so i pop in the other key i have and get into windows. i look up how to change the cd key from within windows. i get this link off the web. i do exactly as it says and still it will not work.
so my conclusion is that my laptop didn’t come with sp1. i do not remember if it did or not. the cd key label should say if it was windows xp pro sp1 and it doesnt.
so now i have to make a plain windows xp cd key, then upgrade to sp1. how retarded. all this crap that only hurts a legitimate user. way to go ms.
on a lighter note, i am working on a public library’s computers and network. they had a cisco 1721 router set up as a bridge from msln that gives them a free 56k frame relay internet connection. this means that all the computers (including the printer) had publicly-routable ip addresses. two of the computers got the welchia virus due to this fact.
anyway, i have now put in a clarkconnect 2.0 linux router to segment the library’s network from that of the msln network. it acts as firewall, dhcp, web-caching, wins, and limited file serving. i also moved the webserver/fileserver (windows nt 4.0 server) into the mechanical room. i hooked up the apc smartups 700va ups to the router, switch, and file server. i don’t think it can handle the clarkconnect computer too. i need a management cable for it also.
i built the head librarian a new computer out of the donated computers they got.
so i’m donating my time for the library. i see it as experience and it is rather fun.
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