i actually had an effect @ M$!

I was looking for info on multi-booting a few weeks ago, and found a good article. a few hours later i went back to it, but it was suddenly 404... even though the link to it was still there

anyway, i emailed a writer of a newsletter i subscribe to, and asked if he had contacts that could answer what happened to it

i just got an email back tonight that M$ ACTULLY put the page back up!

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Try the URL now. I asked Microsoft about it and they said they yanked it because they thought it was confusing. But because you and I asked about it, they reinstated it about a week ago.

I'd like to publish what happened on this. Can I get your last name? It's a rule of mine to print last names unless it'll get someone in trouble.

-- Scot

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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q217/2/10.ASP

yeahhhhhh boiiiiiii!

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Originally posted by MBoprey:
Word to OS X, yo! What's the deal with Linux anyway?

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Power, freedom, customizability to absurd limits, the ability to put old clunkers to do cool things, etc.

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I'd take a Mac or a PC anyday, rather than deal with funky command lines. Sorry, I'm just that way. I'm a GUI-kind-of-guy!

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That's ok, i hope you have fun mucking with windows' registry

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Linux... it's free. That's the only good thing I can think of.

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You haven't used it, that's the reason. It's my main desktop OS for some years now, and have put it to work in hard circumstances in many places.

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I don't mind paying for Microsoft's and Apple's OS's... they're top of the line in their "field."

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Macs, i like them, just not for my personal everyday use, i'm trying to convince somebody to buy a mac for their one-person publishing department after a virus outbreak in their office (there are already many linux desktops already there, so the damage was minimal). Windows, well, i had to work on the tech support department of a software store, and i don't want to do tech support for anything MS anymore, pointing up that if you use it you either have to do that or call someone else to do it because it breaks when somebody in the planet says "booo" (or something, i heard somebody say that it was when somebody dropped an electron, and another person insisted that it was every time somebody sneezed in the close vicinity, say, a light year). It's bad software made by a bad company that's directed by bad people. I gave them many chances to get their act together and start giving me good software, but all they have delivered is bug-ridden, virus-prone, flashy-but-bad-looking software everytime.