2008-07-28, 18:05 | Link #1782 | |
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2008-07-29, 06:56 | Link #1783 |
Thinking outside the box
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I got a legal Home XP OEM Key with my notebook. I use it on this notebook, it verifies and i can update. BUT! What happens if i use the same key for my other computer? Would i still be able to update? I can't imagine Microsoft having a method of finding out this isn't the same computer, or do they? I also have a legal Vista Home Premium OEM Key. I installed it on VMware and it works. I could update vista. But from what i heard most notebook manufacturers use a key for notebook different than the one written on the bottom. So that could be the reason that it works
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2008-07-29, 07:13 | Link #1784 | ||
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2008-07-29, 07:22 | Link #1785 | |
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You would be in breach of the end user license agreement.I imagine you would be prevented from even activating the key... so no.
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Edit: Ah, confirmation from escimo. Last edited by NightWish; 2008-07-29 at 07:22. Reason: Did that really take me more than 9 minutes to write? |
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2008-07-29, 10:05 | Link #1788 |
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Your question is somewhat nonsensical. Surely, if they brushed their teeth at all it would be with, by definition, a toothbrush. The device could not have been used before its invention/discovery so people wouldn't have brushed their teeth until they had toothbrushes. I believe the earliest device, found in Egypt, was a simple wooden stick with the ends all frayed. Though granted it is probably a far cry from what you might normally call a toothbrush... Apparently the Chinese were the first to create something similar to the sort of thing we use today, around the 1400s.
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2008-07-29, 10:11 | Link #1789 | ||
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If you are using simultaneous installs... Don't expect it to keep working. Quote:
The Chinese are known to have actual toothbrushes as far back as the 1400s AD, made out of bamboo and boars' hair. Edit: Darn it, beat to it by Nightwish.
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2008-07-29, 10:33 | Link #1790 | |
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2008-07-29, 10:37 | Link #1791 |
Moving in circles
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But... but... it is the silly question thread, is it not?
I would have thought a finger would suffice. I sometimes had to do that out in the field during military missions. Too lazy and tired to pull the damned brush out of the backpack. |
2008-07-29, 10:47 | Link #1792 | ||
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2008-07-29, 10:51 | Link #1793 |
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It is a breach of their license, but that is not a legally binding contract on the customer. (When the courts say otherwise, I'll change my tune.)
It isn't hard, though. You re-activate by phone. Upon failing to activate, Windows will generate a special key, you call the number and input the key, explain the reasoning ("upgrade", for instance), and they give you an activation key.
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2008-07-29, 10:52 | Link #1794 | |
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Yup be thankful, if it would be me I would have got a message from an admin .... they don't seem to like me.
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Switching OEM license from one computer to another can be very difficult maybe impossible but Microsoft is getting more and more liberal. Ten years ago it was an impossiblie mission |
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2008-07-29, 14:24 | Link #1795 | |
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I'm pretty sure that her install was using the OEM key that came with her laptop. Upon booting the virtual machine I was brought to an activation screen, and much to my surprise it activated successfully. Some WGA-like technology was in use on that install so that she could update her copy of Office, and it didn't throw any issues. What I don't remember is whether her PC laptop still has the same key as the VM. If it does, there are no issues (although she doesn't use the VM anymore, really). If it doesn't, then there were no issues during the time that the two did share the same key.
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2008-07-29, 15:28 | Link #1796 | |
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2008-07-30, 09:47 | Link #1798 |
Paparazzi
Join Date: Mar 2008
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Yes, just not now. The architectural differences cause a huge loss of processing power when emulated thus there's no pc on the market today capable to compensate it. In few years to come, maybe. However both Xbox360 and PS3 are quite complex systems, so I doubt that no-one will bother to make an emulator. So it'll quite surely be possible just unlikely to happen.
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2008-07-30, 11:21 | Link #1800 |
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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What's up with the different user tags?
・ Graphic Designer ・ IT Support ・ Artist ・ Fansubber (though that's self-explanatory, same with Site Staff and Moderator) ・ Author How and when do you get them? No, i'm not asking for one. ^^ Couldn't find an explanation for that. |
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