I need help dissuading my dad.

[avello500]

lol  tell him as a member of your family that you are honor-bound not to let anyone hurt the family. even if it comes from within.
get a real serious look on your face and say you wont let ANYONE hurt the family.

lmao. he may put you in a home but hell it might be funny.

or bet yet start asking him why he wants to hurt everyone.  traet him like a abusive father.  lol
"daddy? why do want to hurt us? whats so wrong with us?"   ha im fucking rolling over here.

oh and look at him just a little funny from now on.

[ July 17, 2003: Message edited by: avello500 ]

[Laukev7]

quote: turn it on.

. It is THAT bad? It better be worse than Win 98.

Well, now I think of it, it crashed three times since I installed it, wouldn't play RTCW because of dodgy OpenGL support, and couldn't even install Office 2000 because of a 'corrupted file' (which installed perfectly in W2K).

 

quote: then carefully make sure you have a beta copy of XP.

Good idea. A bit of a straw man, but I guess it's OK in emergency cases.

[ July 17, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

[mobrien_12]

How can you download an XP iso??  I thought that the version that didn't need activation would break when the service packs were applied...

[Laukev7]

It was a Corporate Edition, and SP1 was already included. Now I think of it, could an automatic update suddenly make a pre-SP1 Windows XP stop working if it's pirated?

[ July 17, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

[Stryker]

hopefully.

[Laukev7]

Or at least I can make it look like it's because of an update...

*cackling madly*

   :cool:

[ July 17, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

[xyle_one]

if you have xp pro corporate edition pre-sp1, and then install sp1, it will break. they will make you buy a key to make it run.

[Laukev7]

But what if he uses another key?

[xyle_one]

where would he get it? how would it work. xp is broken because of sp1. he couldn't even get into it to install a patch.

[Laukev7]

Heh heh. Great. I'll keep this in mind if he ever asks me to install Windoze.

Thank you, everyone.

[Fett101]

You could always realize that he's a grown man and has the ability to make decisions for himself.   :eek:

[Stryker]

quote:Originally posted by Fett101:
You could always realize that he's a grown man and has the ability to make decisions for himself.    :eek:  

I think you'd give very helpfull advice if he were asking on how to get his dad away from linux.

[Fett101]

Not really. I'd rather people use what they want.

[Laukev7]

It's rather hard to use what you want when you know of no other choices than M$ Windows.

[mobrien_12]

And what he wants is XP for crying out loud... the most intrusive version of windows ever.