[SpamCop-Geeks] Re: Reinstalling IE6 on XP

[Steven Maesslein]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:22:33 -0400, Kenneth Brody coughed into 
spamcop.geeks and left this in <4353B3A9.84A9F1FD at spamcop.net>:

> The "recovery" partition now includes a utility that will let you make
> one set of DVDs (yes, plural) if you want.

Blank DVDs are cheap (I get them at about 35c a pop by buying them by 
the 100) so people would be silly not to. Especially as it's possible to 
do a bitwise clone of them using standard Unix tools if the provided 
software doesn't allow creating more than one copy.

> The spin is that not giving you disks means that you can't lose them.  

Translation: we make big savings by not including 2 DVD-ROMs with the 
hundreds of thousands of units we sell yearly - and Billy Boy told us 
not to anyway or we'd lose our OEM preferential tariffs.

> (Unless the partition goes bad, in which case you're SOL.  But they 
> forget to mention that part.)

Quite - which is why I think it's nothing but a rip-off.

-- 
Steve

"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. 
 But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: 
 No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."  
                  -- Eleanor Roosevelt