viciously circular

[freckles_and_doubt]

Rant list time! Today's rant list is a marvel of elegance and simplicity.

1. Windows. Windows XP. Windows XP which, despite being installed perfectly legally from a legit copy with the right million-digit code and all, has effectively locked me out of my dad's computer by requiring to be activated before it will let me into Windows. Activation requires an internet connection. I can only connect to the internet once I'm in Windows, which I can't do because Windows isn't activated. Because it needs the internet. Which it can't have. See this head banging against a brick wall? that's me, that is. That's my girlfriend.
2. Parcelforce. No idea what they've done lately, but I promised Scroob.

Things not on my rant list:

1. my mother;
2. my friends.

Y'all are wonderful and are keeping me sane.

Comments

[egadfly.livejournal.com]

You should be able to activate Win XP by phone. Ask the lovely man who gave you the disk which number to phone.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Interesting technical point here - do they have some mystic way of activating it by phone when it's not actually connected to the internet? because if so, scared now...

[egadfly.livejournal.com]

do they have some mystic way of activating it by phone when it's not actually connected to the internet?

I think they give you a code which you type in somewhere. I don't remember the details - it's been a while since I did this. They will ask you stuff on the phone to try to determine whether yours is a valid copy of Windows, which is another reason to talk to Robbi - not only should he know which number to phone but also what info you'll need for the call.