From: shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com   
      
   Once upon a time on usenet pyotr filipivich wrote:   
   > "~misfit~"  on Thu, 9 Jul 2015 14:50:21   
   > +1200 typed in alt.os.windows.xp  the following:   
   >>   
   >>>> As a few articles I read said MS weren't happy that people were   
   >>>> doing this I wondered if they'd found a way to push an update that   
   >>>> would make life hard for those who have done it.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Cheers,   
   >>>   
   >>> So far, there have been no problems.  I am running this hack on an   
   >>> old Dell Dimension tower, and on my XP VirtualMachine on Linux.   
   >>> Microsoft cannot really do anything to you, for all they know, you   
   >>> might be running this on a point of sale machine!   
   >>   
   >> Ok thanks for getting back to me. I'd read (albeit in old articles)   
   >> that MS had threatened to push updates that would be fine on POS   
   >> machines but could cripple other XP installs. As I said this machine   
   >> running XP has 'my life' on it and, although it's well backed up it   
   >> would be a PITA restoring if it were borked.   
   >>   
   >> I guess I should migrate to W7 before too much longer. From what I   
   >> can tell most of my favoured progs etc. will run on the 32 bit   
   >> version (and the laptop is hard-limited to 3 GB RAM anyway). What a   
   >> job though!   
   >   
   > Might be time to contemplate a "new" laptop.   
   >   
   > Might.   
      
   No way! I love my 15" 4:3 T60 with it's 1600 x 1400 resolution (UXGA) IPS   
   screen and non-chicklet keyboard. You can keep your short-screen mushy   
   keyboard 'modern' machines. ;)   
      
   (This machine was a huge investment for me as an invalid on welfare and I   
   bought it to last indefinately. So far other than OS issues it's not showing   
   its age at all, still nice and responsive with an SSD boot drive and 1 TB of   
   spinning disk storage in a caddy in place of optical drive. It's a joy to   
   use.)   
   --   
   Shaun.   
      
   "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy   
   little classification in the DSM*."   
   David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)   
   (*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)