XPost: alt.usenet.kooks, soc.men   
   From: greg@nospam.okthx   
      
   "Kadaitcha Man"  wrote in   
   news:1q7uf7.jds.17.1@news.alt.net:   
      
   > Whoops, scratch that.  Turns out the disk I used wasn't OEM after all;   
   > maybe that's why it wasn't "locked" to a particular machine and   
   > activated succesfully.   
   >   
   > I went digging through all the old laptop junk, looking for the EULA   
   > because I wanted to see what the exact wording was.  I couldn't find   
   > the book with the EULA on it, but I found two disks -- the OEM one   
   > that came with the laptop, and another one that I apparently bought   
   > separately (for reasons that escape me at the moment).  I was thinking   
   > the one I used on the Sun was OEM, because I had it with the laptop   
   > stuff, but it isn't.   
   >   
   > /hangs head in shame, slinks away   
   > //makes mental note to toss all the old laptop shit   
      
   Nice confession o' failure, loser.   
      
   I'm gonna have to start a list of messages where you stick your foot in   
   your mouth, so I can quickly relocate them and laugh at them from time to   
   time.  There's that nasty "buds" one from a while back, and now this gem.   
   I imagine there will be more.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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