i'm trying to install windows xp on a system that doesn't boot from usb and i have no cd-rs and it is a daunting task that has taken me over 2 days now

i managed to rebuild the boot.ini but now the bootstrapped xp install can't see the usb drive to install from ... so i'm once again booting from a really slow ubuntu 10 livecd to copy them off the flash drive to the partition... this is cursed

a pentium III with 512MB RAM is still all you need in 2023 to listen to soma fm

@mavica_again i installed a copy of Ms Office for Mac purchased from my campus computer store, on my new white 2006 intel MacBook (1st gen). I happened to launch Word on -the- weekend a particular benign “happy birthday” macro virus was programmed to trigger.

I was livid. Ms allowed an infected CD to ship. The updates available had nothing to address this cross platform macro vulnerability, that rendered Word useless for the weekend.

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