Why use a virtual machine? **RESOLVED**

[Steven Vollom]

Billie Walsh wrote:
> On 11/30/2008 Gene Heskett wrote:
>   
>>  You all have forgotten that M$ now uses Windows Genuine Advantage,
>>  aka WGA, to
>>  certify that it is running on the box it was originally installed on.
>>  Any
>>  hardware change, a new hard drive, adding more memory, changing the
>>  video
>>  card, yadda yadda disables the logins and the box cannot be used
>>  until it
>>  gets re-registered, and arguing with them about it is a PITA, often
>>  denied,
>>  making you buy yet another copy.  I was given an hp desktop short
>>  tower by a
>>  neighbor because the psu had died.  I shoehorned a std psu into it,
>>  and since
>>  it only had 128 megs of memory added another stick beside that one
>>  which
>>  turned out not to be a match as it was a 256M stick. On the test
>>  powerup, WGA
>>  kicked in and would not allow a login, presumably because the memory
>>  had been
>>  tripled.  That sort of stuff I used to find on the ground behind the
>>  male of
>>  the bovine specie when I was a farm kid in Iowa 70 years ago.
>>     
>
> We have repaired and/or rebuilt a lot of computers. We've never had a 
> problem getting an authorization code from Microsoft. Biggest problem 
> we've ever had was finding someone that spoke English to talk to on the 
> phone.
>
>   
It will probably be a task for Linux programmers to create a translator 
for a translator some day.

Happy days,

Steven