WGA and Activation Failures Don't Faze Redmond
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| A few days ago Windows XP on my primary work computer decided that it
| wasn't a legal copy. Strange since the copy running on there was
| pre-installed at the time that the machine was built by Alienware.
| There used to be a Windows serial number on the back of the machine,
| but the sticker has since fallen off. What?s worse, as soon as I
| started receiving the dreaded, "You may be a victim of software piracy..."
| notices, I also started noticing increased system instability. All of
| this culminated in what I can only assume was some form of malware
| infection, a hardware crash (related to my soundcard), and a pretty
| complete system failure.
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| I was angry for a moment, but then I realized: I don't much like
| Windows anyway. So I wiped the offending garbage from my machine
| and installed Ubuntu Linux. All in all a painless process.
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