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<tt>Cc'd to Les so he knows I've been blocked again!<br>
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First the good news for you (bad for me!). I regret you won't have to
put up with me on Thursday. I've already been booked elsewhere.<br>
<br>
And many thanks for the offer to set up a server at 'my' charity.
However, they have decided to stick with Gates and are installing a
Windozy Server 2003 R2 Enterprise.<br>
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However, in this season of good will, and in the spirit of depriving
Gates of a few coppers, I am asking if any of you have any boxes which
came with MS Windozy 98 through to Windozy XP Home, and are now not
using Windozy on them (or even just a CD set of Windozy). I have
found that approved charities can get MS software cheap from Gates
(like £4 for XP Pro) if you can quote an old system authorisation code
which is now not being used. I'm not sure how they check the old
systems are not being used, or even if they do check, but I suspect
they have ways. I enquired about upgrading from Vista Home to XP and
was told that this 'downgrade' was not possible under the scheme, only
from Vista Business and Vista Ultimate. Anyway if anyone can stomach
writing down a Windozy Authorisation Code or two, I would be most
grateful.<br>
<br>
Enjoy Thursday, and a Happy Christmas and a Good New Year to you all -
Roger.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
</tt>Les Pritchard said the following on 11/12/2007 09:14:
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<div>With the pending Christmas holidays I have scheduled the
December meet for the 20th. I thought that instead of the usual social
we could go out for a curry / Chinese / whatever! I'll have to check
out availability, so could you let me know if you are interested in
coming and any suggestions for a venue.
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<div>p.s. for those of you who will be itching to get out of the
house after Christmas, I'm sure we'll be meeting up for a drink so keep
an eye on the emails.
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