[Chester LUG] Christmas meet

Roger Gibson rcgibson at talktalk.net
Tue Dec 18 11:16:36 UTC 2007


Cc'd to Les so he knows I've been blocked again!

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.

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.

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.

Enjoy Thursday, and a Happy Christmas and a Good New Year to you all - 
Roger.



Les Pritchard said the following on 11/12/2007 09:14:
> Hi everyone,
>
> 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.
>
> Les
>
> 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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