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Originally Posted by Radar
Recently, they have made it a huge pain in the ass to update your machine.
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Yes, this is kinda the problem I'm having. There's no problem at this moment but I had the machine that I bought about 6 months ago die and the OS recovery disk was used to bring it back. I put the product key in from the CD which was made for this specific computer and the online "verification" wouldnt accept it.
After some fuck-around I got everything back running but the program wouldnt run until I called MacroShaft(in the ass)directly (in India) to get some double secret code to enter into the machine.
The big deal is that I only have a cellphone for emergencies with very limited time. As it turned out I had 1 minute of call time left to complete this new "verification".
I dont even want to think about what in this room I would have broken with the fantasy that it was Mr Shafts head, if the time had run out and I couldnt use this machine.
Which just gets me to thinking. Why is it that I have to go through all this horseshit anyway?
Maybe it's time I start looking at some alternatives (so that I dont have a fucking stroke the next time Mr Shaft thinks I might be stealing his unstable and unsecure OS ). It'd be nice to just tell those nice folks on the phone to eat my shee--it next time.