Verily I say unto thee, that nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx spake thusly:
> <Quote>
> After weeks of gruelling troubleshooting, I've finally had it
> confirmed by Microsoft Australia and USA -- something as small as
> swapping the video card or updating a device driver can trigger a
> total Vista deactivation.
> </Quote>
>
> http://apcmag.com/vista_activation/
>
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| The only problem? I had never changed my disk controller at any
| point. Apparently because I had upgraded the Intel Matrix Storage
| Manager application, this was reported as a major hardware change
| event.
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Spot the obvious flaw in WGA...
Hmm, so just updating /drivers/ triggers deactivation.
Welcome to the Windows Genuine Advantage®
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K.
http://slated.org
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| "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
| make sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
| - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
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Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) on sky, running kernel 2.6.22.1-41.fc7
20:22:31 up 75 days, 19:17, 3 users, load average: 0.34, 0.18, 0.16
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