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Out of the six (6) running PC’s within my household, 5 run either Cent OS or Ubuntu, and of course the sixth (my Powerbook) runs a purchased copy of Leopard.  I decided after a few beers that it would be nice to geek it up and relax - play some games on my laptop.  So I dig through my “100% SHIT” pile to locate my pirated Windows XP (with a bunch of stupid pre/post-fixes like : sp3 cracked, no wga, super awesome version — CORPORATE!) and begin a dual boot installation (with Ubuntu) on my Toshiba A200 Laptop.  Unfortunately the cards weren’t in my favor as Toshiba decided that the piece of shit speakers on my notebook required high definition audio… from M$.

It makes a lot of sense to me, adding high def audio support on 3/4″ *tin sounding* speakers, so I searched for the drivers everywhere - no support.  Then I remembered that the last time I got the audio working was from Windows Update.  Now this Super Awesome CORPORATE mother-of-all-xp-installation discs just happened to check on line for the audio driver and to my surprise I get a WGA validation fault, and even better - it can’t find the god damn driver.

I got pissed - I don’t need a hassle to be hassled with bad software, I just want to play Diablo II & Final Fantasy 9 in peace.  So I picked up the phone and with my handy dandy Asterisk server recorded a call (*1) with Windows Genuine Advantage to see what the problem was.

Listen to Windows Genuine Advantage Call

I have realized that every single time I use Windows I run into some kind of hassle.. So I have officially made the decision to boycott all Windows products and as many non-mandatory protocols as possible to eliminate the additional stress from my life.

I am not trying to start an OS flame war here, I just can not stand this garbage and thought the world should know….. again.