Re installing XP on Sony

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Jim Leonard wrote: I am sorry to extend this even one message, others can have the last word, but I'd like to observe that contemporary computer repair is unique and different than guns, German WWII, etc and other threads, all admittedly off-topic and many of which I participated in. It's not logically unique, but culturally unique; there's no "slippery slope" regarding guns/WWII, but there *is* one involving WinXP et al. Rabbits, motorcycles are so wildly OT (though most of them start tangentially related, eg. IBM, Germany in WWII) that it's clear it's OT; getting XP going on old (but not on-topic) computers is too close to the raging storm of generic computer inanity that it pisses off people more qualitatively. I think Sellam was a bit rude, but hey, that's what we keep him in here for :-) (if you know zmodem) oo