Re installing XP on Sony

On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:45:45 -0600, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote: I think these fall under the category of machines that cause the periodic re-evaluation of the 10 year limit. They are clearly modern machines, and unless you can pick out a specific model that happens to have some historical importance, are severely lacking in "classicalness". The day is rapidly approaching when Windows 95 is ten years old (I was wintering-over at the time, missing the offical launch, but I know it's soon), but that doesn't mean that when the day approaches, we should immediately carpet-bomb the list with Windows 95 questions. It's not that the equation "2005 - 1995 == 10" is false, it's that once upon a time, ten years was a sufficiently accurate rule of thumb to separate the wheat from the chaff of our discussions that it was a useful metric to avoid sliding into the "alt.fix.my.pc" abyss. If we have to, I'm in favor of *explictly* listing off-topic things in "the charter", including XP, firearms, vehicles, etc, and listing things in such strong terms that _when_ someone is told "that's not on topic", they have *no* excuse to complain that they thought it was OK. My 2-centidollars. -ethan