hello, hellm

Ugh - I removed an old CDR from my desktop machine, and apparently it changed the boot order enough for Windows to demand reactivation.  Fortunately, activation was nearly automatic - I just connected to their server and gave them whatever machine data they wanted.  But that this tiny change made my OS start questioning my credentials was disturbing to me.  That’s not what I want from a computing experience!

The only reason I’m still running Windows at all is for the Adobe suite (and the Silverlight-based Netflix Watch Instantly).  Photoshop CS2 is supported.  If I’m able to use Illustrator and ImageReady, it’s farewell Redmond.

(A few years back, I had the reactivation problem when I moved my processor, etc. to a new case, and my OEM Windows was like: Dude, that’s not a Dell, and shut me out permanently.  It’s astonishing I didn’t close the book on Microsoft then!)