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wtf]]>Aug 25th 2007 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 25th 2007 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 25th 2007 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/]]>Aug 25th 2007 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 25th 2007 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 25th 2007 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 25th 2007 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 25th 2007 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 25th 2007 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 25th 2007 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 25th 2007 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 28th 2007 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/people running pirate version aren't having this problem, right now.
(patched to not "phone home" to the license servers.)
just the legitimate users.

what kind of message is that, microsoft?
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I reckon they must go down quite often, just this time it seems to be for longer.]]>Aug 26th 2007 7:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/
]]>Aug 25th 2007 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.ddrfreak.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=127678&start=20 As you can see, he's destroying everything


As far as the actual story goes, Microsoft....screwing up? that's unheard of ]]>Aug 25th 2007 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/
It's just a good old OS to get your work done without having it phone home.

But, it's still windows. However, it's tolerable.]]>Aug 25th 2007 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 25th 2007 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/You are a pirate! ]]>Aug 25th 2007 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/
No, I'm not a pirate. I'm a liberated human being. And that $500 I didn't spend? Nice PCIe GPU for compiz fusion, right there. Helooo rain effect ;)]]>Aug 25th 2007 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 25th 2007 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/This Windows activation crap is perfect proof that the OS itself is completely worthless, which is why it needs to be "activated" like that's going to make it run any better. Why doesn't MS just call it "authenticate" and be done with it.
]]>Aug 25th 2007 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 25th 2007 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/
Fact: software and media industry people are idiots. A Mark Shuttleworth quote comes to mind...

Those who seek to impose analog rules on digital content will find themselves on the wrong side of the tidal wave. *sp?]]>Aug 25th 2007 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/STJUDE10/potatol.png

I AM PROVING MY FULLESR POTATOL]]>Aug 25th 2007 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/
Noobs :)]]>Aug 25th 2007 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 25th 2007 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/
If anyone here is considering switching, I'll do my best to answer any questions you may have, and generally give you all the support I can. ethana2@gmail.com

(Many of you probably notice that that's maybe the 327th time I've made that offer ;) It's still good, and I do invite you to take advantage of it.

I mean, chanting is so.... Ballmer.]]>Aug 25th 2007 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 25th 2007 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 25th 2007 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/
It's like when Russia had set up huge printing presses to make $100 American counterfeit bills. They couldn't be touched by American Treasury agents. That's why the U.S. Treasury had to create newer, harder to counterfeit $100 bills. Of course, those Russian counterfeiters didn't bother to make Russian money, since it wasn't worth the paper it was printed on.]]>Aug 25th 2007 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 25th 2007 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 26th 2007 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 25th 2007 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/I must admit-
Though I don't mind subversion
And I'm not yet on git
and I-- Oh, you mean windows...

Who uses that ----?

Sorry, I'm not accustomed to rhyming that way, but I couldn't resist.]]>Aug 25th 2007 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 25th 2007 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 25th 2007 11:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/Aug 25th 2007 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/
I know this works for Vista. I have not tried it on an XP machine:

1) Click the Start Orb

2) In the Search Bar type in "Command Prompt"

3) Right click the Command Prompt and click "Run as administrator"

4) The Command Prompt will open then type "net start slsvc"

5) Then type "sfc /scannow"

6) Let run. It might take anywher 10-25 minutes.

7) Once it's done restart your system.

Hopefully this works for you guys cause it worked for me.

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Anyone who received an incorrect validation response can fix their system by revalidating on our site (http://www.microsoft.com/genuine). We encourage anyone who received a validation failure since Friday evening to do this now. After successfully revalidating any affected system should be rebooted to ensure the genuine-only features are restored.

More information when available will be on my blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/wga
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MicroSoft really dropped the ball on this one.

I believe the WGA system needs to be changed completely , I also believe users of Genuine products should be compensated in someway monetarily.]]>Aug 25th 2007 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/
That said, I take none of it back, even if "them be fightin' words", and certify that all I posted is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge.]]>Aug 25th 2007 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/25/microsofts-wga-servers-down-everyones-a-pirate-today/
i do not install software the calls home for no reason WGA included. if i need to download something from MS' site, their alternatives works just as well.]]>Aug 26th 2007 2:12AM