[ale] Belay that, OT, jre7u71 winXP won't install/update

[JD]

For things that are business-critical, many businesses get redundant
installations. Perhaps buying 2 of the replacement laptops now ...

Having a backup of a commercial OS and software is perfectly legal in the USA.

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Laptops for Parts

BTW, I have some old Dell laptops (cracked MBs on both) that would be good for
parts. No HDD and I may have pulled the RAM.  600M and 1535.
The 600M has a 1 month old keyboard (1 month old when I replaced it).  I believe
everything else on these systems is working - optical media, screens, ports,
power bricks, ....
I have the OS recovery image for the 1535 and probably for the 600M (somewhere).
Neither machine boots.  First person to pick either up gets it.  Any Sunday at
GA-400 LUG would be ideal. Let me know you'll be there off-list.

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On 10/17/2014 10:33 AM, Ken Cochran wrote:
> Problem now with car sw is the now-unsupported deployment
> platform, with resulting losses.  The car support industry
> would be well-served by moving to (auditable) F/OSS/*ix
> platforms.  I wonder sometimes if (at the macroeconomic level)
> the plaintiff bar will sooner or later require that.  From my
> (admittedly seat of the pants) experience in the last coupla
> decades or so, the overwhelming majority of car problems I
> see stem from the electronics, rather than the mechanicals.
> And it's usually a "mechanical" problem with the electronics
> (i.e., connectors, solder joints, circuit components).
> 
> Thanks, now that the trusty old beloved t41 is gone {sniff},
> am looking for reliability and easy service *and recovery* 1st.
> Recurring problems I have with M$ in general and vista & later
> (customer machines) more specifically, other than it being
> Just Crummy Anyway are:
> 
> - Computers don't come with recovery media.  Ok, cost reduction,
>   but recovery partition is inadequate - what if I have
>   to replace/upgrade a HDD?  And I haven't yet found a
>   download option for, say, making a boot/install thumbdrive.
>   Methinks this is most likely a M$ licensing issue.
> 
> - OS is fragile, updates have a way of failing, corrupting
>   the update "database," blocking further updates & requiring
>   a reinstall to fix.  Which of course, erases all the
>   *customer's* files & installed applications.  And that
>   doesn't always fix it.
> 
> - Reinstalling the OS wipes out the entire HDD.  In the case
>   of that old t41, OS recovery would erase the entire C:
>   drive but that machine was partitioned into others & recovery
>   didn't touch those.  Other makes I've encountered (servicing,
>   Dell & HP mostly) erase/reinstall things back to factory,
>   including the adware.
>