[thelist] The XP Deal?

Scott Brady evolt at scottbrady.net
Sat Jul 21 11:40:08 CDT 2001


Holy Off-Topic, Batman! Where are your tips??

First of all, the initial activation of Windows XP can be done over the
Internet or over the phone line.  Doing it over the Net creates a snapshot
of certain pieces of you machine's hardware.

If you change 4 pieces of those hardware within a certain timeframe, you
will have to re-activate your copy by calling Microsoft. They will then give
you a new key.  (Note, they recently relaxed the rules . . . it used to be 4
pieces of hardware at all.  It's now "within a yet-to-be-determined time
frame")

It's really not a big deal.

Now, since this has not even mentioned web development in any way shape or
form:

<tip>
Looking for websites for freelance projects?  Here are a few:

1) www.guru.com  -->  The best of the 3 I've tried.  There are plenty of
projects, and it's free for freelancers (people looking for developers pay,
I believe).  It has a closed bidding process (so you can't see other
people's bids)

2)  www.elance.com -->  Plenty of projects, but there's a monthly fee to use
it.  The Basic Subscription for web dev is $25/month.  The "Select"
subscription is $150. Ouch!  I guess it's worth it if you get a lot of
projects through there. It has an open bidding process, where you can see
other people's bids.

3)  www.icplanet.com -->  They've apparently got a patented search process.
However, when I checked the other night, they had a total of 7 projets (none
of them web development) so why even use the search process? Just browse
them.  (The only reason I know about them is because I interviewed there 18
months ago.  I've never seen anyone else ever mention them.)
</tip>

Scott
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Scott Brady
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