"Mark A.Meggs" > wrote in message
...
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:23:56 -0500, George Shirley
> > wrote:
>
> >Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> >> In article >,
> >> George Shirley > wrote:
> >>
> >>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/gunner68/
> >>
> >>
> >> Pretty jelly, Jorge!
> >> And you know I love Miz Anne's watercolors. :-)
> >Thank you my lady, that's great coming from the head Ribbon Slut. <VBG>
> >
> >I think I'm going to have to get another digital camera. I'm looking at
> >a new computer and the new ones don't have a drive for a 3.5 inch floppy
> >which my Sony Mavica uses to put the pictures on. Oh well, time to start
> >looking for another new toy.
>
> Going even futher off-topic -
>
> If you are going to buy a new PC, do your best to get it with Windows
> XP Professional, not Vista. It is still just barely possible to get
> it.

You can only get it 2 ways:

1) Order a business system from Dell or HP and at the time or the order
select the optional Windows XP downgrade. The PC will arrive with
Vista loaded, and the downgrade CD. You boot off the downgrade CD
and it will reimage the hard disk with XP. These PCs are a lot more
expensive but they are better quality than the retail hardware.

2) Buy a system with Vista Business or Vista Ultimate, these give you
downgrade rights and a serial number that will work on a site-license
install of XP. If you know someone who works at a larger business
his IT person should be able to duplicate his XP install master for you -
of course, unless he's very foolish, he will just give you the master
and not the serial number that they use. You then install XP in the
normal way and load the drivers yourself.

Ted