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Emphasis on *was*. It was a major improvement on 9x in stability and 2k in compatibility with consumer software; but it dating to before MS was serious about security showed in it having infection rates about 2x as high as vista and 3x as high as w7. It's long since overstayed its welcome. Good riddance.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Quote: It's long since overstayed its welcome. Good riddance.
Obviously, other opinions may differ (including mine).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Really? One of the most used and probably most loved tolerated OS gets this?
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Its going to be a few years before I actually see the back of it as we have legacy systems that won't work on Win7.
So I have to still help support 55 XP machines as we (IT Dept have Win7).
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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... looks round and about ...
Nope. No earth-shattering kaboom.
- posted from a Windows XP machine running Internet Explorer 8.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I kind of feel sorry for your ex-girlfriends. 
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All in all, I find XP to be the most stable version of Windows in my experience.
I have equipment and software (that I spent more on than the wife thinks I should have) that runs better on XP for recording music Also the XP drivers are more stable for the multichanneel audio IO. The system is optimized for recording and has worked flawlessly for years. Of course part of the optimization is turning off all networking services and running without AV.
Since it is a stand-alone system I should not have to be concerned about security issues. That, and I have it imaged so if for any reason, or for hard drive upgrades I can simply replace the image and be ready to go in short order.
I'm sad to see it go. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Hi Buddies,
I'm from Brazil and my fiancee moved to Germany to study by a government program for one year and a half.
I'm looking for companies that would accept me working from home that will give me flexibility to stay with her in germany, in Aachen especifically.
If you guys now how to help me in someway, I would really appreciate.
My CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/53dtl4ckqzgpb81/ACAZ_EN.pdf[^]
Thank you guys.
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I wish could work from home!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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as opposed to your boss wishing you'd work at work?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Why would you want to work from home ? Getting a job in a foreign country is not easy, so starting right away with such constraints will not help you much...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I think he meant "Work from Germany for a Brazilian company or work for a German company [but not from home]"
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
How to ask a question
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I tried some companies, but almost all ask me for a visa and I don't have one. As I'm a Brazilian, I can stay only for three months in a european country  with a tourist visa.
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Acaz Souza Pereira wrote: ask me for a visa and I don't have one
Try a mastercard !
Sorry.
Yeah, it indeed sucks: To get a visa you need work, and to get work, you need a visa...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Acaz Souza Pereira wrote: ask me for a visa and I don't have one
If you don't have a visa, you can't work in Europe at all, from home or not.
If you are caught, the fines for the company are large, you will be deported, and banned from re-entering for a number of years.
This is why companies want a visa: if you haven't got one, they are in big trouble if they employ you in any capacity.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Because of that, I thought that working from home for some company will be the best. I can travel to Germany stay for three months and after travel to some other country out of the schengen agreement and stay for more three months and get back to germany again and stay for more three months and so on.
Home-office here in Brazil is not very commom like are in others countries.
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No...if you have a tourist visa, you can't work. Period.
And immigration are used to the swap-countries-and-come-back idea: they will probably spot you and get rather unpleasant about the whole idea...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Are you 100% sure about that? Like, is the German law that restrictive?
He is actually travelling on vacation to stay with her and doing work for a company when necessary that is not from that place.
Otherwise people who travel abroad shouldn't even answer the phone. And I've been to other countries that was not an issue.
Just saying, each country may have different views of what is a work visa for..
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Have nothing to do with Germany per say. If you can work in EU it applies to all EU countries...
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Fair enough, 
But the idea still applies. You can replace Germany with EU in my last post.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Um...
Germans love rules:
It is an offence punishable with a fine and points on your licence to run out of petrol on a motorway.A "quiet time" is observed between noon and 3pm when it is forbidden to mow the lawn.It is illegal to wash your car at home - you must use a car wash.It is forbidden to hang washing out on Sunday.It is illegal to wear a mask while on strike.You can be fined 20 euros for calling someone an "arse" but 5,000 euros for calling an official a "little Hitler".So I think you can assume they are as hard - or harder - on illegal workers! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I like those rules
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LOL .... You may rest your case!  ... "not hang washing on sunday", I actually had to look up that one..
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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I think the best you can do legally without getting a work Visa for Germany would be a job in Brazil that's flexible enough to let you visit her in Germany regularly. Failing a full time job like that short term contracts would be a possibilty; but I don't know how readily available that is where you live.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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