On 28 January 2012 22:58, Jim Price <d1vers...@hotmail.com> wrote: > On 28/01/12 22:36, Liam Proven wrote: >> >> On 28 January 2012 22:12, Jim Price<d1vers...@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 28/01/12 21:13, Liam Proven wrote: >>>> >>>> On 28 January 2012 19:10, Barry Drake<ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 28/01/12 17:31, Liam Proven wrote: > > > [snippage for brevity] > >>>>>> There are boot floppy images for free download on: >>>>>> http://www.bootdisk.com/ > > >>>>> Free download? �The guy seems to want me to pay $4 for any of his >>>>> downloads. > > >>> They wanted $9.75 from me. The link from this sentence in the article: > > >>> http://neosmart.net/blog/2011/windows-recovery-discs-updated-reinstated/ > > >> Eh? That's not bootdisk.com, that's the Windows recovery CD! Something >> totally different on a different site. > > > My mistake - when I read "The guy seems to want me to pay $4 for any of his > downloads" I assumed I was reading something further down the thread from > this message of yours: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2012-January/032833.html > > That does contain a link to neosmart, which no longer provides free > downloads of their windows recovery CD. > > Apologies for any confusion.
To be fair, I did link to /both/ and I didn't know Neosmart had now started charging for the recovery CD. I mistook the reference to the charge as being to bootdisk.com. Also, I run ad-blocking software on all my browsers, so I did wonder if maybe I was missing some scammers' banner ad or something. > >> I shall keep mine safe, then. >> >> It might also be worth searching the torrent indices for it. It was >> widely out there at one time. >> >> Also, MICROS~1 are [a] bloody idiots who have destroyed goodwill by >> this and [b] rapacious money-grabbing swine. >> >> Not that this will be news to anybody here, I suspect. > > > ... as per bug no.1. Yes indeed. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
