Yep, It sure is highway robbery.
I'm stuck with it for now though.

 

You could do like I do and ride a BMX bike everywhere.

Seriously, I ride to work on one :P

 

BMW bike and a big *** trailer for all my junk? haha

 

That's crazy high insurance. I insure my '94 Toyota P/U and my house for $108 a month. I was quoted $47 a month to add a 2002 Ford Escort for full coverage. Liability only was like $37.
My wife bought a brand new KIA Rio and her monthly payment for it including full coverage insurance isn't a whole lot more than your insurance alone.
Are you carrying full coverage insurance or just liability? I realize they hit young male drivers the hardest, but I would think you ought to be getting at least 6 mos. insurance for that.
Maybe we found something that isn't bigger in Texas.

 

Just liability. I don't get this BS with the men being a higher risk. All the accidents i've come across are Teenaged Female drivers. Hell, the chick I was stuck in the same car with for 4 weeks in drivers-ed damn near killed us 5 or 6 times on a weekly basis.

Oh, forgot to mention. Transmission leaks, return lines leak, rear diff leaks, lots of cab rot.
I really love this truck, but for the work i've put into it, it's not showing or respecting it.

 

you do have to find something that makes you happy

 

Well hey, at least it's not the Caddy we had years ago. It died in the middle of the road a time or two.

Well I'm about to head off to work. Gonna try to be done before 6 so I don't miss church.

 

Mine did do that, last week :P

 

I am 17 and pay $120 a month.

What have you done to make it $225?

I have wrecked and gotten tickets and it only went up 10 bucks.

 

Here in the ridiculous state of CA, young bucks do not even pay that much! I would figure it would be a lot less in NE.

 

i have thought about it seriously. austin....waco....port arthur....i'm feelin the call

 

I thought I posted yesterday about the XP stuff.....guess not.

I've been told you could use the install disc you have, but use the product key from the back-up computer instead.

 

Thanks guys. I thought that it was limited to a one time use reading what Microsoft said about it. Like I said, it's Windows XP Pro and I have the whole little folder and the disk. I was hoping I could use the product key off this computer.
Now I just have to get my main computer up and running or get another back-up first.......

 

when you buy windows you have the right to use that software on one computer. when you start it up for the first time you keep clicking a bunch of OK buttons, one of those buttons is agreeing to their "Micro$oft's" terms of use.

In order to use that key on another computer you must first remove if from the first computer you used it on. if you don't like this, use a different operating system like linux or something. I got tired of M$ and switched to a mac. Much better user experience and even though I'm not supposed to I can use their software on as many macs as I want, they don't really care because they know you are putting on their hardware that you bought. On pc's you don't buy the hardware from M$, you buy it from a multitude of different vendors. Which is why you can only buy macs from Apple, they don't want to have to code their software like M$ does to restrict use to only licensed buyers...

There are Six main versions of XP

OEM Home
OEM Professional
Retail Home
Retail Professional
Upgrade Home
Upgrade Professional

OEM is on computers that came with XP, like Dell, Compaq etc, the license on the sticker will either have the name of the manufacturer, or say OEM.
This code will only work on that computer after it has been activated with M$.

Retail and Upgrade will work on any computer so long as it is only installed on one PC at a time and you activate with M$ properly.

if you want to reinstall windows on an OEM computer, re-using the OEM key, you need to have an OEM disk that matches your key, ie, OEM Home or OEM pro.... real simple.

Sure there are ways around Micro$oft's BS, if you know someone who has a cracked version, you can use that but Micro$oft won't supply you updates, or you can browbeat some poor shmuck in India who gets paid a buck or two a day to do a job you wouldn't want to do. (Imagine answering the phone a million times a day to reply to people bitching about having to pay the Micro$oft tax, or wanting to activate their key on yet another computer that they aren't supposed to have it on.)

Either play by their rulers or stop bitching and use something else. Nothing is free, you either pay to use it or have to learn how to use something that you can get for free.

http://www.freebsd.org and
http://www.opensuse.org
there are many more free ones, these are the ones I like best. I switched to a Mac so I could work on my truck and not F@(k with my computer.

 

if you have XP Pro OEM, then someone on this forum might be able to help you out cuz that someone might have an XP Pro OEM disk that will work with any XP Pro OEM key....