XP home or Professional

Need to purchase XP, is Pro worth the extra coin or should I get Home!

XP Home Edition should serve you pretty well for most things, but if you need better networking or want folder-level access control, file system compression, and encryption as well as the ability to use the machine from a remote location or to provide assistance to other users, you must have Pro.
A third edition, Media Center, is available if you want all the features of Pro plus extensions for playing back and capturing video from the Internet and viewing TV from the machine. However, MCE is not officially supported on Macs.
Interestingly, all four editions of Windows Vista (Basic, Premium, Business, and Ultimate) go for the same prices as the XP editions off of which they are based. Though Vista was initially quite buggy to the point of being unusable, in its current form it performs as well as or in some cases better than XP. If you have a recent Mac, you are in good company as far as being Vista-ready is concerned. You may even be in line for the forthcoming Windows 7.
It's really your call from here.
Nate

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Can i install labview 5.0 on a windows XP environment- home and professional version?
Also is labview 5.0 and 7.0 compatible with Celerons? Or is there any difficulty?
Please clarify

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Microsoft Office Home or Professional

I need to purchase Microsoft Office for my four home computers, but I have a server at my house for an intranet, and email.
Which Microsoft Office edition will work with this setup? And do I have to purchase 4 different softwares to make this work?
Seems dedundant if there all my computers, and I'm the owner to them.

That depends on which Office programs you need to use. Home/Professional come with different options.
By the book, yes you need to purchase separate copies, especially for professional. Unofficially, I've installed my own copy of Professional on multiple machines without any ill effect.
If you like my post, or solution to your issue/question, go ahead and click on the little star by my name and/or accept the post as the Solution. It makes me happy.
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"Requirements: Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2"

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Or can you only play it in your home with the home wifi?
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I would love some help with this ... I hope I don't have to buy a new computer with the latest operating system to enable me to put my music on my other devices.
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You can only play music from the computer when you use Home Sharing. You cannot download music to the I pad with Home Sharing.
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Error while installing Oracle Applications 11i on Windows XP Home

Hi friends,
I am a functional consultant and trying to install oracle apps 11i on my home pc for learning purpose (I made a fresh install of windows for this purpose). I strictly followed the instructions given in following article:
http://mhabib.wordpress.com/2007/03/14/installing-oracle-applications-e-bussiness-11i-on-windows-xp/
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LSNRCTL for 32-bit Windows: Version 9.2.0.6.0 - Production on 26-MAR-2008 20:40:13
Copyright (c) 1991, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Connecting to (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=IPC)(KEY=EXTPROCkrish))
The command completed successfully
ECHO is off.
Listener krish has already been started.
ECHO is off.
addlnctl.cmd exiting with status 0
"runProcess_4"
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"runProcess_5"
"Statusstring Creating the database controlfile..."
ECHO is off.
ECHO is off.
Wed 03/26/2008 08:40 PM
ECHO is off.
ECHO is off.
Wed 03/26/2008 08:40 PM
krish_agarwalkk.cmd exiting with status 0
ECHO is off.
The environment settings are as follows ...
ECHO is off.
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LOCAL : krish
ORACLE_SID :
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ECHO is off.
ECHO is off.
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ECHO is off.
ECHO is off.
Creating the control file for krish database ...
ECHO is off.
SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.6.0 - Production on Wed Mar 26 20:40:26 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
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ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist
Disconnected
SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.6.0 - Production on Wed Mar 26 20:41:11 2008
Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Connected to an idle instance.
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Connected to an idle instance.
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LRM-00113: error when processing file 'g:\oracle\krishdb\9.2.0\dbs\krish_bhawana_ifile.ora'
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ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
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ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
alter tablespace TEMP add tempfile 'f:\oracle\krishdata/tmp1.dbf' REUSE
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
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ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist
Connected to an idle instance.
LRM-00109: could not open parameter file 'g:\oracle\krishdb\9.2.0\dbs\krish_bhawana_ifile.ora'
LRM-00113: error when processing file 'g:\oracle\krishdb\9.2.0\dbs\krish_bhawana_ifile.ora'
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BEGIN dbms_backup_restore.zeroDbid(0); END;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
ORACLE instance shut down.
Connected to an idle instance.
LRM-00109: could not open parameter file 'g:\oracle\krishdb\9.2.0\dbs\krish_bhawana_ifile.ora'
LRM-00113: error when processing file 'g:\oracle\krishdb\9.2.0\dbs\krish_bhawana_ifile.ora'
ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
CREATE CONTROLFILE REUSE SET DATABASE "krish"
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
alter database open resetlogs
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
alter tablespace TEMP add tempfile 'f:\oracle\krishdata/tmp1.dbf' REUSE
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
ALTER DATABASE RENAME GLOBAL_NAME TO "krish.kka.com"
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
declare lib_ver varchar2(3);
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
ERROR:
ORA-01012: not logged on
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ORA-01012: not logged on
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ORA-01012: not logged on
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ORA-01012: not logged on
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ORA-01012: not logged on
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ORA-01012: not logged on
SP2-0359: memory exhausted
Disconnected
adcrdb.cmd exiting with status 3
"Error returned while creating control files"
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E-mail : [email protected]

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hi.
sorry if this is not the right category for this post.
i'd really appreciate some urgent advice regarding the following.
a sponsor has offered me about £5000-6000 for starting a mini (home) but professional audio-video studio, provided that i produce a precise list of equipment, hardware and software and all the other necessary gear, required for such a project.
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the time for getting back to the sponsor is very very limited! please help me out.
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