Posted on 08/18/2007 6:28:28 PM PDT by sionnsar
That’s just not true. It’s a shame so many hobbyists “try” linux, and then pronounce it not as good as Windows, just because they haven’t taken the time to learn more about it.
Most don’t realize, you didn’t just pick up a mouse and become an everyday user on windows, either. It took most people years of previous versions, including (maybe) some years of DOS experience to get to the point where you are now.
Linux is not ready for the masses, yet. But that does not mean, nor is it an indication, that *.*nix applications are inferior. Just the opposite is true. If you know what you’re doing, and how to do it, they are far superior to nearly any windows OEM app.
Be nice, John Spartan...:O)
I don’t understand the Mac people. Base on some great commercial my wife bought a Mac desktop a couple of years ago. It cost much more than a similarly equipped PC and was the most unintuitive computer we have ever tried to use. After a month of frustration we gave up and got rid of it. We lost a bundle getting rid of it, but it was worth every penny as a good lesson learned.
I see a lot of gripes against Vista but never the details. Am I just lucky or????
BTW, started in '90 with Windows 3.1 and have built every computer except this laptop.
If you know how to modify the registry, and know your protocols, Win98SE can be your BFF.
Look here for evidence of narses’ spamming habits!
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NARSES IS A SPAMMER!
I don’t know if this will help you, but I had a Belkin Wireless card laying around ( Model# F5D7011-it came free with a switch I bought at a close out at CompUSA (RIP) ), anywho, I stuck it in my Tablet PC running Ubuntu, and it just worked! I was surprised, to say the least.
If it ain't broke . . . Writing this on an ancient PII 333 W98SE Thinkpad bought at a dot-com auction.
I'm a computer guy and only recently upgraded my main work machine to XP Media Center. The dang thing has crapped out and I've fallen back to my W98SE laptop. The only thing I really miss is Google Earth.
Haven't even seen Vista yet, didn't renew my MS Action Pack yet (best deal ever).
BEST bang for the buck, very high quality (even the low end models), and world class support...if you need it...
You can get XP on any machine they make.
I recently purchased a new HP laptop from Best Buy, and I had to special order to machine with XP on it since some of our engineering software won’t run on Vista. I think I paid an extra $50 for the XP machine and had to wait a couple of days for it to be shipped in.
Louderback is a BIG loss in the tech press. HUGE.
The Vista Update Tool is a program that runs on your current version of Windows that's supposed to check for any incompatibilities and "gotchas." For the most part, it does work, but I've heard that there are some things that it does miss. But it does warn you about some of the big problems you might run into.
Mark
While running a little net with NetBSD behind BSD routers (fast, distributed computing—AKA “clustered”—CPUs at about 38C, silent slow fans, dust stopped with filters, cheap SATA drive array delivering virtually instantaneously and redundantly with RAIDframe, diskless, fanless workstations with AFS), I can’t relate well to complaints from MS or Linux users. ;-)
Windows servers are good for software testing, if they’re not connected to the Net.
The little network stays up with no problems, no effort other than use (and changing a couple of filters once in a while), and cost next to nothing.
IMO, some consultants for home networks like this are less costly than the hardware and software that most people buy. But client/corporate/academic pride gets in the way, and too many clients give consultants hard times in dishonest efforts to lower fees.
So I’ll write more software for your Windows systems. ;-)
You've been here for 6 years and don't know what a ping list is? The people whom Narses pings have ASKED to get on his list, and as can be seen by looking at the extended version of your search, whomevver he pings can remove themselves from the list easily.
Before reinstalling XP, did you “wipe” the disk first, or just install XP over the existing system.
If sounds as if you didn’t even reformat the drive, which normally STILL isn’t enough.
I’ve found that if you don’t wipe the partition table and master boot record, you’re looking at trouble down the road, and just deleting the partitions and recreating them isn’t enough.
I’ve got a little debug utility that writes all zeros to the partition table and mbr, effectively wiping the disk (as far as the computer and OS are concerned) and the system thinks you’re installing the OS on a brand new disk.
F 200 L200 0
A 100
MOV AX,301
MOV BX,200
MOV CX,1
MOV DX,0080
INT 13
INT 3
G=100
Q
If you don’t have a bootable DOS disk (MS-DOS 3.3 or later, or a bootable disk made with Windows 9x) with the debug.com utility, you can get “Kill Disk” which WILL completely wipe your disk, at http://www.killdisk.com. They’ve got both a commercial version, which will clean your disk to DOD standards, as well as a free version that you can download that will more than do the job for you.
Mark
The problem with XP, which I have, as opposed to Vista is it will only allow 2.75GB of RAM to be recognized. Vista will allow a lot more.
However, if you are upgrading with Vista you need to load it with only 2GB first and make sure it works correctly. Then install the remainder of the RAM and it will recognize it all.
I have 4GB of RAM in my XP system in order to upgrade to Vista at some future date, but it doesn’t recognize all of it. Also, the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor says my printer would not be compatible so I’d have to buy a new one.
Hadn’t you considered, that he’s using another OS called Linix?
Most likely, it is simply the case that he doesn't know enough about Linux to even spell it.
Your best bet is to go with "business class" systems, as many businesses are behind on rolling out OS upgrades. Sorry, I don't know the class of laptops, but in the Dell desktop world, you've got a better chance of getting XP preinstalled (or supported hardware) in the Optiplex line (which is their business class), rather than the Dimension line (which is their consumer line).
Heck, in the company I work for, the standard desktop OS is still Windows 2000 Professional.
Mark
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