On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 08:25:30AM -0400, Mike Barton wrote:
> >Just to add my experiences of win95 into the frey, i have also done the
> MB
> >swap thing and while after a lot of rebooting in managed to recover, on
> the
> >other hand my bro's machine is almost identical to mine (only minor
> >dif
>Just to add my experiences of win95 into the frey, i have also done the
MB
>swap thing and while after a lot of rebooting in managed to recover, on
the
>other hand my bro's machine is almost identical to mine (only minor
>differences lijke graphics card, HD make) failed miserable to survive
the
>s
On 02-Aug-98 Steve Lamb wrote:
> My secret is that I do not run Microsoft applications. I find that the
> applications are shoddy, poorly written, thought out, implimented and are
> often incompatible with themselves in their own versions.
>
> I run Win95 for games written by other soft
Just to add my experiences of win95 into the frey, i have also done the MB
swap thing and while after a lot of rebooting in managed to recover, on the
other hand my bro's machine is almost identical to mine (only minor
differences lijke graphics card, HD make) failed miserable to survive the
same s
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998 01:37:43 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Why? I didn't have to update the drivers of Linux. It came up and running.
>Win95 on the other hand kept on insisting on rebooting the system for each
>"updated driver".
Sure you do. It is just called recompiling the kernel.
On Sun, Aug 02, 1998 at 01:37:43AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Ok, let's talk a concrete example: I loaded "Barney on the farm" for my
> daughter (Official MS Win95 game for children). The setup routine got to the
> "Parent's Room" segment of the installation. I was not given a choice as t
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ok, let's talk a concrete example: I loaded "Barney on the farm" for my
> daughter (Official MS Win95 game for children). The setup routine got to the
> "Parent's Room" segment of the installation. I was not given a choice as to
> whether or not I wan
Steve Lamb writes:
>
> On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 12:03:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Ever try replacing a Motherboard on a "win95" system?
>
> Yes. In fact, I swapped machines around the HDs to test a theory of
> mine.
>
> > That "fabulous, great, decent OS" loses it's mind! You se
On 07/31/98 at 10:36 AM, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Apparently you're doing something wrong. Because this *LINUX*
>advocate has a Win95/WinNT machine at home that rivals the uptimes of
>my Linux box. I have yet to lose data on that machine because of the
>OS, same as my Linux box
My experience also with Windows 95 has been pretty solid. I've had
months of uptime with Windows 95 with the only problems being occasional
GPF errors that close all open Netscape windows. But other than that
it's been pretty rock solid for me as long as I haven't installed
library type software or
On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 12:03:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ever try replacing a Motherboard on a "win95" system?
Yes. In fact, I swapped machines around the HDs to test a theory of
mine.
> That "fabulous, great, decent OS" loses it's mind! You see, all
> information about the hardw
Please allow me my two cents of experience with Lost95 (if they don't 'Win',
they 'lost')
C.J.LAWSON writes:
>
> On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote:
> > Well, Windows is a decent OS if you know how to use and configure it right
> > (and work around its many bugs). If you can't deal with bugs i
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote:
> Well, Windows is a decent OS if you know how to use and configure it right
> (and work around its many bugs). If you can't deal with bugs in an OS you
> don't deserve to be allowed to use a computer, or even own one. Windows
I wonder if you would have the sam
On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 08:06:40AM -0700, Alexander wrote:
> Hi...
>
> Well, Windows is a decent OS if you know how to use and configure it right
> (and work around its many bugs). If you can't deal with bugs in an OS you
> don't deserve to be allowed to use a computer, or even own one. Windows
>
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote:
> Hi...
Hello!
> Do you think MS took only 5 minutes to design and implement the UI? Or
> FAT32? I don't think so.
Speaking of UI check this out.
http://www.insanely-great.com/Interface
maybe this will convince you that MS took 5 minutes or less to imple
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote:
> Hi...
>
> Well, Windows is a decent OS if you know how to use and configure it right
> (and work around its many bugs). If you can't deal with bugs in an OS you
> don't deserve to be allowed to use a computer, or even own one. Windows
> took many years to d
Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user
> Subject: Re: Linus Torvalds interview
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> On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
&
f them...)
Alex
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 18:43:20 +0100
> From: Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user
> Subject: Re: Linus Torvalds interview
> Resent-Date: 22 Jul 1998 17:47:40 -
> Resent-From: debian-user@
On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 02:12:44AM +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:19:17PM -0700, Keith Beattie wrote:
> > > fyi,
> > >
> > > http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html
> >
> > If that's the one I'v
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:19:17PM -0700, Keith Beattie wrote:
> > fyi,
> >
> > http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html
>
> If that's the one I've seen it is well worth reading. Linux has his head
Linux the OS or Linus the per
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:19:17PM -0700, Keith Beattie wrote:
> fyi,
>
> http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html
If that's the one I've seen it is well worth reading. Linux has his head
screwed on right (apart from the "I don't think Microsoft is an evil
company" bit which
fyi,
http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html
ksb
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