Re: Microsoft begining to open source Windows 2000?

2001-03-08 Thread Jason Venner
I suspect this is actually in response to the reported breakings and external access to the M$ code base. There have been a number of concerns about backdoors, trojan horses or other things being maliciously added to the code base and the resulting extreme security risk. By 'increasing' the num

Re: Total loss with 2.4.0 (release) (win98 not honoring partitioning)

2001-01-23 Thread Jason Venner
Windows 98 and possibly followons doesn't quite honor 'b' type partitions in the extended area of the disk, particularily if you are past the 8gig boundary and the partitions in question are over 2gig. The above numbers are NOT hard boundaries, I have only seen this on 2 computers and those numbe

Re: Partition IDs in the New World TM

2001-01-22 Thread Jason Venner
The bios on my laptop will only enable the suspend to disk function, if there is a partion on the disk that is 'IBM Thinkpad hibernation' (and it is a primary partition). So, linux may not care but lots of other things that users rely on do care. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "