On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 11:17:48PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: | also sprach Dimitri Maziuk (on Sun, 16 Sep 2001 02:38:55PM -0500): | > We didn't run luser apps on it, except Access (well, DAO, actually). | > Other than that it was serving files 24/7. And it was NT _server_, | > not WS. | | <rant> | oh, so you mean it was optimized for network access? hah! well, i have | one of those servers standing right here, running *only* checkpoint | firewall-1 on a *fresh* install, with *flawless* hardware, and guess | what - crashes every fifteen minutes paradiddle style -
paradiddle? Must be a drummer :-). (my brother is a drummer) | ||: freeze, bluescreen | freeze, freeze || | || bluescreen, freeze | bluescreen, bluescreen. :|| | | and while we're at it, ever noticed this: | | "the file C:\WINNT\system32\dhcp.dll could not be found | on the Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server Disk 1 CD. | | please insert the Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server | Disk 1 CD." | | really? C:\WINNT\system32\dhcp.dll cannot be found on D:??? | as in "on the CD"? | but if I put the CD *in*, it'll find it? | | thought so, but these thoughts were a little too utopic. | | Please specify the location of C:\WINNT\system32\dhcp.dll | | well then: "C:\WINNT\system32\dhcp.dll<enter>" | | oooh. now it found it. | | are these Redmond dorks just *stupid*??? | </rant> Oh, yeah, you were trying to install something. In my experiences installing a NIC is many many times easier with Debian (or other linux system, I've never tried installing another unix) than with Windows. | sorry, this is giving me headaches... I think it gives everyone headaches when they must venture into ... -D