This time Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes:
> On Sat Feb 08, 2003 at 12:10:59AM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: >> everytime one of the eh-hem...programs leaks so bad it stuffs the entire >> system, or explorer craps out and takes down the entire system. pa-Lease! >> I've been throwing everything thing I can think of and some things I've >> thought of myself that I'm rather proud of and I've only been able to totally >> freeze my Mandrake desktop bad enough that I had to do a hardboot all of two >> times. I've been running Mandrake since 7.0. ( now running Mandrake 9.0 ) >> strongest, most well thought out and best put together OS I"ve ever seen, and >> I've seen a few. > > Agreed. It's pretty solid. I did manage to hang my cooker box once or > twice, but hey, it's cooker. I expect this sort of stuff > occassionally. I locked my cooker box tonight...after 60 days of uptime (power went out, no UPS...lost around 30 or 40 days on that)...finally decided to move stuff to the second 120gig HD I got...for some reason, diskdrake didn't like the hdh disk...it didn't complain about hdg (exactly the same model)...I fdisk/mkfs'ed hdh by hand and it worked...but diskdrake ate my X...which tends to lock kboard and mouse when you run the nvidia drivers...so hard reboot :( But...it's my first lockup since I moved to cooker circa 8.2b1 > Yup. I would be Win-free, except for EverQuest. I hear it's coming out for > the Mac soon, which would be great, except the Mac version won't be able to > interact with the Win version, meaning separate servers. Meaning starting > all over again. =( I'll keep my 5GB Win2k partition specifically to play > it. My Wintendo, as it were. Uhm...I've heard you can run EverCrack on WineX and play well, with a few details (some sounds or some crap like that...I don't play EverCrack :) google is your friend :) > So there is *one* good thing about Windows, for me. =) Nah, if you can WineX it, you don't need windows :) Vox, who loves his WC3 and D2 on winex :) -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
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