On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:33:46 -0700 James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 20:06, Jack Coates wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 13:36, Lee Wiggers wrote: > > > ...> > > > Treat her to VMware. I've got my brother running on Linux > > > with win2k on VMware. He hasn't managed to break anything in > > > 6 days (and counting). That may be a record. > > > > > > Saves a mint in upgrades (win and anti-virus junk), and > > > protects us all from one more carrier. > > > > > > The only safe windows is isolated from the 'net. > > > > > > Lee > > > > I love VMWare. It's saved me more trouble than I can name. Aside > > from the obvious joy of watching BSODs be contained to an > > application window, VMware makes a real backup of Windows very > > easy. I rsync my home directory every night; if Windows gets too > > fubar'ed to fix, I just rsync yesterday's disk image back over > > the current one. > > > Someone earlier in the rant mentioned the concept of getting rid > of every shred of non OS winBS on the box. Well it's possible. > Remove Outbound excess and then to get rid of IE go here. > http://www.litepc.com/ then to finish up install Mozilla or > Opera, and then TheBat .... and have fun in you cleaner lighter > (and faster) windows. > > James > > > > Lite works. My prob is one of the two apps tying me to winslop requires Outlook 6 or better (worse) to load. Anyone know how to cure Act! of this outrageous behavior? Lite takes fully half of the crap out of win2k. Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
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