nope -- they still don't have it together. Rumor has it there's a BIOS
issue with the stinkpad, which I'll be investigating shortly.
"I hear the train a comin, it's comin round the bend
and I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when."
--
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: It's what's for dinner!
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Steven Peck wrote:
> ROFLMAO!!!!!
>
> Information Technology of the company STILL hasn't got that w2k build fixed
> yet?? I won't mention the company names (how you like it there? It's been
> 3 months since I left so I got 3 more months before I can get hired without
> contract penalties, if they offer of course).... Though W2K std build not
> company-ized does boot much faster. You just don't get the option to strip
> out unneeded stuff to speed up boot time at install.
>
> There is one group at the facility I worked at that did switch completely to
> Linux on their desktops and laptops though. My home w2k system works just
> fine. When I get Debian to install satifactorily, I do have a long term
> goal of replacing my IIS server with a Debian Apache system, and my seperate
> Exchange server with a qmail setup. Just got to get a stable understandable
> Linux system installed and tested first. :)
>
> Well, back to studying.
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> Steven Peck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sacramento, CA http://leaf.blkmtn.org
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jack Coates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 9:45 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [Leaf-devel] bitwar (was New release of Oxygen (March
> > 2001))
> >
> >
> > now now, let's all play nice before someone gets an eye put out.
> > Besides, everyone knows that real men use links :-)
> >
> > Mozilla 8.1 is nice -- I use it on Win2K and Mandrake 7.2.
> > I'm actually
> > getting excited that it might not suck when it hits 1.0.
> >
> > Did I mention that Win2K sucks?? Work laptop is an IBM
> > Stinkad T20 with
> > 800Mhz PIII and 256 MB RAM (!). Mandrake boots in 120 seconds. Windows
> > boots in 6 minutes (both IT build and fresh install). Right-click
> > something in Windows -- five second pause to display a context menu.
> > The general responsiveness is Win95 on a fast 486 with lots of RAM. If
> > one foolishly tries the suspend feature, upon resuming work the system
> > process jumps to 100% CPU util until reboot. Outlook 2000 is
> > so unstable
> > I had to put a batch file calling the fixmapi.exe program into my
> > startup.
> >
> > For comparision my home desktop is a K6-2/400 with 128 MB.
> > Subjectively
> > twice as fast -- granted I'm using a different application
> > set, but Star
> > Office is usable (can't say that about the P200 I used to
> > have), Gimp is
> > speedy, Netscape is quite quick.
> >
> > There's my non-productive message for the day...
> > --
> > Jack Coates
> > Monkeynoodle: It's what's for dinner!
> >
> > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Matthew Schalit wrote:
> >
> > > George Metz wrote:
> > > >
> > >
> > > > (Lets face it gang, ain't no UNIX browser out there
> > > > that matches up to IE5, no matter how much I want Mozilla
> > to succeed)
> > >
> > >
> > > IE5 is p@@p.
> > >
> > > I happily run Netscape Communicator 4.61 w/128 bit
> > > strong encryption on UnixWare 7.1.1.
> > >
> > > You gone to the Dark Side, huh?
> > >
> > > Boo.
> > > George="$DarkSide"
> > > Boo.
> > >
> > > George works for M$... I never
> > > would've guessed.
> > >
> > > Sigh.
> > >
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