Linux-Advocacy Digest #986, Volume #31 Mon, 5 Feb 01 09:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: The 130MByte text file (Pete Goodwin)
Re: The 130MByte text file (Pete Goodwin)
Re: Lookout! The winvocates have a new FUD strategy! (Nick Condon)
Re: Bill Gates and Michael Dell ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Bill Gates and Michael Dell ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Bill Gates and Michael Dell ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Linux is a fad? ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: 3100 W2K Adv Servers deployed accross Europe ("Fermin Sanchez")
Re: UltraEdit in Linux? (Charlie Ebert)
Re: New Linux Project (Charlie Ebert)
Re: Bill Gates and Michael Dell (Peter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6hlmann?=)
Re: Whistler predictions... (Peter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6hlmann?=)
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From: Pete Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The 130MByte text file
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:01:42 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
b o b h {at} h a u c k s {dot} o r g wrote:
> ICMP responses are handled inside the kernel.
Is that at a higher priority - if so, it would explain why I saw
response to ping but nowt else.
> Did you try typing "k" in top? That should allow you to kill a process.
Yes. top was frozen.
> Windows by default uses a swap _file_, while Linux uses a _partition_.
> The file can grow while the partition can't. Which means that it is
> somewhat harder to run Windows out of swap space (if the disk is big
> enough) but there are some obvious tradeoffs too.
Yes I know. Windows has to allocate the space for the page file. If it's
fragmented, oh hell. I thought Linux could do this too - or does it
still need space allocated up front?
> Anyway, if Linux runs out of swap, it gets very slow. This is a known
> weakness of the VM system. Eventually, the kernel will start killing
> processes, but that can get ugly too, as it has no way of knowing which
> ones _you_ care the most about. Sometimes it does the wrong thing and
> bungs things up badly.
So there is something in Windows that is an improvement over Linux.
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From: Pete Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The 130MByte text file
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:03:17 GMT
In article <O8qf6.339$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Tom Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Because, methinks you don't have it set up correctly as the Mandrake
> installer doesn't work right....
Something I've been pointing out for a while.
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Pete
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Condon)
Subject: Re: Lookout! The winvocates have a new FUD strategy!
Date: 5 Feb 2001 13:08:47 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Goodwin) wrote in
<95m7es$kpd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Translation: Pete didn't allocate enough swap space for what he's
>> trying to do.
>>
>> Conclusion: Yet another deliberate sabotage by Pete Goodwin.
>
>What? Linux cannot grow its swap space beyond what is allocated? What a
>limitation!
Yes, "allocated" *does* equal "limitation".
Why bother "allocating" swap space if the system is going to ignore those
limits you've set and start porking its way through your diskspace?
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,rec.games.frp.dnd
Subject: Re: Bill Gates and Michael Dell
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 08:11:54 -0500
G3 wrote:
>
> in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aaron R. Kulkis at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote on 2/5/01 4:55 AM:
>
> > Actually, i am. Graphics is what got me into computing.
> > I'm also an artist; People on 5 different continents have pictures that
> > I have drawn hanging on their walls.
> >
> >
> >> I work in a part of computing where users
> >> have to interact and approve of aesthetically of the stuff I do. You can't
> >> do image editing in text, you can't to good page layout in text. You can't
> >> do good web design without previewing it under a GUI.
> >
> > Well DUH.
> >
> > However, writing a memo does NOT require a GUI.
> > Data Entry does NOT require a GUI.
> > Dispatching service personell does NOT require a GUI.
> > Corporate book-keeping does NOT require a GUI
> > Customer contact management does NOT require a GUI
> >
> > Is any of this getting through your thick skull?
>
> Which sort of Data Entry? I can think of plenty of types that do, plenty
> where the user (some moron the company hired with no presumed experience)
> would benefit GREATLY from a GUI. But you being a fool don't let little
> things like scientific principles, lawsuits from carpal tunnel, or even ease
> of use infect your vision of a world with 10 foot tall beige towers running
> an OS you totally wrote from scratch.
When I was as student at Purdue, I spent 12+ hours/day using
UNergonmically-designed keyboards (adm3, adm3a, ad3a+, adm5, DEC VT-xxx's,
Hazeltine, Tektronix, Wyse, and even the dreaded mushy-key boards of
ADDS Regent 20's)...as did a good number of my classmates.
At that time, the best you could do outside of a terminal room was a
300bit/second dial-up line...so, working in the terminal rooms was pretty
much a requirement. We basically LIVED in the terminal rooms, going back
to the dorm or off-campus housing only to shower and change clothes.
In all of those years, I never heard of a single person complaining of
sore hands from working on a keyboard too long.
If carpal tunnel syndrom was such a problem, then Purdue University
should have been overflowing with cases. Unergonomic keyboards,
keyboards at all kinds of heights, not always the most convenient,
and close to a thousand CS and Computer Engineering majors.
The student hospital should have had a line all the way around the
building just to deal with the carpal-tunnel syndrome cases.
But...for some *straaaaannnnnnnnge* reason, there weren't any.
And believe me...I knew *EVERYBODY* in the Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science schools (because I took classes in both departments).
So, don't take it personally if I respond to your claims of
carpal-tunnel syndrome with one word:
BULLLLLLLLLLLLLLshit.
It's nothing more than some made-up excuse for pampered secretaries
to whine about how 'awful' it is to work in a nice, safe, climate-controlled
office, so that they can get the gullible to believe that being a
secretary is as dangerous as being a trans-continental truck driver.
> >>
> >> It has nothing to do with using a mouse (90% of what I use I use hot keys
> >> for but they still require a GUI. 14 hot key sequences in photoshop still
> >> require seeing the image!) and everything to do with working with modern
> >> computing and not carrying on a 70's dinosaur legacy of computing.
> >
> > If the bloated, resource-hungery WIMP interface is so easy to use, why
> > do you bypass it in favor of hotkeys?
>
> You seem to be going around in circular logic. You insisted I must be tied
> to a mouse, I pointed out that I use Hot keys, and you assume that's a
> defect in the GUI? GUI != Mouse! The way you manipulate an object is by
> far and away different from the object itself. Opps I forgot all you UNIX
> idiots still code procedural what with all your stupid schell scripting crap
> and all.
No...I'm pointing out your inconsistancy.
You *claim* that the GUI is so necessary, and yet, you spend so much time
telling us how happy you are that the tools have *finally* been provided
to you so that you don't need to use it.
This contradicts EVERYTHING in the usual song-and-dance routine about how
poooooor users can't learn key-bindings.
The fact of the matter is this: People will learn whatever they have to
learn.
When you have drop-down menus, they have to learn what is contained within
each (not-displayed-until-you-select-it) drop-down menu.
No matter WHAT you do on a computer, you *WILL* have to learn something.
Trying to make this go away by holding up the GUI as the end-all and be-all
of computing productivity is a fool's errand.
And apparently, you are the latest fool.
>
> >
> >>
> >> Even email "can" be done in text but you can't HTML formated emails in text
> >> and have them look right.
> >>
> >> People who insist text is great for everything don't use their computers for
> >> anything that came out since 82!
> >
> > Of course text is not great for EVERYTHING....but it covers over 95% of
> > what computers are used for.
>
> > If the typical business office had the GUI's ripped out of 95% of the
> > desktops,
> > company would suffer not in the slightest.
>
> You are in some serious need of a reality check. If we had the rates of eye
> strain, and non-ergonomic injuries we had 30 years ago today we'd have
> LAWSUITS. Don't you realize people go BLIND staring at your monochrome text
> based gibber?
So, exactly when will you be suing me?
I need to know so that I can safely hide my wealth in various off-shore
repositories with a comfortable safety cushion of oh, say, a couple months.
>
> All of the things you mention benefit GREATLY in terms of ease of use,
> quickness of sorting information, and efficiency of user interaction by
> having a GUI. I don't work a lot with Windows so maybe that's where you get
> off thinking that GUIs are all bloated but the ones on my mac are far from
> it.
Really?
Ever run 150 simultaneous logins off of ONE 4x30 MHz machine with only
64 Mb of memory?
You can *EASILY* accomplish this, with VERY good interactive response,
if the machine isn't running some stupid resource-hungry GUI.
>
> -G3!
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bill Gates and Michael Dell
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 08:13:39 -0500
Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>
> Aaron R. Kulkis wrote:
>
> > Peter Köhlmann wrote:
> > >
> > > Aaron R. Kulkis wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Gates LIED and told them that his company had such an OS. He then
> > > > went out and bought QDOS(*) from Digital Research.
> > > >
> > > > * QDOS was an 8086/8088 port of CP/M. CP/M was a *hobbyist* O/S
> > > > written by some guy in his basement in the mid-1970's, which somehow
> > > > managed to spread by ad hoc floppy copying throughout the country.
> > > >
> > > A R Kulkis is wrong again.
> > > Digital Research had CP/M86 at that time, and IBM went to them at first.
> > > They somehow didn't come top grips, so IBM decided to go to Billy Boy.
> > > He bought QDOS, but not from DR. It was from a guy at Seattle Computer,
> > > if I remember correctly. It WAS a little bit like CP/M, hence its name
> > > (Quick and Dirty OS)
> > >
> > > Also CP/M was everything else as a "hobbyists" OS. Take a look into
> > > BYTE from those years, CP/M everywhere.
> >
> > I used to read BYTE in those days...
> >
> > Everywhere, true...but it was still written by some guy in his basement,
> > purely as a 'hobby project'. CP/M was never meant for commercial use...
> > it just came to that by default (mostly becuase of the TRS-80 machines,
> > i would think)
> >
> Ever head from companies like Cromenco, or CompuPro, or Jade?
> Those were all CP/M systems, and ran rings around the PC's which were
> just introduced at that time. There existed even a multiitasking version of
> CP/M called MP/M. Was quite good.
> Naturally, that didn't help. Still the PC's with there shoddy
> Hardware-design and crappy MS-DOS prevailed.
>
> TRS-80 (got one myself, my Model-I had a build-# in the 300s.
> Later got also a Model IV. Still have that) Those were really good
> machines at that time.
> But TRS-80s were mainly used with their own OS, which was way
> better than anything else at that time,but I had CP/M for mine also.
>
What I'm saying is that CP/M was never *designed* to be a commercial
OS. It merely became the defacto standard OS for 8080, 8085 and Z80
machines because everything else sucked even more.
> --
> Linux is simply a fad that has been generated by the media
> We are Borg. Resistance is futile (Borg Gates)
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bill Gates and Michael Dell
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 08:13:47 -0500
Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>
> Aaron R. Kulkis wrote:
>
> > Peter Köhlmann wrote:
> > >
> > > Aaron R. Kulkis wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Gates LIED and told them that his company had such an OS. He then
> > > > went out and bought QDOS(*) from Digital Research.
> > > >
> > > > * QDOS was an 8086/8088 port of CP/M. CP/M was a *hobbyist* O/S
> > > > written by some guy in his basement in the mid-1970's, which somehow
> > > > managed to spread by ad hoc floppy copying throughout the country.
> > > >
> > > A R Kulkis is wrong again.
> > > Digital Research had CP/M86 at that time, and IBM went to them at first.
> > > They somehow didn't come top grips, so IBM decided to go to Billy Boy.
> > > He bought QDOS, but not from DR. It was from a guy at Seattle Computer,
> > > if I remember correctly. It WAS a little bit like CP/M, hence its name
> > > (Quick and Dirty OS)
> > >
> > > Also CP/M was everything else as a "hobbyists" OS. Take a look into
> > > BYTE from those years, CP/M everywhere.
> >
> > I used to read BYTE in those days...
> >
> > Everywhere, true...but it was still written by some guy in his basement,
> > purely as a 'hobby project'. CP/M was never meant for commercial use...
> > it just came to that by default (mostly becuase of the TRS-80 machines,
> > i would think)
> >
> Ever head from companies like Cromenco, or CompuPro, or Jade?
> Those were all CP/M systems, and ran rings around the PC's which were
> just introduced at that time. There existed even a multiitasking version of
> CP/M called MP/M. Was quite good.
> Naturally, that didn't help. Still the PC's with there shoddy
> Hardware-design and crappy MS-DOS prevailed.
>
> TRS-80 (got one myself, my Model-I had a build-# in the 300s.
> Later got also a Model IV. Still have that) Those were really good
> machines at that time.
> But TRS-80s were mainly used with their own OS, which was way
> better than anything else at that time,but I had CP/M for mine also.
>
What I'm saying is that CP/M was never *designed* to be a commercial
OS. It merely became the defacto standard OS for 8080, 8085 and Z80
machines because everything else sucked even more.
> --
> Linux is simply a fad that has been generated by the media
> We are Borg. Resistance is futile (Borg Gates)
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux is a fad?
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 08:16:33 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Sat, 03 Feb 2001 23:18:02 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >So we have the truth at last! He just wants to look at the pretty
> >girls! I bet that's the only reason he has a computer!
>
> I am a girl.
Let's see...how many females who call themselves "a girl" (as opposed to
"a woman") are old enough to work in computer stores.....liar.
>
> Flatfish
> Why do they call it a flatfish?
> Remove the ++++ to reply.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: "Fermin Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: 3100 W2K Adv Servers deployed accross Europe
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 14:08:34 +0100
Reply-To: "Fermin Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Aaron
"Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
[...snip...]
> Mind adjusting your lines to an appropriate length when you post URLS
> of that length?
What about your signature? Mind adjusting that?
--
With kind regards
Fermin Sanchez
MCSE+i, MCT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charlie Ebert)
Subject: Re: UltraEdit in Linux?
Reply-To: Charlie Ebert:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:24:40 GMT
In article <95lb17$vhf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>hi all:
>
>i am a loyal user of UltraEdit for years under Windows. recently i am
>using more and more Linux for software development, but i haven't
>really found an editor that is quite as good and compact as UltraEdit.
>so far, i've just been using the regular/standard editors that come
>with Linux, such as vi, emacs, and pico.
>
>i would like to have something that would run under X and somewhat
>resembles UltraEdit (keyword high-lighting, space-tab option, auto
>format, and most importantly, the vertical selection!) anyone have any
>idea of such editor in Linux?
>
>thanks in advance.
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com
>http://www.deja.com/
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Charlie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charlie Ebert)
Subject: Re: New Linux Project
Reply-To: Charlie Ebert:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:27:17 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Russ Lyttle wrote:
>I got selected for one of Embedded Linux Journal's
><http://embedded.linuxjournal.com> kits to do an Embedded Linux
>project. My project is to develop an automotive test set. The web page
>(still under development) is at <http://home.earthlink.net/~lyttlec>.
>I'm currently doing the "Requirements Analysis". So please visit, make
>comments, suggestions, volunteer to help.
>Thanks.
>--
>Russ Lyttle, PE
><http://www.flash.net/~lyttlec>
>Not Powered by ActiveX
Have fun. I think this is cool Russ.
Do a good job for us.
Thanks
Charllie
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From: Peter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6hlmann?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bill Gates and Michael Dell
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 14:44:33 +0100
Shane Phelps wrote:
>
> CP/M used to run on almost everything using the Z80 *except* for
> the TRaSh 80. The TRS80 had TRS-DOS and another disk operating system
> which I can't remember (and I used it for 2 years). It was great. I could
> fit 180KB on a floppy
>
> Most of the serious CP/M systems were Zenith, Heathkit, etc, at the time.
> I bought a Z80 board with CP/M for my Apple II but I wasn't terribly
> impressed. I didn't like the Apple II much, either. I thought the TRaSh80
> was much better.
> Or did the Model II run CP/M? About all I can remember is it used 8"
> floppies.
>
> As a completely irrelevant aside, one of Tandy's TRS80 guys has released
> a stack of TRS80 stuff on the web, and even has a TRS80 emulator.
> Once I work out how to read my old SS/SD 5 1/4" disks I'll have to give
> it a spin for old times' sake :-)
>
>
> Do you remember the TRS-80 Model 16? It had a 68k and ran Xenix. I
> would've *loved* to have had the money to buy one of those ;-)
>
Hi Shane,
I think you're meaning NewDos80, which ran really good on those little
bastards. Floppy-disk access is STILL faster than the fastest PC now
manages because of the clever layout Tandy did (directory in the middle
of the disk, hash codes for access. Those machines NEVER needed more
than 3 disk-accesses (at most) to get to the file because of that
hash-coding. I disassembled that part of the DOS and made it even faster).
Same coding was used on hard-disks, that sucker ran rings around a PC
with hard-disk then (8 MHz Z80 is about even, perhaps a little faster than
the 4,7 MHz 8088 of the PC's than en vogue)
You're right with Zenith, Heathkit et al, although a Cromenco was just the
REAL THING at that time (who remembers those old S100-machines)
The TRS80 DID run CP/M, at least the Model IV was good at that.
Model II did it also.
The older ones needed a hacked version because of the ROM-Layout.
And right, Model 16 was good (and way to expensive). Tandy's downfall began
later as they tried to get on the PC-bus. Their PC-machines weren't really
compatibel, so people stayed away from them.
Ah, those were the days.... (when we were young AND good-looking. Now we're
only AND)
--
Linux is simply a fad that has been generated by the media
We are Borg. Resistance is futile (Borg Gates)
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From: Peter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6hlmann?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Whistler predictions...
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 14:57:34 +0100
Peter Hayes wrote:
>
> So why has my Win98 box spontaneously decided to add another network card,
> despite the fact that I've not even had the cover off the machine for
> days?
>
> Peter
Never mind, Peter, my daughters Win98 machine does it quite often. It is
annoying because it basically means to got through the setup, delete BOTH
cards it has then and reinstall ONE card.
But just to top it off, if it does not do this "new hardware" trick, it
quite often fails to detect ANY network, although Wintendo says everthing
OK, network up, netcard up. Nope, you have to reboot then (at least, THAT's
standard again) I guess, I just have to take a different card. Got one
around somewhere.
But this a prime example where MacroShit just has done it completely wrong.
WHY on earth has Win98 to go through that hardware-detect EVERY fucking
time it is booted? Wouldn't it be FAR BETTER to have a possibility at boot
time to say "look, machine, I've got a new thingy for you. Try if you can
find it"). Nooo, that would have been logical. MS does it different. And it
shows. Those guys will NEVER learn how to do things.
Peter
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Linux is simply a fad that has been generated by the media
We are Borg. Resistance is futile (Borg Gates)
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