On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:23:18 -0400 Matthew Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Microsoft tries to automate it... but AUTO is a four-letter word, > because AUTO only works part of the time. And the AUTO methods tend > to make you not consider some potential problem areas because they > work sometimes. I guess I'm somewhere in the middle. M$ is not my favorite, but my family likes it, and in my case with WinXP AUTO=DONE, and that's a four letter word I can handle. It beats hell out of the screwing around I had to do for my Win98 machines. WinXP probed the communications setup, made the entries, and ping www.xxxxxx.com worked out of the chute, as did finding the shared files and printer on the dying Win98 box I was replacing. Of course I have a plain-jane Netgear router that's sitting atop my computer stand out of sight, collecting dust, and working flawlessly delivering the sort of absolutely standard DHCP, etc. that a communications lightweight like myself might struggle to implement in a linux router. In the case of video support, however, AUTO=FSCK<groan>. Since I loathe screwing around with Windows machines, I'm just glad that M$ got this much right. Other than to do backups now and then, I hope never to need to touch the machine again. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
