On Thursday 24 January 2002 6:18:10 pm, David A. Bandel's voice rose above the ones in my head and declared:
> > I had a good laugh yesterday. At a demo, the guy doing the demo was using > Windows XP Professional (in the demo he was connected to a Linux box). He > had a laptop, 1GHz CPU, 256Mb RAM, and it took several minutes to > accomplish even the simplest task (over 2 minutes wait to change the IP > and get it on the client's network -- I was surprised that he didn't have > to reboot, but that would not have taken any longer). I do believe m$ calls those type of things 'features'. I had a girl in my class last night ask me why her Office 97 disk wouldn't install on her new XP machine. I just sighed, said I far as I knew nothing installed on XP, and recommended she pick up a copy of Linux to install on her new machine. I even offered my e-mail address for advice and tips. I doubt I here anything though. > > My poor old 333 Celeron laptop, with only 128 Mb of memory, had changed > everything and I had time to go through over 30 mails and respond to quite > a few before he was done with just the IP change. And people don't believe me when I refer to windoze as bloatware. They think that that is just the way computers work. -- Tom Wilson Register Linux user # 199331 I used to be with it, then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it anymore and whats it seems strange and scary to me. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
