Hello, Ron, you said
>Just wanted to add my two cents in here. I've got a (fast) windows98
>machine sitting in my house, turned on, plugged into the lan waiting to
>be used. I can't stand the damn thing. You have to re-boot it to change
>or add DNS servers, or any other basic network configuration.
>Installing most any software requires a reboot and windows is so
>notorius for trashing the registry that periodic harddrive reformats are
>normal just to get back to a basic, 'clean' configuration.
>I kept a linux box booted for 299 days. The power died for longer than
>my UPS could handle, so I had to shut it down. During that time I
>upgraded apache twice, samba three times, and named once. Changed from
>a 'fake' 10.0.0.x network to real IP addresses, and various other
>reconfigs. Never rebooted once.
>I'm luck to keep the windows machines at work up overnite without a
>crash or a re-boot.
>Not to mention browsing with IE 4 sucks, and IE 5 is even worse. And Mr.
>Bill came came up with the innovative idea that using windows explorer on
>our local machines should resemble web browsing.
>The grass may look greener on the other side, but that's 'cause they've
>spray painted the weeds.
Agreed. It's amazing how much better computers are than we ever would have
dreamed, and how much more they suck than they have any reason to.
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