On Tuesday 26 August 2003 12:37 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:56:44 +0000 > > Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Thanks a lot, Joe - I really appreciate your effort. Like > > you said, I would consider it a defeat to use Windows. I > > only hope you'll enjoy the research. I too tried to read the > > man pages for wine, but it's way over my head. Win4Lin may > > be an option, but it requires me to have a Windows CD and > > change my kernel, which I don't like. > > > > Please don't waste a lot of time on this, Joe. After all it > > isn't the end of the world. > > Okay, just in case you have not gone the Windows install > route, I found something that has a chance of solving your > dillemma (sp?). > > I snagged a copy of Crossover. So far it runs Office and > Photoshop, should I test Derive, or is it too late?
Thank you very much, Joe. But I gave up after my daughter told me that in order to use her college's web-based filesharing system she needed yet another set of windoze apps. So I purchased a new HP with Winsux XP on it. Gosh, what a POS ! . She is root all the time, need to update Winsucks every day as well as something called Norton Firewall. But no chance of seeing what's going on underneath the hood. I tried to configure it to her liking, making it look familiar to her linux, installed Open Office, Mozilla, created 5 backups of the system on CD, defragged the whole caboodle twice. Tried to uninstall MS Internet Exploder and Outfool Excrete, which I couldn't. The damned thing crashed three times during the session. Now it works - to a certain extent - but she claims that she feels like a baby, confronted with this amateurish "OS". She want me to install Linux alongside this crap as a dual boot system, but I'm afraid it won't survive repartitioning etc.... And I don't want to spend more dough on the box like buying Partition Magic and whatnot to make it look like a real PC. Now at least she can use Open Office for writing, and Mozilla for browsing and mail. Good heavens, what an experience (hence the XP brand ?).... Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.1 kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk Sent to you from a 100 % Micro$oft-free computer.
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