Re: Dual booting may be a necessary evil, or perhaps a good thing?

2005-01-28 Thread Travis Roy
It requires ActiveX, I know about user agent switcher and it usually works very well. My laptop dual boots for various PITA windows only things (specifically, our new backup server -REQUIRES- IE to log into it and create new backup shares, we have opened this as a "bug" trouble ticket with the c

Re: Dual booting may be a necessary evil, or perhaps a good thing?

2005-01-28 Thread Michael ODonnell
> My laptop dual boots for various PITA windows only things (specifically, > our new backup server -REQUIRES- IE to log into it and create new backup > shares, we have opened this as a "bug" trouble ticket with the company) If the people who wrote your backup software show such poor judgement th

Re: Dual booting may be a necessary evil, or perhaps a good thing?

2005-01-28 Thread Tom Buskey
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:04:53 -0500, Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree.. > > Removing windows entirely from the presario was not an option. It was a > machine in my work office for any customer to use. The Linux boot would > have been specifically for me for doing network testing and

Re: Dual booting may be a necessary evil, or perhaps a good thing?

2005-01-28 Thread Travis Roy
I agree.. Removing windows entirely from the presario was not an option. It was a machine in my work office for any customer to use. The Linux boot would have been specifically for me for doing network testing and whatnot. My laptop dual boots for various PITA windows only things (specifically,

Dual booting may be a necessary evil, or perhaps a good thing?

2005-01-28 Thread Ira Krakow
Re: The HP thread Sure, it would be nice to erase all traces of Microsoft from your PC. But in my case, I migrated from two perfectly good, networked Windows XP machines. I wanted to get up to speed in Linux, but I still needed my Windows apps for a while (until I converted). I considered buyi