Re: MD: (Slightly OT) NET MD

2001-09-21 Thread Shawn Lin
Gerard Naude wrote: > > How come everybody says how crappy windows is but nobody wants to use > something else? I have tried to convert people with no luck. People moan, > but never make an effort to try something new :-( Try anything but windows > (Linux, Mac, BeOs), or that blue-screen-of-deat

Re: MD: (Slightly OT) NET MD

2001-09-20 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* "Matt Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 20 Sep 2001 | one more thing about virii YM "viruses". HTH. HAND. -- Rat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\ Do not use Happy Fun Ball on concrete. Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ PGP Key: at a key server near you! \ -

Re: MD: (Slightly OT) NET MD

2001-09-20 Thread David W. Tamkin
Matt Wall wrote, | one more thing about virii and windows and i should be done. if mac held | 90+% of the market they would have most of the virii written for them. | same goes for any other os. it's not exploits/bugs as they are in every | os. it's just the sheer number of people using this

Re: MD: (Slightly OT) NET MD

2001-09-20 Thread Matt Wall
one more thing about virii and windows and i should be done. if mac held 90+% of the market they would have most of the virii written for them. same goes for any other os. it's not exploits/bugs as they are in every os. it's just the sheer number of people using this os. if ms only had 4% of

RE: MD: (Slightly OT) NET MD

2001-09-20 Thread Jen Abildsoe
In all fairness, a lot of the stability problems aren't caused by Windows itself, there are a lot of really crappy drivers out there, mostly related to video cards it seems. No matter what OS you are running, if you install buggy programs on it, especially programs that are working with low le

RE: MD: (Slightly OT) NET MD

2001-09-20 Thread Gerard Naude
Anyone for Dos ver 3.1 ? :-) (/me whips out his copy of space quest 2) Who needs more than 640 KB ram anyway? Haha. Cheers. Gerard. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Matt Wall > actually we were both correct on the transfering of d

Re: MD: (Slightly OT) NET MD

2001-09-20 Thread Matt Wall
001 2:11 AM Subject: RE: MD: (Slightly OT) NET MD > Just to make this on topic, the sony net-md looks like it will be able to do > 8x in sp, 16x in lp2 and 32x in lp4. Sorry, maybe my previous post came out > a bit harsh. But I have to say that sure, windows is stable if you are > running

RE: MD: (Slightly OT) NET MD

2001-09-19 Thread Gerard Naude
gt; Sent: 19 September 2001 08:08 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: MD: (Slightly OT) NET MD > > > > As per your question here is my answer. I use Mac, Windows, QNX, Solaris, > BSD, but my main focus is on windows. Why you ask, well i own a small > cunsulting fir an

Re: MD: (Slightly OT) NET MD

2001-09-19 Thread Matt Wall
t; Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 8:29 AM Subject: RE: MD: (Slightly OT) NET MD > > How come everybody says how crappy windows is but nobody wants to use > something else? I have tried to convert people with no luck. People moan, > but never make an effort to try something ne

RE: MD: (Slightly OT) NET MD

2001-09-19 Thread Gerard Naude
How come everybody says how crappy windows is but nobody wants to use something else? I have tried to convert people with no luck. People moan, but never make an effort to try something new :-( Try anything but windows (Linux, Mac, BeOs), or that blue-screen-of-death-security-hole OS is forever g