Re: OT: Windoze 2000 features: End of Rant

2002-08-12 Thread Joseph McAllister
on 08/02/02 12:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] shared with me: By the way, it's MACRae. Ironic, isn't it? -Brendan MacRae Not especially, since it mearly means that you are derived from a long succesion of women who were screwed by Scots. Yours were the male descendants of a guy named Rae. As am I.

Re: OT: Windoze 2000 features: End of Rant

2002-08-12 Thread Bmacrae
In a message dated 8/12/2002 2:31:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not especially, since it mearly means that you are derived from a long succesion of women who were screwed by Scots. Yours were the male descendants of a guy named Rae. As am I. From some Scot named

Re: OT: Windoze 2000 features: End of Rant

2002-08-03 Thread Len Paris
Where would Lindows fit into that lineup? Len --- - Original Message - From: Mishka [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 6:37 PM Subject: Re: OT: Windoze 2000 features: End of Rant That's pretty close to my point: you want kick ass graphics -- get

Re: OT: Windoze 2000 features: End of Rant

2002-08-02 Thread Cameron Hood
I'm sorry to get so enraged. When I think of the hundreds and hundreds of hours I spent in Windoze trying to fix stupid errors that should not have happened and that I now know were only the result of bad software, I have a tendency to get furious. I recall when I first got my new Windoze 95

Re: OT: Windoze 2000 features: End of Rant

2002-08-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, I must hand it to the M$ Tech Support (like most, not all, but most first line support staff) because they don't know diddly - Re-installing the O/S does not wipe out everything that you have on the computer - I've done it a few times for different friends/family/work colleagues etc.

Re[2]: OT: Windoze 2000 features: End of Rant

2002-08-02 Thread Bruce Dayton
Cameron, I can appreciate your severe frustration with a ridiculous situation. However, don't you think if the millions of other users had experiences similar to yours that they would have switched just as you did? The fact that Wintel is still the dominant (by leaps and bounds) system gives

Re: OT: Windoze 2000 features: End of Rant

2002-08-02 Thread Treena Harp
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 12:59 PM Subject: Re: OT: Windoze 2000 features: End of Rant I'm sorry to get so enraged. When I think of the hundreds and hundreds of hours I spent in Windoze trying to fix stupid errors that should not have happened and that I now know were only

Re: OT: Windoze 2000 features: End of Rant

2002-08-02 Thread Bmacrae
In a message dated 8/2/2002 11:32:09 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now if you re-format your hard drive.. that's a different story as are hard drive crashes :-) . Exactly! -Brendan MacRae - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to

Re: Re[2]: OT: Windoze 2000 features: End of Rant

2002-08-02 Thread Bmacrae
In a message dated 8/2/2002 12:13:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My best analogy is that the Mac is like Communism - closed, controlled and little variance. In many respects, when it comes to computers, this is a good thing. It leads to less compatibility problems

Re: OT: Windoze 2000 features: End of Rant

2002-08-02 Thread Rubenstein, Bruce M (Bruce)
Enough already. The original question had nothing to do with why your life is miserable with PC's, and everyone should buy a Mac. If you can contribute some first hand, relevant information about what was asked, fine. If you want to rant and rave about OS's, take it to an appropriate forum. -

Re: OT: Windoze 2000 features: End of Rant

2002-08-02 Thread Mishka
scanner isn't supported even by VueScan. That's teh single virtue of both Win and Mac: they have just enough software written for them to make them usable. Best, Mishka. From: Frits J. W��ich Subject: Re: OT: Windoze 2000 features: End of Rant Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 14:16:59 -0700