Posted on 01/06/2005 4:52:59 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
Yep, you're invested. There's a whooole lotta techies like you that help MS sales a great deal.
From my selfish point of view, I'd like to see more intuitive, innovative, bugfree and userproof computing.
But I hope you will apply your great talents in even more successful endeavors.
They tried to show pictures and load a video game from the same computer? While having drivers for a remote control, sound and video card installed?
Well it's obvious that they have too many programs on this computer, causing conflicts and crashing the system when changing programs.
This happens to me just about every other day.
Maybe adding on another service pack will help.
The Amiga 500 was, dollar for dollar, the best PC ever made.
I had the original Amiga and it was Crash City. When one application died, it brought the whole machine down with it. Even Windows 3.1 wasn't as crashy; it would crash as much but you could usually save your changes from other programs before it died completely.
Reactionary, if you don't have Panther installed on your Titanium PowerBook, give it a shot. I have a 400mhz PowerBook G4 and it runs like a champ with Panther, but it was pretty sluggish with earlier versions. I was amazed when I tried it, since in the Windows world operating system upgrades are generally not compatible with anything but the most modern hardware, and they're significantly slower than their predecessors. Not Panther; it rocks. Definitely worth a shot before becoming too frustrated.
Hope that helps.
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Whatever became of your obsession to own a Sun Workstation?
Slide rules never crashed.
My complaint with modern operating systems is that they're needlessly complex, and that complexity introduces a whole host of problems that make the whole experience of computing more negative than it should be.
Any os as a seperate purchase cost way too much.Mac os is expensive too but not quite as bad. Best deal is a pc you can afford and later max out the memory, etc when those parts are on sale. One of the stores has a special on a 2ghz minitower with XP for $199 after rebate ,the same cost as a XP os package by itself!!!!! Add your old but servicable monitor....I just can't justify the os upgrade expense .
"I know some people that know some people that stole from some people..."
LOL...Just kidding. My job supplies me OS upgrades. However, I am in the process of evaluating Mandrake Linux 10.1 as an alternative to Windows. It is a free (but huge) download. There are versions available for purchase, too. The cost is under $50. It will live or die depending on how much stuff I can do without command line work. My biggest complaint up to now was needing to configure way too much with shell commands. So far, everything works and I didn't have to do anything overly technical yet.
Downloaded Firefox and Thunderbird and had problems with unwanted interactions with IE and OE. Mozilla 1.7 and or Netscape 7 co-exist properly on Windows system with IE and OE. I may designate one box here for Linux after sorting out what's available-have xp,me,98se,95,nt4,3,11,3,1,3.0,2.11,systems6,7,7.6,8,9,OS/2warp2 and4,trsdos6,OS1.3,2.0,3.1,OS9 and probably a few others.
I actually owned one for a while, and SGI too.
SGI was my favourite hardware platform by far until MacOS X arrived. SGI's OS didn't get updated to grow with the times, and MacOS X did. So I switched from a mixed environment that had Windows PCs for commercial software (way too expensive under SGI) and SGI for my web serving and Unix client needs.
Now I'm all-Mac and happier than I've ever been with my computing environment.
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