LSx-Australia wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:52:11 -0500, Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted
>Driver (Hector Goldstein) PCM code reading says:
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>> Heh heh. We used a linux box as our content server at a previous
>> employer of mine. Once the box was up and running, which didn't take
>> long, we never had to touch it again except for when the IT director
>> screwed up by trying to email out 75mb attachments. She didn't
>> understand linux, so she ordered us to put up a Windows 2000 server
box.
>> Internal bandwidth took a major hit, and the staff switched from full
>> time development of new software to Windows 2000 server administrators.
>> The boss finally got tired of his developers not producing anything,
and
>> asked the director what was up. By the end of the day, the Linux server
>> was back on line, and the Windblows 2000 box was moth balled.
>
>I haven't used Windows 2000 ever I went from MS DOS, Win 3.11,95,98,XP.
>Although I was rather brassed off that some of the games I have ran
>perfectly on win 98 but not on XP. Although I am still a Linux newbie but
Ah, the difference between real and protected mode kernels. :-/
Of course, there's always booting on a DOS floppy; I understand that
with some effort you can get USB sup****t under MSDOS. I've toyed with
that so that I could breath some life into some old games I used to
enjoy.
>I have set up my system so the mrs (which she is use to windows) can
>easily use it. She hasn't stuffed it up yet I have a few times. Good
>thing to I can upgrade my Linux (ubuntu) via my ISP mirror and does not
>effect my download limit. Another bonus of free software. :-)
Ghost and a spare hard drive work wonders here. :-) One of my Win95
installs "died" a very interesting and horrible death; fortunately I
had ghosted the drive a few hours earlier, so was able to get back
into operation in about 4 minutes. I almost always install my OS to a
small partition, and store my apps and data on another physical drive,
so snafus don't hurt too bad. :-)
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