RE: [Plug] Ya know, it's a shame..

[Andrew Ban <aban@voicenet.com>]

As one who worked as an NT Admin and still work on them.  I think I can
safely say there are some unterlying problems that M$ needs to address but
never will and it is not a matter of learning the bloat ware but just
dealing with it 

On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, marc wrote:

> if you have that many blue screens you should start lerning more about
> windows.  but seriously you might want to check for hardware compatability
> with winnt.  i had a modem that would make winnt crash after it used the
> modem.  different modem no more problem.  also some motherboards are not
> winnt friendly.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin@lists.nothinbut.net
> [mailto:plug-admin@lists.nothinbut.net]On Behalf Of Andrew Ban
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 1:55 PM
> To: 'plug@lists.nothinbut.net'
> Subject: RE: [Plug] Ya know, it's a shame..
> 
> 
> 
> DUCK everyone "it" is gonna start to fly!!
> 
> I have windows 98 running on a box with 256MB of memory (don't ask why it
> just happend) but to make a long story short when I boot 98 it uses 70% to
> 80% on boot up alone - if I open outlook, free agent and netscape it runs
> out of resources - problem I think so!!
> 
> my $00.02
> 
> Drew
> 
> On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Vettese, Nick A wrote:
> 
> > I know you are all going to hate me but I have to say this:
> >
> > What are you doing that you can't keep Windows running.  Windows isn't
> that
> > bad.  I am running NT4, 95, 98, and 4 Linux boxes, and the only time I
> have
> > to reboot Windows is when I load configure or something.  You make Windows
> > seem like it has no legs to walk on.  I love Linux, and I am doing a hell
> of
> > a lot of studying to learn more, but if Windows is so bad why does 3/4ths
> of
> > the world use it.  There are many options today, so it can't be the reason
> > it is the only one out there.  You have Linux, Unix (all versions), BeOs,
> > 95, 98, NT, Mac, OS/2, and others.  There are many office programs,
> business
> > program, and anything else that might be needed that runs on other OSs.
> If
> > all of you are having that many problems then you better leave computers
> to
> > the more capable.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ray beckler [mailto:rbeckler@erols.com]
> > Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 1:37 PM
> > To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> > Subject: Re: [Plug] Ya know, it's a shame..
> >
> >
> > Vale_Kenny@vanguard.com wrote:
> >
> > > I use my Linux system about 20-25 hours a week, and I use my NT system
> > about 3-4
> > > hours a week.  Of that time less than 1% of the time on the Linux box is
> > spent
> > > in reboots, and 10% in reboots of the NT box.  Because NT is such a
> > complete
> > > *HOG*, I have to run it on a Pentium II system with a sh1tload of RAM
> and
> > disk
> > > space.  My Linux system is running on a Pentium 90 system, with half the
> > RAM,
> > > and slower drives.  I mean, yeah, it still runs as fast as the NT
> system,
> > but I
> > > can only imagine it on the Pentium II.  But I have to keep the damn NT,
> to
> > use
> > > it for testing.  Pisses me off.
> > >
> > > Just a small rant..
> >
> > I run win95, linux and SCO opensever on a pentium 166.  NEVER have to
> reboot
> > Linux
> > or SCO but have daily visits from the blue/black screen of death on win.
> > Same
> > thing, I have to keep sindows just for certain applications.  Yep, pisses
> me
> > off
> > too.  Can't be happy all the time.
> >
> > ray
> >
> >
> >
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