re: Very Nice
Monday, December 8, 2008 at 10:44 am
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Posted by Ricer46
(22018 messages posted)
It wasn't that I lacked the skills to make ME work, I preferred it over W98 despite
it's poor reliability and used it for a couple of years before making the switch
to XP It is not just my opinion; it is well documented that any system built on top
of DOS is significantly less reliable than any version of NT. You forget that I managed
nearly 500 PCs, most of them went through the series of upgrades from W95 to XP.
Multiple daily reboots were typical on those computers, while XP went for weeks without
reboots. ME does indeed run beautifully right after it's loaded, unfortunately it
needs to be reloaded about every six months. W2K and XP can run for years without
a re-install, and still be just as fast and reliable as the day it was installed.
On Friday, December 5, 2008 at 8:30 pm, PMR wrote:
>It is really sad that people cannot have a simple conversation or comment on something
>as ordinary as a computer operating system without attacking a person on his/her
>perceived ability to communicate.
>
>For the Prof. I installed Linux Ubuntu Hardy Heron in a dual boot partition set
>up and kept Windows ME on the machine "just for fun". And yes, the ancient printer
>was immediately "found" by Linux, while even with drivers installed, Me refused
to
>see the same printer.
>
>Anyway, Me is fun, frustrating and ancient. Back then, you had to do research,
read,
>and work at getting some things to do what they were supposed to do.
>Now all you do is load the OS and away you go. So easy and so dumbed down. Education
>has done this for us, dumbed us down. Push a button and you have it, or so you
think.
>Obviously, since the prof hated Me so much, he was lacking in the required skills
>to make it do what he wanted it to do.
>
>As for our young person who responded to this but did not meet the profs expectations.
> Do not be intimidated, do not allow anyone to ever attempt to harness your right
>to free speach. Do your homework as the prof said, but keep in mind that some of
>the best minds in American History had problems writing. And some of the most evil
>minds in world history had good writing / communication skills. Hitler made some
>dandy speaches.
>
>This started as a simple observation on an ancient operating system. Ended up being
>an observation as to why were in the shape were in. Highly educated people have
>been running our country for how long now?
>
>Keep trying Dan The Man, you will make it.
>
>
>
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- re: Very Nice (PMR: Friday, December 5, 2008 at 8:30 pm)
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