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| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 140807 | 2003-05-02 12:15:00 | Each OS is only as good as the Admin setting it up and maintaining it! | Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 140808 | 2003-05-02 12:20:00 | Re:Elephant Yes my 386 was not overly flexible but very stable. EEk I'm starting to feel old jut thinking about that machine. |
Ron Bakker (356) | ||
| 140809 | 2003-05-02 12:22:00 | Also depends on how well the PC was originally set up and whether the person running it defrags it and scans for errors, etc every so often. My mother has an old IBM dating back to 1994 that still runs Windows 3.1 just fine, and has never run out of space on the HDD and only has 8MB of RAM. | wintertide (1306) | ||
| 140810 | 2003-05-02 12:29:00 | Re: wintertide I'm guessing mum don't play Ureal T 2003. Sorry for being so cheeky, I gota stop drinkin this cheap wine. |
Ron Bakker (356) | ||
| 140811 | 2003-05-02 12:43:00 | RE: Ron Bakker No, she doesn't play UT2003, and I don't because I'm saving up to buy it, but I do play an assortment of other games on my shiny new Athlon XP 2000+ PC. :D :P |
wintertide (1306) | ||
| 140812 | 2003-05-02 12:52:00 | Shiny new Athlon mmmm nothing like the speed virgin pc muscle before we fill them up to the eye balls (or the outside edges of the hard drive platter) with software lard. Which Has got me thinking, I know cd start reading from the middle but what about hard drives?? |
Ron Bakker (356) | ||
| 140813 | 2003-05-02 12:56:00 | I'm not sure - the A+ certification exams didn't say anything about that one! Yeah shiny new Athlon XP is real nice if you upgraded from a P200MMX... :) Pity that the video card in the Athlon XP machine is a TNT2... |
wintertide (1306) | ||
| 140814 | 2003-05-02 13:13:00 | Yikes tnt I had a tnt2 32mb ram & it served me very well but. Trust me it's worth selling a kidney to buy a ti4200. The game I noticed the biggest difference in was Jedi outcast2. But Dues ex nothing changed, something to do with the out dated engine. I have a p4 2gighz & even that can stuggle a bit now & then with unreal2003. But any other game no problem. I'll be eating my words when Doom 3 comes out. O.k maybe selling a kidneys a bit extreme but they are dam good vid cards. |
Ron Bakker (356) | ||
| 140815 | 2003-05-02 13:41:00 | back to the original topic: chilling silently obviously paid attention to one of my rants earlier.. each OS is only as good as the admin who sets it up and maintains it. (either that or mr chilling was smart enough to know/realise this already) In which case it comes down to two competitors in the i386 realm: *nix and NT. 9x does not have any chance whatsoever against these two. None. Nilch. winme included. winme is pretty much win9x + win2k ui + win2k tcp/ip stack.. whoop de doo... win9x is akin to building a house on sand (32bit gui ontop of 16bit dos subsystem) whereas NT is akin to building a house on rock (completely 32bit subsystem). In my opinion, win9x should be avoided at all costs, and win9x is certainly not welcome in my house (I run a NT/nix domain here at my flat.. not a trace of 9x anywhere) the major setbacks for nix at the moment are the unintuitive UI, lack of driver support, and the narrowmindedness of the nix community. They expect joebloggs to be able to compile and install from a bash terminal session, and they wonder why linux isnt taking off like it could? Whereas any joebloggs on a win32 machine can download and install an .exe or .zip without much problem... show me an installer where you have to open up cmd and type out lengthy strings and i'll show you a program that is hardly used at all. What these nix guys need to do is release more .rpm's and get some PLAIN ENGLISH how-to's going.. then their OS might really get to the position it deserves. For desktop use, 99.9% of people dont give two craps about looking at the source.. they just want free software that works without any hassle.. thats the great secret that they are missing out on. The other thing to note is a lot of people who fall back on the "LUNIX SI TEH FREES!" argument are not programmers, will NEVER look at the source or figure out how to or what to do with it, and do not realise that when the GNU/GPL says "free" it means "free as in speech, not free as in beer." Basically the just dont get it. until then, NT is the best all round OS there is. Drivers, application support, reliability/stability.. NT has it all. When I say NT, you must realise that i mean NT4/2k/xp. Personally I prefer 2k as it has everything where I need it to be, unlike NT4 which I put on par with lunix in the intuitivity/ease of use department. XP is a great OS, regarded, but I feel it's too childish, too condescending and patronising towards its users.. I just dont like the fisher price interface, or the effort required to configure it to a level acceptable by myself. Also its many wizards tend to get in my way.. what would take me 2 seconds to configure on 2k would take me several minutes on xp.. trudging through some stupid wizard that treats me like a 6 year old. XP is great for joebloggs though as it helps him/her through doing intermediate/difficult tasks.. however for an enthusiast like me it is restrictive. 2k is clean, cuts the crap and gets the job done. Just my little wee opinion. |
whetu (237) | ||
| 140816 | 2003-05-02 13:58:00 | Thanks Whetu - for the sanest post we've read on OS's here | Epsilon (2806) | ||
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