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Thread ID: 108419 2010-03-28 04:23:00 Any bets for the nam eof the next Windows ? Digby (677) PC World Chat
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870581 2010-03-29 23:10:00 Whatever windows X@#! is called, it will still be easily broken and jam a lot.

wainuitech will like it because it guarantees his kids can eat. ;) No denying that -- I'd rather have work and eat than no work. like at the moment -- I have 4 work benches -- all full, in fact two have two laptops each all going at once its totally :waughh: at the moment.
One is a linux machine that the person wants Windows put back on -- said he had nothing but trouble with it, lockups, not working -- Windows worked he said, he thought he would try ubuntu - gave it 6 months.

Mind you Linux is not that fantastic either -- it has faults, just like every other OS in the world. NO OS is perfect. :D
wainuitech (129)
870582 2010-03-29 23:48:00 I received a new doorstop recently. An HP pavilion 521A running Win XP home. It still has the original Hard drive with the restore partition.

Specs?
1.3 Ghz Celeron
128 Megs RAM
40 Gig Hard drive
CD-RW drive
Broadband ready as it has an integrated 10/100 base 10 NIC.

Go figure.

The only useful feature is the Windows licence key stuck to the side of the case.

I built the guy a new computer and got this box as part payment. The motherboard will only take as max two by 256 Meg sticks.
Sweep (90)
870583 2010-03-30 00:18:00 It will need to a name suggesting power and invincibility - - How about Titanic? ;)LOLOLOL :thumbs: Greg (193)
870584 2010-03-30 00:52:00 One is a linux machine that the person wants Windows put back on -- said he had nothing but trouble with it, lockups, not working -- Windows worked he said, he thought he would try ubuntu - gave it 6 months.

Mind you Linux is not that fantastic either -- it has faults, just like every other OS in the world. NO OS is perfect. :D

First mistake right there! Ubuntu is truly the Vista of the Linux world
nofam (9009)
870585 2010-03-30 01:14:00 I have nothing against Ubuntu -- I "play around" with the OS when I feel like doing something different.

What I did find ( personally) is 9.04 was OK, anything after that seemed to do stupid things, and actually take a few steps backwards so to speak.

vista -- Well bit like ME -- Some worked OK, some didn't. I have Vista Dual booting on this PC and it works fine ( W7 is better though) - but on a workshop PC Vista is "full of surprises" ;)
wainuitech (129)
870586 2010-03-30 02:40:00 I'm dual booting Win7 Pro and Debian Linux.

It's taken a while but I wanted to develop my own apps and Linux has a free compiler and Windows does not.
Sweep (90)
870587 2010-03-30 18:58:00 I like the using the date system,but I doubt they will listen to reason! Cicero (40)
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