That is what the other program said too. I changed the passwords, I
blanked the passwords...none of the changes took tho...
dh
That is what the other program said too. I changed the passwords, I
blanked the passwords...none of the changes took tho...
dh
> Buy him the Lord of the Rings:The Return of the King Extended Edition
> movie DVD. It will be years before that is finished viewing and win98 will
> be but a memory. (guess what I'm doing next month?)
cheers,
uwe
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I can only speak for myself, but I keep coming back to
windowmaker. I've tried them all: KDE, Gnome, icewm, enlightenment,
what have you, but windowmaker is a beautiful little WM that doesn't
get in the way.
As for a distro, I use Gentoo Linux which is highly customizable in
near all respects that are of interest to my daily use of Linux. It's
a bit more work to set up Gentoo initially, but you'll never have to
re-install again.
windowmaker: http://www.windowmaker.org/
Gentoo Linux: http://www.gentoo.org/
If you need more info, I'd be happy to help.
All the best,
uwe
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[snip bad night]
I have an arcade cabinet running MAME, and kind of went back and forth
over using XP or 98se. The bloated size of XP you mention was exactly
my concern on a machine that I wanted lean and simple to run old
arcade ROMs. In the original install configuration on the cabinet with
a Pentium 4 2ghz and 256 meg of RAM, XP took almost 2 minutes to get
to the desktop. By going in and eliminating the unnecessary services
that start automatically (which is nearly all of them), I have the
machine booting into MAME ready to play in about 35 seconds.
I've found XP to be very robust compared to 98se. I have a feeling
that if your buddies computer had 98 on it, he would have been booting
to a BSOD 4 months before you ever laid a finger on it.
I still like the simplicity of DOS, but the thought of going back to
98 holds no appeal whatsoever. I think 98 is much more susceptible to
doing weird things like slowing down and getting unstable over time
for no apparent reason.
I think the key to helping Masters Of Disaster like your friend is
getting anti-virus software, Spybot in Immunize mode, and Firefox
(which isn't victimized by Internet Exploder exploits) on a clean
install to help prevent them from screwing it all up.
Tim