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Ummm, Number 327, you can go back to your cell now.

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Dave Kerr, #327

Please explain why you are having on problems with GPL.

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mark
"A lot of people think racing is about going fast. But it's not. It's about going just slow enough to stay on the track."

F1RS - http://www.nmia.com/~chaser/car/results.htm
Remove us here and there to mail me.

    I run Win98 final release and have had no probs with GPL or any progs. In
    fact, everything in Windows seems to run somewhat faster.

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    Regards, Ed Medlin

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    >I run GPL on Win98 RC0, but I have to delete some files and calibrate the
    >wheel every time I start it.
    >
    >-Jan Otto

    >    Mike, This post is not off topic. Since I went over to 98 I can't run
    >CPR or GPL.
    >
    >    :-( :-( :-( :-(
    >
    >    --
    >
    >    mark
    >    "A lot of people think racing is about going fast. But it's not. It's
    >about going just slow enough to stay on the track."
    >
    >
    >
    >

   John

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Really?  Im using Win98 and I love it compared to clunky ole 95.  On the
whole, there
is no slowdown in performance for me. (PII-266, 64MB edo)  I am using fat32
on my drives
which, while making scandisk disk defraggers a little slower, it also saves
me hundreds of MB.
OSR2, which I also had, would regularly bluescreen with a FAT error due to
the fact that its
emulation for the support of fat32 drives is far from perfect.
Windows explorer takes no more time than it did in 95.

...

Its time we face up to the fact that 16-bit DOS games will be phased out for
the release of
the 64-bit OS sometime shortly after the year 2000.  WinNT has already
forgone the compatibility with
16-bit programs in the name of stability.  If you dont like it, sorry, but
thats whats coming in the industry.

before.

I find that my box is more stable than it was under OSR2.  Whereas I used to
have a daily reboot, (i use my
computer A LOT, and leave it running all the time) I now only find myself
with a hard crash about once per week.  Explorer errors, which were a
seemingly hourly occurance under OSR2 (well, OK, daily) now only occur on
average 2-3 times per week.

Im not putting in the big pitch for MS here.  I does crash occasionally, as
i stated, lacking the stability of NT or linux, but all in all its a BIG
STEP UP from windows 95

Rob

says...

I agree wholeheartedly, but unfortunately I worked in gov't run
institutions for the last 5 years (finally got so disgusted I quit in
November of last year), and the IS people were on the whole good, but
there were a few who were widely feared and despised by the workers. They  
would show up at your station and ridicule and belittle the user who
called in with a problem, no matter how big/small/innocent/stupid the
problem really was.

I had one woman (who later admitted she was suffering from burnout and
quit) who came to replace my monitor which had an awful high-pitched
whine.  After replacing it, she actually said, "Now that your monitor
stopped whining, maybe you will too.".  Friendly person - she wasn't
joking either.  She quit the next month.

As I said, there was one individual in the support area who was an
absolute godsend.  He was brilliant as well as personable and patient
with the users.  Unfortunately, his manager ended up transferring him as
he could 'never get any work done, as he was always too busy helping the
users'.  Umm, that was his job.  Shows you why I ended up getting out of
there and saying good-bye to that fat gov't pension.

Glad to hear you have the patience to deal with people.  It just sounded
to me like the original poster was very much like this woman who
obviously needed a career change.

Cheers!

Marc

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|Well if you work 'desktop support' then with your attitude I'm certainly
|***y glad I'm not one of your customers!
|
|It would be nioce, however, to be one of your bosses because i'd
|definitely give you a kick up the arse for your 'customer relations'.

Well, he isn't working with "one of his customer's" here, probably venting
some of the pent-up frustration that naturally comes with the job.

|>
|> < snip bunch of ***>
|>
|> Your thermol sensor says your running hot because of so many reboots?
|> What a bunch of crap.
|>
|> I work desktop support for a large healthcare company and I see this
|> kind of crying all the time,
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*SNIP*

Don't worry about Windows 9x compaired to anything like WinNT. MS has
(very quietly, and only to developers) already announced that there will be
NO more Windows 9x type products. They are moving to a WinNT product
for the consumer. Three levels, WinNT Enterprise (For BIG companies, PanAm,
Dell, etc etc) WinNT Server (For small to mid sized companies) and finaly
WinNT Workstation (for the home user). Yes, all names we are familiar with.

                        Brett (TEN ID - Elrioch)

"Close only counts in horse shoes and hand gernades."

"Only one can win. 40 some odd guys are going to go
home losers."

whats the point whit this DVD stuff anyway !? in win98 it works better then
EVER !

ok, u might find minor or not so minor problems, but everything will be
smooth as the product hits the stores, all the companys making native
drivers for w98, or making repaires for they product to run miles better
under a faster more stable opsystem !

Tilus

Tilus

how the hell can u cry about an unfinished ( VERY early beta ) version of an
OP system...!?

Patience?  Yeah...i s'pose so.  That and a well-bitten tongue!! :o)

You *really* do have a problem relating to other people, don't you?

HAAAA!!
Now that IS "stability"!!