Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Agree with you on all points. NT is clearly superior to Win95/98. Now if only we could hot-swap PCMCIA cards like we used to do in Win95 . . . Jim Nelon Jim Brick wrote: > Years ago, I went from DOS to Windows NT. I've been running Windows NT 4.0 > since before it officially came out. I have had zero problems. I run > everything. I boot, perhaps once every two weeks and only because I'm > changing a configuration or installing something new. You could not give me > Win 95 or 98. I've heard nothing but bad. At work, only those people > running 95 or 98 have problems. Either it cannot see the network properly, > or it cannot print. Or they cannot get their e-mail. It's always something. > And they re-boot several times a day. While NT just runs and runs and runs. > Even DOS under NT is a joy. Yes, NT has some weirdness sometimes, but for > every one problem NT has, 95 or 98 has 100 problems. I am NOT a Microsoft > fan. But I have to use their stuff. Out digital camera chip (Photo Chip) > will be interfaced with Windows CE. So I'm joined at the hip with > Microsoft! Ugh!!! > > Jim > > At 09:50 PM 1/16/99 -0300, you wrote: > >At 07:01 AM 17/01/99 +0000, you wrote: > >>>>Ramblings for today.. > >>>>Best... > >>>> > >>>>P.S. Has anyone out there survived a conversion from Windows 95 to 98 > >>>>without a nervous breakdown? > >>> > >>> > >>>I have but it resulted in my having to hire a computer guru for five hours > >>>of work at $100 an hour!! Good luck - > >>> > >>>Tina > >>> > >> > > > > Tina, I learned my lesson upgrading from 3.11 to 95. NEVER AGAIN! > >I effectivly rendered 2 486/dx2 machines USELESS! ...and I knew what I was > >doing. > > > > One is now a doorstop in the attic, the other, my daughter uses for > >her CD-ROM's. A third machine, a DX2/100 with 128 megs of ram, I left as > >3.11 and I still us this one as the file/print/comm server on my network. > > > >the lesson? Upgrades are a hoax... leave well enough alone. If you must have > >the new operating system, reformat the drive and start over with a full > version. > > > >hard cold truth but sometimes it's better to bite the bullet upfront and > >save yourself weeks of misery. > > > > > >GGGRRRRRRR....don't get me started on Microsoft...... > > > >If I could get Photoshop for Linux I'd be there in a minute! > > > >"Sla'inte chugat!" > >Greg Locke <locke@straylight.ca> > >St. John's, Newfoundland. > >---------------------------------- > >TOUCHED BY FIRE; doctors without borders in a third world crisis. > >McClelland & Stewart Canada. ISBN#0-7710-5305-3 > >http://www.straylight.ca/touchedbyfire.htm > > - -- James R. Nelon Hong Kong, China http://home.netvigator.com/~jnelon