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As one who worked as an NT Admin and still work on them. I think I can safely say there are some unterlying problems that M$ needs to address but never will and it is not a matter of learning the bloat ware but just dealing with it On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, marc wrote: > if you have that many blue screens you should start lerning more about > windows. but seriously you might want to check for hardware compatability > with winnt. i had a modem that would make winnt crash after it used the > modem. different modem no more problem. also some motherboards are not > winnt friendly. > > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-admin@lists.nothinbut.net > [mailto:plug-admin@lists.nothinbut.net]On Behalf Of Andrew Ban > Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 1:55 PM > To: 'plug@lists.nothinbut.net' > Subject: RE: [Plug] Ya know, it's a shame.. > > > > DUCK everyone "it" is gonna start to fly!! > > I have windows 98 running on a box with 256MB of memory (don't ask why it > just happend) but to make a long story short when I boot 98 it uses 70% to > 80% on boot up alone - if I open outlook, free agent and netscape it runs > out of resources - problem I think so!! > > my 00ドル.02 > > Drew > > On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Vettese, Nick A wrote: > > > I know you are all going to hate me but I have to say this: > > > > What are you doing that you can't keep Windows running. Windows isn't > that > > bad. I am running NT4, 95, 98, and 4 Linux boxes, and the only time I > have > > to reboot Windows is when I load configure or something. You make Windows > > seem like it has no legs to walk on. I love Linux, and I am doing a hell > of > > a lot of studying to learn more, but if Windows is so bad why does 3/4ths > of > > the world use it. There are many options today, so it can't be the reason > > it is the only one out there. You have Linux, Unix (all versions), BeOs, > > 95, 98, NT, Mac, OS/2, and others. There are many office programs, > business > > program, and anything else that might be needed that runs on other OSs. > If > > all of you are having that many problems then you better leave computers > to > > the more capable. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ray beckler [mailto:rbeckler@erols.com] > > Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 1:37 PM > > To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net > > Subject: Re: [Plug] Ya know, it's a shame.. > > > > > > Vale_Kenny@vanguard.com wrote: > > > > > I use my Linux system about 20-25 hours a week, and I use my NT system > > about 3-4 > > > hours a week. Of that time less than 1% of the time on the Linux box is > > spent > > > in reboots, and 10% in reboots of the NT box. Because NT is such a > > complete > > > *HOG*, I have to run it on a Pentium II system with a sh1tload of RAM > and > > disk > > > space. My Linux system is running on a Pentium 90 system, with half the > > RAM, > > > and slower drives. I mean, yeah, it still runs as fast as the NT > system, > > but I > > > can only imagine it on the Pentium II. But I have to keep the damn NT, > to > > use > > > it for testing. Pisses me off. > > > > > > Just a small rant.. > > > > I run win95, linux and SCO opensever on a pentium 166. NEVER have to > reboot > > Linux > > or SCO but have daily visits from the blue/black screen of death on win. > > Same > > thing, I have to keep sindows just for certain applications. Yep, pisses > me > > off > > too. Can't be happy all the time. > > > > ray > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net > > http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net > > http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net > http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net > http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug