Win XP and repartitioning

[Brian Densmore]

Ok, so many people think ME is a piece of ****. Well of course it is.
Secondly every report I read says the same thing about XP. I have a copy
of 3.11,95,98,NT4 and 1.01. I have never run 98, I did install it once.
I have a laptop that dual boots to 95 (that what came on it, with all
the patches for ThinkPads), so that I can do work stuff on when needed
(it also does my business cards for the time being). BTW the only
Windoze version that never crashed on my was 1.01, it ran in real mode.
It really doesn't matter which version of Winblows you use, they all
bite. Never seen XP, so I can't speak from experience. And don't care.

<rant>
<soapbox>
A few errors I note in your rant.

> <misty-eyed rant delivered by wistful old fogey>
> I am an anachronism.  I still remember the days before 
> Microsoft tried 
> to take over the world when EVERYONE shared their best ideas.  After 
> all, where do you think DOS came from???  A band of scruffy losers 
> working out of someone's garage sure didn't.
>  They just swiped the best 
> parts of two other popular OS'es and sold it to IBM who was 
M$ paid $10k for DOS, the last piece of software they bought (marginal,
they knew it was worth a whole lot more), everything else they stole
(almost).

> so wrapped 
> up in internal politics that they couldn't tell the 
> difference between 
> microchips and poptato chips, but know they wanted to get a 
> small piece 
> of the micro-computer business.  (They succeeded - they now 
> have a very 
> small piece of the PC market!)
Sorry these guys know a great deal about microchips and all other kinds
of chips. this is almost like saying that Lucent(AKA Bell Labs, AKA
AT&T, AKA Ma Bell) doesn't know jack about transistors.
By the way the CPU microchip wasn't created by the four guys who formed
Intel, but by the guy who got a patent on it, and they worked for him in
his garage (yes literally). They quit, stole his patented idea, and
formed Intel. 

 
> Perhaps open source software is not as flashy.  It surely 
> doesn't have 
> the PR budget that 'doze enjoys, but it is less buggy because 
> the person 
> who discovers the bug can actually FIX it.  With the 'doze 
> software, the 
> only thing you can do is exploit the bug.  Used to be, if you 
> publicized 
> the bug, you would get a vaguely worded nasty letter from the 
> manufacture politely telling you to cease and desist and they would 
> publicly deny the bug as long as they could.  Then they would 
> 'claim' to 
> work on a fix, but of course there would be no notice when 
> the bug-fix 
> was released.  It didn't really matter though, because by 
> that time, the 
> next over-hyped release would hit the shelves with a hand full of 
> semi-new features and a basket-full of brand new bugs for 
> people to run 
> out and pay too much for. . .
> </misty-eyed rant delivered by wistful old fogey>
Sorry Open Source software has plenty of bugs too. GIMP crashed on me 5
times Sunday. It the kernel that is more stable (plus a lot of other
good things). Yes I could fix GIMP if I had a month to figure it out.

 
I love Linux don't get me wrong, but I'm also not delusional enough yet
to think it is the panacea of Oses.
</rant>
</soapbox>

So much for not starting an OS war. ;)>
Oh,well. This is why I refrain from politics and religion. But Linux is
a religion to me and I happen to be a realistic zealot, with a little
pessimism (or is it pragmatism) mixed in. 

Peace Brethren,
Brian