ACtheTROLL, are you sitting down?

[rojash]

You'd better be when you read this:

Ive been using my Win7 machine solidly for 6 days, including writing software, and writing installation packages. It hasn't crashed once, and I still like it!

It does still seem to have the Vista ntework discovery problem though :-)

[ChuckFickens]

if I now admit that I quite like server 2008 it really will put the poor bloke into shock :)

[Buenchico]

I'll stick with Windows ME, thank you. (Unless someone's got a 98SE disk they can lend me. It was the only half-decent OS Microsoft have ever produced).

No version of Windows will ever be much good, simply because it's registry-based. Until Microsoft starts again, and abandons the concept of the registry, any updates to Windows will be simply like adding minor modifications to a car which retains square wheels.

Chris

[terambulan]

Wots a 98SE?

[rojash]

Well, Chris, of course the other name for Vista is Windows ADD, in line with the Microsoft policy of naming their versions after similar diseases and syndromes.

[rojash]

Is that a joke terambulan, or do you really not know of Windows 98 Second Edition (the one that supports USB).

[terambulan]

Chris...googled free download:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhance ments/Unofficial-Windows-SE-Service-Pack.shtml

[Ethel]

Chris - Why stick with Windows?

There are alternatives

[weeal]

Win 98

does a runner

[ACtheTROLL]

aaaaaaaaagggghhhhhhh!
My chest ...
my god
my word
my my

I've been using it myself ... round the block a few times - but not as consistently as you sound to be doing.
Is this some sort of mid life crisis?
did bill appear to you in a vision ... have you discovered you're allergic to penguins or are you just playing with my head?? ;-o

(did I ever confess I took vista off of my main machine?
I just couldn't forget XP But I'll cetainly be putting 7 on when the time comes.)

Win98se has a special place in my toolkit
the bootdisk is a work of art ... and the os has legs unlike ME (shame about the face)

chuck
server 8 is somehow too slick ...
2003 still has some rough edges ... and It's sort of a linux type of snobbery - it's a techie OS ... and shouldn't be too easy too use if you get my drift....
But yep - it's good ... just about anyone can use it - maybe not hardcore ... but it does the job

oh btw rojash
I take it you mean the not seeing non vista machines?
http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.asp x?********=4F01A31D-EE46-481E-BA11-37F485FA34E A&displaylang=en

ethel - 's funny ... no matter how fiercely people support linux and crit MS ... when you really push them their "main" machine always runs one or other flavour of windows.

linux is like pot - ok for recreation ... but you need a digestive to feel content.

and finally - wierd day
I've been round at a friends today setting up his new lappy - spent all morning on phone to talk talk getting the broadband sorted ... hen connected the new wireless router ... and fired up the lappy .... then there was a bump behind me ....
looked round ... an

[Ethel]

and what?

[terambulan]

Have W98 CD & floppy but not SE.....any good?

[ACtheTROLL]

where did that go?

looked round - cat had dropped (literally) off the sideboard ....dead!

spoilt the rest of the afternoon!

[rojash]

AC, sorry about the cat - I've got 16 here (plus a dog that thinks it's a cat).

I still love the Penguin, but Bill pays the bills (so to speak). I've got XP (main machine), Ubuntu (for fun, but prefer pot), dual-boot Vista and Win7 for testing.

Win7 can see my XP machine and allow me access, but it takes so long to navigate a path, that quite often the window stops responding. Works fine in the other direction...

Also, I think it may be too late for a mid life crisis...

[beso]

Well if you didn't mind the fairly regular lockups and the fact you often couldn't shutdown despite apply every patch I guess Win98se was tolerable.

Note that 98 is officially dead and has been unsupported for several months and their may be security vulnerabilities.

I don't really have much to complain about with XP.

[ACtheTROLL]

roj
brave having it dual boot
I'm using it in a virtual machine - and as I say no problems !
7 to xp and my NAS box just works ... ... I did have problems with going the other way ... but having loaded the fix in xp discovery is working (as well as it ever does).
the network centre doesn't like being told to let machines in though
(I've even loaded a kaspersky beta version for 7 ... and that works as well).

I've lifted all the new sexy fonts - the games are a bit naff

as for the cat ... very embarrassing.
I'd been left to work in peace
she was a tiny thing ... she'd done the full inspection, walked over the keyboard ... then gone to sit on the sideboard to supervise
(if you have cats - have you read any of deric longden's stuff? (he's not a friend ... but I know him to talk to)http://www.dericlongden.com/ - very cattish)
I heard the bump ... thought she'd gone for something to eat or some company (I prefer dogs) ... so it was some time after when I turned round for a CD that I saw .... stiff as a board!!!

beso - I don't mind a bit .... for me 98 was (is) about as good as it gets ... I run it in a virtual machine to play all my favourite card games and some other stuff I wrote myself.

buenchico
Send me a mail ac_troll@<remove>yahoo.co.uk
I have a couple of old licensed SE CDs - you can have one
I'll bung an iso on rapidshare

[ACtheTROLL]

roj
just noticed that the MS link is "censored" - if you want the XP network discovery fix .... google "lltd responder"

[rojash]

Ac,
I downloaded the lltd responder, but apparently I am already running a later version!

I also loaded the Kaspersky beta, but uninstalled it after it spontaneously decided that I was only allowed to connect to the Net at certain times of the day - those times being any when outside of the normal space-time continuum. It wouldn't even allow itself access to get updates. I took a chance on installing Eset Smart Security for Vista, for which I happened to have a spare licence, and it seems to work perfectly (apart from my having to manually disable Windows Firewall and Defender).

I was pleased to see buenchico extolling the virtues of 98SE over ME - I'm sure that I recall a conversation in which he was rooting for ME, when I was all fro 98SE.

As for books about cats - I think I have enough weirdness to cope with already - one of ours was brought up by ducks, and sits in front of his bowl and quacks incessantly and very loudly whenever he's hungry...

[ACtheTROLL]

and they call it computer science!

kasp just installed and worked for me
(cancel the whole registration option - not trial)
perhaps it's me using the virtual hardware that did it?



lol ... it just struck me ... ME ME ME it's all about ME