Why I love XP

[danleff]

Yep, I e-mailed IBM. We will see what response I get. I told them that I needed the recovery and OS CD's. I bet I know the response! Since the recovery is resident on a hidden partition on the HD, it does me no good. No floppy on this system either!

Talk about a bad day! Then I read that if you buy this system via IBM, you get a "free" port replicator....

I reformatted, loaded WIN ME and am loading the ME drivers and stuff now. So far, so good.

Libranet Debian, here I come!

 

[danleff]

Hi all;

I always believe in giving credit where it is due.

IBM came through with the recovery CD's. All it took was a call to the help center.

Libranet is installed and I'm off..........

 

[fury]

"system has stopped to prevent possible damage to the computer."

what is that shit anyway? let me decide whether to blow up my computer, damnit.

Hear, hear!

I'll DEFINITELY drink to that

 

[danleff]

Yahooow!


Dual boot WIN XP and Debian (Libranet) Linux (XFS) on an IBM Thinkpad!!! Let's see if I can mess up XP, or maybe even use it!! Hmm.. I still like Libranet though. "Let the games begin."

"I love it when a plan comes together!"

 

[PostCode]

Sweet dan. Glad to hear that.

 

[a13antichrist]

Regardless of the system that it's on, and how stable or quick it may be, XP w/Office XP will always be slower than 2K w/Office 2K so I see no reason to use XP.

Besides which, Matrox gives me all the eye-candy I need..

 

[Tanis Half-Halo]

Eye candy isn't goin to do a person any good when the OS shut's down on you for no reason.

Very true.

Also, the XP Desktop can't even hold a candle to the OS X desktop:

It's not the best desktop choice, but it's all I could find that was a good size and that showed off some of it's capabilities.