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I have heard about XP that it A) only takes about 90 seconds to boot up B) Does not use any DOS what so ever C) Is un crashable
Personally, I will not get XP, unless I buy a new computer, because a "friend" of mine had a less than legal copy of XP pro on a CDR before it came out, and he installed it on his laptop, and it screwed up some NT network connections on his laptop (we all have laptops with a wireless network at my company), and besides, I pretty much only liked it for its asthetics. On the desktop that I am writing this post on, I upgraded from 98 to ME about a year ago, and I haven't restarted since Monday, and it is still so stable that I can still run multiple windows!
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"...and it is still so stable that I can still run multiple windows!"
Erm... That's not supposed to be an amazing wonder, or anything. It's supposed to do that. That's the entire point of the Windows operating system.
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"I have heard about XP that it A) only takes about 90 seconds to boot up"
A slight exageration that occurs with all new OS releases. What happens is that most people use them on a clean system, so they are obviously going to be faster. If you had no life, you could spend a weekend backing up everything on your hard-drive, format it completely, and then install a clean version of Windows 98, and you'd also notice a speed increase. You'd also have wasted your precious youth.
"B) Does not use any DOS what so ever"
Which despite what some people say, is a Good Thing. Come on, when did you last use DOS, eh? And more to the point, WHY did you use DOS? And I'm not talking about the DOS emulation windows you can get up in Windows, I mean proper, basic DOS? Apart from general computer failures, I doubt many people have touched it for years.
"C) Is un crashable"
Nothing is uncrashable. NT systems are more reliable though. XP has some disadvantages, in that it's also shouldered some Win 9x stuff, whereas Win 2000 didn't. It's makes it more flexible and able to run more stuff, but a bit less stable. Possibly.
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Anyone else here think Microsoft would do well to make another command-line operating system? Like a really upgraded version of DOS with all the utilities and multi-tasking and stuff you get with Unix.
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There's an article about it on New Scientist.
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The Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
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I'm also surprised that it took so long for the announcement, but that's mainly because of the fact that the problem was discovered five weeks ago...
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Charles Capps
We appreciate your concern. It is noted and stupid.
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I read up on that thing yesterday on Bugtraq... Nasty, nasty...
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Cartman
just made by the Presbyterian Church
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Simply a matter of disabling the UPSP service... if it ain't runnin', no harm can be done.
Buffer overflows... nasty insects.
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Anyone notice that Media Player comes preloaded with songs from They Might Be Giants?
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No, they come with XP. This is on a brand new machine I just got and only just started up. Nothing of mine is on there.
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TMBG's entire catalog is available in that format through EMusic, which is presumably how such a deal was made.
However, on the copies of XP I have seen, the single song included is "Like Humans Do," a track from David Byrne's newest album.
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Well, this Christmas I just got my new Sony Vaio with XP Home in it...and it takes a bit getting use to since I had Win 98 SE. But it's not that bad... I just had to make it feel like home so I put in my USS Prometheus background and other Trek items. Anyway, how do you fix the security breach again? I downloaded the patch from Microsoft already but I still don't want to risk it.
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