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From: David Kerber on 24 Dec 2009 08:41 In article <81de062b-e5ac-4767-81ae-4ccddbdc3747 @h9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, jmegas(a)cal.berkeley.edu says... > > On Dec 20, 4:46�pm, Richard <rich...(a)spamfree.co.uk> wrote: > > Ah that makes me feel better<G> > > Hi Richard, > > I *do* think they get a little bit better each time. Networking is > better, In what way? I haven't noticed any difference; they're both extremely easy to set up networking. D
From: Richard on 24 Dec 2009 09:00 In his posting of Thu, 24 Dec 2009, David Kerber writes >In article <81de062b-e5ac-4767-81ae-4ccddbdc3747 >@h9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, jmegas(a)cal.berkeley.edu says... >> >> On Dec 20, 4:46�pm, Richard <rich...(a)spamfree.co.uk> wrote: >> > Ah that makes me feel better<G> >> >> Hi Richard, >> >> I *do* think they get a little bit better each time. Networking is >> better, > >In what way? I haven't noticed any difference; they're both extremely >easy to set up networking. David The comment you are commenting on was not mine<G> Networking has not been an issue for me with either NT, 2000 or XP. My issue at the moment is with regard to getting the B. SATA dries to be recognised after the removal of two out of the four! System is fine on the SCSI drives but plug in the SATA drives and it will not boot and will not see the SATA drives.. Plus those same drives into another system and no problem....they are seen and I can pull the images off and move them over the network to my main system. Perhaps I may be able to find the solution over the holiday break. Cheers Richard --
From: David Kerber on 24 Dec 2009 10:15 In article <w0m5FM0kP3MLFwiP(a)eclipse.co.uk>, richard(a)spamfree.co.uk says... > > In his posting of Thu, 24 Dec 2009, David Kerber writes > >In article <81de062b-e5ac-4767-81ae-4ccddbdc3747 > >@h9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, jmegas(a)cal.berkeley.edu says... > >> > >> On Dec 20, 4:46�pm, Richard <rich...(a)spamfree.co.uk> wrote: > >> > Ah that makes me feel better<G> > >> > >> Hi Richard, > >> > >> I *do* think they get a little bit better each time. Networking is > >> better, > > > >In what way? I haven't noticed any difference; they're both extremely > >easy to set up networking. > > David > > The comment you are commenting on was not mine<G> Networking has not Oops, sorry I missed the doubled >>. :-D D
From: Rob Moir on 1 Jan 2010 08:11 "Richard" <richard(a)spamfree.co.uk> wrote in message news:LHcHpyPTL6LLFwP3(a)eclipse.co.uk... > > I was happy with NT4....never had any real problems, but when 2000 came > along I really had no wish to move to XP when that arrived and only did do > for the 64bit support when eventually that was offered. > > I hope 7 is well and truly sorted by the time drivers are no longer in XP > Pro 64 for any vital new hardware such as printers! I'd say Win 7 already is "sorted". It's not perfect but then nothing is, but I'd say its the best Windows so far. And I'm primarily a mac owner these days, so I'm hardly blinded by the Microsoft marketing machine when I say that. One advantage - I'd say that Win 7 x64 can be on a main desktop machine without any reservations, which you probably couldn't say about XP x64. The only issue is if you have any very old 16-bit software. But if you have 2 computers in the room with one dedicated to one job you may find that a waste of resources if you can reduce that to just one computer doing everything.
From: David Kerber on 4 Jan 2010 15:29
In article <D02F5449-B58E-44DF-BEFB-AEF8B2CD8742(a)microsoft.com>, robspamtrap(a)gmail.com says... > > "Richard" <richard(a)spamfree.co.uk> wrote in message > news:LHcHpyPTL6LLFwP3(a)eclipse.co.uk... > > > > > I was happy with NT4....never had any real problems, but when 2000 came > > along I really had no wish to move to XP when that arrived and only did do > > for the 64bit support when eventually that was offered. > > > > I hope 7 is well and truly sorted by the time drivers are no longer in XP > > Pro 64 for any vital new hardware such as printers! > > I'd say Win 7 already is "sorted". It's not perfect but then nothing is, but > I'd say its the best Windows so far. And I'm primarily a mac owner these > days, so I'm hardly blinded by the Microsoft marketing machine when I say > that. If you haven't used the older windows versions much, you may not realize how much useful functionality is missing from Win7, which was replaced by eye candy. Overall it's good and I'm going to stick with, but there is some significant functionality missing, which was in everything from NT on, that I had to replace with 3rd party software. > > One advantage - I'd say that Win 7 x64 can be on a main desktop machine > without any reservations, which you probably couldn't say about XP x64. The > only issue is if you have any very old 16-bit software. And XP mode can take care of that for you. > But if you have 2 > computers in the room with one dedicated to one job you may find that a > waste of resources if you can reduce that to just one computer doing > everything. |