[rescue] Oh yeah ...

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Robert Darlington wrote:
> Wow, nobody flamed me over this?  We must all be very tired from working all
> week.

I happen to agree with you.  8-)

Peace...  Sridhar


> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Robert Darlington <rdarlington at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> For those of you that are bashing XP, you should *really* take a peek at
>> the UNIX Hater's Handbook to remind yourselves of how things really were
>> back in 1994, and for the most part, still are in 2009.  On one hand, I'm
>> not saying XP isn't bloat ware.   What I'm saying is spend the $300 and buy
>> a better computer that can run it!  Just because it's old doesn't mean it
>> has no use, but chances are it was never designed to run a "modern" OS.  At
>> least get off your old P1 and try something made in the last 5 years.  You
>> don't hear me whining that my Oak Video CGA card won't run WoW!
>>
>> http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf<http://web.mit.edu/%7Esimsong/www/ugh.pdf>
>>
>>
>> -Bob
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM, <nate at portents.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> But even then, it still insists on displaying "Shared Documents" and
>>>> "[user]'s Documents" in there.
>>> If you haven't already, download TweakUI:
>>>
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx
>>>
>>> While I can't remember off the top of my head what you can and can't do
>>> with it, I find it a necessary tool to get the XP experience closer to
>>> something I can tolerate.
>>>
>>> - Nate
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue
> _______________________________________________
> rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue