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Lycoris, mayhap?

My only experiences with either are with laptops, unfortunately, but based on those I'd say IBM in an instant. But then, I reflexively say IBM whenever someone asks this sort of question

Speak for yourself Interesting book. First edition has some faint UKisms and some IBMisms, and the revised edition looks like it was further IBMified (or at least Americanized) in places. The '79 edition was one giant anachronism even when it was published.

Absolutely brilliant move by Lycos. Spammers are about the only people who won't be hurt by this plan.

Yeah, no kidding. Who, uh, would ever do anything as, er, silly, as that....

Well, if you consider the standard of proof used by most conspiracy theorists....

Tradition. AFAIK it's more-or-less been the default behavior for window managers since the development of paged virtual desktops. It's simpler than switcher widgets, especially if you're trying to move windows between desktops. It also approximates the massive panning virtual desktops that were common in the old days. Aside: Sketchpad, the first modern GUI (and arguably the first GUI, period) presented the user with a panning and zooming workspace that was approximately 1/3 square mile. On a machine with an ~800KIPS processor and ~288KiB of memory. Why we can't do that now is beyond me.

That's a feature. Control Panels->Desktop->Window Behavior->Advanced->Active Desktop Borders.

Quality Assurance!

AT&T. It made sense in 1976. Edit: Actually, be glad that you have it; it may be the only accurate calendar on your machine. Check the conversion to the Gregorian calendar in Sept. 1752 (cal 9 1752). The GNOME calendar gets it wrong and the KDE calendar freaks out for any date before 1753.

I thought it was McCoy who was uncomfortable with transporters (Oh God, I just lost all respect for myself.)

Neither was I: I googled until I found an message from MDK explaining their product life cycle and then guessed Yeah. But on the bright side, if he's on dial-up it would be an ordeal to download all the updates too, so in the end it doesn't really matter

Hmm. It looks like the partitions are already gone. Does it shows anything when you print the partition table (p)? Just by creating them (n).

IINM Mandrake follows a 12/18/24 month support schedule. The desktop components are supported for 12 months and the base system for 18 months. Some products are supported for 24 months or more. Given the date, MDK 9.1 is probably now completely unsupported. What means in practical terms I don't know. It's possible that the system can still be updated -- it's not like rpm stops working after 18 months -- but they probably won't be putting any effort into testing new packages on the older releases. Most likely over time incompatibilities will accumulate and eventually you'll be stuck mainta

You're on the right track then. Drop into fdisk and delete (d) every partition. Win98 should (emphasis on 'should') be able to take care of the rest, but if not you can create some new partitions (n), change their type (t) to FAT32 (type 'b', I believe) or whatever, and maybe set the DOS compat flag ( c ) or mark the first one bootable (a). Then write and exit (w) and reboot and you should be set. The Win98 installer should handle formatting. [Edit: Heh. These boards change ( c ) into © if you leave out the spaces.] [Edit: Just occured to me, if you do create the FAT32 partitions in Linu

What sort of configuration do you want? Pure Win98, dual boot, etc?

Hah! No idea what that was, but I wish they hadn't stopped there. The Audio catalog view has been blowing up Nautilus since I upgraded to 2.8.

Not a correction, just a preference. It doesn't really matter how you upgrade the system. Lots of people reinstall and don't have any trouble. I try to avoid reinstalling whenever possible and don't have any trouble. Doesn't make any difference in the end. Should say that the only systems I use are designed for incremental upgrading (*BSD, Gentoo, Debian) and the normal maintenances routine keep you up-to-date with the latest release. Doesn't make much sense to reinstall for each new release of Gentoo when # emerge sync && emerge -Du world will have the same effect. Hard to thin

Heh. I don't think I've ever intentionally wiped a system that was recoverable unless I was planning to replace it.

He posted today over at G4. Looks like his most recent post was about 40 minutes ago in this thread.

As of 2.6.9 you can still only overwrite files. I suppose I should have said "full write support", but the support that's in isn't worth mentioning.

One thing: user-friendliness has more to do with the user than the system. To a degree of approximation, a system is user-friendly if you already can use well, or if it's similar to a system that you can already use well. When people say an operating system is user-friendly, they almost always mean it's similar to whatever operating systems they use. In most cases, that's Windows. To people who are accustomed to Linux (and to a slightly lesser extent, other Unix-like systems), Linux is user-friendly. Indeed, to many of those people, Windows is a user-unfriendly system. Sound like Windows

I would be laughing if I could understand it. Does Ballmer really think companies are going to sue the governments of those countries? Who wants to poor schmuck who tries to win an IP lawsuit against the government of China?

Eh? I'm almost certain the TSS Linux board was there before 2003. I was the first poster when it opened and I practically lived on it until it closed. It was definitely more than a year. (Unfortunately I can't find a copy of it in the Wayback Machine, so I'm not certain when it did open.) Are you sure we didn't run you off? As I recall we went through a lot of newbies at times. That's essentially correct. Except for the snob part. There are lots of Linux snobs, but they aren't representative of the userbase. What is perceived as snobbishness is often a simple lack of interest in help

I'd like to, but I only have a GeForce 256 so my framerates in Word suck