Slashdot Mirror

I've been reading Ntfaq.com for years and IMO it's at least a good place to start when beginning to administer Windows platforms. I am not sure if the forums are what you've been looking for but you can see it for yourself.

1988 I already had a PC but again, (at least in Germany) Microsoft wasn't all that interresting I remember someone having a Windows 2.0 Floppies but my computer at that time "came" with GEOS (anyone remember those?).

NT itself, was a spinoff of OS/2 and I do remember seeing that back in 1993 with NT 3.5 but also before at a company with NT 3.1.

I also remember a futile attempt of mine to get WfW stable.

And then of course there was OS/2 3.0 and that was a completly different thing and I do remember that pretty much everybody liked it a lot more than windows (even though for some apps we ended up running the Windows Emulator which pretty much didn't work anymore once WfW 3.11 came out and Microsoft broke things on purpose.

Found this short history of NT:

Now this isn't possible under XP: I have friends with XP laptops, and they have to shut down and restart when they change from mode to mode: Wired, wireless, unwired. The corresponding proxy changes, DHCP changes, etc, also require fiddling with the network control panel.

You need smarter friends.
Have them look at netsh NT faq on netsh , you can change the networksettings all you want and not reboot.

Kind of like Microsoft Windows 2000.. Built on NT Technology (New Technology, Technology)!..

Before people start throwing out other interpretations of the NT acronym, here are a couple of links.

A definition from ntfaq.com

A funnier set of possibilities

http://www.ntfaq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID= 23256.

ifconfig eth0 hwaddr ether $MAC_ADDRESS

This might also help of you are stuck with a Windows system

Before Windows 2000 came out I used NT 4.0 (Don't mod me down, I now use Linux.). There was a question/answer on ntfaq that asked how to install NT 4.0 without IE. Sure enough there was an easy solution. All you had to do was open up I believe one of the text or ini files in the i386 directory on the cd and change one of the lines where it specified IE to install all you had to do was comment it out. This was while ago so I can't remember exactly. But I did try it once and low and behold it installed with no browser what so ever. Of course you can not save directly to a cd so I had run the Windows Based Installer and edited the file after it copied everything over. You could probably make your own cd with the small change too now. Anyway I looked over on ntfaq and they don't seem to have anything older than the year 2000.

Why install some crap? You could visit the NT FAQ and get a registry hack for this one. The day I can run AutoCAD on Linux and there's consistency across the entire application range is the day windoze disappears from 500 desktops in our company....

visit nt FAQ for a method of doing it via scripting (should make life a little easier).