I was working on my PC (one that I no longer have) a few years ago and went into the BIOS setup for something. Then I turned the tower case on its side, removed the PCI-based modem, and turned it back up. I reached for the power switch and I saw the BIOS setup was still on the screen. I hadn't exited or even shut it off. Surprisingly, there were no sparks and the modem still worked later.
I think that there should be more open source/free software on Windows systems: Users will find that the free software is good enough for what they need, and is smaller and faster. When they get used to having good free software, most common-sense folks would, I think, want a better operating system. One that's better technically and uses resources better. Requiring 64MB (WinXP requirements I think) just to get the system running is kinda bad, even if memory is inexpensive right now.
There's already a GIMP for Windows (not sure if it's still maintained), which I got a newbie at work to use one time, and that person liked it. StarOffice is too big (for me, anyways), but there is other decent software that could do the basics, though it might not be integrated.
Even if users don't ever switch to another OS, they'd still be using software that is comparable (and usually smaller, maybe faster than) to closed-source commercial equivalents.
I interpret "personal" as the vanity pages, where someone just slaps together a page about themselves and no content useful to someone else. Even though the DSL page you reference is hosted with a personal account wouldn't necessarily make it a personal page.
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I was working on my PC (one that I no longer have) a few years ago and went into the BIOS setup for something. Then I turned the tower case on its side, removed the PCI-based modem, and turned it back up. I reached for the power switch and I saw the BIOS setup was still on the screen. I hadn't exited or even shut it off. Surprisingly, there were no sparks and the modem still worked later.
It's been out for like a week, available to paying readers.
"This is version 0.9 of the 2002 timeline"
And I hope the editors here don't decide to post another story when 1.0 comes out.
I think that there should be more open source/free software on Windows systems: Users will find that the free software is good enough for what they need, and is smaller and faster. When they get used to having good free software, most common-sense folks would, I think, want a better operating system. One that's better technically and uses resources better. Requiring 64MB (WinXP requirements I think) just to get the system running is kinda bad, even if memory is inexpensive right now.
There's already a GIMP for Windows (not sure if it's still maintained), which I got a newbie at work to use one time, and that person liked it. StarOffice is too big (for me, anyways), but there is other decent software that could do the basics, though it might not be integrated.
Even if users don't ever switch to another OS, they'd still be using software that is comparable (and usually smaller, maybe faster than) to closed-source commercial equivalents.
I interpret "personal" as the vanity pages, where someone just slaps together a page about themselves and no content useful to someone else. Even though the DSL page you reference is hosted with a personal account wouldn't necessarily make it a personal page.
I think "separate /boot partitions" was meant as being separate from the root partition, something inside the 1024 cyl limit.