Then you must not work for Florida Power. I can't believe that the NRC lets them keep their plant. Go to the St. Petersburg Times and search for "florida power crystal river" to see what I'm talking about.
They bringing in record profits while complaining that they can't afford to pay some outstanding fines. They are simultaneously lobbying (constantly) the Public Service Commission to increase the rates for residential customers. And they have the sporadic power flickers on perfectly clear days -- enough to reset the computer, but not enough to turn off the television.
If there are two places to avoid in FL though, they'd be Miami (LA's long lost twin) and Orlando. Be prepared to have high electric bills, due to using AC a lot.
I second Orlando as a place to avoid. It is the worst suburban hell I have ever seen -- mile after mile of gated developments combined with poor schools and low pay. In addition, the wind blows from the south, so it has come about 300 miles overland and is therefore really hot.
Add to the mix the never-ending line of clueless people in rental cars, and you have a disaster.
If you want to live in Florida, try the Tampa Bay area (specifically Pinellas County). It's crowded and relatively non-cultural, but the cost of living is low and the pay is good. In addition, we have lots of tech companies (Jabil Circuit in St. Pete, Paradyne and Digital Lightwave in Largo, IMRglobal and Tech Data in Clearwater, ABR in Palm Harbor, and Reflectone in Tampa) as well as a decent public school system, a top-ranked community college (SPJC) and a well-respected university (USF).
And you can't forget the beach. 35 miles up the Pinellas County coastline, and one of the top-ranked (by Conde Nast) beaches in the world on Caladesi Island.
Also, Florida has a 6% sales tax (with a 1% local option by county) and no income tax. And I pay $1.21/gallon for premium gasoline.
How archaic! I live in Canada, and the last time I saw someone pay by cheque at a supermarket was probably 10 years ago.
Well, most supermarkets, drugstores, and other chains here (at least the ones in Florida) take debit cards on the Honor and/or Plus networks. Also, most people are getting check cards that replace their debit cards -- they have a Visa or MasterCard logo, and work wherever they are taken, but deduct directly from the checking account they are tied to. I hate checkwriters too; they are usually technophobes or people who can't be bothered to use their debit card.
And even though Wal-Mart, Eckerd (a drugstore), and many other chains can print everything but the signature on the check, most people still write them out the long way.
Even fast food places take Interac now.
I don't think most fast food places here take Visa or MC, and they certainly don't take debit; sooner or later they definitely take check cards.
But literally the only time I ever use cash now is at bars and restaurants.
I usually use my check card at restaurants, as the good ones usually take Visa. I think cash is somewhat archaic as well.
Off-topic ethnocentrism: I noticed that you used both the correct (check) and incorrect (cheque) spelling of a certain negotiable instrument...creeping Americanism getting to you?
It will soon be required on every driver's license.
Isn't requiring an SSN as a form of identification illegal? (The answer is yes.)
My state does not put the SSN on driver licenses, nor does it ask for it on the DDL forms. (Technically, it's the DHSMV: DDL -- we love our acronyms.) If you are filling out a form that asks for your SSN (like at the dentist's office or the video store), refuse it and ask to be assigned an alternate ID number. The only people who should need it are the IRS and the SSA.
Even if you are in one of the many (15?) states that use the SSN as the driver license number, you can request that they not use it. They will assign you an alternate number unrelated to your SSN.
The security of your SSN is solely your responsibility.
They aren't in the same class: Avalons are luxury sedans; Vipers are racing coupes. If you want to compare a Viper to an import, compare it to the Nissan Z or Skyline, and keep in mind that the Viper is about $70,000 (about 2x as much as a Z).
And remember that the "innovative" Dodge Stealth is made by Mitsubishi, as were the K cars, the Eagles, and the Laser/Daytona.
Actually, a number of "American" cars are made by Japanese companies, including all of the formerly Geos-now-Chevys (Toyota and Suzuki), the Ford/Mazda pickups, the GMC/Chevy/Isuzu compact pickups, etc.
Just because big cereal company A doesn't give a shit doesn't mean that it's legal, its all on them to sue the other companies.
Actually, it's probably because the big company makes the off-brand cereals. Most store brands are made by large companies and relabeled. The large companies are able to do this and still charge more for their own brands because of the perceived inferiority of the store brands.
Work in retail for a while, and you'll learn this.
I live in West Central Florida (Bay area)...we have the University of South Florida, though. Don't ask me why -- I'm so tired of people thinking that it's in Miami, or that it is Florida Southern College. So now we could have some really lame parties for which we would all have to drive a really long way.
Yeah. It's cola with a smooth, chemical taste. Oh boy. Pepsi forever.
Well, for pure, unadulterated chemical enjoyment, you need to get yourself some Tab...about $2.49/6 from your local Publix or Winn-Dixie (or Albertson's, if that's your thing). It is simultaneously so disgusting yet compelling that I must drink it.
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The company also says it is confident that it has an outstanding product lineup for the second half of 1999, including a new series of chipsets designed to capitalize on the power of the new Intel Pentium III line of products.
Don't you mean "the Company"? Am I correct in guessing that this AC works for Intel?
You sound like a marketroid even when you appear to be trying not to. ugh...Salescritters.
Here's what I usually do: Make an HTML file with a single link pointing at the file. Right-click on it, and pick Save As... That's how I save "unsaveable" QuickTime movies.
Now send an email to jjb@powersite.net and complain that alexgurry spamed his click-through page
I did exactly that. Transcript follows:
From: niles@powersite.net This account has been terminated without pay and any traffic resulting from this SPAM has been blocked on our servers.
Niles
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----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Mike Turk" >>To: >>Subject: Abuse of Click-Throughs (Fw: Dear Member of slashdot.org (miketurk@tampabay.rr.com)) >>Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 10:08:03 -0400 >>X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >>X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE v5.00.2314.1300 >>A person, apparently by the name of Alex Gurry, sent an unsolicited e-mail >>with a forged return address to approximately 3000 readers of Slashdot >>(www.slashdot.org). The reason I'm involving you is this: The URL below >>(http://join.at/freepc) points to http://chat.ru/~sexybabies/hot.htm, which >>has a banner from your site on it, and your site has a commendable policy on >>spam. Please take whatever action you feel is appropriate. >>Mike >>-- >>Honk if you love peace and quiet.
So it appears that any click-throughs onto the trafficcase banner are now irrelevant. Yippee!
I knew that mx.icp.rssi.ru is an open relay...however, the headers say this message originated at ras5.icp.rssi.ru, then went to mx.intra.ru, and then to mx.icp.rssi.ru. What I'm trying to say, I guess, is that it started within a dialup account inside icp.rssi.ru before it got to mx.icp.rssi.ru. This person may actually be a member of this ISP, and given the timestamp on the headers, he is most likely in the correct time zone (GMT +4) for Moscow.
OK then...the headers say it came from ras5.icp.rssi.ru. According to www.rssi.ru, that is the remote access service of the Institute of Chemistry and Physics in Moscow. RSSI is the Russian Space Science Internet, an non-profit ISP for the scientific community in Russia.
I looked for an account administrator to send this to, and I found marina@rssi.edu.
Please do not slam this woman's mailbox. Send a well-constructed, concerned letter. The spam is not her fault, but it may be her responsibility to deal with it.
If you use the MIT license, or GPL, or Artistic License, or BSD license, or any of the other example licenses listed in OSD clause 10, then your software is Open Source and you may use the Open Source mark without asking.
I would assume that they will apply similar clauses on the "OSI Certified" mark.
Program cannot be modified and redistributed w/o source by non-vendor party
Wouldn't this requirement exclude the BSD license? If so, would it not further splinter the GPL and BSD camps? Is this really what we want?
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what type of machine does Rob run for slashdot? With the traffic it gets, I'm just curious.
According to http://slashdot.org/articles/99/ 03/08/170243.shtml, the server is a VA Research Dual PII/450 with 512 MB RAM. IIRC, the most common cause of the slowness is a lack of bandwidth, and the cause of the downtime is the ISP.
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Why not just select a fixed budget for hardware and software and get both sides to come up with the best solution they can put together within that budget? Surely that is closer to the constraints that people are working to when they are looking for a solution.
That is an excellent idea. My idea is for a small business intranet server, where the licensing costs for an operating system can be a big deal. I can see this:
You have one week and $2000. Your requirements are this:
Serve dynamic web pages (perl/php or ASP -- your choice).
Serve SMB shares, such as the network app installation directory.
Serve as a firewall.
Serve the company e-mail system (POP3/SMTP or Exchange Server).
You must support this for 200 internal users. This precludes the use of NT Workstation, as it allows only 10 concurrent users.
Yes, but they are much less irritating than the Jehovah's Witnesses. Scientologists don't bother anyone who doesn't actively seek them out. Moreover, they are almost singularly responsible for the revitalization of downtown Clearwater. Remember what it was like 15 years ago?
At least they are honest about taking your money; some sects of a certain other religion can't claim the same.
It didn't bring down the server. The companies made the operating decision to bring down the server because that is far easier than telling 10Kpeople not to open attachments to their e-mail. Have you ever tried to tell everyone in a corporation the same thing at the same time while using terminology that most do not understand? ("What's an attachment? What's he talking about?")
Ah, but there is an explanation. As it says right on the front page: Our "data pipeline" is not flowing at top speed yet, so we're sending out the same work units (mostly recorded Jan 7 and Jan 8) repeatedly. This will be fixed shortly. So don't give up now...
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Who cares?
If you had read the whole thread to which this was referring, you would realize that this comment was made in reply to JohnnyCannuk who told Dante who was installing Win95 (not 98) that it had a web browser. Win95 OSR 1 does not have a Web browser, OK? My comment was a correction to the assertion that it does..
Windows 98 is bootable with fdisk and format on the CD
I am so sorry, but my Win98 CD WILL NOT BOOT. Telling me that it will is either unintentional MISINFORMATION or intentional LYING. If you buy Win98 Full version ($189), it comes with a boot floppy, but the Upgrade ($90) has no floppy and will not boot. Nor will it FDISK or format during setup. I am sorry if you do not believe me, but I frankly don't care.
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Windows has no Web browser? Are you new? Go to Windows help and look up IE - I believe there's some court case going on about it in case you missed it.
As I stated above, Win95 OSR 1 has no Web browser packaged with it. Period.
If you want to F**k with IRQ settings, don't be surprised if your machine is screwed up.
My old network card (3c503) was very touchy. I had to install drivers for certain things in a certain order to get it working right. It was probably some odd interaction between my former video card (a ViRGE/DX), my TV card, my Ensoniq AudioPCI, my 3c900, my SCSI adapter, and my mouse. I had to install the NT drivers for these things under 98 in order for it to work right; the 98 drivers did not support PCI IRQ sharing. I am quite capable of "messing" with my IRQs and I almost always get it right. I absolutely despise the current state of Plug-and-Play.
As for a boot disk, if you can't make a dos boot disk with ms-dex on it you probably shouldn't be posting on/. Every computer I've ever owned has come with a boot disk.
How about those of us who build our own computers? My computer came with no boot disk. How about me, who has a single floppy drive (I never use the damn things) to share with 3 computers? Why can't MS just make the CD bootable? And the making of a boot disk necessarily requires a working copy of DOS. On a raw HD, I have to find another computer to do it. And forget using Windows setup to partition and format -- it won't do it. And what if the only copy of Win 3.x you have is (like me) zipped up on an old Recovery CD that came with your Aptiva in 1994 and you don't find out that Win98 asks for it until you've already gone through the boot disk shuffle? How does one get to that with a raw HD and no copy of PKZip?
If MS just made the CD bootable and able to fdisk and format, I wouldn't mind so much, but the hoops one has to jump through make a Linux install simple in comparison. Pop in the CD and boot it up.
Did it occur to you that this person most likely had this hardware before he decided to try Linux? Moreover, even if it didn't, do you have to be such a complete jerk about it?
I have only bought two pieces of hardware after my Linux installations, and both of them (Winbond-based NICs) do work with Linux. However, I am not going to replace my $400 printer just because it doesn't yet work under Linux. Sorry.
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Too bad, but safety comes before profit...
Then you must not work for Florida Power. I can't believe that the NRC lets them keep their plant. Go to the St. Petersburg Times and search for "florida power crystal river" to see what I'm talking about.
They bringing in record profits while complaining that they can't afford to pay some outstanding fines. They are simultaneously lobbying (constantly) the Public Service Commission to increase the rates for residential customers. And they have the sporadic power flickers on perfectly clear days -- enough to reset the computer, but not enough to turn off the television.
I hate them.
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If there are two places to avoid in FL though, they'd be Miami (LA's long lost twin) and Orlando. Be prepared to have high electric bills, due to using AC a lot.
I second Orlando as a place to avoid. It is the worst suburban hell I have ever seen -- mile after mile of gated developments combined with poor schools and low pay. In addition, the wind blows from the south, so it has come about 300 miles overland and is therefore really hot.
Add to the mix the never-ending line of clueless people in rental cars, and you have a disaster.
If you want to live in Florida, try the Tampa Bay area (specifically Pinellas County). It's crowded and relatively non-cultural, but the cost of living is low and the pay is good. In addition, we have lots of tech companies (Jabil Circuit in St. Pete, Paradyne and Digital Lightwave in Largo, IMRglobal and Tech Data in Clearwater, ABR in Palm Harbor, and Reflectone in Tampa) as well as a decent public school system, a top-ranked community college (SPJC) and a well-respected university (USF).
And you can't forget the beach. 35 miles up the Pinellas County coastline, and one of the top-ranked (by Conde Nast) beaches in the world on Caladesi Island.
Also, Florida has a 6% sales tax (with a 1% local option by county) and no income tax. And I pay $1.21/gallon for premium gasoline.
Mike
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How archaic! I live in Canada, and the last time I saw someone pay by cheque at a supermarket was probably 10 years ago.
Well, most supermarkets, drugstores, and other chains here (at least the ones in Florida) take debit cards on the Honor and/or Plus networks. Also, most people are getting check cards that replace their debit cards -- they have a Visa or MasterCard logo, and work wherever they are taken, but deduct directly from the checking account they are tied to. I hate checkwriters too; they are usually technophobes or people who can't be bothered to use their debit card.
And even though Wal-Mart, Eckerd (a drugstore), and many other chains can print everything but the signature on the check, most people still write them out the long way.
Even fast food places take Interac now.
I don't think most fast food places here take Visa or MC, and they certainly don't take debit; sooner or later they definitely take check cards.
But literally the only time I ever use cash now is at bars and restaurants.
I usually use my check card at restaurants, as the good ones usually take Visa. I think cash is somewhat archaic as well.
Off-topic ethnocentrism: I noticed that you used both the correct (check) and incorrect (cheque) spelling of a certain negotiable instrument...creeping Americanism getting to you?
Mike
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It will soon be required on every driver's license.
Isn't requiring an SSN as a form of identification illegal? (The answer is yes.)
My state does not put the SSN on driver licenses, nor does it ask for it on the DDL forms. (Technically, it's the DHSMV: DDL -- we love our acronyms.) If you are filling out a form that asks for your SSN (like at the dentist's office or the video store), refuse it and ask to be assigned an alternate ID number. The only people who should need it are the IRS and the SSA.
Even if you are in one of the many (15?) states that use the SSN as the driver license number, you can request that they not use it. They will assign you an alternate number unrelated to your SSN.
The security of your SSN is solely your responsibility.
Mike
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Oh, come on! Comparing a Viper to an Avalon!
They aren't in the same class: Avalons are luxury sedans; Vipers are racing coupes. If you want to compare a Viper to an import, compare it to the Nissan Z or Skyline, and keep in mind that the Viper is about $70,000 (about 2x as much as a Z).
And remember that the "innovative" Dodge Stealth is made by Mitsubishi, as were the K cars, the Eagles, and the Laser/Daytona.
Actually, a number of "American" cars are made by Japanese companies, including all of the formerly Geos-now-Chevys (Toyota and Suzuki), the Ford/Mazda pickups, the GMC/Chevy/Isuzu compact pickups, etc.
Mike
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Just because big cereal company A doesn't give a shit doesn't mean that it's legal, its all on them to sue the other companies.
Actually, it's probably because the big company makes the off-brand cereals. Most store brands are made by large companies and relabeled. The large companies are able to do this and still charge more for their own brands because of the perceived inferiority of the store brands.
Work in retail for a while, and you'll learn this.
Mike
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Yeah. It's cola with a smooth, chemical taste. Oh boy. Pepsi forever.
Well, for pure, unadulterated chemical enjoyment, you need to get yourself some Tab...about $2.49/6 from your local Publix or Winn-Dixie (or Albertson's, if that's your thing). It is simultaneously so disgusting yet compelling that I must drink it.
Mike
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The company also says it is confident that it has an outstanding product lineup for the second half of 1999, including a new series of chipsets designed to capitalize on the power of the new Intel Pentium III line of products.
Don't you mean "the Company"? Am I correct in guessing that this AC works for Intel?
You sound like a marketroid even when you appear to be trying not to. ugh...Salescritters.
Mike
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Now send an email to jjb@powersite.net and complain that alexgurry spamed his click-through page
I did exactly that. Transcript follows:
From: niles@powersite.net
This account has been terminated without pay and any traffic resulting from this SPAM has been blocked on our servers.
Niles
CEN
----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Mike Turk"
>>To:
>>Subject: Abuse of Click-Throughs (Fw: Dear Member of slashdot.org (miketurk@tampabay.rr.com))
>>Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 10:08:03 -0400
>>X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
>>X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE v5.00.2314.1300
>>A person, apparently by the name of Alex Gurry, sent an unsolicited e-mail
>>with a forged return address to approximately 3000 readers of Slashdot
>>(www.slashdot.org). The reason I'm involving you is this: The URL below
>>(http://join.at/freepc) points to http://chat.ru/~sexybabies/hot.htm, which
>>has a banner from your site on it, and your site has a commendable policy on
>>spam. Please take whatever action you feel is appropriate.
>>Mike
>>--
>>Honk if you love peace and quiet.
So it appears that any click-throughs onto the trafficcase banner are now irrelevant. Yippee!
Mike
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OK then...the headers say it came from ras5.icp.rssi.ru. According to www.rssi.ru, that is the remote access service of the Institute of Chemistry and Physics in Moscow. RSSI is the Russian Space Science Internet, an non-profit ISP for the scientific community in Russia.
I looked for an account administrator to send this to, and I found marina@rssi.edu.
Please do not slam this woman's mailbox. Send a well-constructed, concerned letter. The spam is not her fault, but it may be her responsibility to deal with it.
Mike
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Actually, Windows is an unregistered trademark and Microsoft is a registered trademark. Hence:
Microsoft(r) Windows(tm).
Mike
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Yes, it would exclude BSD. As it should, because BSD is not guaranteed free.
Quoting http://www.opensource.org/products.html :
If you use the MIT license, or GPL, or Artistic License, or BSD license, or any of the other example licenses listed in OSD clause 10, then your software is Open Source and you may use the Open Source mark without asking.
I would assume that they will apply similar clauses on the "OSI Certified" mark.
Mike
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Program cannot be modified and redistributed w/o source by non-vendor party
Wouldn't this requirement exclude the BSD license? If so, would it not further splinter the GPL and BSD camps? Is this really what we want?
Mike
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what type of machine does Rob run for slashdot? With the traffic it gets, I'm just curious.
According to http://slashdot.org/articles/99/ 03/08/170243.shtml, the server is a VA Research Dual PII/450 with 512 MB RAM. IIRC, the most common cause of the slowness is a lack of bandwidth, and the cause of the downtime is the ISP.
Mike
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Why not just select a fixed budget for hardware and software and get both sides to come up with the best solution they can put together within that budget? Surely that is closer to the constraints that people are working to when they are looking for a solution.
That is an excellent idea. My idea is for a small business intranet server, where the licensing costs for an operating system can be a big deal. I can see this:
You have one week and $2000. Your requirements are this:
You must support this for 200 internal users. This precludes the use of NT Workstation, as it allows only 10 concurrent users.
Is this the sort of test you had in mind?
Mike
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Mike
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Yes, but they are much less irritating than the Jehovah's Witnesses. Scientologists don't bother anyone who doesn't actively seek them out. Moreover, they are almost singularly responsible for the revitalization of downtown Clearwater. Remember what it was like 15 years ago?
At least they are honest about taking your money; some sects of a certain other religion can't claim the same.
Mike
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Who cares?
If you had read the whole thread to which this was referring, you would realize that this comment was made in reply to JohnnyCannuk who told Dante who was installing Win95 (not 98) that it had a web browser. Win95 OSR 1 does not have a Web browser, OK? My comment was a correction to the assertion that it does..
Windows 98 is bootable with fdisk and format on the CD
I am so sorry, but my Win98 CD WILL NOT BOOT. Telling me that it will is either unintentional MISINFORMATION or intentional LYING. If you buy Win98 Full version ($189), it comes with a boot floppy, but the Upgrade ($90) has no floppy and will not boot. Nor will it FDISK or format during setup. I am sorry if you do not believe me, but I frankly don't care.
Mike
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Windows has no Web browser? Are you new? Go to Windows help and look up IE - I believe there's some court case going on about it in case you missed it.
As I stated above, Win95 OSR 1 has no Web browser packaged with it. Period.
If you want to F**k with IRQ settings, don't be surprised if your machine is screwed up.
My old network card (3c503) was very touchy. I had to install drivers for certain things in a certain order to get it working right. It was probably some odd interaction between my former video card (a ViRGE/DX), my TV card, my Ensoniq AudioPCI, my 3c900, my SCSI adapter, and my mouse. I had to install the NT drivers for these things under 98 in order for it to work right; the 98 drivers did not support PCI IRQ sharing. I am quite capable of "messing" with my IRQs and I almost always get it right. I absolutely despise the current state of Plug-and-Play.
As for a boot disk, if you can't make a dos boot disk with ms-dex on it you probably shouldn't be posting on /. Every computer I've ever owned has come with a boot disk.
How about those of us who build our own computers? My computer came with no boot disk. How about me, who has a single floppy drive (I never use the damn things) to share with 3 computers? Why can't MS just make the CD bootable? And the making of a boot disk necessarily requires a working copy of DOS. On a raw HD, I have to find another computer to do it. And forget using Windows setup to partition and format -- it won't do it. And what if the only copy of Win 3.x you have is (like me) zipped up on an old Recovery CD that came with your Aptiva in 1994 and you don't find out that Win98 asks for it until you've already gone through the boot disk shuffle? How does one get to that with a raw HD and no copy of PKZip?
If MS just made the CD bootable and able to fdisk and format, I wouldn't mind so much, but the hoops one has to jump through make a Linux install simple in comparison. Pop in the CD and boot it up.
Mike
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Did it occur to you that this person most likely had this hardware before he decided to try Linux? Moreover, even if it didn't, do you have to be such a complete jerk about it?
I have only bought two pieces of hardware after my Linux installations, and both of them (Winbond-based NICs) do work with Linux. However, I am not going to replace my $400 printer just because it doesn't yet work under Linux. Sorry.
And we wonder why people call /.ers jerks.
Mike
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