I'm also a longtime Thinkpad fan. But I've also had very good luck with Panasonic's Toughbook line. Very well made machines and manufactured in Japan. They cost a little more but should last considerably longer than many of their competitors.
I wouldn't recommend automatic patching at this point. My coworker's NT4 PC was left without a keyboard after this latest round of patches. WinNT4 requires a CTL-ALT-DEL before you can access the shell. This is rather difficult without a keyboard. In the event that you couldn't use the recovery console on the Win2K+ CD, MS's solution (KB article 305462) was to install a parallel installation of NT4 and use it to access the NTFS partition of the main installation and rename a sys file. After ribbing him about his ancient OS, I found that my XP Pro workstation was left in a similiar state after applying the patches. This is unacceptable. Automatic patching may be the answer sometime down the road, but it isn't there yet.
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I'm also a longtime Thinkpad fan. But I've also had very good luck with Panasonic's Toughbook line. Very well made machines and manufactured in Japan. They cost a little more but should last considerably longer than many of their competitors.
I'd have modded you up just for the Corner Gas reference.
I take it you've never been to Quebec. They don't call it "la belle province" for nothing.
Battle for Wesnoth http://www.wesnoth.org/. Great RTS game.
Maybe in Missouri.
I wouldn't recommend automatic patching at this point. My coworker's NT4 PC was left without a keyboard after this latest round of patches. WinNT4 requires a CTL-ALT-DEL before you can access the shell. This is rather difficult without a keyboard. In the event that you couldn't use the recovery console on the Win2K+ CD, MS's solution (KB article 305462) was to install a parallel installation of NT4 and use it to access the NTFS partition of the main installation and rename a sys file. After ribbing him about his ancient OS, I found that my XP Pro workstation was left in a similiar state after applying the patches. This is unacceptable. Automatic patching may be the answer sometime down the road, but it isn't there yet.
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