Maybe Microsoft would rather sell VirtualPC for companies stuck with legacy apps. Plus, it's easier for IT departments to manage a single Win98 image than individual ones for each user.
Since Windows 95 and NT patches are still available, I would hope Windows Update will still be supported for Windows 9x.
This is a result of keeping everyone "equal" until graduation. Sure, there are still honor classes, but the vast majority are in the non-honor section with the general population. Maybe if "education" wasn't "spend 2 hours every afternoon copying answers out of the textbook for homework" the students would be intrested.
Nothing will change while the edu-unions are in power.
The company I work for does, for one. It is much easier to work with hundreds of systems when you've got only a handful of types in the building, and can get replacement parts for years (warranty or not).
Oh, and so it comes with Google, just one more hunk of junk software to remove after the machine arrives. You want a clean install? Pay for a clean disk and a copy of the OS to install yourself.
Dell is also modifing the Default User's NTuser.dat to add this Google stuff into place. Even if you remove the software the registry settings remain for each account created. It removes one of Dell's advantages in the Corp. World: near-drop-in systems.
I prefer Avira's AntiVir for its low system usage, and the humor of the slightly off German->English translations in the ad that comes up when it updates. Plus, when you buy a copy (with integrated POP3 scanner, etc) they make a donation to charity.
Packaging and the exterior are like wicked important, man. Look at the cool computer case you have. Doesn't its custom paint job add like 30% to the speed?
The high memory is to keep cheap computer makers from trying to sell underperforming systems as the latest and greatest. Think Windows ME being sold with 64MB.
When you add an image from a file, it is in line with the text, but when you copy the image that you've already imported to paste again in elsewhere in the document it acts differently. This makes editing the text difficult as OOo will move the image out of place from the text that goes with it.
The requested URL (books/06/05/17/1347228.shtml) was not found.
If you feel like it, mail the url, and where ya came from to pater@slashdot.org.
Way to get literal on me Slashdot.
This happens in rare cases when the article appears on the front page but the page it is linking to hasn't been created yet. I've never seen it take longer than 30 seconds to resolve.
Let's not forget the ' key causing the Find box to come up instead of putting a ' in the textbox. Google Mail is one place it seems to happen, among others.
Wake me when there is a new version of VAX announced. You damn kids, in my day phones were for calls and not television shows. What is this world coming to?
I'm suprised my company doesn't take advantage of Dell's Ownership Tag (there is an Asset Tag as well) to put the company name on the POST screen. It won't stop systems from being stolen for the data, but it will stop those looking to resell the hardware.
Compaq and I would assume the other major companies have this as well.
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Why didn't AOL use the Netscape engine for IE?
Since Windows 95 and NT patches are still available, I would hope Windows Update will still be supported for Windows 9x.
What's the copyright industry? Is it lawyers, programmers, musicians, writers?
Bloomberg is a moderate Democrat who saw the Republican side of the race open and switched to ride Guiliani's coattails.
Nothing will change while the edu-unions are in power.
My experience is from OptiPlex 170Ls I installed two weeks ago.
The company I work for does, for one. It is much easier to work with hundreds of systems when you've got only a handful of types in the building, and can get replacement parts for years (warranty or not).
Oh, and so it comes with Google, just one more hunk of junk software to remove after the machine arrives. You want a clean install? Pay for a clean disk and a copy of the OS to install yourself.
Dell is also modifing the Default User's NTuser.dat to add this Google stuff into place. Even if you remove the software the registry settings remain for each account created. It removes one of Dell's advantages in the Corp. World: near-drop-in systems.
You forgot the first step in either case: test the application first.
I prefer Avira's AntiVir for its low system usage, and the humor of the slightly off German->English translations in the ad that comes up when it updates. Plus, when you buy a copy (with integrated POP3 scanner, etc) they make a donation to charity.
The article is /.'d.
Packaging and the exterior are like wicked important, man. Look at the cool computer case you have. Doesn't its custom paint job add like 30% to the speed?
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What will Bones think when he's replaced by a hologram?!
*ducks!*
The high memory is to keep cheap computer makers from trying to sell underperforming systems as the latest and greatest. Think Windows ME being sold with 64MB.
When you add an image from a file, it is in line with the text, but when you copy the image that you've already imported to paste again in elsewhere in the document it acts differently. This makes editing the text difficult as OOo will move the image out of place from the text that goes with it.
This happens in rare cases when the article appears on the front page but the page it is linking to hasn't been created yet. I've never seen it take longer than 30 seconds to resolve.
Of course, I must be some kind of luddite with WinAMP 5.2 in classic style.
If you have a scroll wheel instead of a middle button it acts the same way.
Lotus Notes has a separate close button for each "tab" and I wish it didn't; having a bunch of extra buttons clutters the screen.
Let's not forget the ' key causing the Find box to come up instead of putting a ' in the textbox. Google Mail is one place it seems to happen, among others.
* Walks away in disgust. *
Where's Origin and Looking Glass?
Compaq and I would assume the other major companies have this as well.
So more than a decade after buying/destroying Origin they've recreated characters buying food and getting hungry.
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Get the car over the border and it likely won't be traced.