In comp.os.linux.advocacy, nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote
on 28 Jul 2006 08:47:32 -0700
<1154101652.757832.116920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Funny article. Here's a further quote:
>
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> I was a beta tester on what was known as Windows NT 5; when I received
> my copy, I was warned by a colleague that it was a ?bit of a dog?.
> Typical understatement: if it was any more of a dog, it would have
> carried fleas, kept me awake with howling at midnight and left copious
> excretal presents on the carpet. It thoroughly destroyed the test
> machine I used. I didn?t bother filing bug reports as it was
> difficult at times to tell where the errors ended and functionality
> began. In the end, NT 5 was so late that Microsoft?s marketing
> department could only put a happy face on matters by calling it
> ?Windows 2000?.
> ----------
> end quote
>
> I always heard that Win 2000 was the best of the Windows.
>
Probably. Certainly it's running reliably on the
underpowered box I have it on.
I don't recommend it, but can't say I've had major problems
with it, apart from the usual silliness such as IE hangs.
Of course part of the reason I don't have problems with
it is because I don't do email on it. I've not tried to
get Visual Source Safe working under WinE. (It does exist
on the XP side but it needs a ss.ini file, which is actually
somewhere else.)
Apparently, it's not that difficult; the main trick is using SSEXP.EXE,
to bring up the GUI.
http://www.kegel.com/linux/vss-howto.html
however needs to be updated in several places; Wine no
longer accepts or requires '--' and the DOS drive mapping
instructions are very outdated.
The fonts look comically large but the tool otherwise
appears generally functional. I'll have to fiddle with it.
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