What OS are you using?

**filburt1** · Jul 31st, 2001, 08:17 AM

I'm running Windows 2000 SP1 (SP2 screwed up PartitionMagic). It works great for Quake 3, Descent 3, Premiere, Photoshop, ATI TV Wonder, Winamp, and VB.

**Cander** · Jul 31st, 2001, 08:24 AM

Computer A: Win 2000. MY kick arse gaming machine
Computer B: Win 2000/RedHat Linux. Programming and 3D graphics computer.

**Bloodeye** · Jul 31st, 2001, 08:28 AM

Dual boot:

Windows 3.1
Windows XP

One's a little faster than the other....

**filburt1** · Jul 31st, 2001, 08:30 AM

XP boots in 30 seconds for me, provided you change the start menu from the new style to the "classic"

view. But then again I guess 3.1 would boot in 15 on a P3-933 with 512 MB of RAM.

**chrisjk** · Jul 31st, 2001, 08:31 AM

Windows Me because I'm a retard

?
"Windows Me because it came with the computer and you can't be arsed to pay £ 200+ for Win2K"....slightly less offensive.

**filburt1** · Jul 31st, 2001, 08:33 AM

Who said anything about paying?

**chrisjk** · Jul 31st, 2001, 08:36 AM

well someone would have to buy at least 1 copy to be able to share it around...

**Bloodeye** · Jul 31st, 2001, 08:37 AM

Exactly....Why pay when you can d/l it off the internet?

**filburt1** · Jul 31st, 2001, 08:39 AM

MS programs are very popular for *cough* distribution *cough*.

**chrisjk** · Jul 31st, 2001, 09:02 AM

okay, I can imagine downloading warez apps such as Flash, Office, stuff like that (hell, I've even done i myself) but downloading an entire OS is madness. It would take forever.

**crispin** · Jul 31st, 2001, 09:07 AM

Windows 2000 Advanced Server (FWIW) SP2

**filburt1** · Jul 31st, 2001, 09:14 AM

Originally posted by chrisjk
okay, I can imagine downloading warez apps such as Flash, Office, stuff like that (hell, I've even done i myself) but downloading an entire OS is madness. It would take forever.

I know someone *cough* who downloaded Windows XP without paying the $10

. It took 16 hours on cable at a mind-numbing 10 KB/sec.

**chrisjk** · Jul 31st, 2001, 09:29 AM

cable was only getting 10Kb/second!?! That sucks! Tell him to swap cable company!

**filburt1** · Jul 31st, 2001, 09:30 AM

The cable was fine, the download server sucked.

**Ianpbaker** · Jul 31st, 2001, 09:32 AM

pen and paper, can't beat it.

**filburt1** · Jul 31st, 2001, 09:32 AM

More stable than the Linux kernel except when exposed to moisture and fire.

**Wynd** · Jul 31st, 2001, 07:19 PM

I would like to use win98, but i'm stuck on linux for now

**Bloodeye** · Jul 31st, 2001, 08:15 PM

I believe I've stumbled across an ISO copy of WinXP RC2.
Right Mr. Smiley -

**filburt1** · Jul 31st, 2001, 08:18 PM

Ah, Mr.

knows all once again!

**kedaman** · Jul 31st, 2001, 08:25 PM

dos is good, there's some stuff with fileops you'll never get done in windows

anyways
[boot loader]
timeout=2
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Whistler Professional" /fastdetect
C:\="Microsoft Windows 98"

denniswrenn · Jul 31st, 2001, 09:56 PM

Originally posted by filburt1

I know someone *cough* who downloaded Windows XP without paying the $10 . It took 16 hours on cable at a mind-numbing 10 KB/sec.

Well, I know someone who downloaded XP RC2 with "his" aDSL at 100KB/s...

Tried to download Office XP as well, but was taking too long...

**Wynd** · Jul 31st, 2001, 11:54 PM

Well, I know someone who downloaded an OS with "his" cable modem at 528 KB/s, so there!

**abdul** · Aug 1st, 2001, 01:18 AM

I download win2k pro and win2k advanced server...

But at this timer, I am using win 98 because I dont have the hardware requirements that win2k advanced server needs.

I also tried win2k pro but it was slower than win98 on 64 MB so I switched back to windows 98

**kedaman** · Aug 1st, 2001, 10:48 AM

Originally posted by Wynd
Well, I know someone who downloaded an OS with "his" cable modem at 528 KB/s, so there!

as if that was something to talk about

**JungleMan** · Aug 1st, 2001, 04:47 PM

I..err my friend downloaded Windows 2000 Pro on my..i mean his cable modem, and loves it

**kedaman** · Aug 1st, 2001, 04:54 PM

I got 870k/s downloading xp... eh i mean the psdk

**abdul** · Aug 1st, 2001, 06:09 PM

windows xp sucks. I am unable to set up my sympatico high speed on it..mmmm

**kedaman** · Aug 1st, 2001, 06:18 PM

Originally posted by abdul
windows xp sucks. I am unable to set up my sympatico high speed on it..mmmm

controlpanel>system>performance
or something like that, uncheck as many boxes as you want

**filburt1** · Aug 1st, 2001, 08:16 PM

Originally posted by Bloodeye
I believe I've stumbled across an ISO copy of WinXP RC2.
Right Mr. Smiley -

Awesome!
Does it need a *cough* thing that is similiar to the word "split"?

**filburt1** · Aug 1st, 2001, 08:17 PM

Originally posted by abdul
windows xp sucks. I am unable to set up my sympatico high speed on it..mmmm

But other than that, it kicks ass.

**abdul** · Aug 1st, 2001, 08:19 PM

Any way I am fed up with windows 98 now

**filburt1** · Aug 1st, 2001, 08:20 PM

Go with Windows 2000. Only ancient DOS games don't work with it.

**nabeels786** · Aug 1st, 2001, 08:34 PM

im using win 98se and mandrake duel boot

werks great fer me!

**filburt1** · Aug 1st, 2001, 08:38 PM

Mandrake is easy to use but it uses KDE, which sucks ***. It is the ONLY part of Linux that crashes ALL the time. Use Gnome instead, or good ol' X-Windowsless mode (console only).

BTW, a pet peeve. Duel is when you fight someone. Dual is double of something.

**JungleMan** · Aug 1st, 2001, 09:03 PM

Originally posted by filburt1

But other than that, it kicks ass.

WINDOWS XP SUCKS!!!!!!!!

I tried it and I hate it!!!

Windows XP is for stupid ****ing babies who don't know a ****ing icon from a ****ing DLL file!!!!!!

**nabeels786** · Aug 1st, 2001, 09:13 PM

thats what i meant

i dont use kde/gnome,

swordfish i think is what its called. it loads pretty fast and never locks up.

**dimava** · Aug 2nd, 2001, 02:12 AM

nothing beats my prompt when i start my computer:

Dos 6.2
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows 2000 Professionl
Windows 2000 Server
Windows 2000 Advanced Sever
Windows 2000 Data Server
Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Advanced Server
Linux 8
OS2

~~~Dimava~~~

**abdul** · Aug 2nd, 2001, 02:20 AM

Where did you get all that **** from?

Probably got hands on a good warez site

**Wynd** · Aug 5th, 2001, 09:48 AM

Originally posted by dimava
nothing beats my prompt when i start my computer:

Dos 6.2
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows 2000 Professionl
Windows 2000 Server
Windows 2000 Advanced Sever
Windows 2000 Data Server
Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Advanced Server
Linux 8
OS2

Holy ****! I don't even think I have that big of a hard drive, lol.

Originally posted by jpbtennisman
I..err my friend downloaded Windows 2000 Pro on my..i mean his cable modem, and loves it

Do tell...

chenko · Aug 5th, 2001, 09:59 AM

95 and 98 dual boot, Ummm

laptop win98, winnt4server, dos6.2

pc1, win98, win2k ADV server, win2k enterprise server, win2k internet acceration server, win2k serverm win2k pro, win2k data server and win wistler

pc2, win98, winNT sbs server 4.5, winnt server 4 and redhat

pc3, win95, winnt4 workstation

pc4(work): win2k pro, win2k ADV server.

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