OT: Computer's...gotta hate 'em.

[Fyron]

"Your comment about signed drivers is somewhat dated and sounds like 2K experience. With XP, signed drivers are tested by MS and seldom cause problems."

I have never noticed any difference with signed/unsigned driver reliability in XP than in 2k, on any box I have worked on. Microsoft just tests to see that they function. They can't test every possible configuration and every possible case. I suppose if you always stick with the basic mass market stuff, you wouldn't encounter as many troubles...

Vista will not make the driver issues any better. It will just create even more hassles for the little guys. Unless, of course, Microsoft is going to provide testing and signing for virtually free...

"Out of curiousity, what OS do you run IF?"

I run 2k for gaming needs. 98 is good for older hardware, but it doesn't handle 200 GB drives and 1 GB ram and such very well. Can't be bothered with all the bloat and hassles of XP for no net gain.

[Renegade 13]

Success!! Well, mostly. Windows has been reinstalled onto it's own partition, except oddly enough it chose the F: drive to do so That may be my fault, I created three partitions (40,50,50) with 50 GB left over, then accidently started the installation before creating that final partition (the one that would have been F. I'm assuming Windows took all that unallocated space as it's own, so now it's sitting on a 50GB partition. Oh well, if I choose to it'll be simple enough to just redo it all over again, properly. Might do that if I decide I have an hour to burn tonight.

The important thing is that Windows is restored, will be properly partitioned soon, and I'll be smart enough in the future to actually back my stuff up!

[Thermodyne]

Windows will run equally well from any of the Partitions. Actually, we often boot public servers from drives other than c: just to keep the hackers at arms length. If you really want to mess with them, you can have a little c: drive complete with system files just to keep them busy if they get in. All the while the server is running merrily along off of another partition.

[Suicide Junkie]

Ah, the simple pleasures in life

[Will]

And you know, you can always just export all the registry keys that your programs put in, and then apply them should you need to wipe the OS partition.

And really, who needs the registry? As long as you got vi, pine, lynx, ssh, perl, gcc, and nethack, you're set.

[Suicide Junkie]

Tsk Tsk. You left out wine and SE4.

[Thermodyne]

Will said:
And you know, you can always just export all the registry keys that your programs put in, and then apply them should you need to wipe the OS partition.

And really, who needs the registry? As long as you got vi, pine, lynx, ssh, perl, gcc, and nethack, you're set.

Ya....I'll just fireup the ole AS400 and start using vi..........NOT..

[Alneyan]

Thermodyne said:
Ya....I'll just fireup the ole AS400 and start using vi..........NOT..

Of course you won't. Emacs beats Vi any time of the week. *Ducks*

I wouldn't offend glibc by leaving out of the list, though. That monster of a library can get offended pretty quick, so you should always treat it with all due respect. I'm partial to apt myself. One command, and plenty of programs get reinstalled; configuration files are a little more annoying, though nothing to write home about.

[Renegade 13]

Easy enough to turn off. Thanks!