Post #158,123
6/2/04 1:07:20 PM
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Screw Win98
If your forced to use Windows get XP Pro and use IDE disk mirroring. You attach one disk to the primary and one to the secondary interface. It works great, and occasionally you can break the mirror and back up the inactive drive without any interference from open files.
-drl
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Post #158,139
6/2/04 2:37:38 PM
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Can't
XP would require a whole new box - this is a PII 400, and mt wife says 6 PCs in the house is enough already.
lincoln
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Post #158,143
6/2/04 2:53:56 PM
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That problem is easily enough solved...
Arrange for some of the existing computers to have strategically timed "accidents". Then say that you obviously need a new computer or 3. :-D
Cheers,
Ben
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Post #158,254
6/3/04 11:52:48 AM
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But the solution will force me to abandon
many programs that I've acquired over the years that ran on pre-Win 98 operating systems: I've tested some on my work laptop running XP Pro and they won't work properly or at all. I'm not going to give up years of data that's locked inside freeware/shareware program files that never followed Microsoft's "upgrade path" or were purchased from companies that are no longer in existence.
And I still want to salvage the data files from the drive if that's possible.
lincoln
"Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times
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Post #158,264
6/3/04 12:28:34 PM
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But many of those program run just fine under DOSEMU or
other emulators in Linux distributions.
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Post #158,280
6/3/04 2:40:20 PM
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What will you do if THOSE machines crash?
You should work out your upgrade path sooner rather than later.
Cheers,
Ben
To deny the indirect purchaser, who in this case is the ultimate purchaser, the right to seek relief from unlawful conduct, would essentially remove the word consumer from the Consumer Protection Act
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Post #158,144
6/2/04 3:09:12 PM
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Easy to upgrade.
Just replace the mobo and CPU, possibly the RAM. Number of computers stays the same. :-)
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #158,153
6/2/04 3:34:12 PM
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Me?
I just buy components all the time. Sometimes, it turns out, I magically have enough for another machine.
Of course, now I have a problem that I don't wanna cycle my home servers through... as a PII-300 with 512MB would be a horrible overkill of a Firewall machine. And a 900MHz 1.5GB would seems to be WAY overkill for a nfs/music streamer/debian repo/ISO Sanctuary.
I already have an XP2500+ I have not yet cycled through yet. I tested it 2 weeks ago, was the processor in my main machine when the MB blew. It passed with flying colors and no smoke being released.
/me currently has a Duron 850MHz, Thunderbird 900MHz and an XP2500+ laying around doing nothing. Not enough to build a machine... but getting there. I need a good cheap motherboard right now for the 900MHz.
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Post #158,205
6/2/04 9:26:43 PM
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Not a problem here . .
. . since we run OS/2 and Linux we get along just fine on stuff I strip out for clients' Windows upgrades.
These days it doesn't even take a new version of Windows. Their computers get bogged down with a few worms and some scumware and they want an "upgrade" and aren't going to be happy until they get one. I've learned from long experience not to fight this - just give them what they want or someone else will.
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Post #158,171
6/2/04 5:44:18 PM
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Well, 2k then
2k runs fine on a PII 300 laptop. Should run well on that machine.
-drl
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