WHOA! Microsoft strikes again...

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:29:29 -0700, Jeff Liebermann Gave us:

It does not have to be a PSPICE same-same app. Even Thompson can't be that stupid.

Hundreds of thousands of users have switched over to Linux years ago and they are NOT switching back to Windows EVER.

But it's still only in Alpha...

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Well, as you may know, i have been running Win2K for since it came out. The only problems are those sites that use browser sniffing to lock out some or a lot of UNCHANGED capability.

Is that "It" referring to Linux or Windows? (IMNSHO it applies to both :) )

On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:10:42 +0100, Tom Gardner Gave us:

One could then also argue that it applies to you as well.

There's a Skype client for Linux, but I haven't tried it. I'd certainly run it in a VM if I did. (Qubes makes that pretty easy, assuming that the app's video requirements aren't too great.)

Have a whack at Linux Mint--it's intentionally designed to make it easy for people to switch from XP or W7.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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Tried it lately? Mint looks very much like XP, and doesn't make you use the command line if you don't want.

(I live in the command line even on Windows boxes.)

That's the mythology, anyway.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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Two words: Linux Mint.

I only go to Windows if I absolutely have to, like for TurboTax.

Michael

Get the Windows 10 update stopper from grc.com

If you're not familiar with the site, it should give you an idea of how good a programmer he is. No JavaScript on the site, and yet it has drop down menus.

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That's why I thought Redhat would be a growth company 20 years ago. It would have been great for business but they need a commercial company to provide support and Redhat could have been that.

But corporate IT makes illogical decisions. They started dumping Novell NetWare in 1994 just when they came out with directory services, and going to Windows servers. MS introduced Active Directory with Windows 2000 and then corporate IT declared that AD was the greatest thing ever and you have to get it. They could have had it six years sooner on a more reliable OS. I just don't get it.

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If it wasn't for so many driver incompatibilities I'd have done that after XP was called off. Now I have an XP computer at the lab bench that isn't connected to the network.

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On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:25:19 -0400 (EDT), Tom Del Rosso Gave us:

The knoppix site had that years ago.

We have a test set that is critical to the semiconductor industry that uses a PC running DOS. Let's hope it doesn't break any time soon.

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I have a game that won't run on anything higher than a 486SX. nothing with a math coprocessor, come up with a /0 error.

Hey, maybe it would run on a Pentium one where 1 is actually 0.999999999.

Thanks Phil, My 15yo son is now 1/2 the home IT team. (and I'm the weaker 1/2.) I'll suggest it, Can I try it on an old (~10 yea) XP machine? No one but me uses it.

George H.

Den torsdag den 28. april 2016 kl. 01.57.51 UTC+2 skrev snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com:

afair the old pascal runtime lib had a of doing a calibration a busy wait loop and crashing on fast machines. There was a patch for it

-Lasse

Grin.. and sneaker net when you need to get data out.

I must admit a linux system that ran XP programs, might be my way to happiness. (I've been trying to use this 2-D Cad program, Draftsight, But I keep firing up the virtual XP machine and using the cad program I already know how to fly.)

George H.