--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 263 WINDOWS '95 Ref: FA100008 Date: 05/19/98 From: FRANCOIS HEIZMANN Time: 06:08am \/To: AARON JACOBS (Read 5 times) Subj: Win95/NT compared to Linux Hi Aaron! 06 May 98 07:39, Aaron Jacobs wrote to All: > Can I ask... Of course you can ;-) > What is all of your opinions on Linux.. How is it compared to '95/NT. I > know it is more of a networking related operating system. > Please tell me anything more you know about it and compred it to 95/NT A first comparison : Win 95/NT is like McDonald's food, Linux like french or chinese food :-) Win 95/NT is like Coca Cola, Linux like your country's wine... Then on many points of view : Win 95/NT : You buy a product for a price a simple individual cannot afford. Linux : You take a product at a price anybody can afford. Win 95/NT : Companies likes it because it's supported under contract. Linux : Companies dislike it because it's not supported. Win 95/NT : The terms of support contract is unclear for common sense. Linux : The terms of support contract is an e-mail away. Win 95/NT : A bug you found is always new and specific to you. Linux : A bug you found is usually well known by a lot of others. Win 95/NT : Technical issues are kept as military secrets. Linux : Technical issues are (almost) always shared by nice fellows. Win 95/NT : You have always to pay for bug fixes and free new bugs. Linux : You get what you want, bugs fixes and/or no bugs at all. Win 95/NT : You may have access to a very expensive phone support. Linux : You have access to a very fast e-mail support with written stuff. Win 95/NT : is covered by a worldwide warranty, nobody knows what it covers. Linux : comes with a worldwide big-boy warranty. Everobody knows what it means. Win 95/NT : Nobody knows the issues of the next release, but need it. Linux : There are no real reasons to have a next release... Win 95/NT : Four wheels, a 300 HP engine : like a truck. Linux : Four wheels, a 300 HP engine : like a formula one. Win 95/NT : If you know how to use it you will be happy. Linux : If you know how to use it you will be happy, and able to use Linux very quickly... Win 95/NT : You will love it if you know how to use it. Linux : You will love it if you know how to use it. My job is to support softwares running under Win 95 and NT : I love it, I'm selling knowledge, this allows my family to eat reasonably well every days. I like Linux to learn many things at home, as a hobby, and to share free of charges some knowledge with nice persons thru BBS chatting. I like Linux because the idea behind was and still is a generous concept : providing a tool for fellows unable to afford very expensive bits and bytes. Technical comparison are more or less stupid, like comparing washing powders You prefer what you know best, what you are used to use. Veloma Aaron, see you soon Francois --- GoldED 2.50+ * Origin: *** Antalaha BBS *** +33-0472316992 * (2:323/32) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 263 WINDOWS '95 Ref: FA100009 Date: 05/18/98 From: AUKE REITSMA Time: 09:35pm \/To: BRUCE BECK (Read 5 times) Subj: Finding used interrup Hi Bruce, On 17 May 98, 10:57, you wrote to Auke Reitsma AR>> How can I find any unused (and used) IRQ's? BB> I would run MSD.EXE, which will exam. your system, then show you BB> what you have. :> I don't have MSD.exe. Not included in Win95B. As our Bill Grinolds already gave me the right answer I don't worry about that lack. But thanks anyway for responding! Greetings from _____ /_|__| Auke Reitsma, Delft, The Netherlands. / | \ -------------------------------------- --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: Home by the C (Auke.Reitsma@net.hcc.nl) (2:281/400.20) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 263 WINDOWS '95 Ref: FA100010 Date: 05/19/98 From: CRAIG STEELE Time: 10:22pm \/To: WILLIAM GRINOLDS (Read 6 times) Subj: Win'95 Versions???? Hi Bill. WG>Win95B (OEMSR2.1): v4.00.950 B (only difference is that the WG>"USB Supplement to OSR2" is installed in Control WG>Panel/Add/Remove Programs) (DOS shows 4.00.1111) WG>Not sure about OSR2.5 though. 2.5 is the same as 2.1 but with IE 4.X added. Craig --- GEcho 1.20/Pro * Origin: Craig's Place BBS [CFR Net] [303]288-1463 (1:104/737) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 263 WINDOWS '95 Ref: FA100011 Date: 05/19/98 From: BIRGIT MURPHY Time: 06:58pm \/To: BILL DAWSON (Read 6 times) Subj: Reinstall BM> This is then called the sixth sense. :) BD> Why not? The chain of reasoning a subconscious mind follows is so BD> often different from that which we might attempt to use consciously, BD> it is like a magical experience. I agree. Birgie --- MegaMail 2.10 #1238:CRASHING SUCKS!!!! * Origin: The NeverEnding BBS/Deltona,FL/407-860-7720/bbs.never (1:3618/555) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 263 WINDOWS '95 Ref: FA100012 Date: 05/19/98 From: DENNIS MILLS Time: 11:04pm \/To: ALL (Read 6 times) Subj: Using 2 hard drives under Win95 ver B Hope someone out there has the cure for my system. Just put together a Pentium II 266 mhz system with a 2.5 wd hard drive.....hard drive and system setup just fine using the driver disk that came with the AZZA mother board I was able toset up the BUS MASTER drivers for the hard disk contoller......problem now....i upgraded to a 4.3 gb wd drive and set this drive also up from scratch under win95 b ver......did this one drive at a time......now when I try to put the 4.3 drive as master and the 2.5 drive as slave on the primary cable.... windows goes thru the first stages of bootup....logo screen and then pops up with windows protection error.....please reboot system......both of these drives work fine by themselfs, but when they are tied together, the system locks up after the logo screen....also tried the 2.5 on the secondary cable with my 32x cd rom...still the same message. The cmos finds both drives just fine.....both set to LBA mode and track, sector, and ect is normal on POST screen before win95 logo screen. Any one with an idea how to get the two drives together under 95, would really be very much appreciated by me. Thanks in advance for your help with this.......Dos was so much more forgiving.......sigh!!!! Dennis --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0 * Origin: Desktop Micros - Computers, Networks, Data Communicati (1:232/302) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 263 WINDOWS '95 Ref: FA100013 Date: 05/18/98 From: ADAM SHIH Time: 08:18am \/To: BRUCE PERATHANER (Read 6 times) Subj: Re: Norton 3.06 Update -=> Quoting Bruce Perathaner to All <=- BP> At this point I'm not sure about all of the other applications but BP> Norton Registry Tracker doesn't work. Worst than that, it seems to BP> take-up all of the CPU resources and won't even allow me to shut-down BP> my computer properly. BP> I removed Registry Tracker from my Start-up folder and re-booted, this BP> seems to fix the problem but now I'm without that application. I'm BP> also not sure how to fix the problem. BP> Has anyone else had this problems? Any ideas on how to fix it? BP> Thanks! I do not knew how to fix. Is the Registry Tracker is for backup the Win95 register or there is more to that ? I knew you can also export the registry to a file for save keeping. --- Blue Wave/Max v2.30 [NR] * Origin: Basic'ly Computers: Mooo-ing Right Along. (1:153/9) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 263 WINDOWS '95 Ref: FA100014 Date: 05/18/98 From: ANIL BHATTACHARJI Time: 06:37pm \/To: JERRY MURPHY (Read 6 times) Subj: Disk compression . -=> Quoting Jerry Murphy to Jean Parrot <=- JM> "There are three requirements if you want to compress your JM> HDD: you must be completely out of hard drive space; you JM> must be completely out of money with which to buy bigger JM> drives; and you must be completely out of your mind!" Hi Jerry , Its around 43 degrees C around here . ( India - Meerut 29 degrees Latitude. I dont know whether this is Tropic or Cancer or Capricorn but it is hot ). Whether a hard disk fails or survives would not evoke much response right now . But I must describe my experience. I fit the category you mention above . I classify Multimedia computers in the class of toys . And thus would like to restrict expense as much as possible . Let me describe my system and this would not be possible without Drivespace 3 compression . OK dont laugh, I have a 640 mb drive . It shows 602 at boot up . This is how I have used it . 1. One 160 mb partition for mainly windows and dos 622. I use both . I dont even load plus here . About 90 mb free . 2. One 300 mb or so partition for Applications . Which includes MSoffice . Visual Basic without the books Online , which I leave on a CD . I have left a certain area uncompressed on this partition. That is where I backup files of Importance ( my work and other essentials like Winzip etc ). I backup on floppies, only docs and source code etc. About 350mb Free . 3. Two more partitions for Linux adding to about 90 or 100 mb . This ofcourse is not compressed . Linux can get your cluster size down to 1k and that is what I use . No X windows . PS : I cannot count the number of times I have rebooted and reinstalled WIN95 . The Oldest file on Linux is about Aug 97 . I am living dangerously with what Bill Drake ( on this echo ) thinks maybe a memory problem , and have had Both compressed drives made hash of twice within 3 weeks , this Month. I had replaced some chips in November 97 when its not hot , I had problems then . But they have become much worse during this month . Bill Drake feels this is expected with bad chips. Let me add until I had a memory problem . The compressed drive was very reliable . During April 97 to November 97 , I had forgotten how to reinstall WIN 95. I am not getting into a fight . I am just recounting my experience . Anil Bhattacharji , 113 Hill Street , PO Box 65 , Meerut Cantt. India 250 001 Tel 91-121-642166, e-mail- anil.b@dolbbs.com ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 [NR] --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Delhi Online <5578535/36> -=[New Delhi/India]=- (6:606/26) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 263 WINDOWS '95 Ref: FA100015 Date: 05/20/98 From: BOB WINGENDER Time: 05:45am \/To: JEFF FOY (Read 6 times) Subj: Moving from "a" to "b" Hello JEFF. Tuesday May 19 1998 12:22, JEFF FOY wrote to JASON SNYDER: JS>> I think that the answer to that question is win98 if it ever gets JS>> released. The last that I heard from Microsoft was that they were JS>> delaying the release of it into the general public (there are beta JS>> testers with beta versions of it) because of some legal problems. JF> I won't be recommending Win98. In fact, that's the main reason why I JF> chose another path (if you'll pardon the pun). I just can't see having JF> the web browser built-in to the OS. Well, I will. WIN98 is a very good package, with a LOT of built-in utilities that make the commercial/shareware ones look sick. Have you tried Norton 3.0 for Windows and seen how many bugs have been reported? Win98 has utilities that out-perform these, and they are included FREE. Why do you, and almost everyone else, think you have to use IE as the WEB browser? IE, if you use it, is a WIN98 browser, used for all functions. If you call up the Control Panel, IE brings it up. IE is NOT only for browsing the I-net. Also, if you use an ISP s/w package that uses Netscape, Netscape can be toggled to be your browser of choice instead of IE. I use SWBell, which uses Netscape. Everytime I use almost anything in Win98, I get the NS screen, w/SWBell logo. Also, IE is included FREE. Netscape is NOT free, unless packaged with your ISP s/w. This, IMO, is what those stupid lawyers doesn't know about. Bill is not locking out any other browser. But he doesn't make it very well known that any other browser can be used in place of IE. If he did, and I think he might during the trial, the Justice department won't have a leg to stand on. But it's good and FREE publicity for MS. Bob ... Sysop: n. animal that never eats, sleeps, or has money. --- D'B 3000A3/GoldED/386 3.00.Beta3+REG#434LM15/TAG 2.7d * Origin: The Oak Tree BBS, Ozark, MO., 417-581-0868 (1:284/11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 263 WINDOWS '95 Ref: FA100016 Date: 05/19/98 From: BUD JAMISON Time: 05:48pm \/To: ALAN ZISMAN (Read 6 times) Subj: USB technology -> As well, while there is some overlap, SCSI and USB are being aimed at -> different sorts of products. While we might expect both SCSI and USB -> scanners, for example, there are no USB hard drives that I know of, -> while there are no SCSI cameras, keyboards, modems, or speakers. SCSI is primarily focused on internal devices (yes, I know there are external SCSI 'boxes', but they aren't popular) but also used in a few external devices, mostly high-end scanners, while USB is targeted at external devices (much smaller cable needed). --- Platinum Xpress/386/Wildcat! v1.3e * Origin: FidoNet International Coordinator Emeritus, for life. (1:202/746)