Ian Moote,

29-Oct-99 07:04:00, Ian Moote wrote to ANDY ROBERTS
          Subject: M$ "screw you" FAT32

 IM>>> ">8GB drivers"? For the Winodows you mean?

 AR>> No, Idedasd.Exe

 IM> Oh -- IDE! Fergot about that. Sorry. I'm spoiled. (SCSI. [;)

I know exactly what you mean.  I bought an IDE several years ago in an
emergency.  Now it sits at the end of a stack of 3 SCSI HDs watching them do
all the work.  And it's not just this problem, but a lot of problems in other
msg threads have to do with IDE.

 IM>>> And you're forcing him to use OS/2 because...

 AR>> LOL... No I told him over a year ago I didn't think OS/2 was for
 AR>> him.  He just gets a wild hair up his butt every few months, then
 AR>> pulls Linux or OS/2 off the shelf and goes through that silly
 AR>> cycle again, always ending up with M$.

 IM> Oh -- one of _those_ guys. [:)

--
 IM> Then the complaints started. "I can't run this." "I can't run
 IM> that."

When I hear that kind of stuff, I either recommend what I do run here, or post
a File_ID.diz of some similar prgm.  And I tell the game player to go to M$ if
they want to turn their Pentium into a Nitindo.

 IM> "Why can't I run Adobe?" Because it's Windows software. You don't
 IM> expect OS/2 software to run under Windows, why would you expect
 IM> Windows software to run under OS/2? "Why can't I run Doom? It's
 IM> DOS!" You can run Doom, you just need to tweak it a bit. OS/2 is
 IM> far more user-configurable than Windows. Look at Duke Nukem -- it
 IM> runs fine! "OS/2 won't read this web site!" No... _Netscape_ won't
 IM> read this website. That has nothing to do with OS/2. "OS/2 won't
 IM> let me listen to this *.AU file!!" No, again this has nothing to
 IM> do with OS/2. "But there isn't a RealPlayer for OS/2! OS/2
 IM> sucks!!" OS/2 sucks because RealPlayer doesn't have OS/2 software?
 IM> RealPlayer tells you that as an OS/2 user you are not important so
 IM> you blame OS/2?

I installed RealPlayer on Win-OS/2 to catch the live WarpStock99 stuff.  On a
P200i with 64MB RAM and a 49333 connection, I was not impressed.  It works,
but it is not high resolution nor 30FPS nor even clear continuous sound.

The only thing from Adobe that I ever used or wanted to use is Acrobat.

 IM> So then he comes up with an idea. He figgers he needs to get some
 IM> experience with other operating systems. [;))) He's going to
 IM> install Linux and SCO and Win'95 all on the same machine. Yeah,
 IM> sure, buddy.

Now that fits Dave Davidson to a tee.

 IM> In goes the Win'95, out goes the OS/2. It's two computers later and he's
 IM> running Win'98 and there's still no sign of a Linux install in the
 IM> works!! [;D

At least Dave Davidson did get Linux installed (temporarily), before he
decided he wanted to play with WinNT.  I think he has collected every version
of every OS that will run on a PC.  But actually learning how to get the most
out of Linux or OS/2, that's another story.

 IM> I've been hearing about it ever since, though. "Hey, Ian. I'm
 IM> sending you this *.AU file. Ohhhhh -- you can't listen to those,
 IM> can you!?" Or, "What happened -- Netscape lock your OS/2 solid
 IM> again?"

Here my machine and even NetScape has been so solid that nobody has a chance
to get a dig at me.

I think I'm going to try for the record of having an OS installed and running
24x7 for the most years without ever needing to re-install.  You could try
throwing something like that back at your buddy. 

 IM> The utility's on the way.

I'll be looking for it, and so will Dave Davidson.

     Thanks and Good Luck,        Andy Roberts
                                  andy@shentel.net
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