Re: More AOL thoughts

["Casey Boone" <ophidian@mychoice.net>]

> > heh, you should have said you went to a via based board :)
>
> > thats the source of your troubles ;}
>
> yah, tell me about it..... Linux was so much easier.
>
> > via cant make a good chipset (migrating from what is arguably the best
> > chipset ever made to one made by via... eeewwwwwwwwww ;} )
>
> I had a need for speed. <g> Later, I come to find out that at that time,
> the kernels had problems with the southbridge end of things, and later
> there was a patch, so it would only run at DMA33.

why must via be the main supplier of chipsets for amd based machines? im
glad amd didnt let them do their own smp chipset, i like having a working
system ;}

>
> > seriously though, did you try a reinstall over the top?
>
> In W2K, if you reinstall over the top, it wipes out all programs..
> unlike W98.  I did wind up doing a complete fresh install, and am just
> about to move linux over altogether on her machine, although SAMBA is
> running nicely for file and print server on my RH box. She can use
> Win4Lin or VMWare.

hrm, never had anything wiped out like that before, well i think office
might have had to be reinstalled but that was it out of the apps i used
(most of them keep all their stuff in their own folder, and not the
system/system32 folder)

>
> Come to think of it Casey, I think I did put in another HD at that time,

that might have been part of the problem, 2k is funny about that


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> Gary
>
> Today's thought: Chaos, panic, pandemonium - my work here is done.
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