[plug] New toy just arrived

[Shannon Carver]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
> Of meyerri
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 May 2006 4:08 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] New toy just arrived
> 
> 
> 
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: billk at iinet.net.au
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] New toy just arrived
> Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 14:26:52 +0800
> 
> >hmm, why wait so long ...
> >
> >1. instantly unpack laptop and pwr supp (leave the rest for later)
> >2. insert gentoo 2006.0 disk and boot
> >3. go make tea
> >4. configure liveCD system for your network
> >5. copy suitable existing gentoo system to new machine: something
> >like:
> >tar -c -p -f - --exclude './usr/portage/distfiles/*' --exclude
> >'./var/tmp/*' --exclude 'proc/*' .|ssh newpc 'cd /mnt/gentoo && tar
> >xvpfi -'
> >6. drink tea while copying
> >7. configure, reboot
> >8. enjoy
> >9 ...
> >
> >
> In my case what'll happen is
> 1) insert SUSE boot CD
> 2) resize Windows down to something small
> 3) Start installing
> 4) Magic smoke starts to appear from bowels of machine
> 5) Screen cracks from side to side
> 6) Flames spread to desk, engulfing desktop Linux machine, including
> incidentally the Windows 2K partition I have to have to do work.
> 7) Employer says No work, no pay",
> 8) Dell says "unsupported O/S must've overstrained components -
> would've worked fine with Bill G's finest - not liable"
> 9) Insurer says - "We weren't informed you were running experimental
> hardware configs at the premises - not liable"
> 
> So what I'm doing is
> 1) booting Bill's wet dream - gawd XP is fouler than W2k (whish is,
> incidentally not *too* bad)

Sorry, but I could handle when people said that pre-SP1, I even let it go
after that, alike to the Win3.11 loving nazi's (years after Windows95 came
out) spouted their ongoing love for Win3.xx and its nastiness....   But
please!  That argument (Win2k > WinXP) is dead and buried.

I'm no Windows Fanboy (anymore), but WinXP boots faster, runs better, loads
apps quicker and is ten times better to look at on most machines I've tried
it on even my initial Duron 700 (circa 2001 when XP first came out).  I run
it currently on my old Compaq Armada Laptop (PIII 733, dual boot, of course
:P) and where Win2k failed time and time again with regards to performance
and power management (battery life, standby, etc) Windows XP charges along
nicely.  Not to mention the fact it'll run even faster if you don't like all
the colourful "bling" that any Win2k user will despise.

It's a shame I'm still so dependant on Windows for my work (.NET
Development), but I'll never go near Windows 2000 (which was a fantastic OS
in its time, mind you) again.


> 2) checking that *all* components work under 'doze
> 3) deciding that a Synaptics pad is the invention of either the devil
> or Bill Gates - for some reason I have a "heavy finger" which
> transmits clicks when I'm trying to move the cursor - also the stupid
> thing doesn't realise that when I tap on the touchpad with my middle
> ("up-yours" or proctological) finger I want a *RIGHT* click - is that
> so hard?  So I've disabled taps there.
> 
> Otherwise it smells new  ;-) and feels OK.  Having it now for close
> to 4 hours, I think a T43 would've been nicer. The IBM/Lenovo
> keyboards are definitely nicer. It boots up with infinte speed (well
> close), it even makes XP seem fast.
> 
> Give you full feedback after I install OFOS.
> 
> Cheers
> RM
> >
> >On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 12:24 +0800, meyerri wrote:
> >> .. not even 5 mins ago - my Dell 6400 with Radeon X1400 and 2GB
> >> memory.
> >>
> >> I've still got to unpack it, but I thought I'd brag a bit while I
> >> waited for my tea to cool, so I could continue ....
> >>
> >> Will let you know later about Linux compatibility.   ;-)
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> RichardM
> >>
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