Computers have bugs----Apples have worms. The only thing worse than finding
a worm in an apple is finding half a worm just after having swallowed the
last bite!
73,
Frank, K4VMO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Malloy" <jmalloy@hamilton.edu>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Basic question - Long
> > And, oh yes, don't try to have those windows servers actually try to do
something other than
> > the occasional file sharing. They will crash.
>
> Not in my experience they won't; they don't at the institution I work
> at. I'm sorry yours were configured so poorly.
>
> >>OH yea, I've been running WinXPpro on my three home made PC's also for
three years with NO crashes.
> >
> > I refer you to my earlier comment about actually using it.
>
> How do you know he's not? At home here, I have seven networked PC's
> running WinXP, Win2K or WinNT4 -- and *each one* is constantly (24/7,
> except when the power fails) crunching numbers for SETI even as they are
> used for other things, including making CDs, watching TV (on one of
> them, not the speediest), and other things. It all works just
> tickety-boo, nary a crash anywhere (except when hardware (hd's) passes
> on). Sure, I probably could do the same thing with other OS's, but why
> change hardware to Mac-ize this setup?
>
> >>By the way, did you build your MAC?
> >
> >
> > No, I didn't have to.
>
> In other words, you really didn't have the option to.
>
> > What exactly did you actually build?
>
> With the exception of one machine (the "fast" one, 1.6 GHz), I've kept
> the boxes of the other ones (power supplies, floppies, hds, etc.) and
> swapped out motherboards over the years to upgrade the machines, often
> passing them further on down the line. It's been a great savings over
> "The Mac Way(tm)". Let's face it: it keep a DEC machine from 1991 still
> usable (not upgraded; it's slow, but it works); do you still operate
> Macintoshes from that era?
>
> Don't be so smug. I realize that it's essentially a religious
> conviction that keeps one PC or Macintosh oriented, but I gotta ask: if
> the Macintosh was so cheap, so perfect in every way, why does it have
> such a minuscule portion of the market -- especially these days, when
> it's quite popular to be anti-Microsoft? Be happy with your choice; I'm
> very happy with mine.
>
> 73,
>
> Joe, W2RBA
>
>
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