- Browsing a computer store.
- Posted by Jesper on February 16th, 2004
I was browsing at a computer store.
I saw a nice DOS screen, which said about the following (was in danish)
Windows could not start because of file /bklsdjl/dsaf/blabla.sys could not
be found. It was win xp (the OS that does not contain ms-dos? )
Ok with linux with a purely set up boot loader u could pass a single mode
and f*ck the system up, but you can password lilo to avoid that.
/And a bios password to disable booting from floppy, and cd./
Windows is a great OS for off-line single users, if they remember to save
their work quite often. My brother was working in GIMP on win32 at a
linux-less mate, it Crashed, I have never experienced GIMP chrash under
linux. Bad port, or bad OS, who knows.
I'm happy that there is a free/opensource OS, because it like great
litteratur makes the world culture more rich. Programming is Art in my
opinion. Art for mathematically minded people (like german grammar ;-) )
/Good night from GMT+1
- Posted by Bob Hauck on February 17th, 2004
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 01:47:10 +0100, Jesper <jesper@altern.org> wrote:
Then it wasn't a "DOS" screen, but probably a boot loader screen. XP
indeed does not run on DOS. No NT-derived OS does.
Windows is not great for anything except games. And that only because
most of the games are for Windows, not really anything inherent in the
system. As far as I can tell it has no real advantages other than the
greater availability of software for niche applications.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| To Whom You Are Speaking
-| http://www.haucks.org/
- Posted by John on February 17th, 2004
Jesper wrote:
This from Gimp's web site (http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/):
"Warnings
"The program(s) might crash unexpectedly or behave otherwise strangely. (But
of course, so do many commercial programs on Windows.) The stability seems
to depend a lot on the machine, display drivers, other software installed,
and whatnot. Also, a NT-based Windows version (NT 4, Windows 2000, or XP)
is much preferrable. The more memory you have, the better GIMP works. (For
any real image work, I would say 128 megabytes is minimum.) Many people do
find GIMP very useful. But it is not a Photoshop killer (for professional
Photoshop users, that is). Photoshop has lots of features that the GIMP
lacks.
"Many people with ATI Rage Pro cards have complained about display errors.
It seems that this is a known problem with the drivers for these cards, and
can be worked around by setting DEVBMP=0 in the [display] section of the
Windows system.ini file, like this:
[display]
DEVBMP=0
"If you have NT 4, and a Microsoft Wheel Mouse, some people tell me GIMP
hangs unless you remove the mouse icon from the taskbar, or update the
mouse software to the latest version. Go figure."
--
Never hitch your future to just one wagon because you can't tell which one
will go off a cliff.
- Posted by Jan Knutar on February 17th, 2004
For some reason, people seem to equate "text mode" to mean the same as
"DOS", and vice versa. Indeed, some people stare at me in disbelief when I
claim that it was possible to play 3D games in DOS.
/me waits for the "When I was young, people stared at me for suggesting you
could play games in windows!" posts
/me also waits for the "When I was exactly as old as I am now, everyone
stares at anyone claiming you can play games in Linux" posts
