12 Jan
2001
12 Jan
'01
10:48 p.m.
> Then again I say this as W95 was a royal PITA the
first time compared
to
VMS and other
DEC OSs I was familiar with. Then again creating a BIOS
for CP/M was pretty intimidating at one time too.
Allison
It all depends on the person. I can install things such as Linux, Solaris, OpenVMS, MacOS and RT-11 almost with my eyes
closed, and the
hardest
part is waiting for the software to move from CD to HD
(yes, even with
RT-11).
With any Windows variant I seem to have to dedicate a
minimum of one day
to
cursing and fighting the garbage!
Well first time took three days. Now I can do it in about an hour. 28
client
system that were horridly configured was the practice. By horrid things
like
only one 500mb partition on a 1gb disk and other offenses to the mind.
All I
had to do was learn the OS and install scripting. My favorite kind of
fun
is taking a wreck like a 486/33 with 8mb ram and 120mb of disk and
making a printserver and still have 60mb unused. I can do NT4/server
faster though as it wants fewer reboots. Once I learn Linux installs I
can
do that about as fast for a generic install with most packages. It's
the little "you gotta know" things that make a difference.
Allison
13 Jan
13 Jan
12:07 p.m.
ajp166 skrev:
All I
had to do was learn the OS and install scripting. My favorite kind of
fun
is taking a wreck like a 486/33 with 8mb ram and 120mb of disk and
making a printserver and still have 60mb unused.
60 megs? You waste sixty megs on a printserver? My, that's resourceful. Not.
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6.
"It's better to have loved and lost, than to be gang raped in a Turkish
prison."
4:50 p.m.
It's really not so wasteful providing hard disk space for print spooling,
since many network printers have upwards of 40 MB of memory on board, e.g.
my Okidata OL-1200. With lots of print jobs, it can schedule
reloads/changes of the cartridges, etc. What's more, lots of single pages
require more than 1 MB of description, and that doesn't even address
bitmaps.
Besides, if a kid needs 512 MB of RAM just to play his video games, why
shouldn't a print server have a couple of hundred megs of hard disk space,
otherwise too small to be of consequence?
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Iggy Drougge" <optimus(a)canit.se>
To: "ajp166" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: Nuke Richmond
ajp166 skrev:
Not.
All I
had to do was learn the OS and install scripting. My favorite kind of
fun
is taking a wreck like a 486/33 with 8mb ram and 120mb of disk and
making a printserver and still have 60mb unused.
60 megs? You waste sixty megs on a printserver? My, that's resourceful.
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6.
"It's better to have loved and lost, than to be gang raped in a Turkish
prison."
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