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Offline Stryke 9

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Reply #20 on: June 28, 2003, 06:50:57 am
Can't. See above reference to "godawful slow".;)

It really is that bad.
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Offline Nico

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Reply #21 on: June 28, 2003, 11:00:25 am
had 98SE crash about 5 times a day :doubt:
Xp crashes about 3 times a week, I call that quite an achievement :p ( I run a lot of progs at the same time, and before uyou ask, I do that coz I have to, ok? )
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Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #22 on: June 28, 2003, 03:01:34 pm
XP is quite stable over here, switched to it after I had Windows 98SE do a near-complete crash (I could get into Windows using safe mode, but that was about it).

Only problems I have with XP are with some of my older parts not cooperating driver-wise.
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Reply #23 on: June 28, 2003, 04:56:35 pm
Basically, does anyone else see my point about this possibly being an absolutely ingenious jab at Mac-bashing PCs? :D
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Reply #24 on: June 28, 2003, 05:16:40 pm
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Basically, does anyone else see my point about this possibly being an absolutely ingenious jab at Mac-bashing PCs? :D

You mean the whole thing of making fun of PC users who bash Macs all the while bashing Macs anyways :)

If thats what you mean, then I got that.  It was very funny.  Especially because I sell and use Macs at work.  The be all and the end all is that I have totally gotten out of my system any impression that the Mac system is any better than the PC system.  The supposed system stability, flawless design, and that sort of thing...meanwhile I find them more frusterating to use, there is no hide all windows and go to desktop function in OS 10.2 (I hear Panther will have it - horray, this should have been done earlier), and the kicker is that the things crash more often than all of my PC's running Win98 and WinXP.  Now I'm sure it broils down to the software you are running and how well its installed...but I certainly see nothing in any way superior to the PC platform and the fact that I get around better in a DOS/Windows environment means that I'm not going to switch any time soon.  Bring on a good Linux competitor and some serious game support...that'll get me away from MS :D
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Reply #25 on: June 28, 2003, 05:31:22 pm
LMFAO!!!!
 

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Reply #26 on: June 28, 2003, 06:27:14 pm
Is OSX really that unstable Icefire? I'd always assumed that it would be rock solid thanks to the BSD core.
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Offline diamondgeezer

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Reply #27 on: June 30, 2003, 02:43:37 pm
What's the betting the following Zylon Bane post will have the rolleyes smiley in it?
 

Offline ZylonBane

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Reply #28 on: June 30, 2003, 02:47:36 pm
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Hey, great link - don't know why I never saw that one. Unfortunately, it works with the codecs installed for Media Player 6.4, and the newer codecs refuse to install on my WMP 7.0+ -less system. But I like that player.
You can install the latest codecs without actually installing WMP.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?productID=E5F013AC-393C-419D-A2D5-7DB134CC1B32&freetext=codecs&DisplayLang=en

(well, I think you can anyway. if not... eh, just go ahead and install the latest WMP, but never use it)
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Offline diamondgeezer

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Reply #29 on: June 30, 2003, 02:48:40 pm
Dammit, you win this time *shakes angry fist*
 

Offline Petrarch of the VBB

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Reply #30 on: June 30, 2003, 02:48:47 pm
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What's the betting the following Zylon Bane post will have the rolleyes smiley in it?


You were wrong, DG.:D
 

Offline diamondgeezer

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Reply #31 on: June 30, 2003, 02:51:11 pm
Well, no, because I didn't actually say that I thought he'd use the smiley, did I?
 

Offline ZylonBane

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Reply #32 on: June 30, 2003, 02:51:28 pm
It's interesting that diamondgeezer remains firmly convinced that I'm a troll, when the tragic truth is that I just have a nil tolerance for twits... such as him.
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Offline diamondgeezer

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Reply #33 on: June 30, 2003, 02:53:15 pm
You got lucky, that's all. I'll have'ee yet
 

Offline aldo_14

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Reply #34 on: June 30, 2003, 02:58:46 pm
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It's interesting that diamondgeezer remains firmly convinced that I'm a troll, when the tragic truth is that I just have a nil tolerance for twits... such as him.


Nah.. I think he thinks you're more of a dick than anything else, to be honest.
 

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Reply #35 on: June 30, 2003, 03:04:41 pm
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Is OSX really that unstable Icefire? I'd always assumed that it would be rock solid thanks to the BSD core.

I would hope and assume that if all you are running is OSX native programs than it would be more stable than it is...as it stands, the sales system we use is still OS9.  And while it works...other OS9 programs will have trouble running at the same time.  Better yet...IE which is OS X native tends to hang or pause for several seconds consuming much more time browsing around than it does on my pc (where IE is so fast I barely even notice any pauses).

Maybe I've just had the worst case scenarios with Macs but every single one I have used so far I have not seen a marked improvement in stability.  As it stands, they are less stable than either of my Windows XP machines.  So I love being given the speech about the superiority of Macs (from customers that come in for instance) when I've found that they are just as flawed as the PC's that I prefer.

Its just odd...its just my observation...and my frusteration.  But at one time I did consider switching...OS X is a very nice looking operating system.  With no software loaded, it performs nicely...and several design considerations aside it does work very nicely.  But I've found the errors and discovere the grass not greener on the other side...
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Reply #36 on: June 30, 2003, 05:13:55 pm
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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
What's the betting the following Zylon Bane post will have the rolleyes smiley in it?


Browsing the "Who's Online?" page again, DG? ;)
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