[6558] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Thats it... "That's it, for Windows..."
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kirill Shtengel)
Thu Nov 28 04:48:37 1996
From: "Kirill Shtengel" <kirill@ucla.edu>
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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 01:47:20 +0000
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> My favorite was installing an IBM PCMCIA token ring card into a multimedia laptop. Thing conflicted with the sound card.
>
> We would go into the system under control panel and change it so it didn't conflict. Exit the system control panel app and get, reboot for changes to take effect.
>
> After reboot, Windows has detected new hardware - IBM Token Ring adapter. And it happily set the card right back to the f***ed up settings.
>
Well, be fair. I have lots of reasons to dislike Bill Gate's
marketing strategies and some of the MicroSoft products, but this
example tells me about you and not about Win 95.
In fact I had a similar experience, but it took just a little bit of reading to figure out
how to disable automatic detection of PnP devices once you set things up.
It's true, Win 95 is made to be accessible by an idiot, but it also helps not
to be one.
>
> Aside from the many bugs, here are two of my favorite "FEATURES" of
> Windows 95...
>
>
> 1. Reboot for changes to take effect ?
>
> NO ! You're a multi-tasking operating system, aren't you !
> Just do it !
>
Oh yeah, once you rebuild a kernel or build a new module in Linux,
you can run it without a reboot, can't you?
And please, don't suspect me in any worm feelings towards rich Bill,
I just want to be fair. This is from my personal experience:
I spent MUCH less time configuring Win 95, then I spent configuring
Linux. And so far I've had no major problems with Win 95 while I had to
kill Linux by pressing a power button a few times by now, mostly
when it generated a bunch of Zombie processes while failing to read some
diskettes (big deal huh?) and then even Ctrl+Alt+Del would stop
working. This combination (Ctrl+Alt+Del) never failed me in Win 95.
Cheers,
Kirill
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