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  • S Smitha Nishant

    Colin Davies wrote: The main reason I won't use XP is the activation non But isn't there version without activation. Or are they costly ? But other than the activation trouble, do you think XP is better than 2K ? Smitha Imagination is more important than knowledge. --Albert Einstein

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    Jon Sagara
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    There is a volume license edition, but I don't know how much it costs. Jon Sagara Hi! I'm Melanoma, Moley Russell's wart. -- Uncle Buck

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      Christian Graus wrote: XP is crap and is written for braindead monkeys Actually it is not. I been using it for quite a long while now and I find 2K very dull and slow in comparison. Nish p.s. I was responding to you sayin it is crap. AS for the suggestion that it's intended for braindead monkeys, I dunno. Looking back at my life so far, I sometimes feel a braindead monkey would have done much better! :-)


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      Christian Graus
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      I used it for months, until I just could not stand it anymore. Perhaps there is a hidden 'be an OS, not a tinkertoy' option I never saw. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
      C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
      It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003

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      • C Christian Graus

        XP is crap and is written for braindead monkeys. W2000 rules. I believe W2000 costs the same as XP Home, which is even more useless. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
        C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
        It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003

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        Christian Graus wrote: XP is crap and is written for braindead monkeys. W2000 rules. hear hear! (or is it here here?). BTW ignore that 1 vote your post just got, that was me. I meant to vote 5 but I'm sleepy and I mixed up the meaning of 1 and 5 ;) --Mike-- The Internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens.   -- Strong Bad 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm

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          Smitha Vijayan wrote: But why ??? Smitha LOL. CG is always biased abt some things, that's all. An year back he said worse things about C#, now that's what he does for a living :-) Nish


          Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]

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          Christian Graus
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          C# does some nice things, and ASP.NET is a killer app. Without ASP.NET, C# would be doomed, a solution looking for a problem that isn't there. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
          C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
          It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003

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          • S Smitha Nishant

            Christian Graus wrote: XP is crap and is written for braindead monkeys. W2000 rules. But why ??? :( Smitha Imagination is more important than knowledge. --Albert Einstein

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            Because it tries to make things easy and as a result makes them hard. Plus the new start menu is the ugliest UI I have ever seen. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
            C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
            It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003

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              Christian Graus wrote: XP is crap and is written for braindead monkeys. W2000 rules. hear hear! (or is it here here?). BTW ignore that 1 vote your post just got, that was me. I meant to vote 5 but I'm sleepy and I mixed up the meaning of 1 and 5 ;) --Mike-- The Internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens.   -- Strong Bad 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm

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              Christian Graus
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              *grin* I've been ignoring post votes for a while now :-) Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
              C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
              It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003

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                Christian Graus wrote: XP is crap and is written for braindead monkeys. W2000 rules. hear hear! (or is it here here?). BTW ignore that 1 vote your post just got, that was me. I meant to vote 5 but I'm sleepy and I mixed up the meaning of 1 and 5 ;) --Mike-- The Internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens.   -- Strong Bad 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm

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                Michael Dunn wrote: BTW ignore that 1 vote your post just got, that was me. I meant to vote 5 but I'm sleepy and I mixed up the meaning of 1 and 5 :-) This one's good :-) Nish


                Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]

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                  Smitha Vijayan wrote: But isn't there version without activation. I think there is a version from China flaoting around. And there is another Multiuser license version about. Definitly outside of my budget. Smitha Vijayan wrote: But other than the activation trouble, do you think XP is better than 2K ? Logic says that it is. Remember though 2000 is version 5.0 and XP is 5.1 so there is not really an awesome difference being described by the people who create the version numbers. One thing I think all Windows dev companies should be considering though is whether MS will really go all 64 bit and multi processor in the future. As to the obsolescence issue, I can see another few yrs for 2000 and a at least that plus two more for XP. Regardz Colin J Davies

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                  I'm guessing the concept of a 2 hour movie showing two guys eating a meal and talking struck them as 'foreign' Rob Manderson wrote:

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                  Nish Nishant
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                  Colin Davies wrote: I think there is a version from China flaoting around That's the only one we had back in Trivandrum :-) Nish


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                  • S Smitha Nishant

                    You seem to dislike XP too. But for development we already have some XP's. The new ones are for some other users. I thought I'd recommend XP. Now that you say this...:(( Smitha Imagination is more important than knowledge. --Albert Einstein

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                    I'm sorry, Smitha. I really hate XP - can't help that. I set up a network using it, hosted on three identical Dell PCs, all brand new, and it's been nothing but a nightmare since. I've got Win2K Server for a home PC and love it. That doesn't mean it has no problems - it has crashed every two days since the last time I let MS update it, and the update itself destroyed my Internet connection. I'm used to that from Microsoft - all their products are garbage. But XP was just a slap in the face, it is so bad. Still, I think that for software development purposes your company would be smarter to invest in XP and learn to work around its defects. It will serve you longer without becoming more obsolete than it already is, and help to ensure that your products remain compatible with the OS that most customers will be buying. Stick with your recommendation... It is ok for women not to like sports, so long as they nod in the right places and bring beers at the right times.
                    Paul Watson, on Sports - 2/10/2003

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                    • C Christian Graus

                      Because it tries to make things easy and as a result makes them hard. Plus the new start menu is the ugliest UI I have ever seen. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
                      C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
                      It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003

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                      Yes the start menu sucks. And it takes a lot of time to get used to it. I am so used to the old start menu layout. But they say this is the most intelligent layout, with the more frequently accessed programs at easy reach. Smitha Imagination is more important than knowledge. --Albert Einstein

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                        No...just a big book about a big white whale. :-D


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                        LOL Smitha Imagination is more important than knowledge. --Albert Einstein

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                          Yes the start menu sucks. And it takes a lot of time to get used to it. I am so used to the old start menu layout. But they say this is the most intelligent layout, with the more frequently accessed programs at easy reach. Smitha Imagination is more important than knowledge. --Albert Einstein

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                          Christian Graus
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                          well, 'they' CAN'T say 'we need another gimmic to sell you an OS you don't need', now can they ? If it's so intelligent, why do we both not like it ? If it's so easy to use, why didn't we just love it at first use ? Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
                          C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
                          It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003

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                          • S Smitha Nishant

                            LOL Smitha Imagination is more important than knowledge. --Albert Einstein

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                            I'm glad somebody got that. I was hoping I wasn't the only programmer versed in literature that ends sentences with punctuation other than the semicolon. :)


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                              I'm glad somebody got that. I was hoping I wasn't the only programmer versed in literature that ends sentences with punctuation other than the semicolon. :)


                              Hey, what can I say? I'm a chick magnet...a babe conductor...a logarithm for the ladies. -Strong Bad from HomeStarRunner.com Essential Tips for Web Developers

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                              I'm not unfamiliar with Melville... He wrote "Shamu does San Diego" didn't he? Or was that the video I rented last weekend? It is ok for women not to like sports, so long as they nod in the right places and bring beers at the right times.
                              Paul Watson, on Sports - 2/10/2003

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                                XP: + groups in Explorer (don't diss this - it rocks) + handy image preview utility / digital camera support + it's newer, so more likely to be supported for longer - higher system requirements - that pesky activation thing - passport integration if u can get over the -'s, XP is great.

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                                Smitha Nishant
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                                Shog9 wrote: groups in Explorer (don't diss this - it rocks) Yup. It rocks. Thanks for pointing out.:rose: And about the image viewer, I also think its great. :) Smitha Imagination is more important than knowledge. --Albert Einstein

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                                  well, 'they' CAN'T say 'we need another gimmic to sell you an OS you don't need', now can they ? If it's so intelligent, why do we both not like it ? If it's so easy to use, why didn't we just love it at first use ? Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
                                  C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
                                  It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003

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                                  Christian Graus wrote: If it's so intelligent, why do we both not like it ? If it's so easy to use, why didn't we just love it at first use ? I do and I did. Thus proving that it is the layout of the gods. ;P


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                                    David Stone wrote: a braindead monkey. I am most certainly not braindead. LOL!!! I wondered why your email came from a server at the San Diego Zoo... Have you and your friends typed any Shakespeare lately? It is ok for women not to like sports, so long as they nod in the right places and bring beers at the right times.
                                    Paul Watson, on Sports - 2/10/2003

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                                    Roger Wright wrote: Have you and your friends typed any Shakespeare lately? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Brilliant!
                                    Regards,

                                    Rohit Sinha

                                    Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
                                    - Abraham Lincoln

                                    The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
                                    - Anonymous

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                                    • S Smitha Nishant

                                      Kant wrote: How's Tweety? I put her in an asylum as part of my snatching nish from her :-D Smitha Imagination is more important than knowledge. --Albert Einstein

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                                      Her attendants tell me that she is becoming very skilled at weaving baskets from dried river reeds and fronds, and seems to enjoy the fuzzy stuffed animals her friends send her. Her drooling has cleared up, and she's almost mastered feeding herself now that the twitching has subsided. She still occasionally codes in VB, but the doctors are optimistic.:-D It is ok for women not to like sports, so long as they nod in the right places and bring beers at the right times.
                                      Paul Watson, on Sports - 2/10/2003

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                                        Roger Wright wrote: Have you and your friends typed any Shakespeare lately? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Brilliant!
                                        Regards,

                                        Rohit Sinha

                                        Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
                                        - Abraham Lincoln

                                        The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
                                        - Anonymous

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                                        I was rather hoping someone would get that reference.:-D It is ok for women not to like sports, so long as they nod in the right places and bring beers at the right times.
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                                          Christian Graus wrote: If it's so intelligent, why do we both not like it ? If it's so easy to use, why didn't we just love it at first use ? I do and I did. Thus proving that it is the layout of the gods. ;P


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                                          LOL - well, I guess there's always one... Seriously, of more concern to me was how hard it was to configure, instead of a control panel I got 20 questions. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
                                          C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
                                          It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003

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