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quote:Originally posted by psyjax v6.9 /Dave: Mac Zealot:
I needed a bootdisk... why you can't just boot off a CD is a Windoze quirk I will never understand.

You can if your BIOS supports it.

quote:My fav. thing about the installer is this dialogue that says if this is takeing to long reboot. HAHAHAHAH! WTF, the os dosn't even know if it fucked up?

Now that's just plain biased.

quote:I have never seen a Mac, after being used for years, have this extreme fragmentation.

That's because Mac OS doesn't come with a defrag program, you have to go out and buy one.

*is tempted to say a similar thing about Linux*

quote:But RedHat 8 in, set the BIOS to load the CD and finaly a modern, fully featured, easy to use installer booted up.

Oh, it does support it. Once again, you're being biased.

quote:I have programed on Mac's for years,

In what? AppleScript? HyperCard? ResEdit? I'd like to know.

Remind me again why I still hang out with people like yourselves.

[psyjax]

>>You can if your BIOS supports it.

I know, it won't boot. Tried it.

>>Now that's just plain biased.

No, that's just dumb. The Installer should know what the fuck it's doing and not ask you to figure it out.

>>That's because Mac OS doesn't come with a defrag >>program, you have to go out and buy one.

No, there are several free ones. And I, being a Mac user for years, have defraged my HD's more than once. I have never seen the degree of fragmentation 98 left on my disk.

>>*is tempted to say a similar thing about Linux*

All *NIX's are very good about keeping themselves organized. They don't need to be defraged. Some argue that if you run a system with high I/O like a server you should defrag, but for everyone else, it's unecessary.

>>Oh, it does support it. Once again, you're being >>biased.

Didn't work for me. But there is another windoze hangup. Inconsistency! Maybe some folks like variety, but I like a system that behaves the same way twice.

>>In what? AppleScript? HyperCard? ResEdit? I'd >>like to know.

No dildo, C/C++, PPC ASM.

Not to mention that apple themselves have provided some excellent sweets in their days. MPW and Project builder. All free! Let's see microshit do that.

[psyjax]

quote:Originally posted by Zombie9920:
He should've at least installed Windows 2000 Pro if not XP(which is way better than 2K). The NT OS'es aren't nearly as unstable as those trashy Win9x OSes. I'd have to say that you were nuts for even thinking a 9x OS would be stable and is anything like what you are used to.

[ December 16, 2002: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]

Ya I know. I even have a copy of 2000. I just wanted DOS! I admit it, I like DOS   .

I just don't feel at home less I can boot the comp. to a text prompt. I know there is emulation, but it's just not the same... Im a sad, sad man.

[psyjax]

quote:Originally posted by TheQuirk:
I'm going to have to take Windows' side here: you were installing Windows 98, an OS from 1997, on an almost 2003 computer. Come on man - can you install Mac OS 8 on a new G4 and expect it to work? I'm just preaching reason!

No excuse. In 1997... nay 1984! Apple has had great installers with no problems. I do not tollerate shitty programming or design.

Should I cut them slack for marketing to the lowest common denomenator cuz of their monopoly... piss on that.

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college release editions of 98 se (the five dollar ones) boot from the cd

gf4 a nice card, particularly with ddr

windows installer always crashes

heheheh whats a floppy?  OHHHH that thing bill of the gates was shoving up your ass

funny shit building an atx... almost can see the commodore crying to get out

[Calum]

quote:Originally posted by * Red Ranger Software * Moron:

Remind me again why I still hang out with people like yourselves.

I could ask the same question. i strongly suggest that if you don't know the answer to this that you go and hang out with your ilk at the windows BS.