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Thanks for the offer Daniel. I'd like to see your spec. recommendations. I
am ready to upgrade.
Regards,
Ed Hancock
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Martinez <DanM@xxxxxxxx>
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; ug@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<ug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, 19 October 1998 6:41
Subject: Re: QP2
>UG:
>I appreciate your critique of my email. I'm sorry to read you're showing
such favoritism
>towards Unix. Give Windows 98 another chance. Maybe you'll find better
stability which
>will bring you over to the Microsoft camp. Be fair and don't show
prejudice. Most
>software is now written in Windows 95/8 and I don't plan to switch. Yes,
Microsoft should
>make their system more stable instead of inventing more unneeded features.
They should
>rewrite the Kernel so that anti-crashing software can hook into it.
Symantec has already
>complained about this.
>
>I don't know about other users, but for my system I take the precaution of
booting before
>downloading. I use, and don't attack me here, DriveSpace3. FAT16 is
wasteful with
>partitions larger than 511 MB. After that, the cluster waste increases to
25% and I find
>this ridiculous. I'm not going to have a 1 GB partition and lose 250 MB's.
>
>I plan to upgrade my system, including Windows 98 with FAT32, sometime in
Jan/99. Because
>CPU's have become so incredibly cheap, I'm going to buy an AMD K6-2 350/100
which should be
>in the $120 range. In Jan/99, other computer related improvements will be
released which I
>desire. I'm not going to bore the group with the details. Email me
personally if anyone
>wants my component recommendations for a fast and inexpensive computer.
I'll write a
>one-time generic email.
>
>I can't imagine anyone using a pager or Palm-Pilot for this ListServ. The
volume is quite
>high. Anyway, I just installed my new 56K US Robotics V.90 modem so I'm
happy. :^)
>
>Sincerely,
>Daniel Martinez
>
>
>
>UG wrote:
>
>> A couple of editorial notes on your email. First and foremost, thanks
>> for the input; I just ordered QP2, and am looking for any and all
>> information I can have on it; good *and* bad. Thanks!
>>
>> Secondly, as you might guess from my email, I'm a unix guy. Bigot, some
>> might say. I find it absolutely amazing that anyone should accept
>> having to reboot a machine _DAILY_. Some people even seem to think that
>> it's *SUPPOSED* to be that way! Vote for quality, folks. If you don't
>> want to use a stable OS, don't. If you need to use Windows, and I'm in
>> that camp, tell Microsoft to fix what they have before they start adding
>> all these "gee-whiz" new featuers to every release.
>>
>> And lastly, and I'm throwing myself at your mercy here, unless there's
>> some compelling NEED to use HTML-mail on a mailing list, please don't.
>> On mailing lists, there are a lot of people reading the email with a lot
>> of different systems. I'm on a unix shell account using a reader which
>> doesn't render HTML for me, I know of people who have the mail sent to
>> their alpha-pagers which don't either. And how about those of use who
>> might read this email on their Palm-Pilots? Unless they install the
>> web-app there which takes a lot of precious memory, they won't be able
>> to render it either.
>>
>> I didn't find anything in your email which NEEDED the markup
>> capabilities of HTML. What I *did* find was a lot of <...>'s that had 0
>> content.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>
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