OT do NOT upgrade win xp to sp2

[Alan Forsyth]

That's the way I have been doing things. I have never had a problem with
Win98 on the internet, no firewall, no anti-virus stuff, no nothing. I
bought a new desktop 2 months ago with WinXP and within days it was
attacked, hijacked and coerced into submission with all sorts of virile
nasties. So now I use my old laptop with Win98 for the web. An easy way to
back up  and transfer files is to use an MP3 player with those little hard
drives: mine is a 20Gb version but holds 5000 files and it fits in your
pocket, no bigger than a pack of cards. Quite frankly, I find Win98 more
stable than Win XP.

Regards

AF


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Fox" <sarah@graphic-fusion.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: OT do NOT upgrade win xp to sp2


> Hi Duane,
>
> > Once you install Linux and get use to it, you can get for about only $99
> > a product called Win4Lin from www.netraverse.com or www.win4lin.com. I'm
> > already using this product and works great. The only thing that - I -
> > found that will not run is Cybertuner - it needs direct access to the
> > hardware. Anyway, all you need is a licensed copy of Win 95/98/ME (XP
> > not supported yet) and the install CD. It literally installs Win on
> > Linux and uses the native Linux file system to access files. Is runs
> > just like any other Linux application in a window except it is really
> > "booting and running" windows in that virtual environment.
>
> Thanks, but wouldn't that leave you vulnerable to the same viruses and
> hacking threats?  Well, I guess you're saying to run Linux and Windows in
> the same box, with all the Linux stuff surfing the Internet and Windows
> "grounded" for bad behavior.  Right?  I guess that would help a bit, but
> these older  Win environments just aren't suitable.  ME is a HORRIBLE
> operating system -- extremely unstable.  Win 95 wasn't so good either, and
> is really, REALLY old.  Win 98 was pretty good, but it's approaching antiq
ue
> status as well.
>
> I'd rather just run a separate box and have better, more modern operating
> systems running in their native environment -- and save the $99 (which
would
> buy me an old, used box anyway -- probably Celeron generation).  ;-)  As
> long as I have a separate machine for the Internet, it's really no biggie
if
> it gets nuked.  I could run Linux or Windoze.  Makes no difference.  A
> complete system reinstall would take me only an hour or so, while I'm
> sitting at my primary machine doing photoediting or something.  I could
set
> up my email files for periodic automatic backup.  Beyond that, everything
> could get wiped from the computer, and I wouldn't get too worked up about
> it.
>
> Peace,
> Sarah
>
>
>