🚀 go-pugleaf

kony wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 11:01:06 -0500, David Maynard
> <nospam@private.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Some Guy wrote:
>>
>>>Bandul wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I've got 10 problems.
>>>>I bought 10 computers recent. Comp dont have a cd/dvd-rom. 
>>>
>>>
>>>No cd drive?  They're what, $30 now adays?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I must install win xp pro on every one.
>>>
>>>
>>>Too bad.  XP is a piece of shit.  It's an over-managed, convoluted,
>>>bloated operating system with no real benefits over Win-2K (or even
>>>Win-98) for the typical office.  It's a security nightmare from a
>>>network point of view (we use netbuei for inter-office file sharing -
>>>microsoft made it practically impossible to use netbuei on XP).
>>
>>You can install netbeui on XP but the real problem is in using an 
>>antiquated protocol that MS has told you should be migrated away from since 
>>Windows 98.
> 
> 
> No, the problem is XP's networking.  If anything, antiquated
> protocols have been around so long there is simply no excuse
> for problems from the OS.  
> 
> MS does not "tell us" what to migrate away from.  When they
> give me a free PC then they can dictate what it uses, not
> when it's listed as a "supported" feature.

That sounds so terribly 'consumer noble' but the fact of the matter is 
there's no good reason to support an antiquated protocol.