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Phillips are the most boringly stable hardware makers bar non.
Expect nothing but excellence :)
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German You know ;-)
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Wasn't it Philips that invented the CD? They no doubt take a personal
interest in making it work like it should.
 
everything? on what kind of machine?
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Yes. Homebuilt

Athlon XP 1800
Shuttle AK-32A
Viewsonic E70f+

Auto detected the router and had browsing ready to go.

I have two machines in my home "computer room". One is the unit
mentioned above while the other is a WinXP system. The XP box has
been my primary system for the past two years. Built the Linux box as
an experiment as well as a backup. My first attempt was a disaster.
That was a Red Hat distribution and I knew nothing of Linux and the
command line instructions.

With Mandrake I found a GUI presentation similar to Windows. That
made it easier to play with. Quickly discovered things like the Open
Office suite which permits me to work with MS-Office files seamlessly.
In fact one of the big surprises is the number of applications that
are part of the basic distribution.

While I'm still largely a Windows user my ratio of use has gone from
about 98% x 2% to about 60% x 40%.




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Jim said:
Yes. Homebuilt

Athlon XP 1800
Shuttle AK-32A
Viewsonic E70f+

Auto detected the router and had browsing ready to go.

I have two machines in my home "computer room". One is the unit
mentioned above while the other is a WinXP system. The XP box has
been my primary system for the past two years. Built the Linux box as
an experiment as well as a backup. My first attempt was a disaster.
That was a Red Hat distribution and I knew nothing of Linux and the
command line instructions.

With Mandrake I found a GUI presentation similar to Windows. That
made it easier to play with. Quickly discovered things like the Open
Office suite which permits me to work with MS-Office files seamlessly.
In fact one of the big surprises is the number of applications that
are part of the basic distribution.

While I'm still largely a Windows user my ratio of use has gone from
about 98% x 2% to about 60% x 40%.
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I'm in a similar state, with my winxp and redhat8 boxen on either side
of my monitor with my KVM switch allowing me access to both with a
double click of the ctrl key :-) Redhat 8 is great (no, I did not mean
for that to rhyme) and as soon as i can get around to updating my
backups of the configuration files for it (just in case) I'm going to be
upgrading it to RedHat9.
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W7TI said:
I've tried it in the past and been disappointed. I'm sure it's fine for
geeks, but I'm not one and besides, there are not enough ham radio
programs for it.

WinXP cost me about $100 on ebay and for the money, it was a far better
investment than the "free" Linux. I spent FAR more that $100 worth of
my time trying to get Linux to work and never did, mainly due to
hardware incompatibility with my soundcard and modem. XP worked right
out of the box.

No, thanks. Whether you like MS or not, their software is fine with me.
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Before you close the book, maybe you should take another look. Mandrake 9.2
will be out in a few weeks and judging from 9.1, it'll be delicious. Ya
just might like it. :-)
 
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Wasn't it Philips that invented the CD? They no doubt take a personal
interest in making it work like it should.
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I thought it was Sony? Or am I thinking of Beta?

I had a Phillips burner I wasn't too thrilled with. It's sitting on
the bottom shelf of my bench. I really like the Yamaha burners. I
have two 24x 8MB cache Yamahas that perform flawlessly.



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Quickly discovered things like the Open
Office suite which permits me to work with MS-Office files seamlessly.
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I had some problems with this. The OpenOffice word processor (I forget
the name) could open Word .doc files ok, but not the reverse. I finally
abandoned OpenOffice because I needed the cross-program compatibility
between work and home.

If they ever get this fixed I'll try it again. Great program otherwise.
 
Before you close the book, maybe you should take another look. Mandrake 9.2
will be out in a few weeks and judging from 9.1, it'll be delicious. Ya
just might like it. :-)
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I know you mean well Brent, but I have heard this mantra so many times I
have become immune.
 
W7TI said:
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I had some problems with this. The OpenOffice word processor (I forget
the name) could open Word .doc files ok, but not the reverse. I finally
abandoned OpenOffice because I needed the cross-program compatibility
between work and home.
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The program is called Writer, and you probably because you saved them in
the open office default format (an open XML standard, you used to have
to select to save to word .doc format but now you can set it as the
default) that Word wouldn't understand. I've had little problem with
OOo1.1 except with some very complex formatting that shouldn't have been
there in the first place.
If they ever get this fixed I'll try it again. Great program otherwise.
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And it gets better with every iteration. :-)

Ari



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on the recipient list. Visit www.marrow.org or call your local Red Cross
and ask about registering to be a bone marrow donor.

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The program is called Writer, and you probably because you saved them in
the open office default format (an open XML standard, you used to have
to select to save to word .doc format but now you can set it as the
default) that Word wouldn't understand. I've had little problem with
OOo1.1 except with some very complex formatting that shouldn't have been
there in the first place.
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You're probably right. I have Office97 installed on my home computer
now, but I will try OO again sometime.
 
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