[WinMac] Re: NTFS is great... When actually used!

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:59:15 -0500

        Actually, a major weak point of NT is that if the installer detects any
VMS or *nix partitions (or other partitions that are not FAT or NTFS), it
crashes with very little in the way of diagnostics. Ouch!

        The REAL fun comes trying to get OS/2 and NT to coexist. YEEEOOOWWW!

At 10:16 PM 1/13/99 -0800, Darryl wrote:
>> Alex wrote:
>> >Our chief technologist decided on FAT16 so that 95 would be able to see
>> >the NT drives.
>
>Dan replied:
>> Oops! :)
>
>Oops indeed. FAT is such a piece of crap. But i think Alex's chief
>technologist didn't have a choice there, as these were dual-boot
>machines, no?
>
>(Well, ok, with the aforementioned extensions that Dan referred to,
>sure, but i sure wasn't aware of those things before he mentioned
>them.)
>
>But... aren't dual-boot 95/NT machines just a bad idea in general?
>i've had no end of problems with trying to "share" a disk between two
>OSes like that.
>
>Linux/95 or Linux/NT or MacOS/Linux all work so well because they
>_don't_ share anything. (Although Linux can pretty much read all of
>those native file formats, HFS, NTFS, _and_ FAT.) But key to the
>stability of _those_ kind of dual-boot systems is the fact that they
>_are_ kept separate.
>
>My policy is pretty much: one machine, one OS. And i'm not rich,
>mind you. i just get slightly slower/older machines. You sacrifice
>a bit in speed, perhaps, but god, what you gain by having two
>machines that are up and available _all_ the time. And anyhoo,
>how can you play with fun stuff like IP Masquerading, SAMBA and
>Netatalk if your Mac or Windows 95/NT is also your Linux box?
>
>Oh no! The secret's out. i'm a Unix weenie, disguised as a Win/Mac
>guy. >:}
>
>--Darryl

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Prior to the inauguration in January of 1993, Clinton was on a commercial
airline flight. After the pilot made the obligatory welcome and flight
information announcement, he put the microphone down but didn't realize he
had left it locked in the "SEND" mode.

He said to his co-pilot, "Boy, this has been one hell of a week. You know,
I could really use a blow job and a cup of coffee."

A stewardess working in the rear of the plane immediately realized that the
pilot didn't know he had left the microphone on, so she went running
forward to the cockpit to warn the pilot. As she passed by the future
President, Bill leaned into the aisle after she passed and shouted to her,
"Don't forget his coffee!"

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