Subj : Re: Greetings
To   : Tracker1
From : Ned
Date : Mon Jun 13 2005 02:51 pm

  Re: Re: Greetings
  By: Tracker1 to Ned Brickley on Mon Jun 13 2005 07:11 am

 > Ned Brickley wrote:

 > > Win98 is Evil!
 > > Actually the system I'm looking at is at leat a 400mhz with 384MB of
 > > Ram in it. I just need to see what it takes to get it off the books.
 > > It will never be deployed to our user base again and it does work. I
 > > know it will handle W2K since I loaded it on the box for the last
 > > person to use it. :)
 > 
 > Win98 running only the bbs should get by with maybe a weekly reboot, windows
 > itself is pretty stable, it's the software run on it that is often the
 > problem... I run win2k because stability means a bit more to me, and works a
 > bit better with the network here at the house.. my hardware is a bit faster,
 > and many doors still will run sluggish...
 > 
 > Many of the worst offenders (sluggishness in nt based windows) for doors are
 > some of the most popular.. on that hardware, would suggest win98se...

I just started building one out that is marked for retirement. It's a PIII
and I just put W2K on it. I've had no problems so far with the BBS on my
primary system so I'll move everything over tonight and change the setings on
my firewall.

Once I have it up and running I'll announce it to the world. :)

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Ned Brickley
Sysop/Webmaster
Anger Central
http://www.angry.net
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