Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!server12.janis.or.JP!not-for-mail From: "mr.sumo.snr" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Bill Gates Sux Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:07:38 +0900 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <7cgoev09sgr8h6693j8t4470t1inhtn0o0@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: server12.janis.or.jp (220.254.0.4) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1055902060 22917482 220.254.0.4 (16 [141600]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:1169 "Michael Cash" wrote in message news:af2uev4nc4q9uu49r7sr2r4qoej3f7mrcs@4ax.com... > > Installed one of those about a month and a half ago. Also have a > 120gig external drive, as well as a 20gig external that isn't being > used currently. The D drive is the original 10gig, so all together I > have 250gigs hooked up. I also recently increased the memory to 448mb. > Not that 98 had the slightest fucking idea how to manage it, of > course. XP seems to be doing well with it, though. > > >Keep the existing drive as a slave. > > I kept the original C drive (10gig), and someday it will probably go > back in the computer. I'm going to pull the CD/DVD-ROM drive sometime > in the future and put in a DVD burner instead. It has a separate > CD-R/RW drive. One that I had to replace since the original went tits > up on me. > > I'm thinking that for my next computer I would like to attempt to > build one myself, so the current 120gig C drive and the upcoming > CD/DVD burner will be pulled from this one and put into the one I > attempt to build. Then the original C drive and DVD-ROM drive will go > back into this one and the kids can have it. > Sounds like you've fairly rapidly grasped the usefulness of XP. As well as the obvious response to those that criticize it's appetite for computer resources - just stuff the machine with more and faster hardware. It's not as if it's prohibitively expensive to do so in Japan. jonathan