Merry Crimbo peeps
"N. Miller" wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:24:23 -0000, Shane wrote:
Kind of sad how for the last few years this group has been virtually
empty
Crimbo Day. It used to be almost IM (which I don't use, which maybe made
it
seem a bit more special? I suppose the appeal of IM is the feedback
carrot).
I think the microsoft.public.windowsme groups were invigorating because
despite being IMO the best 9x version, it was (and still is) widely
disliked
(there are *some* advantages to Conformity). So they were never
oversubscribed, dominated by the intolerant and egomaniacal types who do
and
always have dominated the XP, Vista and presumably now Windows 7 groups.
I never understood the fuss about Windows ME. The only failing I ever was
bugged by was common to the entire Win9x family: System resources.
And there are no Windows 7 NNTP groups. Alas. I don't care much for Web
forums, and have yet to check out those for Windows 7.
It is rather as if this has been a 'backwater' where the discerning went.
Sure, many WinMe users were complete novices whose first computer came
with
it, but often simply finding these groups is a kind of initiation and
sufficient a learning curve as to mean they came here with the wit and
attitude to contribute to the company; and of course those who kept
returning contributed to the family, as opposed to the brawl of those
other
groups in which the few sparkling stars are blotted out by the probing
coal-black clouds of trolldom.
By the time I got here, I had been using WinME for a couple of years. and
was just a couple more away from a new computer with Windows XP.
So WinMe family, hope you didn't just get a lump of coal in your
stocking! I
think I'll go light mine.
The FSM bless us, each and every one!
Well, I have only one computer left with Windows ME on it. And I need to
cannibalize its power supply for the other one, which I had upgraded to
Windows XP because of that System Resources issue. When I was turning off
that computer every night, it wasn't such a horrific issue. But when I
started running a mail server on it, 24/7, I had to power it down every
other day to recover used resources. Windows XP is slow as molasses on
that
machine, but once the server is running, everything goes smoothly until
the
next round of Microsoft Updates (where the pain of insufficient hardware
is
greatly felt).
No such thing with 'Vista'. H.
--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum
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