Lostgallifreyan wrote in
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thanatoid wrote in
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When I am done, I just turn the thing off. I never
understood why anyone would /need/ "suspend" - maybe if
one is using a laptop and is too dumb to know how to save
the work and shut down.

Fast recovery from low power standby.

No, that would be "wake up" ;-)

The idea makes sense,
it's just pointless because it's slow and easily broken. It
is great on PDA's where the OS always runs, but a hardware
button switches the machine on and off like a light.

Let's not even get into all that portable ****. When I leave the
house, I put on a watch, a pen (AKA biro), Sharpie, and little
plastic cutter knife in one pocket, my wallet in the other, and
that's it.

If that really IS all there is
to it, then I'll make it optional in X98 unless its absence
makes some base hardware install fail.

OK, so X98 is a super-mini version YOU are writing... All below
is beyond my ability to comprehend. I finally understand what
you are doing, and bravo.

When will you make it available to the plebs?

WHAT is X98?

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In case you're wonderign why go to the trouble, don't, you
already know the answer, it's why you're here saying what
you do and not touting M$'s latest on some other newsgroup.
What I can say is that that when I first tried OpenBSD and
saw their modular selection of modules at install time, I
knew that W98 should be like that. Fortunately, it CAN be.
As we can't audit and edit code (even if I had the abaility
at that level!), I can't gurantee that like OpenBSD, it's
'secure by default', but this is as close as it's possible
to get, and it's also as easy an install as I've ever seen.

Don't ask me any more, I doubt I could cope with writing
the answer.

Nor I with understanding it. Who cares about security. Ya gets a
firewall and ESET for 98 and you're done (this assumes you
already have a working brain).

other people would want it. Also, if the drive ejector in
NUSB

And WHAT is THAT?

Neat trick. It's a Systray icon that you can left- or
right-click to see what external drives are mounted, and
'stop' them, i.e. flush data from cache to hardware, then
disable the hardware for safe removal without data loss or
hardware hangups. They do it well, so I added it to X98. I
think it depended on Systray.exe actually, I can't remember
though, it's a few months since I worked on it.

That appears to be a part of the basic USB functionality - you
have to click on the icon to "unmount" the external USB drive.
But I often forget, and I have yet to lose any data.

You are easily the most mysterious person I have run into
on the Usenet.

If this is still true after reading the above, then I
consider it an honour.


Well, from that ONE sentence I finally understood what you are
doing., Had you said, months go "I am writing the smallest Win98
ever" I would not have kept wondering. Again, bravo.

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Needless to say, I have REST2514, but the restores are
often corrupted (YES, I restore to a different drive) and
also, and I can NOT figure out WHY, half the time I get
the message "DLL32.DLL missing" and nothing doing. So I am
actually glad some programs will delete to the RB no
matter what you do.

I think maybe, once it saved a file or two for me but only
because I'd forgot to disable it in some test install. I
find that a small recovery tool works better.

What could be smaller than REST2514? I tried a 3MB program many
years ago, and it was a royal pain to use, took 20x, make that
*200* times longer, and did not deliver any better results. At
least it did not give e the missing dll message. So - uou have
NO idea WHY iI get that stupid message? The damn thing is RIGHT
in the directory! Sigh.

Not as
convenient, but as I find that good manual backup habits
bail me out of more grief than any tool, I prefer to
disable the RB system entirely, so I never rely on anything
but my methods. I have (rarely) lost data resulting from a
bad decision, but never from a machine failure. There have
been failures, but never irrecoverable. Basically, I have a
LOT of hard drives. Some of them not in the system,
switched out on occasion with removable trays. I just have
to avoid being lazy about seasonal organising, backups, so
I don't end up with backups too old eo be useful.

I have SO many CD's with previous C: setups (going back 8-9
years) and misc backups that I should just take them and destroy
them all and be done with it. I have way too many albatrosses.


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