On Thursday 09 October 2008 01:14:23 pm Mil T wrote:
Hi Kai,
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Kai Ponte
wrote: NT?
Wow - how old was it?
Older that someone of my age can remember exactly! :-) I also just retired my old Compuserve dial-up account. $9.95 month, with easy access around the world.
LOL! Got rid of my compuserve sometime in the early '90s. :P
(We just retired an eight year old NT box running as our PDC a few months back.)
It's good to know there are still "Average Joes & Janes" out there with a dose of old-fashioned common sense. If it ain't broke, don't fix it! :-D
Well, it has been "broken" for years and I could easily hack the SAM, but it sufficed for the 1500 or so of us until we could get Active Directory running.
Honestly, it ran fine & did what I needed. Word Processing, Presentations, Spreadsheet, Page Layout, EMail, Internet. Noone was ever able to clearly explain to me why I needed a "Ribbon" in my WP, or Words-with-Wings flying faster across my presentations, let alone get me to waste money on it!
It's getting harder to find floppy disks, though.
What are those? Seriously, since you're an NT guy - I'd suggest a re-install. Do the online update when first asked. I converted over from NT/XP a few years ago and haven't looked back. Honestly, though, thanks to the Novell/MS deal, it is a LOT easier being a SUSE guy in a Microsoft shop. Printing, Active Directory Integration, SAMBA and Evolution "just work." I can't wait to try Win2008 under SLES. Now that I understand how Win2008 and XEN work together, I'm buying a server to host SLED and replace at least four stand-alone Win2K and 2K3 servers with virtual 2K8 servers. Stick with it - all will work out and you'll wonder why you ever lived with such an archaic notion as drive letters. :P -- kai www.filesite.org || www.perfectreign.com government is a process which utilizes 45.5% gut reaction, 45.5% laws and statutes and 1% logic -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org