Hilarious: No XP networking "Try reinstalling XP" 13201

Op Thu, 03 Nov 2005 05:37:59 -0700, schreef High Plains Thumper:

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Yup, and I offered to install the latest Mandriva, within 45 minutes, for just a case of beer - but the man is still convinced he needs Windows.

Never got roud to trying that - we thought that resetting TCP-IP to a default value was an innocent enough thing to try, but instead it apparently made XP commit dissolution.

I've fired up Knoppix several times on that machine, without any problems at all. Everything simply works.

It's a Dell machine, and the internal hardware indeed looked a bit exotic. Ah well, so much for the universal hardware support of Windows. With Linux, I never have to bother with mobo's, drivers and stuff, it simply works. It's amazing that people still put up with this Windows rubbish - and the owner of this particular machine is getting ever more frustrated and angry. And that's why I still wanted to lend a helping hand, but alas, to no avail. Anyway, I'll steer clear of any Windows system from now on, unless the user is interested in dual-booting.

Hehe, the only reason for me to get a new Linux install every year is to check out the new distribution features. And that usually takes half an hour or so, after which I can cheerfully work on. Some of my users have been on the same version distro for three years now, without any problem.

Richard Rasker

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