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IP: State of health of the Farber computers
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 05:20:16 -0500
Now that my temper is toning down from failures of the past two days all due to software, I am up again on a desktop and most important on a T21 laptop (heavy but it works not like my X21)( by the way anyone happen to know if the T21 HD fits the X21).
So what happened. First the MACI had gotten a new Titanium PB and having read the Apple literature, I thought that OS X was a production system. I upgraded all Apple fixes and it ran. Problems were mostly with poor mail systems compared to the MS PC environment -- for example Eudora is a much less worthwhile system on the MAC at least under OS X (and the others were a mess to port over my mail files to. It was nice having a Unix underneath till a system fault ended up destroying the boot and keep me from booting anything. All my system disks are at work and I am working at home till Wed.
All in all OS X is just not ready for prime time at all.Then there is the PC failure. That seems to be a joint blame. I was reinstalling PGP Desktop 7.x under Windows 2000. I rebooted and when I did W2000 got a failure trying to load a driver for PGPDIsk. So being a somewhat experienced person, I said -- simple! I will bring it up under safe mode and fix it. Sorry even in safe mode w2000 tries to load that damn driver and fails. So at present I need to find the floppy drive for the system (God knows where it is) and make a set of restore floppies and see if that works. I wish I could make a bootable restore CDROM!! (Why can't I?).
MS has offered to help (many thanks!!) so I may bail out of that.All in all, a bad weekend. One wonders how someone with less background ever survives in the computer field.
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