Re: B5 ringtones/cellphone screens?

"Chris Patterson" <chris_s_patterson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:chris_s_patterson-FB246C.14041604102007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <47051fa5$0$26180$ecde5a14@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Mac Breck" <macthevorlon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This PC (Pentium II 266MHz) is pretty much on its last
legs, with no hard drive space to install anything, including virus
screen updates. I'd have to start over from scratch, format
everything
and re-install everything, and it's just not worth it on this PC.

On something like that, I'd recommend giving Ubuntu Linux a try.

I appreciate the suggestion, but the trouble is, this is what I have all
of my software installed on, software that I use all the time, TONS of
software which I have working together, and Yahoo Mail is the ONLY thing
NOT working. It's just not worth it to go to a completely different OS
and do a complete reinstall. I'm far too entrenched in this
PC/OS/Software setup, and wouldn't wipe it before buying a new PC and
getting the new one up and running as a replacement system first. I'm
not going to cut off the branch I'm standing on. ;-)



Doesn't cost anything to try it if you're going to wipe it anyway.

It'd cost me time (which I don't have) to do all the formatting,
installing the new OS, reinstalling all the software (which I have
scattered everywhere), and transferring the data files. I had to go
searching for a missing DLL yesterday, and the search wasn't pretty.
Turned out it wasn't on any of my discs, and I had to find it online at
Microsoft. It came with XP, which I don't have, and I'm using it with
Windows 2000 SP4. I needed it to get BitPim working.

It'd also cost me downtime while I did the formatting and reinstall.



As an experiment, I just set up my sister-in-law, who is absolutely
not
computer savvy, with it on an older PC, and she's happy as a clam so
far. Works great for surfing, emailing, chatting and OpenOffice usage.

Great to hear, but that's not all I do with this PC. :-) Seriously, I
appreciate the suggestion, but I'm as entrenched in this system as
Caroline (Bester's girlfriend) was entrenched in the tangle of wires in
medlab when she zapped his Psi Corps badge.


--
Mac Breck (KoshN)
-------------------------------
"Babylon 5: Crusade" (1999)
Durkani: It doesn't matter if they believe us. Sooner or later the
truth's going to come out. The truth is...
Kendarr: Out of fashion.



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