From: mikoenig@web.de   
      
   Bill Leeper  wrote:   
   > I spend a lot of time on the phone or at the homes of a lot of my   
   > friends fixing stupid Windows problems.   
      
   I got to install Windows on my fathers PC four times in about two weeks.   
   First three times, until I got the damn prorietary WLAN hardware working   
   correctly, and then not much later I did a complete reinstall, because   
   the firewall sent me warnings every few seconds when the computer was   
   running. Non of the virus scanners or spyware scanners did find anything,   
   but I wanted to get rid off the problem, so the fresh install was the   
   only option.   
   Last weekend one of my friends invited me to play some older games on   
   his network. It took us a while to find out that the IPX implementation   
   for Win2k seems to be incompatible to anything else, so Dune 2000 didn't   
   work, at least Blizzard had patched Starcraft to work with TCP/IP as   
   well...   
      
   > I am going to try Zeta and if I like it I  will keep it on a   
   > system along with my Libranet Linux setup and use it to keep my   
   > hand in both.   
      
   I guess I probably only need Zeta if I should get a newer PC someday,   
   which I doubt at the moment, because I'm not sure that Zeta would run   
   better on my old PC than BeOS does right now.   
   I haven't booted Linux for ages, and now with MacOS X I don't really   
   need it anymore, because the only thing I used it for was TeX. But TeX   
   is also quite easily installed on OS X, and with TeXShop it's a real joy.   
      
   > I did like BeOS as it proved very reliable for me.   
      
   I still like it, and as long as my PC and my BeBox live I'll have   
   computers running BeOS.   
      
   > But then so is my Mac. I do not regret the purchase.   
      
   Same here.   
      
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