[Discussion] Windows Question [Sorry]

[James Cannon]

Hi Brian,

I think that Win2k is out of date and not as secure as a fully updated WinXP system. Hangining on to Win2k may not be too good. An OEM version of WinXP only needs a hard drive (or motherboard or CPU). IMHO Linux would be better. 


Sincerely,

James Cannon

--- On Mon, 3/1/10, Brian Grawburg <grawburg at myglnc.com> wrote:

From: Brian Grawburg <grawburg at myglnc.com>
Subject: Re: [Discussion] Windows Question [Sorry]
To: "POSSI Discussion List" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
Date: Monday, March 1, 2010, 7:58 PM

On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 11:55:11 -0800 (PST), Thomas Clayton wrote:
>Brian,
>
>Advice : Try it with Win2K anyway! As Dave mentioned it may be 'only' the 'capture' Sw that is made for XP. The 'drivers' may _do_ for talking and looking.

Did - it won't work. Even downloaded a supposed W2K driver for it - no go.

I've decided that the best, and lest expensive, solutiuon is to get a 20 Gig (not Mega) HD for the R30 - less than $50 with the caddy.
It looks pretty simple to swap HD when I'm going to talk with the kids, and then put the W2K back in to do my work. I suppose I'll
eventually have to move everything over to the XP drive- but I'll do so kicking and screaming.  I much prefer W2K over XP.  As
long as I can continue to write Excel/VBA and use Excel 2003 I'll be happy.  The client I do this work for has no desire to upgrade.


>> - like see the grandkids.
>Grand Kids? You? ;-)
>I had always 'pictured' you so much younger - just starting on your own kids! Oh well. You started YOUNG! :-D  ;-)
>[i.e. You started (your own kids, while being very) YOUNG!]


Well Tom, I am an old fart - (63 last Nov); although no one ever guesses my age (usually off by 10 years).  


Brian Grawburg 




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