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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14675)	12/6/1997 2:33:00 PM
From: damniseedemons	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 24154

Dan, Chaz, Harvey, etc., a little help please... I want to get a unix environment going on my PC. What should I do? 1) Should I get Linux? If so, which distribution is best? 2) Or should I just get X Windows and login to the school's systems? 3) Or should I go with OpenNT? 4) Something else? Thanks, Sal PS. I have a NeoMagic graphics chip here, and they're a bitch about Linux drivers. So if I ran Linux on this machine (a laptop--which also complicates things further), it would be in low-res/16-color mode, which sucks.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14675)	12/6/1997 3:54:00 PM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

If the judge does not throw out the case, Urowsky urged, he should force the Justice Department to offer testimony from the senior Justice officials who negotiated the 1995 consent decree on what they intended.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14675)	12/9/1997 7:31:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

Happy With IE 4.x? You'd Better Be zdnet.com Another story on the Roach Motel California of browsers. Integrated? It's so integrated it'll blow your mind, or machine, or OS, as the case may be. IE 4.0 (as well as its recently released 4.01 counterpart) is far more than just a simple browser. Once installed, it really is part of your operating system. That's the problem. Because IE 4.x fundamentally updates Windows, getting rid of it--even in ideal circumstances--is much more difficult than pulling out your garden-variety application. If you haven't installed IE 4.x yet, you must keep the uninstall files no matter how urgent your disk space needs. Even if you do, you still will need to manually remove IE and reinstall when your users are running multiple operating systems, such as Windows 95 and NT, off the same logical drive. In these situations, Microsoft's advice on how to shed IE 4.x boils down to this: Reinstall Windows. Worse, you must back up and restore some files, like Outlook mail and Web security certificates, or you'll lose them. ... Our final word is simple. IE 4.0 and 4.01 are still too buggy, and their uninstallation too troublesome to recommend them to customers. If you do, expect your technical support staff to work overtime and field calls from unhappy customers. The best course to providing reliable Web services without tears is encourage them to stick with Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.x or Netscape 4.04. Until you can throw out IE 4.x without headaches, there's no compelling reason to install it in the first place. Sorry Microsofties, that's a tough one. Of course, the odds of you ever being able to uninstall IE4 without headaches are remote- that's the whole point, right? It's all about choice, and giving the customers what they want, whether they want it or not. OSR2.5, Win98, there'll be no worry about uninstalling IE4 there. Browser integration is such a great idea, you get all the browser bugs tightly bundled with your OS. All part of that integrity and uniformity thing. Meanwhile, in case anyone was wondering why my little newswire summary postings were falling off, it wasn't dissappointment with Friday's (lack of) fireworks. Windows networking sort of went synchronous on me, so I had to sit and wait for one browser page at a time. Yuck. So, I'm in the process of doing that all important, highly recommended reformat, reinstall thing on my computers, decided to give NT another chance too. Got a bit more work to do though. I was actually thinking of giving IE4 a shot once I had NT up again, too. Who knows, probably best to do it while the backups are fresh. Cheers, Dan.