Re: WinNT syscalls insecurity (fwd)

1997-10-19 Thread Simon Karpen
Alright, after being flamed to a crisp... I realize I shoudln't have sent that message to the list, perhaps a brief snip and a pointer to it at most would have been appropriate. I'm sorry for the wasted bandwidth; it won't happen again. Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

WinNT syscalls insecurity (fwd)

1997-10-19 Thread Simon Karpen
some more ammo if anybody needs info to convince people of windows nt's instability and not being suitable for tasks where reliability is important... Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Those that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safet

Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive

1997-10-11 Thread Simon Karpen
a Conner IDE that's OK too. My new 2.1GB > laptop drive is a Seagate, and that works fine so far. > Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Those that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive

1997-10-11 Thread Simon Karpen
Which WD drives have you had good luck with? I have yet to see a recent one last more than a year... --Simon On 10 Oct 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > I've had nothing but good luck with Seagate and Western Digital. > Conner, I agree has horrible problems. > > Simon Karpen

Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive

1997-09-09 Thread Simon Karpen
rn Digital drives. The failure rates are *horrible*. I've also heard many good things about the recent IBM drives. Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Fixing Unix is easier than living with NT." --Larry McVoy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAIL

Re: ethernet card suggestions

1997-09-04 Thread Simon Karpen
I've had extremely good luck with the Kingston Tulip based cards. They're fairly cheap ($50 or so for 10mb, $90 or so for 100mb), and i've found them to be very fast, reliable, and well-supported by Linux. The 10mb card is a combo card (aui, utp, coax all on one card). Simon Ka