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12:15 AM

Oops

LOL

dessert

;D

Dang it, can't edit my list. Grrrrrr!!!

My Experiences with Windows through the years since I have been a technician:
Win 3.0 = meh
Win 3.1x = Better
Win 95 = OK for beginning
Win 98 = Better than 95
Win Me = Garbage
Win XP = Decent Workhorse
Win Vista = Better than Me
Win 7 = Really good, but not perfect
Win 8 = UGH!
Win 8.1 = Kind of better than Win 8
Win 10 = Verdict is still pending

what about 2000?

that thing was rock solid

Different type of Windows

wat

12:18 AM

Same line as NT

so is everything past ME

ME, 98, 95, 3.1, 3.0 are all DOS-based

2000, XP, etc are all NT

dessert

I switched to Ubuntu when XP died because (the then up-to-date) Win 8 was just unbearable and it would have been at least the same amount of work to switch to it, so why not Unix? Ubuntu really didn't make it hard…

I don't agree with the listing here as NT 3.x, 4.x, 2000, and 2003 were never intended for home users en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT

oh that's what you mean

but you're mixing things up

Windows Server 2000 and Windows 2000 are different things

But anything Windows 2000 on was based on NT

Try to install games on Windows 2000

And have them work successfully

12:23 AM

I don't think there are any games I could download that would work on something from 1999 :p

Try gaming on XP 64 bit.

I didn't even know 64bit XP existed until like 2013

Try to get half the drivers to work with XP 64 bit

but I do see what you mean about 2000

there was never technically a "Home" edition

but it was definitely marketed towards home users

probably after ME flopped

It was marketed towards business systems.

12:26 AM

'twas both

I have an old Dell Latitude that came with 2000

it can actually run 7 pretty well too

Yeah, the US Government had Dell Latitudes back then at had 2000 on them. That line was geared towards Enterprise customers.

That was back when I was doing DCAA (Defense Contract Audit Agency) Support.

Latitude C840?

Maybe. I can't remember the models. But the Latitudes were geared for Business-class and that is why they came with 2000. dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebooks/sc/laptops/…

> "Blazing bus speeds, Double Data Rate memory, and Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 processors-M are now available on a mobile platform."

It's funny to read things like that years later.

None of that is amazing anymore.

:D

12:31 AM

> "Equipped with high resolution 15" TFT displays at SXGA+ (1400x1050), UXGA, or Ultra Sharp TM (1600x1200) and nVidia's latest GeForce4 440 Go graphics controller with 32 or 64MB DDR video memory, the C840 delivers blazing graphics performance."

1400x1050 is not "high resolution", lol.

64MB of video memory is... enough to run Monopoly, maybe :P

802.11b - such fancy. much modern. so speed.

it could come with 1600x1200

but come on

Ew, 4:3.

for 2002

that thing was amazing

I'm sure it was at the time.

@NathanOsman same as 1400/1050

12:35 AM

Well, sitting on my desk here is a Latitude E7470, so they are still geared towards business, but Microsoft killed the business line of OS around the time of XP.

@TheWanderer There was an option to add a Zip 250 drive :P

Remember Zip disks?

oye

those were fun

Nice!! I still have a fully working Zip 100 IDE at home. Yay!!! :P

the C840 I had just had two battery packs in the bottom slots

I really like the modular idea of that laptop

can't we have that today?

Yeah, Dell was good at modulating the parts on the laptops.

12:37 AM

True.

I did get my Latitude cert when I was doing the DCAA contract, but that is now long since expired. Dell is very picky about their certifications.

They were almost as bad as when I had my Apple Certifications. But I won't go into that. :P

12:59 AM

Out for a while. Have fun y'all! :)

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3:57 AM

Printers are evil.

pntshere

6:47 AM

Hi, how could I know who maintains tasksel?

Please tag

Byte Commander

7:47 AM

$ apt show tasksel
Package: tasksel
Version: 3.34ubuntu3
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Installer Team <ubuntu-installer@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Bugs: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
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@pntshere Just check the package information --^ If you want to report a bug though, best do that on Launchpad.

pntshere

8:27 AM

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Byte Commander

8:49 AM

@pntshere Doesn't seem to be a single person, as the Maintainer and Original-Maintainer fields above suggest. Anyway, feature requests also can go to Launchpad.

pntshere

9:32 AM

Okay, that's good, I'll write to them. Thanks!

10:14 AM

"A tsunami warning is in effect for coastal British Columbia and parts of Alaska..." http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/alaska-earthquake-tsunami-1.4499558

Tweeted by nathanosman_dev on January 23, 2018 at 10:13 AM

I'm nowhere near sea level but that's kinda scary.

10:37 AM

Buoy 46410 just northeast of the epicenter has recorded a water displacement of 10 meters (32 feet). #Tsunami

Tweeted by AlabamaBeard on January 23, 2018 at 10:23 AM

:O

Yikes.

Byte Commander

Oops. I'm glad I don't have to watch that from the first row...

Rinzwind

@pntshere you need to ask in on the launchpad page for tasksel; and it is not 1 person.

cl-netbox

1:17 PM

Hello :)

Rinzy :)

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