Forum: General
October 22nd 12, 02:31 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware
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Forum: General
October 5th 12, 11:10 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 19
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Forum: General
October 5th 12, 02:21 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98
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Replies: 19
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Forum: General
October 5th 12, 03:34 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98
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Forum: General
October 5th 12, 12:23 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,alt.windows98
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Replies: 19
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Forum: General
October 5th 12, 12:07 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 19
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Forum: General
October 5th 12, 12:04 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 19
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
February 21st 11, 02:26 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,microsoft.public.win98.disks.general,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Replies: 10
Views: 840
PartitionMagic 8.0 - Error 626 - please help
I'm copying this to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion.
For future reference, for questions and issues that touch on windows 98,
I recommend you include that newsgroup, because it's pretty much...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 8th 10, 02:48 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 84
Views: 1,985
Upgrading Windows 98
DevilsPGD wrote:
And if Microsoft's new OS is version 6.1, why are they calling it
"Windows 7" ?
Do you actually want to know, or are you just looking for another
non-sequitur ad...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 7th 10, 02:55 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 84
Views: 1,985
Upgrading Windows 98
Toolpackinmama wrote:
How do you feel about Vista and Win 7?
They are the natural result of Microsoft's unofficial motto:
"If it works, it's not complicated enough."
Microsoft's business...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 7th 10, 02:49 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 84
Views: 1,985
Upgrading Windows 98
John Doe wrote:
Try doing a search for "vulnerability in Windows 98".
And you'll find that most of the results are bogus. Microsoft was
famous for including Windows-98 in security bulletins...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 7th 10, 01:57 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 84
Views: 1,985
Upgrading Windows 98
John Doe wrote:
I'm the one stating specific details
You sound delusional and/or like a troll.
And with that statement, you've just proved yourself to be one.
Congratulations.
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 7th 10, 01:54 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 84
Views: 1,985
Upgrading Windows 98
John Doe wrote:
Up until (and even during) 2004, windows 98 was not an obscure
OS, yet it was during that time frame (2000 - 2004) that we saw
the most dammaging worms and exploits being...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 7th 10, 12:08 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 84
Views: 1,985
Upgrading Windows 98
DevilsPGD wrote:
Meanwhile, you can hang a win-98 system directly on the net,
no firewall or nat-router, and nothing can penetrate it. And
that's win-98se right out of the box - no...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 7th 10, 12:03 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 84
Views: 1,985
Upgrading Windows 98
Top-Poaster and full-assinine-quoter John Doe wrote:
You can believe your faulty information and knowledge all you
want, but your simplistic understanding is wrong.
In other words... If...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 6th 10, 03:00 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 84
Views: 1,985
Upgrading Windows 98
John Doe wrote:
For office and small business use, there is nothing that XP does
that a win-98 system can't do.
But seriously... Most current office applications (CAD, graphics
...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 5th 10, 04:28 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 84
Views: 1,985
Upgrading Windows 98
John Doe wrote:
Running win-98 today does not mean that I'm also running
hardware circa 1999.
It means that you are using old hardware and running old software.
Why do you think I'm...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 5th 10, 04:19 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 84
Views: 1,985
Upgrading Windows 98
John Doe wrote:
Win-98 was not vulnerable to any exploit
And then there is the (need for stability)
Ah, the stability myth.
The truth is that most people experienced win-98 on very...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 5th 10, 03:38 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 84
Views: 1,985
Upgrading Windows 98
Toolpackinmama wrote:
Look, the computer that first went to the moon was little better
than a primitive pocket calculator. It was good enough for them,
why don't we just stick with...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 4th 10, 02:20 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 84
Views: 1,985
Upgrading Windows 98
John Doe wrote:
NTFS is horse ****.
Says a Neanderthal scumbag pirate troll.
Ah, so you're a Macro$haft appologist and sycophant are you?
Microsoft has proven time and time again that...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 4th 10, 02:13 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 84
Views: 1,985
Upgrading Windows 98
John Doe wrote:
THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT WINDOWS XP IS INCREDIBLY BETTER THAN
WINDOWS 98.
What a joke.
I have spent thousands of hours pushing the envelope with Windows
from...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 4th 10, 04:49 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 84
Views: 1,985
Upgrading Windows 98
John Doe wrote:
Windows 98 is a great source of frustration for anyone like the
original poster who lives in the modern PC world.
Blow it out your ass, you dim ****.
You obviously have no clue...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 4th 10, 04:47 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 84
Views: 1,985
Upgrading Windows 98
larry moe 'n curly wrote:
I don't know where to buy a legitimate copy of 98SE cheaply,
Get it off a torrent. There are several, and they come with a few dozen
product keys.
Win-98 doesn't have...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 4th 10, 04:43 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 84
Views: 1,985
Upgrading Windows 98
"nobody " wrote:
I support a small fleet of laptops at work running 98SE because
of it's DOS capability. There's an huge amount of "industrial
software" out there for (non-computer) "legacy...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 4th 10, 04:39 AM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 84
Views: 1,985
Upgrading Windows 98
John Doe wrote:
THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT WINDOWS XP IS INCREDIBLY BETTER THAN WINDOWS
98.
What a joke.
It took XP 5 years and 2 service packs to get most of it's
vulnerabilities worked out of...
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