[wplug] New box

[harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, H. Lee Brinton wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:M:50AM -0400, harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu wrote:
> >> Plextor 16/10/40 cdrw
> >scsi or ide? either should be fine though scsi is better for cdrw's in my
> >opinion. plextor drives are good nevertheless.
> 
> It is ide. I went with ide because I am boycotting scsi; prices too high for
> such a small difference.

i agree with you on the hardrive front, but with cd burners i think the
price is worth it. one of my prof's got a 12x ide burner, that cannot burn
at 12x. he keeps getting buffer underruns. i dont know if he would have
the same problem with a scsi drive, but i dont have trouble burning at 8
speed while compressing mp3s and messing around on the web.


> 
> >> Windows 2000 CD
> >put it in the microwave.
> I currently do a lot of Java development and win32 is the only real Java2
> development platform.  Even worse is that during the maybe 6 months that I
> have run Win 2000 at work, I have not found any thing to complain about it.
> 

windows 2000 may be perfect and never crash, but i'm one of those crazy
people who thinks microsoft is evil. that is the reason i say: microwave
it : )


-- 

John


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