DeadCats

Thanks, but I can't take full credit. It's a composition of various flames from different BBS's & newsgroups that I've visited throughout the years. Whenever I've seen nicely scripted flame, I copied the parts of it I liked into a text file I've been saving for quite some time. I did, however, assemble and edit them into what I (immodestly) call the, 'flame of the century' and you're welcome to whatever parts of it you want. I must say that, given what a pisser of a week this has been around my home-office, jdulmage provided the perfect opportunity for a well-appointed, well-timed, and well-deserved diatribe. Thank you, jdulmage, I feel much better now. And I meant every word of it. ------------------ "This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!" -Adolph Hitler, 1935

jdulamage, you swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As they say in Texas. I'll bet you couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon. You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done. I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell? Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly. You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you ckoke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs. You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have [censored] with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake? You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile one-handed slack-jawed drooling meatslapper. On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go. You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill. You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away. I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I'm sorry. I can't go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me. After this, you my not hear from me again for a while. I don't have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh. The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us "normal" people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are "challenged" persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known, that this was your case then I would have never read your post. It just wouldn't have been "right". Sort of like parking in a handicap space. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you. P.S. You are hypocritical, greedy, violent, malevolent, vengeful, cowardly, deadly, mendacious, meretricious, loathsome, despicable, belligerent, opportunistic, barratrous, contemptible, criminal, fascistic, bigoted, racist, [censored]ist, avaricious, tasteless, idiotic, brain-damaged, imbecilic, insane, arrogant, deceitful, demented, lame, self-righteous, byzantine,conspiratorial, satanic, fraudulent, libelous, bilious, splenetic, spastic, ignorant, clueless, illegitimate, harmful, destructive, dumb, evasive, double-talking, devious, revisionist, narrow, manipulative, paternalistic, fundamentalist, dogmatic, idolatrous, unethical, cultic, diseased, suppressive, controlling, restrictive, malignant, deceptive, dim, crazy, weird, dystopic, stifling, uncaring, plantigrade, grim, unsympathetic, jargon-spouting, censorious, secretive, aggressive, mind-numbing, arassive, poisonous, flagrant, self-destructive, abusive, socially-retarded, puerile, clueless, and generally Not Good. In other words, go away. ------------------ "This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!" -Adolph Hitler, 1935 [This message has been edited by DeadCats (edited 19 July 2000).]

Piss off, jdulmage. Many of us were lead to believe it was to be released Monday. And where were you then with your inside information? You're a troll, a scaly-freak that crawls out from under its rock only to state the obvious in a vain attemp to aggrandize yourself. Leave us, and never return unless you have input of a positive nature. Scumbag.

No problems with Win2K, IE 5.5, and NAV2000 here. ------------------ "This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!" -Adolph Hitler, 1935

waiting... waiting... waiting...

Better make sure all the built-in hardware will work with Win2K first. The modem in my wife's 1240 Presario (233Mhz MMX Intel) will not work with Win2K. Compaq insists that her model notebook was intended for Win98 and refuses to put out a simple flash-BIOS upgrade that would make the modem work with Win2K. Other than that, Win2K runs faster than Win98 on it. ------------------ "This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!" -Adolph Hitler, 1935

This is about the surest way to NOT get any help. ------------------ "This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!" -Adolph Hitler, 1935

SIGH!... Jeeze, I hope SP1 doesn't come out tomorrow. Since MS has been so busy promoting Media Player 7's release tomorrow, all their file servers will be hopelessly bogged-down. ------------------ "This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!" -Adolph Hitler, 1935

Me thinks MS is so busy getting out the all-important Media Player 7 (they even put out a press-release) that they've forgotten about us poor wage-slaves THAT BUY THEIR FRIGGEN OS'S! Grrrr! ------------------ "While it is true that technology waits for no man; stupidity will always stop to take on new passengers."

It's now 1:51 PM in Redmond...

Uninstall it.

Quote: Originally posted by JediBaron: Well I have an interesting little update. I just installed it on a fresh copy of Win2k. First off, the NT4 drivers HAVE to be installed and then un-installed. This gives you the needed registry entries for the player to install. After that, I installed the Creative Win2k drivers (I actually installed these first to test it out, but had to install them again to overwrite the NT4 driver files which have some of the same file names) One interesting side note on the clean install was that the autoconfigure on the screen worked just fine, so maybe it was just all my experimenting that caused it not to wok before. It would be interesting to note what effect the Creative beta drivers would have on a truly clean install of Win2k, doing the NT4 install/uninstall, then the Creative beta drivers install, WITHOUT doing the first Creative beta install/uninstall. ------------------ "While it is true that technology waits for no man; stupidity will always stop to take on new passengers."

Congrats on getting them hacked! Personally, I think I'll just stay with the beta Sigma/Dxr2/Dxr3 hack until some Creative gets off their collective arse and publishes some good drivers (waiting...waiting...). ------------------ "While it is true that technology waits for no man; stupidity will always stop to take on new passengers."

I burn from 20 to 100 CD-R's a week using Win2K, ECDC 4.02c and an HP 8100i burner at 4x-speed, using Imation 74 Min CD-R's I buy in the 100-pack. I have virtually no bad burns. If you go here, you'll find some excellent information regarding CD-R and RW quality: http://www.cdmediaworld.com/ I'm burning straight from my HDD's to the CD-R, and I do keep my HDD's defragmented as much as possible. ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat: You talk to it but you're never really sure if it hears you, much less comprehends what you say."

I believe those with IE 5.5 will be okay. Why? Because I just installed MS Office2K SR-1a. Afterwards, I read the installation text file. During the installation, it check the version of IE (apparently it may upgrade IE to 5.01 if it isn't already). It found IE 5.5, and didn't mess with it. So I would HOPE that Win2K SR-1 does the same. Keep your whatever crossed... ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat: You talk to it but you're never really sure if it hears you, much less comprehends what you say."

I did that, also, a few weeks back. The best solution is you screwed it up--you fix it. Try setting them to automatic one-at-a-time until you find the combination that works. ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat: You talk to it but you're never really sure if it hears you, much less comprehends what you say."

Quote: Originally posted by Aero: What exactly does Win2k *not* run in terms of games and gaming hardware? I'm in a bind on whether to get it or not for my upcoming Athlon, though I'm only intending to run pretty modern stuff on it (i.e. stuff made after Win98 came out). That's kind of what this whole website is about. Note that it's called NT Compatible. It might be more prudent of you to do a search of this website for the specific hardware and games you intend to run, than to expect everyone to list what they have and whether it runs or not. Otherwise, if you have specific questions like, "How will my Athlon xxxMhz run with an XYZ mobo and a GeForce2 with such-and-such a game?" then that's different, ask away! ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat: You talk to it but you're never really sure if it hears you, much less comprehends what you say."

Goto your desktop. Right-click the My Documents icon. Click on Properties. Click on Move. Tell it where you want it movedl It won't move the Documents & Settings directory, but actually will move your My Documents directory. ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat: You talk to it but you're never really sure if it hears you, much less comprehends what you say."

Sorry to be so 'snippy' with my reply. I didn't read your question fully. Anyway... On your Win2K machine, goto the directory or whatever it is you've shared. Right click>Properties>Sharing>Permissions. Check ONLY the Allow Read box. Leave ALL the other boxes unchecked. Your Win98 machine will now be able to open files on the Win2K machine, but won't be allowed to alter them. If you want something other than that, then play around with the permissions until you get what you want. ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat: You talk to it but you're never really sure if it hears you, much less comprehends what you say." [This message has been edited by DeadCats (edited 12 July 2000).]

Yup, do a search on it in this forum. Your question has been answered (and re-answered) numberous times. There are several ways you might consider doing it, and they're all discussed here. ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat: You talk to it but you're never really sure if it hears you, much less comprehends what you say."

Unlike Four and Twenty, my games (Half-Life, HL Opposing Force, Quake 3 Arena, and Soldier of Fortune) all run a bit faster using Windows 2000 than Win98SE. I'm running an NVidia GeForce 256 SDR with the 5.22 drivers. I've found this to be true for most gamers running Win2K. Win2K is not a gaming environment, but it just so happens to make a very good one for the right people with the right systems and the right games. And it doesn't even have to be on a bleeding-edge system. Mine is a two year-old PII 333 (with 192Mb RAM). ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat: You talk to it but you're never really sure if it hears you, much less comprehends what you say."

I don't understand. The LAST thing I want is to have to choose between booting several OS's to do different things. A ridiculous hassle, only fun for OS-freaks, IMHO. If you have to do that, just go with the one OS you've found that will handle all of that, be it Win98, WinME, or Win2K. For myself, I've been dual boot-free for several months, since a software update for the 16-bit Windows software I use for work came out. Windows 2000 does everything I need it to do, from getting actual PAYING work accomplished, to watching DVD movies (even though I had to use the Sigma/Dxr2/Dxr3 hack). I can burn umpteen-jillion CD-R's at a whack with no coasters, and Win2K does my games GREAT! (Faster than Win98.) It even runs good old GWBASIC and the one BASIC program I need for work (although it shouldn't run it at all, since the program accesses LPT1, and Win2K's HAL shouldn't allow it to do so). So of course, it's the only OS I use; the only OS I NEED to use, since I need the stability it offers to a workstation. My point is, if Win2K didn't fill the bill, I wouldn't be using it. And that's my advice for everyone elsed. If you have to keep swapping back and forth between OS's, then quit doing that and use the one that does it all for you. I'm an old fart, and I've given up wasting valuable time "playing" with OS's... ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat: You talk to it but you're never really sure if it hears you, much less comprehends what you say."

Amen, Brudda! Say it loud, say it strong: NVIDIA be da MAN! Quote: Originally posted by ledzeppel: Man, I don't even know why this is even an issue. I have NEVER, EVER had a problem with GeForce or its drivers in Windows 2000, and I'm currently using 5.30. If you guys want to falsely bash Nvidia, go ahead, cuz I'm over here running frame rates with "0" problems that you guys only wish your Voodoo's or Matrox's could do. Later.

I'd almost bet they're using some sort of "Speed up the Internet" program that uses IP addresses only. ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat: You talk to it but you're never really sure if it hears you, much less comprehends what you say."

/me smiles. ------------------ "Being married to a programmer is like owning a cat: You talk to it but you're never really sure if it hears you, much less comprehends what you say."