Re: [OT] Re: qemu and windows browsing

2005-10-14 Thread Wesley Parish
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:56, Joshua Collins wrote:
 On 10/14/05, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Friday 14 October 2005 09:34, Joshua Collins wrote:
   Sorry I missed the meeting and for the most part haven't been following
 
  the
 
   thread.
   I have a rescue disk with Win ME ('cos no-one wil buy me) on it. Would
   I be able to install windows using qemu from that?
 
  Possibly, but remember that there are very good reasons that nobody will
  buy
  your copy of Win-ME

  That was actually intended as nothing more than a joke :P. It's a phrase
 my flatmate often uses when he hears the words Win ME, along with Windows
 M(asochist) E(dition).

Microsoft was so enamored of the Win9x branch that it became part of 
Microsoft's most solid OS - Microspft CE/ME/NT. ;)

  --Slosh

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Re: [OT] Re: qemu and windows browsing

2005-10-14 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
 Microsoft was so enamored of the Win9x branch that it became part of 
 Microsoft's most solid OS - Microspft CE/ME/NT. ;)

Oh nooohhh, this makes me WinCE... oops.

Volker

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[OT] Re: qemu and windows browsing

2005-10-13 Thread Joshua Collins

On 10/14/05, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 14 October 2005 09:34, Joshua Collins wrote: Sorry I missed the meeting and for the most part haven't been following the
 thread.I have a rescue disk with Win ME ('cos no-one wil buy me) on it. Would I be able to install windows using qemu from that?Possibly, but remember that there are very good reasons that nobody will buy
your copy of Win-ME

That was actually intended as nothing more than a joke :P. It's a phrase my flatmate often uses when he hears the words Win ME, along with Windows M(asochist) E(dition).

--Slosh


Re: [OT] Re: qemu and windows browsing

2005-10-13 Thread rik-Xandros-test

Joshua Collins wrote:

On 10/14/05, *Christopher Sawtell* [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



remember that there are very good reasons that nobody will buy
your copy of Win-ME

 
That was actually intended as nothing more than a joke :P. It's a 
phrase my flatmate often uses when he hears the words Win ME, along 
with Windows M(asochist) E(dition).
 


I heard all the anti-hype against ME repeated often, but never actually 
saw it fail to work ok. Stylistically improved.


Wasn't it more of a not-new release? (98 cont'd, for Y2K - i.e. $ for jam).

Cheers, Rik