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I have to admit, I still have a Windows ME machine at home, on a big ole HP box. Its not on the network, I primarily use it to "backup" DVDs. So the originals don't go out to the car. Been so long since I used it I don't know if it will work on recent DVDs and don't have blue ray player or writer. On my MacBook Pro I run Fedora 12, Fedora 16, Win 7, Win 8, GOS, Win XP, Chrome_OS, Ubuntu904Desktop, OpenVAS, CentOS, ReactOS, Android Live, and 3 other instances of Win 7 in Fusion. TMGB Sent from me, not an iThing, droid or other, just me ==================================================== Support Request http://portal.support.appstate.edu ==================================================== Thomas McMillan Grant Bennett Appalachian State University Operations & Systems Analyst P O Box 32026 University Library Boone, North Carolina 28608 (828) 262 6587 Library Systems http://www.library.appstate.edu ==================================================== Confidentiality Notice: This communication constitutes an electronic communication within the meaning of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. Section 2510, and its disclosure is strictly limited to the recipient intended by the sender of this message. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of any of the information contained in or attached to this transmission is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Please contact this office immediately by return e-mail or at 828-262-6587, and destroy the original transmission and its attachment(s), if any, if you are not the intended recipient. On Mar 5, 2014, at 3:37 PM, Marc Truitt wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/05/2014 04:16 PM, Thomas Bennett wrote: >> Happy 14.x birthday XP. Now that you have reached the ripe old age >> of 14+ the Death Panel says No Go, bye bye. > > Indeed. While I've used Linux as my primary desktop since the 1990s, > XP is my hands-down fave Windows flavor. Stable (by M$ standards) and > comparatively undemanding of resources (again, in the Windows sense). > I still run a copy in a VM under Linux for those things that refuse > to imbibe Wine and that I simply must have available. > > Perhaps that's why several contributors to this thread have suggested > that M$' EOL declaration aside, why give it up? XP, I'll miss ya... > > cheers, > > - - mt > > - -- > ************************************************************************* > Marc Truitt > University Librarian voice : 506-364-2567 > Mount Allison University e-mail : [log in to unmask] > Libraries and Archives fax : 506-364-2617 > 49 York Street cell : 506-232-0503 > Sackville, NB E4L 1C6 > > "A pattern has emerged in which holders of academic posts related to > Internet studies tend to join in the acceptance or even the celebration > of the decline of the creative classes' levees. This strikes me as an > irony, or an anxious burst of denial. > > "Higher education could be Napsterized and vaporized in a matter of a > few short years." > -- Jaron Lanier (2013) > > Wearing the sensible shoes proudly since 1978! > ************************************************************************* > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTF4r8AAoJEPzj7kQh8LzLA4IIAKuu8BOHERmMJpwwr4AD1ax0 > tlSuFx3ePXiGSZ+StbxVRienk0yyjufCnYfRiFUUugvFLsGGnigW7NBvwQciSOG/ > KzvsiLQhFIAGPicWSSWBv59YLUB1ZaXfgMN+NlYowQrwG/uA56olhH7bhJkuSrwA > hH3SFrueAvyp+F5ciIDIoI9GxFVurKvCxB67u3alvNSDPVd0MRMZn7FC6ynXzvdd > en7AhfQPhsXFJ/PSZVZuMMYxAmzFFx7oLR3c/4GfjTdAgI5FaQN5fYojq0Aj8ELs > Ivvel8m58WlMjLE52pnFeH6Qd43mK7U07qHfyxJ9ZSDlwVNxo4hSOM8BlSMb+kY= > =Bz7n > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----