I still run on WMe. But I got it as installed in my 423 pin P4 Dell ... which I bought about 4 months after WMe first came out and after the big drivers fiasco. It is more stable than the W98se setup I had running on the ol' Pentium rig I had until then.

I think WMe got a bad rap because of its poor initial roll-out... which I always thought was on purpose to get more folks onto W2K anyway.

I figure it really depends on the hardware that the OS install is married to.

Having said that, I am looking to move up to XP but I'll wait until I get a new rig, hopefully a post initial roll-out 64bit unit with a bost roll-out 64bit OS as well. Probably means I'll be nursing Me and my 423pin P4 until 2005+

But I still harbor some hope that I'll be in a position to buy in 2004.

It just amazes me that you can praise WinME in these terms, for it is truly awful, but several other people in TLR and irl also seem to have little or no trouble with it, such as kimk. I tried it for a week then abandoned it rapidly, looked very nice it's true and the networking was good, but stability and functionality were worse than 98 or even 95. it was total fonkenhausen, a pachangweyed pos that deserves to be forgotten.

(having said that my kids have Me on their pcs and it's no worse than 98 so far, they still get occasional blue screens of death, but I run a lot of maintenance utilities timed over the LAN which keep their machines in good order. I want to XP them but they get precious about their LotR and Pokémon desktop themes)

Just lucky I guess.

Anyway, other reason I stuck with WMe is because of the new registration procedure for XP. It got my dander up and, well, no one has shown me why I need XP....yet.

Every once in a while, I harbor this insane idea of just chucking out of the MS world altogether and trotting over to Linux. But my desire for gaming usually reels me back to reality.

@Indy11, did you just miss the Off-Topic rapist known as MU/_/_3T? He spammed until our forums bled. There might be another play in this.

Sir Spectre

Edited by - Sir Spectre on 07-12-2003 04:27:24

Ummm. Yeah. I saw the after-effects I guess. I didn't know whether it was better to flame the guy or just ignore him. I chose the latter as, well, it is just too babyish for words, really.

Also, I saw that you were on the case so I figured sooner or later......

Nice job Sir S. You may need to have a name change though. Don't know what but if I think of something, I'll post up.

You know what I think annoyed him the most, even with those five huge posts in a row of SS IS A TERD I didn't get all bent out of shape. I think he was really hoping for some extreme profanity or something. Which we didn't give him.

The worst was when Spider was acting all cutesy in the beginning at the same time, so I thought for the first time I had two spammers to deal with at the same time. Fortunately Spider backed off and jumped in against Mullet. Or as we affectionately call him Mu.

Sir Spectre

So there I was posting away in support of a total ban and whaddya know, Mustang was clicking out the thread. Now I see how you can post after a click. I was still trying to get my spelling checked out so I hadn't clicked on the reply to topic button yet. Mustant must have clicked after replying to you before I finished.

@Indy11

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Nice job Sir S. You may need to have a name change though.

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Moderator might be nice, that way when these pricks show up I don't have to put up with that crap.

Yeah I saw that post of yours after Mustangs, I did that too when Mustange briefly reopened the Sound thread to edit his warning to a ban. I thought since he deleted a few of Mu's posts he would keep it open, so I posted to the contrary. But it was shut again just before I posted. So I deleted my post. I wish I had known and posted "Mu, I told you I would get the last word! " That would have been funny.

Sir Spectre

OK. Moderator..... Sir Moderator?

Well, that's what? Something for Bargib to consider? You've got my vote if that means anything.

*shuffles back from spawn2 thread*
@SnS

Well that was interesting.

He reopened the thread just to smack me about a bit for my last comment about banning Mu.

@Mustang

I snuck a little posty in behind yours. Sorry. But thanks for listening.



Edited by - Indy11 on 07-12-2003 05:36:15

@SnS post below mine.

Er. Um. This is kind of silly of me to post this way but... yes. While you were posting, I was editing (see above pic). OK. It is getting too late for me. I'm signing off now.

Catch you later.

Edited by - Indy11 on 07-12-2003 05:40:44

@Indy, did you see Mustangs response to your after click post?

Sir Spectre

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@Indy's 1st edit

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*shuffles back from spawn2 thread*
@SnS

Well that was interesting.

He reopened the thread just to smack me about a bit for my last comment about banning Mu.

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You must be tired, it was the "Spam2" thread. It was a nice touch from Mustang.

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@Indy's 2nd edit

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@SnS post below mine.

Er. Um. This is kind of silly of me to post this way but... yes. While you were posting, I was editing (see above pic). OK. It is getting too late for me. I'm signing off now.

Catch you later.

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Yes it is silly and it's doubly silly for me to reply three times in one post to one post. It's also especially strange as I have nothing to say to you in this edit, except good night.

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@My own edit

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You must be tired, it was the "Spam2" thread. It was a nice touch from Mustang.

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I was right you were tired. And it is triply remarkable to post an edit to your own reponse to an edit by someone else responding before the fact of the post I had responded and now am editing. Did that make sense? It's just strange.

EDIT4, since we were on the subject of locks and what we said before and after locks. Check out this thread I had a comment. Would I be a great moderator or what? Alpha, Beta...

Sir Spectre

= Confusion. Should this icon be included in TLR smiley choices?

Edited by - Sir Spectre on 07-12-2003 06:31:44

I will list wut I member
tower case
1.69 gighertz
13 gigz of hard drive
128 ram
radeon 9800 card
some kinda cd-burner
reallllly craply speakers (K-marties!!! )
intel celeron
T1 internet My dad has good realations with X mission and even got us our own servers to put games and stuff on. We are all lanned together to its really fun
by the way I had the last laugh at mu i emailed him a lil surprise
By the way I have several fire walls and anti hack with 98 I ahve nvr been hacked(don't get any ideas )I really do wish mac or someone would take over the gaming market though I am getting really sick of microsuck.
...Wuts ur take on the situation
u want the long version or the short version.
erm... long
your finished!
What was the short then?
bye.

Edit- Added words to mu

Edited by - Sp/der on 07-12-2003 05:52:14

@Spider

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by the way I had the last laugh at mu i emailed him a lil surprise

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What did you send him?

Sir Spectre

how will we know? it's barely coherent. Spidey, I'm really struggling to understand what you're trying to say

It's like (only as example, not as comparison) that stream of consciousness stuff you run across in "modren prems."