Re: FLASH: OT: Win98 or Win NT4 or Win 2000 for Flash work station ????

[Joe Dames]

I disagree.  In my experience, Windows 98 suffers horrible memory leak.

Crashes way, way , way more frequently than NT, and  the security stinks

(worse than NT ;).  Windows 2000 doesn't sound like a good idea to me:

Microsoft  taking NT (originally a a great DEC developed product) and laying

their loving hands on it is a bad idea.  I don't want windows with alpha

channels; i don't want the power of 98 saddeled onto my NT Server;  I

basically don't want Microsoft fing up my NT.

I'd rather run Linux or BSD for stability and security sake, but for the

apps I can run NT right now is my choice for sure.

Now...if Steve Jobs and his lackeys ever pony up OSX... I will think long

and hard about switching platforms as it sounds very sweet, but until then

over two months of development without a system crash  or a flash crash is

hard to beat...


This is MHO,  but I know there are pros and cons to every OS and I can

respect


----- Original Message -----

From: Pat Bratina <

freflyinjuno [dot] com

>

To: <

flasherchinwag [dot] com

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Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 7:34 AM

Subject: Re: FLASH: OT: Win98 or Win NT4 or Win 2000 for Flash work station

????



| Hi Mats,

| Welcome to the "evil empire" of PC's.  Seriously,  I would stay with

| Windows 98 unless you're on a network.  In that case, I would go for NT

| or Windows 2000.  The only thing you really gain with the latter

| applications is the ability to set up networks.  Neither really helps

| with any graphics formats.

|

| I also highly recommend Norton SystemWorks.  It has a component that

| prevents crashes, checks for viruses (you would need to delete the

| anti-virus program that comes with your computer) and allows you to clean

| up the registry.  It's saved the day countless times.

|

| Something else you might want to look at is a firewall.  I'd been having

| trouble with my computer and traced it back to things that were

| unknowingly getting dropped on me when I was on the 'net.  I was about

| ready to go out and purchase a firewall when I stumbled onto a free one

| on the net---Zone Alarm made by Zone Labs.  It's easy, allows you to

| decide what applications will have access to the net and really blocks

| all unwanted traffic.  Best of all, it's free.

|

| I have an HP with 256Mb Ram, Pentium III 450, 19Gb Hard drive and a Rage

| Pro Turbo Graphics Card, that will hopefully become a Rage Fury Maxx

| today---if I can get the onboard card disabled.  The Maxx is a 64 Mb card

| with dual processors and fans.

|

| The only other piece of advice I have is to find out if your graphics

| card is onboard or slotted.  If it's onboard, ask them how you to disable

| it in the event you decide to add another card.  Wish I would have

| thought of that when I purchased this computer.

|

| Have fun with the AMD---it's a great processor.

|

| Pat

|

|

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 07:33:36 +0100 Mats Persson <matsimediatec [dot] co [dot] uk>

| writes:

| > London, 14 June 2000 at 9.30 am

| >

| > Dear All,

| >

| > Yes, believe it or not, but the day has arrived and I am switching

| > to the

| > 'evil empire' of the PC world. Just ordered my hi spec AMD Athlon

| > beast and

| > I'm looking forward to it !!!!!!!

| >

| > Being a virtual 'virgin' in the PC world, I'm on a crash course in

| > setting

| > up the ** best possible Flash development work station.**

| >

| > With all your experience, should I go for Win 98 (installed) or NT 4

| > or even

| > Win 2000 if I want to run all the flash extras from Swifttools etc.

| > ???

| >

| > Any comments, feedback, news, information, recommended software

| > tools would

| > be greatly appreciated.

| >

| >

| > Regards,

| >

| > Mats

|

> matsimediatec [dot] co [dot] uk

| >

| >

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           shockwave.com and Electric Rain.

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