Re: square bullets


"Keith" <krw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.04.24.01.09.01.721028@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:26:18 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:01:25 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:29:12 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was typing a datasheet in Word, and it decided at some point to
change all my "features" bullets from OK round things to ugly square
things. And it now refuses to change them back. And now this 2-page
document likes to lock up and freeze Word now and then.

To Microsoft, Bill Gates, and the entire Word team: you code crap.

John

Are you just discovering that?

Has anyone installed Win2K over XP... this new XP machine is pure
crap.

...Jim Thompson


My XP isn't too bad. Mandatory reboots are at least a week apart
(unlike 98, daily at best) and boot time is 40 seconds (unlike 2K,
which runs to many minutes.) As garbage goes, it's usable.

My old laptop (ThinkPad A21p) with Win2K crashed maybe five times in as
many years.

I have a Thinkpad A22P running win 2K - essentially the same model with a 1
GHz PIII CPU - and I don't want to upgrade to a new model it as it works
fine. Very Stable. The only time it crashes is when I do something stupid,
run known very buggy software, or fill the Virtual Memory and RAM so full it
crashes. I think I may spend a few $ on it soon and slap a larger HD, some
more RAM and replace the battery cells with 2400 mAh ones - that should keep
me going for several more years. The 1600 - 1200 screens on those models are
great, but getting slow by today's standards.



ITs replacement (ThinkPad T42p crashes pretty much once a
week, despite being five years newer and having 4x the memory.

XP does run a mighty fine DOS box.

Come on! It sucks. My DOSish calculators usually are "out of resources".
That *NEVER* happened under Win2K. XP sucks, though I guess I have to
live with it (and will be buying a personal laptop with it this week,
gack).

Win2K has been the *ONLY* version of Windows that could remotely be
referred to as being "stable".

Totally agreed. I will only run it now. If you have an XP license, you are
allowed to run win 2K instead, as apparently noted in the EULA. I'm soon
going to try out eComStation - looks promising, at least for 90% of the
programs I run.


--
Keith


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