Two Strong Dudes and a Truck showed up this morning to bring my “stuff” to my new home. My Windoze XP box is now also running on a real table with a real keyboard, so I can get started on creating healthcare.art – and my weird typos from typing blog posts on an iPhone should decrease.
The only thing I haven’t found yet is the firewire cable to connect my external hard drive to the XP machine. It’s probably in the boot of my car. It woudl be unpleasant if I can’t get it connected, but not fatal.
The firewire cable was in the car. And yes, “boot” was a troll.
WinDoze will stop supporting XP real soon. What will we do then?
Live dangerously.
One of my PC based tools from the late 1990s is based on VB 6.0 using a DLL control that came with C++. I’ve since created native HTML pages to do similar things, but they aren’t as fast or clever
I’ll keep using the site so long as it is Adobe-free. 😉
I second that CC ! I have a XP museum here at my office, LOL
I have Dell Precision Workstation 530 with a Xeon processor on the shelf circa 2002. I think it has two 32 gig SCSI drives in it. It ran for maybe 3 years. It has NT now, but I want to reload it with server 2003 when I get a chance. It has a plastic bag over it.
I need to put it in a Faraday cage.
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I can run the Adobe stuff but it always seems buggy and full of security issues.
Have you considered Windows 8.1? I think the upgrade is still $39 and the home license allows you to transfer it to a new PC when you replace your hardware.
Best bet would be buying something new from Walmart if it is in your budget. The old stuff is just so slow by today’s standards.
The web server is running on Linux. The XP box is where I run my personal stuff along with the data gathering tools. Based on past experience, going to a new PC or upgrading OS would break the VB tools.
eMachine was a brand distributed by Gateway that has since been dropped. Other than sometimes requiring multiple attempts to get the power supply to boot correctly, it was well worth the $400. It seems like Walmart is losing interest in carrying desktops. Tablets are all most computer users need.
And no one bought the “boot” troll. Being half British – it floated by my eyes quite easily – it took a minute and then I caught it. Good one, Art!
I do NOT recommend the Win 8.1 upgrade. My laptop came with Win 8 and I’ve hated it from the get-go (ready to go to Linux Mint if I can get it loaded), but when the 8.1 “upgrade” happened, it was bad news. Instantly it made me change all my passwords and the wi-fi doesn’t connect on the first attempt. Or the second. Sometimes the third. Usually the fourth or fifth. I hate it.
I’ve run Linux on an old laptop and liked it. I used the Ubuntu version.
Surprises me that so many stick with Windows and Microsoft Office when there are the high quality Linux operating system and Libre Office for free.
Based on Randy’s experience there is little incentive for me to migrate to Win 8.* , but I use a few proprietary software programs based on WinDoze. I need to check if they can be run on Linux. Although I have built a few computers in my time, setup a home office network and completed a few minor repairs like switch out power supplies, change MB, installed various other stuff, I’m not certain I could navigate the hazards with no outside help.
Windows would be the lower risk approach for you.
There are ways to run Windows programs under Linux, but it add complications. Things like the Firefox and Chrome browsers have Linux versions, but I do not think there is a Linux version of Internet Explorer yet.
You can also run Android apps on Linux.