Re: Ghost Image sizes vary

From: Buckwheat (spam_me_gently_with_a_chainsaw_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 06:10:45 -0700

Who is Paul??

So, you haven't applied any updates or patches to it in 6 months?? (I.e.
which required a reboot)

Other than that, I agree with you. "kurttrail" should change his name to
"kurtTROLL".

Here is a good site about dealing with trolls like kurttrail:

http://members.aol.com/intwg/trolls.htm

Ultimately, don't feed the troll or he will get bigger and prolific in his
troll behavior.

"Armando" <dijital@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:O18PX9ALEHA.2976@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Paul,
>
> If it crashes often then obviously you're the one screwing it up. I've
been
> running XP at work, 8-9 hours a day, 5 days a week for the last 2 years
and
> I don't shut it off on the weekends. It's been running solid without a
> reboot for over 6 months without a hiccup, and my laptop at home running
it
> has never crashed either (mind you neither has my slackware linux box).
>
> Perhaps if you knew what you were doing then you'd know that using the
> proper tools you can strip out a lot of the extra features to streamline
an
> image, and we at work seem to have no problem doing this. But obviously
the
> only thing you know how to do is hang around in newsgroups and whine like
a
> lame puppy because you don't have a clue what you're doing. Instead of
> trying to offer a viable answer to someone in need, you automatically
attack
> the software to hide your own blatant ineptitude and lack of any knowledge
> whatsoever. I see a hundred people like you in newsgroups and mailing
lists
> every week and I and other people on those lists are constantly forced to
> delete messages from people like you that do nothing but show us exactly
how
> many useless twits there are in this world.
>
> Here's an idea for you - stop whining like a little bitch: either help
> people out, or get the hell out. It's not a hard choice - and all it takes
> is to click on the 'Unsubscribe' button - if you can find it that is.
>
> And to quote you - Peace!
>
> Armando
> Self-Appointed "Moron Basher"
>
> P.S. I'll fully expect your response to contain something along the lines
of
> you being a network administrator or running (pick one - Unix, Linux,
> FreeBSD) on all your machines, or asking me some trivial bit of knowledge
> that you looked up on the Internet to try and make make yourself look
smart,
> or something else not-so-clever like that. Anytime I cut and paste one of
my
> 'moron basher' messages into a newsgroup, that's all the responses I ever
> get. Funny isn't it? :-)
>
>
> "kurttrail" <dontemailme@anywhereintheknownuniverse.org> wrote in message
> news:OTUnfV9KEHA.2576@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Buckwheat wrote:
> >
> > > I have a 4GB partition on which I have installed WinXP Professional,
> > > SP1a. I created a Ghost Image for this configuration using High
> > > compression. The image file is 1.1 GB. I then installed W2K by
> > > formatting the 4GB partition. I created a Ghost Image for this
> > > partition and stored it on the local disk, just like the XP image.
> > > The W2K image is only 698MB. Why is there such a vast difference in
> > > size??? My goal was to create images that would fit onto CD so that
> > > I could use a boot floppy with CD drivers and not be disk-dependent.
> >
> > XP is just 2K with a lot of useless bloatware.
> >
> > 2K = NT 5.0
> > XP = NT 5.1
> >
> > .1 for mostly useless crap. That's why many major corporations have yet
> to
> > upgrade there systems to XP even though they have legitimate volume
> licenses
> > to move to XP, because the only thing XP really does better than 2K is
> crash
> > more often.
> >
> > Look at it this way:
> >
> > XP is to 2K, as ME is to 98SE.
> >
> > --
> > Peace!
> > Kurt
> > Self-anointed Moderator
> > microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
> > http://microscum.com
> > "Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
> > "Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"
> >
> >
>
>

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