no, you can put the kill program on the dos boot disk.

Well, you can use VNC or PC Anywhere to view a remote Windows desktop. VNC is free, and many different installations exist. PC Anywhere costs a good amount ($200?), and is a little more solid, but not $200 worth, IMHO.

I still think that you should use a Unix solution, though. Under Unix, you could run a graphical application, if you needed, on the Unix box, but have it display on your usual workstation (but you don't need GUIs for a Unix server, 9 times out of 10). All you'd need is an X Server running on your workstation. There are a number of free and commercial ones available for Windows.

I downgraded to Win98 on my laptop because it was faster loading and I only use the laptop occasionally at the weekends for short times so fast loading is quite important to me!

Use the hibernate feature then. I only clean boot my laptop running 2000 (again ,XP hated it) when I bring it into work, due to the dock and network changes. At home, I press the sleep button, and have it set to hibernate instead. It speeds the "boot" time up by quite a bit, since you also don't have to wait as long for programs to launch again, as they may still be cached in memory.

I find the stability of 2000 to be much higher then 98, especially on a laptop where hardware may come and go at any time.

And as far as games, well, almost anything I could run directly in 98 hasn't had a problem in 2000. Older DOS games that had a problem in 98 don't work in 2000, but thats what my upcoming classic game box will be for. The only other games that have given me a hard time are ones specificially coded. Mechwarrior 2 (Glide edition) seems to hate 2000, but my Voodoo 2 cards will be pulled off the shelf and put into the classic game machine anyhow.

To be honest I much prefer Win2K but it just wasn't stable on the laptop, maybe I need a bios flash update or somthing but since I rarely use the laptop it hasn't been worth the time/effort to investigate further for my requirements!

Maybe one day I'll get round to it, but there's just too much to do these days you know..... :-)

>Windows 2K Professional or 98SE?

Redhat Linux 7.2 GPL.

Or Suse Professional.

-ml

Like the new pic Mark!

I think once my other "issues" get worked out, I will set up a box for Linux and maybe use that as a gateway or something (and file server).

Thanks guys! (bunch of Win2k questions, but I'll wait to see if I can figure them out.)

>Like the new pic Mark!

A cheesy climb in Lost Horse Valley, Joshua Tree Park (California). Taken around the time of Hijack v16 or so.

Cheers

Taken around the time of Hijack v16 or so.

So you can date that photograph right down to the 20 minute interval like that! Wow!

Yup. And let me tell you, lugging all that computer equipment through airport security, and then up that friggin mountain was ... well, good exercise!