November 27th, 2003, 04:42 PM
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Re: OT: Which is better: XP or 2000? > Another Piracy Discussion
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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Connection sharing? Why not just grab an inexpensive router (or hub if your ISP gives you multiple IPs) and be done with it?
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You don't need multiple IPs to split the connection with a hub... hubs are a switch + router. 
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If the user was interested in performance I would disable all the shiny-happy crap in XP, it ended up looking like 2k.
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And I tell ya, it is beautiful. None of this "skinning" garbage for me!
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XP Home is fine, as long as you do not need to log into a domain. If I recall correctly, the only differences between Home and Pro was that Pro could log into a domain, could be accessed remotely with that keen built-in feature, and could support file-level sharing. I think that was about it.
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A number of the configuration utilities in XP Home have only the bastardized "wizard" Versions or "simple" Versions, wheras XP Pro has the actual configuration methods for everything but user accounts, which is still bastardized. 
[ November 27, 2003, 14:45: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ] |