You're right of course Pascal :-) From Windows 95 to Windows XP is like night and day. They finally got it right :-). I have to admit. Where they''ll go next however may be a different stury but I dont know yet. we'll have to follow though on that. Indeed there's a lot of work ahead of us to attempt to top that. and Of course it doesn't mean we shouldn't do it ;-) either. But like Microsoft we should be more than one on the project each with expertise in each part of what's needed to make anything close to Windows XP. (Networking, Internet, GUI Design, Artists, System Access, OS development, etc etc..). and see if we can make it all fit together. -- St�phane Richard "Ada World" Webmaster http://www.adaworld.com "Pascal Obry" wrote in message news:ur823idhu.fsf@wanadoo.fr... > > tmoran@acm.org writes: > > My XP laptop must alternate between Shutdown and Hibernate. A second > > Hibernate in a row hangs so power off is the only option. It used to work > > till one day I ran Windows Update and it stopped working. > > Ok. My point was more anyway that I'd like to see less "stupid" Windows > bashing. Most of the critics I see here is as if we were still using Windows > 9x. I'm a free software (as in free speech) defender but we must all recognize > how good Windows XP is today, this is what we have to fight against. Windows > XP is a very good operating system, we need to work very hard to do > better. That is my whole point. > > BTW, ever tried to hibernate a GNU/Linux box ? > > Of course all this is far off topic for comp.lang.ada and I apologise :) > > Pascal. > > -- > > --|------------------------------------------------------ > --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member > --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE > --|------------------------------------------------------ > --| http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry > --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" > --| > --| gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key C1082595