Various XP Alternatives:<br><br>a)&nbsp; Change the way you live:<br>Blackberry for Groupware if your company has a server?<br><br>b) Change the way you work:<br>1) Run whatever application you require from within wine...<br>2) Run XP in VMWARE player - various pre-cooked installations are already available for free player.&nbsp; Player is easy to install under Linux.<br>3) Use a linux variant?<br><br>What is it that precludes chucking Windows?<br><br>If your Corporate mistress requires you to use cisco VPN via their certificate there is still an alternative, however they might not support it.<br>If those are the kinds of questions, certainly PLUG is for you.<br><br>Not that I don't also like running many distros (including Windows, MAC OS X, Solaris and Irix [making them all work together])... But you seemed dissatisfied with your current dependence?<br><br><b><i>Josef Lowder &lt;joe@actionline.com&gt;</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid
 rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> .<br>While I use Linux for 95% of my work, I still have to use <br>win.xp for a few things and sure would like to find someone<br>(or someplace like PLUG) where I could submit questions that <br>come up from time.<br><br>M$ is terribly frustrating, and I wish I could discard it<br>entirely; but I'm stuck with having to use it for some things.<br><br>The M$ file and directory structure seems very lame and confusing.<br><br>Is there any way to eliminate that ridiculous "My" in several  <br>folder names?  "My Computer" "My Documents" "My Pictures" etc.<br><br>Can one just rename all those folders to eliminate "My" ... <br>and eliminate spaces in *all* file and folder/directory names?<br><br>And why does "My Documents" show up in more than one place?<br><br><br>---------------------------------------------------<br>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us<br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to
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