End of day, surfing 'job-related' website, caught me at a good time.
You
can access a corporate domain with a Win98 box, technically, though it is somewhat bothersome. Let me see... here is a copy of my guidance document (for myself, heh, changing our corporate domain to 'CORPDOMAIN'):
Connect Win98 to Network:
Open My Computer
Open Control Panel
Open Network
Add File and Print Sharing for Microsoft Networks
Click Identification Tab, input ‘CORPDOMAIN’ and Workstation ID
Select Client for Microsoft Networks
Click Properties
Enable Log on to Windows NT domain, ‘CORPDOMAIN’
Select File and Print Sharing for Microsoft Networks
Select Primary Login- Client for Microsoft Networks
Restart Computer and Log In using CORPDOMAIN network ID and password. You will now have access to the CORPDOMAIN
domain.
The only thing that is cumbersome is that you log into the corporate domain and then have to log in again as 'Administrator' on the box. Since most instrument boxes are on all of the time this is not that big of a deal. I would hope that your IT could firewall your instrument boxes off so that they are not exposed to viruses. Or you could set up your Win98 box on a LAN and drill to a shared folder on it from a corp'd computer.
PS: The rule that I've read is when you're intending to indicate the 'eses' sound you use an apostrophe. I was taught (I think) that an apostrophe indicates possession, but I think that is not always the case, or not entirely the case. So I think referring to Carl's and Chris's older OS's, for example, is correct. But I find myself in the case of acronyms dropping the apostrophe unless it indicates possession or where an apostrophe might confuse possession ('There are a lot of ROUSs in ALS's Everett laboratory', for example). There are not, from what I've been able to figure out, any hard rules for it though.
