Yikes. Can I retract my original question? I sure didn't mean for all this to start...
Remember slide rules? The vast majority of slide rule users learned it well enough to get the job done. But there was the minority of guys who loved the tool as much or more than using it for work. Hence, the speed contests & ingenius ways of using scales to quickly solve certain classes of problems. Similarly, there are the stereo buffs more interested in the stereo than the music it reproduces. Or the car nuts who have more fun tweaking their cars than going places in them. And of course, the hams...enough said! :-) Same deal with OSes, as far as I can see. Linux and Windows users approach computer use with two different mindsets, or needs. Different, not superior/inferior. In my particular area of work (R&D within elec engr & comp sci arena), the army has decided linux is superior for what we do since we need to tinker with hardware & software often. Business types in the very same building, on the other hand, are almost exclusively Windows users. Their expertise lies elsewhere & the computer is a tool for them, not a gadget to be played with. So all our viewpoints are correct, just different. Let's please get back to ham things. :-) And thanks again for the very helpful advice on linux apps early in the thread! 73, Mike ab3ap _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
