Richard Reynolds wrote:
pre-microsoft computers were a pain.
I'm SO glad computers are no longer a pain. And surely nobody else could
have come along and solved the problem any better.
Honestly I find people more of a pain than computers these days :D :D I
guess I am just weird. or do they call that a GEEK :D
one of the things they did was to set standards, standards they aproved,
and
If it were a standard we would be able to interoperate.
Granted M$ has not done it in a while, but they DID and they did so at a
time this industry had NONE. I dont understand why people forget this!
and why cant it?? I do all kinds of stuff with M$ files every day switching
between different computers and computer systems including linux. the only
parts that dont work, will never work in linux, not because they cant, but
because some developer thinks "its not a good idea" to do that. Give it up,
the developer isnt supposed to be saying you shouldnt, [s]he should be
saying "ok but its less secure lets fix it" and still make it work
application. I dont see any progress here. we complain about stability,
Ive seen NT4, 2000 and 2003 boxes run for as long as each has been out,
no rebooting, complain about the desktops most get turned off at night
anyways
So you never applied patches which required a mandatory reboot?
If the computer HAS to stay on, then NO! but lets face it this isnt
exclusive to windows!
Its an excuse I put up with every day, none of my good printers are
supported in linux, so my home/office server has vmware installed and a
copy
If it isn't supported in Linux it doesn't do postscript which means it
isn't a good printer.
to be fair 1 supports postscript "kinda" in that it produces better output
when you dont! and doesnt require a zillion gigs of ram. but how is that
going to help. postscript isnt without a ton of faults, and unless I am
missing something isnt postscript copywriten to adobe??? whats stoping them
from pulling a compuserve when they wanted to collect royalaties out of
every .gif user.
A lot of people do something about it. If they didn't I wouldn't have all
of this wonderful free software. And without the help of KPLUG over all of
these years I couldn't have learned how to use it so well.
If I didnt mostly agree I know how to unsubscribe. but doing something and
playing in the mud are a different things.
and lately I just look at what the whole mess and wonder .... and get pissed
off at the anti M$ for bashing beyond what M$ deserves.
Richard Reynolds
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