On Tue 3/1/2005 3:31 PM Lorin Pino wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 22:17 +0200, Duncan Anderson wrote: >> Martell, Larry wrote: >> >> >On Monday 28 February 2005 09:26 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> > >> > >> >>Julie Sloan wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>Was it harder adapting to XP, or Linux? >> >> >> >> >> > >> >It's worse coming the other way. I started on BSD unix version III running >> >on >> >a DEC PDP-7 in the late 70's. For the next 26 years I worked exclusively on >> >various unix's systems - ATT SVR4, HPUX, AUX, Solaris, etc. For family use >> >we have >> >always had Mac's. I managed to never once use a windows machine or intel >> >hardware. Well that all changed last November. I was forced (because I like >> >to eat) >> >to take job where I am now working in the wintel environment. This has been >> >the most >> >frustrating 3 months of my life. A large part of it is my mental block >> >against this >> >environment, but it's also because windows seems to be random while unix is >> >orthogonal and deterministic. I swear I think there a random number >> >generator in >> >windows and when you boot it that determines how it will function that day >> >;-) >> >But I learn so much new stuff every day ... and I have managed to bring in >> >2 linux boxes here >> >(and I've only been here 3 months!) I just wish there was a list like this >> >for windows! > > There is! http://list.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/pc-newbies > > My father uses this list for his problems. I have never used it, so if > this address is wrong, then let me know, and I will get the updated > address from him.
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