I learned a hard lesson the last few years. Keep your skills up to date or you will be put out to pasture.
My interest in vista was that I hear you can do wonders with photographs. Selling real estate, you deal with photographs every day.. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chet Gardiner Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 1:19 AM To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Windows Vista Uh, you don't need vista to run crystal reports, right? As long as you can run your application development software, the OS don't matter...Unless you're planning on selling your expertise in Vista IT support... Virgil Bierschwale wrote: >My only client at this time is me. >I'm always looking for a competitive edge, so I try new technology when I >can. > >At this time I can't tell you if vista is good or bad because it wouldn’t >run on my laptop. > >Funny thing is, I have 2 gb ram, 120 m hd, good graphics, etc... > >My suspicion is it failed because I had to format the hard drive, losing all >the drivers (it wasn’t formatted in ntfs, so it wouldn’t install) > >Now that its formatted in ntfs, and I have all the drivers reinstalled, I >believe it may work this time.. > >Unfortunately I'm not going to take the time to try it again for awhile. > >As for my clients, I've made 1,052.76 this year doing computer work, and >I've made 6,000, maybe 10,000 doing real estate work, so I'm sure ya'll will >see where I need to focus my skills at. > >Of course, I'm bidding 1,000 on a crystal reports gig (one week, possibly >one day) tomorrow, so maybe the tides going to turn <grin> > >Sorry guys, the majority of my work on a computer is quicken home and >business (have to have), excel (yep open office will handle that), Word, >ditto.. and email to and from my friends.. > >It was probably simple to install the codecs to totem, but after a few >hours, I didn’t figure it out and that’s all the time I was willing to >devote to it. > >Windows, handled it immediately, and if it didn’t, it downloaded the program >I needed. > >Fedora didn’t.. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of Ted Roche >Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 9:14 PM >To: profox@leafe.com >Subject: Re: [NF] Windows Vista > >On 11/7/06, Virgil Bierschwale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I don't have the time or the inclination to learn yet another treadmill. >>I'm set in my ways and all I'm interested in is selling real estate (the >>programs require windows) or working as a data ho for the corporate >> >> >empires > > >>(their programs require windows UNLESS you work in the server room) >> >> >> > >As Ed said, so why switch? I advised my clients to buy machines over >the summer and fall as sales fell and vendors are clearing out their >Pentium machines to make room for Core 2 machines, and to lock down on >WinXPPro. At least until SP2 ships. No rush. No compelling reason to >switch. > >Unless your clients are demanding Vista. Are they, Virgil? > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
