Re: [Aus-soaring] Tiger and Computing

2009-06-21 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 11:09 AM 19/06/2009, you wrote: For anybody new to gliding and PCs who is thinking of buying a computer the knowledge that Macs (or Linux machines) are pretty much not used (there are a few exceptions with software being written by enthusiasts for those OSs) by any gliding software for

Re: [Aus-soaring] Tiger and Computing

2009-06-21 Thread Hitman (Melb)
now that was hillarious.(for a geek like me) sitting down at my PC running curtains (or was it windows) down with mac but bring on the communism (e open source Linux) - Original Message - From: Mike Borgelt mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com To: Discussion of issues relating to

Re: [Aus-soaring] Tiger and Computing

2009-06-21 Thread Catherine Conway
That was really funny :) They missed the bit where the old multicoloured apple logo could be linked to the pride flag - ;) -Cath (who is writing this message on a mac while my iPhone is updating) On 22/06/2009, at 7:58 AM, Mike Borgelt wrote: Really? What are the sales stats? Anyway

[Aus-soaring] weighing aircraft

2009-06-21 Thread Wayne Carter
Anyone see the breakdown of the tailstrike event at tulla recently and think eh? How come pilots have to put a weight into the computer? Why doesn't this type of a/c weigh itself? This is hardly high end technical stuff! If it does, how come the pilots over-rode the number by so much? WPP and kero

Re: [Aus-soaring] weighing aircraft

2009-06-21 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 12:41 PM 22/06/2009, you wrote: Anyone see the breakdown of the tailstrike event at tulla recently and think eh? How come pilots have to put a weight into the computer? Why doesn't this type of a/c weigh itself? This is hardly high end technical stuff! If it does, how come the pilots

[Aus-soaring] One giant P**stake, now back to gliding ;-)

2009-06-21 Thread Texler, Michael
Thanks Mike for the Mac bashing, very funny The website is one giant Hoax, but very well done. Someone has way too much spare time... BTW, I went gliding last Saturday at BSS. I had fun. Michael P.S. Mac User since 1986. Forced to use Windoze at work