Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-29 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 15:29:36 +0200 Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] was inspired to comment: whats Apples Aqua? Is it Mac OS X? It's the user interface for OSX. Mike -- You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have

Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
- From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 10:50 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:40, Robert MacLean wrote: heres my personal stand on M$. If you think

Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-28 Thread rand
From: Matt Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 08:45:18 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID This article is pre OS X. I've also never used OS X. I do know from reading about OS X, Apple took a few steps

Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-27 Thread Robert MacLean
$ comes out with some of the best ideas in GUI's and ways of doing things. Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 7:16 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:14:43

Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:40, Robert MacLean wrote: heres my personal stand on M$. If you think of every one of M$ products with the exception of the OS's, and imagine all the products ran on a decent OS's (eg Linux :) then think how good M$ really is. There downfall is that they have a 2 bit

Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-27 Thread Matt Greer
- Original Message - From: Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] heres my personal stand on M$. If you think of every one of M$ products with the exception of the OS's, and imagine all the products ran on a decent OS's (eg Linux :) then think how good M$ really is. There downfall is that

RE: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-27 Thread Mark Johnson
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID - Original Message - From: Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] heres my personal stand on M$. If you think of every one of M$ products with the exception of the OS's, and imagine all the products ran on a decent OS's (eg

Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-27 Thread Matt Greer
on 8/27/01 7:58 AM, Mark Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't really on topic here, but does anyone know of any sites the compare what UI aspects of Microsoft are poor in relation to Mac (and for that matter KDE and GNOME). I always hear the Mac's UI is superior than MS, but to

Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-27 Thread Charles Punch
Robert MacLean wrote: heres my personal stand on M$. If you think of every one of M$ products with the exception of the OS's, and imagine all the products ran on a decent OS's (eg Linux :) then think how good M$ really is. There downfall is that they have a 2 bit OS and they charge too

RE: Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-27 Thread Mark Johnson
] Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID That must be a popular title. I've seen more crappy prgorammers writing in VB than in any other language. ;-) Too many pepole seem to think that just because a language such as VB makes it easy to program, real programming skills

Re: Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Dawson
DeKing [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:56:52 -0400 Subject: Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID and today I bought a book on (cringe) VBscript, aka VB for crappy programmers, so I can customize (i.e. make functional) some new software my department at work just

Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-24 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:12:00 +0200 Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] was inspired to comment: MICROSOFT IS THE EVIL!! MICROSOFT IS THE DARK SIDE! == I absolutely agree! === MICROSOFT IS YOUR MOTHER IN LAW! Get

Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-24 Thread Robert MacLean
:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:12:00 +0200 Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] was inspired to comment: MICROSOFT IS THE EVIL!! MICROSOFT IS THE DARK SIDE! == I absolutely agree! === MICROSOFT

Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-24 Thread Matt Greer
on 8/24/01 9:14 AM, Robert MacLean at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: isn't mac os x, based on unix? Yup, it's based on BSD. and doesn't that mean with a but of modifying (a very small bit) the stuff written for it should work on linux? Some unix apps out now that run on Linux also have an

Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-24 Thread steve
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 04:14:07PM +0200, Robert MacLean wrote: isn't mac os x, based on unix? and doesn't that mean with a but of modifying (a very small bit) the stuff written for it should work on linux? or atleast the mac os x gui should work, and thus apps for the gui should work. or

Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-24 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Friday 24 August 2001 16:14, Robert MacLean wrote: isn't mac os x, based on unix? and doesn't that mean with a but of modifying (a very small bit) the stuff written for it should work on linux? OS X uses a proprietary display system. I imagine that rewriting apps that use it for X Window

Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-24 Thread Matt Greer
on 8/24/01 8:14 AM, Robert MacLean at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay okay I appologise, maybe a bit excessive.but you don't have to work with internet explorer all day every day, after a while you start losing it. Heh heh. I have to admit I wish IE was available for Linux :) But don't

Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-24 Thread Robert MacLean
Message - From: Matt Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 3:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID on 8/24/01 8:14 AM, Robert MacLean at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay okay I appologise, maybe a bit excessive.but you don't have to work

RE: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-24 Thread Adams, Jamie
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 August 2001 14:46 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID File: message.txt on 8/24/01 8:14 AM, Robert MacLean at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay okay I appologise, maybe a bit excessive.but you don't have to work