Quite a few Linux users here it seems, good news. Suits the topic too - small-scale biofuels technology development over the last few years has been rather similar to Open Source.
Best Keith >On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:09, you wrote: > > Hehehe, well, I wish it were that cut and dry. Hence > > the reason I use both. Unlike the adds, I can't do everything > > I need to do on one machine. I use one for music, surfing, > > and graphics. The PC for Trading stocks, programming > > Pic processors and programming math apps. I've been > > using both and programming on both since I was 10 years > > old. I am now 32. They both crash about the same. They > > are both about the same speed although my G4 has dual > > 867's, the PC has 1.5ghz single. They both are made > > from cheap parts from Asia, and yet they both do what > > I need them to do. I would however love do to a poll with > > users of both machines. I am sure we would find very > > liberal people mostly using Mac. But I've been wrong before. > > > > We can debate this over normal email if you like however. > > I'm always up for some good nerd talk = ) I'm sure the list > > would appreciate it as well. > > > > Tad > >Well all I can say is that I have a PC built from economical Asian parts, & >it never crashes. Occasionally it gets turned off (maybe once in 3 months) >due to Lightning (as I am in the country) but otherwise it never needs >resetting. Very occasionally a program will crash, but this never requires >resetting the system. Even installing software never requires a reset. > The reason I get this reliability is that I run NO Microsoft >(or similar Co) >software. Yes, I run Linux, & have done so for over 2 years. > Do I miss all those commercial programs? Not any more. I have >found public >licenced S/w to replace all that I ever used on my previous commercial O/s. I >also run NO antivirus program. (not needed as there are a minimal number of >Linux viruses around (Yes, this may change later, but it is true at present.) > For the curious I run Mandrake distribution on my >Workstation, currently >8.2, but shortly 9.0 . I run Debian on a local server as a file store, and a >great program/system on my firewall (an old Pentium 150, 24M, 200M hdd) >called IPCop. > IPCop is recommended as a firewall - it takes about 20 >minutes to set up on >an old Klunker, then is managed with a browser off the slave machine. > >regards Doug >(Don't get me started on Linux - I think the system is great, well worth the >learning curve.) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Sell a Home with Ease! http://us.click.yahoo.com/SrPZMC/kTmEAA/jd3IAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
