[Mgs] OFF TOPIC - COMPUTERS

[David Breneman]

--- On Fri, 7/3/09, Steve <temporarilyoffline at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Linux has some benefits but I would only recommend it
> to fairly computer
> > literate people with time on their hands to play with
> it (unless they
> > are doing the bare minimum of tasks, say web access
> only). 

Funny, that's exactly my take on Windows.  There are some
applications that will only run on Windows, and I use it
for that.  Mototola Phone Tools is one, my 35mm film
scanner is another.  But when I boot up the machine in
Windows, I always disconnect it from the outside network.
Maybe it's because I've been a Unix sysadmin since the late
80s, and never touched a PC until about 1992, that I
just find PCs counter-intuitive and maddeningly complex
in the way they do what should be simple tasks (like
why, fergawdsake, do you have to access a menu, or 
use double keystrokes, to cut and paste text?!?!?).
And why did IBM decide to move the <CAP LOCK> key to the
place the <SCAPE> key always occupied?  Sure makes using
vi a pain with the butt with <ESCAPE> in northern Siberia.
To each his own.