[Mgs] OFF TOPIC - COMPUTERS

[Glenfel]

Yup - David says it all for Linux/Unix; he is a sysadmin.  For most of us,
the learning curve on Unix for neophytes is far too steep and, with no
centralized, standardized support, getting some drivers and/or apps
installed is an impossible process.  As always, if you love something and
have developed an intuitive feel for it, you can make it dance to any tune
you like.  Any system or process that sings to us will make us more
productive than one that doesn't.  I have friends who are Mac mavens who can
compute circles around us in graphic arts and, as the Mac is Unix-based (yes
 you can write Unix scripts for it!) a Mac user with experience can make it
work miracles.  However, as well as Mac's network with eachother, they don't
network well with other OS's, a notable limitation. Unix/Linux does network
well with other OS's and, surprisingly, in my experience, so does Windows,
with the notable exception of some advanced functions in Vista and what is
coming on line soon, Windows 7, known in less advanced circles as
Super-Vista", an oxymoron if there ever was one.

-------Original Message-------

From: David Breneman
Date: 7/3/2009 11:38:08 AM
To: DavidCouncill;  Steve
Cc: mgb-v8 at autox.team.net;  mgs at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Mgs] OFF TOPIC - COMPUTERS

--- 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.
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