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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!206.149.24.18!excalibur.flash.net!not-for-mail From: rkyoung@flash.net (Bob Young) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 08:00:18 GMT Organization: Flashnet Communications, http://www.flash.net Lines: 43 Message-ID: <3332502d.480155877@206.149.24.10> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5fknj1$bfb@web.nmti.com> <5fn3kr$s6k$1@jupiter.mcs.net> <5fsull$gqd@web.nmti.com> <5g02nk$q63$1@Venus.mcs.net> <5g0je7$fk3@ousrvr3.oulu.fi> Reply-To: rkyoung@flash.net NNTP-Posting-Host: rkyoung.flash.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:164644 comp.os.linux.networking:72070 comp.os.linux.setup:102699 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6336 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2809 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:57007 tuoppi@stekt.oulu.fi (Tuomas Haarala) wrote: >Leslie Mikesell (les@MCS.COM) wrote: > Most of the trouble with these "wysiwyg"-programs is that > that you can see what you've managed to do, but you don't > have a slightest idea how to get what you want. (Of course, > in time you will adapt and stop demanding so much..) > ROTFL. There it is, the slogan to take us into the next century; "Adapt - Demand less of your software!" Yeah, that's what I need, a computer that doesn't do as much as my last one. >-Tuoppi- > >-- >The fact that windows is one of the most popular ways to operate a computer > means that evolution has made a general fuckup and our race is doomed. Yes, lets all give our parents & grandparents a copy of Unix. Before you turn the flame throwers up too high, you will have to convince me that you honestly would rather have provided voice telephone only tech support to my ex-mother in law, under Unix, rather than W95. She's not stupid, but she was a soc major. Even the most basic computer vocabulary, was a barrier. BTW, I have set up a couple of Linux boxes, 1 FreeBSD box, and a couple of SCO installations, and I tinkered a little with a Novell Unix system. Putting my ex Mother in-law, or even my ex Wife, who is a fairly proficient NT user, on any of those flavors, would come in 2nd to major dental work. _______________________________________________ Bob Young SE 4 STB Systems Specialized Technology Group Multi-Head NT Video Drivers BYoung@STB.Com RKYoung@Flash.Net My Paycheck comes from STB, My Opinions Do Not _______________________________________________