I went with Brad Penn!
Frank "Swamp Yankee" Krajewski
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve" <temporarilyoffline@gmail.com>
To: "David Breneman" <david_breneman@yahoo.com>
Cc: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Mgs] OFF TOPIC - COMPUTERS
> When the conversation topic heads towards "vi", its going to become a
> religious argument. Can't we talk about something more civil like
> what kind of oil to use?
>
> - Steve
>
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:37 AM, David Breneman<david_breneman@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> --- On Fri, 7/3/09, Steve <temporarilyoffline@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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