<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.8.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Fri, 2006-28-04 at 10:09 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> > That's basically where we've been stuck for years. It's > childish, and I just wish we'd stop. We have better things > to do. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE> </PRE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Speak for yourself :-) Personally, I enjoy the odd MS bash. Particularly after I've just spent hours doing something in Windows that I could have done in minutes in Linux, if I'd been given the liberty to choose the platform. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> You do realise, of course, that the reverse happens as well? I still haven't got Bluetooth working worth a damn under Ubuntu. It was about five minutes' effort to get full functionality out of my phone (including HID!) under Windows using exactly the same Bluetooth hardware. Five minutes vs. about five months (and counting!). Then there's the audio problem. I have usable audio, now, but only from the crappy onboard audio system. The USB audio system works, but Ubuntu really doesn't like having two audio devices. It switches from one to the other seemingly at random. Then the poor thing gets utterly confused, locks up tight as a drum and it's the proverbial "Big Red Switch" time. (The switch in question is small and black, but the term still stands for historical reasons.) So far I've managed to dodge the printing bullet, but I expect in the relatively near future to need a printer attached as printing in the office is inconvenient. I've heard nothing good about setting up printing under Ubuntu either. Finally, as a more salient note, perhaps, I've encountered a lot of people who "couldn't get things done in Windows". Almost invariably it's because they didn't know how to get it done and tried it the UNIX way. Or, worse, they thought it couldn't be done and didn't try it at all. (I'm soooooooo tired of people saying that there's no links -- symbolic or otherwise -- in Windows' file systems....) <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> -- Michael T. Richter Email: ttmrichter@gmail.com, mtr1966@hotpop.com MSN: ttmrichter@hotmail.com, mtr1966@hotmail.com; YIM: michael_richter_1966; AIM: YanJiahua1966; ICQ: 241960658; Jabber: mtr1966@jabber.cn "I find many of the machines of violence very attractive. Tanks, airplanes, warships, especially aircraft carriers. And the German U-boats, submarines." --The Dalai Lama </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>