<rant> Yep, same for me. I didn't even know where computers were at technologically before I went back to college at age 30. The last and greatest computer I was familiar with was a (get this) - a Commadore64 :). When I was going to Jr college I spent a little time in the computer lab to write papers, and then my roommate got something like a 486pc. By the time I got to UCLA I was the defacto Comp Rm help. I mean I got so many questions from Masters and Doctorate students it wasn't funny - all I had to do is use my head. Now when I arrived at UW-Madison I bought my own computer my second year - a P60, that was like in 96/97- a year later I had a P200 tricked out as much as possible for gaming. But I got fed up with M$ products. I don't know how many times I had to stay up until the wee hours of the morning rewriting papers because windows would crash and I had to type 3-4 pages over (one night It crashed and corrupted the HD - god I was pi##ed). The year after I graduated I got Corel Linux for my B-Day, 3 months later - Mandrake 7.1. Now I'm doing SuSE and it kicks ass. Games run great. Reiser fs saves me the worry of crashed drives and lost work. People are afraid of change and things they don't understand. I have never been afraid to try things - if I fail I learn. That's what I learned that translated straight to Linux. I can't stand to be in an M$ environment - it's stupid and gives me the whillies. Case in point - I'm an R.N. on a neurological unit with an ICU. They use NT on the computers and to access the data base. Today "EVERY" computer locked up when trying to access patient records. We were back to "manual" data searches for patient info and data. Do you want to trust your health and well being to M$? I know I sure the f$%k don't. And if my patients knew what I know - THEY WOULDN'T EITHER. Linux rocks and at it's present state and it's future promise M$ knows it - and that explains the barrage of FUD. </rant> Just my rant, Cheers. Curtis On Tuesday 12 June 2001 09:48 pm, TRBishop wrote:
On Tuesday 12 June 2001 10:23 am, StarTux wrote:
Its not over until the fat lady sings, I see no fat lady. Maybe a plump Penguin, but he does not seem to sing...
I'm just a dumb-ass floor layer who until about four or five years ago, didn't even own a computer. Linux is soooo complex, that I now have a five node home LAN (excluding Vmware machines) with one of the machines acting as a dedicated server/router (SuSE, of course). That machine also runs a virtual machine with e-smith acting as a file server,etc., just for fun. I can't stand using any of our windows-based machines...they are so one-dimensional. If......I mean when, something goes wrong, I'm looking for the command line to get at the problem. The evolution of the linux desktop since my first distro (sorry, RH 5.2) has been phenomenal, to say the least. Because of Linux, I have learned a bunch about hardware, a little programming, a little networking and a lot about choice. I guess having been an independent contractor for 25 years (stress on independent) it just suits me. I am not a follower, and I would suggest, neither is any Linux user. Linux may seem complex to some people, but then again, they probably have velcro fasteners on their shoes, too! Here, let me help you with those, Mr. Coursey....