On Monday 01 October 2001 05:20 am, Jon Clausen wrote:
Thank You very much gentlemen. I just had the laugh of the day, reading this thread.
If this is in any way indicative of "the lot of FUN" one might have with 7.3 - I'm in!
Have a nice day :-)
You've got to love an operating system where the login message invites one to "Have a lot of fun." I will say that there was a time, about five years ago, when the ascendence of Windows and its dumbed-down, cookie-cutter approach to systems was making me consider -- seriously -- gettting out of the IT field and going into something else. I was getting bored. Then I discovered Java which put the fun back into coding for me (and PHP has continued that trend), and I found Linux which put the fun back into just running my computer. Suddenly I'm again *pushing* myself to learn new skills, to understand and control my system in new ways. Thanks to Java, PHP, Apache, Linux, and MySQL, among others, I now *enjoy* my work again. And computers are again my hobby, not just my job. The fun is back, and I'm feeling young and mentally alive again in my workplace. With Windows, the only challenge was figuring out how to work around Microsoft "features" that are there to hand-hold for the novice but which obstruct the expert. With Linux, there is a continuing intellectual growth because I realize that no matter how much I learn, I am *still* not enough of an expert to take complete advantage of the power at my fingertips. It's a question of this: Do I want an o.s. that you grow into, or one I have outgrown? Sorry...off my soapbox now, and I know I just preached a sermon to the choir. Scott -- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------ Scott Courtney | "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them courtney@4th.com | having a bad operating system." -- Linus Torvalds http://www.4th.com/ | ("The Rebel Code," NY Times, 21 February 1999)