Enough already! (was: Re: MS Laugh-In)

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Thu Oct 19 18:55:36 2000

-----Original Message-----
From: Ernest <ernestls_at_home.com>


>I have mixed feelings about MS Windows/NT but first of all, I should say
>that I've earned a quite a nice chunk of change supporting MS products
both
>because they used brute force to make their product the office standard
>(plenty of IS jobs,) and because their products are so faulty to begin
with.
>Should I be thanking them, or cursing them? It's an enigma to me.


;) it gave me yet another career to lure me from my beloved analog.

>Windows is great. I believe that it's because, through my years of
>supporting it, and working with it, I've intuitively learned it's
>limitations. At my office, the machines that I purchase and setup myself
are
>stable. This is because I research what software plays well with Windows
and
>avoid that which doesn't, and because I choose hardware that I've
learned to
>trust -like Asus, and 3com. I'm immediately suspicious when someone
calls me


Very good point. it all has to work together. VMS has an advantage as
the
hardware and software are married (least for the vax!).

>cases, reasonable to me. The user is a beginner or a moron. They loaded
some
>stupid screensaver or badly designed piece of freeware. Or the computer

Common problem, deleting something or worse moving to nowhere useful.


>itself is just to old to run the newer software that's been loaded. In
my
>experience, these are the most common reasons for crashes. Occasionally,

Funny thing most of my systems are P166MMXs and only 32mb ram with
good IDE drives of adaquate size, crashes are uncommon for some and
very common for others. Why, every hear of Crystal Reports, to name
one peice of crap that is part of some large payroll companies package
(begins with A,,).

>there's a broken video card or bad memory chips, or a power fluctuation
but


My pet problem especially wiith older boxes those IDC connectors after
about
5 insertion/removeal cycles get real flakey.

>maybe 1 in 15 times is it what I believe to be a problem with Windows or
>it's design. When someone's computer crashes, they love to blame Windows
but
>how often is the problem really with Windows? Possibly always but there
are
>a lot of variables to consider when you place the blame.


Good point. I had a winbox get nasty about finding the mouse due to a
bad power connector! No other problems, just wanted to find a PS2
mouse despite having a 9pin generic.

>howls of agony in the distance? I want to like Linux, and I do like it
but
>it's got it's flaws, just like Windows. Right now, I would recommend
Windows


Linus is not for the novice computer user or as I call it

         "not yet ready for prime time"

Otherwise it's fine.

Allison
Received on Thu Oct 19 2000 - 18:55:36 BST