Daniel, Rant away. We all need to let off steam now and again.
I do have a completely different perspective. AOLserver on Win2K? When in Rome dude.... I think that if Win2K is a requirement you should be thinking IIS or Apache, that's what most everyone is using on that platform. And the AOLServer community is small as it is. To be successful at AOLserver and Win2K, you will definitely need to be C proficient, and probably *nix proficient as well. You're going to be a test pilot.... As an aside, after twenty years of not getting source with the software I require, and not being able to fix show stopper bugs, what a joy it is to have the source once more. I literally feel like I can breathe once more. That's not to say that the open source / linux world doesn't have problems dealing with installation dealing with numbers of libraries, complexity of interactions, quality, versioning, etc. I'd love to try gnucash (will quicken ever offer an undo feature, or (emacs) lossage, or an accountant's journal, all of which are needed when your two year old starts banging on your keyboard?) but here's what gnucash says about the issue: >For many, if not most, users of GNU/Linux, the installation of the latest >(1.6.x) versions of GnuCash requires a substantial effort to >install/upgrade dozens of supporting libraries. Although the effort >depends on the distribution and on your experience, it has proved to be >overwhelming and impossible for many, many users. Unless you feel quite >confident in your abilities, and are willing to take the time to diagnose >install problems on your own, it is recommended that you not upgrade to >gnucash-1.6, but rather, wait until your favorite distribution includes >gnucash-1.6 by default. Best of luck in your endeavors! I hope you avoid the fate of many test pilots, and have no streets named after you. Jerry ======================================================== Jerry Asher [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1678 Shattuck Avenue Suite 161 Tel: (510) 549-2980 Berkeley, CA 94709 Fax: (877) 311-8688
