The Fool wrote: > >> Now you force me to do a little Linux bashing :-) > > Never a bad thing. > Yes, because it keeps our criticism, not because Linux is worse than the standard PC-alternative :-P >> Also, I never found a newsgroup with gurus that could help me. >> All my problems were analysed, solutions were proposed, but >> they seldom worked. > > Funny I never had that problem with the microsoft newsgroups I used. > But I could _never_ get any satisfactory solution to windows problems that didn't boil down to:
(a) F&R or (b) buy or get a pirate copy of a very expensive software >> End of Linux bashing - OTOH, the things that work are really >> great, with many possibilities for intelligent design [oops...] >> and learning. > > I'll reiterate that I can have uptimes of 6 months without crashes in > windows NT 4.0sp6 and windows2000sp4. I can have upwards of 60 > separate Internet explorer sessions going, for literally months, > without any crashes whatsoever. > > It's about knowing what you doing. > Or it's about getting very expensive software? BTW, most of the "dual" things that I do with my computer are _many_ times faster with Linux than with Windows [except boot and reset]. Even things are designed for windows, like games in Flash, run faster in Linux - my 6-year-old once complained that a game was too fast for him on Linux, before he got the knack to win it. Windows sometimes seems horribly slow. I don't know what the damned thing is doing. Maybe it's compensating the faster boot :-) > Write your own c++ compiler that has built in strings, no buffer > overflow flaws (no evil printf like functions), built in lex, and > yacc, and perl-like functionality. > The problem with those projects is that I can't get motivated by them. Aeons ago, I like to write games, but now I look at the games I wrote with nostalgia - I can't get anyone to play those dumb text interfaces. And graphic programming requires too much effort for a meagre outcome. Even a Strip Tic-Tac-Toe would be too complex to be worth writing. Ok, I think I have a project worth writing: gnuchess is too strong, and there's no way to weaken its play. xboard is the CGI to gnuchess, and it enables an _other_ chess program to play. So maybe I should write a chess program that plays _random_ moves, as a challenging chess oponent to my 6-year-old :-) I could beat all computer chess programs up to about 1990 or so. By then the match was tough, but now with gnuchess I can only win by cheating. Maybe a windows-gnuchess port would be a beatable opponent :-) Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
