How about you all move the "which OS is better" argument to Roy's blog,
where he started it, instead of here? Just my own personal request.
Jonathan
Joe Hourcle wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Roy Tennant wrote:
On 6/16/08 6/16/08 € 6:14 AM, "Joe Hourcle"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I'd completely agree -- for those of you who haven't had to cut your
teeth
on multiple flavors of un*x, you're in for a world of hurt trying to
learn
two at the same time and trying to keep everything straight.
And to think of all argument I got for my "Why Unix Sucks"
post...<http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/240020424.html>
Your arguments have nothing to do with Unix.
It'd be like trying to keep track of where stuff is between Windows
ME, 2000, NT, XP and 98 all at the same time ... there are two major
code bases out there for Windows, and they're slowly intermixing until
I can't keep track where stuff is in each version. Luckily, I don't
have to deal with both Un*x and Windows machines anymore, and I've
managed to forget most of it ... and I got out before Vista and
whatever the numbered version currently is.
And how did someone decide to set the program to start at boot?
StartupItems? something in the Registry? autoexec.bat on older
systems? something else entirely?
...
and well, we work for Libraries -- we should all know that there are
many, many things that Google is NOT good at finding, and this is one
of them. (and it you do manage to find your error message, you find
20+ messages that are from two different mailing lists that are made
web-accessible through 10 different hosts each ... and DejaNews (aka
Google Groups) has the question with the person responding to
themselves with 'nevermind, I fixed it', but no actual record of what
they did.)
-Joe
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Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886
rochkind (at) jhu.edu
