I just got done working for a large company. The IT people were all full of an irrational hatred for any OS other the the junk put out by Microsoft. Their training? It's like Republicans and Clinton. Mac, Linux, Unix, whatever. From a users point of view (never really very important to these folks), anything else is far, far better.
Cliff Abrams --- David Kilpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ted Hastings wrote: > > > > As far as I can see, the principal characteristic of the "Unix > user > > community" is to criticise Microsoft and Windows at every > opportunity. > > Windows users don't seem to be nearly as prone to bashing the > > competition, perhaps because they're getting on with productive > work > > using the world's best-selling software, rather than writing > their > > own fixes for OS bugs :<) > > > Try telling that to my son, who has been unable to work at all for > the last three days > > because of the ridiculous registry system used by Microsoft, which > if > you are obliged to install many programs and attempt to remove them > (we > have to test digital cameras, scanners, software etc all the time) > and > also run heavily protected software like Sage Payroll on the same > machine - well, the risks are huge. > > I was told that Mac OS X with its 64,000 system components was a > nightmare but not so - unlike Windows NT/2000/XP whatever, it > really can > handle a re-installation without losing a single user preference or > a > single essential file, or any of the links betweens programs, data > and > system-level components installed by programs for their own use. > > We can't afford to have multiple PCs but we are now considering > having > one just to run payroll and contact info software, one just to run > Internet access, and one for testing equipment and software which > can be > erased and reinstalled without risk. We've been using Sun, Mac, > BeBox, > Acorn, various Linux installations (on both Mac and PC), many > handhelds > and pioneer products over the last decade or so and: > > of all the systems and platforms out there, not one is as utterly > awful > as the Microsoft/PC platform. It is the only platform which > consistently > costs us time, money and anger. > > I can be frustrated at time with Macs, but at least: > I can switch in two minutes to working under OS9 and do any work I > need > to on OS X components, without 'ownership' issues and access > privileges > hampering me > I can boot up and run my system from a CD > I can run software we bought in 1984 alongside the latest packages, > and > be utterly stable and print reliably - not ALL software from 1984, > of > course, and I have a cupboard full of software which stopped > running the > year after it was purchased, as was never rewritten... > > because Windows was the world's leading platform, and it wasn't > worth > keeping stuff live on Macs at the time > > However, now Macs are essentially Unix machines, that problem has > gone, > and I can well understand why the peculiar folk of the Unix > community > have been so gnarly for so many years. They were right all along. > > David > > Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
