 |
 |
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" >> <[log in to unmask]> >> 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 -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu