[TriLUG] RE: This is what happens when a OS company, shoots its self in the foot (MS Vista)

[Neil L. Little]

Unfortunately, Its all this person knows (The old "ignorance is bliss" 
issue again). The dislike of apple comes from ... well an "A" type 
personality with no patience. When the person attempts an operation as 
he would on a M$ machine, the operation will often return a negative 
result and that person ends up pounding the keyboard uttering 
explicatives. Thats when I have to slip in and instruct how the 
operation is performed and it is once again bliss until the next 
episode. Thats how it is with artsy folk sometimes. I have heard mention 
about Final Cut Pro. It was a positive reference so I am thinking that a 
lot of this dislike of Apple is mainly frustration from not knowing how 
to manipulate OS X very well.

Learning OS X didn't take long. I skimmed through a book one week end 
and could pretty much do every thing I needed to. It seems fairly intuitive.

Oops! methinks I transposed Lenoir(town) with Lenoir(County). The "mill 
closing" phase should have tipped me off as Lenoir county is in the 
middle of the tobacco belt.

Neil, WA4AZL
JARS Forever!!
http://www.jars.net
> You have an employee who *wants* a M$ machine over an Apple? A G3 
> might be a tad slow these days, perhaps one of the dual core 64 bit 
> iMacs might set this poor person straight? Greg On 1/1/07, Neil L. 
> Little <nllitt12669 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > Seems that I saw an article in the N&O about Google eyeing a location
>> > down Kinston way for a server farm. Something about with the textile
>> > mill closings there is ample capacity on the electrical grid for such an
>> > endeavor.
>> >
>> > One other thing, The reason that I started this thread the article I
>> > found about Vista that I saw on Slash Dot talked about the OS dumbing
>> > down video resolution and audio quality. I work for a company (Gulf
>> > Stream Communications...shameless plug) that makes its lively hood  with
>> > the editing of  audio and video. Something like this would cause the
>> > company to have to look for alternate platforms to perform their/our
>> > work on. This would mean of course  more Apple machines. Our editing guy
>> > has had his heart set on getting a M$ machine (Adobe Premiere) as he
>> > hates Apple or at least the G3 (Media100) we have now.
>> >
>> > Neil Little, WA4AZL
>> > JARS Forever!!
>> > http://www.jars.net/
>>     
>>> > > You might wanna increase the resistor to 1 k Ohm.  60 mA is a little fat
>>>       
>> > for
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>>> > > a LED.
>>> > >
>>> > > So, is Google landing in NC soon?  I told Vint last week that I'd
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>> > personally
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>>> > > roll out the red carpet for him if they choose Raleigh.
>>> > >
>>> > > Regards,
>>> > >
>>> > > Jim
>>> > >
>>> > > Jim Ray, President
>>> > > Neuse River Networks
>>> > > tel: 919-838-1672 cell: 919-606-1772
>>> > > http://www.Neuse.Net
>>> > >
>>> > >
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>>>>> > >> > -----Original Message-----
>>>>> > >> > From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
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>>>>         
>>> > > Behalf Of
>>> > >
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>>>>> > >> > Aaron S. Joyner
>>>>> > >> > Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 11:22 PM
>>>>> > >> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
>>>>> > >> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] RE: This is what happens when a OS company,
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>> > shoots
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>>>> > >>
>>>>         
>>> > > itsself
>>> > >
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>>>>> > >> > in the foot (MS Vista)
>>>>> > >> >
>>>>> > >> > William Sutton wrote:
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>>>>>>> > >>> > > err...my co-worker says:
>>>>>>> > >>> > >
>>>>>>> > >>> > > -----
>>>>>>> > >>> > > that's utter BS. Real men write their resumes with "lpr", in
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>> > PostScript.
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>>>>>>> > >>> > > -----
>>>>>>> > >>> > >
>>>>>>> > >>> > > William
>>>>>>> > >>> > >
>>>>>>> > >>> > >
>>>>>>>               
>>>>> > >>>
>>>>> > >> >
>>>>> > >> > Oh come now.  Real men write their resumes with a 6v battery, a 100
>>>>>           
>> > ohm
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>>>>> > >> > resistor, an LED (and appropriate resistor), and the tx/rx pairs of
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>> > an
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>>>>> > >> > Ethernet cable.  Connect up the LED with the resistor in series to
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>> > the
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>>>>> > >> > RX pair, one of the TX pairs to the negative battery terminal, tie
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>> > the
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>>>>> > >> > 100 Ohm resistor to the other TX pair.  Then just tap out the packet
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>> > by
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>>>>> > >> > hand by connecting the other lead of the 100 Ohm resistor to the
>>>>> > >> > positive battery terminal.  No whining about not being fast enough,
>>>>> > >> > haven't you been playing Quake and it's derivatives for a decade now?
>>>>> > >> >
>>>>> > >> > Bonus points if you configure the network printer first the same way,
>>>>> > >> > before sending your resume to the printer as Postscript to
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>> > lpd.  Don't
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>>>>> > >> > even think of going all new-fangeldy and tapping out packets ipp
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>> > packets.
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>>>>> > >> >
>>>>> > >> > Aaron S. Joyner
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