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

[David McDowell]

Um, yeah... get some up2date Apple hardware and run this:
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/

:)

On 1/2/07, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> > > a LED.
> > >
> > > So, is Google landing in NC soon?  I told Vint last week that I'd
> > personally
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >> > -----Original Message-----
> > >> > From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> > >>
> > > Behalf Of
> > >
> > >> > 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,
> > shoots
> > >>
> > > itsself
> > >
> > >> > in the foot (MS Vista)
> > >> >
> > >> > William Sutton wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> > > err...my co-worker says:
> > >>> > >
> > >>> > > -----
> > >>> > > that's utter BS. Real men write their resumes with "lpr", in
> > PostScript.
> > >>> > > -----
> > >>> > >
> > >>> > > William
> > >>> > >
> > >>> > >
> > >>>
> > >> >
> > >> > Oh come now.  Real men write their resumes with a 6v battery, a 100
> > ohm
> > >> > resistor, an LED (and appropriate resistor), and the tx/rx pairs of
> > an
> > >> > Ethernet cable.  Connect up the LED with the resistor in series to
> > the
> > >> > RX pair, one of the TX pairs to the negative battery terminal, tie
> > the
> > >> > 100 Ohm resistor to the other TX pair.  Then just tap out the packet
> > by
> > >> > 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
> > lpd.  Don't
> > >> > even think of going all new-fangeldy and tapping out packets ipp
> > packets.
> > >> >
> > >> > Aaron S. Joyner
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