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

Greg Brown gwbrown1 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 2 09:06:32 EST 2007


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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