Re: Warning to the newcomer: CHILD MOLESTATION JOKES

On Sep 29, 8:41 am, downhill <down_h...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
snoig wrote:
On Sep 29, 3:56 am, Horvath1...@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:38:36 -0700 (PDT), Richard Henry
<pomer...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote this crap:

I hate to bring the controversy of what is the superior operating system
vs what is a decade long practical joke foisted by Gates and Ballmer on
the world to the otherwise peaceful and civil RSA.
I don't know what kind of work you do where you have to use a Windows
machine.  I can only assume you write computer viruses for profit.
I have worked several places in my life that used different PC
operating systems for a time (Mac, Amiga, Solaris, Linux) but all were
overwhelmed by customer or corporate demands that business be
conducted in the products of  MS' criminal enterprise.
There's good reason for that.  One of the things I do is programming
on voice mail systems.  The operating system for the voice mail is
written by Microsoft and the program I use on my laptop is written by
Microsoft.  I doubt that a MAC would be compatible.  Is there a even a
nine-pin port on a MAC?  Are the USB ports compatible?

Anyway, most of the business networks are Windows based and it is just
simpler to keep everything the same.

Really? Why would anybody run Windows for a voice mail app?  The
entire telephony industry was developed by companies that developed
and use UNIX.  I also do a lot of VoIP work and I have never run into
anything that runs any Microsoft products in that line of work.

These days we even run our Microsoft remote access virtualized on a
Fedora cloud.  It makes management and scaleability of all this stuff
so much easier.  If I need more computer power, I just slap in another
Fedora server and add it to the cloud in a matter of hours.  If
something breaks, the other servers take over.

You should really look into updating your skill set though.  

Depends on your market that you serve. The data acquisition software
that I use from the major players Pi Research <cosworth>- Motec- Stack--
EFI is built on windows math libraries and development tools built for
intel processors and earlier versions wanted the math chip. The market
is small and I serve legacy hardware, telling a historic race car owner
that we have to spend a silly amount of money and not even 100% sure it
will work to convert your one of a kind windows 98 based ECU to the
Linux version. <would make me sound as stupid as itchy>
In the large scale systems it pays for the development in a different OS
but if you serve the desktop user and small business you at times can
not avoid windows.
If you do real math type things on windows using an emulator to run it
on a mac it fails, talking chemistry calculation programs-- CAD drawing
programs and databases. Tried many times.
The next issue there is no program like access on the mac, database work
  with large by pc standards is going to choke in filemaker. I use
oracle on linux but it is not something you are going to use when you do
not have an internet connection and need to model a database on site. Or
if you need to consolidate several spreadsheets authored by different
people that can not follow directions.
Usb to serial suck and never work consistently on programs that expect
com port to be 1 to 4. I bought the only laptop that still comes with a
9 pin serial port. Works good to get into old phone systems, and a high
percentage of the cars I work on have serial ports.

Running a legacy Pi program System 2 Club Windows that uses a serial
port to download data from a car on a mac using an emulator. Would be
akin to being in the same locked room with scooter and itchy, I will not
describe what it would be like but I think you get my point.- Hide quoted text -

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Access and Filemaker? Let me know your address so I can send you
quarter to get a real database. 8^)
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