Re: Thicko IT question

Pete Fisher wrote:
In communiqué <k1sdl.44020$iR2.3664@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Catman <catman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> cast forth these pearls of wisdom
Pete Fisher wrote:
In communiqué <Mbldl.34095$yS3.827@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Catman <catman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> cast forth these pearls of wisdom

Please note that I'm not making any claims as to technical superiority. What I *am* saying is that IRO 99% of computers 'users' could transfer between OSes with no difficulty at all.

You may not be, but many Mac users do. 99% of home users - sure. Probably many standard office suite type stuff business users as well.

I stand by my assertion.
Of course, I have no hard data :)


Naturally. Hard data on UKRM - whatever next?

Indeed. Would be ridiculous :)


There are very definitely a 1% (ish) where viable alternatives do not exist, and that will always be the way, in both directions.

I suppose so, but for example in the area of cutting edge noise data capture post processing Windows is king. You don't find many offerings from Bruel & Kjaer for linux or mac. They might work under Wine or VM, but most noise consultants wouldn't want to dick around trying to find out if they did.


You did see the word 'not' just before 'exist' up there?


Yes. Just saying that in the areas that I need solutions for the percentage is much greater than 1% in favour of Windows. That may equate to an average of 1% of the whole gamut of PC applications, but it's not much help if you need a quick fix.

Ahh, Conversely there are many many users that still have trouble with the instruction 'open Internet Explorer'....


Anyway, I just introduce a young whippersnapper from a setup sub=contracting for a major out-sourcing company to a couple of compiled Autoit scripts which *must* still function after we have been 'refreshed'. The fallout should be fun.

You are a bad man.



Au contraire, I furnished him with script sources which had about 5 lines of actual code and 50 of comments. Any programmer worth their salt should be able to tweak them as necessary in the future with little more additional effort than a quick glance at the Autoit function reference.

He had never heard of it before. I wonder if he will go over to the dark side.

In fact, for someone who is officially on the at risk of redundancy register I think I have been unbelievably helpful.

Indeed!

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