OT: Linux Troll

Ah...but did you put in the pretty orange isolated ground outlet for your toaster? :)

Tim

wine has a reputation for being buggy. autocad has a reputation for being demanding. good luck.

He said he has a laptop so he would need a laptop drive which is a bit more expensive.

Clients... that explains the silly remarks about macs.

Old news that macs are cheaper due to several factors, the most significant being the cost of support.

On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 20:53:28 -0700, snipped-for-privacy@igetenoughspamalreadythanks.com brought forth from the murky depths:

Wine is free. Isn't there a similar program (not free) which works better? Also, Autocad is known for being a bit buggy. I've heard engineers in the next -building- screaming at it when I worked at Palomar Technology.

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So what code that runs on BSD on a non-Mac PowerPC doesn't run on a Mac?

I've seen the same thing. The majority of the time, it is the operators inability rather than the software.

a better question might be: What code that runs on a mac runs

the thing with autocad is it's *old*. autodesk has one hell of a task on their hands: maintaining and updating hugely complex software in a fast changing world while maintaining backward compatibility with decades worth of their customer's custom scripts and add-ons, old data, old ways of doing things and so on. I have a digitizer built to run on autocad 10 or so. I don't use it much, but it is supported in the current versions of autocad.

Lets see, On this 5 year old iMac I run Mac versions of

IE Windows media player Netscape (7.2) MS Office (sans Access) AOL IM Quicken Photoshop iTunes Reunion Palm Desktop Quicktime Norton Personl FW Norton AV

Program that I run that do NOT run on windoze include

iMovie iPhoto Safari Thoth

All the programs that I run Mac version of are fully compatible for trading files with Windoze machines (since I do that regularly with a Dell Laptop) I I have no idea why someone thinks that Mac's don't have two button mice. I have one and it works fine.

I spend a lots of time working on large scale windows deployments and enterpise architectures of 25,000 + seats for the US Intelligence Community and I would not use a Mac for that but for a home or small business or for an specialized server install they simply can't be beat. They have a useful life of at least twice what a PC does and s I've never had a hardware problem on any of the 8 Macs I've owned. If you can't look at the issue objectively that's fine but to simply say they're a toy means you really havn't looked at the issue with any depth.

Allen Catonsville, MD

On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 10:30:41 GMT, Eugene brought forth from the murky depths:

Oops, I forgot that detail. Make that 40G for under a Benjy.

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Well just because its a laptop doesn't mean you have to use external. You could buy a plain old 2.5" laptop drive for cheaper than those externals. Then if you want an external, take the old one and but a $25 usb2.0 case and stick it in.

Smart move given the situation. :)

There are several distributions out there which you could use directly wiThout mucking up your HD. Knoppix is one I know about--it runs entirely off the CD. It would give you a _feel_ for how things are moving along in Linux.

Totally free, of course.

The file passing shouldn't be an issue (vide post), but having autocad work well could be. Have you asked the makers of the system?

I can't speak to Axapta, but Linux, like any othe *nix, can talk with any LAN out there. Gates didn't invent LAN's. He copied, like most others.

Wine is a possibility for Windows apps, but there are others. All have various limitations, as Windows changes things constantly (moving target idea).

Linux is slowly coming around to address the needs of this area. It basically comes down to working with a population which doesn't have the background to do their own setups. (I do not say this with criticism--it is simply a fact.) Linux was/is a geek's OS.

Outside of that it is excellent, very strong and capable.

Grab an old box out of the trash at your company and use its HD. Oops. You have a laptop. How big is the HD? Linux doesn't take much space... ;-)

Cheers,

Kenward Vaughan Debian (Sid) Linux

"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot

If you decide someday to give Linux a try, here's a link to a migration guide:

-Doug

There's VMware. I haven't tried it, but I think you can get VMware for windows so you can run linux under it, and VMware for linux to run windows.

On 13 Apr 2004 00:32:07 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) brought forth from the murky depths:

It was the latter to which I referred.

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No, it's Latin for "vomit" I'm pretty sure.

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No - it's ok, for a minute I though the OP's troll had cause greater traffic than the infamous Charlie's language, but it's ok, we were saved cause Dave didn't jump on this thread.

yet.