I remember when I first fired up the Workplace Shell in v. 2.1. Everything was interconnected, and theoretically would Just Work--hell it worked better than Windows 3.11. But the problem was that everything was dependent upon "and ifs".
Want to print a document? Just drag its icon to the printer icon and if your word processor is written right, the document will print without having to start your word processor.
Don't like the color of your terminal window? Drop a color from the color palette to the window and if its written right, it'll not only change to the color you want, but the program will remember!
That's just scratching the surface; hpfs, multimedia, Christ, even the GNU tools all ran under OS/2 (heck, that's how I discovered tcsh, which has been my command line shell for longer than I've known *nix!).
Of course history chose the winner. The WPS was the Win 95 shell done right. It took MS, what, 6 years? to get Windows to the stability of OS/2.
Alas, OS/2 is now a corpse. I understand it's still being used, but not to the extent that it could have been. OS/2 was elegant, and Win 95 brutish--having the feel of someone trying to forge the Mona Lisa with a Crayola.
Of course, time marches on, and I was able to dodge the Microsoft tax all throughout college by using Linux, which has slowly pulled itself up to start feeling vaguely like the WPS. KDE 4.2 and its promise of further integration of... stuff has my curiosity piqued.
You're right, though, OS/2 is dead, and people should be looking to migrate their software to something a little more modern.
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I've found that if I don't like something about firefox, I can go to addons.mozilla.org and type my annoyance into the search box and chances are someone has created an add on to make my web life easier.
By my calculations, it ceases to be "reasonable doubt" and veers off into "complete mathematical certainty" when they use phrases like "Reiser's chilling confession," and "led authorities to [the body]".
But, then again, I'm not a mathematician...
...but I did watch a lot of Matlock when I was younger.
I've been running the latest and greatest since August 1 (latest flash, firefox 3) before then, it wasn't uncommon for flash to freeze firefox 2. Is it the same content each time, or is this a cumulative crash? For me it seemed pretty random--mostly when I was trying to close a tab with flash content--but I've yet to find something that kills firefox 3.
Couldn't Ghostscript do this? Tiff is an output device option. I don't think it'd take too much to jimmy up a script to process an assload of PDFs. (Unless, of course, that's the program that was crashing frequently...)
Did you know that on all four tires, there are these little things that, if one were so inclined, a person could, with the help of four pebbles, let the air out of the tires of said Tahoe or Excursion?
Jesus Christ. How in the hell is, "I do not care what the law says" an argument? Seriously. When I see a person commuting to work on a bike, I think, "Gee, I wish I lived close enough to work to do that," not, "that FUCKER! He's using up all my share of pavement before I get a chance to have a whole bunch!"
Are you serious? I can purchase MS Office 2007 through my employer for (iirc) around $40. They send me a DVD and all the other hoo ha.
Of course, in my field, I have no use for Office, so I use Openoffice, though it was tempting to get it for my wife so I can bring an end to the whining every time she has to open up her boss's Monday memo he distributes in a.doc that makes openoffice crash.
I've written a novel, and numerous short stories on my old Model M. It isn't like the klickety-klackity is going to make you deaf, but it does drive other people nuts...
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Ah, but we know that he is, indeed, red and not black.
Duh.
Want to print a document? Just drag its icon to the printer icon and if your word processor is written right, the document will print without having to start your word processor.
Don't like the color of your terminal window? Drop a color from the color palette to the window and if its written right, it'll not only change to the color you want, but the program will remember!
That's just scratching the surface; hpfs, multimedia, Christ, even the GNU tools all ran under OS/2 (heck, that's how I discovered tcsh, which has been my command line shell for longer than I've known *nix!).
Of course history chose the winner. The WPS was the Win 95 shell done right. It took MS, what, 6 years? to get Windows to the stability of OS/2. Alas, OS/2 is now a corpse. I understand it's still being used, but not to the extent that it could have been. OS/2 was elegant, and Win 95 brutish--having the feel of someone trying to forge the Mona Lisa with a Crayola. Of course, time marches on, and I was able to dodge the Microsoft tax all throughout college by using Linux, which has slowly pulled itself up to start feeling vaguely like the WPS. KDE 4.2 and its promise of further integration of ... stuff has my curiosity piqued.
You're right, though, OS/2 is dead, and people should be looking to migrate their software to something a little more modern.
I've found that if I don't like something about firefox, I can go to addons.mozilla.org and type my annoyance into the search box and chances are someone has created an add on to make my web life easier.
But, then again, I'm not a mathematician...
...but I did watch a lot of Matlock when I was younger.
Yeah, but it'd be a helluva lot easier to get rid of that crap.
Now what am I supposed to call my brother-in-law?
My cat eats flies all the time.
Not only that, they're often priced the same so in the long run it really doesn't matter to the cashier (or the produce manager for that matter).
Ymmv, etc., etc..
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Thank you, I'll be here all week.
Silly me, I thought that men with guns protect the White House.
You might want to get your eyesight checked. [imageshack.us]
I just did. Still no ads...
Still no ads.
Why, have they started playing music again?
Not everything is made in a factory.
Couldn't Ghostscript do this? Tiff is an output device option. I don't think it'd take too much to jimmy up a script to process an assload of PDFs. (Unless, of course, that's the program that was crashing frequently...)
Or, you could have realized that this person is your boss, and then done what he'd told you to do...
Only to the government...
I've been an advocate for this method for quite some time. "Tell me Mr. Extortionist, how can your write a virus with ten broken fingers?..."
Jerks.
Just sayin'.
Douche bag.
Are you serious? I can purchase MS Office 2007 through my employer for (iirc) around $40. They send me a DVD and all the other hoo ha. Of course, in my field, I have no use for Office, so I use Openoffice, though it was tempting to get it for my wife so I can bring an end to the whining every time she has to open up her boss's Monday memo he distributes in a .doc that makes openoffice crash.
Personally I don't like my mouse pointer to move unless I tell it to.
I've written a novel, and numerous short stories on my old Model M. It isn't like the klickety-klackity is going to make you deaf, but it does drive other people nuts...