I used to have an enhanced ][e, with all the trimmings (except a good printer), and loads of software... Too bad I was STUPID and got rid of it all in Germany. I've recovered somewhat, laying hands on an unenhanced ][e and a copy of EDASM, and am banging out various fun and silly things with it.
I really miss the enhanced part, tho, and Merlin, and ProDOS 1.8, and. . . *sigh* I really want a IIgs, tho... as well as copies of _Beneath Apple DOS_, _Beneath Apple ProDOS_, _What's Where In the Apple_, and _ProDOS Technical Manual_.
The Apple was the reason I got into computing bigtime.
Oracle and Sun are at fault for what appears to be a "system disk" problem? Personally, I'd rather run on that "single point of failure" E10k than on a room full of, erm... "high availability" Compaqs running Windows. Especially with a database. Hey, shit happens, and hardware harfs up. *shrug* The main difference is that I'd spend time (maybe a day or so, a couple days for weeird problems) restoring and not lose data with the Sun, whereas, with Windows, data recovery is a crap shoot at best, and resolution can take weeks, depending on the problem...
I recall a certain Exchange server at my last job which lost a disk out of a RAID and we lost 67% of the store. Granted the data loss would've been pretty much cancelled if we had a backup and HARDWARE RAID, but still... 15hr straight and 33% recovery with the stuff I had to work with. ..
No. We HAD TO BUY their damned product, because the OEM who we decided to buy the computer from bought their damned product. This is precisely why I build my own systems from components, among others.
You know, just when the gnome/kde flames seem to have subsided, and I actually FEEL like trying each without the urge to use rm -rf, things're right back where they were. (actually, I did use rm -rf to get gnome to stop aborting and leaving shit all over my disk)
In my personal tests, both environments take about the same amount of RAM and are equally responsive. gnome looks much better than kde, imho, but kde seems more usable at this time. Now that I got gnome working, tho, I'll actually have to try using it.
Licensing/language/political crap aside, 2 desktop environments that are making progress, are usable, and aren't going away anytime soon. I see myself (someday) running a combination of the 2, with still a butt-load of rxvt's up.
Right now, I'm using AfterStep 1.0 (with the 1.6 Wharf), because it Works For Me(tm).
Word works. Games work. Internet access works. Visual C++ works (great).
Your idea of `works' must be very lenient. Word decides suddenly that the formatting of my document should look jumbled, since it's 02.15... Games suddenly decide I don't need sound or big bad video... VC++, I dunno, but I have a prejudgement of anything at all that REQUIRES IE for its help system.
Now, I may be bitter towards Windows right now, because NT has suddenly gone ape dookie because I bought a PCMCIA modem and tried to use it. (wheee, KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED because of a bitty card) This, of course, warrants a complete reinstall, because `repairing' f<beep>s it up even worse. I've still not succeeded in reviving the NT partition on the laptop, because of bad Matrox drivers. Not MS's fault per se, but VERY annoying when I get the illegible screen of death after a reboot.
Oh yes... I'm not a believer in the Linux Only crowd. I just happen to use Linux extensively. Other OSes I use are FreeBSD (oh no! I'm a traitor! AIEEE!:oP ), SunOS5, HP-UX (*shudder*), and yes, Windows NT on occasion (the company's laptop; the company's software licenses. No pressure here.)
Your original point, I guess, is that folks should use the OS(es) that work(s) for _them_. I know I do.
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A stock Apple ][ ran at 1.023MHz... yours must've been accelerated. :o)
The only problem was that you could not write bloated code in less than 48K of memory.
I just got done writing a rather cool hexdump util that's quite featureful for the 128 or so bytes of 3page[1] memory it takes.
[1] "3 page" refers to the chunk of RAM at $300-$3CF
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I really miss the enhanced part, tho, and Merlin, and ProDOS 1.8, and. . . *sigh* I really want a IIgs, tho... as well as copies of _Beneath Apple DOS_, _Beneath Apple ProDOS_, _What's Where In the Apple_, and _ProDOS Technical Manual_.
The Apple was the reason I got into computing bigtime.
Crawling back under the couch. . .
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I recall a certain Exchange server at my last job which lost a disk out of a RAID and we lost 67% of the store. Granted the data loss would've been pretty much cancelled if we had a backup and HARDWARE RAID, but still... 15hr straight and 33% recovery with the stuff I had to work with. . .
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No. We HAD TO BUY their damned product, because the OEM who we decided to buy the computer from bought their damned product. This is precisely why I build my own systems from components, among others.
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In my personal tests, both environments take about the same amount of RAM and are equally responsive. gnome looks much better than kde, imho, but kde seems more usable at this time. Now that I got gnome working, tho, I'll actually have to try using it.
Licensing/language/political crap aside, 2 desktop environments that are making progress, are usable, and aren't going away anytime soon. I see myself (someday) running a combination of the 2, with still a butt-load of rxvt's up.
Right now, I'm using AfterStep 1.0 (with the 1.6 Wharf), because it Works For Me(tm).
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No. All the Good Writers stayed away from OFF after about Season 6.
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Word works. Games work. Internet access works. Visual C++ works (great).
Your idea of `works' must be very lenient. Word decides suddenly that the formatting of my document should look jumbled, since it's 02.15... Games suddenly decide I don't need sound or big bad video... VC++, I dunno, but I have a prejudgement of anything at all that REQUIRES IE for its help system.
Now, I may be bitter towards Windows right now, because NT has suddenly gone ape dookie because I bought a PCMCIA modem and tried to use it. (wheee, KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED because of a bitty card) This, of course, warrants a complete reinstall, because `repairing' f<beep>s it up even worse. I've still not succeeded in reviving the NT partition on the laptop, because of bad Matrox drivers. Not MS's fault per se, but VERY annoying when I get the illegible screen of death after a reboot.
Oh yes... I'm not a believer in the Linux Only crowd. I just happen to use Linux extensively. Other OSes I use are FreeBSD (oh no! I'm a traitor! AIEEE! :oP ), SunOS5, HP-UX (*shudder*), and yes, Windows NT on occasion (the company's laptop; the company's software licenses. No pressure here.)
Your original point, I guess, is that folks should use the OS(es) that work(s) for _them_. I know I do.
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