You seem to keep moving back and forth on your point (or in and out, judging from your colourful language), but I don't know when you're going to stop... I've been reading some of the other entries, and there's lots of examples of guys using X-Plane in Wine, so your "Linux problem" is solved.
As for making changes, I would have to go back and look at your messages again, but have you even hinted at what you'd like to change? Other than a full Linux port? Maybe if you were nicer to the "non-Linux-porting prick", he'd let you be one of his team members (mentioned in the article), and you could be part of the (admittedly closed-source) development of a Linux port.
And I know others have mentioned it, but you really did start the big Ball-o-abuse rolling yourself. I like a good swear now and again, but you're nuts!
In WordPerfect, I would see things like {i}broken{/i} ("paraphrasing", since I don't remember the actual codes), and if need be, I could just move the close of the italic tag to another section of the text in a line.
Take Word as the alternate example, and HTML conversion, specifically. If I'm in Word, and decide I'm going to italicize a word or phrase, then change my mind, the code will still be there. This is the (unofficial?) reason why Word documents have the bloat that they do. They never clean themselves up!
When I do Word to HTML conversions, I spend half of my time just getting rid of empty italic and bold tags. Blech!
I hope you like it, cause if you're using the Roxio product, you're still using it! I was one of the support guys on CD Creator when it got sold to Adaptec. That was a black day for us, since the big cheezuz, in their "infinite wisdom", let it go for a song. "We're not in the hardware business anymore!"
Two months later, Cowpland and Eid Eid started Corel Computer. Short-sighted, money grubbing idiots, the both of them. Michael Cowpland is good for one thing, and that's getting the ball rolling. Why he never got into the VC business is beyond me. I still think he's a much better marketing/shmooze-hound kinda guy than a good engineer.
Sorry about the rant. You comment just brought back all of the old wounds that I was privy to. If anyone wants to know more about the missteps, just ask, and I will provide all the juicy details!
QuatMosk
I do miss OS/2, and it's sitting on a 486 under my desk. Every once in a while, I boot it up, just for fun. I think OS/2 was where I started leaving my machine on all the time (that system boot on a 486 DX2/66 was a sumbitch).
The WPS, as Spoing said, was wicked cool. Try this in Windows: make a shortcut to a file on the "desktop", and then move the file. Now double-click the shortcut. Doh! OS/2's Shadows were the best thing ever designed, IMHO, in terms of a desktop GUI. Brilliant.
Also, don't forget the folder technique of creating a workspace (don't remember exact term). Put some Shadows in a folder marked as a workspace, and the next time you boot, all the apps in that folder start up correctly. Brilliant!
Finally, OS/2 was the only way I could ever hope in hell to multi-task on that old beast of a machine, without causing major havoc. Win95 would bring the system to its knees, but I could run a bunch of apps, all at the same time (StarOffice, Describe, PMMail), without even the notion of a crash. And in 16MB of RAM! Sweet!
I'm sorry to see that IBM is finally burying the old girl. She was sure good to me.
QuatMosk
[Last sighting of OS/2 in the real world: TD Canada Trust, a bank here in Canada, where you can see OS/2 on their "money distributors" any time you enter the branch...]
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That's a lot of guzzling!
But seriously...
You seem to keep moving back and forth on your point (or in and out, judging from your colourful language), but I don't know when you're going to stop... I've been reading some of the other entries, and there's lots of examples of guys using X-Plane in Wine, so your "Linux problem" is solved.
As for making changes, I would have to go back and look at your messages again, but have you even hinted at what you'd like to change? Other than a full Linux port? Maybe if you were nicer to the "non-Linux-porting prick", he'd let you be one of his team members (mentioned in the article), and you could be part of the (admittedly closed-source) development of a Linux port.
And I know others have mentioned it, but you really did start the big Ball-o-abuse rolling yourself. I like a good swear now and again, but you're nuts!
QuatMosk
Guzzler, Esq.
Good point, but it's still not quite there...
In WordPerfect, I would see things like {i}broken{/i} ("paraphrasing", since I don't remember the actual codes), and if need be, I could just move the close of the italic tag to another section of the text in a line.
Take Word as the alternate example, and HTML conversion, specifically. If I'm in Word, and decide I'm going to italicize a word or phrase, then change my mind, the code will still be there. This is the (unofficial?) reason why Word documents have the bloat that they do. They never clean themselves up!
When I do Word to HTML conversions, I spend half of my time just getting rid of empty italic and bold tags. Blech!
QuatMosk
I hope you like it, cause if you're using the Roxio product, you're still using it! I was one of the support guys on CD Creator when it got sold to Adaptec. That was a black day for us, since the big cheezuz, in their "infinite wisdom", let it go for a song. "We're not in the hardware business anymore!" Two months later, Cowpland and Eid Eid started Corel Computer. Short-sighted, money grubbing idiots, the both of them. Michael Cowpland is good for one thing, and that's getting the ball rolling. Why he never got into the VC business is beyond me. I still think he's a much better marketing/shmooze-hound kinda guy than a good engineer. Sorry about the rant. You comment just brought back all of the old wounds that I was privy to. If anyone wants to know more about the missteps, just ask, and I will provide all the juicy details! QuatMosk
I do miss OS/2, and it's sitting on a 486 under my desk. Every once in a while, I boot it up, just for fun. I think OS/2 was where I started leaving my machine on all the time (that system boot on a 486 DX2/66 was a sumbitch). The WPS, as Spoing said, was wicked cool. Try this in Windows: make a shortcut to a file on the "desktop", and then move the file. Now double-click the shortcut. Doh! OS/2's Shadows were the best thing ever designed, IMHO, in terms of a desktop GUI. Brilliant. Also, don't forget the folder technique of creating a workspace (don't remember exact term). Put some Shadows in a folder marked as a workspace, and the next time you boot, all the apps in that folder start up correctly. Brilliant! Finally, OS/2 was the only way I could ever hope in hell to multi-task on that old beast of a machine, without causing major havoc. Win95 would bring the system to its knees, but I could run a bunch of apps, all at the same time (StarOffice, Describe, PMMail), without even the notion of a crash. And in 16MB of RAM! Sweet! I'm sorry to see that IBM is finally burying the old girl. She was sure good to me. QuatMosk [Last sighting of OS/2 in the real world: TD Canada Trust, a bank here in Canada, where you can see OS/2 on their "money distributors" any time you enter the branch...]