That's one good and fair comment; the other thing is that you can have
one of those big irons running an x86 Linux that will run your "commercial
product of choice" which is certified against a specific version of Linux
w/o having to buy x86 hardware and gain expertise in using VMWare as well...
So he has proven that to HIM an early leave makes that
that kind of difference;}
To get the full handle on things everyone will have to
condict their own tests, and just think about that accumulated
waste of time!
Anyway, around four years ago my commute time in the car was optimal
leaving home before 0715 (around 35 minutes) and on average I'd
say it added 5 minutes of traveltime per 10 minutes I left late
until about 0845 when it ebbed out again...
Not quite sure what to say. My mother (she got used to computers at work,
using a Wyse terminal and a set of mainframe apps) could never make any sense
of MacOS, OS/2, Windows or Linux... she asked me many questions about how to
use any of them.
My mother-in-law gave me more calls about her previous Windows installations
(ranging from 95 to 2000) than she now does regarding Slackware 10.2 with
KDE, and needless to say there were no spy-ware removal or virus-cleaning
sessions since.
As far as I'm concerned it depends on the initial set-up, and that's the
case for all current OSes. If you are a geek, or know a geek very well,
you'll be fine. If you simply want to use something, and it's not pre-installed
to perfection (in other words, to how you'd like (it) to work) there's hassle.
... and then there's the outstanding IBM p-Series machines with their Hypervisor in hardware that benefits from the aforementioned age-old mainframe technology:}
I may be jumping to conclusions here, but to me "We schould teach our children to doubt and question absolutely everything." suggests that you don't have kids...:}
Cheers,
Tink
Indeed - the money could have been spent on more sensible things,
like irrigation systems or education; those few unfortunate American
fellow-humans (and maybe a couple thousand non-American fellow
humans) could still be alive.
Cheers,
Tink
> they want the most efficient simple way. I'm afraid that most of the time these two things are mutually exclusive. Things are either simple (dumbed down to a 5 choices-drop down menu or a few tick-boxes) or efficient. Efficient commonly means that you have to understand what's going on behind the scenes of what you're doing.
That's not really the point, the problem is that they can still embed ANYTHING into XLM as long as it has its binary-tag... look at any which document in any text-editor and tell me how much information you can extract using OTHER XML tags than that...
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That's one good and fair comment; the other thing is that you can have
one of those big irons running an x86 Linux that will run your "commercial
product of choice" which is certified against a specific version of Linux
w/o having to buy x86 hardware and gain expertise in using VMWare as well...
So he has proven that to HIM an early leave makes that ;}
that kind of difference
To get the full handle on things everyone will have to
condict their own tests, and just think about that accumulated
waste of time!
Anyway, around four years ago my commute time in the car was optimal
leaving home before 0715 (around 35 minutes) and on average I'd
say it added 5 minutes of traveltime per 10 minutes I left late
until about 0845 when it ebbed out again...
Cheers!
Not quite sure what to say. My mother (she got used to computers at work, ... she asked me many questions about how to
using a Wyse terminal and a set of mainframe apps) could never make any sense
of MacOS, OS/2, Windows or Linux
use any of them.
My mother-in-law gave me more calls about her previous Windows installations
(ranging from 95 to 2000) than she now does regarding Slackware 10.2 with
KDE, and needless to say there were no spy-ware removal or virus-cleaning
sessions since.
As far as I'm concerned it depends on the initial set-up, and that's the
case for all current OSes. If you are a geek, or know a geek very well,
you'll be fine. If you simply want to use something, and it's not pre-installed
to perfection (in other words, to how you'd like (it) to work) there's hassle.
Cheers
... and then there's the outstanding IBM p-Series machines with their Hypervisor in :}
hardware that benefits from the aforementioned age-old mainframe technology
I may be jumping to conclusions here, but to me "We schould teach our children to doubt and question absolutely everything." suggests that you don't have kids ... :}
Cheers,
Tink
Indeed - the money could have been spent on more sensible things, like irrigation systems or education; those few unfortunate American fellow-humans (and maybe a couple thousand non-American fellow humans) could still be alive. Cheers, Tink
> they want the most efficient simple way.
I'm afraid that most of the time these two things
are mutually exclusive. Things are either simple (dumbed down to a 5 choices-drop down menu or a few
tick-boxes) or efficient. Efficient commonly means that you have to understand what's going on behind the scenes of what you're doing.
Cheers,
Tink
And bever forget the tight integration it had in OS/2, too ... *sigh*
NetREXX, REXX-DB2, ...
I've written serious amounts of REXX back in the day ;)
That's not really the point, the problem is that they can still embed ANYTHING into XLM as long as it has its binary-tag ... look at any which document in any text-editor and tell me how much information you can extract using OTHER XML tags than that ...