Well, let me just say that I had a little 'stint' with windows for this very
same reason... and here I am back in Linux!! I'm going to just stick with
GIMP. It's been a pretty stable program. On the programming/web site, I've
been sticking with Apache and PHP with a bit of perl. It hasn't done me
wrong yet.
Anyway, as for the windows distraction: Kontact had corrupted some of the
palm databases when I was trying to use that for synchronization and backup.
I decided to use Windows to maintain my Palm data and while I was at it,
maybe utilize some of the programs I had for graphical editing.
Everything worked fine until a stupid windows update. Now photoshop, corel
draw and my Palm Desktop won't run.
It started with my Palm Desktop bombing out. I went to the support website
and they suggested forcing a M$ update from the website. Well, after that, I
couldn't run corel, so I went to photoshop and that bombs out whenever I try
to save a file... I tried completely uninstalling and re-installing the
respective application suites and they still bomb out.
Then I thought to myself, "Duh!!! I've been lured and disappointed once
again."
... but you do know that if you throw enough dough at M$, they *might* be
able to help you get around the stupid problem that started with the
freakin' update!!
On 10/12/05, Paddy <paddy@ij.net> wrote:
>
> Mario Lombardo wrote:
>
> >On Monday 10 October 2005 19:18, Paddy wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I am getting out of the "roll your own" operating systems. I have an
> >>extensive library of Linux/Unix books. Some are a couple of years old
> >>but the basics have not changed. If anyone is interested reply to my
> >>private address and you can have them cheap.
> >>
> >>Paddy
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I'm curious, if you're getting out of "roll you own" OSes, what will you
> be
> >getting into, and why?
> >
> >/mario
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> If I can find some kind of STABLE OS, I hope to become proficient in
> Photoshop to augment my photography. work. I'm just tired of having to
> hack everything to get the damn think to work and that until the next
> upgrade.
>
> There should be a standard FORCED upon developers to use a uniform
> method of writing code, not whatever fits their particular fancy, As
> long as every guy can write his/her own code in their particular manner,
> its going to full of incompatibilities (bugs) and it will not run with
> any consistency. Work arounds, PERL and shell programming languages are
> just stop gap measurers to make the stuff run and lead to compatibility
> programs. The bueaty of UNIX is it is a kernel, inividual programs that
> do one thing and do it well tied together with scripts. Modern OS
> structure is a bunch of spaghetti code trying to do everything for
> everyone and not doing anything very well. Mickey$oft is a great
> example; those clown know the use of malloc but have never heard of
> free. Nuff said.
>
> Paddy
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