DISQUS

Rather than being a smartass about it, Why not take the higher ground and be respectful with just a simple "no"

Rather than being a smartass about it, Why not take the higher ground and be respectful with just a simple "no"

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.

I tend to prefer fosters bitters in the big green can if I can't get something like oberon which is a local brew.

I tend to prefer fosters bitters in the big green can if I can't get something like oberon which is a local brew.

Is that yours?

Is that yours?

Are you sure any of these:

People are dying needlessly.
Our tax dollars are being wasted.
Our country is becoming a laughing stock because of this administration.

is an impeachable offense. I believe the actual charge back in the Clinton era was lying under oath. Or am I mistaken?

Jason

Are you sure any of these:

People are dying needlessly.
Our tax dollars are being wasted.
Our country is becoming a laughing stock because of this administration.

is an impeachable offense. I believe the actual charge back in the Clinton era was lying under oath. Or am I mistaken?

Jason

does never having the belief in the first place classify one as an atheist, or just a human?

does never having the belief in the first place classify one as an atheist, or just a human?

yeah thats pretty much the whole premise of that "secret" book... all about like frequencies attracting each other. All thoughts supposedly have a frequency so thinking positive thoughts will cause your frequencies to attract like minded individuals...

not that I prescribe to it or not... was a pretty corny listen on audible.com

yeah thats pretty much the whole premise of that "secret" book... all about like frequencies attracting each other. All thoughts supposedly have a frequency so thinking positive thoughts will cause your frequencies to attract like minded individuals...

not that I prescribe to it or not... was a pretty corny listen on audible.com

so everyone made it through ok? I've been trying to get in touch with people but haven't heard from anyone yet.

Jason

so everyone made it through ok? I've been trying to get in touch with people but haven't heard from anyone yet.

Jason

I think an interesting distinction is that Linux desktops tend to be a little trouble on the uptake and then gets stable over time, windows seems to take very little trouble to setup initially but over time it fades into chaos. I have my own opinions on why but I'd be interested to know what others feel is the reason... I haven't had my Macintosh long enough yet to make an intelligent observation of weather it will devolve into chaos and need to be rebuilt yet.

I think an interesting distinction is that Linux desktops tend to be a little trouble on the uptake and then gets stable over time, windows seems to take very little trouble to setup initially but over time it fades into chaos. I have my own opinions on why but I'd be interested to know what others feel is the reason... I haven't had my Macintosh long enough yet to make an intelligent observation of weather it will devolve into chaos and need to be rebuilt yet.

Scott,

As an answer to your question about knowing individuals that have switched between desktops. I have users that have moved from VMS to windows NT, to mac OS 8 or 9, then back to windows 2000, moved on to some version of Redhat, moved to OS X and now are back on Scientific Linux and probably are awaiting the next "Big thing" in OS's.

Personally I thought VMS was a wonderful desktop operating system.
Jason

Scott,

As an answer to your question about knowing individuals that have switched between desktops. I have users that have moved from VMS to windows NT, to mac OS 8 or 9, then back to windows 2000, moved on to some version of Redhat, moved to OS X and now are back on Scientific Linux and probably are awaiting the next "Big thing" in OS's.

Personally I thought VMS was a wonderful desktop operating system.
Jason

I believe your scope of what constitutes “just wants to work” is too narrow. My Wife, Mother, and Secretary probably would not benefit much from using a Linux based system. It’s not a comfortable tool for what they need to get done. The ASIC chip designers that I maintain clusters for probably could not do their job on a Windows based or Macintosh based systems. The software they use doesn’t run on those systems. The media services group at my place of employment use Macintosh’s for video and flier production as it’s the best tool for their job. Myself, I personally have 3 different desktop operating systems spread across four systems in my office, as I need all of those to provide adequate support for my division. I guess it boils down to your “just wants to work” scope. What “getting work done” means varies from individual to individual. As you said earlier you view your desktop as a hammer. You wouldn’t use a metal hammer to tap pieces of wood together in a fine piece of furniture would you? No, you’d use a hammer that was softer than the wood you are working with as to not damage it. Again it’s the right tool for the right job.

After you decide that you have a tool that fits for your need you move on to feeling. How does your tool make you feel. You have the “Socially responsible” types who base their use of tools on some inner conscience. They choose to use electric cars and solar panels over gas-guzzlers and oil burning electric plants. There is also this type of person in the computer user field. You have people that use Linux because they believe that Microsoft is the big bad boogey man. You also have individuals that refuse to use Linux because it’s inherently socialist in its development system and they are staunch Capitalists. I’m sure there are individuals that use Macintosh systems for some sort of reason that makes them feel all warm and fuzzy as well. Personally I get all Tim the tool man like when I sit down in front of a six headed Linux desktop monitoring some interesting experiment.

I hope these arguments make sense. I’m not much of a writer. I’m a desktop support specialist for a research lab who is majoring in computer based distributed systems so I get to see this argument played out almost on a daily basis.

P.S. to see a nice desktop setup check out my current workstation http://www.flickr.com/photos/jormes/373808633

I believe your scope of what constitutes “just wants to work” is too narrow. My Wife, Mother, and Secretary probably would not benefit much from using a Linux based system. It’s not a comfortable tool for what they need to get done. The ASIC chip designers that I maintain clusters for probably could not do their job on a Windows based or Macintosh based systems. The software they use doesn’t run on those systems. The media services group at my place of employment use Macintosh’s for video and flier production as it’s the best tool for their job. Myself, I personally have 3 different desktop operating systems spread across four systems in my office, as I need all of those to provide adequate support for my division. I guess it boils down to your “just wants to work” scope. What “getting work done” means varies from individual to individual. As you said earlier you view your desktop as a hammer. You wouldn’t use a metal hammer to tap pieces of wood together in a fine piece of furniture would you? No, you’d use a hammer that was softer than the wood you are working with as to not damage it. Again it’s the right tool for the right job.

After you decide that you have a tool that fits for your need you move on to feeling. How does your tool make you feel. You have the “Socially responsible” types who base their use of tools on some inner conscience. They choose to use electric cars and solar panels over gas-guzzlers and oil burning electric plants. There is also this type of person in the computer user field. You have people that use Linux because they believe that Microsoft is the big bad boogey man. You also have individuals that refuse to use Linux because it’s inherently socialist in its development system and they are staunch Capitalists. I’m sure there are individuals that use Macintosh systems for some sort of reason that makes them feel all warm and fuzzy as well. Personally I get all Tim the tool man like when I sit down in front of a six headed Linux desktop monitoring some interesting experiment.

I hope these arguments make sense. I’m not much of a writer. I’m a desktop support specialist for a research lab who is majoring in computer based distributed systems so I get to see this argument played out almost on a daily basis.

P.S. to see a nice desktop setup check out my current workstation http://www.flickr.com/photos/jormes/373808633

you were talking about silly bandwidth...

check this out.

http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_release...

Jason

you were talking about silly bandwidth...

check this out.

http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_release...

Jason

Hey,

I do the same think using akregator which opens articles that I want to see completely in a separate embedded browser tab...

Jason