[Elecraft] [OT] Windows XP SP3 :<(

[Phil Kane]

On 5/14/2008 8:03 AM, Paul at N4LCD.com wrote:

>> I consider it practically a miracle that Windows works as well as it
>> does, but the complexity has not been lost on many video game
>> publishers, who have retreated to the more static game consoles.
> 
> Of course, you could always update Windows to ubuntu.

If and when the four major programs that I depend on daily 
(WordPerfect, Thunderbird, Firefox and Folio Bound VIEWS - my 
communications law legal research database engine -  come out with 100% 
Linux native versions (WINE won't handle the database program and I 
didn't try it on the others) I will consider going back to Linux (I ran 
Red Hat for a while).

Heck, before I went to Windows I ran IBM's OS/2 and its derivative 
eComStation - which ran DOS and Win3 programs as well as native OS/2 
programs - for many years until Folio dropped the 16-bit (Win3) support 
and more and more applications required "real" 32-bit support.

My ham stuff runs in a separate machine (running Win 2000 at present) so 
I can play with that without messing up my "main" machine.

I've ranted about this for years, so I'll get down from my soapbox and 
behave.....

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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402

VP - General Counsel & Engineering Manager
CSI Telecommunications, Inc. - Consulting Engineers
San Francisco, CA - Beaverton, OR