Never ceases to amaze

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pthurmond at kc.rr.com [mailto:pthurmond at kc.rr.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 4:09 PM
> To: Jonathan Hutchins
> Cc: KCLUG
> Subject: RE: Never ceases to amaze
> 
> 
[snip]
> the device installed I have yet to run into problems. Now if you start
> throwing in variables like burning software that doesn't work right or
> corrupt mobo drivers OF COURSE YOU WILL RUN INTO PROBLEMS, as with ANY
> OS.

Sigh, more FUD.

My favorite Windoze quasi-quote. 
~"Windows will never run any DOS code if you don't call any legacy
routines."
Which is of course true, but since all versions of windows eventually
make a call to 
the hard disk, you always call a legacy routine. Albeit in protected
mode.
Windows runs perfectly fine as long as you never add anything to it and
never run more than one process at a time. Ok, so if this is true what
good is it having a multitasking OS if you should never run or install
anything on it?

> hard time believing that every single CDRW program in Linux works
> flawlessly all the time, from install, and throughout its usage. Now
> you have probably run into few problems, but I have run into few with
Nope, plenty of alpha quality programs out there.

> my training. Oh and it doesn't surprise me that Roxio 6 is having alot
> of trouble, especially since its got to twist its way through the
> device control rights in WinXP and 2k, but Linux doesn't have those
> restrictions that have plagued Roxio so many times when working with
> Windows XP. Take all that into consideration bub!
So first Windows native CD writing software is fine and if you have all
the right drivers then Windows is fine, but now you say Windows devices
are a nightmare to set up? Well one is the near polar opposite of the
other. Personally I hope I never see XP on my desktop. It is an evil OS
with an evil EULA. It may work better than a bread slicer, but if I have
to give up my rights to use it, I'll slice my bread by hand. thank you
very much. I use Linux because it works better for most all of the
things I want to do. I have one or two small issues. Like my no name
brand webcam which has an alpha [very alpha] driver and I haven't got it
working yet. But since it was free, it isn't that high a priority. 2k is
fairly stable, but It's not worth $100 to me when I can get so much more
for my money with Linux.

But that is just my preference,
Brian