Text 6545, 75 rader
Skriven 2006-07-08 11:29:47 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
   Kommentar till text 6542 av Stephen Haffly (1:396/45.27)
Ärende: Re: X Start
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*** Quoting Stephen Haffly from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

SH> I don't know.  All the packages I have seen seem to be for Windows onl
SH> What we have is Singer Professional Sew Ware (made by Compucon, which
SH> in Greece).  It came as part of the deal with our embroidery machine,
SH> which is a Singer XL-5000.  I haven't seen anything about a Linux
SH> version of the software, although I certainly would appreciate it if
SH> there were one.  This package requires me to have the converter box
SH> plugged into the com port before it will start up.  It is annoying if
SH> just want to do some work on a project while away with the laptop.  Th
SH> is another reason for wanting to switch it to a desktop machine.


I'll look later.  I doubt the one I saw was specific to the machine though.  Is
there a common embroidery machine interface language to look for?

 CS> What I havent found for *nix, is good hunting/fishing games for Don
 CS> and thats about the last thing holding me to WIN on the dual boot box.
 CS>  The rest i can adapt around fine.  *nix just feels more 'intuitive'
 CS> for me as I started with that on mainframes back in the early 80's.
 CS> BSD varients mostly.

SH> I'm not that into games, although I do try one from time to time.  Lin
SH> has enough for me with Penguin Planet Racer and the one I just found o
SH> about which is Super Tux.

Don loves his fishing and hunting games <g>.  Keeps him sane when I'm away for
months at a time.

 CS> get the 486's and do a WIN<-->Novell. Dork made me re-do it all, then
 CS> 6 months later, we added *nix lab which caused me to have to rebuild
 CS> it all again.  He was happy then to have me as it turned out we didnt
 CS> have anyone else who could build a *nix lab and then a lesson on *nix
 CS> basics.

SH> You were just a bit too far ahead of your time. :)


That or behind it!  It was funny in retrospect as it never even occured to him
that anyone would think *nix vice Windows at that stage so he hadnt bothered
to specify.  Then they did a conference on the DP rate (then about to merge
with RM already) and one thing that came up was they needed more *nix
training.  He rogered up for us that we could build a lab and start that
section as fast as he could get another computer lab dedicated to the school
house.  The RM school across the street donated a room while I started writing
the 2 week curriculum (was not alone, we had another who was also good with it
who had checked in by the end but he was more workstation end while I was more
the server<->LAN end.)

The first class to get that, was shifted to nights for that 2 weeks and all the
other instructors were in class with me so that later they could teach it too.

I've got huge gaps now in how I did much of that because it's been nearly 15
years and some I had to lookup even then to get the server on *nix right.  I
remember they didnt want me to go on vacation until I setup a home connection
via a secured modem to it so I could keep the maintenance going if it needed
something.

 CS> much.  The WINbox setup stays clean for Don to use to email me, and
 CS> the DOSbox for the BBS.

SH> Multiple systems do certainly have their advantages.

That they do!  Teaching Charlotte can be one of them as well.  She's as happy
with a SuSe boot and thinks a CLI is 'cool beans'.  She's 12 going on 30 when
she doesnt revert to 8 at McDonalds happymeal time (something we get her out
at the Ginza, our local mall, every month or so).

O havent had an OS4 Warp 4 machine for a very long time.  It was kinda cool but
preferred my RH so stripped it back down to put that on it back around 1998 or
so?
                                       xxcarol

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