Text 26479, 115 rader
Skriven 2007-01-25 17:54:34 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 26469 av Sean Dennis (1:18/200)
Ärende: Decapitation
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Sean Dennis -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 SD> Hello, Ed.

 SD> 24 Jan 07 21:13, you wrote to me:

 EH>> I downloaded and ran the eCS demo and promptly tossed it. It didn't
 EH>> recognize my USB keyboard and wireless mouse.

 SD> That's more than likely because you have to manually turn on USB support
 SD> in eCS, but you didn't know that...

How am I going to do that without a PS/2 mouse or keyboard? Regardless whether
I knew it or not.

BTW, on a demo disk, automatic detection and turning on USB would be a plus.
Obviously the developers at eCS aren't comptitent enough to figure that out.

 EH>> Why not move out of the 90s and try a real OS. ;-)

 SD> Wow, that's really an immature thing to say.

Notice the smiley, son? *IT WAS A JOKE!*

 SD> OS/2 does everything I need it to do, including being my
 SD> gateway/firewall/router.

Good for it.

 SD> It also can run a BBS unlike any other OS can
 SD> (something you didn't take into account with your comment).  Here's a
 SD> short list of what I'm running for everyday things:

Oh goody, an alt.comp.os.os2.advocacy article making it's way into FIDO.

 SD> Web/email: Mozilla (yes, I know Seamonkey's out, but I like Mozilla)

I have Mozilla on this Linux box, in fact, I'm using Mozilla Mail/News as I
type.

 SD> Word processing/spreadsheet/database: Lotus Smartsuite

Oh yeah, that's really up to date.

 SD> Instant messaging: Mr. Message

I use Gaim for IM.

 SD> PDF reader: Adobe Acrobat 5

I have Acrobat 7.0 on this Linux box. That's Adobe Acrobat 7.0 *FOR LINUX!*

 SD> Stock market ticker: Stockmarket/2
 SD> IRC: OpenChat/2

I use X-Chat here.

 SD> I've got three printers hooked up to my machine too, including a Brother
 SD> HL-1440 monochrome laser printer.

If I had more printers, this box could print to virtually all of them. I only
have room for one, so I have my HP photosmart 7350 hooked up to it. Guess what,
the HP photosmart 7350 is a USB 2.0 printer and this box has USB 1.1 and it
still works just fine. On my XP box it requires USB 2.0 or the software/driver
won't even install.

 SD> That's just the tip of the iceberg.

Oh, I'm sure it is...

 SD> There's been a LOT of *NIX stuff ported to OS/2 (didn't know that,
didya?).

Hahahaha!!! Even Windows has "a LOT of *NIX stuff" ported to it.

Being a version of "NIX, this Linux box has it all.

 SD> Check out http://www.smedley.info/os2ports and see for yourself.  We've
also got a
 SD> plethora of Java stuff we can run as well.

I don't plan on checking it out.

There is no limit to the Java stuff I can run (if I wanted to) on this box.

 SD> One final thought: to each their own.  As long as it works for you,
 SD> that's fine with me.  Just remember that Linux is based on UNIX which is
 SD> based on MULTICS, which came out of the 60's.  So there's nothing new
 SD> under the sun, Ed...

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

Take a deep breath and relax and get back to me. I couldn't care less what you
use on your computers.

Sheesh.

Ed

-- 
"Were the pictures which have been drawn by the political
jealousy of some among us faithful likenesses of the human
character, the inference would be, that there is not
sufficient virtue among men for self-government; and that
nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them
from destroying and devouring one another."

-- Alexander Hamilton and James Madison (Federalist No. 55,
15 February 1788)


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