Re: Converting to Linux

From: Lord Williams (lordwill_at_quik.com)
Date: 07/11/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 00:46:02 -0700

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 02:01:12 +0000, Harold Stevens wrote:

> In <10euhet9oaoij9d@corp.supernews.com>, Bill King:
>
>> I use FrontPage 2002 on my website, and at the risk of drawing ridicule,
>
> It, but not you, deserve ridicule. It creates horrid nonstandard HTML. I've
> wasted many days and nights cleaning up after it when sites had to move (or
> merge) materials. I hate it. Again, nothing to do with you personally.
>
>> Can it be installed on Linspire?
>
> Not that I'm aware. Even if possible, you'd have to put a gun to my head to
> infest anything I manage with that obnoxious malware.
>
>> paste HTML code into the text editor. I'm also not prepared to shell
>> out $400 for Dreamweaver.
>
> If this is the only reason you're interested in Linux, forget it. You'll be
> much happier sticking with what you have, than fitting square pegs in round
> holes (Linux isn't about cloning proprietary desktop monopolies).

I would have to agree with this reply. When I first used Front Page, just
to test drive it - I found all sorts of garbage added in that I had to
remove. I gave up on it. The best HTML editor on windows is Wordpad,
and the equivalent text editor (i.e. vi) for my future HTML work on my
Linux box.

Off tangent...

I say that Microsoft has put out software that is frustrating, awkward,
bloated, overdesigned, overrated, and too expensive and time consuming
to learn for it's platform's end users. I bet that if you walked into a
book store, you would find more 'idiots' or 'for dummies' books on any of
the M$HIT. Unfortunately, I still have to know and use windows to
interface with the world outside that use Win XP.

As a student at my university, the computer labs are Win XP based, the IBM PCs
that is (there are not too many Macs). Someone has designed a screwball
system, on the notion that logging off the network is too hard for anyone
to figure out. That is assumed that someone even instructed cant figure
out how to click on the windows start button and then choose log off as
x user. Instead, each of the lab administrators for these labs have appended a
.pif logoff icon and have passed out instructions to all the students and
the teaching staff to log off using this .pif icon. Well guess what, when
icon invention doesnt work, it crashes the computer so that no one else
can log on. I have crashed about 7 or 8 computers using this icon. How
do they fix the problem? They just cant turn if off because as you know
windows remembers if you didnt log off successfully when you reboot.
Here its worse, becuase the computer boots into the crash state that it was in
before it was turned off - every time they cold boot or warm boot. The
solution is (and has been for the network administrators ) to simply
reinstall the XP system from the distribution disks from scratch and copy
over all the changes from their back up CD disks. Then the XP system is
fixed. During the time when computer that is down, it cuts out a potential
service for students who need to do their work. When 8 or 10 computers crash it
creates a back log of students waiting in line (some of which who give up
on waiting).

If the network adminstrators had begged to school to invest in some Linux
these problems would have been minimal, but becuase Windows based
programs are taught in courses at the college - changing completely to
Linux is not possible (for thier computers).

Next time, I will talk about some of the women student users who have mistaken
the cd rom (caddy) drawer for a coffee cup holder or a support for other
items. But you dont want to know that.

LW

  

   
   

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