Re: Converting to Linux

From: Joe Cipale (joec_at_aracnet.com)
Date: 07/11/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 07:40:56 -0700

Lord Williams wrote:
>
> 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
>

Tell me...

which univiersity is it you attned, so I can round-file any applications
from said school. ;)

Joe 

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