Re: Microsoft takes on ACT

["chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com>]

"Adrian Hoe" <byhoe@greenlime.com> wrote in message
news:9ff447f2.0205231909.40170d61@posting.google.com...

> Try Linux! You will fall in love with it. I once tried Linux
> (OpenLinux 1.2) and I did not quite like it. After a while of mingling
> around, I started to love it. I am an advance user nowaday!

I have SuSE 8.0 Linux sitting in a box, my builtin raid controller isn't
supported and no one seems to be able to answer my question on whether or
not the new bios patch for the mobo will allow me to take the dvd/cd and put
them on the ide channels where the hdds are (I have already tried switching
the RAID functionality to ATA and see if the installer could detect the hdds
as they are but it couldn't, which makes me wonder if it could detect the
dvd and cdrw if they were on the controller).

> If you use Microsoft, you are just one of the generous contributor to
> Bill's wealth!

I do not need to buy anymore software from MS (except maybe age of
mythology), so I will no longer contribute in a material sense.

> And what do you get? At least, I use Linux and I save
> all the money buying Microsoft's to own a PS2.

Linux isn't quite ready for the other ppl who live here, the learning curve
is still too steep, but maybe in the future I will consider it for more than
developing my own OS (GNAT for NT is just too much of a pain for this,
perhaps this will change with it's integration into the gcc toolchain).


> OpenSource should stay. It proliferate software revolution!

Unfortunately the software revolution is forgetting proper design
documentation.  Sure (most of) the software is designed initially but the
design documents aren't always available which reduces changes to the
software by other programmers  to 'hacking'.  To me the design is more
important than the code, after all if the code is broke you can refer to the
design to see exactly what it's supposed to do and it's relation to the
whole system and apply a fix that won't break the design.  The design
specifies the intent, the code merely carries out that intent.


Chris