Subj : a neat fortune today To : Maurice Kinal From : James Bradley Date : Tue Jul 26 2005 12:00 am Maurice Kinal wrote to James Bradley, "a neat fortune today" on 07-07-05 07:31 MK> Hey James! Heya... MK>> methinks. Different rope too. :-) JB> Different rope for different nooses? MK> Exactly! JB> A) We could be paying $10K for a proprietary *NIX MK> Not likely. I've got one in a box that likely was 35K or more of database, editor, spreadsheets... JB> B) We could be paying into the MS Juggernaut MK> Let the Chinese have it. LOL! That'll prevent a hostile takeover, or accelerate one. JB> C) We could lock into BSD MK> Possibly. But then again... JB> D) Loosy goosy with Tux the Linux MK> Most definetly! Loose and full of juice! Balls to the walls, man! JB> compute JB> falling bodies... MK> Or run a Linux emulator, which just seems silly to me for some strange MK> reason. I have a Turbo copy here, and I have to say, you'd be surprised how peppy it was. All this on the pile of rubble called Windows. JB> Yes... Can you make a Power Point presentation? WHO CARES! You can JB> produce Harry Bloody Potter movies on it, so go away!" MK> Heh, heh. Yeah that could happen. I'd be amazed at how many embedded kernels people already have in their house. (Well' I'd be dumbfounded to fathom the number in my house.) On shows like 24, and NCIS, they always seem to talking *NIX/Linux. JB> ... "And Dalton... Keep your stick on the ice." -Green, Red MK> Don't forget the duct tape eh? If the women don't find you MK> handsome they at least should find you handy. I'll have to transcribe Montros's quote from the movie. Besides, to do neat stuff - besides the straight and narrow. Pick up and compile a bunch of a LOT of different stuff. MS promoting software that "Only runs on Windows." Earache my eye! .... "QUIET!" -Gord, Ranger ___ MultiMail/Linux v0.46 --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: -=-= Calgary Organization CDN (403) 242-3221 (1:134/77) .