From cspence@FuelSpot.com Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:13:32 -0700 From: Christopher Spence Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:13:32 -0700 Subject: RE: but will it run windows? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain No I did not say that. What I am saying, is most people install 100 programs, one of them acts like crap and they blame it on the OS. Because there is 5 million people programming for Win32 and probably 2 million of them suck, that is not at all the OS's fault. The problem (in my opinion) stems from there is too many people coding for the os and too many hardware manufactors putting out code and hardware. It is almost impossible to guarentee compatability, much less competent code. There api is fairly open, it is almost completely published. Although it is not open source or anything of that nature. "Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes." Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Phone: (978) 322-5744 Fax: (707) 885-2275 Fuelspot 73 Princeton Street North, Chelmsford 01863 -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:33 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L So you're saying, unless you run only M$ products it still sucks. They need to tighten up and open up the API's. Then windows would be great. --Scott Christopher Spence wrote: > > I am much a unix person over M$, but the simple fact is Win32 serves > many purposes. And it crashing all the time is a fairy tail that unix > people like to tell. Yeah, it isn't as stable as unix, and most of > the problems are related to software and drivers which have nothing to > do with the OS. > > Christopher R. Spence > Oracle DBA > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 11:27 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Christopher Spence [mailto:cspence@FuelSpot.com] > > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 10:51 AM > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > Subject: RE: but will it run windows? > > > > I hate windows and all it stands for, but I can't stand when people > > say it crashes all the time and completely useless. > > OK, I stand corrected. Windows crashes just half of the time and if it > wasn't for Windows, I'd have to explain how to actually use a computer > to a far too big lot of ignorant people. It is also a marvelous, > although somewhat overpriced alternative for the Sony's PS2. > Hopefully, the statement above will mitigate your feelings toward us, > the poor Unix geeks that use unix to provide for our everyday's bread > and Dom Perignon. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Scott Shafer INET: sknd100@yahoo.com Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Christopher Spence INET: cspence@FuelSpot.com Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).