Re: First Email of the Day (Re: OT: The Irony in It!)

From: Pablo Sanchez <pablo_at_dev.null>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:40:25 -0600
Message-ID: <Xns9310D24DAFF44pingottpingottbah@216.166.71.233>

Mark Townsend <markbtownsend_at_attbi.com> wrote in news:BA5B3568.7CE4%markbtownsend_at_attbi.com:

> in article Xns9310877399A2pingottpingottbah_at_216.166.71.233, Pablo
> Sanchez at pablo_at_dev.null wrote on 1/27/03 12:18 PM:
>

>> I'm hoping that the desktop tools on Linux get better so I can truly
>> get full Office emulation - the tools are there but IMO, they're not
>> quite mature enough - and migrate back to a *nix environment.

>
> Look at Mac OS X - seriously - one of the better GUI's, runs a much
> better verson of MS Office, and underneath it's Unix (X11, bash, vi,
> Perl, Java, Oracle, you name it).

ayup.

> It's my preferred laptop at home as it means I don't have to compromise
> or maintain three machines - and the added goodies such as iSync to an
> iPod, and the Airport based wireless networking are wonderful. Haven't
> found anything I can't do on it yet

How are the apps ... err, nevermind, I guess we're way out of scope of this NG. <g>

Thx for the food for thought though ...

-- 
Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering
http://www.hpdbe.com

Received on Mon Jan 27 2003 - 21:40:25 CST