Re: Congratulations Howard Rogers

From: Howard J. Rogers <hjr_at_dizwell.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 20:30:59 +1000
Message-ID: <413d8df7$0$18993$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>

Noons wrote:

> Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
> news:<1094505704.528225_at_yasure>...

>> Your www.dizwell.com site looks good.

>
> Good to see Howard back on air.
>
> The Project, eh? I'll stay tuned: getting totally
> fed-up with XP here as well. For a number of different
> reasons. But there are still a few bits and pieces I haven't
> found a replacement for with Linux. So I can't do it yet.
> Ah well, it will happen I'm sure.

I have a lot of notes to write up! It's been an interesting ride. In retrospect, it was probably a bit ambitious *starting* by wanting Linux working on a *laptop* -when we all know laptops are full of utterly proprietary stuff. When your laptop vendor proudly advertises "XXXX recommends Windows XP", you know you're in for a hard time.

As a result, I have been plunged into the depths of kernel rebuilding, and found it to be a remarkably pleasant and exhilerating experience. I have variously had audio, had no audio, had two audios simultaneously, had the audio I want, had the audio I wanted stop and start at random, and finally got it just the way I wanted it... but the best bit was that I enjoyed the tinkering to get it that way. These operating systems that just work out of the box are no fun whatsoever!!

Anyway... there is now only one PC left running Windows, and 8 others have made the transition, and this time they're not going back. And I feel quite good about it, and sort-of know what I'm on about. I figure anyone else fed up with MS stomping tactics might find my experiences of some use.

But as I say, there is a lot to write (and I was rather hoping the new site wouldn't be mentioned until at least it contained something worth downloading!! Ah well...).

Regards
HJR
>
> BTW, did you folks know M$ has ditched the SQLServer-in-file-system
> project? Apparently they couldn't make it work in time for Longhorn,
> already late with an expected release of around 2006.
>
> Could have told them it'd never fly. For a lot less moolah...
> Ah well, let's hope the heads who advised M$ it was feasible
> will FINALLY roll!
Received on Tue Sep 07 2004 - 05:30:59 CDT