[AccessD] I couldn't post

John W. Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 17:02:36 CST 2015


rotfl.  I have!

But am I wrong on any of that?

;)

John W. Colby

On 2/3/2015 5:32 PM, Martin Reid wrote:
> Great to see how you have mellowed over the years John (<:
>
> Martin
>
> Sent from Surface Pro
>
> From: John W. Colby<mailto:jwcolby at gmail.com>
> Sent: ‎Tuesday‎, ‎3‎ ‎February‎ ‎2015 ‎21‎:‎39
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving<mailto:accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>
> I was reading about snappy just the other day.
>
> A few months back I built a midrange AMD 6 core with 24 gigs RAM. I
> installed Windows 7 on it, but I ended up saving that into a VM image (I
> hope) and installing Linux Mint on that machine.  I did so to allow me
> to get into Linux.  So far it has been a PITA.  I read an interesting
> article called something like "Linux is not Windows" about why Linux and
> Windows are so different and how best to approach Linux.  All I can say
> is "yea yea, it still sux".  In the first week of trying to do anything
> with it (even though this is Mint mind you) I typed more crap into the
> command line than I had in the entire last 20 years using Windows.  In
> one stinking week.
>
> So Linux is DOS on steroids with a Gui that is barely used laid over the
> top.  Or so it seems.
>
> I'm actually OK with that I guess, I was a DRDOS wizard back in the day,
> I can deal with the command line.
>
> I must say I find it amusing to listen to the Linux Gurus... "Yea, I use
> XYZ today but last month I was heavy into KJKL, but I didn't like the
> installer.  Before that I was using..."  And then there is the whole
> "what desktop are you using" issue.  As if that makes any damned
> difference ANYWAY since you are constantly typing into a command window.
>
> It's like a mark of manhood to be able to say that you have used 47
> different forks of Linux in the last two years, and 19 different desktop
> variants ON EACH ONE...  Down here in the south we just carry a big gun
> to mark our manhood.  Well... not me but those "manhood deficient" types.
>
> To be honest, I don't give a rat's patuty what Linux variant I use.  I
> would prefer that the OS fade into the background and let me get some
> actual WORK DONE, hello come in.  Instead of spending hours trying to
> figure out how to the the app installed.
>
> To say that this has been ... interesting... would be... well... a lie.
> I REALLY don't want to learn how to type crap into the command line, I
> want to get MariaDB installed and start using it. I want to get VMs up
> and running and start using them.  I want to get Wine installed and
> start using it.  Notice that in all cases I REALLY want to GET USING
> THEM.  But to do that you gonna be a typin' in the command window!
>
> Say what you want about Windows but you click Install and wait. When it
> is done, you open the app you just installed and start using it.
> Windows (until Windows 8.x) was just a platform which hosted apps.  You
> never actually DO (did) anything in Windows itself, you use apps ON Windows.
>
> Not so with Linux.
>
> Climbs down off the soap box.
>
> And so I have a honkin machine that runs Linux Mint.  It does NOT run
> MariaDB (yet), not does it run VMs (yet).  I think it runs Wine, but
> without much more command window typin I can't be sure. I can run
> Firefox and FreeOffice etc.  Through the GUI no less. Yeaaaa.
>
> John W. Colby
>
> On 2/3/2015 3:55 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
>> Just posted the following on Facebook this morning:
>>
>> "Some people reading that both Windows 10 or Ubuntu can be installed, on the new PIs...but the software that can load is a specialize version of both. IoT (program) for Windows and Snappy for Ubuntu...both designed specifically for use in embedded devices. OTOH, Ubuntu has a server/terminal product which allows PIs to run as thin clients: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP."
>>
>> There is a lot of interesting products out there. The Ubuntu stuff should run on Mint without issues. (Now that I have retired I prefer Linux distros over Windows ones and just use Windows products so to keep my hands in.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com>
>> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>> Sent: Monday, 2 February, 2015 8:35:49 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] I couldn't post
>>
>> I don't think so.  I am also running it on a Linux Mint machine which I
>> am playing with.
>>
>> Speaking of Linux, the Raspberry Pi B 2 just hit the internet. With a
>> quad core v7 core and a gig of Ram, otherwise identical.
>>
>> I am seriously considering building out a parallel processor using a
>> bunch of these.  Lots of press on a bunch of guys doing this, using the
>> old Pi.
>>
>> With a faster processor, quad cores and twice the memory, the overall
>> horsepower just went up radically.  I'm thinking of maybe starting with
>> 8 of them.  (32) one ghz cores and 8 gigs of ram anyone?
>>
>> I ordered a BeagleBone black last week (before this announcement)
>> because I love ucontroller / electronics stuff.  I got my start in
>> electronics back in the late 60s, pre ucontroller.  A few years back I
>> started playing with the Atmel uc series, with many different pin
>> packages.  It was a bit of a pita to set up but was a ton-o-fun.  I
>> actually designed a pulse width modulation motor driver, driving a cmos
>> high power driver, driving a very powerful motor from a ride on toy.
>>
>> The BeagleBone has most of that stuff built right in, in a package size
>> the same as the Pi.  Well, not the high power cmos amp... But it has a
>> couple of dedicated 200 mhz controllers right on die for the real time
>> stuff to dr.
>>
>> Of course you have to program them in assembler...
>>
>> And just a slew of i/o.  Cool stuff.
>>
>>
>> John W. Colby
>>
>> On 2/2/2015 9:16 PM, Darryl Collins wrote:
>>> Isn't Thunderbird unsupported by Mozilla these days?  I thought they stopped working on it a while back now - maybe 18 months or more?
>>>
>>> Anyway, welcome Back John.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Darryl
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W. Colby
>>> Sent: Tuesday, 3 February 2015 1:09 PM
>>> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
>>> Subject: [AccessD] I couldn't post
>>>
>>> I've been here forever, I just couldn't post because my Thunderbird install on my laptop insisted on using the wrong output email address and so AccessD servers kicked my replies back.
>>>
>>> I finally decided to just uninstall and reinstall (and lose all my stuff
>>> - it's a long story).
>>>
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