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). >>> >>> -- >>> John W. Colby >>> >>> -- >>> AccessD mailing list >>> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >>> > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com