[dba-Tech] So long, Norman

Hi Gustav:

Ha ha ha... this is a joke and problem of course.

First in order to actually view this page you much be using IE (which I do
not use anyway but to test WebPages but only off a work station) or it
crashes, as it requires a full Silverlight (flash) install but my current
version of IE is not setup to allow SL to install as the download file has
an "exe" extension (an absolute no no, on a server).

Not an auspicious start.

I will try to run this on another test bed station and see if this will
run/display properly.

Jim  

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 1:25 AM
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] So long, Norman

Hi Arthur

And so we are different. Can't wait to have my Windows 8 Consumer Preview
replaced with the brand new Release Preview:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/release-preview

/gustav


>>> fuller.artful at gmail.com 31-05-12 22:31 >>>
That's actually a quote from one of my fave singer-songwriters, to wit,
Warren Zevon. The song is The Great Pretender and it's on his second album.
But the point here is not about Warren Zevon, it's about my final
liberation from Microsoft.

I have at last converted my main squeeze to a native boot of Linux Mint 11.
Inside that, I run Oracle VirtualBox, and inside that I run the only
instances of Windows that I care about, each of which emulates a client
workstation with only and exactly what the clients run.

I have to tell you that for the first time in at least a decade, I finally
feel free from the fellows in Redmond. The few times that I need to do some
development for a client, I run a VM to do so. The rest of the time I'm
living in Linux/Mint, and I love it.

I do need to purchase a new laptop this month, but that's another story. It
will probably come equipped with one or another version of Windows 7, and
having toured the Windows 8 preliminary versions, I can see no reason to go
there. Mind you, all this needs to be taken with a large grain of salt,
since I am almost 65 years old and have little to no desire to retain my
place on the bleeding edge. I have a stupid-phone and no tablets or any
other fancy techno-vices. I'll continue to maintain the apps that I already
have in the field, but from here on in my native OS is Mint, not Windows.
For that kind of work, a VM will do just fine. I can precisely emulate what
the client runs, right down to Windows/Office/SPs, so that I'm 100%
confident that if it works in my VM, it will work on their hardware.

And after that, my friends in Redmond, I have lost interest in your future
directions. I simply do not care any more.

-- 
Arthur
Cell: 647.710.1314

Prediction is difficult, especially of the future.
  -- Niels Bohr

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