Gustav Brock
gustav at cactus.dk
Fri Oct 11 04:24:57 CDT 2013
Hi Arthur > .. we share an awful addiction to Things That Are New I was about voting Yes but then I recalled all the Windows 8 banging and the wining from the Windows XP fanboys fighting for an OS from 2001(!). And how many here hold Access 2013 by their heart? Not to count the lovers of Access 97? /gustav -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Arthur Fuller Sendt: 11. oktober 2013 09:23 Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] ultimate win 8 nightmare You are both correct. At this point in my development cycle, my choice is JavaScript, but that is a side issue. Given enough RAM (8GB of at least DDR 2 shall suffice), then a foundation-install of one or another Linux seems the obvious way to go, and creating one or more VMs to deal with my remaining few clients who live in Windows, that's the way to go. DammitOl (I'm considering trademarking that as a universal panacea to be prescribed only to programmers with Obsessive-Compulsive-Language Disorder. The most apparent symptoms are an eager willingness to foresake paradigms that work in favour of some delicious new framework, wearing a mini-skirt and high heels, but I digress. This is a therapy session, so come on, boys and girls. Let us admit, together, as a group, that we share an awful addiction to Things That Are New. Let us hold hands and listen to each other's stories about how we fell into version-addiction. Hi, my name is Arthur, and I am a versionholic. It started with CP/M, and I smoked it a few times, and the sex was great, but before I knew it I was coaxed into DOS, and then once they got me hooked, I started thinking that Windows was the next Big Hit. I fell into the trap of thinking that nest glass of vodka woule prevent all my DLL nightmares. Pretty soon I started drinking the next version, and the next, and then they promised that the next drink would fix everything, and I fell for it. It cost me my house and my wife and I can only see my software children on weekends. I fell astray and I apologize to all previous clients. (Bring up the music and the choral singers.) Alack and Alas! (Echoes of Rickie Lee Jones and "Last Chance Texaco" -- oh God that music was so great) etc.