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by **Chuck Kandle** » Thu, 06 Apr 2000 04:00:00

> Microsoft annoys me as much as the next guy, but have you ever used
> Netscape on Solaris? It is without a doubt the buggiest piece of ***
> I have ever had the displeasure of using. There aren't many programs
> that can crash a Unix workstation, but Netscape manages it at least once
> a week.

Not to mention the font-uglification with Netscape/Linux. Good thing
there came a work-around of sorts. I can just imagine, though, the
impact a port of IE5 would have on your workstation. =-)))

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by **Chuck Kandle** » Thu, 06 Apr 2000 04:00:00

> I think that's where a lot of us got to with Linux. I set up a dual boot on
> my notebook, got all e***d when I managed to get X up and running on the
> flat panel, felt 5 years younger when I got the modem to work, and nearly
> lifted off the ground when I managed to get my PC-Card network card to talk
> to the office network. Then I just sort of stared at it, smiled a smile of
> satisfaction and switched off. Apart from occasionally running my X-windows
> stuff on the notebook instead of the SGI workstation, I am still a MS slave
> because everyone else in the world is a MS slave. Gotta' go with the flow
> when you are exchanging papers, reports, figures etc.

>Maybe in a few years...

Yep. Dual-booter here as well. Mandrake 7/Win98 SE. I'm still a MS
slave because I'm still a GPL slave. =-)) Can't wait for the MS Office
port to Linux. You'll really see her go mainstream then! Agreed
though. Maybe in a few years........

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by **Stephen Ferguso** » Thu, 06 Apr 2000 04:00:00

> Stephen> workstation, I am still a MS slave because everyone else
> Stephen> in the world is a MS slave. Gotta' go with the flow when
> Stephen> you are exchanging papers, reports, figures etc.

> Hm, I have to disagree. Almost everybody who writes scientific papers
> uses TeX/LaTeX, or at least non MS Word or something like that. Maybe
> not in the business world. Windows is not used very often in an
> academic setting either.

Depends on the area / field. I'm sure the mathematicians / physicists etc.
use***for a lot of their papers, as I did, just for its proper treatment
of equations. I must admit our lab uses Windows, as did most of the faculty
and grad students at my engineering school. Partly it is for compatibility
with the journals that we publish in; only one of them accepts***files.
This is biomechanical engineering, where there are still a healthy number of
equations, but they are not the focus of the printed article. The latest
call for papers of three conferences that I have attended have included Word
templates, and the request to submit using Word. It is slowly seeping into
even the hallowed halls.

Stephen

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