<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>Yup, clearly you suffer from Stockholm Syndrome; disappointed because you weren't disappointed. That is exactly what more than a few Sox fans were saying.<p><hr></blockquote><p> Not me. Beat the Yankees into the cellar every year would be just dandy. I love disappointment. On the faces of Yankee fans!<br><br>As for Vista, I concur with SteveS. My Institute just fully implemented WinXP last year. If we stay on schedule they will roll out Vista days before the world ends on December 21, 2012. But that's being optimistic. <br><br><br><br><br><br>

<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>sad story he's heard about Vista evens his conviction that he should stay put.<p><hr></blockquote><p>Not unlike OS X when it was first released. I thought we'd never get over the groanings I heard. How different it was. It was too difficult. It was too slow (okay, it really was slow!)<br><br>I was dumb enough to pay for the public beta, and instantly loved it! Now I could do a lot of the stuff I did in linux. I knew it would be great one day after some polishing, and here we are at Leopard. It's great, and fast (although thanks a lot to hardware).<br><br>Of course, all desktop OSes are now dinosaurs. Except for those of us doing some specialized stuff, do you really need an OS anymore? <br><br>My latest Asus PC motherboard lets me bypass the OS completely to check email, browse the net, and view photos. 5 seconds from cold start and you're online! I think a good amount of people could simply get by on that day to day.<br><br><br>Hey I'm an F'n Jerk!®

Not unlike OS X when it was first released. I thought we'd never get over the groanings I heard. How different it was. It was too difficult. It was too slow (okay, it really was slow!)<br><br>I was dumb enough to pay for the public beta, and instantly loved it!<br><br>I, too, bought the PB and instantly loved OS X. In reality, it wasn't any more difficult than OS 9, just slightly different on the user front end. The potential was immediately evident.<br><br>

<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>My Institute just fully implemented WinXP last year.<p><hr></blockquote><p>Sounds like your institutes IS department sucks ass. ;)<br><br><br>Hey I'm an F'n Jerk!®

<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>Sounds like your institutes IS department sucks ass. ;)<p><hr></blockquote><p>Sounds like? I can tell you what it feels like but it would take too long. Just picture Jimmy Cliff in the movie "Harder They Come" bent over the barrel and you might understand the half of it.<br><br>One part of one long story: they were going to protect me by putting me in a VDMZ. That would be a virtual Demilitarized zone so my servers could do what I want which is have selective access from inside and outside. (Something I easily do on my own down to selective sub directory access from selective subnets.) But what it really did was treat me like I had VD and sequester my servers in quarantine while removing my ability to change any access.<br><br>I could go on and on but there is a dude at my door with a large whip gotta run.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>