2 Jun
2005
2 Jun
'05
11:13 p.m.
From: "der Mouse" <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 12:41 AM
Like always if anyone wants to do a task they either use what's available
and work with its means or they develope their own.
Then as now the OS is a tool to be used, it can be a conduit to achieving
the task at hand.
Networking was not invented on PC's I setup many 8 bit networks.
Then as now I use what is available to achieve the desired goal.
Yes windows today is completely equivalent to the different OS's I've used
on a variety of systems since I started in the mid 70's. The fact that
Micro$loth has created a bloated giant that self destructs with time is a
side issue. The open source equivalent Linux is also a bloated giant.
I can not support my clients wishes by using CP/M or any other classic
environment. I would go broke trying to convince them to go the way I want
them to go. I setup Linux servers and Windoze workstations not because I
believe that it is perfect but it is the best I can do within the boundaries
I live in.
To decide to not use any particular piece of hardware or software that can
easily and cheaply do a desired job then whine because other people don't
bend over backwards to support your wishes for no charge is idiotic.
If you don't like PDF's I recommend that you start a monastery to copy by
hand any documents you want archived.
Randy
www.s100-manuals.com
The point was
that anyone that wants to be able to easily handle
PDF's can do so very cheaply and are not required to deal with either
Micro$loth or Adobe.
Easily?
Which of those "several open source packages" includes a scriptable
(ie, command-line) tool to extract the embedded images from a PDF?
(Not to render them and give the resulting rendered image, but to
extract the image itself.) Certainly ghostscript couldn't last time I
looked.
Without that, I can't consider it fair to say that I can "easily handle
PDFs", since that's the second most common thing I want to do with
PDFs. (The first most common is to convert to PostScript for printing,
which ghostscript does do a reasonably good job of.) More to the
point people complaining over Windoze being a closed
system misses the point that this group is filled with people that
never gave a thought to open source OS's when they got their classic
systems.
Perhaps you see no difference between running classic closed-source
software on a classic machine with no networking, often no connection
to anything else, and running modern closed-source software on a modern
machine with a network link.
I, on the other hand, see many differences, at least a few of which
would be relevant for me if I had any machines to which the question
even applied.
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