Transfer from DOS to UNIX

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009, Fairlight wrote:
>Confusious (Bill Campbell) say:
>> 
>> Now when companies like Adobe produce commercial software that
>> won't install on case-sensitive file systems (e.g. Photoshop
>> Elements on OS X), that I consider totally ridiculous, and a mark
>> of poor software engineering.
>
>Adobe == poor software engineering

It hasn't always been so, at least not the Aldus side before
being consumed by the Borg (my brother was engineering lead on
the OS/2 port of Pagemaker -- the first OS/2 port that took
advantage of many of its neat features :-).  FWIW, we still get
hundreds of spam messages a day to $user at aldus.celestial.com
which was the forwarding domain when we were handling their
e-mail via dialup uucp.

>You can actually exhaust your GDI Objects limit even in Windows XP, simply
>by opening and closing Acrobat Reader a bunch of times.  It has a steady
>leak.  But it's consistent, and I have proven it tonnes of times with
>TaskInfo on my systems here.

I don't think I have run Acrobat Reader since Mac's Preview.app
has become a far superior program for dealing with PDF files, and
Safari is even better for simply viewing many files.

...
>Then there's their "net connection required to activate" policy and
>engineering.  Don't start me.

And a pox on all software that insists on searching all mounted
file systems looking for pirated software.  Things take a long
time if I don't remember to unmount my external backup drive
before starting Microsoft's Office update on my Mac (which I have
installed only for testing as I use NeoOffice for Real Work).

Bill
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