OT: If I were to list what I've done with filePro & vent how I feel about filePro

[Fairlight]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 10:35:55AM -0700, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> 
> MCSE, Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert.

Dude, that cracked me up!  Sounds about right, too.

> I'm leaning towards running most things under VMware VMs as it
> largely removes hardware issues, and is dead easy to move VMs to
> new systems if necessary.  All my SCO OpenServer systems are
> running under VMs.

That's the best model to use for servers at this point in time, in my
opinion.  I'm a fan of the abstraction layer when games aren't involved.

> >Perl for Windows exists.  Python for Windows exists.  There's zero reason
> >to suffer -any- of the MS-specific rubbish any longer.
> 
> I wouldn't do anything on DOS/Windows until I had perl and the
> elvis 'vi' editor available.  Back in the DOS days where memory
> was very limited, I often generated .bat files with perl, then
> quit perl to run the batch file.

I use perl and gvim.

> Today, about the only thing I do with Windows is run it under
> VMware Fusion on my MacBook Pro to do double dummy analysis of
> bridge hands generated in Python on my MacBook Pro and run the
> dealing machine to prepare duplicate boards for club games.

Windows 7 is still my main desktop.  It will be until I'm forced to Win10
for security reasons in a couple years.  I'm -not- anxious to have the 3hr
discussion with MS about reactivating my Office 2010 license when I upgrade
the OS.  That happened already when I preemptively replaced my hard drives
before they could start dying.  I'm not eager to feel like I'm going to
have a stroke anytime soon.  That was one of the most infuriating phone
calls I've had with any vendor since I dropped Adaptec over their lack of
official Linux support back in the day.

I'm just really not anxious to see how many copy protection schemes barf.
Thankfully, much of my music production software is fine, but I don't know
about all of it, and there is -so much- of it.  :)

mark->
-- 
Audio panton, cogito singularis.