[HLUG] HLUG Meeting - 16th April 2008

[Paul Stenning]

LOL!

It's Friday and we're probably all bored at work! :)


Alex Mace wrote:
> Will you lot be quiet, some of us are trying to work ;-D
> 
> Nice to see plenty of activity on the list :)
> 
> On 18 Apr 2008, at 11:50, paul.maddox.mail-list at synth.net wrote:
> 
>> Paul,
>>
>> :-)
>> I was just teasing, I guess you could use VMWare server and build a
>> windows VM. on my mac I use virtual PC to do this...
>>
>> it would be nice to see some of the biggies like adobe developing for
>> Linux, though I'm not sure how much take up they'd have, a lot of pople
>> pick linux because they beleive it's free (which it's not 100% free if 
>> you
>> count your time, and lack of certain apps).
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>> Well there is the usual issue of applications (Dreamweaver CS3,
>>> PhotoShop Elements, Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional, UltraEdit, Beyond
>>> Compare, Visual Basic 6 etc) for which there are currently no suitable
>>> Linux alternatives.
>>>
>>> For instant messaging I use aMSN on Vista which works OK.  I do use open
>>> source where possible - OpenOffice, ThunderBird, FireFox, FileZilla,
>>> FrostWire etc.
>>>
>>> The situation is improving!
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>> paul.maddox.mail-list at synth.net wrote:
>>>> Paul,
>>>>
>>>>> BTW, I tried the current Windows version of Pidgeon on Vista and it
>>>>> keeps crashing after a couple of hours.
>>>>
>>>> easy to fix, install linux.
>>>>
>>>> :-)
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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