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Kevin Swan (kevin@kombat.acadiau.ca) wrote:
: I love vi.  I wish we were marked on content instead of prettyness.  I
: can't stand spending 15 minutes on part of a large document and then lose
: it.  I mean, I know, its only 15 minutes, and it could probably be redone
: in 10, but it won't be the same.  I've lost my train of thought now.  I
: can't say it just as well a second time.  I liked what I had the first
: time.

: Damn Win95.  I'm sorry, Microsoft, but you can take your lame-ass kludge of
: "protected memory", your "seamless multitasking", your "foolproof
: autosaves", and your "Wizards" and SHOVE IT.

: Yes, I just lost 15 minutes of work.  I wasn't even doing anything tricky.
: I had exceed running with 1 xterm and a netscape session from a remote
: machine, and Word95 open.  I'm typing along in Word and BOOM!  Freezes.
: Solid.  I wait a while.  I can still switch between tasks, got a live
: keyboard in other tasks, and the mouse works, but Word is locked solid.
: CTRL+ALT+DEL confirms its not responding.  So what could I do?  I killed
: it.  And lost 15 minutes.

: Not a lot, I suppose, but I've been working on it for about an hour.  And I
: wasted 15 minutes.  So, I wasted 1/4 of my time.  I experienced a 25% loss
: of productivity.  I AM ONLY ONE PERSON.  I would love for someone out there
: to add up all the lost productivity hours of all the poor office workers
: whose IT managers have condemned them to Microsoft products.  I think it
: would be enlightening, to say the least.

: THIS IS NOT RARE.  This happens ALL THE TIME.  This is not the first time
: its happened to me, and I'm certainly not the only one getting screwed over
: by programs dying on me.

: I cannot count how many times Word has crashed on me and lost work on me.
: I CAN count the number of times vi has, though.  Ready?  ZERO.  vi has
: NEVER EVER EVER crashed on me.  I have NEVER lost ANYTHING due to any kind
: of failure or bug in vi or Linux.  The rare occasion that I *have* received
: email from Graceland was because another app choked off my CPU and forced a
: reboot, or I inadvertantly rebooted while I had a vi session open.  And the
: funniest part?  I was able to pick up RIGHT WHERE I LEFT OFF!  vi emailed
: me everything I had done before it was killed.  vi is free, people!  vi is
: small!  Yet vi is INFINITELY (this is not an expression, vi has never
: crashed on me, therefore it is infinity times more reliable than Word) more
: reliable than Word.  Why is that?  MS has software engineers plugging away
: at their keyboards day and night, then produce software they sell for
: hundreds of dollars.  IT CRASHES!  vi doesn't, yet its free.

: I'm just pissed and ranting.  If you think I'm full of shit, well then,
: have fun rebooting your Win95 box.  I'll have at least 15 minutes more fun
: in life than you.

: Kev.

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: Kevin Swan						 BCSH
: kevin@kombat.acadiau.ca		   Acadia University
: 	   How's my posting?  Call 1-800-DEV-NULL
: ** Fatal Error [1]: 'Win95' virus detected on /dev/hda1; Formatting ...

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