rant: new laptop

[ghostrunner]

Heaven forbid we would want the end user to actually have to type something at a command line.

This is a tech support nightmare in my experience. I just had a guy who figured out what "chown" does. He decided he wanted access to everything on another computer. Took 5 hours to run a permissions repair, and I still had to go in an manually fix a few things.

[jim]

Ok, so what you do windows folks use to read postcript files?

[AdmiralKird]

Ok, so what you do windows folks use to read postcript files?

Adobe Acrobat, sometimes Photoshop.

[jim]

Ok, so what you do windows folks use to read postcript files?

Adobe Acrobat, sometimes Photoshop.

I asked becauase I got a couple of ps attachments, tried to read them w/ acrobat and it was garbage. Downloaded ghostview and that didn't even install right. Switched to a linux machine, read them fine. My biggest gripe with MS is it is almost compliant. Off just enough to make sure that if you didn't create it with their stuff, it won't work with their stuff.

[New Pagodi]

ghostscript always worked for me, but it's been a while since I've had to do anything related to PS files.

[jim]

Spent a good part of the weekend on my new laptop, and now it looks and feels exactly like a Linux machine. That was painful but life is good now.