[wplug] Linux or Windows

[Henry Umansky]

Whoa, that sounds awfully similar to the Apple "Switch" commercials.  Maybe 
we can start a new marketing campaign.

-Henry :)

--On Wednesday, March 19, 2003 4:13 PM -0500 James Kramer 
<jmkramer at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:r

> In the linux versus windows debate:
>
> Last week I purchased a Fujifilm mx-1200 for $65.  Great camera.  Took the
> camera out of the box and went out and snapped a few trial photos. Went
> home to check out the photos on my PC.  The camera came with a Windows CD
> so I decided to use Windows to get a quick look at the photos.  Using
> windows, I was able to download thumnail prints but I could not figure out
> how to download the images.  I spent approx. 2 hours messing around with
> it.  I then decided to use Linux with gphoto and downloaded the prints
> effortlessly after a few minutes of configuration.
>
> Yesterday, a technician from a local ISP installed DSL in my house.  He
> was familiar with Windows so after connecting the modem he used windows
> to connect to the intenet.  Windows was able to ping out to the internet
> (13ms to my provider), however, we could not connect the web browsers to
> the net.  Apparently the web browsers were still trying to use my
> (windows) disabled
> dialing modem.  After messing with this for about 0.5 hour with no success
> I used Linux and issued "ifconfig" with my IP and netmask and "route add"
> with the gateway.  The connection was up and running in less then 5
> minutes using Linux.
> Just thought I'd relay this.
> Jay
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Henry Umansky
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