Flight plans lost?

On Jun 24, 9:26 am, "Dan Luke" wrote:
"Morgans" wrote:

My brother tells me (a computer using electrical engineer) that his
screaming fast new computer is so slow with Vista, that he often goes and
takes a bathroom break while it opens Adobe.

I'm not a micro$oft basher, but they screwed up big, this time.

Indeed.

We have no plans in our business for "upgrading" to Vista; not for customers'
machines, technicians' laptops or our own office workstations. We'll buy XP
Pro refurbs if we have to for as long as we can.

This will be a real test of Microsoft's power. It might be just the boost
Linux needs to go mainstream in a big way.

And you know Apple loves it.

--
Dan

"I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my
telephone; my wish has come true, because I can no longer figure out how
to use my telephone."
- Bjarne Stroustrup

Interesting read at http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/
vista_cost.html

Regards,
Jon

"Jon" wrote in message
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On Jun 24, 9:26 am, "Dan Luke" wrote:
"I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my
telephone; my wish has come true, because I can no longer figure out how
to use my telephone."
- Bjarne Stroustrup

Interesting read at
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html


I hear that corporations are staying away from Vista in droves. Even the
geeks are saying away.

When XP came out, the corporate world, big and small, flocked to it. Now
they're holding their noses for Vista and very many have not upgraded their
systems from Office 2003 or even Office 2000.

It took Microsoft how long to get the major bugs out of XP? Two years? Most
of us will be dead and buried before they get Vista stabilized.

Lose the corporate AND the vast majority of the consumer ("power user")
market, and you're in trouble. Lose the geeks and you're in SERIOUS trouble.

"Dan Luke" wrote

This will be a real test of Microsoft's power. It might be just the boost
Linux needs to go mainstream in a big way.

And you know Apple loves it.

Chuckle Yep!

One thing my sister in law says, is "they tried to make Vista look like the
Apple OS's. If I had wanted that, I would have gotten a Mac!"
--
Jim in NC

In article , "Morgans"
wrote:

"Dan Luke" wrote

This will be a real test of Microsoft's power. It might be just the boost
Linux needs to go mainstream in a big way.

And you know Apple loves it.

Chuckle Yep!

One thing my sister in law says, is "they tried to make Vista look like the
Apple OS's. If I had wanted that, I would have gotten a Mac!"

insert old joke about potatoe and second coming...

--
Bob Noel
(goodness, please trim replies!!!)

On Jun 24, 2:28 pm, "Morgans" wrote:
"Dan Luke" wrote

This will be a real test of Microsoft's power. It might be just the boost
Linux needs to go mainstream in a big way.

And you know Apple loves it.

Chuckle Yep!

One thing my sister in law says, is "they tried to make Vista look like the
Apple OS's. If I had wanted that, I would have gotten a Mac!"
--
Jim in NC

" The software said it requires Windows 95 or better, so I installed
Linux "

Morgans wrote:
"Dan Luke" wrote

This will be a real test of Microsoft's power. It might be just the boost
Linux needs to go mainstream in a big way.

And you know Apple loves it.

Chuckle Yep!

One thing my sister in law says, is "they tried to make Vista look like the
Apple OS's. If I had wanted that, I would have gotten a Mac!"

If it worked like an Apple, that would be cool.
Superficially steeling the Apple styling isn't worth much.

Oddly, we've had to do darn little as a software manufacturer
to go form Windows 95 to NT to 2000 to XP (other than picking
up NEW features). Vista broke that. I had to task two guys
for a few weeks fixing things up. It's not just us that's
running into the problem.

On 6/21/2007 9:15:59 AM, "Viperdoc" wrote:

I've never had a problem with the Jepp program.

As an active IFR pilot who uses Jepp's Flightstar to file just about all of
my IFR plans over the last four years, I have never had an issue of a lost
flight plan filed via Jepp and ultimately CSC/DTC Duats that wasn't my fault
(departure time more than 1/2 hour earlier than the time I call clearance).

--
Peter

On 6/21/2007 10:00:54 AM, "Peter R." wrote:

(departure time more than 1/2 hour earlier than the time I call
clearance).

Typo correction: "departure time more than 1/2 hour *LATER* than then
time..."

--
Peter

"Peter R." wrote in message
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On 6/21/2007 10:00:54 AM, "Peter R." wrote:

(departure time more than 1/2 hour earlier than the time I call
clearance).

Typo correction: "departure time more than 1/2 hour *LATER* than then
time..."
{Third time's the charm}

....than THE time...