Hi, I'm Tom
 

Just stopping in to say Hi. I mostly lurk around but you'll see me post from time to time. :)

Hi Tom! You know where the coffee is!

Hey, Tom! come out to the light, lurking is for vampires! :)

Hi Tom! No need to lurk, we're friendly here! ;)

Hi, Tom! Welcome to our new toy! :D

Hey, I noticed an article on your site where it says "A senior Microsoft executive told a BBC World documentary that people should use commercial software if they're looking for stability [instead of open-source software]."

That got me to thinking... within my experience, open-source applications have been much more reliable than commercial software. I'd say the difference in reliability between The Sims 2 and SimPE is quite apparent. This also holds true for the Microsoft Office suite in comparison to the open-source tools I'm using in my day job.

Well, although SimPE is allegedly open-source, no one except the original developer has ever seen a line of it. But SimPE doesn't do most of the irrational things the game does!

I've never crashed PhotoShop, but I've never crashed Gimp either!

I have crashed Photoshop. If I try to run Photoshop and Microsoft Outlook at the same time, Photoshop craters.

B'b'but... I thought that the source code for SimPE was available on SourceForge.

There's an "entry" on SourceForge, but last time I looked, no actual code. It's been a while since I looked tho.

Just checked again... no actual code. http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...roup_id=133134

The only "source code" is "localization files," which I assume are for translators.

Greg,

Yeah, I'm usually a big Linux user, but I've yet to put Linux back on this machine, been to easy just to stay in Windows. But I love open source software.

I'm particularly sensitive to Windows issues at the moment. This afternoon I tried to let XP do a simple update and ended up having to reboot the machine four times in the process of installing a patch so that I could install the update to get an update.

Three hours of down time... grumble... grumble... grumble...

My CD drive killed my Linux yesterday :P

Waiting for clever techy Linux-programmer son to fix it.
Meanwhile Windoze is moderately reliable. And one vital reason to have Windows - there are NO SIMS on Linux! (well Second Life is, but that's not quite Sims!)

Yeah, Windows has really been fairly reliable for me, too. I'm flinchy about have to reboot on demand because of a peculiarity in my home network. Every time I reboot one of the Windows boxes, I have to take the Macintoshes off line because they go through an Airport, and there's a misconfiguration in teh Aiport that I haven't been able to figure out. The Windows machines don't get a screwy IP address if the Airport is on line while they're starting up.