From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.18] (account lgrosenthal [192.168.100.18] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2247637 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:53:35 -0500 Message-ID: <4B8B484F.8080600@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:53:35 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090827 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] OT: Other OSes (was: Re: [OS2Wireless] DHCP: how to force a lease renewal ?) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 02/28/10 11:16 pm, Andy Willis thus wrote : > Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >> >> >> As this isn't an advocacy list, I really don't want to get into a >> detailed response. I'm glad your computing needs are being met, whatever >> platform you choose to use. For me, one OS doesn't do everything I need, >> so I run several different ones. There's the philosophy of the ONE >> overarching platform which does everything, and which every device >> should use, just so that everything "looks" the same. Then there's the >> philosophy which postulates that it is usually best to find the best >> tool for a given job, and given that that job may change from day to >> day, hour to hour, and machine to machine, I find that "looking" the >> same isn't all that important. I mean, a screwdriver doesn't look much >> like a circular saw, but when you need to tighten just *one* Philips >> head, it's a good thing that the saw isn;t the only thing in your >> toolbox! > > But if all you have is a hammer then everything looks like a nail :-) > Was going to use a sawzall analogy :-> I think you meant to add ... LOL! -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com visit my IT blog www.2rosenthals.net/wordpress -------------------------------------------------------------