On 08/11/2009 12:05 AM, Duncan wrote: > ...
Besides, as I mentioned, I'm not up with whatever changes MICROS~1 might have developed in the last nearing a decade now, anyway, tho from what I read they /have/ gotten a bit better in that regard...
I don't use Windows unless absolutely forced (and thanks to a greatly improved wine, that's seldom nowadays) but I do install beta releases of Windows, like Win7, just to see how long it will take them to enter the twentieth century. They did introduce the equivalent of home directories a few versions ago, but it took years for the applications developers to stop putting data in the same directory with the executables. Pan's most popular rival, Agent, was putting its data in the program directory up until version 4.x, so it had to be run as root. That was years after Windows had 'home' directories available. M$ did introduce the 'selfish' into the programming community and it took ages for it to wear (almost) off. The user community is still years behind the programmers, sadly. Most Windows users still run as root and don't know anything about it. Botnets abound. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
