[arachne] Re: Adobe swings and misses as PDF abuse worsens
- From: "Sam Ewalt" <ewalt@xxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 12:37:14 -0500 (EST)
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Hi L.D.,
What a great line "having spent 48 non-stop hours one day" Your
frustration is clear.
But if "even burger flippers" can afford a decent computer perhaps
your daughter should have her own computer. Of course, then both
computers can go on the fritz at the same time and you'll never get any
sleep.
My solution has been not to upgrade very often and keep my minimal
essentials on more than one computer.
But I'm not up-to-date and never will be. I dislike PDF's on principle.
I can read text in any format, so don't see the reason to have the
text delivered in the format du jour. Now they want to embed flash
animations in pdf's.
God help us.
Sam Ewalt
On Sun, March 1, 2009 11:12 am, L.D. Best wrote:
> Seems clear to me that cost is not really the factor. Security,
> reliability, functionality are what need to be considered. And I say
> that with GREAT fervor, having spent 48 non-stop hours one day and 36
> hours more after 12 hours sleep, backing up accessible files running in
> 'safe mode' to recover from an OS glitch which could not be 'repaired'
> after 4 tries and meant I had to totally reinstall XP Pro from format
> upward, then transfer files from 32 CDs' worth of files from her system
> *PLUS* 4 CDs of applications from *my* system, reinstall all the working
> programs necessary, and have my daughter wringing her hands that I had
> somehow lost all her business paperwork (I'd just put it in another
> place) to do "a simple upgrade to make the computer internet safe". And
> I still have a list of things to tell her about system cleaning on a
> regular basis. (I forgot because my granddaughter was with her, the
> 'baby' who has grown so fast I find it hard to keep up ... no more
> toddler stage, but now a full out run and fearless beating up Bear the
> dog to elicit kissies before she runs to pick up the empty doggie dish
> and start searching for the food to fill it with.)
>
> l.d.
>
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