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RE: MisterHouse WAS Psion Wavefinder THEN Linux vs. Windows



The thing is, I’m on a tight-ish budget… (funding everything myself.. without bank loans / credit cards….).. and the way I look at it, I’m going to learn loads doing it all myself !  even if it does mean soldering things together … !)

 

I also want to have full control using my pc – with software that I can have written for me – to do whatever I like ! – totally bespoke system! – all for as little as possible.

 


Jonathan

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 25 June 2002 16:10
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: [ukha_d] MisterHouse WAS Psion Wavefinder THEN Linux vs. Windows

 

Stuart Grimshaw is our resident MisterHouse guru.

 

I looked at Misterhouse, and a number of others, several years ago and ended up shortlisting HomeSeer or HomeVision... I went for HomeVision, and never looked back.

 

Regards,

 

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: TAWN Jonathan [mailto:jonathan.tawn@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 25 June 2002 16:06
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] WAS Psion Wavefinder NOW Linux vs. Windows

I started out with dos 6.22  …and wfwg … that was… oooh…in 1996 I think !? (fresh out of school..)

 

Have you seen a  piece of software called ‘mister house’ ??? – it’s written in perl.. and is uses a text to speech engine ? – I was thinking of using this as a front-end to my HA system (a good friend of mine is going to write the web front end for it all..) (and its free too ;o)))

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 25 June 2002 15:56
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: [ukha_d] WAS Psion Wavefinder NOW Linux vs. Windows

 

To me, all the stories say the same thing:

 

Machines set up once, left as servers, and never touched tend to carry on running for long periods.

 

Machines used as "client PCs", with regular new downloads installed (only if just controls within web pages), or with new "test" software tend to crash regularly.

 

 

Note the complete absence of "on Windows", or "on Linux"... both have the same characteristics as above :-)

 

 

 

 

Mark, who has, in his time, been employed to support the following:

 

- DOS 3.3

- DOS 4 ---- actually, that one really was bad, I have nothing good to say about it

- DOS 5

- DOS 6 (various)

- Gem Desktop

- Windows 3.0

- Windows 3.1

- Windows 3.11 for workgroups

- Windows NT3.0

- Windows NT3.5

- Windows NT4.0

- Windows 2000

- Windows XP

- Netware 3.11

- Netware 3.12

- OS2 2.1

- OS2 3.0

- SunOS 4.1.1

- Solaris (various)
- Red Hat (various)

- Debian (various)

 


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