Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 05/16/06 00:30

On Mon, 15 May 2006, Andy Dingley wrote:

> On Mon, 15 May 2006 17:53:39 +0100, "Alan J. Flavell"
> <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> >For those who develop on Windows, but host the results on an Apache
> >server (which *is* the most usual production web server, after
> >all), then I'd certainly recommend them installing Win32 Apache2
>
> I'll consider that option shortly after someone gives me a good
> reason not to have an old dog of a PC running Debian under the desk.

Yeah, or run both in parallel in virtual machines. But I was offering
my best advice to those who, for whatever reason of their own and
whatever you or I might say, have decided to develop on the MSWin
platform.

p.s the old linux system under the desk isn't a great deal of help
when one's whiling away^W^W productively applying the time on a laptop
during one's travels.

OT:

Speaking of laptops: when I've been at conferences recently, it's been
interesting to have a little watch at what other folks are doing on
their laptops during the conference. There seem to be three main
camps:

1. watching the conference's streaming media on the web (kind-of
strange to sit in a conference session, and then watch the streaming
media that were intended for those who couldn't get there in person).

2. windows users: processing their email via their VPN

3. linux users: building kernels

ttfn

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