{POLL} Windows Vista vs. Linux ? Worth the upgrade ? Worth the switchover?

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Op Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:18:02 +0000, schreef Achim Nolcken Lohse:

schnip

not new as in bought yesterday but new with respect to the '98 PC: HP psc
1216
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Thanks. Unfortunately, mine's a 6110.
 
Quicken uses an altered XML format, think they call it OFX, to
transfer its data to your machine, if you look at the files the data
can be extracted and a program written to view and store your data - I
did this in VB.NET, before XP crashed on me.
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GNUcash claims to do "QIF/OFX/HBCI Import, Transaction Matching":
http://www.gnucash.org/
 
L. Scott M. said:
Quicken uses an altered XML format, think they call it OFX, to
transfer its data to your machine,
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The standard is OFX. Quicken adds a couple of xml tags and calls it QFX.
In those fields are the financial IDs of the institution. Quicken then
checks with a server at Intuit for a valid financial ID (i.e. is that
institution paying Intuit money.)
if you look at the files the data can be extracted and a program written
to view and store your data - I did this in VB.NET, before XP crashed on
me.
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If you drop those extra xml tags and corresponding data, it's all OFX,
which is easily parseable, and Gnucash swallows those files easily. If the
banks were forthcoming with the URL of where to get the OFX/QFX files from,
Gnucash can/could do it directly.

After about 10 years of using Quicken I finally gave it up last year and am
only using Gnucash. It was the last thing that required me to use
CrossOver or VMware on a regular basis. At tax time I still need to get
VMware going to run Turbo Tax, and that's it.

-- HASM
 
Considering what I've read in regards to Windows Vista in newsgroups
recently (both positive and negative) I'm just curious how many users
are going to dump Windows for Linux rather than upgrade to Windows Vista
? Comments ? Flames ?
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Reading this in alt.comp.freeware, I can assure you: I would never buy
Windows Vista ... unless it's bundled with a new PC :-)
How many users are going to make Windows 2K/XP (or even ME) their last
version of Windows and simply make the switch rather than upgrade vista?
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I made all my Windows Versions (starting from Windows 1.0) my "last
one" until I was forced to keep up with the world outside :->
I've already started the move over myself; currently tripple booting 2
version of linux and windows xp MCE (simply for the fact I need the
programs my school uses but once support runs out for XP I'm done with
Windows). I just bought my computer in October and it says that its
Windows Vista Ready but I doubt that very much from what I've read. :-)
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My network consists of 23 PCs at the moment. Each and everyone has
more than one OS on it :_>. The real question is not "what can Vista
do for me?" but how long can I stand aside while everybody else
switches to the "next step" in the wrong direction :-)

Did you ever try one of the old DOS on a 3Ghz machine? It does not
take 25 minutes to boot (like my contemporary version of windows
does).
My actual Windows directory has a size of 6,35 GB (6.820.675.037
Bytes) and consists of 31 196 files in 3075 folders! In 1983 I had
DOS, Word for DOS plus all my texts on ONE single floppy disk.

C.
 
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