Digital BW, The Print

You make a good point. I used to maintain my old lab’s SCO Unix  based system. It had order entry, tracking, inventory, accounting, reporting and everything else you could think of to run the business end of things for 15 terminals and 10 printers. I used to pay over thousand dollars a month for maintenance, which I was happy to do, but along with that came monthly “enhancements” and “upgrades”. Each time the developers had a new passion for something to throw at us I had the devil to pay to work out the new bugs that came along with it and one day I finally said enough. I got everything to a workable state where I knew how to handle any problem or error that was likely to occur and I stopped paying for service. That was 12 years ago and they system has been running ever since doing just what it was intended to do. Three years ago I moved to a new system in the cloud, but the old Unix box is still running and it’s been up since 1999. It’s the devil I’ve gotten to know very well.

If you really want to lose it, try a bios upgrade. Never again!


From: tyler@... 
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 3:17 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
Subject: RE: Re: [Digital BW] Photoshop Create Cloud program for photographers




got it Paul.. the point I'm sarcastically making is that I have a small one man business and the main computer has a lot of related apps from accounting to image editing  to web to vid to audio etc.. including some pretty arcane stuff for niche work. OS upgrading is not a simple decision, and has resulted in fall out of one kind or another in EVERY case.. from printer drivers to requiring entire new versions of something like, say, accounting software updates that suddenly can't read previous years data, profiling software, spectro drivers... Name your update disaster, I've been through it, including having to turn down work for a week while getting back up. Not free.


I do not take OS updates lightly, have a lot of research to do with every driver and app I have before doing it, and tend to stay at least 6 months behind to make sure bugs are worked out and other apps etc. have come up to speed. I've been on Macs since OS7. There have already been driver issues reported for Maverick.. I'll be later getting on board there, things are working fine as they are.