From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Rs1cd-0006KV-Du for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:30:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 82819E06B0; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:30:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DD0AE06B0 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:29:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9F9EDEBA5 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:29:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ezHqj3elY05I for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:01:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B829BDEB9A for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:29:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:29:27 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.2.1-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.7.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <4F2546BC.3010608@gmail.com> <4F2696A7.40407@hadt.biz> <4F2709BB.5060605@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F2709BB.5060605@gmail.com> X-KMail-Markup: true Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary-01=_nXzJPkuI6eX46PE" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201201310029.27480.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: e75e1739-2a8e-407d-9ccf-a682b4d17e30 X-Archives-Hash: 71e5b73e9b1c1aad5832ce9bd5583f8c --Boundary-01=_nXzJPkuI6eX46PE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Monday 30 January 2012 21:20:59 Dale wrote: > I had to replace a mobo and hard drive for a friend once. For some > reason the drive and controller went out. Anyway, when we reinstalled > winders, it said we had to call M$ to get some long freaking number. > While on the phone with them, I told them I had never heard of such > nonsense before. She progressed to telling me all the canned responses > but she didn't expect my response. I told her I used Linux and when you > get a CD and install it on more than one system, the Linux folks have a > party instead of requiring a confirmation number. I then went on to > explain how I was doing this for a friend and that I wouldn't install M$ > crap on my rig if it was free. I could tell she was not happy about my > thoughts on her product since she got quiet. Me being a chatter box at > times, I just kept explaining the advantages of Linux over M$. How to win friends and influence people! -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23 --Boundary-01=_nXzJPkuI6eX46PE Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On Monday 30 January 2012 21:20:59 Dale wrote:

> I had to replace a mobo and hard drive for a friend once. For some

> reason the drive and controller went out. Anyway, when we reinstalled

> winders, it said we had to call M$ to get some long freaking number.

> While on the phone with them, I told them I had never heard of such

> nonsense before. She progressed to telling me all the canned responses

> but she didn't expect my response. I told her I used Linux and when you

> get a CD and install it on more than one system, the Linux folks have a

> party instead of requiring a confirmation number. I then went on to

> explain how I was doing this for a friend and that I wouldn't install M$

> crap on my rig if it was free. I could tell she was not happy about my

> thoughts on her product since she got quiet. Me being a chatter box at

> times, I just kept explaining the advantages of Linux over M$.

How to win friends and influence people!

Rgds

Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23

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