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 1RsHa7-0006wc-LM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:33:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91D0DE094E; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:33:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B3A6E0937 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:32:16 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAIAkKE9MCqoV/2dsb2JhbABDrl+BBoFyAQEFOhwzCzQSFCUQASYeAcBYixcCAgkFDAYMAQEJBBQNBg2CchkEgQ8BBAQYAiGCOWMEiECFBYdahWeINIRY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,597,1320642000"; d="scan'208";a="160482329" Received: from 76-10-170-21.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([76.10.170.21]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 31 Jan 2012 12:32:06 -0500 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:30:27 -0500 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:30:27 -0500 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol Message-ID: <20120131173027.GA27928@waltdnes.org> References: <4F2546BC.3010608@gmail.com> <4F258AAF.9090504@gmail.com> <4F26939E.3030003@kutulu.org> <4F2696A7.40407@hadt.biz> <006801ccdfc3$ff31c3d0$fd954b70$@kutulu.org> <4F281F48.5060008@hadt.biz> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F281F48.5060008@hadt.biz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 090e7d4d-2e4e-4bb7-ac5a-20bbd56baaad X-Archives-Hash: b4b2cf2cf32e51e2618a585ab3937570 On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote > > Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office "how long before someone makes a pointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post" pool; I just won $5. > > I was using Win3.1 - and was happy with it > I was using Win95 - and was happy with it > I was using WinNT4 - and was happy with it > I was using Win2000 - and was happy with it > I was using Win Server 2003 - and was happy with it > I was using Win7 - and was happy with it > > And I am also a Linux SuSe user since 6.0 and Gentoo user since > 1.something (but up until now just on the servers). > > I made the final switch from Windows to Linux on my Workstation (Gentoo) > and Notebook (Lubuntu) only a few month ago. > > So please, don't accuse me of making Windows insults. I feel that Win98SE was the best Windows ever, and could've been even more of a killer if Microsoft hadn't so stupidly tried to ram ActiveX down people's throats. Remove ActiveX, and 99% of "drive-by-downloads" would've disappeared. WinME was a sad joke, however. -- Walter Dnes