From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:36:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F28CF6B.4010507@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73e6ccd61f22ed7435833eb0727d7604.squirrel@www.antarean.org>
J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
> On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I enjoyed MS Dos, then played a bit with MS Win3.11, MS Win95 and MS Win98SE.
> However, for important stuff, like day-to-day desktop, I switched to Linux
> in 1997. That was the last time I lost files due to a crash of MS
> Windows...
>
> --
> Joost
>
>
>
When 3.1 came out, I changed jobs. Swapping 15 floppies is no fun to
me. Funny, reinstalling fixed the problems back then and it still is
the best way to fix windoze.
< sighs >
Dale
:-) :-)
--
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-29 13:16 [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol Dale
2012-01-29 13:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Hartmut Figge
2012-01-29 16:09 ` [gentoo-user] " Philip Webb
2012-01-29 16:19 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-29 17:19 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-01-29 18:06 ` Dale
2012-01-29 18:14 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-29 19:02 ` Dale
2012-01-29 19:09 ` Mark Knecht
2012-01-29 19:27 ` Mick
2012-01-29 20:04 ` Dale
2012-01-29 22:08 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-01-29 22:41 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-29 23:41 ` walt
2012-01-29 23:46 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-30 0:02 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-01-30 0:16 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-30 1:29 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-01-30 3:40 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-30 4:23 ` David Relson
2012-01-30 11:48 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-01-30 20:52 ` Dale
2012-01-30 5:07 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-01-30 9:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-30 9:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-30 13:55 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-01-30 12:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Mike Edenfield
2012-01-30 13:09 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-30 13:14 ` James Broadhead
2012-01-31 3:25 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-01-30 21:20 ` Dale
2012-01-31 0:29 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-01-31 2:56 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-01-31 17:00 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-31 17:05 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-01-31 17:30 ` Walter Dnes
2012-01-31 23:10 ` wdk@moriah
2012-02-01 5:15 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-02-01 5:36 ` Dale [this message]
2012-02-01 11:54 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-01 13:41 ` Dale
2012-02-02 1:01 ` Walter Dnes
2012-02-02 2:54 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-02 3:33 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-02-02 4:12 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-02 7:54 ` [gentoo-user] " J. Roeleveld
2012-02-02 9:17 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-02-02 16:26 ` Paul Hartman
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