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 1Rssps-0005Tn-Ou for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:20:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4189CE0467; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 09:19:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17D8EE079A for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 09:17:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1Rssnc-0000mN-B8>; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:17:48 +0100 Received: from imp051235.vpn.mi.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.51.235]) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1Rssnc-000377-6p>; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:17:48 +0100 Message-ID: <4F2A54BA.1040505@fu-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:17:46 +0100 From: Hinnerk van Bruinehsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20120106 Thunderbird/9.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol 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> <20120131173027.GA27928@waltdnes.org> <73e6ccd61f22ed7435833eb0727d7604.squirrel@www.antarean.org> <4F28CF6B.4010507@gmail.com> <6be7f523fcb2118869de4391891e8f5a.squirrel@www.antarean.org> In-Reply-To: <6be7f523fcb2118869de4391891e8f5a.squirrel@www.antarean.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 130.133.51.235 X-Archives-Salt: 927bbdc0-173a-4728-9068-86967c241b73 X-Archives-Hash: 3b28f345975136409d0074b1edaa9dc9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02.02.2012 08:54, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wed, February 1, 2012 6:36 am, Dale wrote: >> 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. > > You should've tried installing MS Office back then... 45 (Or > there-abouts) floppies and the installer asking for them in a > random order. With some of those being asked several times... > > The guy asking for it paid a lot for it, so it wasn't too bad. ;) > > -- Joost > > I remember OS/2 Warp 3.0 - 1 CDROM oder 95 floppies. I bought a cdrom-drive after the install failed the third time because of a bad disk (no. 70+, if i recall correctly) ;) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPKlS6AAoJEJwwOFaNFkYclKoH/AnQvPmsU4iAXALQ8OIYadGY VNiO1XVPcQDYHvVNBmaAbDlUWiFJh/qYNE7ocUaG7L6jecjM8hOUCdbCxGydt+zt lpMzA3piA9dWKf9GcAipud3tLSNNp3/6RnjMPa2rlpXR1u3DPwKm65ZYY/x7IJ03 LgEk922R0soUgR71AkYYTBYF3LT6Zz8eosopeZBtHmpX0j+P++Xia1Ao9jKEn3vL fn3uiwzMWhUGvQgufh/SA7Cc5GvEUV80f0jFN3RU33ECLTznC4AC/jEeahHR4Wvc tuqtuaFfna/TauCy09619GLFPyg7CmToPXWhmeaFlfFTq4ntUCzcqoJaVXJ8fcQ= =Y6ke -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----