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 1RsrTJ-0007jy-JI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:52:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A901CE07A5; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 07:52:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.166]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77CDFE0775 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 07:50:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.133] (helo=smtp2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RsrR7-0002rL-LP for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:50:29 +0100 Received: from 5ed027d6.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.214] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RsrR7-0007Nd-Av for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:50:29 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D04692A90 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 08:54:54 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 40fbLOWoVbn6 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 08:54:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from www.antarean.org (net.antarean.org [10.10.11.5]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AABB31A84 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 08:54:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from 62.132.204.72 (SquirrelMail authenticated user joost) by www.antarean.org with HTTP; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 08:54:53 +0100 Message-ID: <6be7f523fcb2118869de4391891e8f5a.squirrel@www.antarean.org> In-Reply-To: <4F28CF6B.4010507@gmail.com> 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> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 08:54:53 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 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=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Ziggo-spambar: / X-Ziggo-spamscore: -0.3 X-Ziggo-spamreport: BAYES_00=-1.9,KHOP_DYNAMIC=0.656,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: 64e16374-bd96-4549-9f69-2f7836ee1da6 X-Archives-Hash: e4eb7ea1cb330853fbfde6b13664204e 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 make= s >>>>> 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 ev= en >>> 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-download= s" >>> 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