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 1RsSUc-0001c2-IN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:12:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AE04E080D; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 05:12:09 +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 A4ADAE07F9 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 05:10:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.134] (helo=smtp3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RsST8-0005sL-MZ for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:10:54 +0100 Received: from 5ed027d6.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.214] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RsST8-0001KI-E5 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:10:54 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F53E21A0 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 06:15:15 +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 MVJ9gdF7gPZJ for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 06:15:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from www.antarean.org (net.antarean.org [10.10.11.5]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8B311A84 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 06:15:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from 10.10.11.1 (SquirrelMail authenticated user joost) by www.antarean.org with HTTP; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 06:15:14 +0100 Message-ID: <73e6ccd61f22ed7435833eb0727d7604.squirrel@www.antarean.org> In-Reply-To: <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> <20120131173027.GA27928@waltdnes.org> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 06:15:14 +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: d4420541-bd6e-48c2-8103-8b74d95fcde8 X-Archives-Hash: 95e7c47e2105cc265c6a1dd8cc57117b 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 (Gento= o) >> 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 Win9= 8SE. However, for important stuff, like day-to-day desktop, I switched to Linu= x in 1997. That was the last time I lost files due to a crash of MS Windows... -- Joost