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 1RsMrk-0003m4-KC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:11:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04E0CE06CF; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:11:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.105]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 937EDE06CF for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:10:40 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: At8HAIB0KE98lNwV/2dsb2JhbABCgw2qDmZmgQWBcgEBBAE6PwULCw05SQENBhMeAYdduRSLECwGAQcCDTGCfQUYAg1jAgMCByUCglpjBIg+jGKFVyKMaA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,599,1320595200"; d="scan'208";a="326559445" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.148.220.21]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 01 Feb 2012 07:10:38 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE950205FFB for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 07:10:38 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at lan.localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.lan.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id IaLereaj_wa2 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 07:10:35 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.43.118] (bills-ipad.wifi.localdomain [192.168.43.118]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FCF920A788 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 07:10:35 +0800 (WST) 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> In-Reply-To: <20120131173027.GA27928@waltdnes.org> 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 (1.0) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: <93053884-8278-462B-8DE1-19FC97C3DA09@iinet.net.au> Cc: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" X-Mailer: iPad Mail (9A405) From: "wdk@moriah" Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 07:10:35 +0800 To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" X-Archives-Salt: 5c9aa70c-3409-4f6d-898d-71d24d0ca48b X-Archives-Hash: a1f87f091a1f399458edb2edb45760b3 Hey, WinME was a killer app! MS were really smart with it and if they used the same philosophy with vista= , how different things could have been! WinME killed so many systems, user experiences and expectations that when 2k= came along every one was so pleased to upgrade (nt4 was never really pushed= to users) :) W.Kenworthy On 01/02/2012, at 1:30, "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 p= ointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post" pool; I just won $5. >>=20 >> 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 >>=20 >> 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). >>=20 >> I made the final switch from Windows to Linux on my Workstation (Gentoo) >> and Notebook (Lubuntu) only a few month ago. >>=20 >> So please, don't accuse me of making Windows insults. >=20 > 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. >=20 > --=20 > Walter Dnes >=20