Linux-Advocacy Digest #132, Volume #33 Tue, 27 Mar 01 06:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: US Navy carrier to adopt Win2k infrastructure (Peter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6hlmann?=)
Re: I regretfully conclude that Linux is a piece of CRAP. (Brian Rourke)
Re: I regretfully conclude that Linux is a piece of CRAP. (Brian Rourke)
Re: I regretfully conclude that Linux is a piece of CRAP. (Brian Rourke)
Re: I regretfully conclude that Linux is a piece of CRAP. (Brian Rourke)
Re: I regretfully conclude that Linux is a piece of CRAP. (Brian Rourke)
Re: German armed forces ban MS software <gloat!> ("David Brown")
Re: Kulkis not Chad, Gates (was Re Unix/Linux Professionalism) ("David Brown")
Re: What is user friendly? ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: German armed forces ban MS software <gloat!> ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: I regretfully conclude that Linux is a piece of CRAP. (Matthew Gardiner)
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From: Peter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6hlmann?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: US Navy carrier to adopt Win2k infrastructure
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:59:16 +0200
Chad Everett wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 03:58:22 GMT, Chad Myers
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>MS also extended Java for java developers who ONLY wanted to
>>develop on the Windows platform. MS didn't force anyone to
>>do anything. They just published tools to help developers
>>who wanted to develop for Java, and only for Windows and
>>wanted to take advantage of Windows features.
>>
>
> This was in direct violation of their contractual agreements with
> Sun and the Java consortium. Making extensions to Java that were
> platform specific were direct violations. Which is, of course,
> why Sun succeeded in it's lawsuit against Microsoft.
>
In addition putting those "extensions" into the java-path were they
were striktly forbidden. I think Sun would have bitched far less had
MS put their path elsewhere. But with MSīs way they broke everything.
Sure, just to make it "possible" to write java-progs for windows,
riiiiight.
Only Chad, Jon, Conrad and perhaps Erik would believe such crap.
Peter
--
Linux is like a Wig-Wam: No Gates, No Windows, Apache inside
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From: Brian Rourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I regretfully conclude that Linux is a piece of CRAP.
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 02:30:24 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
By way of denouement:
I decided I try a few more things today. I backed up and deleted my
logical drives and extended dos partition, freeing up lots of space at
the end of my hd. Then tried installing RH 7.0 again. No luck.
Then I used FIPS to shrink my primary partition, creating two
primaries. Still no luck. I deleted the new primary, leaving about a
gig of free space under 8gb. Same result.
The problem seems to relate to either my BIOS or my hard drive. I
also wondered if the installation program is being somehow thrown off
by the lack of a Linux partition. If all it sees is either
unstructured free space or dos partitions, then perhaps it just stops.
It's too bad that there's no way to designate a Linux partition as
such before installing, kind of like rolling out the red carpet.
Well, I know when I'm licked. I took back the RH 7.0 and decided to
throw in the towel for now. I've just about used up my computer
messing-around time for this month.
Many people here posted some excellent advice, which I will mull over
as I consider whether or not to try again. I'm thinking about SuSE
and also about putting in a 2nd hard drive.
Back to the Windows grind...
Thanks again to everyone who responded to my rant with more
helpfulness and thought than it probably deserved.
Best regards,
Brian
The late spring sunshine flooded,
like a bursted tepid star,
the pink Boulevard. The people
beneath crawled like wounded insects
of cloth.
Wyndham Lewis
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From: Brian Rourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I regretfully conclude that Linux is a piece of CRAP.
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 02:46:49 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:25:14 +1200, Matthew Gardiner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Could I but in a for a few secs...thanks :)
>
>I was just going to say, from the last post, Brians comments that Windows is
>the "industry standard", in what area? Most engineering companies I know use
>UNIX workstations, animation studios (like the ones who did the cool graphics
>for the America's Cup), use SGI UNIX workstations. In the server area, SUN is
>growing at a rate of 40% as sysadmins get more and more pissed off at the
>unreliability of Windows 2000, and yes, they could add patches, however, that
>means downtime and money lost, SO, why doesn't Microsoft get it right in the
>first time? About the only area where Windows is the most dominant is in the
>luser area, where Jane and Joe Bloggs write their letter to aunt perl.
I know that a lot of places run UNIX, especially in the engineering
field. I was talking about the PC market, where Windows is the
industry standard. Now, to you, people like me are lusers. Ok.
There's really nothing for me to say in response except to retort in
kind and insult you back, by calling you a nerd or something.
>
>Also, saying "I've used Windows for x number of years" does not prove you are a
>computer literate user. I have been using computers for 10 years, and I am
>still learning new skills. Also, why didn't you (Brian) check with the with
>the store attendent whether it was the latest version out? and if not, you
>could have ordered in the latest version. Why Mandrake, why not look at SuSE
>or Storm, or any number of other distro's out there. Simple things such as
>that could have saved you hours of heart ache.
>
"Computer literate" is a relative term. This may scare you, but in my
little corner of the world there are people who actually come to me
for help with their computer problems. Horrifying, I know.
There is no good computer store in my town, which is why I didn't ask.
You keep harping on this research point, almost to the exclusion of
all else. I conceded some of these points before you even joined the
thread, mostly in my initial post. I'm also saying that I did the
best I could with the time I could spare and the resources at my
disposal.
I'm just an average consumer, a luser as you put it, and I'm not
interested in becoming an expert. There's no payoff for me. I just
need to do my work and write a letter to my Aunt Perl once in awhile.
But unlike many people like me, I do appreciate good software and
intelligently designed os's, and I like tinkering with my computer
when I can spare the time. I loved OS/2 compared to Windows. I
logged in hours and hours getting os/2 to work and was very bummed
when it died. But people like you, and distros like the one's I'm
talking about, will make me walk away from Linux and never give it a
second thought. Heck, just thinking I might run into someone like you
would by itself make me think twice about meeting members of the Linux
community (fortunately, I've met many people who are different). And,
I haven't suffered hours of heartache, just some petty annoyance.
Are you ever going to say what was rude about my posting to the
Mandrake forum?
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Brian
The late spring sunshine flooded,
like a bursted tepid star,
the pink Boulevard. The people
beneath crawled like wounded insects
of cloth.
Wyndham Lewis
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From: Brian Rourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I regretfully conclude that Linux is a piece of CRAP.
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 03:00:48 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:53:58 +1200, Matthew Gardiner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Lets call you Peter Peterson, just to make old Brian happy in the fact that you
>have a name. I couldn't care less if your name was Fred Nerd, or John Jacob
>Jingleheimer Smitt. The fact that Brian chose a really ancient, prehistoric
>copy of Linux, and didn't even ask at the sales desk/news groups/friends/Linux
>nerd at the local computer store, whether it was the latest version out, is his
>fault. Also, why the fork does he have so many bloody partitions,
>JUST HAVE ONE! (when using Windows) what does he do, take a woman out on a
>date, and takes her back to his apartment to show off how many partitions he
>has? Geeze, I just have two (when installing linux), / is a ReiserFS and a swap
>parition, yes, I probably could be "Mr Special" and have hundreds of partitions
>for virtually every folder, however, I want my life to be easier, hence, I have
>stuck with two partitions.
>
I don't care whether the little prick has a name or not. It's a fact
that it doesn't sign its posts, which was all I commented on.
It wasn't ancient or pre-historic. It was superseded by a new release
right after I bought it. I've been over and over this. Can't you
forking read?
The reason why I have more than one partition is because I like to
have one for my OS and one for data, because it's safer. I added one
for possible Linux use and one for my browser and other misc
crash-prone applications.
No one I know personally gives a damn about partitions or anything
else computer related.
Interesting, your bringing up dating. Not exactly on-topic, is it?
Has it been on your mind lately, boy? I'm sure that in your case the
fact that sheep are plentiful down there is a very good thing. For
you, not for the sheep.
I'm bored with reading your hysterical, childish, idiot-savant-like,
boring posts. How many times are going to squeal the same things at
me? Your ability to communicate using human language is very
rudimentary.
*PLONK*
The late spring sunshine flooded,
like a bursted tepid star,
the pink Boulevard. The people
beneath crawled like wounded insects
of cloth.
Wyndham Lewis
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From: Brian Rourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I regretfully conclude that Linux is a piece of CRAP.
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 03:04:45 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 03:32:25 -0500, "Aaron R. Kulkis"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Brian Rourke wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 18:46:45 -0500, "Aaron R. Kulkis"
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >Go out, buy yourself another disk drive, and put it into your system
>> >along side your current one.
>> >
>> >There, now you have disk space, and you don't have to screw with
>> >your existing LoseDOS stuff.
>> >
>> >Total cost: about $100.
>>
>> Thanks very much for this sound advice. I'm seriously considering
>> doing this if I decide to stick with it.
>
>Later, you should migrate some of your Windows partitions over to the
>Linux disk, and some of your Linux partitions over to the windows disk
>
>That way, no matter which OS you are using, your data will be spread
>split between two disks, rather than just one.
>
>This improves system performance IMMENSELY.
>
>
Thanks very much. I never would have thought of that on my own.
Brian
The late spring sunshine flooded,
like a bursted tepid star,
the pink Boulevard. The people
beneath crawled like wounded insects
of cloth.
Wyndham Lewis
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From: Brian Rourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I regretfully conclude that Linux is a piece of CRAP.
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 03:09:48 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 03:38:07 -0500, "Aaron R. Kulkis"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>M$ windows....*ALMOST* as relaible as a typewriter.
IMO the best things they ever put out were the early DOS versions of
Word. They've been doing everything they can to wreck it ever since.
Brian
The late spring sunshine flooded,
like a bursted tepid star,
the pink Boulevard. The people
beneath crawled like wounded insects
of cloth.
Wyndham Lewis
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From: "David Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: German armed forces ban MS software <gloat!>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:17:12 +0200
GreyCloud wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>David Brown wrote:
>>
>> There are three points that people here seem to have missed while calling
>> each other names instead of looking at the facts. First, NT can handle
>> floppies sensibly - you can use the machine while it is accessing a
floppy.
>> Win9x still uses DOS to access floppies, and thus stops almost entirely.
>> Second, NT can multi-task reasonably well, while Win9x is based on a
>> task-switching OS with added hacks - it is never any good at doing
several
>> things at once. Third, NT has a much better threaded version of
explorer -
>> long operations (like formating, or big copies) are always done in a
>> seperate thread, while Win9x has basically a single-threaded explorer -
it
>> *always* stops while waiting for a long operation (you need to start a
new
>> copy of explorer to keep on working).
>>
<snip>
>Doesn't really matter. NT was designed by Dave Cutler in the beginning.
>He was also the architect of VMS in the 70's. I respect Daves' ability
>to design and build O/Ses. However, no matter how you slice it, in
>order to format a floppy disk you need to consume CPU cycles. The
>software that reports the CPU useage may in fact be buggy or not
>reporting it accurately enough. An MSCE told me that you can't trust
>NTs' CPU monitor program and to download a free one from another site.
>Now if the utility could report 0.0001% CPU useage for that format
>process then at least you'd know its impact on the system. Giving a 0%
>useage report is meaningless, knowing that a format is in progress.
>
Most people on this thread are not quibiling about a few percent CPU use, or
how accurately it is monitored. One side is claiming that formating a
floppy is effectively a background operation, and does not interrupt your
use of the machine (whether it takes 2% or 10% or 0.01% does not really
matter), which is true of NT. The other side claims that it effectively loc
ks the machine (whether it takes 90% or 95% or 99.999% does not matter
either), and this is true of Win9x - in particular, it completly locks the
explorer process used to start the format.
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From: "David Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Kulkis not Chad, Gates (was Re Unix/Linux Professionalism)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:34:47 +0200
GreyCloud wrote in message ...
>
>Thats because we have one very important ingredient... FREEDOM!
>We can either choose or not to choose without having a gun held to your
>head.
>Take a look at Cuba.. go live there and tell me its a good life. Food
>problems, scrounging for very little goods, while one fat chicken fucker
>Castro reaps the benefits of the poors' labor.
>
What do you mean by freedom? A Cuban today can critisise his/her government
with much more freedom than Americans in the Macarthy days. Of all
dictorships in the world, Cuba is probably the freest, and one that works
hardest for the benifit of the people (just look at its health system -
despite the lack of money and materials, it takes much better care of the
poor than the US health system). In Cuba, there are great limitations such
as the choice of goods in shops and the prospect of trade with other
countries, but that the limits apply to the country as a whole. Cuba's main
problems stem mostly from USA's inhumane oppression of the country.
Don't make the mistake of judging all countries alike just because they have
a dictator. Castro is not "reaping the benifits of the poor's labour" -
even if he wanted to, he could not because he can't sell the country's
products on a fair market. There are any number of other countries in South
America and Africa with far more corrupt dictatorships which are well
supported by the US and friends, just because they have the name "democracy"
instead of "communism". Who cares that there is only one name allowed on
the ballot paper, as long as they are not communist?
And look at the US itself - the president is "elected" on the basis of being
the richest and most manipulative, and having the right friends in the right
places - so what if the other guy got more votes across the country as a
whole?
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
soc.singles,alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: What is user friendly?
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 05:41:40 -0500
FM wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > FM wrote:
> > > And stop mixing two different points together. The first point that the
> > > closest CPU-specific optimizations don't necessarily yield the best
> > > performance has nothing to do with the second argument that GCC's
> > > CPU-specific optimizations are not optimal and possibly insignificant
> > > for most applications.
> >
> > Which does NOT disprove my argument.
>
> Of course, if you're talking about your original argument that
> old shrink-wrap software suffers from performance problems due
> to the lack of cpu-specific optimizations (you did not put
> forward any argument after that) no one said it did.
Then you concede that I am right.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shelala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,soc.singles
Subject: Re: German armed forces ban MS software <gloat!>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 05:49:45 -0500
GreyCloud wrote:
>
> Roberto Alsina wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:51:16 -0800, GreyCloud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >Quite true. And the real problem is when you make your first kill.
> > >Usually start
> > >barfing afterwards. It usually gets a little easier after that.
> > >(VietNam)
> > >The Army pounded into our heads "Which are you? The quick or the dead?"
> > >There really was no choice in the matter if you wanted to stay alive.
> >
> > Of course there was. You did the right thing and declared yourself a
> > conscience objector (sp?) and did your time like a man of principle
> > in Leavenworth, or you did the second best thing and leave for Canada.
> >
> > No need to go get killed or kill someone for no good reason.
> >
> > Now, I can't wait to see the vein bulging on Aaron's forehead when
> > he reads this ;-)
> >
> > --
> > Roberto Alsina
>
> No one from outside this country really ever understood the situation.
> When you are 18 you really don't know what you are getting into. Yes, I
> saw it on TV. However, some are patriotic and will defend this
> country. If the shoe was on the other foot wouldn't you defend? The
> truly conscientious objector was one that was truly a religious man and
> stuck by his religion. The others that used this excuse were very
> definitely afraid and saw the war for what it was... a madmans' war with
> no defining purpose. He felt no patriotism because we weren't directly
> being attacked and took the only recourse and that was flight. I joined
> the Army after careful thought. 1. I was penniless. 2. No money to get
> an education. 3. I was given a test for my abilities and weighed the
> various services that I could leverage to my advantage. 4. I went to
> the various recruiters to listen to their hype and determine what was
> between the lines.
> The U.S. Army won out, because they offered the best training than the
> other branches.
> I was offered a hard to get billet in the intelligence agency and even
> the recruiter signed the electronics training contract. Most never see
> that happen. I did get the electronics training and of all the luck I
> ended up in Panama as my first duty assignment. Vietnam came later and
> it didn't bother me. The same hot, muggy place as Panama but I got
> their already aclimated. War just plain sucks. It is a pschologically
> damaging experience and really had wished our own gov. had the balls to
> help a lot of us get readjusted to being normal people again. They
> didn't, they just released us.
> Then the public had no respect for returning veterans and spat on most
> of us. At that point some felt like going to another country.
>
Thank that asshole Robert McNamara.
The man should be hanging from a tree with a noose around his scrotum.
Fortunately, the army has changed a LOT since those days. Almost all
of it for the better.
Gen. Creighton Abrahms, whom the tank is named after...took most of
the Combat Support and very nearly ALL of the Combat Service Support
units out of the active duty army and put them into the Guard and
Reserve.... Never again will the politicians be able to get us involved
in a major war without making the political commitment FIRST by activating
substantial numbers of Guard and Reserve units.
> So, if one ran from this country to another country he would be living a
> long life from home. Fortunately, they were pardoned. I give them no
> blame. I risked my life, put my time in, got my education, escaped
> being poor, and luckily I live a better life.
I'm on the other end. I was mostly through with college when I enlisted,
and being someone who read a LOT of history, especially personal accounts
of those who had served in various wars...knew full well what I was
getting into.
Compared to Purdue, basic training (under quite a few Viet Nam vets)
was a vacation. Never realized how stressful college was until I
was at Fort Jackson, and noticed that I was getting more sleep,
ate meals on a sane schedule, and didn't have loads of homework
and projects constantly hanging over my head.
>
> --
> V
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shelala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
------------------------------
From: Matthew Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I regretfully conclude that Linux is a piece of CRAP.
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:50:11 +1200
Why not have a nightly back up? I have a Zip 100 USB drive that backs up all my
important data each night, thus I have NO requirement for another partition.
You have not addressed the issue at hand, and that is, why didn't you check whether
the copy of Mandrake you were looking at, was the latest version of Mandrake Linux?
that is what the sales people are there for, to solve any problems or questions you
may have concerning a product(s).
Matthew Gardiner
Brian Rourke wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:53:58 +1200, Matthew Gardiner
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Lets call you Peter Peterson, just to make old Brian happy in the fact that you
> >have a name. I couldn't care less if your name was Fred Nerd, or John Jacob
> >Jingleheimer Smitt. The fact that Brian chose a really ancient, prehistoric
> >copy of Linux, and didn't even ask at the sales desk/news groups/friends/Linux
> >nerd at the local computer store, whether it was the latest version out, is his
> >fault. Also, why the fork does he have so many bloody partitions,
> >JUST HAVE ONE! (when using Windows) what does he do, take a woman out on a
> >date, and takes her back to his apartment to show off how many partitions he
> >has? Geeze, I just have two (when installing linux), / is a ReiserFS and a swap
> >parition, yes, I probably could be "Mr Special" and have hundreds of partitions
> >for virtually every folder, however, I want my life to be easier, hence, I have
> >stuck with two partitions.
> >
>
> I don't care whether the little prick has a name or not. It's a fact
> that it doesn't sign its posts, which was all I commented on.
>
> It wasn't ancient or pre-historic. It was superseded by a new release
> right after I bought it. I've been over and over this. Can't you
> forking read?
>
> The reason why I have more than one partition is because I like to
> have one for my OS and one for data, because it's safer. I added one
> for possible Linux use and one for my browser and other misc
> crash-prone applications.
>
> No one I know personally gives a damn about partitions or anything
> else computer related.
>
> Interesting, your bringing up dating. Not exactly on-topic, is it?
> Has it been on your mind lately, boy? I'm sure that in your case the
> fact that sheep are plentiful down there is a very good thing. For
> you, not for the sheep.
>
> I'm bored with reading your hysterical, childish, idiot-savant-like,
> boring posts. How many times are going to squeal the same things at
> me? Your ability to communicate using human language is very
> rudimentary.
>
> *PLONK*
>
> The late spring sunshine flooded,
> like a bursted tepid star,
> the pink Boulevard. The people
> beneath crawled like wounded insects
> of cloth.
>
> Wyndham Lewis
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