bay56 wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve Philp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 4:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Upgradeing all packages destroys my system]]
>
> > Let's get past all of the Windows-centric thinking that we've become
> > accustomed to. Full reinstalls are rarely necessary. Reboots are
> > rarely necessary. Applications do not crash the operating system.
>
> I have for the last few years been an Amiga refugee - forced into exile in
> the Win world - and frankly hated it for the most part - every day felt
> wrong, like it didn't fit - now I am a linux newbie (day 6), and in the
> last couple of days was starting to notice little niceties which I had
> nearly forgotten all about, and almost discovering them afresh. What you
> have said has bought back many memories, and much hope for the future -
> thanks for it. This could hardly have come at a more pivotal moment for me!
>
> I had become stale and easy to please under Win - what piffle that stuff
> really is - only a couple of days ago I found out for myself about the myth
> of MS long file names - how can anyone think that an illusion like that is
> ever going to succeed at doing anything other than fooling people? The real
> macoy is what's called for. Enough of this damn fooling about, time for some
> real stuff! OK MS you got one seaked past me - but now I have found you
> out - god help you. Your credibility in total tatters now. It's so easy to
> get taken in by sales type people these days - and boy does it happen
> gradually - how incidious that cancer which is MS. Heads Up - the rats are
> amongst the corn!
>
> Sorry to have ranted a little, but some days the scales just fall from the
> eyes, and you spot your culprit clear in the sights - I'm not religous by
> any stretch of anyone's imagination, but that has to be like what people
> mean when they say "a religious experience" - well at least I don't have to
> wonder about that now! ;-)
>
> I was going to take it e-mail, but why not share a good feeling? We're all
> in this together aren't we?
>
> Regards,
> Ian
>
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> Or when that server is down go direct to http://www.btinternet.com/~bay56/
I'll drink to that
Joe
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Joseph S. Gardner
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