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On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, John Rigby wrote: > Hello folks, > You know, it *IS* fascinating to read the comments of those few > tunnel-visioned people on this list who continually make it difficult for > people outside of their tiny worlds. > I would love to take the candy/money off the baby - but my mother won't let > me do those sort of things any more ........ :-) > For those many others on this list who are not egobound to the degree that > the anal pressure creates blindness, please ignore the Flame-babies and > READ my post : > As always, I supply the evidence. > I even gave the Site address and the Forum where it is fully admitted by > the Company and some of the victims - one of whom contacted me and said > that he, as a professional psychologist was questioning his own grip on > reality after the experience ........... which was only matched by ferocity > of rudeness he experienced when attempting to learn about Linux . > > I was able to assure him as a professional peer - my own background is > thirty years of clinical and industrial psychology - that what he > experienced was "normal" Internet behaviour. Sad, but true. > The inescapable idiot percentage have great advantage out in the Cyberbog > and all one can do is remember that they are a tiny, tiny percentage. The > bulk of the good people out there are simply too afraid of them to say much. > > It is both my experience and opinion that the "Open Source" world is still > dominated by anti-social people with zero social skills and it shows in > their rage. > A simple example would be to go and say that you don't believe in the > rights of the Cyber-Nazis currently dominating the so-called anti-spam > movement, to tell YOU what you may or may not LEGALLY receive, in one of > the lists out there. > > Their intention is to somehow gain a little power. Simple. That is the > motivation of all fanatics - to gain that power and then use it to inflict > the pain on others that they feel. > > Well, there is my ever-increasing value $A 2 cents worth. Real people, > ignore the Flamebabies -go investigate FOR YOURSELF. > It will do two things: show you what sort of anti-social deviants ( meaning > "not like most") are out here in the Cyberbog and help you see the dangers. > If you have a Jetway Board especially, or have a similar program > investigate! See the other posted note about Nortons ( Long avoided by the > real pros in the Doze world) Here is the address again. Go read the forums > there! > http://www.gotogs.com > > Cheers! > John Rigby > NB: Who had no trouble installing other versions of Linux - just feels that > they are all still immature for real use in my own *commercial* world > activities. BUT I can see it all coming together. Lycoris and Lindows are > on the track that I have been espousing in Linux for the last 100 > years. K.I.S.S. > If Mandrake took my advice of years ago and split into two factions, > fanatic and user, Mandrake would/could own the arena. All it takes is a > simple Golden Rule: No Black Screen! > The Command prompt is no place for the other 99.9993% actual Users in the > real world. > > With Best Wishes To All Those Struggling To Make A Difference, > > ------------------------------- > > > At 10:32 PM 20/06/02, you wrote: > > >On Thursday 20 June 2002 11:09 am, you wrote: > > > Michael Adams wrote: > > > >On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 03:59, robin wrote: > > > >>Grand Slammer wrote: > > > >>>Hello folks, > > > >>>Although having given up on M*+ for now, I had left a multiboot to a > > > >>>friendly version of Lux (Lycoris - it works, but....) installed on my > > > >>>system. > > > >>>I had even changed Motherboards to try and get M8 to work and > > > >>>installed a Jetway - originally suggested by Civileme I think. ( Whose > > > >>>personal email address keeps bouncing - maybe I'm on his non-no list > > > >>> now) > > > >>> > > > >>>The destructive program (Trojan really!) comes bundled with Jetway > > > >>>Moboards and the product apparently self-installs with the Jetway and > > > >>>is called "Crush Recovery" would you believe - I thought it was a > > > >>>simple Chinglish blunder at the time(!) and although could not figure > > > >>>out how to remove an option it installed on the boot-up screen to > > > >>>install it, *I never activated it*. > > > >>>THEN two days ago, it suddenly announced that I was out of disk space > > > >>>( wrong -25 gigs avail) and offered the following options: > > > >>>"Save & Restore" "or I think, "delete". > > > >>>I took the safe road. Saving is always a good idea............... > > > >>> > > > >>>It then deleted *irretrievably*, via trashing the MBR, everything on > > > >>>my system. > > > >> > > > >>My condolences. As I posted some time ago, Norton Utilities did a > > > >>similar thing to my HD, though at least it kept the Windows partiton it > > > >>had "optimised" (lucky, since I too use Windows as a backup, though not > > > >>for anything crucial). Windows itself is too feeble to do much to your > > > >>system other than write over the MBR if you reinstall (and you can > > > >>always get back into Linux with a bootdisk or CD-ROM) but some > > > >>third-party software is extremely dangerous. > > > >> > > > >>BTW, John, your mail somehow got filtered into my "spam" folder, which > > > >>is odd, because it only does that to some domains I've received spam > > > >>from in the past (not yours) and anything from Korea. > > > >> > > > >>Sir Robin > > > > > > > >Oh what short memories we have. I beleive John Rigby caused quite a stir > > > > when he was posting here not three months ago and i would not be > > > > surprised if you had his mail included in your spam list > > > > > > Nah - I'd only have done that if his posts were in HTML with animated > > > GIFs ;-) > > > > > > Sir Robin > >yep, and I would be as suprised as hell if the "real" culprit was software > >that came with the mobo, more than likely he had the bios recognizing his > >hard drive as a 2 gig dos 6.2 fdisked, since he has never been able to > >install a real OS, (it might turn him into a nurd, [or was it a geek, I > >forget] you know). Either that or he had a trojon or virus that did screw up > >the MBR, and is just blaming the software that he "thought" was running. my > >bet too, (for $ 200.00 US, I gotta make HIM pay) I could have gotten his > >hardrive info back just by using diskdrake. the program prolly just set his > >hard drive to autoselect in his BIOS and it choose the correct settings for a > >modern OS. > >just my .02$ > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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