Re: history of mrproper

2001-07-03 Thread Kurt Maxwell Weber
On Tuesday 03 July 2001 22:33, Mike Sklar ignorantly blabbered: > Hopefully someone could enlighten me on the history of mrproper. I think > its a great name for making sources *proper*. In particular I'd like to > know what the *mr* might stand for. To differentiate it from Mrs. Proper. -- Reg

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-01 Thread Kurt Maxwell Weber
Good god, I've created a monster. I intended to just make one point and that be the end of it, but obviously I misjudged. I should have just sent it privately so as to prevent this flood of OT posts. I apologize for that. I made a mistake, and now I know better. Sorry for the trouble. --

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-01 Thread Kurt Maxwell Weber
On Sunday 01 July 2001 13:48, you wrote: > Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote: > > I'm going to take a break from lurking to point out that I am not > > dissatisfied with Windows. It has its uses, as do Linux (and NetBSD, and > > Solaris, and the other operating system

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-01 Thread Kurt Maxwell Weber
On Sunday 01 July 2001 12:12, you wrote: > > I'm going to take a break from lurking to point out that I am not > > dissatisfied with Windows. It has its uses, as do Linux (and NetBSD, and > > Solaris, and the other operating systems I have installed at home). > > Frankly, I don't have a problem

Re: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!

2001-07-01 Thread Kurt Maxwell Weber
On Sunday 01 July 2001 11:02, Rick Hohensee ignorantly blabbered: > > Pardon me, but what does this have to do with Linux or the Linux > > Kernel?!?! Post this on the usenet under advocacy, but please don't > > litter up the kernel listserver with this. > > What this has to do with Linux is that t