Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 12 September 2006 9:12 a.m.
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: Re: Linux vs Windows - what we are up against
The other day, a friend of mine — after contemplating the blue-screen
that his XP tablet decided to display — looked up and mused abou
The other day, a friend of mine — after contemplating the blue-screen
that his XP tablet decided to display — looked up and mused about the
state of pen-based computing on Linux ☺. (GTK+ 2.10 now ships standard
with the ability to go into pen-input, and QT is not half bad at it
either, if you were
On Friday 08 September 2006 10:03, Don Gould wrote:
> Where you dob him in is here...
NO, NO, NO!!!
If the provider of this ( look at the address ) list were to receive even a
whiff of legal proceedings about broadcasting a libel, we'd lose the list
facility before anybody could say the proverb
On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:25, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > > I feel like dobbing him in but I am not sure how to go about it.
I got a spam that originated from a UK IP address.
It was offering to sell me pirated MS software.
I went to microsoft.co.uk to dobb them in and was directed to an online form
> > I feel like dobbing him in but I am not sure how to go about it.
I have some memories of Microsoft advertising a 0800 dobin on their
website, but don't care enough to check.
> Dude, unless he did something insulting when you were suggesting Linux
> I'm sure you don't need that level of bad k
On Saturday 09 September 2006 09:23, Robert Fisher wrote:
> I feel like dobbing him in but I am not sure how to go about it.
http://www.bsa.org/usa/report/BSA-Offices-and-Hotlines.cfm
says:-
New Zealand HOTLINE: 0.800.101.800 toll free
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CS
On Saturday 09 September 2006 09:23, Robert Fisher wrote:
> Over coffee at a workplace a guy said he had a price for a new PC with no
> software.
> I offered to spend an hour with him (and his new PC) to load a Linux distro
> so he could try it and then make an informed decision on wether he needed
Where you dob him in is here...
Name and shame
If you're not prepared to step up and name this guy then why should
someone else deal with him?
The internet is a really small place. It will come back to him. He was
given the choice.
However, you should also fling him an OpenOffice CD so t
On Saturday 09 September 2006 9:37 am, HappyEvilSlosh wrote:
> Dude, unless he did something insulting when you were suggesting Linux
> I'm sure you don't need that level of bad karma!
>
I do get a bit frustrated though when I hear people boasting about getting all
of their software free when the
On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 09:23 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote:
> He said his wife "had to have Excel". I kept suggesting that all he had to
> lose was an hour of time to give Linux a try but he was too dumb to even try
> it.
It may not be a level of "dumbness", the person I recently mentioned as
gettin
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