OK LOR ! then I'll do my first review *rub hands gleefully*
moonshi.. how ar ? can ask them deliver to my office ? then i can put the
machine online for u ppl to try out too !!
Elvin
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On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Ng Kai Hoe Raymond wrote:
> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 11:44:43 +0800
> From: Ng Kai Hoe Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLP] Mandrake Review
>
> Alf wrote:
>
> > HeloOo..
> >
> > On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Ng Kai Hoe Raymond wrote:
> > > > As for Compaq, we will need someone to play with their DS-10 and DS-20 for 2 -
>3 weeks and then write a review on it. For a start that should give Compaq some
>publicity. Not forgetting Cyberway, we can boast of their views on supporting Linux
>and building gateways of portals and also supporting the open-source community not
>condoning to Linux.
> > > Great.
> > > I suggest this should be done by people with ample technical
> > > experience and skilful in technical writing. Elvin seems to have
> > > enough technical experience, perhaps he can help. If Elvin
> > > has no time, I guess I will take over.
> > > This review we better do a good job.
> >
> > I would do it only if it is going to be a REAL review. If you want
> > to point out good points and leave out bad points, Raymond you can do it.
>
> If I do it, most probably there will only be bad points.
> I am rather notorious for giving bad points (read my
> essay critiques and academic cross preview over the
> years and you will know).
>
> Come on, Elvin, you think I am the kind of person who
> will do anything to lie? Look at my keyboard review and
> see the bad points overflowing the good ones.
>
> I hope you are not trying to insinuate anything by that
> paragraph there. Accusing one of intellectual dishonesty
> even in the court requires extensive proof and proper
> consideration of the respective situational scenarios.
>
> For example, you cannot accuse a doctor of malpractice
> or negligence just because he acts differently in a given
> situation from a doctor whom you think to have made the so called
> correct reaction. The law gives a doctor a considerably
> large legal penumbra, malpractice or negligence is
> not a term which (even) a doctor can make on
> another doctor lightly. Likewise, you cannot accuse another
> of intellectual dishonesty just because you think a reviewer
> has never given a bad opinion about something, not to mention
> the reviewer did give lots of bad opinions (in fact, famous
> for it) about a lot of things.
>
> And I advice that you do not make such suggestive remarks like
> that in the future. If you had made it clearer, you can be
> sued for defamation.
>
> And of course, I am happy that you finally intend to do a REAL
> review, and I really hope that your review will be more REAL
> than the rest of us. I also hope that it is also REAL in the sense
> that you will finally deliver the review. Now it is your turn.
>
> Thanks, and godspeed.
>
> >
> > It would be interesting to pit these machines up running NT and
> > linux and see their performance for each...
> > Moonshi: Do they want linux or NT testing?
> >
> > Elvin
> > -
>
> Oh please, NT? Why bother? NT on Alpha is a goner.
>
> --
> Ng Kai Hoe Raymond
> Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Manager, R&D, Research and Development, Telford Solutions
> Editor, Singapore Linux Portal, http://linux.com.sg
>
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