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Gavin posted <003101c64441$5e17aa10$6401a8c0@thinkcentre>, excerpted |
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below, on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:51:36 +0000: |
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> I use 0,o, my 1st hd partition is this ok? |
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Well, if that's zero,zero, not zero,ooh, as you typed. It's correct in |
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the other post, but not here. If you have an ooh instead of a zero, |
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that'd certainly do it! |
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> Html, sorry this is a ms farce machine. |
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Yeah, figured as much. |
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> BTY I've just been told Gates is worth 2.6 billion. Not from us! |
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No kidding! ... Altho I guess I did pitch in my share thru 1998-ish. |
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I find it ironic that in 1998, I was in line at midnight to pick up '98, |
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after having participated in the public betas and beta newsgroups for |
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IE/OE4, and after doing the same for IE/OE 5 and 5.5, by 6.0, I realized |
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MS was going the anti-privacy route and that such was a line I could and |
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would never cross, so while I installed IE/OE 6.0 before I switched, I |
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didn't do the beta as I was already too busy actively researching Linux. |
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After being in line for '98, I've never even played with eXPrivacy, |
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upgrading to Linux (Mandrake 8.1) within a few days of the eXPrivacy |
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release, instead. Even back then, I was convinced the precedent MS was |
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setting was only going to lead to /bad/ things, and so it did -- even big |
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media companies find it acceptable to stick anti-privacy and anti-security |
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root-kits on their CDs, of all things, now, and it'll unfortunately |
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continue to get worse for awhile, before it gets better! Ironic indeed! |
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How much both MS and I changed in two years! |
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I'm just fortunate there was such a thing as the FLOSS movement. Had |
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there not been, for the first time in my life, I would have had to install |
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non-MS copies of their software, to avoid the anti-privacy features. Well, |
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either that or switched off of computers altogether. Thus, in a very real |
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way, I have MS to thank for forcing me to try Linux. What a New World of |
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Freedom that opened to me! Like a defector leaving his country of birth |
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behind for the land of freedom, I left slaveryware for freedomware, and |
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there's simply no going back! Any wonder I find NVidia's slaveryware |
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drivers an unacceptable alternative? Now that I have freedom, how can I |
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consent to being a slave once again? I cannot and will not. I have a |
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new life now and there's no returning to that life of slavery I once had. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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