Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:33:23
Message-Id: 20120131173027.GA27928@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol by Michael Hampicke
1 On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote
2 > > Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office "how long before someone makes a pointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post" pool; I just won $5.
3 >
4 > I was using Win3.1 - and was happy with it
5 > I was using Win95 - and was happy with it
6 > I was using WinNT4 - and was happy with it
7 > I was using Win2000 - and was happy with it
8 > I was using Win Server 2003 - and was happy with it
9 > I was using Win7 - and was happy with it
10 >
11 > And I am also a Linux SuSe user since 6.0 and Gentoo user since
12 > 1.something (but up until now just on the servers).
13 >
14 > I made the final switch from Windows to Linux on my Workstation (Gentoo)
15 > and Notebook (Lubuntu) only a few month ago.
16 >
17 > So please, don't accuse me of making Windows insults.
18
19 I feel that Win98SE was the best Windows ever, and could've been even
20 more of a killer if Microsoft hadn't so stupidly tried to ram ActiveX
21 down people's throats. Remove ActiveX, and 99% of "drive-by-downloads"
22 would've disappeared. WinME was a sad joke, however.
23
24 --
25 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol "wdk@.moriah" <billk@×××××××××.au>
Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>