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On Wed, February 1, 2012 6:36 am, Dale wrote: |
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> J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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>> On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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>>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote |
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>>>>> Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office "how long before someone makes |
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>>>>> a |
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>>>> pointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post" pool; I just won |
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>>>> $5. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> I was using Win3.1 - and was happy with it |
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>>>> I was using Win95 - and was happy with it |
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>>>> I was using WinNT4 - and was happy with it |
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>>>> I was using Win2000 - and was happy with it |
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>>>> I was using Win Server 2003 - and was happy with it |
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>>>> I was using Win7 - and was happy with it |
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>>>> |
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>>>> And I am also a Linux SuSe user since 6.0 and Gentoo user since |
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>>>> 1.something (but up until now just on the servers). |
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>>>> I made the final switch from Windows to Linux on my Workstation |
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>>>> (Gentoo) |
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>>>> and Notebook (Lubuntu) only a few month ago. |
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>>>> So please, don't accuse me of making Windows insults. |
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>>> I feel that Win98SE was the best Windows ever, and could've been even |
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>>> more of a killer if Microsoft hadn't so stupidly tried to ram ActiveX |
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>>> down people's throats. Remove ActiveX, and 99% of "drive-by-downloads" |
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>>> would've disappeared. WinME was a sad joke, however. |
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>> I enjoyed MS Dos, then played a bit with MS Win3.11, MS Win95 and MS |
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>> Win98SE. |
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>> However, for important stuff, like day-to-day desktop, I switched to |
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>> Linux |
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>> in 1997. That was the last time I lost files due to a crash of MS |
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>> Windows... |
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>> Joost |
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> When 3.1 came out, I changed jobs. Swapping 15 floppies is no fun to |
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> me. Funny, reinstalling fixed the problems back then and it still is |
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> the best way to fix windoze. |
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You should've tried installing MS Office back then... |
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45 (Or there-abouts) floppies and the installer asking for them in a |
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random order. With some of those being asked several times... |
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The guy asking for it paid a lot for it, so it wasn't too bad. ;) |
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