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  Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 17:59 +0000
    Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 19:13 +0100
    Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2013-04-11 14:14 -0400
      Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2013-04-11 12:44 -0600
      Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 19:13 +0000
        Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 19:15 +0000
      Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP Homer <usenet@slated.org> - 2013-04-12 03:17 +0100
        Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP Marti Van Lin <ml2mst@dontevenbother.invalid> - 2013-04-12 17:29 +0200
          Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-12 11:22 -0500
            Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2013-04-12 11:12 -0600
            Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP Marti Van Lin <ml2mst@dontevenbother.invalid> - 2013-04-12 20:18 +0200
              Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2013-04-12 14:53 -0400
                Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP Marti Van Lin <ml2mst@dontevenbother.invalid> - 2013-04-12 21:32 +0200
              Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-12 12:57 -0700
                Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-12 17:18 -0400
                  Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-12 14:26 -0700
                    Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-12 17:56 -0400
                      Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-12 15:27 -0700
                        Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP bbgruff <bbgruff@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-04-13 00:55 +0100
                          Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-12 17:01 -0700
                          Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2013-04-12 20:08 -0400
                            Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-12 20:12 -0400
                            Baseless cult-like attack from Ahlstrom Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-12 17:13 -0700
                            Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2013-04-12 21:28 -0600
              Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-12 15:27 -0500
                Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2013-04-12 19:54 -0400
            Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP Homer <usenet@slated.org> - 2013-04-13 05:03 +0100
              Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-13 09:01 -0400
                Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2013-04-13 10:52 -0600
          Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2013-04-12 21:49 +0000
            Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-12 17:57 -0400
            Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP Tattoo Vampire <sitting@this.computer> - 2013-04-13 04:23 +0000
              Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP Homer <usenet@slated.org> - 2013-04-13 07:13 +0100
                Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP Bjørn Steensrud <bjornst@skogkatt.homelinux.org> - 2013-04-13 12:46 +0200
                  Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-13 09:02 -0400
                Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2013-04-13 15:58 -0500
                  Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP Homer <usenet@slated.org> - 2013-04-14 14:51 +0100
    Re: Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP None Given or Nun Giver <trigonometry1972@gmail.com> - 2013-04-15 23:20 -0700

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#173121

After swilling some grog, bbgruff belched this bit o' wisdom:

> Snit wrote:
>
>> Going on rampages and damaging forums is an addiction to him... and
>> much of the COLA "advocate" herd.
>
> Have I got this right - THAT was said by SNIT in a post to FLATISH?
> Bloody hell fire - that must be "sig. material"!

Not quite.

They're both bullshit artists, though.

<sniff sniff>

I think I smell 'em through the wifi connection.

-- 
Gates told a court in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Monday that his Redmond minions
"worked super-hard" on Word. He added: "It was a ground-breaking piece of
work, and it was very well received when we got it done."  [Gates] testified
that the Windows team dumped a technical feature that would have supported
WordPerfect because he was worried it might crash the operating system.
"We were making trade-offs," Gates told the court.
   -- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/22/gates_testimony_wordperfect/

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#173123

On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:08:09 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> After swilling some grog, bbgruff belched this bit o' wisdom:
> 
>> Snit wrote:
>>
>>> Going on rampages and damaging forums is an addiction to him... and
>>> much of the COLA "advocate" herd.
>>
>> Have I got this right - THAT was said by SNIT in a post to FLATISH?
>> Bloody hell fire - that must be "sig. material"!
> 
> Not quite.
> 
> They're both bullshit artists, though.
> 
> <sniff sniff>
> 
> I think I smell 'em through the wifi connection.

Lately your head is so far up Mark S. Bilk's ass, it's doubtful you
can smell anything other than his colon, Chris Ahlstrom.

-- 
flatfish+++
PLEASE VISIT OUR HALL OF LINUX IDIOTS:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/

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#173125 — Baseless cult-like attack from Ahlstrom

On 4/12/13 5:08 PM, in article kka7g6$mlo$1@dont-email.me, "Chris Ahlstrom"
<OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:

> After swilling some grog, bbgruff belched this bit o' wisdom:
> 
>> Snit wrote:
>> 
>>> Going on rampages and damaging forums is an addiction to him... and
>>> much of the COLA "advocate" herd.
>> 
>> Have I got this right - THAT was said by SNIT in a post to FLATISH?
>> Bloody hell fire - that must be "sig. material"!
> 
> Not quite.
> 
> They're both bullshit artists, though.
> 
> <sniff sniff>
> 
> I think I smell 'em through the wifi connection.



-- 
"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children."
-- Richard Stallman

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#173149

On 4/12/2013 6:08 PM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> After swilling some grog, bbgruff belched this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> Snit wrote:
>>
>>> Going on rampages and damaging forums is an addiction to him... and
>>> much of the COLA "advocate" herd.
>>
>> Have I got this right - THAT was said by SNIT in a post to FLATISH?
>> Bloody hell fire - that must be "sig. material"!
>
> Not quite.
>
> They're both bullshit artists, though.
>
> <sniff sniff>
>
> I think I smell 'em through the wifi connection.
>

Here, have a Kleenex.
I see you getting a bit flushed in all this excitement.

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#173073

Marti Van Lin wrote:

> chrisv schreef:
>>
>> Marti Van Lin wrote:
>>>
>>> Advocating Windows 8 (and converting as many Windows users as possible
>>> to it) is the greatest opportunity to show my *Love* for Microsoft.
>>>
>>> Microsoft *deserves* my Windows 8 Advocacy.
>>
>> I think I'm starting to get the joke.
>
>I'm not joking, I'm dead serious :-)
>
>I prommised myself and Homer that I will not rest until Microsoft lies 
>stinking and rotting in the Earth and that I will "Dance on their Grave".

So, you're a "true Windows advocate", like "Hadron" is a "true Linux
advocate".

>I am only taking advantage of the "great" Windows 8 experience to help 
>achieve that goal as soon as possible.
>
>Unfortunately I'm a lousy liar and you've got me figured out by now.

Well, saying that you love Micro$oft was over the top.   8)

-- 
"I adopted Linux and love Linux."  -  Hadron Quark, lying shamelessly

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#173111

After swilling some grog, chrisv belched this bit o' wisdom:

> -- 
> "I adopted Linux and love Linux."  -  Hadron Quark, lying shamelessly

LOL

-- 
American culture is based on the automobile, and any young man of promise
is going to own one and want to travel great distances in it.  Consequently,
any young woman of aspiration should expect to spend most of her vacations
in a car, probing into unfamiliar corners.  She is not required to know how
to drive but she will certainly be expected to read the road map while her
husband drives, and if she can't, or if she's abnormally slow in giving him
help, she's bound to cause trouble.  Therefore, you'd think that colleges
which train the bright young women who're going to marry the bright young
men who are going to own the Cadillacs that roar back and forth across this
continent would teach the girls to read maps.  None do. They teach a hundred
other useless things, but never a word about the one that will cause the
greatest friction.
		-- James Michener, "Space"

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#173158

Verily I say unto thee that Marti Van Lin spake thusly:
> Op 12-04-13 18:22, chrisv schreef:
>> Marti Van Lin wrote:
>>
>>> Advocating Windows 8 (and converting as many Windows users as
>>> possible to it) is the greatest opportunity to show my *Love* for
>>> Microsoft.
>>>
>>> Microsoft *deserves* my Windows 8 Advocacy.
>>
>> I think I'm starting to get the joke.
>
> I'm not joking, I'm dead serious :-)
>
> I prommised myself and Homer that I will not rest until Microsoft
> lies stinking and rotting in the Earth and that I will "Dance on
> their Grave".
>
> I am only taking advantage of the "great" Windows 8 experience to
> help achieve that goal as soon as possible.

Sorry Marti, but that doesn't make any sense.

How will using and promoting Windows 8 damage it?
How will putting money into Microsoft's bank damage them?

Nobody needs to inflict any damage on Microsoft right now, they're doing
a great job of that all by themselves, far more effectively than anyone
else could possibly dream of. And the most damaging thing by far is the
public's almost unanimous rejection of Windows 8.

Your actions only serve to undermine that.

What else, exactly, do you expect to accomplish by supporting Microsoft
and its products, if not the advancement of Microsoft's interests?

If there's a joke hidden in the subtext, I'm afraid I can't see it.

-- 
K.                           | "You see? You cannot kill me. There is no flesh
http://slated.org            |  and blood within this cloak to kill. There is
Fedora 8 (Werewolf) on šky   |  only an idea. And ideas are bulletproof."
kernel 2.6.31.5, up 150 days |    ~ V for Vendetta.

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#173183

On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 05:03:51 +0100, Homer wrote:

> Verily I say unto thee that Marti Van Lin spake thusly:
>> Op 12-04-13 18:22, chrisv schreef:
>>> Marti Van Lin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Advocating Windows 8 (and converting as many Windows users as
>>>> possible to it) is the greatest opportunity to show my *Love* for
>>>> Microsoft.
>>>>
>>>> Microsoft *deserves* my Windows 8 Advocacy.
>>>
>>> I think I'm starting to get the joke.
>>
>> I'm not joking, I'm dead serious :-)
>>
>> I prommised myself and Homer that I will not rest until Microsoft
>> lies stinking and rotting in the Earth and that I will "Dance on
>> their Grave".
>>
>> I am only taking advantage of the "great" Windows 8 experience to
>> help achieve that goal as soon as possible.
> 
> Sorry Marti, but that doesn't make any sense.
> 
> How will using and promoting Windows 8 damage it?
> How will putting money into Microsoft's bank damage them?
> 
> Nobody needs to inflict any damage on Microsoft right now, they're doing
> a great job of that all by themselves, far more effectively than anyone
> else could possibly dream of. And the most damaging thing by far is the
> public's almost unanimous rejection of Windows 8.
> 
> Your actions only serve to undermine that.
> 
> What else, exactly, do you expect to accomplish by supporting Microsoft
> and its products, if not the advancement of Microsoft's interests?
> 
> If there's a joke hidden in the subtext, I'm afraid I can't see it.

The only joke is that some of you (not you) aren't smart enough to
see what sMarti is pulling. It amounts to the oldest trick in the
book.

1. sMarti professes his love for something, Windows in this case.
2. sMarti gets attacked by the Linux community and ostracized as
well.
3. sMarti being insecure and friendless comes up with a "gag post"
(key word gag) where he hints that this 'hole' (key word hole) affair
has been a joke.
4. The Linux community falls for it.

Rinse and repeat.
  



-- 
flatfish+++
PLEASE VISIT OUR HALL OF LINUX IDIOTS:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/

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#173235

On 4/13/2013 7:01 AM, flatfish+++ wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 05:03:51 +0100, Homer wrote:
>
>> Verily I say unto thee that Marti Van Lin spake thusly:
>>> Op 12-04-13 18:22, chrisv schreef:
>>>> Marti Van Lin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Advocating Windows 8 (and converting as many Windows users as
>>>>> possible to it) is the greatest opportunity to show my *Love* for
>>>>> Microsoft.
>>>>>
>>>>> Microsoft *deserves* my Windows 8 Advocacy.
>>>>
>>>> I think I'm starting to get the joke.
>>>
>>> I'm not joking, I'm dead serious :-)
>>>
>>> I prommised myself and Homer that I will not rest until Microsoft
>>> lies stinking and rotting in the Earth and that I will "Dance on
>>> their Grave".
>>>
>>> I am only taking advantage of the "great" Windows 8 experience to
>>> help achieve that goal as soon as possible.
>>
>> Sorry Marti, but that doesn't make any sense.
>>
>> How will using and promoting Windows 8 damage it?
>> How will putting money into Microsoft's bank damage them?
>>
>> Nobody needs to inflict any damage on Microsoft right now, they're doing
>> a great job of that all by themselves, far more effectively than anyone
>> else could possibly dream of. And the most damaging thing by far is the
>> public's almost unanimous rejection of Windows 8.
>>
>> Your actions only serve to undermine that.
>>
>> What else, exactly, do you expect to accomplish by supporting Microsoft
>> and its products, if not the advancement of Microsoft's interests?
>>
>> If there's a joke hidden in the subtext, I'm afraid I can't see it.
>
> The only joke is that some of you (not you) aren't smart enough to
> see what sMarti is pulling. It amounts to the oldest trick in the
> book.
>
> 1. sMarti professes his love for something, Windows in this case.
> 2. sMarti gets attacked by the Linux community and ostracized as
> well.
> 3. sMarti being insecure and friendless comes up with a "gag post"
> (key word gag) where he hints that this 'hole' (key word hole) affair
> has been a joke.
> 4. The Linux community falls for it.
>
> Rinse and repeat.
>
>
In the meantime, we get to watch another demonization by the herd of one 
that fell off their bandwagon.

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#173086

On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:29:48 +0200, Marti Van Lin wrote:

> Microsoft *deserves* my Windows 8 Advocacy.

Then go advocate it on a Windows 8 Advocacy newsgroup. You don't see me 
invading a Windows newsgroup to push Linux on them, do you? Or are you 
just morphing into a WinTroll?

-- 
“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise 
every creed except his own.” ―G.K. Chesterton

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#173088

On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:49:25 +0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:29:48 +0200, Marti Van Lin wrote:
> 
>> Microsoft *deserves* my Windows 8 Advocacy.
> 
> Then go advocate it on a Windows 8 Advocacy newsgroup. You don't see me 
> invading a Windows newsgroup to push Linux on them, do you? Or are you 
> just morphing into a WinTroll?

No.
You come into a Linux group and talk non stop about Microsoft and
Apple, RonB.

-- 
flatfish+++
PLEASE VISIT OUR HALL OF LINUX IDIOTS:
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#173159

RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:

> Then go advocate it on a Windows 8 Advocacy newsgroup. You don't see me 
> invading a Windows newsgroup to push Linux on them, do you? Or are you 
> just morphing into a WinTroll?

You guys need to lighten up. If you don't get the humor in Marti's "I love 
Windows 8" campaign that's too bad, but he's far from being a Wintroll.

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#173163

Verily I say unto thee that Tattoo Vampire spake thusly:
> RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Then go advocate it on a Windows 8 Advocacy newsgroup. You don't see
>> me invading a Windows newsgroup to push Linux on them, do you? Or are
>> you just morphing into a WinTroll?
>
> You guys need to lighten up. If you don't get the humor in Marti's "I
> love Windows 8" campaign that's too bad, but he's far from being a
> Wintroll.

[quote]
Windows 8: Love is all that matters

This post is in stark contrast to my Microsoft Bashing history and
probably upsets quite a bunch of my On-Line Friends. In short: I
freaking Love Windows 8 and especially its Modern UI.

As most of you might know, I am a long term GNU/Linux user and Advocate,
yet something critically changed my views lately.

First of all there is Canonical, who IMHO totally lost focus and
direction. For us faithful and humble Ubuntu testers, Canonical's
changing direction almost everyday has become pretty frustrating. There
for I quit participating as a Ubuntu tester and the future doesn't look
bright for Canonical and Ubuntu. Who the hell do you think you are
fooling Mark and Jono?

Nobody amongst the Linux faithfull buys your pathetic vaporware and
attempt to vendor lock in® Is Canonical becoming Microsoft V2.0?

Beside that, there is the KDE SC release 4.10, which messed up the
pervious beautiful Air Theme of which the latest incarnation is clearly
copycat from Microsoft Windows 8's ugly "desktop-theme". Yikes :-(

So simple and clear I realy have hade it with GNU/Linux for a while and
now happily running Windows 8 from my SSD.

That's it for now, in a follow up post I will explain what's so great
about Windows 8.

<3 Marti
[/quote]

http://osg33x.blogspot.nl/2013/03/windows-8-love-is-all-that-matters.html

If that's meant to be a joke, I don't get it.

-- 
K.                           | "You see? You cannot kill me. There is no flesh
http://slated.org            |  and blood within this cloak to kill. There is
Fedora 8 (Werewolf) on šky   |  only an idea. And ideas are bulletproof."
kernel 2.6.31.5, up 150 days |    ~ V for Vendetta.

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#173173

Homer wrote:

> Verily I say unto thee that Tattoo Vampire spake thusly:
>> RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Then go advocate it on a Windows 8 Advocacy newsgroup. You don't see
>>> me invading a Windows newsgroup to push Linux on them, do you? Or are
>>> you just morphing into a WinTroll?
>>
>> You guys need to lighten up. If you don't get the humor in Marti's "I
>> love Windows 8" campaign that's too bad, but he's far from being a
>> Wintroll.
> 
> [quote]
> Windows 8: Love is all that matters
> 
> This post is in stark contrast to my Microsoft Bashing history and
> probably upsets quite a bunch of my On-Line Friends. In short: I
> freaking Love Windows 8 and especially its Modern UI.
> 
> As most of you might know, I am a long term GNU/Linux user and Advocate,
> yet something critically changed my views lately.
> 
> First of all there is Canonical, who IMHO totally lost focus and
> direction. For us faithful and humble Ubuntu testers, Canonical's
> changing direction almost everyday has become pretty frustrating. There
> for I quit participating as a Ubuntu tester and the future doesn't look
> bright for Canonical and Ubuntu. Who the hell do you think you are
> fooling Mark and Jono?
> 
> Nobody amongst the Linux faithfull buys your pathetic vaporware and
> attempt to vendor lock in® Is Canonical becoming Microsoft V2.0?
> 
> Beside that, there is the KDE SC release 4.10, which messed up the
> pervious beautiful Air Theme of which the latest incarnation is clearly
> copycat from Microsoft Windows 8's ugly "desktop-theme". Yikes :-(
> 
> So simple and clear I realy have hade it with GNU/Linux for a while and
> now happily running Windows 8 from my SSD.
> 
> That's it for now, in a follow up post I will explain what's so great
> about Windows 8.
> 
> <3 Marti
> [/quote]
> 
> http://osg33x.blogspot.nl/2013/03/windows-8-love-is-all-that-matters.html
> 
> If that's meant to be a joke, I don't get it.

Think slaughterhouse - and a goat. 

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#173184

On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:46:01 +0200, Bjørn Steensrud wrote:

> Homer wrote:
> 
>> Verily I say unto thee that Tattoo Vampire spake thusly:
>>> RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Then go advocate it on a Windows 8 Advocacy newsgroup. You don't see
>>>> me invading a Windows newsgroup to push Linux on them, do you? Or are
>>>> you just morphing into a WinTroll?
>>>
>>> You guys need to lighten up. If you don't get the humor in Marti's "I
>>> love Windows 8" campaign that's too bad, but he's far from being a
>>> Wintroll.
>> 
>> [quote]
>> Windows 8: Love is all that matters
>> 
>> This post is in stark contrast to my Microsoft Bashing history and
>> probably upsets quite a bunch of my On-Line Friends. In short: I
>> freaking Love Windows 8 and especially its Modern UI.
>> 
>> As most of you might know, I am a long term GNU/Linux user and Advocate,
>> yet something critically changed my views lately.
>> 
>> First of all there is Canonical, who IMHO totally lost focus and
>> direction. For us faithful and humble Ubuntu testers, Canonical's
>> changing direction almost everyday has become pretty frustrating. There
>> for I quit participating as a Ubuntu tester and the future doesn't look
>> bright for Canonical and Ubuntu. Who the hell do you think you are
>> fooling Mark and Jono?
>> 
>> Nobody amongst the Linux faithfull buys your pathetic vaporware and
>> attempt to vendor lock in® Is Canonical becoming Microsoft V2.0?
>> 
>> Beside that, there is the KDE SC release 4.10, which messed up the
>> pervious beautiful Air Theme of which the latest incarnation is clearly
>> copycat from Microsoft Windows 8's ugly "desktop-theme". Yikes :-(
>> 
>> So simple and clear I realy have hade it with GNU/Linux for a while and
>> now happily running Windows 8 from my SSD.
>> 
>> That's it for now, in a follow up post I will explain what's so great
>> about Windows 8.
>> 
>> <3 Marti
>> [/quote]
>> 
>> http://osg33x.blogspot.nl/2013/03/windows-8-love-is-all-that-matters.html
>> 
>> If that's meant to be a joke, I don't get it.
> 
> Think slaughterhouse - and a goat.

[Homer] is more into sheep.

-- 
flatfish+++
PLEASE VISIT OUR HALL OF LINUX IDIOTS:
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#173327

Homer wrote:

>If that's meant to be a joke, I don't get it.

Well, I didn't "get" Andy Kaufman, either.  He went "too far", too.
But, some people are that way.

-- 
"Let's see - my earlier post of how it's better to just build the
nano-computer right into a power-brick (like the Sheeva plug) is a
stupid idea according to (chrisv)."  -  trolling fsckwit "Ezekiel",
lying shamelessly

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#173439

Verily I say unto thee that chrisv spake thusly:
> Homer wrote:
>> 
>> If that's meant to be a joke, I don't get it.
>
> Well, I didn't "get" Andy Kaufman, either.  He went "too far", too.
> But, some people are that way.

Who's Andy Kaufman?

-- 
K.                           | "You see? You cannot kill me. There is no flesh
http://slated.org            |  and blood within this cloak to kill. There is
Fedora 8 (Werewolf) on šky   |  only an idea. And ideas are bulletproof."
kernel 2.6.31.5, up 150 days |    ~ V for Vendetta.

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#173665

On Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:59:05 AM UTC-7, RonB wrote:
> Uh, oh ... And some are going to go with Ubuntu rather than Windows 7 or 8.
> 
> 
> 
> ~~
> 
> Businesses vow to cling to Windows XP past April 2014 support cut-off
> 
> ...
> 
> 
> 
> Many readers are so keen on XP, they plan to stay on the OS past April 
> 
> 2014.
> 
> 
> 
> "The benefits of 'support' are vastly overrated. After all, most people 
> 
> still run their cars even after the warranty has expired, a similar 
> 
> situation to running an out-of-support OS. It's no big deal," maintained 
> 
> one reader.
> 
> 
> 
> "Having support doesn't mean any bugs you find will be fixed. A support 
> 
> contract doesn't help the vast majority of businesses and most don't 
> 
> bother to load patches or fixes - or even care if there are security 
> 
> holes."
> 
> 
> 
> They argued that the choice for firms once XP support ends is simply 
> 
> between spending a huge amount on upgrading to Windows 7 or 8, or carrying 
> 
> on as usual, adding that they would be sticking with XP even though their 
> 
> PCs are Windows 7-capable. 
> 
> 
> 
> Another reader told us his firm is taking a similar approach. 
> 
> 
> 
> "My employer has a deliberate policy of not upgrading. They believe that 
> 
> Microsoft will be forced by the market to continue support. I tend to 
> 
> agree," they noted.
> 
> ...
> 
> 
> 
> "The ideal solution would be a migration to Linux, but this would entail a 
> 
> re-writing of the firm's custom software written in Visual Basic. That 
> 
> would be a major undertaking."
> 
> 
> 
> It seems Linux could get a boost once XP support ends. One reader told us 
> 
> that their company is already implementing Ubuntu on the Desktop, to go 
> 
> with the servers already running Linux, while another told us that they 
> 
> will use XP for as long as possible, and then move to Linux.  
> 
> 
> 
> "I would rather use Ubuntu than upgrade to Windows 8 and best of all 
> 
> Ubuntu is free and does everything I need," a different reader remarked. 
> 
> 
> 
> "I would argue Microsoft has got its head in the sand and must realise 
> 
> that trying to steamroller the XP user is not going to work with everyone."
> 
> ~~
> 
> http://snipurl.com/26talhp
> 
> 
> 
> From the article --  ""My employer has a deliberate policy of not 
> 
> upgrading. They believe that Microsoft will be forced by the market to 
> 
> continue support. I tend to agree," ..."
> 
> 
> 
> Well, I would tend to agree also, if not for Microsoft's stubborn 
> 
> stupidity displayed by the release of Windows 8 -- "The OS No One Wants."
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> "These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise 
> 
> every creed except his own." --G.K. Chesterton

Perhaps they should keep XP and then interact on the internet with
an easy Linux distro. I am thinking of part of Fortune 500 that is
still using XP. And then hire a coder or two for whatever is needed.
Honestly, they don't need MS Office as what they do is vastly simpler.
One of the local (mainly tobacco) corporation actually ask for 
experience on a office suite not MS.

Don't shop Lowe's........barely a 'real' job.
Limit your use of Walmart......just too big.
Limit the big when possible, it exports jobs.
Congress is sold out to highest bidders.
Your vote barely counts.
Take your prescription drugs so you will be numb.
Eat fried sugar so your exit will come soon.


It's time for a new approach...........................Trig

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