Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.os.linux.misc > #14943

Re: Let's not bluff ourselves.

Show all headers | View raw

On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 17:25:52 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:

> no.top.post@gmail.com wrote on 11. June 2015:
>>
>> we can't be free of the crushing heel of M$.
>>
>> Government transactions which you must comply with don't follow *nix
>> [open standards].
>> You are forced to have an "up to date Microsoft compatible system".
> 
> Example program or application?
> 
>> So you just have a dual/multi-bootable system, with the first
>> partitions given to M$.
> 
> You can have Windows on a different than the first partition.
> 
>> That worked OK, until I needed to attatch a fd0 device for some unusual
>> reason.
> 
> Oh fd0? We're talking about the late 1980s/early 1990s and you run
> Windows 3. Finally all you say makes sense.
> 
Apparently not.
Is it difficult to understand that on a PC with the LATEST M$ [for
the FB/twitter mentality kiddies] one may need to investigate some
*UNRELATED* task which needs to connect a fd0, instead of getting
a separate PC?

> [...]
> 
> I guess you have messed up the partition table. (Probably) not even
> Microsoft's fault.

M$ *WANTS* non-M$ users to screw up, hence the concept "fault" can
no be applicable. Can you understand anything?

Back to comp.os.linux.misc | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Let's not bluff ourselves. no.top.post@gmail.com - 2015-06-11 17:42 +0000
  Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-06-11 11:19 -0700
    Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. Harold Stevens <wookie@cindy.localdomain> - 2015-06-11 14:33 -0500
      Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-06-11 14:06 -0700
        Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2015-06-15 19:09 +0100
          Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-06-16 01:37 +0200
            Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-06-15 18:13 -0700
              Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2015-06-16 09:14 +0200
              Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. noydb@no.way (Bruce Sinclair) - 2015-06-16 23:08 +0000
                Re: Let's not bluff ourselves.  Off topic!! Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-06-16 18:40 -0700
    Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2015-06-11 22:40 -0400
    Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. Johann Klammer <klammerj@NOSPAM.a1.net> - 2015-06-12 11:32 +0200
      Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-06-12 07:27 -0700
    Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2015-06-14 19:37 -0700
    Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. no.top.post@gmail.com - 2015-06-19 04:48 +0000
  Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. Andreas Kohlbach <june15.6.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2015-06-11 17:25 -0400
    Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-06-12 09:04 +0100
      Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. noydb@no.way (Bruce Sinclair) - 2015-06-14 23:14 +0000
    Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-06-15 14:24 +0000
  Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2015-06-11 22:32 -0400
    Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-06-13 16:06 -0400
      Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-06-13 13:47 -0700
      Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2015-06-13 20:14 -0400
        Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. noydb@no.way (Bruce Sinclair) - 2015-06-14 23:15 +0000
  Re: Let's not bluff ourselves. noydb@no.way (Bruce Sinclair) - 2015-06-14 23:12 +0000

csiph-web