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Highly OT, but the party's over
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"David Melville" <davidmelville (AT) exemail (DOT) com.au> wrote in news  p.u3ni6rl9h6mygt@david-desktop:On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:02:02 +1100, CatharticF1 rasf1poster (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote: "Paul-B" <paul (AT) rasf1 (DOT) net> wrote in news:7lr76vF3f2hioU1 @mid.individual.net: For Sure wrote: "David Melville" <davidmelville (AT) exemail (DOT) com.au> wrote in message news p.u20zuwu8h6mygt (AT) david-desktop (DOT) ..KDE or GNOME ? Thank you. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ For people who would rather spend more time on running programs than fiddling around with the OS, then the question is Windows or OSX? For me its Windows, especially 7 which makes everything Linux look really old fashioned, which, of course, it is. FS Eh? Fiddling round with operating systems? You obviously haven't installed and/or used Ubuntu. Put disk in drive, boot, follow the prompts, 20 minutes later a full up-and-working system, including applications (OpenOffice, etc). All printers recognised, all hardware recognised, nic installed and Firefox up-and-running as it should. Where's the fiddling around there? Maybe it's not the OS as such, but all of the things you do with your PC. Email, newsreaders, browsers, text editors, word processors and spreadsheets, games, audio / video / image editing and conversion, backup solutions, syncing your devices, remotely accessing my PC from work (we don't allow remote desktop..) and so many other things that you may find you can't get or don't like the implementation of. It all costs time and in many cases isn't possible or to the same quality you want. pig's arse. OK - here's a case in point. I have a newsreader which highlights responses to your posts (and around 3 levels down) in a threaded view. I like it, and I don't want to spend hours installing newsreaders to 'test' them all. (Did a few years ago). So are you truly happy to piss hours away on your PC or a zealot? Or both?  |
I'm neither too dumb to learn, nor too afraid to experiment.
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"David Melville" <davidmelvi... (AT) exemail (DOT) com.au> wrote innewsp.u3ni6rl9h6mygt@david-desktop: It all costs time and in many cases isn't possible or to the same quality you want. pig's arse. OK - here's a case in point. I have a newsreader which highlights responses to your posts (and around 3 levels down) in a threaded view. I like it, and I don't want to spend hours installing newsreaders to 'test' them all. (Did a few years ago). So are you truly happy to piss hours away on your PC or a zealot? Or both? -- CatharticF1 "What you thought was freedom is just greed." |
why discuss it?
I like Jarlsberg but it's not the most popular cheese, am I wrong to
eat it?
beers,
build
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On Nov 20, 11:26*am, CatharticF1 <rasf1pos... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote: "David Melville" <davidmelvi... (AT) exemail (DOT) com.au> wrote innews p.u3ni6rl9h6mygt@david-desktop:It all costs time and in many cases isn't possible or to the same quality you want. pig's arse. OK - here's a case in point. I have a newsreader which highlights responses to your posts (and around 3 levels down) in a threaded view. I like it, and I don't want to spend hours installing newsreaders to 'test' them all. (Did a few years ago). So are you truly happy to piss hours away on your PC or a zealot? Or both? -- CatharticF1 "What you thought was freedom is just greed." Both arguments are valid imho although there is no correct answer so why discuss it? I like Jarlsberg but it's not the most popular cheese, am I wrong to eat it? If it's like those blue vein stinkers, then bloody oath you are wrong. |
was vial, but apparently tasted really good. I tried, but could never
get it closer than a few inches to my face.. Urgh..
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On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:26:22 +1100, CatharticF1 rasf1poster (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote: "David Melville" <davidmelville (AT) exemail (DOT) com.au> wrote in news p.u3ni6rl9h6mygt@david-desktop:On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:02:02 +1100, CatharticF1 rasf1poster (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote: "Paul-B" <paul (AT) rasf1 (DOT) net> wrote in news:7lr76vF3f2hioU1 @mid.individual.net: For Sure wrote: "David Melville" <davidmelville (AT) exemail (DOT) com.au> wrote in message news p.u20zuwu8h6mygt (AT) david-desktop (DOT) ..KDE or GNOME ? Thank you. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ For people who would rather spend more time on running programs than fiddling around with the OS, then the question is Windows or OSX? For me its Windows, especially 7 which makes everything Linux look really old fashioned, which, of course, it is. FS Eh? Fiddling round with operating systems? You obviously haven't installed and/or used Ubuntu. Put disk in drive, boot, follow the prompts, 20 minutes later a full up-and-working system, including applications (OpenOffice, etc). All printers recognised, all hardware recognised, nic installed and Firefox up-and-running as it should. Where's the fiddling around there? Maybe it's not the OS as such, but all of the things you do with your PC. Email, newsreaders, browsers, text editors, word processors and spreadsheets, games, audio / video / image editing and conversion, backup solutions, syncing your devices, remotely accessing my PC from work (we don't allow remote desktop..) and so many other things that you may find you can't get or don't like the implementation of. It all costs time and in many cases isn't possible or to the same quality you want. pig's arse. OK - here's a case in point. I have a newsreader which highlights responses to your posts (and around 3 levels down) in a threaded view. I like it, and I don't want to spend hours installing newsreaders to 'test' them all. (Did a few years ago). So are you truly happy to piss hours away on your PC or a zealot? Or both? D. None of the above. I'm neither too dumb to learn, nor too afraid to experiment. |
the time and effort is not justified and would likely even be completely
wasted. I'm sure it would take at least a day to move everything from
one PC with windows to the sacred but 3 legged cow of OS's. Then I'd
find all of the holes that you're happy to live with, the lack of
features, the things that don't work and all of the things you don't
consider important in part because you never had them and in part
because it's hard to stay on the soapbox and take the carrot.
I would (I can't believe I'm saying this) go the Mac before Linux.. at
least it's polished, even if the users are akin to BMW drivers.
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I would (I can't believe I'm saying this) go the Mac before Linux.. at least it's polished, even if the users are akin to BMW drivers. -- CatharticF1 |
beers,
build
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On Nov 20, 2:48*pm, CatharticF1 <rasf1pos... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote: I would (I can't believe I'm saying this) go the Mac before Linux.. at least it's polished, even if the users are akin to BMW drivers. -- CatharticF1 What's the difference between a porcupine and a BMW? beers, build |
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If it's like those blue vein stinkers, then bloody oath you are wrong. |
the taste ;-)
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My dad used to eat a cheese that smelt like shit. Not kidding much. It was vial, but apparently tasted really good. I tried, but could never get it closer than a few inches to my face.. Urgh.. |
sit down and eat a whole 500g chunk of it in one sitting and wish I'd
bought more.
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