Jaunty: Notifications

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 12 April 2009, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
>On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:46:43 pm Gene Heskett wrote:
>> But I'd advise the immediate purchase of some nomex underwear and
>> bulletproof clothing, cuz there are M$ lovers hidden in the corners and
>> crannies of even this list.
>
>Oh grow up. Using M$ stopped being original or funny about 5 minutes after
> it was first coined back in the 1990's.
>
>And mature adults are capable of appreciating and critiquing the pros and
> cons of Linux, Windows and other operating systems without resorting to
> rhetoric or drawing little lines in the sands around their high school
> cliques. --
>Lindsay
>http://blackpaw.jalbum.net/home/

1. Your email agent is broken, there is no space after the '--' above.  That 
is the sig separator convention and has been for well over a decade.

2. As for growing up, you might try it.  I dare say I'm probably at least 
twice your age, and maybe even 3 or 4 times.  I was carving code for an RCA 
1802 in the late 70's, in my own late 40's.  Code that ran for a decade or 
more at the tv station where I was at the time.  Reboots only required when a 
power outage exceeded the backup battery I built into that system.

3. My experience with Multiuser, multitasking operating systems, something M$ 
still hasn't managed to do transparently, began with os9 on a color computer, 
circa 1985.  Where does your similar experience begin?  Mine went on thru the 
amigas, then to linux, with NO stop at windows ever.

4. As for windows, I have a legal copy of xp on a laptop I bought several 
years ago when there was no way to buy a machine w/o paying 'the M$ tax'.  It 
may have been booted to xp 10 times in the last 4 or 5 years.  I guess you 
could say that I never caught the M$ virus, and I've yet to ever have a 
machine under my care get infected, by anything.

5. I am on this list because 2 of my currently running machines are running 
kubuntu, one of them running my cnc milling machine.  What is your excuse?

-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
God grant me the senility to accept the things I cannot change,
The frustration to try to change things I cannot affect,
and the wisdom to tell the difference.