And if you find a "defective CD" tell everyone you know that they should go buy it and return it as defective. Hit them where it hurts, in the wallet.
If nothing else they will have to hire a few more people to process the returns, and you can feel good that your effort helped to keep someone employed.
God how I miss Wordstar. I have a copy of Qedit on my work windoze box, and never fail to install Joe on and Linux box I set up.
Before you flame me for not uning vi, or Emacs. I am expert with both of them, Wordstar was my first wordprocessor, and I doubt I will ever get as fast with something else as I am with the Wordstar keyboard commands.
The only people I have ever seen told to RTFM, and people who jump into discussion and ask "How do I get XYZ to run?"
If you provide some information regarding your problem, and what you have tried to solve the problem yourself. You will find the Linux people are the most friendly and helpfull people you will ever find. Ask an unanswerable question, and get a RTFM answer.
I have 2 old servers (AST Manhatan series) with a desktop on top of them.. Best desk I have ever had.. Plus I gutted one of the AST's and put my athlon into it.
"Palms already have TCP/IP. It's PPP over serial only at the moment though."
Not good enough.. I want to be able to just plug it into my hub and run 10/100 ethernet into my existing network.. If it ran Linux so I can use standard network diag tools, I would happily trade my first born for one.
"Reaching for a mouse sucks, but the other half of that is playing a video game with anything besides a mouse is impossible."
The only pointing device I use is a trackball. Absolutley perfect for games, and helps reduce carpal tunel syndrome.
Takes about an hour to get used to, then you will never go back.
"More of my money is heading their way real soon."
Good for you. They will be seeing some mose money from me as well, I buy every x.0 release, and download the.x releases. "When I get home, I don't want to be a sysadmin any more. I just want to click on the Unreal Tournament icon and kill some people. Mandrake lets me do that with minimal fuss. That's why I'm a fan."
I agree completely, I bought Mandrake 6.0 by accident (Was advertized as RedHat 6.0) I figured I might as well install it, then return it complaining that it wasn't what it was advertized as. Within 5 mins of finnishing the install I knew that I wasn't going to return it. Why? Because all the extra tools that I used to have to download and install manualy were all there, ready to go.
I am just lazy. It is not that I can't install the extras, it is just Why should I when Mandrake does it for me?
I have been using Mandrake 8.0 Beta 3 for a couple of weeks... Very nice..
"Despite Linux's success in some markets, Allchin says he isn't concerned about sales competition from the product. Microsoft provides support to change and develop products based on its operating system software that Linux companies don't, he said. Companies that use Linux in their products then must pay someone else for support, he said."
When is the last time you got any support from M$?
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Hit them where it hurts, in the wallet.
If nothing else they will have to hire a few more people to process the returns, and you can feel good that your effort helped to keep someone employed.
It isn't to cut the hydro bills... It is so he can run it without fans.
Theres a Gilligan's Island marathon?!??! Anyone know what channel? :)
God how I miss Wordstar. I have a copy of Qedit on my work windoze box, and never fail to install Joe on and Linux box I set up.
Before you flame me for not uning vi, or Emacs. I am expert with both of them, Wordstar was my first wordprocessor, and I doubt I will ever get as fast with something else as I am with the Wordstar keyboard commands.
Click middle mouse button.
:)
Spent months looking for that.
Ya. I am sure most SlashDot posters had lots of opprotunitys to have sex...
Maybe that explains the love of games I see on here.
I have been saying exactly that for years..
The only people I have ever seen told to RTFM, and people who jump into discussion and ask "How do I get XYZ to run?"
If you provide some information regarding your problem, and what you have tried to solve the problem yourself. You will find the Linux people are the most friendly and helpfull people you will ever find.
Ask an unanswerable question, and get a RTFM answer.
I could tell you... But then I would have to kill you.
I have 2 old servers (AST Manhatan series) with a desktop on top of them.. Best desk I have ever had.. Plus I gutted one of the AST's and put my athlon into it.
KDE is there now.. Gnome might be there in 6 months to a year.. That is the easiest decision I have ever had to make.
Not good enough.. I want to be able to just plug it into my hub and run 10/100 ethernet into my existing network.. If it ran Linux so I can use standard network diag tools, I would happily trade my first born for one.
2. Ethernet interface.
3. TCP/IP..
The fact that this machine does not exist is the reason I don't own a PDA.
Just add an SSH client and I would be in heaven.
I get in enough wrouble for what I have said without worrying that someone is using some text to speach software to make me say nice things about M$.
Well, WinXP is just around the corner.
Being forced to use MS Word makes me pray for death.
That will never happen.. Intel, and AMD would team up and sue M$ out of existance..
The only pointing device I use is a trackball. Absolutley perfect for games, and helps reduce carpal tunel syndrome.
Takes about an hour to get used to, then you will never go back.
Forget mowing the lawn.. I want 4 or 5 clones to go to work for me.. Then I could just surf /. all day... Hmmm, maybe I already have them..
"More of my money is heading their way real soon." .x releases.
Good for you. They will be seeing some mose money from me as well, I buy every x.0 release, and download the
"When I get home, I don't want to be a sysadmin any more. I just want to click on the Unreal Tournament icon and kill some people. Mandrake lets me do that with minimal fuss. That's why I'm a fan."
I agree completely, I bought Mandrake 6.0 by accident (Was advertized as RedHat 6.0) I figured I might as well install it, then return it complaining that it wasn't what it was advertized as. Within 5 mins of finnishing the install I knew that I wasn't going to return it. Why? Because all the extra tools that I used to have to download and install manualy were all there, ready to go.
I am just lazy. It is not that I can't install the extras, it is just Why should I when Mandrake does it for me?
I have been using Mandrake 8.0 Beta 3 for a couple of weeks... Very nice..
Telnet bad, ssh good...
"Despite Linux's success in some markets, Allchin says he isn't concerned about sales competition from the product. Microsoft provides support to change and develop products based on its operating system software that Linux companies don't, he said. Companies that use Linux in their products then must pay someone else for support, he said."
When is the last time you got any support from M$?
What is this "friend" thing you speak of?
Someone please mod the prior post UP!