>Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 15:54:06 -0500
>From: Clarence Verge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: This program does not require M$loth windoz.
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>
>Just imagine:
>Wouldn't it be great if the best piece of sotware ever written, output
>these lines in text mode on almost everyone's screen when started ? :
>
>"This program cannot co-exist on the same hard drive as Microsoft Windows."
>"Please re-format drive C: and try again. Have a nice day."
>
>*
>Too bad that piece of software hasn't been written yet. ;-)
>*
(It's just so easy, to edit IO.sys line "starting ms-dos" into anything of
the same length, if only you use overstrike mode and definitely no del or
backspace...)
>I would like to take this opportunity to suggest that you register your
>Arachne - solely for the purpose of demonstrating your support to Michael.
-and our great respect for Czech independence from western technology,
which this country really needs, regarding the megafraud in nuclear energy
between (usa) Westinghouse, (de) Siemens and their own Skoda, latter being
the first to utter doubt on the technical feasibility of the originally
Russian plant those companies finished lately in twice the time and at ten
times the cost, as before estimated)
>
>You will receive almost nothing that you don't already have in exchange for
>your $??.00, except the key and the wonderfully useful ability to turn off
>all those advertizing banners.
But did you ever try to edit NewDeals evaluation version "geos.ini", in
order to turn off the time limit... (Or the similar limitation in the free
OS/2 I used)
We were though also promised winsock ppp support under win95, really...
>
>Additionally, I would like to make clear that I am not an employee of, nor
>shareholder of, Arachne Labs or its subsidiaries.
>I get nothing out of promoting Arachne except the feeling that I am doing
the
>"right" thing.
>I get a similar feeling when bashing "Windows". <G>
Quite, Just bashing windows, these days, requires convincing people that
there's life on other planets too...
Sado masochisme is a highly sophisticated way to redirect energy, when
focused on computers, and of course I would personally take a train to
Prague to shake hands with Michael before some camera (Probably my old
Praktica on a tripod), just to stress the personal historic occasion where
I'd buy my first-ever bit of software. The journey might make it worthwile...
(And of course, wouldn't it be a dream to make it a Arachne Fan Club Family
portrait?)
Bart
>
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