Frankly, do you all have to get all this so personal. Normally I just delete down this kind of post, but you got me to waste some time here. The whole thing would have been handled better if no-one, including me (sick), had posted nothing. That is my last post on such a subject for quite a while, at least until I get caught again, and that is going to be a long time.
Thanks. Gerard Perreault [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 12 November 2001 17:54, Ferris, Thomas M wrote: > See, I believe this is what David is trying to say. Carol, don't you > get it? He doesn't use AOL, he was using that as a example. He was just > asking a very basic question about his laptop. The thought of people > like you that are using AOL on a Linux box saddens me to death. I am > glad you were able to write a short book on the subject of how to use or > install AOL. ;0) Someone has a lot of time on her hands. Seems AOL is > so easy to use, no wonder its number #1. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Carroll Grigsby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 22:02 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] 8.0 good :-) - 8.1 bad :-( > > "Dodd, David J" wrote: > > I have decided to go with ManDrake 8.0 instead of 8.1 because of the > > difficultly with it recognizing my cd/dvd drive or my floppy drive > > (Dell > > > Inspiron 4000). I gave in and loaded 8.0 last night and it installed > > without a hitch. Thanks to all the experts on this subject I was > > finally able to realize that I needed to install 8.0 and not 8.1. Its > > funny if I had a question about installing AOL on LM I would get at > > least 10 replies back within a half hour. I guess this subject is > > just > > > to tough a topic for the expert community I will try the newbie forum. > > David: > > Since AOL requires their customized version of IE, it can't be accessed > directly from Linux. There was a short discussion on the newbie list a > few weeks ago about running AOL under Wine or other emulator. (Talk > about kludges. Oh well...) If you wish to pursue this further, search > the newbie archives for "AOL". > > A Google search didn't turn up much of anything other than (1) a lot of > articles about accessing AIM from Linux, and (2) some rumors that that > were circulating sometime in 2000 to the effect that AOL was thinking > about granting access to Linux users. Nothing ever came of it -- I > expect that the Time Warner crowd and their obsession with the bottom > line had a lot to do with the decision, as in "Why spend a pile of money > making our system accessible to a bunch of open-sourcing, > trouble-making, anti-American hackers?" Or, perhaps a cooler head spoke > up, pointing out that there is some animosity amongst many Linuxers > towards the sanitized and controlled world of AOL; most of us want the > whole internet, and the ability to access it on our own terms. We don't > need no stinking training wheels. > > As to the other postings pointing out that flaming a whole news group is > Not a Very Good Idea (TM), and that expecting an instant barrage of > responses from a group of other users is likewise over the top, that's > the way that it is here -- sometimes you get a great answer within a few > minutes, sometimes you never get one. And, sometimes you get blown off. > In this case, you pretty much got what you asked for. > > Lay off the caffeine. > > Carroll ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- Gerard Perreault [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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