On Monday 30 June 2014 01:26:48 waben...@gmail.com wrote: > Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 16:26 > > schrieb Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com>: > > waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Am Sonntag, 29.06.2014 um 20:38 > > > > > > schrieb Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk>: > > >> On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 21:29:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >>>> Please folks, stop that crap. It has nothing to do with gentoo or > > >>>> computers at all. If you wanna discuss the delightfulness of war > > >>>> machines then please to this at another place and not on this > > >>>> list. > > >>> > > >>> Allow me to introduce your to my good friend "Delete" and his > > >>> lovely wife "button" > > >> > > >> Or you could filter anything with OT in the subject to /dev/null. > > >> It's not like this thread is masquerading as something relevant. > > > > > > That's not the point. If you wanna talk about stuff that's > > > apparently absolut useless to almost every member of this ML, then > > > you should do this at another place. Especially discussions with > > > politically and or military background are IMHO absolutely > > > inappropriate. > > > > > > But hey, maybe I'm wrong. Why shouldn't we talk here about > > > everything that cross one's mind? We could mark it as OT in the > > > subject line, so it should be no problem for everyone. Maybe we > > > should discuss the local daily weather? I think, that's a pretty > > > good idea as it would increase the noise level of this list even > > > more. What do you think? > > > > Just a FYI. I have in the past asked questions about Windoze XP on > > this very list. Why, I'm not joining a windoze mailing list for just > > one question and I know a lot of people on this list know about > > windoze as well. I have seen other topics raised on this list > > before. It's not often but it does happen. I see Gentoo threads > > that don't interest me at all and I just mark them as read and move > > right along but I don't tell folks that I don't want to see them. I > > could start with systemd. If I see systemd in the subject, I mark it > > read and move right along usually without reading even the first > > post. Why, I don't use systemd so I am certainly not interested in > > it. There are other threads that I do the same thing with. > > That's right. But all examples you've mentioned are computer related > topics and maybe useful for anyone on this list.
We can turn this into a computer related thread. Anyone know of a way to get a flight-sim (for model planes) to run on Linux? I have a legit copy of Realflight ( http://www.realflight.com ) and occasionally have to boot into a legit copy (yes, all my software is 100% legit) of MS Windows. Ideas welcome. -- Joost
