Hi,
Instead of letting your father blackmail you, why don't you propose(B.M) him
to buy you a 4gig (or better still a new machine) to get back his Windoze.
Afterall you are one who is holding the hostage(Windoze). All the best.
Saptak
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Sent: Sunday, June 27, 1999 9:02 PM
Subject: [ilug-cal] Linux and the previous generation!
>
> Hi,
> I fully agree with Inigo and this is from personal experience! I have a
> 630MB (aaagh!!) HDD which used to be partitioned into 350 and 250MB's -
> the larger one for Windows.The Windows was mainly for my father - nothing
> I could say would persuade him to look at Linux (which is
> understandable).But finally I could stand it no longer and so I kicked
> Win95 out and 'purified' my system with Linux - a full 600MB.
>
> I can work fine! My father can't even use the computer!
> And so things have come to such a head that I will once again have to give
> 250MB (at the very least) back to Win95 and say goodbye to half of
> Linux.(actually its a case of blackmail :) - No Win95,no printer!!)
>
> Yes I agree that on one system with multiple users (especially if some are
> just users) Win95 will always have a place - much to my dislike.But thats
> the world works!
>
> Recently I visited the GNU website.I came across a number of projects
> waiting for somebody to take them up.These included kernel,networking,X
> projects.But there was also a Misc. group where various projects like
> dbase clones,Pagemaker clone,project shcedulers,cad etc were waiting to be
> taken up.What is relevant that GNU also had
>
> * A general ledger program, including support for accounts payable,
> account receivables, payroll, inventory control, order processing,
> etc.
>
> in the lists.If we plan to start a development project regarding
> invoiceing why not bring it under the GNU umbrella and contribute to the
> above program
> So what about some specs and actual design?
>
> Bye,
> Rajarshi
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