Scribbling feverishly on April 22, Zoran managed to emit: > *** Amazing that this should happen to me... Anyway, please accept yet > another excuse from me concerning this mailing mess which has been going > on for too long... > > I am in a not to be envied position of being "forced" to use Windows OS & > applis on a IBM portable as an ongoing test procedure for equipping the > collaborators of our company.
"Not to be envied," indeed. On the other hand, it *does* give you plenty of opportunity to highlight all of Windows' misfeatures. ;-) > A little history just to put you in the right context: > > On one side there are IBM Thinkpads (A22e, Celeron's), on the other the > account manager which seems to own shares of Microsoft as he is been > pushing that companies products like it were his own and in the middle you > have me, big mouth, a beard, long hair and not wearing suits and a tie > when going to a board meeting... On top of it my office is full of > penguins and calendar pictures of naked Linux servers on the walls ;-). Sounds like business as usual in corporate <insert name of country here>. And you're the pea under the princess' mattress. :-) [1] > A lot of people have been severely p***** off ever since I joined the > company as they have not been able to do what they did before: Buy NT or > W2k servers and get a raise for a job well done. Troublemaker. [snip] > Anyway, I will be lurking on the list for as long as this testing goes on > because I cannot trust this sh** to work the way it should and I do not > want to miss any of the mails either. I didn't mean to come across harshly. Mutt kindly points out HTML email without decoding it (which it can be easily configured to do, of course -- I'm a lazy chump). > The next message I send will be either after I succeed shoving Linux on > the Thinkpads through the account managers throat or after having gotten > my first unemployment cheque... For some reason, I have this vivid image clearly in my mind's eye... > P.S. This mail brought to you from my home server and Pine... ;-) :-) [1] How's *that* for mixing metaphors? Kurt -- Chicken Little was right. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
