yes...Edward...we heard what you said in the first version of this
message. all this second message does is further convince us that you
should be horse whipped for mistreating your Penguin. Penguin abuse is a
very serious offense.
The penalty for which is VERY unpleasant.
--
Mark
/ * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat
* in order to get the rats up from below decks
* so they can be kicked over the side and drowned!
*
* REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496
*/
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On Sun, 3 Dec 2000 R. Edward McCain had this to say!
>
> forwarded as an experiment. This message was bounced earlier.
> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
> Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 22:26:32 -0600
> From: R. Edward McCain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> On Sun, 03 Dec 2000, you wrote:
> > You are right, of course, Linux is a paradise for coders and programmers,
> >�but beyond that truth is another, even bigger truth. That is that Linux is
> >�incredibly stable and powerful as a home PC platform as well as a
> >�dependable business workstation platform
>
> Er, I've managed to crash the entire platform twice and wreak havoc on
> numerous apps just by playing around in my account (NOT as root)
>
> Example:
> kde control center
> look and feel
> screensaver
> kswarm
> setup
> move the 'number of bees' slider to 0
> this causes the application to 'crash'
>
> Others are less reproducable, but I can cause Kmail to crash by grabbing a
> email that I cc'ed to myself, replying to it and changing the subject line
> and body - or something like that. I was being silly and I crashed kmail
> twice before I got the hint.
>
> True, my account didn't terminate on those occasions, but what's a stable
> platform without stable applications?
>
> --
>
> Yours,
>
> R. Edward McCain
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> icq: 599146
> Registered Linux User #196613
>
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>
>
