ROTFLMAO! On Wednesday 20 March 2002 23:16, john rigby opened a hailing frequency and transmitted:
> Hello Non-geeks, hello list spammer > Win4lin is to release a new product soon which will release more memory nobody cares! why tell us? > I almost fell off my highchair when I learned you mean horse? > Even Civilme (the resident expert on the Newbie list) THOUGHT he was > putting me in my place by telling me that in some Govt Dept they had some > typistes *actually* using Linux and olde Star Office. BUT then went on > and said they were *using* WorpdPerfect! (Sigh) A separate and quite > expensive product (but very good) except that nobody I know outside of > Civilme has ever got it to go on and work! i hope this isn't an example of your book research! i can point to literally hundreds of companies and cities that use linux all over. just yesterday someone on this list thanked me for helping them get WP installed, and all i did was give them a file name! you need to pull your head out and look around. > You will need to consider some of the Doze options for some time to come, > in my *practical applications* opinion. but your opinion as we have already found isn't worth the typeface you send it in..... > 1. There is nothing like even FrontPage98 in the Linux world that I thank goodness! next you will want IE and virus compatability.... > 2. If you are a serious business user, you NEED to be moving toward > voice recognition as you know. really? your blanket statements never cease to amaze, > (Nobody I personally know has been able to get Mandrake any distro to > work properly, you see, so this is heresay........... ) you and your mother/landlord are hardly a representative group though. > 3. I don't think *statement edited to demonstrate truth of matter* > 4. Sensible backups to CD? Forget it! I have learned that this is a > non-event for Win4Lin for the forseeable future. so simply use linux, why win4??? get half a clue. we know you have never even attempted an install or you would give actual errors and we could help! > 5. The 8.2 Mandrake had terrific writeups in the press - but in the light > of the failures being experienced by the geek contingent on this list > already, it is a loooooong way off being real-world ready. It is actually > trashing many previously hard-won working installations! do i even need to go over this? > 6. It appears to me to be still the most fabulous Server System in the > world and great fun for the hobbyist/masochist, but I am still highly > motivated by the continual failures of the MS OS and their draconian > plans for the future, so will keep coming back in hopes. we wish you wouldn't troll > DON'T DO ANYTHING NOW. Unless you can dedicate a lot of non-producing > time to the project, it is still early days. > By all means, get a standby machine and have a go. But, don't attempt > serious business integration for some time yet. i agree, i wouldn't install windows XP unless i had _tons_ of time and another running machine. they can't even make microsoft mice run on that POS! > I believe that someone of (business) maturity will take over in Mandrake, certainly that means you are out of the running..... > person) to apply for a trial subscription to the Newsletter "REALITY", > which does focus on getting the best out of the Internet *for business all this for a plug? > NOTE: Because of the problems caused by Spammers, all email addressses also they should not include any known address of john the mandrake list spammer. can we get him blocked from the whole list? this is pointless! -- I used to be confused, but now I am not that sure anymore...... shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/
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