FemmeFatale wrote:
>
> shane wrote:
> >
> > On Saturday 27 April 2002 15:22, Gerald Waugh opened a general hailing
> > frequency and transmitted to all open stations:
> >
> > > women!
> > > I love em!, but her box rules! ;-)
> >
> > the funny thing is i tried to get her to try linux for over 18 months. "no!
> > i don't like it the mouse feels all wrong." turns out it is my roller ball
> > she desn't like.
> >
> > after 3 weeks on linux her only coments were "wish it handled MSOffice files
> > better, but it sure is fast!"
> >
> > 2 weeks later she spends a full day at work with high ups at IBM (she is a
> > senior VP in tech audit at a major bank, IBM listens to her, why don't they
> > listen to me?) telling them they should push linux on the desktop not just
> > server cause she hates the man hours wasted on crashes in windows, and
> > comes home to find i rebooted into windows to use the scanner. she sits
> > down and says "why is my computer in windows? i _hate_ windows!" and
> > reboots.
> >
> > women...... ;-)
> >
> > --
>
> Yes don't bother trying to understand us. I'm convinced we're a new
> species ;p
>
> That or we're just so highly evolved you can't hope to understand where
> we're coming from Shane.
>
> And fwiw, my own lover has driven me nuts too...mostly b/c she acts more
> like a man than anything else. Go figure.
>
> Femme
>
The solution, shane is to discuss upgrading her machine either to 8.2 with
more scanner compatability (if it isn't already) or buy a Linux compatible
scanner. 2 incomes should handle that. <insert apropriate tongue in cheek
smiley>
Michael
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