Fwd: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-27 Thread Jeff Rollin
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 23-Dec-2006 17:21 Subject: Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems To: Simon Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Simon If you are located anywhere close to Grover Beach, California, please feel free to drop by his

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-22 Thread Simon Chang
rant snip Folks, I too had a recent epiphany about something that I wish to share with you. It's not about operating systems; it's about terabyte_pete, the original poster who initiated this message. Terabyte_pete, or Peter Daigle as some know him, has been trolling several other mailing

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-22 Thread usleepless
Simon, On 12/22/06, Simon Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rant snip If you are located anywhere close to Grover Beach, California, please feel free to drop by his office and let him know how much we appreciate his pseudo-intellectual analyses of operating systems. His office is just off the

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and when you stop by: bring him a windows 95 for dummies book as well. regards, usleep Actually, I have vintage discounted copies of UNIX for dummies, which might be invaluable in this case, and Windows 3.11 for dummies, which would serve the rest of us quite

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-21 Thread usleepless
On 12/20/06, Terabyte Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7:04 AM, Wednesday, December 20, 2006 rant man, what are you smoking? U know, opposite of those oil companies - buying up the rail mass transit, so they could DESTROY it, rip everybody off with cars gas they don't need. It would be

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-21 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 20/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/20/06, Terabyte Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: U know, opposite of those oil companies - buying up the rail mass transit, so they could DESTROY it, rip everybody off with cars gas they don't need. It would be nice if more people

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-21 Thread Lane
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 09:38, Terabyte Pete wrote (Nothing of value): 7:04 AM, Wednesday, December 20, 2006 chop U know, opposite of those oil companies - buying up the rail mass transit, so they could DESTROY it, rip everybody off with cars gas they don't need.  It would be nice

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
- a few nic cards! HAHAHAHAHAHA From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Terabyte Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:04:09 -0500 On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 07:38:30AM -0800, Terabyte Pete wrote: 7

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-21 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Dec 20, 2006, at 6:39 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 03:06:34PM -0800, Terabyte Pete wrote: It's all true U know it. What's your title - head 'driver instal complicator'??? HAHAHAHAHAHA Enjoy your peddling I.T. services. Would all B so unnecessary if U actually

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-21 Thread Juha Saarinen
On 12/21/06, Terabyte Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Snip The OpenBSD Flaming List is down the hall, fourth door to the left. -- Juha http://www.geekzone.co.nz/juha ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-20 Thread Terabyte Pete
7:04 AM, Wednesday, December 20, 2006 In Winblow$, the release bundling of IE was purposely as crippleware, virus, bug delivery system 2 trap people into constantly 'upgrading'. A simple comparisson of Windows 95 side-by-side with the final Windows ME various IE 'upgrades' illustrates how

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-20 Thread Andy Greenwood
On 12/20/06, Terabyte Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7:04 AM, Wednesday, December 20, 2006 In Winblow$, the release bundling of IE was purposely as crippleware, virus, bug delivery system 2 trap people into constantly 'upgrading'. A simple comparisson of Windows 95 side-by-side with the final

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 07:38:30AM -0800, Terabyte Pete wrote: 7:04 AM, Wednesday, December 20, 2006 Goes to show you that not all Epiphanies are about revealing reality. Some are merely false lights leading one down a darkened path. jerry In Winblow$, the release bundling of IE was

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-20 Thread Bill Moran
If you read the original post, you're probably going to read this as well. I want to ask everyone on this list for a Christmas present. If you can't give me peace on Earth, good will toward men, or a supermodel trophy-wife for Christmas, please give me something that I know each of you are

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-20 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Dec 20, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Andy Greenwood wrote: On 12/20/06, Terabyte Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7:04 AM, Wednesday, December 20, 2006 In Winblow$, the release bundling of IE was purposely as crippleware, virus, bug delivery system 2 trap people into constantly 'upgrading'. A

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-20 Thread Mario Lobo
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 16:52, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Guess what...that's the price you pay for freedom and flexibility. You have to learn to use it. Don't want to do that? Pay someone to configure an interface with big shiny buttons marked INTERNET BROWSER, EMAIL, WRITE LETTERS.