Re: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

2007-12-07 Thread Jim Hall
All, This flamewar is not helpful or productive. If anything, it's harmful. Please, I'm asking you to stop so we can get back to talking about real issues for FreeDOS. -jh - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new So

Re: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

2007-12-07 Thread Robert Riebisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > / > I've decided to unsubscribe from the FreeDOS list. > I have learned a few things of value, however I'm not interested in > reading flaming message after message.there's no purpose... > \ So the flame-war guys "won"? Better come back and ignore them. :-) Robert

Re: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

2007-12-07 Thread dsilva1
urceforge.net Subject: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech! Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:39:41 -0800 > Jack, my fRiend, do you think it is a good idea to make a "federal case" > ... "Federal Case", you say??A phrase rarely heard outside the U.S.A., which refe

Re: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

2007-12-07 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:57:20 +0100, you wrote: >The guys you mentioned to be your witnesses, Kuhnt and Lucho, they are >"slightly" biased, aren't they? Great! BIASED or not, let the world judge it, I think it's the best answer! History have no mercy on bad guys, and it reminds us what's the na

Re: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

2007-12-07 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:07:11 +0100, you wrote: >Eric, you are a wag. :)) Sorry my English sucks, I didn't even have a chance to go to University. I check up the WIKI and found the following ... Wag can also be: * A verb expressing a rocking movement, as in the wagging of a dog's tail, also used

[Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

2007-12-06 Thread Jack
> Jack, my fRiend, do you think it is a good idea to make a "federal case" > ... "Federal Case", you say??A phrase rarely heard outside the U.S.A., which refers to the laws we use to prosecute gangsters or racketeers?? With your recent f.iend, that is 2 NEW additions to your English "

Re: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

2007-12-06 Thread Robert Riebisch
Jim Hall wrote: > I'm just trying to put the lid on what could become another flamewar, > here. That's a good idea, I think. Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The

Re: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

2007-12-06 Thread Japheth
> I was referring to "one forum already banned some > of the people involved in this flamewar and another > forum was closed because of this flamewar". I am > not suggesting to follow those examples... ;-). Eric, you are a wag. :)) btw, I was banned by the admin of the EDR forum ("Evil DoctoR") b

Re: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

2007-12-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jim, > No one is talking about banning anyone. Sheesh. > Don't suggest that's what I'm planning to do. I was referring to "one forum already banned some of the people involved in this flamewar and another forum was closed because of this flamewar". I am not suggesting to follow those examples

Re: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

2007-12-06 Thread Jim Hall
No one is talking about banning anyone. Sheesh. Don't suggest that's what I'm planning to do. I'm just trying to put the lid on what could become another flamewar, here. On 12/6/07, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > > Jack, your email is an obvious troll. > > Please try to be

Re: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

2007-12-06 Thread Norbert Remmel
Hi Jack, what is the changelog of your latest uide.sys dated 11-24-2007 shipped together with Lucho's bootdisk? I thought, your drivers were gone forever. If Lucho is allowed to use your drivers for his bootdisk, so why not publish your drivers again at Johnson's website as closed source? That w

Re: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

2007-12-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jim, > Jack, your email is an obvious troll. Please try to be fair. I think that Japheth and Jack do call each other fiends deliberately. The problem is that for Japheth and many others, this is just a small tongue-in-cheek typo joke, while Jack is really offended by that and demands that we

Re: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

2007-12-06 Thread Japheth
Jack, my fRiend, do you think it is a good idea to make a "federal case" of a missing little "r"? Try to calm down! Jim Hall isn't a FOOL by having ignored it, it's at best an indication that he isn't paranoid. The guys you mentioned to be your witnesses, Kuhnt and Lucho, they are "slightly"

Re: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

2007-12-05 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Ciao, Jack wrote: Udo Kuhnt wrote me yesterday, 4-Dec-2007, about Grech's FD-User post, where Grech thanks his fiend -- NOT friend but FIEND -- for the XDMA driver.Udo noted he DID NOT regard this as any sort of "typographical error", and neither did I. For non-native English speaki

[Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

2007-12-05 Thread Jack
> Jack, your email is an obvious troll. If you don't have anything > of substance to contribute, don't try to stir up trouble. Please > stop this. Jim, your comments above are absolutely the most UNFAIR thing I have EVER seen you do.Udo Kuhnt wrote me yesterday, 4-Dec-2007, about Grech's

Re: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

2007-12-05 Thread Jim Hall
Jack, your email is an obvious troll. If you don't have anything of substance to contribute, don't try to stir up trouble. Please stop this. -jh On 12/5/07, Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My congrats to my good fiend Grech for having "patched" and extended usage > of the non-caching XDMA!

Re: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

2007-12-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi again, > I believe the UIDE driver is indeed better, but I also > got the impression that, as a result of a flamewar on > BTTR, the UIDE driver is no longer open source...? Lucho reminded me that UIDE was open source until a month ago, so technically, porting UIDE instead of XCDROM would have

Re: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

2007-12-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jack, ... or should I say: Hi Ellis? ... > My congrats to my good fiend Grech for having ... for the non-insiders: you mean Japheth (A. Grech) ... > "patched" and extended usage of the non-caching XDMA! ... which has a nice license which supports doing so ... > Those on BTTR who have not

[Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!

2007-12-05 Thread Jack
My congrats to my good fiend Grech for having "patched" and extended usage of the non-caching XDMA! Those on BTTR who have noted the 50-MB speed of UIDE, and those who have noted privately how UIDE "works everywhere", will truly value a substandard, obsolete driver as a second-choice! And give