RE: [NF] Microsoft slips Novell another tenth of a billion

2008-08-23 Thread Matt Jarvis
You heathen!!! You DO NOT do that to yerba mate. Two ways to prepare it. 1st. (and better) You get yourself a proper mate (gourd?), water at about 70-75°C and. let's see, you fill the gourd up to about half with yerba (no bombilla yet), massively snipped Or you could just run the

Re: [NF] Microsoft slips Novell another tenth of a billion

2008-08-23 Thread Ricardo Araoz
Vince Teachout wrote: Ricardo Aráoz wrote: BTW, here's a place with pictures about what I was saying : http://www.flyfishing-argentina.com/rinconcultural/cursodemate.html Or you can put como cebar mate in google and you'll get more than 70,000 entries. Ok, this is weird! If you

Re: [NF] Microsoft slips Novell another tenth of a billion

2008-08-22 Thread Ricardo Araoz
Vince Teachout wrote: Ricardo Araoz wrote: 1st. (and better) You get yourself a proper mate (gourd?), water at about 70-75°C and. What's that in REAL temperatures? :-P Don't know... about 230987º F? Fascinating article, Ricardo, and a lot of stuff I didn't know. Good to know about

RE: [NF] Microsoft slips Novell another tenth of a billion

2008-08-21 Thread Rick Schummer
With winders it was a reformat and reinstall every month or so :-( What?!? Are you serious or exaggerating Pete? I have six PCs running Windows XP, three used by non-professionals including kids who load all kinds of crap on them. I have several more virtual machines with XP Pro. I have never

Re: [NF] Microsoft slips Novell another tenth of a billion

2008-08-21 Thread Michael Madigan
DVD-HD, Beta, CED video disk Perhaps Linux is the best of both worlds, competition with standardization. We'll see. --- On Thu, 8/21/08, Vince Teachout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Vince Teachout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NF] Microsoft slips Novell another tenth of a billion

RE: [NF] Microsoft slips Novell another tenth of a billion

2008-08-21 Thread Rick Schummer
Don't forget about opportunity! Since the source is all open, others can step right in and pick up where the previous developer left off, something you can't get even if you wanted to with closed source stuff like VFP. gdr I already mentioned this. I am totally anxious to see how Pete's

Re: [NF] Microsoft slips Novell another tenth of a billion

2008-08-21 Thread Pete Theisen
Rick Schummer wrote: With winders it was a reformat and reinstall every month or so :-( What?!? Are you serious or exaggerating Pete? Hi Rick! But, you see, I am not the expert you are. The boxes would get all loaded up with ad and spyware that I couldn't get rid of and the repaving

Re: [NF] Microsoft slips Novell another tenth of a billion

2008-08-21 Thread Ted Roche
Does anyone remember what life was like before Microsoft? Well, yeah. I shipped successful and working software on GE635's, Wang A, T, VP and MVP computers, BasicFour, Data General Nova and Eclipse, and others. NORAD deployed a huge system of radar processing systems (the early warning system)

Re: [NF] Microsoft slips Novell another tenth of a billion

2008-08-21 Thread Pete Theisen
Paul McNett wrote: Pete Theisen wrote: Heck, I'm still trying to figure out what the command for dir is in Linux. Changes indeed. Edit .bashrc, and add: alias dir='ls -al' Save and start a new terminal session. Hi Paul! I am not so sure that this machine has bash on it. Kate,