Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quote of the day....

2007-08-10 Thread Eddie Armstrong
From http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1279tag=nl.e539 re desktop linuxes (Redhat a sideline Ubuntu a dedicated effort) Were this a breakfast plate, Red Hat would represent the eggs and Ubuntu the bacon. The chicken’s involved but the pig is committed. Eddie --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quote of the day....

2007-07-25 Thread Matthew East
* Josh Blacker: My personal favourite, on a bookmark trying to be witty: Never try to replace windows on your computer Not specifically Windows related, and only vaguely on topic, but by one of the photocopiers at work we have a sign like this:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quote of the day....

2007-07-25 Thread Mark Harrison
Ah - the joys of contextual advertising - sorry about that. OK, how about this one: It said 'requires Windows 2000 or better' on the box, so I installed Ubuntu Mark Josh Blacker wrote: Great - now I have a bunch of adverts about powerpoint in my gmail! My personal favourite, on a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quote of the day....

2007-07-25 Thread Jim Kissel
Q: Had you considered the possibility that we might actually prefer Windows, or even think it's better? A: No, but in all fairness, neither had I considered the possibility that you might be afflicted with rabies or suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome. Just Some Guy on /. (with minor

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quote of the day....

2007-07-25 Thread Eddie Armstrong
From 'comments' to an interview, (edited for readability), someone asked : 'Why don't any of the OSes sandbox everything by now better protecting users from themselves?' To which someone else replied: 'So in short nobody's sandboxing a PC any time soon except for running Windows in a VM,

[ubuntu-uk] Quote of the day....

2007-07-24 Thread Mark Harrison
Power corrupts. Powerpoint corrupts absolutely Well, I liked it :-) M. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/