1 Sep
2008
1 Sep
'08
1:27 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Arachelian ray at arachelian.com
Sent 9/1/2008 12:43:26 AM
To: General Discussion GeneralDiscussion@
Subject: Re:Free Linux and OpenOffice - even if your email address doesn't
I know I said I wouldn't reply, but my God, man, you are totally out of touch with
reality.
I see stories about people like you on CNN - "He was always very quiet, and kept to
himself..."
Ray, check yourself into the nearest mental health institute, for your sake, for your
family's sake.
You're not stable, man.
Ya got serious issues interfacing with humans, serious issues understanding simple 5th
grade sentences,
and some strange need for cursing to feel like a man...
I once heard a saying when I was young: "Profanity is the device that makes ignorance
audible."
And what WAS all that psychotic, incoherent babbling? I have NO idea what you were ranting
about, but seek help.
Um, this WILL be my last message to, or about you, because there is NO way that you are a
stable individual,
with all that incoherent rambling, and I do NOT want to be the one responsible for you
"snapping," and going on
a spree...
So, I'm pretty sure, knowing your type, that you want the last word, so go ahead and
have it, so we can end this,
and maybe avoid you going on a rampage of some sort and hurting yourself, or or worse,
someone else.
1 Sep
1 Sep
3:47 a.m.
tonym:
You're new on the list.
The list has been through several episodes over the years regarding off-topic
posting and it became bad enough that Big Daddy finally had to step in and lay
down the law. He doesn't like being bothered about these issues. We had been
doing pretty well over the last year until you arrived.
You're initial post on this topic was way off-topic. Several others have
tried to supply kindly hints which you seem obtuse to. With the initial post,
your continued replies, derogatory language and name calling, you are
accomplishing nothing more than making an ass of yourself.
Ray & some others: You should know better.
If there are any more replies on this thread I would ask that those in closer
contact with Jay bring it to his attention. It's way off-topic, it's a mindless
debate, and it's gone on too long.
6 Sep
6 Sep
3:37 a.m.
New subject: OT: Linux and OpenOffice
I have a couple apps I want to try, and they seem to be best supported under
Linux...
In that vein, can you guys suggest some distros for me to try? I've not
actually USED a desktop linux since
about RH9, although I run RHEL 4 and 5 servers at the office...
I've downloaded Gentoo, Centos 5.2, Ubuntu 8.04.1, Fedora 9, just downloaded
gOS (is it any good?)
I like GUI's, so something decent on the gfx front...
Hardware I have available:
Dell Latitude D610 (circa 2006)
Pentium-M 2.13gHz
1GB RAM
60GB hard disk
it has a 1024x768 LCD (ewww!) and an ATI Radeon X300 video card with 64MB of
video RAM.
Older Intel WiFi card
I also have a port replicator, and was wondering if that was supported...
Don't need any dual-boot, or partitioning tricks, as I have a separate 60GB
drive+sled for the D610.
Other things I'd like to be able to do:
1) VPN into the office (std VPN, like you do with a windows VPN connection),
2) Office apps OpenOffice can cover (I don't do really fancy stuff like my
wife did - I just use non-complicated Excel sheets and word),
3) Connect to my Exchange server - googling showed Evolution?
4) Any tools for blackberry? I have an 8700g with T-Mobile
This will not turn into a pro/con sucks/doesn't suck discussion, as I am
sure that horse was beaten beyond dead long ago...
This is just a req to ask for what people are running out there, as a
suggestion for what I should try.
I don't mind trying and installing more than 1, if it's a "you need to look
at both" case...
Thanks.
Tony
3:44 a.m.
New subject: OT: Linux and OpenOffice
Tony Mori wrote:
This will not turn into a pro/con sucks/doesn't
suck discussion, as I am
sure that horse was beaten beyond dead long ago...
This is just a req to ask for what people are running out there, as a
suggestion for what I should try.
My wife and young children have found Ubuntu 8.04.1's desktop very easy
to pick up and use; in fact, my wife has switched to it full-time, and
only reboots into Windows when she needs to fill her iPod, then boots
back into Ubuntu.
--
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Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/
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4:33 a.m.
New subject: OT: Linux and OpenOffice
When I updated my main personal desktop to a quad-core AMD, Microsoft had just
discontinued XP, and I couldn't get XP Pro x64. So, I tried Ubuntu.
That was about three months ago. I'm still on Ubuntu. I have three LCD screens, and
Xinerama does a pretty good job of managing them. Evolution is a decent mail client.
Wine runs about half of the Windows apps I used to use, and I've found alternatives
for most of the others. Interestingly, the biggest pain has been the Zune client, which
refuses to run on anything but XP or Vista. (I have a Win2K Server box running my web and
mail servers, and Zune just won't install there.) So I'm configuring VirtualBox,
so I can run a virtual XP session to refresh my Zune.
I'm pretty happy with it.
________________________________________
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Leonard [trixter at oldskool.org]
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 12:44 AM
To: General at mail.mobygames.com; Discussion@
Subject: Re: OT: Linux and OpenOffice
Tony Mori wrote:
This will not turn into a pro/con sucks/doesn't
suck discussion, as I am
sure that horse was beaten beyond dead long ago...
This is just a req to ask for what people are running out there, as a
suggestion for what I should try.
My wife and young children have found Ubuntu 8.04.1's desktop very easy
to pick up and use; in fact, my wife has switched to it full-time, and
only reboots into Windows when she needs to fill her iPod, then boots
back into Ubuntu.
--
Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/
Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/
Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/
A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/
6:49 p.m.
New subject: OT: Linux and OpenOffice
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 03:37:22AM -0400, Tony Mori wrote:
I have a couple apps I want to try, and they seem to
be best supported
under Linux...
In that vein, can you guys suggest some distros for me to try? I've not
My wife has been using various version of Debian and Ubuntu over the
years - not that _that_ mattered to her, since for her pretty much
nothing changed: WindowMaker, Mozilla/Firefox, Sylpheed/Claws,
OpenOffice was available on all.
Of course, her machine is just a simple client - $HOME comes via NFS,
auth via NIS and various other services (proxy, mailserver, DNS, ...)
just exist somewhere on the home network.
But I suggest you take a look at the current Ubuntu version, it should
support a reasonable range of hardware and be simple enough to install
(and maintain) for average non-Unix-wizard users.
Regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
1 Sep
1 Sep
10:45 a.m.
tonym wrote:
I know I said I wouldn't reply,
Got you! :-D ROTFL! Congrats, you've been Punk'd!
Jeez, you didn't even get the obligatory Monty Python references, it's
not like there was just one. Where have you been living all of this time?
So exactly what makes you think you're qualified to be a sysadmin
anyway? Of any sort? Yeah, if I had to guess, you don't do it for the
love of sysadmining, you do it because it's a job.
Oh, don't bother answering anymore, just take your microsoft educational
offer and go. Maybe you're the type that needs to take microsoft up on
their education...
I'm done toying with you. I've had my grins already. :-)
2 Sep
2 Sep
4:21 p.m.
And thusly were the !wise words spake by tonym
I know I said I wouldn't reply, but my God, man, you are totally out of =
touch with reality.
I see stories about people like you on CNN - =22He was always very quiet, =
and kept to himself...=22
Ray, check yourself into the nearest mental health institute, for your =
sake, for your family's sake.
You're not stable, man.=20
Ya got serious issues interfacing with humans, serious issues =
understanding simple 5th grade sentences,
and some strange need for cursing to feel like a man...
I once heard a saying when I was young: =22Profanity is the device that =
makes ignorance audible.=22
And what WAS all that psychotic, incoherent babbling? I have NO idea what =
you were ranting about, but seek help.
I found his rant quite coherent and also quite hilarious... There was
much fun being poked!!
Cheers,
Bryan
Um, this WILL be my last message to, or about you,
because there is NO way =
that you are a stable individual,
with all that incoherent rambling, and I do NOT want to be the one =
responsible for you =22snapping,=22 and going on
a spree...
So, I'm pretty sure, knowing your type, that you want the last word, so go =
ahead and have it, so we can end this,
and maybe avoid you going on a rampage of some sort and hurting yourself, =
or or worse, someone else.=
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