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Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User
Losing self control?
Alias said:
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Alias
Mike said:
Yep
Alias
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MICHAEL
I haven't seen any self-control mustered by anyone in
these silly arse threads.
-Michael
these silly arse threads.
-Michael
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Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User
LOL.. I have just been following Alias' progress towards Ubuntu migration, a
simple task, as little progress appears to have been made..
simple task, as little progress appears to have been made..
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Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User
Michael
I have spent time in the Internetexplorer newsgroup since the IE7 release..
a 'hard hat' area if ever there was one.. please allow me just a little
fun..
I have spent time in the Internetexplorer newsgroup since the IE7 release..
a 'hard hat' area if ever there was one.. please allow me just a little
fun..
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Mike
Alias said:
Sure, just like your *previous* post was!
It's not "still in development". It's been released.
Do try to keep up.
Mike
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MICHAEL
LOL! That IE group is one busy and one angry place to
be. I think you've most definitely earned the right to play
around in this relatively fun sandbox. Well, until Vista hits
the shelves in mass and the first wave of Vista installed computers
go on sale... then, I'm not sure where the "funniest" place will be. ;-)
-Michael
be. I think you've most definitely earned the right to play
around in this relatively fun sandbox. Well, until Vista hits
the shelves in mass and the first wave of Vista installed computers
go on sale... then, I'm not sure where the "funniest" place will be. ;-)
-Michael
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Nina DiBoy
Mike said:
Here we go with yet another contradiction with something you said
earlier. Here you use the term "linux lusers". If noone uses linux,
how can there be linux losers? You are discrediting your own words by
contradicting yourself.
--
Priceless quotes in m.p.w.vista.general group:
"Price is actually no factor in piracy..." spoken by
Mike Brannigan
"But I'm not insulting people. I'm insulting Linux Loonies..."
spoken by Mike <[email protected]>
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Mike
Nina DiBoy said:
No contradictions here. No doubt there are some people attempting to use
LOTD, there just aren't very many compared to Windows or even OS X. In the
grand scheme of things, this amounts to no one. Just like there is "no
one" using OS/2, or BeOS, or Amiga.
These are the Linux Lusers.
Mike
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Alias
Mike said:
As I said before, there is no way anyone can know how many Linux users
there are. If what you say is true, there would be no Linux Usenet
groups and there are many. If what you say is true, your god, Microsoft,
wouldn't be trying to be buddies with Novell. Conclusion: what you say
is not true but what else is new?
Alias
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Mike
Alias said:
Linux is doing well on servers. It's going nowhere on the desktop. If
you think Microsoft is going to help Novell make LOTD a success, then you
are dumber than you appear.
You claimed 4 posts ago that you were "done with me". Conclusion: what you
say is not true but then what else is new?
Mike
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Alias
Mike said:
I definitely won't be buying Linux from Novell, that's for sure. Let me
let you in on a little secret; users like me are fed up with MS' prices
and the arrogant you-are-a-thief-until-you-prove-otherwise trip; and, as
Linux becomes more user friendly, it will become more popular. This is
irrefutable common sense. I have shown Ubuntu to ten people already and
all of them want it. None of them are techies.
I changed my mind. Lucky you, yes?
Alias
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Mike
Alias said:
Sure you did. Sure they do - until they find out none of their current
software will run on it.
No, it just makes you a liar as well as not being able to admit being wrong.
Mike
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Alias
Mike said:
Like what, IE7? hahahahahahahaha!
No, it means I changed my mind and, when wrong, I freely admit it.
Alias
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Mike
Alias said:
Yes, IE 7 - the browser that's already in 2nd place, behind IE 6.
IE 7, WMP, Office, Itunes, Adobe Everything, games, specialized business
software they may need to bring their work home, and any of the other 20,000
software titles they have already paid for.
Linux. The OS for people whose only reason to have a computer is to run an
OS.
Mike
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Alias
Mike said:
Most people are sheep, I know. Of course, you're wrong, FF is in second
place but don't let that stop you. In Germany, FF is used by 40% of the
country. I suspect that in Spain, it is more like 60% but, for some
reason, the Spanish a very computer savvy.
Not sure you're right about that, as Itunes is Unix based being as it
comes from Apple but another BFD. I don't download music that has
restrictions on it. I purchase CDs in Europe that don't have the DRM
crap on it.
My understanding is that there are Linux friendly apps that will do
flash and pdf, the only things I use Adobe for.
True! And that's one of the reasons one of my computers will have Vista
on it once the bugs are been ironed out by voluntary MS workers like you
that test the "final" release of Vista.
Doesn't apply to me.
If one can compose a doc, create simple web pages and send and receive
email, Linux will be just fine for my business.
Alias
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Jim Fraas
My tenetive plans for my vista upgrade are to reformat reinstall JUST XP
then do Vista over it getting it activated before reinstalling my
applications.
then do Vista over it getting it activated before reinstalling my
applications.
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Troy McClure
why would you format your harddrive only to mangle things again by doing an
upgrade from xp? since youre already formatting, why not do a clean vista
install? wont people ever learn?!?!
upgrade from xp? since youre already formatting, why not do a clean vista
install? wont people ever learn?!?!
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David A. Lessnau
Apparently, the only way to install Vista from an "Upgrade" version is to
install it over an existing, qualifying operating system. You can no longer
slap the upgrade CD into a clean machine and provide it with an old OS's CD.
So, with such a version, if you start from a bare disk, the first thing you
have to do is re-install your old OS. This doesn't apply to a full,
non-upgrade version of Vista.
install it over an existing, qualifying operating system. You can no longer
slap the upgrade CD into a clean machine and provide it with an old OS's CD.
So, with such a version, if you start from a bare disk, the first thing you
have to do is re-install your old OS. This doesn't apply to a full,
non-upgrade version of Vista.
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Colin Barnhorst
Since all installations of Vista are clean installations of the OS, it
probably doesn't matter whether you reformat or not. Everything previously
installed is rolled into a windows.old folder which can be deleted
afterwards. The installer does not use the old file-copy method to install
the OS. It lays down an image in which the formatting is inherent so there
is no longer a possibility of snippets of the old OS still existing on the
system. In the end the results should be the same as a classic clean
intall. The only time I have seen this not work correctly is if you do a
custom install of an x86 edition of Vista onto a partition containing XP Pro
x64. That does NOT give the predicted results.
probably doesn't matter whether you reformat or not. Everything previously
installed is rolled into a windows.old folder which can be deleted
afterwards. The installer does not use the old file-copy method to install
the OS. It lays down an image in which the formatting is inherent so there
is no longer a possibility of snippets of the old OS still existing on the
system. In the end the results should be the same as a classic clean
intall. The only time I have seen this not work correctly is if you do a
custom install of an x86 edition of Vista onto a partition containing XP Pro
x64. That does NOT give the predicted results.