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a shot of e3?
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educate me
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i use linux
i can't watch a lot of the streaming video on the internet. yahoo told me i should get another operating system because mine was incompatible with some of their news clips. assholes.
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you use os2? wow. why?
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never mind. i just learned to read. what flavour of linux do you use?
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make ONE system and go out side and play .
enjoy life its not complicated !
what the eff is a TV liecence ? a liecence to thrill ?
if you don't like working in TV then go work somewhere else. most of its crap anyway.
money makes the world go round !
yeah ! i think so too.
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i use xubuntu because according to my roommate who set it up for me i don't have enough ram to use regular ubuntu...or something like that. i do know how to use my command line a little bit though. heh heh
fuck windows and their stupid monopoly and shitty product
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os2 is shit.
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i was talking about the fitness trekker.
The OS2 Fitness Trekker Poles adjustable length allows you to share them with friends, and they collapse to 31 inches for storage. The ergonomic grip is comfortable. For extra stability, for relief of strain on your hips, knees, and ankles, and for extra calorie burn, these poles are a good fitness tool.
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and i mean't that too!
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ESP emissions analyzers have an OS/2 WARP splash screen on boot up before you're taken directly into the emissions analyzer program. These machines are still the most prevalent analyzers in my market.
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esp analysers... for... detecting psychic waves? wow!
I want to switch to a brand of linux, but I just don't have time to keep on preaching. that's required by the eula, isn't it? fifteen hours of linux evangelism per month? just like the firefox license agreement too. (and a great product it is too. that's my quote done this month)
silliness aside, yeah, I'll probably switch to redhat at some point.
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Extra-sensory perception analyzers! It's all about reading peoples minds yo!
Nah, it's Environmental Systems Products.
I had a redhat machine once. I decided to try it out on an older computer I had that was still running windows 98. Very easy to install and set up. I had a very hard time trying to figure out how to install more software on it though. It came with a Mozilla browser and a freaking ton of screen savers though! ^_^
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a shot of e3?
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I tend to do a lot of hard drive pruning, backing up, folder rearranging and other housekeeping near the middle of each month. It's not that I don't like what I do or even that I'm not a hard worker. I really enjoy OS/2 e-Zine! and almost all the work that goes into each issue. It's just that I'm a bit of a procrastinator. If there is any little detail that I can tweak on my system, I'll do it before I get down to work.
So as I sit here in the first few weeks of March, I have a very smoothly running OS/2 Warp 4 computer. Very smoothly running.
In fact, my computer is a productivity dream come true. Performance is snappy, it's stable as a rock and I've got a native utility or application for almost every task I can imagine. In short, I'm deliriously happy with OS/2.
But despite my happiness with OS/2, when I cruise the 'net I invariably come across someone that insists on telling me that I should, "dump OS/2. It's dead, it has no future, boo hoo hoo, blah blah blah." And it's not always just longtime Windows users who are doing this either.
Please understand, I don't begrudge anyone their opinion and I know that evangelism comes easy to computer types, especially OS/2 users. But what I can not figure out is why some people go to the trouble (and some people go to a lot of trouble) that they do to try to convince me not to use a platform. It's not quite the same thing as trying to convince me to use a platform, if you see what I mean.
For example, like many of you, I'm not particularly in love with Microsoft. I don't hate their products, and I'm sure I could use them and be relatively happy (in fact, before I discovered OS/2 I did). Still, I am not thrilled with Windows of any variety and I think OS/2 is a better OS. So I might go out of my way to explain to someone else why this is. I might go so far as to suggest that he or she really should try OS/2. But why would I ever bother to tell someone that he should not use a Microsoft product? Quite simply, I wouldn't.
And yet, I can't get away from these whackos that insist on telling me why I should not continue to use OS/2.
The people who just troll around newsgroups looking for a fight I can almost understand (although I don't identify with them -- I've never visited comp.os.microsoft.advocacy and I couldn't care less what operating system people there use or talk about). But the blubbering sissies who go out of their way to announce to the world in print magazines or on their WWW sites why they believe everyone should immediately stop using OS/2 really confuse and irritate me.
Other contributors have echoed these sentiments in past issues but it seems that this type of person just never goes away. Despite the OS/2 community's repeated insistence that most of us are very happy with OS/2 and are getting quite a bit of work done every day, these people insist on telling us that, "OS/2 is dead," and that we should cease using it immediately. I mean, they did, didn't they?
Well I've got news for them: I use OS/2 for the same reason you use OS/2; because I like what it does for me. Not what it will do for me. Not what it could do for me. Not what NT doesn't do for me. Just what OS/2 does for me. Right here, right now, today.
I'm one of those people who believes that IBM has quite a bit more in store for our favourite OS -- but let's assume, for argument's sake, that OS/2 development does cease (IBM has explicitly stated, by the way, that development will continue). Would I stop using OS/2 now? Absolutely not. It is, quite simply, the best tool available to me today to get the work done that I want to get done. I wouldn't even consider using an inferior tool just because it "may some day be better".
So considering the facts that a) OS/2 is already the best tool for me and b) IBM is going to continue to enhance it, why do these people continue to anti-evangelize to us? I just don't know. If they have decided that OS/2 is not the best tool for them, I completely understand if they stop using it. But I don't sympathize with them when they insist on posting or printing excessive obituaries for a platform that is quite obviously doing very well for most of us.
Like I said, my machine is humming along smoothly and providing me with productivity galore. So let the whackos post their notices on their web sites, whining about why they think we should all stop using OS/2. As for me, well, my computer is running very smoothly and I just can't find any way to improve it any more. I guess I'll have to get to work now.
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is this an Operating System or a System Operating?
why has my Mac got it wrong then?
i must have a pirate machine.
I may say SO but the gentelman that bought it is saying D'OH, give his money back then, PRONTO, QUICK SHARP not Quick Time.
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I have 10 fingers, assholes!
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phil
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No, you have eight fingers. Idiot.
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give me an effing job then without making me feel scared that i am not capable :(
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