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Re: Works For Me

  • Subject: Re: Works For Me
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  • Date: 29 Sep 2006 09:32:22 -0700
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Hadron Quark wrote:
> I love using Ubuntu Dapper - warts and all.
>
> Imagine my surprise, therefore, that when I freely mentioned weaknesses
> in its network admin GUIs, I was called a "retard", told to "go back to
> windows" and that "I didn't use Linux anyway".

I'm beginning to realize that a majority of the "advocates" in this NG
are nothing more than nut jobs with a zeal for an OS.  They obviously
can't be objective about the shortcomings of Linux.  They treat
everything as an attack on them personally.  It's sad, really.

>
> Could some of you maybe pop over and accuse Mark Shuttleworth the same
> please? He's obviously a wintroll in Bill Gate's pay. Pete? You first?
> Mark Kent? Jamie? I won't ask Roy, because Roy probably thinks Mark is a
> phony - just like that Professor from Harvard.
>
> http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/55
>
> ,----
> | NetworkManager is (mostly) my friend. When it works on your hardware
> | its a blessing, though every now and then it can get itself
> | into a horrible jam. The primary missing feature for me, now, is the
> | ability for it to recognise locations and
> | configure printers accordingly.
> `----
>
> Crikey : just as well he didn't admit to some nOOb the same in THIS ng :
> the poor fellow would have been savaged and wedgied by the
> intelligentsia that is the COLA gang.
>
> --
> Even more amazing was the realization that God has Internet access.  I
> wonder if He has a full newsfeed?
> 		-- Matt Welsh


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