SW wrote:
> [H]omer wrote:
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>> I've just spent the last *three days* (yes, it really took that long)
It's amusing to see how determined he is to run an OS he claims is crap,
written by a company he claims is evil. [H]omer puts the [H] in
[H]ypocrite.
> It took me exactly 30 minutes and two to install XP Pro with SP3.
> Restoring an older image would have taken less than 15 minutes. Add
> another 25-30 mins to install Office 2003, Flash, PDF reader and a few
> other utilities.
Modern hardware being as costly as it is, [H]ypocrite is trying to put
everything on his c.1999 Pentium III system: 5400rpm IDE drive, 256mb
slow RAM, 32mb GeForce2 video card.
>> performing my once-in-a-blue-moon update to my Billy Box; a marathon
>> effort involving a visit to about 100 software vendors' websites, as
>
> *LOL*
25 comic book sites + 25 porn sites + 25 warez sites + 25 shareware sites =
a [H]omer system.
>> many reboots, and countless hours attempting to resolve a litany of
>> software issues. In the end, I gave up and simply restored the system
>> from a disk image to a known "good" state ... "good" being a
>> comparative term.
>>
>
> You are an idiot and a liar.
He's a Linux "advocate"... pretty much the same thing.
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