On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 10:44:36PM +0100, Miernik wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 03:56:14PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > MHz. Dad's laptop has some ridiculously fast Athlon XP or something, but > > > it's running Windows 2000, so it's kind of wasted. > > > > "Linux: because a computer is a terrible thing to waste". Sorry, > > couldn't resist. :) > > > > At least he's not running Windows ME-- that's what's running (limping, > > actually) on my parents' box. When I reinstall ME > > Why don't you just take your chance when your parents aren't home, and > wipe out that crap, and install some Linux distro which imitates m$-win, > like http://www.lycoris.org/ (that one imitates win-xp - it even has an > app which opens all ms-office docs in ms-office like apps). If I knew that it could run my school software (I'm homeschooled, but I upload my work over the internet to teachers in California), I would do it faster than you could say "format C:". :) Besides, my Dad needs Windows for his C++ (ugh!) and VB (gag!!) classes. So I'm stuck. :( > I one saw a box which one guy has made to look like win-98 (in fact it > was KDE). He was showing me his computer, and at first I got disgusted > that he has ms-win. I didn't notice it was not win-98 until he opened an > xterm, and the prompt was user@hostname:~$ and not C:\> Have you ever seen this?: http://www.xpde.com/ Scary... > They won't notice it probably for some time, and when they will, just > tell them that this is a new, enhanced version of ms-windows. Nope, first time they can't find Corel Word Perfect, run Visual C++ or Visual Basic, or use the winmodem, they'll *know*. And then I'll be grounded for life. -- Vikki Roemer Homepage: http://www.2khiway.net/users/vroemer Registered Linux user #2880021 http://counter.li.org/ "Just because you're not paranoid, that doesn't mean they're not out to get you." (ripped from someone's slashdot .sig) PGP fingerprint: 0A3E 0AE4 CCD9 FF31 B4BB C859 2DE1 B1D8 5CE0 1578 Keyserver: http://pgp.mit.edu/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(?) s: a--- C++++(++) UL++++ P+ L+++>++++ E W++ N+ o? K- w--() O? M? V?(-) PS+(+++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5 X-() R*(?) tv-- b+++(++) DI+ D--(?) G e-(*)>+++++ h! r-- x? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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