[OT] Birthday Gear (was Re: Epiphany browser continues to get worse and
worse)
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:11:46AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:39:27 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 2010-04-20 08:24, Lisi wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 20 April 2010 03:21:52 Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>> Why do women buy new clothes every year when their existing clothes
> >>> are completely functional?
> >>
> >> A lot of us don't. And I don't fix things that aren't broken either.
> >
> > (I _knew_ I'd get an email or two like this...)
> >
> > Neither do *all* geeks consistently and constantly buy new kit.
> >
> > HOWEVER... since enough women and geeks *do* do what I suggest, they
> > fuel two thriving multi-multi-billion dollar industries.
> >
> > So, it's patently obvious that these two generalizations fit the
> > populations to which they were applied.
>
> No doubt you will claim that the exception proves the rule,
> and you may be right. But I am definitely a geek. I got a new laptop
> for my birthday a few days ago. My wife, sons, siblings, inlaws,
> etc. all chipped in for it because I was too cheap to buy one for
> myself. The only reason that I asked for one for my birthday was
> because my old laptop, which was new in 1998, has a hard drive (4G) which
> I have almost outgrown. By the time I install a full-blown Linux desktop
> environment on it, there's not much room left for user files. Otherwise,
> I would have been content to continue running my 12-year-old 266 MHz
> Pentium II with 416M of RAM, 2M of video RAM, and no 3D graphics acceleration.
>
Ooooo.
But you don't say what kind of birthday equipment you received or what you
installed/are planning on installing!! :-(
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Kind Regards,
Freeman
http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
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