On Fri, 04 May 2007 04:36:40 +0000, Christopher Hunter wrote:

<snip some completely irrelevant stuff about why you use Windoze>

>>> How do you know he isn't running windows from within a Virtualisation?

>> Whatever. It's still running Windoze, and he claimed to be running
>> Ubuntu. You can't understand that?

> You obviously don't understand the concept of virtualisation.

I understand it just fine. Nice try at a personal attack, though.

> Also, I can send any header data I like with a newsgroup posting or
> e-mail - it /might/
> not actually reflect the software and operating system at all.

No kidding. I can do that too. It has no bearing on this conversation,
because the OP was clearly not trying to fool anyone.

>> Because he said: "I am running Ubuntu". See the word "am"? That
>> means *present tense*, and he was posting from Windoze. Got it?

> You're now resorting to your silly attempts at semantic analysis again.
> You should (by now) realise that you've *lost* *the* *argument* when you
> have to stoop this low.

Very poor logic you used there to arrive at your conclusion that I've
"lost the argument". Using proper English is a "silly attempt at semantic
analysis" in your view?

I'll recap it for you: He said "I am using...". That means he is using
it *right now*. If he meant to say he had it installed (on some other
machine), he should/would have said: "I use...". See the difference?

>> Stay in school, simpleton.

> Perhaps /you/ should consider some education (yours is obviously sadly
> lacking) and some etiquette training (you lack basic manners).

Very funny coming from someone who can't understand basic English tense
usage. I'm highly educated, and I don't care much about "etiquette
training", FYI. You probably already knew that.

> You should learn to refrain from diving into other people's debates with
> your unreasoning ranting - it just gets you widely killfiled!

Unreasoning ranting. Great stuff. See above regarding English... Oh, and
take a guess about how much I care about killfiles...

> Another poster to this thread suggested that you were a malevolent
> twelve year old with a lot of time on your hands: I would suggest that
> you're a rather under-achieving, unemployed, middle-aged person with a
> huge inferiority complex.

You'd be as wrong as he is. I bet you're getting used to being wrong by
now, though, huh?

Bugger off.


--
"Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

On Thu, 03 May 2007 21:21:12 -0600, King Beowulf wrote:

>> What on earth does this achieve?

> He's an ass who knows not that headers are meaningless.

You're as clueless as he is, Win-droid n00b. They tell me a whole lot
about you.

> I like you User Agent line: "My rims never spin. To the contrary.
> You'll find they're quite stationary"

You're easily amused, aren't you?

> What a hoot.

What a galoot.

--
"Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

"Dan C" illuminated the devils arse on Thu, 03 May 2007 20:31:41 -0500
by typing:

<snip>
> I'm not assuming anything. I simply read the info in the headers,
> which is simple factual information.
>
> Stay in school, simpleton.

Aaah. What a wonderful response.

You are a presumptious, self-important, poorly armed, usenet warrior. I
pointed out you're inane ways and instead of counter-argument, you
misinterpret the whole thread to fit your bizarre agenda.

Well done. Feel proud of yourself and then fcuk off.

You are wasting my time.

--
Moog

http://www.last.fm/user/efcmoog/
"Liquor in the Front. Poker in the Rear"

"King Beowulf" illuminated the devils arse on Thu, 03 May 2007 21:21:12
-0600 by typing:

> Moog wrote:
> > "Dan C" illuminated the devils arse on Wed, 02 May 2007 14:19:40
> > -0500 by typing:
> >
> >>> X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1
> >> You're using Windoze. See?
> >
> > What on earth does this achieve?
>
> He's an ass who knows not that headers are meaningless.

He's also a self important gob****e.

> > It is perfectly feasible that people read and participate in usenet
> > newsgroups from a different computer such as a Work PC or a family
> > member for instance. Windows and Linux are *not* mutually exclusive.
> >
> > I use windows too, occasionally. If you ever pull me up on it, I'll
> > wipe the bloody floor with you. ;-)
> >
> Agreed. Its about the best tool for the job. If I could get some of
> my games running under Wine, I could drop winxp.beut heck it'll still
> be at work.

I don't really use games, but I simply *have* to have a virtualisation
of windows to use the accountancy package my firm runs. I occasionally
use that virtualisation for posting to usenet, creating emails etc, but
rarely. Windows has it's place. Running Linux is about the best thing I
ever did, but I'm not a blinkered fool that looks at windows at the
enemy. Co-existance is possible and, in fact, a must for me
personally. It's not that I actually want to do it, it's that there
are personal *benefits* to running multiple OS's.

> I like you User Agent line: "My rims never spin. To the contrary.
> You'll find they're quite stationary"

Weird Al Yankovic's "White and Nerdy". One of the best "cover songs"
ever created. ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw

I can see a bit of Dan C in that video. ;-)

--
Moog

http://www.last.fm/user/efcmoog/
"Liquor in the Front. Poker in the Rear"

"Dan C" illuminated the devils arse on Fri, 04 May 2007 00:38:24 -0500
by typing:

> He said "I am using...". That means he is using it *right now*.

*cuckoo*

And in the words of the fcukwit of this thread....
"Stay in school, simpleton."

--
Moog

http://www.last.fm/user/efcmoog/
"Liquor in the Front. Poker in the Rear"

> Another poster to this thread suggested that you were a malevolent twelve
> year old with a lot of time on your hands: I would suggest that you're a
> rather under-achieving, unemployed, middle-aged person with a huge
> inferiority complex.
>
> C.
>


I think you have to add that he has no respect for others. Yes this is
from XP but my Linux machines are being used by my wife and daughter
right now.

Niall Munro wrote:

> What distro does everyone out there use?
>
> I'm using Fedora Core 6 32 & 64 Bit versions.

Gentoo 2006.1 here, workstation for personal use. 32 bit kernel.

I also have a Knoppix CD for troubleshooting other folks' hardware problems.

A. Nonymoose <SendJunkMailTo********.com> wrote:

[snip]
> Even though I'm posting this from a Windows box (don't flame me!),

I'm posting from a Mac running OS X ATM so you won't get any flames from
me. :-)

> when I
> use Linux I use the Suse 10 distro.

We tried SuSE at work today. We're hoping to switch our developers
machine to Linux at some point in the future. It didn't work well for us
but then neither did Ubuntu. I'll try CentOS next week. :-)

--
Andy.

On 2007-05-04, Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid> rambled on thusly:

>>> Besides, only drooling Win-droids post from GG. No self-respecting Linux
>>> user would ever do such a lame thing.
>
>> Sheesh, dude, why this need to be better than others?

> Huh? Where did you dream up that assumption?

Didn't dream it up. Between your constant need to belittle all n00bs and
Windows users, you make it very clear that you have a massive inferiority
complex. That you don't want to actually admit it is not surprising. I just
wonder if you're trying to hide it from everyone else or yourself.

>> Did you get beaten up by girls on the playground or something?

> No.

Something happened to make you feel inferior to everyone else, or you
wouldn't constantly need to try and belittle everyone to make yourself feel
superior...

> Fix your signature block. It exceeds accepted Netiquette standards for
> length.

The 4-line signature length is a recommendation, not a rule. Though thanks
for making me take a look at my sig; I just realized that this quote has a
typo in it. I'll have to fix that in the fortune file...

--
Michael Fierro (aka Biffster) biffster@NOSPAM-REALLYgmail.com
http://apt-get.biffster.org Y!: miguelito_fierro AIM: mfierro1
--
"Sure Homer, I can loan you all the money you need. However, since
you have no collateral....I'm gonna have to break your legs...in
advance.

"Gosh, Moe, I use these all the time% couldn't you just bash my
head in?"

--Moe and Homer

Moog wrote:
> "-----------snip-------------
>
> Weird Al Yankovic's "White and Nerdy". One of the best "cover songs"
> ever created. ;-)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw
>
> I can see a bit of Dan C in that video. ;-)
>

ha ha too true. I've bee a fan of weird al since the early 80's. got my kids hooked
too to my wife's displeasure.

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:01:14 +0000, Niall Munro wrote:

> What distro does everyone out there use?


Currently dual booting: Arch Linux & Ubuntu 7.04

"King Beowulf" illuminated the devils arse on Fri, 04 May 2007 12:28:24
-0600 by typing:

> > Weird Al Yankovic's "White and Nerdy". One of the best "cover songs"
> > ever created. ;-)
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw
> >
> > I can see a bit of Dan C in that video. ;-)
> >
>
> ha ha too true. I've bee a fan of weird al since the early 80's.
> got my kids hooked too to my wife's displeasure.

You're as bad as me. My 4 yr old daughter knows the words to "Fat" off
by heart.

Poor bloody parenting. It's the cause of all evils. Anyway, they may be
evil, but at least our kids know about the benefits of open source
software.
;-)

--
Moog

http://www.last.fm/user/efcmoog/
"Liquor in the Front. Poker in the Rear"

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:01:14 GMT, Niall Munro <adam********.com>
wrote:

>What distro does everyone out there use?
>
>I'm using Fedora Core 6 32 & 64 Bit versions.


Arch linux.. 10 boxes..

>Niall Munro wrote:
>> What distro does everyone out there use?
>>
>> I'm using Fedora Core 6 32 & 64 Bit versions.

I am using Xandros 4.0 Home Premium edition.

Cheers,
Colin

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:01:14 +0000, Niall Munro wrote:

> What distro does everyone out there use?

Debian sid.

I have used Slackware a little. I'd like to more but once you know a
distro, it's kind of a pain to think about switching. And Debian does most
everything I need.

Steve