[Techtalk] [Fwd: Returned mail] (Was Re: Success Story)

[PCasper]

Somehow, this message didn't make it all the way though.... suspect
something funky with the mailer at work

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carla Schroder"
> 
> To quote the old comic strip, "Ain't it a grand and glorious feeling?"
> 
> I started my computing life on an Apple II, or ][, or whatever their silly
> pretentious designation was. Nice machine, inflexible and overpriced. And
> really now, stubbornly clinging to one-button mice is just silly, though I
> believe OS X has made the big leap to right-clicking.
> 
> Then DOS/winderz, then lo I discovered Linux, and sanity and peace came upon
> me. Computing was fun again, for I could sleep through the night, and not
> have my life interrupted by panicky phone calls.
> 
> Yep, it's a wonderful thing, this here Linux stuff.
> 
> ==============
> I concur entirely. This month is my 1st anniversary as a Linux user. I've
> rebooted into Windows maybe 10 times since I got a stable Linux partition.
> Recently, I found myself explaining to a Windows user the concept of a
> window manager - and actually understood what I was saying. So what if
> there's really no way to put "windowing manager" and "desktop environment"
> in terms that the average Windows or Mac user would be able to make sense
> out of. The triumphs come small as well as big.
> 
> As I was bragging about last night on IRC, my latest triumph was getting
> xine to run without crashing X. Now, if I can just figure out how to provide
> it with all of the memory it needs in order to run -WELL-, I'll be doing
> good. &:-)
> 
> --Poppy, who is lacking a good randomsig proggie here on her windoze box at
> work.
> -- 
> Poppy Casper <sylph at cyber-dyne.com>
-- 
Poppy,				  sylph at cyber-dyne.com
Friend of the Penguin
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