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Article #248Re: AOL, Thank You
From: Mike Trettel
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 00:00
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On Tue, 08 Dec 1998 00:34:32 +0100, Gerben Bergman <rerbert@wxs.nl> wrote: >On Mon, 07 Dec 1998 22:01:07 GMT, > "Mike Trettel" spoke the immortal words: > >| My son keeps asking me why none of the PC's at his school have OS/2 or >| Linux on them. I gave him the long winded answer about how Windows is the >| dominant OS, the school is going to use what comes on the PC, most easily >| available software is Windows only, the teachers wouldn't know how to use >| anything but Windows anyway, blah blah blah. I then asked him why he >| asked the question in the first place. His reply was that the PC's at >| school were always crashed for some reasion or another, and he thought >| that they needed to use a more reliable OS. > >Makes you feel proud as a father, doesn't it? ;-) > Yes, and I also damn near died laughing when he said it! Right now he and his twin brother share an old Mac IIci (when they're not glued to the main PC), which they use mainly for playing games like Oregon Trail (an incredible piece of programming, btw). You can see where this is going-both of them insist that the IIci needs to be "made faster", and that the internet setup I placed on it is "too slow". 10 years old and already they're pressing for hardware upgrades! :-) I can't do anything right! -- =========== Mike Trettel trettel (Shift 2) fred (dinky little round thing) net Skep-Ti-Cult # 157-894589-983 ICQ # 15339850 I don't buy from spammers. No exceptions. Fix the reply line to mail me.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,a1676c29e9392b29 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,a1676c29e9392b29 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,a1676c29e9392b29 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: 1138ec,a1676c29e9392b29 X-Google-Attributes: gid1138ec,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,a1676c29e9392b29 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,a1676c29e9392b29 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: possum@tree.branch (Mike Trettel) Subject: Re: AOL, Thank You Date: 1998/12/08 Message-ID: <slrn76q63v.4ui.possum@ss5.fred.net> X-Deja-AN: 420025038 References: <3661c6a9.0@news1.ibm.net> <3662ee25.853363@news-server> <3661F92C.B86A85D@net-link.net> <Yqzh521VLZKl-pn2-5Xm1o3ofFIxq@localhost> <73u2bf$7uc$1@netra.msu.montana.edu> <M3mPvLdzxX1t-pn2-NxV61jWnecSM@tp244-10.dialup.seed.net.tw> <748ps0$drf$1@netra.msu.montana.edu> <M3mPvLdzxX1t-pn2-drGT46vq4d8I@tp246-218.dialup.seed.net.tw> <749ujm$pc0$1@netra.msu.montana.edu> <3668A679.CF6E08D7@mad-seumas.net> <c1.2c.2Nr2yB$0x0@rhino_house.ibm.net> <slrn76ok13.1e9.possum@ss5.fred.net> <366d6516.40914622@news.wxs.nl> X-Complaints-To: postmaster@fred.net X-Trace: news.abs.net 913119360 204.215.84.119 (Tue, 08 Dec 1998 07:16:00 EDT) Organization: Twinco, Inc. Reply-To: Y'all have to fix this@nowhere NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 07:16:00 EDT Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc