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Re: G400 in X makes it wobble

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From: Nix
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 00:00
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nick@leverton.org (Nick Leverton) writes:

> In article <38f47f60.38232785@news.giganews.com>,
> Gareth Jones <gareth@uberdog.net> wrote:
> >The Microsoft Assistant....."you seem to be typing a letter..."
> 
> "Do you want me to
> 
> o totally balls it up for you automatically 
> o pop up at random and irritate you to distraction ?"

Naaah. vigor does it better.

`Your blood pressure just went up a point.'

(And it crashes even more than Word, too. I'm not sure whether to call
this a bug, or a feature.)

-- 
`ndbm on Linux is an emulation, not the original. It comes in several
 flavours; `slightly broken', `moderately broken', and `totally and
 utterly broken'.' --- Nick Kew
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From: Nix <$}xinix{$@esperi.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: G400 in X makes it wobble
Date: 2000/04/13
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