[CS-FSLUG] I had enough.

[Don Parris]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 07:06:42 -0500, David M. <david at davidcentral.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 December 2004 04:14 am, Eduardo Sanchez wrote:
> > This is pasted from my blog:
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > I finally had enough. Yesterday I tried to do a trivial sort of a list
> > that is part of a larger LaTeX document. Well, it turned out that I
> > can't unless I pipe the list (and only the list) to sort, or I fire up
> > a full-blown spreadsheed like Gnumeric or KSpread and re-type the whole
> > list.
> >
> > This is frustrating, disturbing, and innecessary. How did I got myself
> > into messes such as this one? Well, I had to recognize that most of
> > these annoyances are directly tied to my choice of operating systems;
> > and thus, I made a decision. I had enough.
> >
> > Tomorrow, as soon as I can find a free slot in my office, I'm going to
> > repartition my hard disk. After a thorough backup, I'll try Windows XP
> > SP 2 as my only operating system on this machine.
> >
> > I'm tired of the fiddling. I need something that just works.
> 
> I´m too afraid of Windows to even consider fetching mail on it. I might have
> to fiddle around and configure things on linux, but it´s far better than
> worrying about crackers and viruses and trojan horses and pop-ups and
> security holes in IE and the list goes on.....
> 
> A month or 2 ago I was playing Sim City 3000 and I decided to look up some
> hints and tips for the game, so I went off googling. I clicked on an
> interesting link for some hints and tips and all the sudden I got pop-up
> after pop-up and found myself scrambling to close the windows. Well somewhere
> in the shuffle I must have accidently clicked on the wrong button, because
> once I got back to my desktop, my wallpaper had been changed with a message
> that my computer had been cracked or whatever it said.
> 
> It was like 11pm and I was too tired to fix the problem, guess what I did? I
> rebooted to linux and went to bed with a peace of mind.
> 
> Next morning, I popped in my restoration CD and restored windows.
> 
> I wish you luck, because your gonna need it buddy :-)
> 
> --
> David M.
> 

Did you read the rest of the story?  You really should... although I
would have recommend Mac OS if you just had to do proprietary...

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