[OfB Talk] Re: Ofbtalk Digest, Vol 11, Issue 1

penguinista007 penguinista007 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 01:58:50 CDT 2005


Can only partly agree with you on this Tim. I'm sticking with OS X on
the desktop Linux on the Firewall/Gateway and Webserver. For the
laptop it's XP. ;)

But seriously, until Linux gets better WiFi support it's unusable for
me on the Thinkpad

Sandy

Mac O X
I upped my standards
Up yours

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>    2. LIST ADMIN Message concerning FOSS-Cafe and OFB-Talk      Changes
>       (Timothy R. Butler)
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 12:18:32 -0600
> From: Timothy R. Butler <tbutler at ofb.biz>
> Subject: [OfB Talk] LIST ADMIN Message concerning FOSS-Cafe and
>         OFB-Talk        Changes
> To: *nix Discussion List <OfbTalk at ofb.biz>,     FOSS-Cafe is the virtual
>         chill-out zone of the Free Software and Open    Source communities.
>         <foss-cafe at ofb.biz>
> Message-ID: <6dda479155c2c3bea16864e341c602ab at ofb.biz>
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> Dear List Members,
>         It struck me the other day... how can almost the entirety of all
> computer users be wrong about what OS people should use? Clearly, they
> cannot be. Windows is clearly the best operating system for most jobs,
> and I do not feel I can continue to promote other OSes with a clear
> conscience.
> 
>         FOSS-Cafe and OfB-Talk mailing lists will henceforth be merged
> together as the Windows Oriented Roundtable Messaging Talk list
> (WORM-Talk). These lists will concentrate on helping people move off of
> evil non-conforming OSes.
> 
>         Along side this, I am pleased to announce Closed for Business (CfB),
> which will be the successor to Open for Business. CfB will carry useful
> news for those seeking to migrate to Windows from lesser operating
> systems. Likewise, our ServerForest hosting services will be migrating
> from Red Hat to Windows Server System 2003, which will allow CfB to run
> on top of ASP.net.
> 
>         I'm ordering MSN Broadband this afternoon and will shortly be casting
> out GNU/Linux and Mac OS X in favor of Windows XP SP 2 on my systems.
> To insure that I don't lead anyone else into the heinous temptation to
> run a non-Windows system, I will be personally recycling all of my
> non-Windows hardware and software so that I can rest soundly knowing no
> one else will be lead down the wide path to computer destruction.
> 
>         Again, thank-you for your understanding during this transition.
> 
>         -Tim
> 
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> Presently on "Albert" (DP PPC 970 "G5" running at 2.0 GHz)
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