atw: Re: Windows-free at last.

“Excuse your absence?”

 

No. Your absence was unacceptably missed. Your presence was required a number 
of times to brighten up our jaded, boring mundane lives Michael. Don’t do it 
again – especially if the reason was to drive the MS terror out of your life. 
You have no right to gloat at the rest of us. I hope your penguins bite your 
finger tips. 

 

It drove me to have to attempt humour while you were away. Much to the 
detriment of the list I must say.

 

Welcome back Micky. I can pass your name on to some close geeky geek friends 
who have an avaricious taste for the penguin if you like. In fact, they even 
ignore threats of divorce and removal of conjugal rights. It must be a serious 
deviancy this penguin thing…

 

Regards

Warren Lewington

wjlewington@xxxxxxxxxxx

 

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Sent: Tuesday, 3 November 2009 2:27 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Windows-free at last.

 

Hi fellow AusTechWriters.

Please excuse my absence from this forum for the past several weeks.

Windows XP killed itself on my main PC after an automated Windows "update" 
corrupted itself and I finally had enough of that overblown rubbish operating 
pretend-multitasking environment to give it the flick entirely.

I return happier than ever before with my computing experience by way of the 
latest releases of GNU Linux Ubuntu, with everything working so well it makes a 
mockery of Windows and even, to some extent Mac.

Ubuntu has faultlessly resurrected hard drives that Windows saw as dead and on 
my formerly main machine in particular, I was able to easily re-partitioned the 
main Windows XP NTFS drive, shoving Windows to one side with a dual boot 
installation, then access all of my previously inaccessible data through the 
Ubuntu file browser, straight to USB keys.

Simple, graphical and seamless.

To top it all off, the Open Office word processor handles complex and 
resource-sucking Word files with ease denied to Word itself. One particular 
file, a vital tender response DOCX file that was having conniption fits on Word 
2004 for Mac and hid a key floating graphic of a chart from Word 2003 with its 
Word 7 converters, was viewed and editable without problem. Word had issues 
mainly because the original state government built file in which the response 
was required to be written was filled with ever-extending unbroken, side 
numbered table cells that could not be unravelled without doing a "Maggie", a 
process for which there was no spare time.

I just wanted you to know that, on the eve of the dreaded Windows 7 replacing 
the horrible hungry hippo that is Windows Vista, there is life after Windows 
thanks to the most elegant operating system I have ever used: Ubuntu: "Linux 
for human beings". ...and its free.

Please at least check out the possibilities at http://www.ubuntulinux.org/

So, even if you are stuck with Windows, the dual boot repartitioning option is 
worth doing. Just be sure to back up your important files first - if Windows 
will let you. Or afterwards if it doesn't.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,






Micky G.

Write Ideas
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
http://www.writeideas.com.au/

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