atw: Re: Windows-free at last.

Well, I've just been chastised off-line for my last posting (appended
below). It seems that it was offensive. All right, so if offense be the
yardstick, let me explain why I found Michael's initial posting, and
Warren's subsequent posting, offensive. (Surely my offense is as good as
yours.)
 
Firstly, Michael's. To my mind he deserves to apologise for apologising. Was
it really such an unconscionable moral lapse on Michael's part to leave us
bereft of  the sort of wisdom that only he can provide (while he goes off
tinkering with whatever he was tinkering with), a lapse of such magnitude
that it warrants a public apology? Come on now. His apology is tantamount to
saying, "I'm sorry for leaving you in the lurch, folks. I know I'm the only
one who can help you.  But I'm back now. Apologies." Groan, groan, groan.
Michael might know a lot of stuff about a lot of stuff, but he'll make more
friends if he lets others be the judge of that.
 
Now for Warren's. So, Michael's absence "drove [you] to attempt humour",
Warren. Are you saying that without Michael's contributions, austechwriter
is just dull, lifeless, uninformative and insignificant? If you are, you
have just maligned very single subscriber who has posted a message during
Michael's recent AWOL, and during his much longer AWOL before he came back
earlier this year. Or perhaps you were just trying to be humorous about
being humorous ... and sadly failing.
 
I use to wonder why Eric Ray changed techwr-l from an unmoderated list to a
moderated list.
 
 
Geoffrey Marnell
Principal Consultant
Abelard Consulting Pty Ltd
T: +61 3 9596 3456
F: +61 3 9596 3625
W:  <http://www.abelard.com.au/> www.abelard.com.au
 

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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Marnell
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:29 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Windows-free at last.


Crikey, may be you guys should go off and form your own self-love forum.
 
 
Geoffrey Marnell
Principal Consultant
Abelard Consulting Pty Ltd
T: +61 3 9596 3456
F: +61 3 9596 3625
W:  <http://www.abelard.com.au/> www.abelard.com.au
 

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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Warren Lewington
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 8:46 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 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

 

From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Write Ideas
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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