atw: Re: Windows-free at last.
- From: "Warren Lewington" <wjlewington@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 08:45:54 +1100
“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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