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David Nebenzahl

On 8/13/2008 5:01 PM spake thus:

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:26:16 -0500, Chris wrote:

HeyBub wrote:

Chris wrote:
If you have more than one Windows machine try the Microsoft Live
OneCare deal. Has a free trial but after that will cost almost $60/year
for 3 PCs, I think. However has more than just anti-virus
protection.

Good advice.

Or switch to Linux and get rid of the virus treat for ever :)

Right. Switch to a knock-off of a 40-year old operating system designed by a
money-losing division of your local telephone company and enhanced my geeks
who think the DOS command line interface is insufficiently cryptic.

By so doing, you might raise the percentage of desktops using Linux from its
0.86% level to something beyond the "barely detectable" designation.

Having a bad day? Chill off.

Dear Heybub,

Please try to be gentle with folks such as Chris. They are extremely
frustrated already by their poor choice of an obtuse and arcane
operating system. They now have to fiercely defend that poor choice,
which stresses them out even further. They are, as a group, very thin
skinned, and if you persist, poor Chris's head may well explode. You
wouldn't want to be responsible for a tradgedy like that, would you?
WOULD YOU???

From what I've seen from HeyBub, he might get a chuckle out of that.
(Not saying *I* would; I'm agnostic on that part of it.)

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endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it.
It drags itself out of the dark abyss of pish, and crawls insanely up
the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and
doodle. It is balder and dash."

- With apologies to H. L. Mencken