how long before I can whine?

[Tim Douglass]

Actually, I'd rather see a USB dongle for copy protection on Win XP than the stuff they're doing now.

Tim Douglass

[--Shiva--]

I am waiting on a part that was not in the box when I bought something, 8 weeks now....

going to bite the bullet and MAKE the stupid thing... --Shiva--

[Silvan]

Yeah, who ever reads that crap anyway? :)

Kind of a double edged sword, that. I wish I had been able to buy this from Lee Valley, but OTOH, I'm glad Lee Valley doesn't sell crap like this. If they started selling el-cheapo crap, they wouldn't be Lee Valley for very long.

No gloat, but yes, they're a lot better than what I had. Lathe tools, if you must know. They're about 700% better than what I had, which tells you how bad the ones I had were. They're really not half bad tools, and will probably last a long time.

The hell of it is that it shipped from the very same place I almost stopped by. Dillon, SC. That place looks pretty huge.

[Silvan]

Well, yeah, I'll agree with that. I wasn't stealing Windows, and theoretically had "nothing to fear" from all those measures, but I found them a pill too bitter to swallow just on principle. Instead of XP, I switched to Linux.

Unfortunately, Microsoft never noticed that they lost a customer. It felt good anyway. Enough is enough.

[Silvan]

Peach Tree maybe. Definitely not CAD anything. Dad is a grocer.

[Tim Douglass]

I keep trying to switch to Linux, but the software I need just isn't out there. If the Linux community could come up with a one disk, automatic install that would be as easy to install and configure as XP they could give MS a run for their money. It really wouldn't take too big a customer base to start seeing a lot of commercial software ported to Linux.

I spent a lot of years making Unix, Linux, VMS, RSTS, NT4.0 systems and networks function. Now I just need something that works without me tying to remember all sorts of weird configuration stuff.

Tim Douglass

[Larry Jaques]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 01:07:32 -0500, Silvan brought forth from the murky depths:

Don't tell me that you spent nearly $12 to have the $9.99 set sent to you weeks later. What, you say you bought the $29.99 set? (Prolly the same metal with nicer handles, eh?) Please don't tell me that. I can't stand hearing stuff like that.

How are the bruises on your backside healing, sir? (You HAVE been repeatedly kicking yourself in the ass over this one, have you not?)

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