Why do you think I put up with the F***ing shit :-)
Cheers
Merlin
At 19:28 4/04/97 +1000, you wrote:
>At 10:45 PM 4/3/97 +0100, Harro wrote:
>>Shouldn't we start to create a Winshit '95 hate club? I appeal
>>for membership!
>
>Let me put it this way for you, and all the other whingers ;)
>
>I am currently running an IRC client, a MUSH client with three open
>connections, a web browser, downloading stuff while the Netscrape Mail looks
>after angfa.org mail, not to mention Eudora that I use to write this... in
Win95
>
>If I attempted to do *half* this in Win3.1 I'd be asking to drown in GPFs...
>
>OS/2 still doesn't adequately support my hardware...
>
>I'd be using Linux 100% (instead of only 30% of my HD and about 5% of my
>time) if I had the brains and the time to study it... if I worked at a
>university and had bribable friends I'd be suing a shell acount for sure ;)
>
>And a Mac just isn't a viable alternative ;) Despite their use on many
>popular TV shows and movies, albeit that the great Douglas Adams uses one...
>
>Now who haven't I offended? ;) I am no fan of the Boy God, far from it, but
>I *am* lazy...
>
>Regards, Andrew Boyd
>
>
>
>_________________________________________________________________
>Frex the Castor Dragon aka Andrew Boyd - frex at macrae.com.au
>"Then the time comes when it is clear nothing new or important will
>be done: and one draws out the ledger and begins to itemise what
>there is, of value, that can be offered to posterity. And here is
>a good deed, and there an act of courage: during this year one worthy
>story was told, during that decade involvement in an important social
>movement. If there are babies, that is logged in. If there are books,
>they are noted. Loving friends. Wives and husbands. Kindness to
>small animals. A hill bearing your name. But the laurels you've counted
>on, they've turned to dust."
> Harlan Ellison, Introduction to "Prayers to Broken Stones"
>
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