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  • #16
    Unless you want affordable, consistent, and a wide selection of software.

    Don't forget proprietary. M$ changes the file formats every so often to make sure only their products can read the files.
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    I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. -- Bill Veeck | Don't listed to the Linux Satanist, people. - St. Leo | If patching security holes was the top priority of any of us(no matter the OS), we'd do nothing else. - Me, in a tired and accidental attempt to draw fire from all three sides.
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    • #17
      Originally posted by geeslaka
      Unless you want affordable, consistent, and a wide selection of software.

      Don't forget proprietary. M$ changes the file formats every so often to make sure only their products can read the files.
      Well they don't seem to be doing a very good job, OpenOffice and Corel Office has been able to read the files forever, and moving the document format to XML in Office 11 with a publically defined XLS for how to read the file isn't going to help that either.
      "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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      • #18
        Successful or not, they have changed the formats several times. Given that XP requires 256MB of RAM, I doubt it was to decrease file size.
        American by birth, smarter than the average tropical fruit by the grace of Me. -me
        I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. -- Bill Veeck | Don't listed to the Linux Satanist, people. - St. Leo | If patching security holes was the top priority of any of us(no matter the OS), we'd do nothing else. - Me, in a tired and accidental attempt to draw fire from all three sides.
        Posted with Mozilla Firebird running under Sawfish on a Slackware Linux install.:p
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        • #19
          I don't know how in hell they got it installed, but I just fixed a couple of non-OS problems on my brother in law's laptop, which is running XP Pro on 64
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          • #20
            Well, I can't find the thread I thought I saw that in, so I could be wrong. Let's wait for Asher to show up and correct me.
            American by birth, smarter than the average tropical fruit by the grace of Me. -me
            I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. -- Bill Veeck | Don't listed to the Linux Satanist, people. - St. Leo | If patching security holes was the top priority of any of us(no matter the OS), we'd do nothing else. - Me, in a tired and accidental attempt to draw fire from all three sides.
            Posted with Mozilla Firebird running under Sawfish on a Slackware Linux install.:p
            XGalaga.

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            • #21
              64mb's the minimum for winxp. that just means it'll run, just not well.

              and did someone mention microsoft linux?
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              • #22
                Originally posted by geeslaka
                Well, I can't find the thread I thought I saw that in, so I could be wrong. Let's wait for Asher to show up and correct me.
                Would it be too much to ask the Linux people to kindly stop talking about things they've no clue about.

                Getting on my nerves.
                "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Q Cubed
                  and did someone mention microsoft linux?
                  I'm sure that site has been up forever, but it is funny, especially the quotes:

                  "I don't remember agreeing to that."
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                  • #24
                    that site's hilarious

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Q Cubed
                      and did someone mention microsoft linux?
                      I guess this is MS's attempt to hijack and then kill linux? That's what they did to several other programing languages and OSs.

                      Edit: I just noticed it was a joke.
                      Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                      • #26
                        Can't tell if you're joking, but the site is a joke.

                        Edit:
                        "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                        Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                        • #27
                          that's what i love about that site. all the microsoft links really work.
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                          • #28
                            Heh, there's a userfriendly.org reference on that site.
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                            • #29
                              You guys really have no idea.

                              Muhahahahahaha
                              We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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