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[philip paisley <ythe1300@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm on AIM if anyone wants to setup a chat group, or we can do IRC if we have a room.

(AIM is ythe1300)

Phil


--- On Thu, 10/23/08, Clement Lefebvre <clement.lefebvre@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Clement Lefebvre <clement.lefebvre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: [Linuxmint-podcast-project] Hey all, here's an idea
> To: ythe1300@xxxxxxxxx, "Adam Hainstock" <hainzy@xxxxxxxxx>, "Charles Olsen" <charles.olsen@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linuxmint-podcast-project@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 8:15 AM
> Remember also that part of the audience might be bored by
> Windows
> topics. I know we all at one stage migrated from Windows to
> Linux and I
> know that some of us still use Windows or dual-boot their
> computer, but
> for those who fully switched to Linux and have nothing to
> do with
> Windows it can be quite hard to find interest in hearing
> about another
> operating system... especially one they left for another. 
> 
> Clem. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
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> unchpad.net
> [mailto:linuxmint-podcast-project-bounces+clement.lefebvre=ericsson.com@
> lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of philip paisley
> Sent: 23 October 2008 13:10
> To: Adam Hainstock; Charles Olsen
> Cc: linuxmint-podcast-project@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Linuxmint-podcast-project] Hey all,
> here's an idea
> 
> We could also work in a hardware news section, new CPU,
> Video cards,
> Motherboards, and pre-built computers.
> 
> 
> --- On Thu, 10/23/08, Charles Olsen
> <charles.olsen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Charles Olsen <charles.olsen@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [Linuxmint-podcast-project] Hey all,
> here's an idea
> > To: "Adam Hainstock"
> <hainzy@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linuxmint-podcast-project@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 8:01 AM Adam
> Hainstock wrote:
> > > That's a great idea. I definitely think that
> this
> > type of thing should
> > > be in there. But I didn't mean how to do
> Win2Lin
> > things, I meant address
> > > new MS plans/schemes/announcements/whatever. You
> know,
> > like "Blah blah
> > > blah is in Windows 7" or "Linux is an
> > intellectual virus..." or even new
> > > accomplishments.
> > 
> > Yes, I definitely want something like this. Especially
> when Microsoft 
> > is screwing over their users, like in this article of
> mine
> >
> (http://charlesolsen.typepad.com/charles_olsens_writings/2008/10/whose
> > -pc-is-it.html)
> > 
> > where I talked about how Microsoft ignored users'
> > settings for Windows
> > update, and updated PCs even when users had
> auto-update turned off.
> > 
> > And whatever Steve Ballmer is up to is usually
> entertaining.
> > 
> > But it wouldn't be just MS bashing. If they do get
> something right, we
> 
> > can mention that too. I don't want to get a
> reputation for arbitrarily
> 
> > hating Microsoft. If we get to that point, then
> everything we say is 
> > suspect.
> > 
> > That, incidentally, is how they see me at the office.
> I spend most of 
> > the day fighting with MS Word 2003, a program that
> keeps finding new 
> > ways to screw me over. I spend a lot of the day
> cussing at Word.
> > 
> > One day recently I was talking to someone, and I said
> "Microsoft 
> > OneNote is a good program." The woman in the
> cubicle next to me almost
> 
> > fell out of her chair. She was astonished that I had
> said something 
> > positive about Microsoft, or at least a Microsoft
> program.
> > 
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