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["Adam Hainstock" <hainzy@xxxxxxxxx>]

I forgot to add:
If you don't want me to speek that's cool, I could also just write down
interesting things.

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Adam Hainstock <hainzy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  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.
>>
>
> That's true, but currently, and for the last month I've been 100% Windows
> free. Just I enjoy hearing news regarding MS. I know others don't care
> perhaps, but that's why it would only be a five minute or so section.
>
> Also I definitely don't want it to be a MS bashing section, of course
> sometimes they do utterly rediculous stuff, and it is funny, but I don't
> mean it needs to be a hating section.
>
> And lastly, I wouldn't mind doing this if anyone cares... Just throwing
> that out there.
>   On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:36 AM, Clement Lefebvre <
> clement.lefebvre@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Feel free to open rooms or to use #linuxmint on our server
>> (irc.spotchat.org)
>>
>> Clem
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: philip paisley [mailto:ythe1300@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: 23 October 2008 13:35
>> To: Adam Hainstock; Charles Olsen; Clement Lefebvre
>> Cc: linuxmint-podcast-project@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>  Subject: RE: [Linuxmint-podcast-project] Hey all, here's an idea
>>
>> 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:
>> > linuxmint-podcast-project-bounces+clement.lefebvre=ericsson.com@lists.
>> > linuxmint-podcast-project-bounces+la
>> > unchpad.net
>>  > [mailto:linuxmint-podcast-project-bounces+clement.lefebvre<linuxmint-podcast-project-bounces%2Bclement.lefebvre>
>> =ericsson.co
>> > m@ 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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