From: tester@fake.email.com   
      
   On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:29:05 +0000, Auric__ wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:32:23 GMT, tester wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:00:14 +0000, Auric__ wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:58:46 GMT, tester wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> ps: my news server has been messed up the past week, and i called   
   >>>> isp, and they confirmed the fact. then i sad cried. then i tried some   
   >>>> more, & now it's sort of working again? Hopefully you get this reply.   
   >>>   
   >>> Got it. As it happens, I was offline all day yesterday anyway.   
   >>>   
   >>> ...and on that note, you really, really need to ask your Linux   
   >>> questions in a Linux group. (I suggest alt.os.linux.) I'm *not* a   
   >>> Linux expert, and I don't pretend to be one.   
   >>   
   >> Certainly. I appreciate all your input, though. It is good to learn the   
   >> different ways. If we all only learned one way---- we'd all still be   
   >> using MS Office.   
   >> :)   
   >   
   > My machine multiboots; two choices are WinXP and Win98, each with its   
   > own install of MS Office. (Office 97 on Win98; Office 2k on WinXP.)   
   >   
      
   I'm not saying you don't Have MS-Office, & use it, I'm saying you   
   probably realize people have built alternatives, now.   
      
   >> TY for all the messaging! Take care, & maybe we'll bump into one   
   >> another again.   
   >   
   > I'll be around. I rarely post in *nix groups, though.   
   >   
   >> Yourself & I get the "we understand Linux & use it because it lets us   
   >> do things we cannot do in other OSs" award. Just because we're not   
   >> kernel hakerz doesn't mean we can't appreciate what we have.   
   >   
   > I use more than Linux. I run a number of other *nix systems under   
   > emulation: FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin (another BSD), BeOS, and QNX. Pretty   
   > much everything I do in Linux I can do in those other systems.   
      
   Yes, there are definately other NIX-based cores/systems out there that   
   can do the same things versions of Linux can do. Darwin is the free   
   version of MacOS, yes? I looked at it, but it was only source? Could not   
   find a compiled version- & wouldn't have the first clue how to actually   
   compile such code. Would you have to compile that on a OS10+ machine?   
      
      
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