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   Chris F.A. Johnson to mechanic   
   Re: Linux Mint 15   
   21 Aug 13 00:04:41   
   
   XPost: alt.os.linux.mint, alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   From: cfajohnson@gmail.com   
      
   On 2013-08-06, mechanic wrote:   
   > On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 23:29:03 GMT, Bruce Sinclair wrote:   
   >   
   >> A few weeks or months back, I asked semi seriously ... "what has   
   >> MS actually inovated themselves" ? ... ie, something they didn't   
   >> buy in. The only accurate answer to date was ... "the paperclip   
   >> ".  :) :)   
   >   
   > Elsewhere we learn that the taskbar was a MSFT innovation.   
      
      What's a taskbar?   
      
   --   
      Chris F.A. Johnson,    
      Author:   
      Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)   
      Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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