On Sat, 2014-11-01 at 09:14 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
Ah! But you have poorly-written buggy software to buy for every
little
"feature" you could like and additional software to buy to iron out
the wrinkles in there and additional software to buyt iron out the
wrinkles in there and additional software to buyt iron out the
wrinkles in there and ..... (I believe that that establishes the
sequence).
Who can possibly beat that?
There's a song that springs to mind whenever I think about the Windows
solution of adding a new thing to fix an old thing, recursively, instead
of actually fixing the fault, it fits it down to a tee: There was an
old lady who swallowed a fly.
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tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.16.6-203.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Sat Oct 25 13:08:51 UTC 2014 i686
All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying
to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists.
George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.