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Some idle comments about Linus' e-mail response and Linux

Some idle comments about Linus' e-mail response and Linux

Posted Mar 1, 2007 6:15 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Some idle comments about Linus' e-mail response and Linux by pr1268
Parent article: Quote of the week

""I know the difference between skilled and unskilled kernel programming, but can someone give me an example of bad taste in programming?""

Windows ME

I know certainly that that POS left me with a bad taste all around.


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Off-topic: Windows ME

Posted Mar 2, 2007 5:26 UTC (Fri) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]

Off-topic: I think the Windows ME period of my home computing history lasted all of 3 hours. Spring 2000, if I remember correctly, and I installed it fresh on my homebuilt computer.

When I tried right-clicking a file inside of Windows Explorer → copy → right-click in blank area of Explorer → paste, the Explorer shell screamed bloody murder telling me "Cannot paste file, it already exists!" (All I was trying to do was duplicate a file in the same folder. Every other OS I've ever used [including other variants of Windows] has allowed me to at least give a different name for the new file.)

I couldn't wipe the hard drive fast enough to rid my PC of that vile, contemptible trash.

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