<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com">ale@pcartwright.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu September 9 2010, Jerald Sheets wrote:<br>
> Eventually, though, $WORK wanted her to take a training class that only<br>
> worked on Windows. Next, they sent home training cd's that only ran under<br>
> windows. (or Mac, but they didn't know that). Ultimately, if mom was<br>
> retired, we wouldn't have had that situation, but as long as "Mom" has<br>
> other influences like $WORK or $STORE offering all manner of things that<br>
> take tech-nerds like ourselves to be present to run (or are not able to run<br>
> at all), Linux is not the superior OS for the situation at hand for $USER<br>
> who is in that situation.<br>
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</div>yes. I belong to this thing called Mypoint/bonusmail. Every so often then send<br>
out an email with coupons that you can print/redeem.. Well guess what, they<br>
don't support Linux, so I can't print any coupons.<br></blockquote><div><br>So an _email_ is sent that can't be printed except from a windows machine. What kind of mcnasty is embedded in that email besides a gazillion tracking cookies, and your SSN and shoe size... <br>
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