Mike Hall - MVP wrote:
> Hello?
>
> I didn't write the words you quoted me on, and neither did I mention GFX
> cards. It is an ATI 32mb card and I knew that it wouldn't run
> Compiz-Fusion before I started the installation. I trashed the Win 2000
> installation deliberately, btw, not that 7.10 gave much option to do
> anything else.
>
> Please ensure when quoting others that you at least accredit the quotes
> to the person making them. Thanks for the insults too.
>
Okay here is what was posted originally, in full...
> The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly Known as Nina DiBoy' wrote:
>> Mike Hall - MVP wrote:
>>
>>> I trashed a perfectly good installation of Win 2000 while installing it onto an older machine. It runs ok but the video card allows for no fancy graphics, not that I care.
>>>
>>> Fancy graphics do not make up for the fact that it will not run the programs I want it to run. Until it can, it will never be a replacement for my Windows production machine.
>>>
>>> So it sits there essentially as an exercise in futility.
>>
>>
>> Why do you consider the opportunity to try something new and broaden your mind a bit as an 'exercise in futility'?
>
> (snip)
>
> Try putting your pants on over-your-head, instead of normally. The opportunity IS at your disposal.
>
> It's not the opportunity "to try new stuff" itself - that Mike Hall is talking about. After all, he took the time and tried Ubuntu. Sheesh.
>
> The end result of trying new & mind-broadening opportunities can produce futility.
>
> I appreciate Mike Hall's balanced, polite and clearly thought-out posts.
>
>
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The clear implication in the context you wrote it is that
>>> I trashed a perfectly good installation of Win 2000 while
installing it onto an older machine.<<<
is a criticism along the same lines as has already been posted, not way
did you mention anything about that being "Intentional".
If that is not what you intended then I apologize but see how it reads?
The rest implies that you are somehow dissatisfied with the GFX
performance and don't really care but wish to complain anyway. There's
not much to indicate otherwise. Futile yes, but far from unforeseeable.
As for insults I did not intend any, simply what you said did not appear
to make much sense.
If you are referring to "Except it's completely false, but never mind
we're used to that." I could have said that better, I was in fact
passing comment on the (Sometimes deliberate) mythology that a number of
people have embraced as reality, that was not aimed at anyone in
particular and I apologize if it looked that way.
