Okay, I've been hiding in my no email list corner for a while but let me say a few things. Firstly, she couldn't of accidentally "link surfed" her way to windows, but then again my assumption of people are 'somewhat intelligent' must be wrong due to her limited vocabulary. However skipping the personal insults to her, if dell sold the laptop it would be able to connect to the Internet, it was more than likely her own fault. I don't really have anything constructive to comment upon, it's just disgusting. This is a blow to an operating system that should be able to target the open minded youth. Grr...<br><br><br>On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:01 AM, eduardo cesconetto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eduardo@cesconetto.com" target="_blank">eduardo@cesconetto.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div class="Wj3C7c"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> The big problem here is the lack of support from most schools,<br> colleges and universities, I work at Apple an every year we see a<br> great amount of people that come back to the Apple Store(Genius Bar)<br> to seek help to install Windows on a VM or Boot Camp because you can't<br> even authenticate to the school's network w/o running some sort of<br> ActiveX plugin on IE(not even Firefox)...<br> <br> This is why LUGs should be fighting to get access to elementary<br> schools and high schools to give panels and presentations, if kids<br> learn that there is a (better) alternative to comercial O$'es and Apps<br> since the early education years, the could at least figure it out how<br> to connect to the internet and run M$ Office on Wine or another VM, or<br> even understand that OO is compatible with Office and etc......<br> <font color="#888888"><br> Eduardo Cesconetto | <a href="mailto:eduardo@cesconetto.com" target="_blank">eduardo@cesconetto.com</a> | (517) 507-5966<br> </font><div><div></div><div><br> <br> <br> On Jan 17, 2009, at 11:07 PM, Michael Rudas wrote:<br> <br> > This is certainly the type of publicity that Linux DOESN'T need...<br> > <<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syD4Z_1K09A" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syD4Z_1K09A</a>><br> ><br> > ~~ Michael Rudas<br> >    My home page: <a href="http://MRudas.2Ya.com" target="_blank">http://MRudas.2Ya.com</a><br> >    My blog: <a href="http://FaveSoft.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://FaveSoft.blogspot.com</a><br> > _______________________________________________<br> > linux-user mailing list<br> > <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu" target="_blank">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a><br> > <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a><br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> linux-user mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu" target="_blank">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a><br> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>