[GEM Development] Slashdotted and comments

Peter Green pspete1 at pnc.com.au
Wed Aug 3 11:54:18 PDT 2005


Must be an American if he needs subtitles for English :-)

GLOSSARY
Melbourne: 	Capital city of our southernmost mainland State -- 
			where Chris now lives
somewhat brisk: very cold (We Australians, like the English, go in for understatement  
rather pleasant weather for August:  August is generally cold and windy in Sydney
18 or 19 deg: 	Temperatures in degrees Celsius
9:30 pm AEST: 	9:30  in the evening, Australian Eastern Standard Time.
The Great Ocean Road: A coastal road from Melbourne to Adelaide 
			Capital city of South Australia) -- 
			considered to be one of the world's best 
			coastal road trips in terms of scenery.
The relos: 	The relatives
Sidcup: 	A town south-east of London, England
Kirkby-in-Ashfield: A town North-west of Nottingham, England
Salzburg: A town in Austria (a small country south of Germany, 
			not to be confused with Australia). 
			Famous for an annual classical music festival.
Oz: 		"Oz"-tralia. It's a joke, Joyce.
Woolly socks: 	Undershoe footwear knitted from sheep's hair 
Woolies socks: 	Socks purchased from the Woolworths supermarket chain.

Feel free to enquire (=inquire) about anything else.

Peter


Thomas Clayton wrote:

>Any *non*-Aussie understnd what their saying?
>;-)
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>Tom Clayton
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>--- Peter Green <pspete1 at pnc.com.au> wrote:
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>>Still around, Chris, still alive...
>>
>>I hear from our Melbourne people that it has been
>>somewhat brisk down 
>>there lately. We've been having rather pleasant
>>weather for August -- 
>>about 18 or 19 deg today, and 17 as I write (9:30 pm
>>AEST).
>>
>>Will be doing the Great Ocean Road trip again at the
>>end of the month, 
>>this time from Adelaide back to Melbourne. We have
>>the relos here since 
>>this morning:
>> From Sidcup: Daughter-in-law and new granddaughter
>>(born March)
>> From Kirkby-in-Ashfield: Daughter-in-law's parents.
>>Our son (also from Sidcup) is due here in a
>>fortnight, after performing 
>>in Salzburg.
>>Having heard our favourable reports from last year,
>>they were keen to do 
>>the trip while in Oz.
>>
>>Keep the woolly socks (not the Woolies socks) on!
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Peter
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>>Dostal, Chris E. wrote:
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>>>Agreed there..
>>>
>>>I guess with many of the "replies" on that site,
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>>>
>>you have people coming at the discussion from
>>various angles. Some reply for the sake of replying,
>>some automatically congratulate and some choose to
>>automatically negate anything.
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>>>"This makes it to news - must be a slow news day" -
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>>>
>>wonder how many hours he's put in to a project to
>>have that said about it, and him? .. people do far
>>less and get far more coverage on seemingly
>>irrelivant subjects.
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>>>Although I'm not what you'd call an active member
>>>      
>>>
>>of FreeDOS and Open/FreeGEM.. I watch with interest,
>>and smile whenever we see a little article in a
>>magazine, or a comment on a forum..  I'm also the
>>first to jump up if someone ridicules another for
>>putting effort into something..
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>>>It's a great OS, a great project - and there's
>>>      
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>>certainly great members of it all here..
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>>>Chris.
>>>
>>>PS: Hope it's a bit warmer up your way Peter Green
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>>(if ya still floating around on this list) - it's
>>sure as cold here!! arrrgh
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>>>________________________________
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>>>From: gem-dev-bounces at simpits.org on behalf of
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>>Night Hawk
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>>>Sent: Sat 30/07/2005 8:51 AM
>>>To: gem-dev at simpits.org
>>>Subject: RE: [GEM Development] OpenGEM got
>>>      
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>>slashdotted
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>>>
>>>Shane,
>>> Don't worry about your ego. Quite the reverse.
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>>The fact that you were
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>>>"slashdotted" is a *good* thing.  OpenGEM is truly
>>>      
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>>great software.  It is
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>>>not bloated like a certain OS from Microsoft. 
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>>OpenGEM *works* and works
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>>>well.
>>> I have been using computers for over 25 years and
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>>have used almost every
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>>>GUI/OS there is to use. And I can tell you that
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>>OpenGEM is by far better
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>>>than most of the commerical OS'es.
>>> So keep up the good work. Long live OpenGEM!  And
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>>>
>>you get a free Beer,
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>>>Irish Beer at that.
>>>
>>>
>>>Todd
>>>The Night Hawk
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