[GEM Development] Slashdotted and comments

[Peter Green]

Drat! It stripped all my returns out.

I'll have to retry when we get back from a tourism trip with the relos 
to Manly.

Peter

Peter Green wrote:

> 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?
>> ;-)
>>
>> Tom Clayton
>>
>>
>> --- Peter Green <pspete1 at pnc.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> Dostal, Chris E. wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> Agreed there..
>>>>
>>>> I guess with many of the "replies" on that site,
>>>>     
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>   
>>>
>>>> "This makes it to news - must be a slow news day" -
>>>>     
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>   
>>>
>>>> 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..
>>>   
>>>
>>>> It's a great OS, a great project - and there's
>>>>     
>>>
>>> certainly great members of it all here..
>>>   
>>>
>>>> Chris.
>>>>
>>>> PS: Hope it's a bit warmer up your way Peter Green
>>>>     
>>>
>>> (if ya still floating around on this list) - it's
>>> sure as cold here!! arrrgh
>>>   
>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>>
>>>> From: gem-dev-bounces at simpits.org on behalf of
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Night Hawk
>>>   
>>>
>>>> Sent: Sat 30/07/2005 8:51 AM
>>>> To: gem-dev at simpits.org
>>>> Subject: RE: [GEM Development] OpenGEM got
>>>>     
>>>
>>> slashdotted
>>>   
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Shane,
>>>> Don't worry about your ego. Quite the reverse.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> The fact that you were
>>>   
>>>
>>>> "slashdotted" is a *good* thing.  OpenGEM is truly
>>>>     
>>>
>>> great software.  It is
>>>   
>>>
>>>> not bloated like a certain OS from Microsoft.     
>>>
>>> OpenGEM *works* and works
>>>   
>>>
>>>> well.
>>>> I have been using computers for over 25 years and
>>>>     
>>>
>>> have used almost every
>>>   
>>>
>>>> GUI/OS there is to use. And I can tell you that
>>>>     
>>>
>>> OpenGEM is by far better
>>>   
>>>
>>>> than most of the commerical OS'es.
>>>> So keep up the good work. Long live OpenGEM!  And
>>>>     
>>>
>>> you get a free Beer,
>>>   
>>>
>>>> Irish Beer at that.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Todd
>>>> The Night Hawk
>>>>
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