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Jim Parkhurst | 1 Feb 2004 05:58
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Re: Conversion assistance...

The reason for her response. She had purchased a HP notebook from Best Buy and
the "cheap" 3 Yr MSN access. That was paid in full at the time of purchase and
MSN was not renewed. Interestingly, the amount due was $300.03. She had NEVER
seen such an amount; neither had I. She wrote to the "collection agency" and,
apparently, the VP of M$ (including a copy of the letter in question). I
suggested the Tx Attorney General, don't know if she has done that. Scam? Most
probably.

Chris wrote:

> I can't help but be curious...
>
> What on earth could anyone claim that a regular home user had a bill from
> Microsoft for? I thought all the M$ tolls were paid when the computer was
> purchased...
>
> On Saturday 31 January 2004 10:33 am, Jim Parkhurst wrote:
> > When my sister recently received a letter from a collection agency
> > allegedly collecting an overdue bill from Microsoft she went ballistic then
> > called me wanting to convert her system to Linux.
> >
> > When I started looking at her setup, I noted she is using some
> > Franklin-Covey software (job searching, scheduling, tickler, etc.). Is
> > there anything in the LInux world that provides similar functionality?
> >
> > Unfortunately, the drive she currently has is not large enough to dual-boot
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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John E. Pearson | 1 Feb 2004 07:26
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Re: Conversion assistance...

You might suggest that she mention possible rico patterns when she writes 
the attorney general.

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Jim Parkhurst wrote:

> The reason for her response. She had purchased a HP notebook from Best Buy and
> the "cheap" 3 Yr MSN access. That was paid in full at the time of purchase and
> MSN was not renewed. Interestingly, the amount due was $300.03. She had NEVER
> seen such an amount; neither had I. She wrote to the "collection agency" and,
> apparently, the VP of M$ (including a copy of the letter in question). I
> suggested the Tx Attorney General, don't know if she has done that. Scam? Most
> probably.
> 
> Chris wrote:
> 
> > I can't help but be curious...
> >
> > What on earth could anyone claim that a regular home user had a bill from
> > Microsoft for? I thought all the M$ tolls were paid when the computer was
> > purchased...
> >
> > On Saturday 31 January 2004 10:33 am, Jim Parkhurst wrote:
> > > When my sister recently received a letter from a collection agency
> > > allegedly collecting an overdue bill from Microsoft she went ballistic then
> > > called me wanting to convert her system to Linux.
> > >
> > > When I started looking at her setup, I noted she is using some
> > > Franklin-Covey software (job searching, scheduling, tickler, etc.). Is
> > > there anything in the LInux world that provides similar functionality?
> > >
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Bill Eastman | 1 Feb 2004 07:47
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NYLUG.org: The New York Linux Users Group

newer knoppix and an article

http://www.nylug.org/home/index.shtml
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Bill Eastman | 1 Feb 2004 11:34
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Re: NYLUG.org: The New York Linux Users Group

Bill Eastman wrote:

> newer knoppix and an article
>
> http://www.nylug.org/home/index.shtml
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>
FYI - there is Tux driving a cab, with an American flag.  Also the 
bootup screen has a picture of the 1999 NY City Skyline.

If you download this, be sure to run the md5sum, as the first download I 
did was bad.  There are two links.  After the one failed, I switched to 
the other link.  When you burn this iso, you will need to use -overburn 
-raw to make it record (the websight says you might, and I did have to).

Bill

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Daniel Hudsky | 1 Feb 2004 19:21

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Gentlemen, 
the reason the PC was cheap, was because it came with a 3 year subscription to MSN, which requires around $20
per month payment. 
If you default on making the payment you get a bill from MSN. Read the fine script when you buy the PC. I assume
the sister is not 3 years old and can read? 

I am not defending Microsoft, but every business has what we all know and understand as "fine print". You
chose to ignore it, thinking that if and when it comes to be you'll play the standard "Oh, my gosh, I had no
idea that's what they meant by .. you'll have to subscribe to MSN for 3 years and pay (300$/36) monthly.
You'd never had to do that with Linux". - Reality Check =

OK, so here is the wake up for you. Read the fine print, if you see anything like "subscription to MSN" or "AOL"
don't buy it. Go to some low cost HW store, buy one of those Eboxes with XP or one of those crapy Dell ($499.00)
PCs online (I like Dell, but the cheap shit is just cheap shit), put Linux on it and instantly triple the
value of the machine. Or even better, build your own from scratch, ( if you can't do it your self grab any 3
year old and have them build it for you) then put your OS of choice on it. 

Sorry, about the reality speech, but I just woke and I am I can't stand self whining which was brought on by
self inflicted laziness to read the fine print.Denis Leary is my hero. Flame on, I won't read it. I've said
my piece.
dh

Fine print: This message does not reflect the usual mental state of the author. He is usually a nice person
celebrated by his friends and peers. Please do not take any statements made here too seriously as they were
meant for entertainment value. Oh, and if you want to, subscribe to my service which will cost you $300 over
a 3 year period. Should you subscribe and default on this payment I'll report you to the some credit report
agency of my choice. Thank you for reading. We'll see how many will read this part :-))

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From: "Jim Parkhurst" <jimparkhurst@...>
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dave | 1 Feb 2004 20:26
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getting du to report a series of directories.


Hiya luggers,

	I'm stumped on the correct syntax to get du to report the sizes of a
series of subdirectories.  For instance, I have a directory with a
series of subdirectories:

/foo/abar
/foo/bbar
/foo/cbar
.
.
.
/foo/zbar

I want to get the sizes of some but not all the subdirectories in /foo.
Say for instance I want /foo/abar through /foo/ebar.  I can execute a
command like foo$ du -hsc ./a* ./b* ./c* ./d* ./e*
but that can get quite tedious if i have a large number of
subdirectories.  Is there another way to get du -hsc to work on ./a*
through ./m* for example, without having to list each directory?  I'm
not interested in the total contents of the directory (i.e. ./n*through
./z*)

-dave

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Cliff Cyphers | 1 Feb 2004 20:47

Re: getting du to report a series of directories.

dave wrote:

>Hiya luggers,
>
>	I'm stumped on the correct syntax to get du to report the sizes of a
>series of subdirectories.  For instance, I have a directory with a
>series of subdirectories:
>
>/foo/abar
>/foo/bbar
>/foo/cbar
>.
>.
>.
>/foo/zbar
>
>I want to get the sizes of some but not all the subdirectories in /foo.
>Say for instance I want /foo/abar through /foo/ebar.  I can execute a
>  
>
du -h foo/ --exclude [f-z]bar
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Jonathan Huizingh | 1 Feb 2004 21:50

Re: getting du to report a series of directories.

Try this:  

foo$ du -hsc [a-e]*

Jonathan

----- Original Message -----
From: dave <dufeau@...>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:26:09 -0600
To: alg@...
Subject: [alg] getting du to report a series of directories.

> 
> Hiya luggers,
> 
> 	I'm stumped on the correct syntax to get du to report the sizes of a
> series of subdirectories.  For instance, I have a directory with a
> series of subdirectories:
> 
> /foo/abar
> /foo/bbar
> /foo/cbar
> .
> .
> .
> /foo/zbar
> 
> I want to get the sizes of some but not all the subdirectories in /foo.
> Say for instance I want /foo/abar through /foo/ebar.  I can execute a
> command like foo$ du -hsc ./a* ./b* ./c* ./d* ./e*
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Robert Alan Parkhurst | 1 Feb 2004 22:40
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Anjuta

I'm trying to develop a simple program in Anjuta version 1.2 on my
Gentoo 1.4 system.  When I have Anjuta create a console C/C++ project
for me, it creates the project workspace, but i get warnings that all of
the Makefile.* files were not able to be found.  Then when I try and
tell anjuta to build and execute the project, it says "no targets found,
exiting".

When I look in the project directory, I find that there are no automake,
configure, or makefile.* scripts.  Does anyone know how to fix this?

Robert

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Jim Parkhurst | 2 Feb 2004 00:58
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Sir-

This information per my sister. The receipt of a collection statement for which there was no previous or
prior billing information is the issue. The three year term in question expired approximately two years
ago. Aside from the (questionable) marketing practices of certain computer manufacturers. Note to
self: read the text and context of information available before jumping.

Daniel Hudsky wrote:

> Gentlemen,
> the reason the PC was cheap, was because it came with a 3 year subscription to MSN, which requires around $20
per month payment.
> If you default on making the payment you get a bill from MSN. Read the fine script when you buy the PC. I assume
the sister is not 3 years old and can read?
>
> I am not defending Microsoft, but every business has what we all know and understand as "fine print". You
chose to ignore it, thinking that if and when it comes to be you'll play the standard "Oh, my gosh, I had no
idea that's what they meant by .. you'll have to subscribe to MSN for 3 years and pay (300$/36) monthly.
You'd never had to do that with Linux". - Reality Check =
>
> OK, so here is the wake up for you. Read the fine print, if you see anything like "subscription to MSN" or
"AOL" don't buy it. Go to some low cost HW store, buy one of those Eboxes with XP or one of those crapy Dell
($499.00) PCs online (I like Dell, but the cheap shit is just cheap shit), put Linux on it and instantly
triple the value of the machine. Or even better, build your own from scratch, ( if you can't do it your self
grab any 3 year old and have them build it for you) then put your OS of choice on it.
>
> Sorry, about the reality speech, but I just woke and I am I can't stand self whining which was brought on by
self inflicted laziness to read the fine print.Denis Leary is my hero. Flame on, I won't read it. I've said
my piece.
> dh
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