[geeks] I feel dirty

Joshua D Boyd geeks at sunhelp.org
Wed Dec 19 19:39:59 CST 2001


On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 12:31:31AM +0100, Martijn Pronk wrote:
> A little explaination why I turned to the dark side.
> My girlfriend lives about 160 miles away from me, and every day calling
> starts getting annoying, so she started annoying me with why I'm not
> using msn. I tell her "doesn't work on Solaris, FreeBSD or HP-UX, so
> I can't and won't use it". She says, that I have windows on my laptop
> so you can use it. Problem is, I boot windows only once every two weeks...
> While being in windows I thought I could always try it, so I did... 
> And I actually liked it... Shit... now I have to spend too much time in 
> windows.

Why not just get her to use AIM?  There are quite a number of ways to use AIM
from all sorts of unix.
 
> ps: How many geekpoints do you get when you actually work more
> on a HP 9000 715/80 than on a Sun SparcStation 4 and possibly even like it?

It depends on what os the HP has.  Nextstep and you are golden.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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