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"Christopher A. Lee" |
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10 Nov 2004 06:22:20 AM |
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Windows "sticky keys". Help.... |
I hate Windows.
It's crap.
I can't type to save my life. So I'll hold down the shift key while I
find the other key when I want a capital letter.
If I don't find the other key quickly it puts me in some kind of
So it puts me in some funny mode it calls "sticky keys" which I can't
get out of.
Shift etc keys no longer work the way they should, and mouse selection
generates blocks instead of single lines.
A load of crap.
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| User: "FAITH HURST" |
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| Title: Re: Windows "sticky keys". Help.... |
13 Nov 2004 06:51:26 PM |
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"Christopher A. Lee" <calee@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:uq14p05r379pcjk4io2cpimu31hh1b0h3p@4ax.com...
I hate Windows.
It's crap.
I can't type to save my life. So I'll hold down the shift key while I
find the other key when I want a capital letter.
If I don't find the other key quickly it puts me in some kind of
So it puts me in some funny mode it calls "sticky keys" which I can't
get out of.
Shift etc keys no longer work the way they should, and mouse selection
generates blocks instead of single lines.
A load of crap.
I don't mean to be rude, but how long does it take you to find a key? I've
watched fourth graders hunt and peck and never once seen this happen to
them.
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Clayskye #4
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| User: "Nikolaos D. Bougalis" |
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| Title: Re: Windows "sticky keys". Help.... |
10 Nov 2004 10:51:22 AM |
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Christopher A. Lee wrote:
I hate Windows.
It's crap.
I can't type to save my life. So I'll hold down the shift key while I
find the other key when I want a capital letter.
If I don't find the other key quickly it puts me in some kind of
So it puts me in some funny mode it calls "sticky keys" which I can't
get out of.
Shift etc keys no longer work the way they should, and mouse selection
generates blocks instead of single lines.
A load of crap.
Go to the Control Panel and select Accessibility Options.
Uncheck the "Use StickyKeys" checkbox, and then press the "Settings"
button and in the dialog that shows up uncheck the "Use shortcut" "Press
modified twice to lock" and "Turn StickyKeys off if two keys are pressed
at once". Exit by pressing OK, and then again OK.
You should no longer get pestered.
-n
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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| Title: Re: Windows "sticky keys". Help.... |
10 Nov 2004 11:16:09 AM |
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:51:22 -0800, "Nikolaos D. Bougalis"
<nikb@webmaster.com> wrote:
Christopher A. Lee wrote:
I hate Windows.
It's crap.
I can't type to save my life. So I'll hold down the shift key while I
find the other key when I want a capital letter.
If I don't find the other key quickly it puts me in some kind of
So it puts me in some funny mode it calls "sticky keys" which I can't
get out of.
Shift etc keys no longer work the way they should, and mouse selection
generates blocks instead of single lines.
A load of crap.
Go to the Control Panel and select Accessibility Options.
Uncheck the "Use StickyKeys" checkbox, and then press the "Settings"
button and in the dialog that shows up uncheck the "Use shortcut" "Press
modified twice to lock" and "Turn StickyKeys off if two keys are pressed
at once". Exit by pressing OK, and then again OK.
You should no longer get pestered.
Thanks. But Windows should not be that messy.
-n
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| User: "JessHC" |
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| Title: Re: Windows "sticky keys". Help.... |
10 Nov 2004 07:26:40 PM |
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Christopher A. Lee <calee@optonline.net> wrote in message news:<tai4p05mlp8n822h3mhii2l3v3m4fvs00f@4ax.com>...
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:51:22 -0800, "Nikolaos D. Bougalis"
<nikb@webmaster.com> wrote:
Christopher A. Lee wrote:
I hate Windows.
It's crap.
I can't type to save my life. So I'll hold down the shift key while I
find the other key when I want a capital letter.
If I don't find the other key quickly it puts me in some kind of
So it puts me in some funny mode it calls "sticky keys" which I can't
get out of.
Shift etc keys no longer work the way they should, and mouse selection
generates blocks instead of single lines.
A load of crap.
Go to the Control Panel and select Accessibility Options.
Uncheck the "Use StickyKeys" checkbox, and then press the "Settings"
button and in the dialog that shows up uncheck the "Use shortcut" "Press
modified twice to lock" and "Turn StickyKeys off if two keys are pressed
at once". Exit by pressing OK, and then again OK.
You should no longer get pestered.
Thanks. But Windows should not be that messy.
The mess is one of the features.
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| User: "Brian E. Clark" |
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| Title: Re: Windows "sticky keys". Help.... |
10 Nov 2004 02:17:24 PM |
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Christopher A. Lee <calee@optonline.net> wrote:
Thanks. But Windows should not be that messy.
Certainly Microsoft should not have made this "feature" standard. Then
again, Microsoft should not have done a lot of things.
A client of mine was reduced almost to raving by the StickyKeys feature.
His madness crescendoed when he found that typing "sticky" into the XP
help dialog returned no hits.
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Brian E. Clark
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| User: "FAITH HURST" |
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| Title: Re: Windows "sticky keys". Help.... |
13 Nov 2004 06:56:37 PM |
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"Brian E. Clark" <reply@newsgroup.only.please> wrote in message
news:MPG.1bfc418fd752970598a7b6@netnews.comcast.net...
Christopher A. Lee <calee@optonline.net> wrote:
Thanks. But Windows should not be that messy.
Certainly Microsoft should not have made this "feature" standard. Then
again, Microsoft should not have done a lot of things.
A client of mine was reduced almost to raving by the StickyKeys feature.
His madness crescendoed when he found that typing "sticky" into the XP
help dialog returned no hits.
I've never accessed this before. After reading this thread I looked into it
and found that mine was unchecked. Since I never unchecked it, I would
imagine that it was that way when I installed Windows a month ago.
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Clayskye #4
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| User: "Brian E. Clark" |
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| Title: Re: Windows "sticky keys". Help.... |
14 Nov 2004 11:39:12 AM |
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FAITH HURST <angelsbsbl@verizon.net> wrote:
I've never accessed this before. After reading this thread I looked into it
and found that mine was unchecked. Since I never unchecked it, I would
imagine that it was that way when I installed Windows a month ago.
I wonder if Microsoft changed the default setting for later editions of
XP, after customers complained.
I encountered StickyKeys the very first time I ran XP. I'd often used
the Shift key to close screen savers, for one, and I'd sometimes tap
idly on the Shift key while waiting for a program or web page to load.
It had always been a harmless practice -- until Microsoft found a way to
attach an annoyance to it. :)
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Brian E. Clark
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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| Title: Re: Windows "sticky keys". Help.... |
10 Nov 2004 04:03:29 PM |
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:42:26 GMT, walksalone <spam@fcc.gov> wrote:
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:16:09 GMT, Christopher A. Lee wrote:
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:51:22 -0800, "Nikolaos D. Bougalis"
<nikb@webmaster.com> wrote:
Christopher A. Lee wrote:
I hate Windows.
A common lament.
Hobbes from Calvin & Hobbes.
Check the text attachment Chris, it is a load of info on keyboards &
windose.
Tried posting this earlier, but apparently it died enroute, or is waiting
for you to die of old age.
Thanks....Chris
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| User: "Tukla Ratte" |
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| Title: Re: Windows "sticky keys". Help.... |
10 Nov 2004 08:19:46 AM |
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Christopher A. Lee wrote:
I hate Windows.
It's crap.
I can't type to save my life. So I'll hold down the shift key while I
find the other key when I want a capital letter.
If I don't find the other key quickly it puts me in some kind of
So it puts me in some funny mode it calls "sticky keys" which I can't
get out of.
Shift etc keys no longer work the way they should, and mouse selection
generates blocks instead of single lines.
A load of crap.
Try opening up your Accessibility Options control panel and making sure
everything is turned off.
--
Tukla, Eater of Theists, Squeaker of Chew Toys
Official Mascot of Alt.Atheism, aa 1347
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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| Title: Re: Windows "sticky keys". Help.... |
10 Nov 2004 09:40:05 AM |
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:19:46 -0600, Tukla Ratte
<tukla_ratte@tukla.net> wrote:
Christopher A. Lee wrote:
I hate Windows.
It's crap.
I can't type to save my life. So I'll hold down the shift key while I
find the other key when I want a capital letter.
If I don't find the other key quickly it puts me in some kind of
So it puts me in some funny mode it calls "sticky keys" which I can't
get out of.
Shift etc keys no longer work the way they should, and mouse selection
generates blocks instead of single lines.
A load of crap.
Try opening up your Accessibility Options control panel and making sure
everything is turned off.
They are. The trouble is this mode turns itself on when I keep my
finger on the shift key for too long - which happens to a non-typist
when he is finding the other key.
Once it's done that I'm screwed. The shift key no longer works, mouse
clicks select blocks rather than options, etc.
I end up rebooting.
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| User: "JessHC" |
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| Title: Re: Windows "sticky keys". Help.... |
10 Nov 2004 01:48:39 PM |
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Christopher A. Lee <calee@optonline.net> wrote in message news:<f8c4p09v0lapmu7rksr938hbrocjbs7amc@4ax.com>...
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:19:46 -0600, Tukla Ratte
<tukla_ratte@tukla.net> wrote:
Christopher A. Lee wrote:
I hate Windows.
It's crap.
I can't type to save my life. So I'll hold down the shift key while I
find the other key when I want a capital letter.
If I don't find the other key quickly it puts me in some kind of
So it puts me in some funny mode it calls "sticky keys" which I can't
get out of.
Shift etc keys no longer work the way they should, and mouse selection
generates blocks instead of single lines.
A load of crap.
Try opening up your Accessibility Options control panel and making sure
everything is turned off.
They are. The trouble is this mode turns itself on when I keep my
finger on the shift key for too long - which happens to a non-typist
when he is finding the other key.
Once it's done that I'm screwed. The shift key no longer works, mouse
clicks select blocks rather than options, etc.
I end up rebooting.
Did you uncheck the Use StickyKeys box? Maybe uncheck the Use
Shortcut option in StickyKeys Settings? It doesn't come on at all for
me with these unchecked.
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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| Title: Re: Windows "sticky keys". Help.... |
10 Nov 2004 03:07:30 PM |
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On 10 Nov 2004 11:48:39 -0800, (JessHC) wrote:
Christopher A. Lee <calee@optonline.net> wrote in message news:<f8c4p09v0lapmu7rksr938hbrocjbs7amc@4ax.com>...
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:19:46 -0600, Tukla Ratte
<tukla_ratte@tukla.net> wrote:
Christopher A. Lee wrote:
I hate Windows.
It's crap.
I can't type to save my life. So I'll hold down the shift key while I
find the other key when I want a capital letter.
If I don't find the other key quickly it puts me in some kind of
So it puts me in some funny mode it calls "sticky keys" which I can't
get out of.
Shift etc keys no longer work the way they should, and mouse selection
generates blocks instead of single lines.
A load of crap.
Try opening up your Accessibility Options control panel and making sure
everything is turned off.
They are. The trouble is this mode turns itself on when I keep my
finger on the shift key for too long - which happens to a non-typist
when he is finding the other key.
Once it's done that I'm screwed. The shift key no longer works, mouse
clicks select blocks rather than options, etc.
I end up rebooting.
Did you uncheck the Use StickyKeys box? Maybe uncheck the Use
Shortcut option in StickyKeys Settings? It doesn't come on at all for
me with these unchecked.
Did all those as per Nikolaos' suggestion.
Just tried it and had to reboot :-(
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10 Nov 2004 03:37:28 PM |
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Christopher A. Lee wrote:
On 10 Nov 2004 11:48:39 -0800, (JessHC) wrote:
Christopher A. Lee <calee@optonline.net> wrote in message news:<f8c4p09v0lapmu7rksr938hbrocjbs7amc@4ax.com>...
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:19:46 -0600, Tukla Ratte
<tukla_ratte@tukla.net> wrote:
Christopher A. Lee wrote:
I hate Windows.
It's crap.
I can't type to save my life. So I'll hold down the shift key while I
find the other key when I want a capital letter.
If I don't find the other key quickly it puts me in some kind of
So it puts me in some funny mode it calls "sticky keys" which I can't
get out of.
Shift etc keys no longer work the way they should, and mouse selection
generates blocks instead of single lines.
A load of crap.
Try opening up your Accessibility Options control panel and making sure
everything is turned off.
They are. The trouble is this mode turns itself on when I keep my
finger on the shift key for too long - which happens to a non-typist
when he is finding the other key.
Once it's done that I'm screwed. The shift key no longer works, mouse
clicks select blocks rather than options, etc.
I end up rebooting.
Did you uncheck the Use StickyKeys box? Maybe uncheck the Use
Shortcut option in StickyKeys Settings? It doesn't come on at all for
me with these unchecked.
Did all those as per Nikolaos' suggestion.
Just tried it and had to reboot :-(
Get a Mac next time. Mac OS X is UNIX!
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| User: "Ray Richards" |
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10 Nov 2004 01:42:10 PM |
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I was a 2 finger typist before I started playing Everquest. Now I am a touch
typist averaging 70-80 wpm - all from playing a game that was both fun and
engaging. My technique probably sucks... but who cares?
"Christopher A. Lee" <calee@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:uq14p05r379pcjk4io2cpimu31hh1b0h3p@4ax.com...
I hate Windows.
It's crap.
I can't type to save my life. So I'll hold down the shift key while I
find the other key when I want a capital letter.
If I don't find the other key quickly it puts me in some kind of
So it puts me in some funny mode it calls "sticky keys" which I can't
get out of.
Shift etc keys no longer work the way they should, and mouse selection
generates blocks instead of single lines.
A load of crap.
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| User: "Mekkala" |
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10 Nov 2004 09:33:02 AM |
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On Wed 10 Nov 2004 06:22:20a, Christopher A. Lee <calee@optonline.net>
kicked back with a beer, ruminated at length, fell asleep, woke up, lit
up a joint, then fell asleep again after thoughtfully blurting out:
I hate Windows.
It's crap.
I can't type to save my life. So I'll hold down the shift key while I
find the other key when I want a capital letter.
If I don't find the other key quickly it puts me in some kind of
So it puts me in some funny mode it calls "sticky keys" which I can't
get out of.
Shift etc keys no longer work the way they should, and mouse selection
generates blocks instead of single lines.
A load of crap.
IIRC, you just hit Esc to get out of it. But may I suggest a typing
class? ;)
--
Mekkala, Atheist #2148
"Atheism is ... the bed-rock of sanity in a world of madness."
--Emmett F. Fields
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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10 Nov 2004 10:14:59 AM |
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:33:02 GMT, Mekkala
<joremovedathiskimtoreply@attbi.com> wrote:
On Wed 10 Nov 2004 06:22:20a, Christopher A. Lee <calee@optonline.net>
kicked back with a beer, ruminated at length, fell asleep, woke up, lit
up a joint, then fell asleep again after thoughtfully blurting out:
I hate Windows.
It's crap.
I can't type to save my life. So I'll hold down the shift key while I
find the other key when I want a capital letter.
If I don't find the other key quickly it puts me in some kind of
So it puts me in some funny mode it calls "sticky keys" which I can't
get out of.
Shift etc keys no longer work the way they should, and mouse selection
generates blocks instead of single lines.
A load of crap.
IIRC, you just hit Esc to get out of it. But may I suggest a typing
class? ;)
I didn't find that. Part of the problem is that it no longer comes
with a manual, and you are supposed to use the help system when y ou
need it. But sometimes you can't.
And it's too late for a typing class.
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| User: "Uncle Dollar Bill" |
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10 Nov 2004 09:17:13 PM |
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:14:59 GMT in alt.atheism, Christopher A. Lee
<calee@optonline.net> defied the status quo and scrawled upon the toilet stall:
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:33:02 GMT, Mekkala
<joremovedathiskimtoreply@attbi.com> wrote:
On Wed 10 Nov 2004 06:22:20a, Christopher A. Lee <calee@optonline.net>
kicked back with a beer, ruminated at length, fell asleep, woke up, lit
up a joint, then fell asleep again after thoughtfully blurting out:
I hate Windows.
It's crap.
I can't type to save my life. So I'll hold down the shift key while I
find the other key when I want a capital letter.
If I don't find the other key quickly it puts me in some kind of
So it puts me in some funny mode it calls "sticky keys" which I can't
get out of.
Shift etc keys no longer work the way they should, and mouse selection
generates blocks instead of single lines.
A load of crap.
IIRC, you just hit Esc to get out of it. But may I suggest a typing
class? ;)
I didn't find that. Part of the problem is that it no longer comes
with a manual, and you are supposed to use the help system when y ou
need it. But sometimes you can't.
Assuming you don't need any of them, you can remove the accessibility options
completely. Go into Control Panel, open up the "Windows Setup" tab.
Accessibility is the first one on the list. Uncheck it, click "Apply" and when
it's done, you should never have that problem again. At least that's how it
works in 98.
And it's too late for a typing class.
Awww, c'mon, it's only 7:15 p.m. fer cryin' out loud! ;-)
--
L8r,
Uncle Dollar Bill
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| User: "Vic Sagerquist" |
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10 Nov 2004 10:05:52 AM |
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on 10 Nov 2004 in alt.atheism, Mekkala dropped trou, farted, whirled, then
shouted:
On Wed 10 Nov 2004 06:22:20a, Christopher A. Lee <calee@optonline.net>
kicked back with a beer, ruminated at length, fell asleep, woke up, lit
up a joint, then fell asleep again after thoughtfully blurting out:
I hate Windows.
It's crap.
I can't type to save my life. So I'll hold down the shift key while I
find the other key when I want a capital letter.
If I don't find the other key quickly it puts me in some kind of
So it puts me in some funny mode it calls "sticky keys" which I can't
get out of.
Shift etc keys no longer work the way they should, and mouse selection
generates blocks instead of single lines.
A load of crap.
IIRC, you just hit Esc to get out of it. But may I suggest a typing
class? ;)
A couple of months on ICQ was all I needed. Granted my style wouldn't get
me a passing grade in a typing class, I can disguise it with speed.
--
Vic Sagerquist
aa#2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
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"We need to demonstrate that the United States military cannot be deterred
or defeated. If that means widespread destruction, we must accept the price
.. . . Even if Fallujah has to go the way of Carthage, reduced to shards,
the price will be worth it. We need to demonstrate our strength of will to
the world, to show that there is only one possible result when madmen take
on America."
[Ralph Peters, author of Beyond Baghdad: Postmodern War and Peace,
editorial, New York Post]
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| User: "Beowulf" |
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10 Nov 2004 02:13:34 PM |
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:22:20 +0000, Christopher A. Lee wrote:
I hate Windows.
It's crap.
...
I use Linux. I also hate Windows. I love Linux.
http://linux.sparlo.net/
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