tl;dr

Tue Jun 15 03:26:46 UTC 2010

What does it mean when an application grey's out?
This has been happening to me more often.
Chris.

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:16 AM, alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:

> On 14/06/2010 10:33 AM, Daniel Villarreal wrote:
> >
> > Well, Alfred sounds interesting, I'm interested in Ayurvedic health
> > perspectives and the Aramaic language... but am I to understand that
> > this list is for Canadians only ?
> >
> > Is anyone else having issues with Thunderbird upgrading to 3x series ? I
> > had set up Ubuntu 9.10 for a family member and Thunderbird was going
> > great, then an upgrade messed it all up. I tried to transfer over the
> > email directory over to a fresh Ubuntu 10.04 Thunderbird setup (after
> > backing up the original fresh install files), and no go. This type of
> > restore works when using the same version, at least in the Thunderbird
> > 2x series. I had to spend a lot of time trying to get the old email to
> > function on the new setup, and posted an article on downgrading at my
> > web site (see below).
> >
> >   There's a lot of discussion on this list about advocating Linux and
> > trying to get people to try using it, but seriously, if Canonical's
> > updates are going to break things, doesn't that mean that these same
> > people that are advocating Linux should be ready to provide technical
> > support? I could just have easily set up the computer in discussion with
> > Fedora, CentOS, or PC-BSD. Don't get me wrong, I'm very fond of Ubuntu,
> > but when it comes to having a busy family life and being tech support
> > for the family, I really need an operating system be reliable. Does this
> > sort of thing happen with CentOS ?
> >
> > regards,
> > Daniel
> > http://youcanlinux.org/
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Matthew Delaney
> > <matthew.l.delaney at gmail.com <mailto:matthew.l.delaney at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> >
> >     Please, can we keep the topics on this mailing list related to
> >     ubuntu?? This is really getting old, this is likely driving off
> >     people that want to contribute to this community. I myself am
> >     getting tired of this aimless rambling from Alfred. Alfred, if you
> >     have some concrete question or something to contribute then please
> >     e-mail away; however, your recent postings are just not productive
> >     in any way, shape, or form.
> >
> >     I joined this mailing list hoping to learn something from other
> >     Canadians in the Ubuntu community and want to contribute when I can.
> >     I can only assume most others on this list have joined for similar
> >     reasons and I am confident that I'm not the only one getting tired
> >     of post like this. Moderators, if you exist please weigh in??? :-D
> >
> >     `Matt
> >
> >
> >
> >     On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 7:24 PM, alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net
> >     <mailto:alfred.s at nexicom.net>> wrote:
> >
> >         Well now I know what this means: Literally,
> >
> >         "Too long; didn't read"
> >
> >         Said whenever a nerd makes a post that is too long to bother
> >         reading.
> >
> >         Some think of me as a Nerd. First you need an IQ of 220. Then
> >         you got
> >         family that beats the piss out of you, for getting low marks in
> >         school
> >         due to we moved from Holland to here, Dutch was what I
> >         understood, and
> >         this was English. Even with that 220 IQ, I had Learning
> >         Disability - Go
> >         Figure!
> >
> >           And it's still open season on Nerds!
> >
> >         When I left home All my Fingers had been broken, one by one, and
> the
> >         headaches I had, were due to a Skull Fracture! That starts to
> >         make you
> >         Nerdy! Every one on the School Ground teases you because you
> >         don't know
> >         the Lingo! Then for years after that all kinds of people that
> hate
> >         NERDS, targeted me! Even with the IQ at the time, I could not
> >         figure out
> >         hints!
> >
> >         I did a few things in my life, when you have a kidney stone, and
> >         it is
> >         Crushed by Ultrasonic Waves, that was my Idea!
> >
> >         I told them what to do to make it happen! Now it's here! tl;dr.
> >
> >         I helped all kinds of people, that were in trouble to turn their
> >         lives
> >         around, in something of giving back! tl;dr. Volunteer Work!
> >
> >         I helped people with my intuitive side. tl;dr.
> >
> >         I help out some handicapped people, when I can. tl;dr.
> >
> >         I helped people keep their bikes on the road. tl;dr.
> >
> >         I help a few people with Ubuntu Linux, and Computers I loan to
> them,
> >         because they can not afford a Computer. tl;dr.
> >
> >         Still by some I'm seen as the village idiot.
> >
> >         A few people that do talk to me began to recognize that what
> >         ever topic
> >         they talk about, I don't get lost. I gave myself a well rounded
> >         education! I've got Photographic Memory! tl;dr.
> >
> >         I helped some people with disease that doctors don't know
> anything
> >         about, using just Food, and a knowledge of Ayurveda. tl;dr.
> >
> >         I invented a whole bunch of things that I added to Ayurveda,
> >         like the
> >         meanings of Iris Colour. So when I look at someone, I know quite
> >         well
> >         all about their Diet, and health problems just in a few seconds.
> >         tl;dr.
> >
> >         I've written Poetry, that is a pretty good translation from the
> >         Aramaic
> >         Bible into English. Although I never studied Aramaic. tl;dr.
> >
> >         I saved a few peoples lives, in 1991, perhaps you caught that on
> >         TV on
> >         the Parliamentary Channel. I was the Alfred, that was talked
> >         about that
> >         the Defense Department intercepted my transmission to them in the
> >         Federal Government, by the then leader of the NDP. tl;dr. I had
> >         severe
> >         Gut Problems and found I could write and even talk all in poetry,
> or
> >         Verse! tl;dr.
> >
> >         Quite frankly James, its a sort of discrimination, being treated
> >         by you
> >         in this way. To you I must be, some High Functioning Autistic,
> >         or lower
> >         than dirt person. One whom laughs last laughs best! tl;dr! Hey
> >         the sun
> >         shines and you can be a Good Day! Try that on for size! Get off
> >         the Nerd
> >         put down kick!
> >
> >         Now Back to Ubuntu Linux!
> >
> >         Alfred!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> I'm a Canadian Citizen, and from the replies seems that the explosion
> caused by my initial post, caused all kinds of unintended stuff. James
> was coming across, like he has some sort of Superiority Complex, making
> stabs at Nerds, so that's why I posted this, I've done a few things that
> might out shine being a Nerd. It's not easy being a Nerd, every few
> weeks someone else has something to prove, someone else turns your life
> upside down. I thought I was just a person, but then they come out with
> tl;dr. English writing is about the only thing I accell in now.
>
> I'll try to keep it to things Ubuntu!
> Alfred!
>
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