[PLUG] Transfering mozilla mail and newsgroup settings from linux to windows

Russell Steicke r.steicke at bom.gov.au
Fri May 7 12:26:18 WST 2004


On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 03:39:39AM +0100, Mark O'Shea wrote:
> On Fri, 7 May 2004, Russell Steicke wrote:
> > > on windoze. Of course, you might be able to run an X client, I mean server
> > > (its confusing) on windows, but VNC is probably a lot easier.
> >
> > It beats me why people are confused about this.  A server makes some
> > resource available for use by a client.  In this case, the server
> > supplies a display, and the clients draw on it.  What's so hard about
> > that?
> >
> Well, I suppose people are used to thinking of themselves as the client
> rather than the program drawing the resources.  No, it's not hard, but I
> think we can give people a break when they are confused.

That's probably it.  I have another personal rant in reply to "the
customer is always right", which is "you're not always the customer".
:)  I guess this is a similar thing.

> Sorry about that.  I wasn't meaning to have a go at you Russel, it was a
> good point.  It's just I like this list and think it is friendly.  I
> wouldn't want anyone to think that Linux users are unapproachable.

No offence meant to anyone, and none taken.



-- 
Russell Steicke

-- Fortune says:
But soft you, the fair Ophelia:
Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws,
But get thee to a nunnery -- go!
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