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From: Chris Whelan on 8 Jul 2010 05:45 On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:25:06 -0700, Ian wrote: > On 5 July, 21:22, 7 <website_has_em...(a)www.enemygadgets.com> wrote: > >> It has lower cost and runs on lot lower hardware requirements. > > I see Thunderbird 3 needs a minimum of 1GB RAM. > > Ian Where? http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/system-requirements/ Chris -- Remove prejudice to reply.
From: Gordon on 8 Jul 2010 06:13 On 08/07/2010 10:25, Ian wrote: > On 5 July, 21:22, 7<website_has_em...(a)www.enemygadgets.com> wrote: > >> It has lower cost and runs on lot lower hardware requirements. > > I see Thunderbird 3 needs a minimum of 1GB RAM. > > Ian Where did you get that? My Tbird 3 is currently using 60 MB RAM..... -- Registered Linux User no 240308 Say No to OOXML http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 gordonATgbpcomputingDOTcoDOTuk to email me remove the obvious!
From: Chris Ahlstrom on 8 Jul 2010 08:42 Chris Whelan stopped playing his vuvuzela long enough to say: > On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:25:06 -0700, Ian wrote: > >> On 5 July, 21:22, 7 <website_has_em...(a)www.enemygadgets.com> wrote: >> >>> It has lower cost and runs on lot lower hardware requirements. >> >> I see Thunderbird 3 needs a minimum of 1GB RAM. >> >> Ian > > Where? > > http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/system-requirements/ This guy likes to float bullshit one-liners, eminently quotable for "Google". -- I represent a sardine!!
From: Rotten Apple on 8 Jul 2010 10:12 "Clogwog" <clogwog(a)anon.eu> wrote in message news:i1434j$rti$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > "Gordon" <gordonbparker(a)yahoo.com> schreef in bericht > news:i12gc6$6mv$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> On 07/07/2010 18:08, Clogwog wrote: >> >>> >>> Because Brit schools are managed by retards like you. >>> In what we call "Open studie centrum", a secure environment, they can >>> access anything they want for school purposes! >> >> So MSN and Shydrive are academic tools? Don't make me LAUGH clunky clogs. > > If I ever need a brain transplant, I'd choose yours because I'd want a > brain that had never been used, Gortard. > >> And as I've already said, though I expect you've forgotten as your >> attention span is obviously about 5 seconds you do NOT need Windows to >> access MSN and Skydrive. > > 90% of these youngsters use Windows, maybe 1% uses Linux crapware! > 16 years of Linux advocacy: 1% desktop Linux! > <chuckle> There's over 1 billion Windows users in the world, so that means desktop Linux has at least 10 million users. That's not counting Kindle, Nook, Android, or Linux servers and supercomputers, or routers, set top boxes, etc.
From: Rotten Apple on 8 Jul 2010 11:18
"Gordon" <gordonbparker(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:i0viui$fve$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > On 05/07/2010 21:51, Clogwog wrote: > >> Children love Windows and want MSN, Hotmail, photoalbums on SkyDrive, >> Windows live! a.s.o., all free! > > And in school they are supposed to learn COMPUTING instead of social > networking sites, instant messaging and photograph sharing. > Cretin. What school are you taking about? Grade school? High School? College? What's "COMPUTING?" Computing ballistic tables and/or cracking Nazi code? |