Re: Larkin, Power BASIC cannot be THAT good:

On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:32:00 GMT, Rich Grise <richgrise@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:47:28 +0000, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:06:03 -0700) it happened John Larkin

Hence Microsoft - the McDonalds of the software industry.

Hey! Don't knock Mac's! They're good, nutritious food, and tasty, too!

And you can order one, and have it handed to you on a tray with a
Coke, faster than Windows will start up.

John

Yes, but windows will start faster then it takes to resize a reiserfs from 830 to 600 GB:


What sane person resizes a file system? While it has DATA on it???

Thanks,
Rich

I do not think of myself as particularly loonie. Just the same, i
have resized many file systems along the way. Always just after a
backup and normally from outside (not on any mounted / running file
system).
.

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