Re: Microsoft admits that Windows is short-term support in realistic terms

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:24:41 -0500
Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

On Fri, 2/21/2025 1:10 PM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:53:10 -0500
Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
 

On Thu, 2/20/2025 4:22 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:27:56 -0500, Paul wrote:
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The original offering was "bash shell".

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“Bash” stands for “Bourne-Again SHell”. So what you have there is the
“bourne-again shell shell”.
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I didn't pick the name for this thing.
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I'm forced to use terminology that other
people in the group might recognize.
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That's the shorthand for the "we don't know why they are doing Linux" project.
The original justification for doing it, was pretty lame.
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There is probably only one other person than myself using it.
The audience here isn't really interested.
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But if you want to have XEyes on your Windows desktop, you can.
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     [Picture]
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     https://i.postimg.cc/s2sSnJS9/xeyes-are-watching.gif
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As Anton has said, that's not a picture, it's a web page with stuff that
might show you a picture.
 

 
Do you know why that caption is there ?
 
It's for a blind person!!!!!!!
 
Blind people use web browsers too. They use a screen reader.
If there is text on the web page, they can partake of whatever
is being discussed.
 
When I would post a picture, I was kindly asked if I might caption
the item, so it could be avoided entirely if the content was
just an image and no other information a blind person could
use was present.
 
THAT is why the caption is there.
 

That wasn't my objection; it's this:
The link isn't a direct url to a picture, the hosting company wraps it
in some unnecessary scripting.

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Bah, and indeed Humbug.