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LinuxVillage welcome => The bistro! => Discussion démarrée par: Taco.22 le 22 février 2013 à 09:07:45

Titre: Is this for real !!!!
Posté par: Taco.22 le 22 février 2013 à 09:07:45
I was googling "obuntu" in the hope of coming across a clever variation for melodie's spin.  In the process I fell across this thread (http://www.belfastforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=46119.0) on a site called Belfast Forum.  This has to be a joke, right??  Irish joke??  Seriously??

I really hope someone is pulling someone's leg here!!  Please, before I lose all faith in humankind !!!!
Titre: Re : Is this for real !!!!
Posté par: melodie le 22 février 2013 à 10:29:01
Where can we find this version ?

Titre: Re : Is this for real !!!!
Posté par: djohnston le 22 février 2013 à 21:38:39
I was googling "obuntu" in the hope of coming across a clever variation for melodie's spin.  In the process I fell across this thread (http://www.belfastforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=46119.0) on a site called Belfast Forum.  This has to be a joke, right??  Irish joke??  Seriously??

I really hope someone is pulling someone's leg here!!  Please, before I lose all faith in humankind !!!!

The poster is a WindowsXP "refugee". I think he mean "Ubuntu". Mel's will be named Obubuntu.

Titre: Re : Is this for real !!!!
Posté par: Taco.22 le 23 février 2013 à 00:56:32
I think you all missed the  point, it's not about the name - read the thread!
Titre: Re : Is this for real !!!!
Posté par: djohnston le 23 février 2013 à 04:08:10
An Irish joke on the Belfast forum?  (http://belfastforum.co.uk/Smileys/excellent/scratch_ones_head.gif)
Titre: Re : Is this for real !!!!
Posté par: Taco.22 le 23 février 2013 à 04:58:14
Yeah, well it does seem a bit, umm, well ... Irish  :o
Titre: Re : Is this for real !!!!
Posté par: patrick013 le 23 février 2013 à 05:12:36
Yeah, they find out you're Irish you'll have all the jokes they have.

Not bad.
Titre: Re : Is this for real !!!!
Posté par: melodie le 23 février 2013 à 11:04:27
I am still missing the point. Never mind!
Titre: Re : Re : Is this for real !!!!
Posté par: Taco.22 le 23 février 2013 à 11:55:39
I am still missing the point. Never mind!

OK - it might be just me (although I do know that the French and the Irish were pretty close in the sixteenth century!) but let me break this down bit by bit.

First stanza - there's this bloke who threw away his computer -
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I put an old pc with xp os on the tip following a plague of problems.
I neglected to take a copy of my note books that included a lot of work.

I replaced my pc with a refurbished desktop with Obuntu 11.4 os which is very differant from xp

Is there a clever way I can get my notes into Obuntu's version of a note book with out doing the work all over again?

Then there is a response to this -
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Get the old one back from the tip?

To which our first bloke says -
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It would be worth the effort if I could find it.

To which the final response is -
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Okay well, it doesn't really matter which operating system you're using unfortunately.    Unless you've clouded the data or backed it up to some other source  it's gone to the same place as the tipped PC!


I seriously didn't think that data recovery could be expected to quite cover this!!

Titre: Re : Is this for real !!!!
Posté par: melodie le 23 février 2013 à 13:31:14
Now I get it. "tipped" means the machine was trashed... this is what I can now understand after I read again through your post. This is why I had not understood what the point was, while reading the first time. So, either the guy forgot to mention he backup the data, or he is lacking a piece of brains...  :-X