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   Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:   
      
   ak>  Sorry for silence.    
      
      
              Okay.  Thanks for letting us know what's going on....  :-)   
      
      
      
   ak>  Do you know that Windows, an American operating system,    
   ak>  has been declared in Russia as undesirable product of    
   aK>  an enemy state,    
      
      
              No, I didn't until you brought up the subject.   
      
              I wouldn't put it quite that way, of course, but I understand a lot   
   of people Over Here object to the system for various reasons.  Dallas & I once   
   knew a guy (now deceased) who spelled the name "Windoze"... perhaps because of   
   its tendency to reduce the speed of his computer when it insisted that what it   
   wanted to do was much more important than what he wanted to do & couldn't wait   
   for him to finish the task at hand.  I've had the same experience myself.  And   
   while I'm not a techie, I've heard Linux is reputed to be more secure....  :-)   
      
      
      
   ak>  and there had been issued an order to refuse from it (in    
   aK>  all state structures) and rewrite all applications to the    
   aK>  Russian version of Linux (a Debian clone).    
      
      
              All applications??  Sounds like a mammoth task!  FWIW I notice some   
   names you might recognize in the LINUX echo... and I believe at least a couple   
   of the participants understand Russian.  I'm not sure how much assistance they   
   would be able to offer, however, if they're using an English-language version.   
      
      
      
   ak>  It it very funny and I have some fun too, having a chance    
   ak>  to meet with Linux and its developing tool Qtcreator.    
      
      
              Glad to know you're enjoying it, at any rate....  :-)   
      
      
      
   ak>  I like it in general, although the concepts of the program    
   ak>  should be changed and it will take time. But it will be    
   ak>  cooler working with different character coding systems.   
      
      
              I've heard it said that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger, and   
   AFAIC there is often a certain amount of truth to such generalities.  The most   
   important lesson I learned in my high school geometry class, e.g., was that as   
   long as there's no time limit I can figure out [whatever] eventually....  :-))   
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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