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[Tom <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hopefully the unsupported and old hand-held might prove to be one hook for this 
person.  The clincher should (hopefully) be that their most recent emails are 
now on Thunderbird in Ubuntu and no longer on Thunderbird in Windows.  


I had to abandon the idea of sharing unless i create a special ntfs specifically 
for sharing stuff between Windows and Ubuntu which would probably have been a 
good idea from the start of the whole 'migration'.  Automounting the main 
Windows partition through fstab looks toooo dangerous.  Of course i have 
installed grsync (very nice gui btw) and the last command-line action was to 
rsync the Ubuntu files to the Windows folder in 

Docs&Settings/user/ApplicationData/Thunderbird/Profiles
to complete the job i think i should have also rsync'd it to 
Docs&Settings/user/LocalData/ApplicationData/Thunderbird/Profiles
as well.  <sarcastic>Obviously a much easier </sarcastic> pathname to reach than 
Ubuntu's
/home/user/thunderbird  (which is safely on a separate partition from the / 
Something else Windows is unlikely to ever manage)

So all the person needs to do is press up arrow 1 time and then enter to back-up 
and get Windows up-to-date.  I guess that next time i pop round i could set that 
up as a script but i haven't done any scripting before (not counting html, css & 
wiki's).  It will be easier for me to do the shared partition route i would 
guess, at least for me.

When i first started posting in this thread, even a few months ago i would have 
looked at this post in horror but learning is so easy with Ubuntu it is almost 
impossible to notice one's own rapid growth.
Regards from
Tom :)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1

Title:
  Microsoft has a majority market share

Status in Club Distro:
  Confirmed
Status in Computer Science Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in EasyPeasy Overview:
  Invalid
Status in GNOME Screensaver:
  Won't Fix
Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians:
  Invalid
Status in JAK LINUX:
  Invalid
Status in The Linux OS Project:
  In Progress
Status in The Metacity Window Manager:
  In Progress
Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite:
  In Progress
Status in Tabuntu:
  Invalid
Status in A simple player to online TV streaming:
  Invalid
Status in Tv-Player:
  New
Status in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in The Jaunty Jackalope:
  Invalid
Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty:
  Invalid
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
  Invalid
Status in “linux” package in Debian:
  In Progress
Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS:
  Confirmed
Status in openSUSE:
  In Progress
Status in Tilix Linux:
  New

Bug description:
  Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace.
This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.

Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.

Steps to repeat:

1. Visit a local PC store.

What happens:
2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed.
3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed.

What should happen:
1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu.
2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all.
3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.