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Another time Alan Baker was wrong... no surpise to anybody... 591
On 17-7-06 12:38 PM, in article According to your own rules Edwin Alan Baker cannot possibly be wrong! The comments that Alan Baker made came from a post according to...
Another time Alan Baker was wrong... no surpise to anybody... 592
Why do you keep denying this? You know as well as I do that the posts remain...
Another time Alan Baker was wrong... no surpise to anybody... 593
No, it isn't. Then why did Einstein put his name under that text? The full...
Another time Alan Baker was wrong... no surpise to anybody... 594
C Lund Yes it is, liar. He didn't put his name under any text that appears in your post. None of that is in the post you reference above, liar. None of that appears...
Another time Alan Baker was wrong... no surpise to anybody... 595
yes it is no it isn't snipped) So who's words are these then: "This village, off the main roads and surrounded by Jewish lands, had...
Another time Alan Baker was wrong... no surpise to anybody... 596
The signatories don't appear, that's true. Here's what you snipped (call it "irrelevant anti-Semitism"; I've...
A Blast From The Past
I downloaded the free version of Virtual PC from Microsoft the other day. I decided that since I had fond memories of OS-2 I'd...
Mac OS X use versus Windows XP use... 598
Edwin, Edwin, Edwin. You just love to see the world in black and white, don't you? What set Macintosh apart from other OSes was that it defined not only how applications must...
Mac OS X use versus Windows XP use... 599
We've been through this before. operating system n : (computer science) software that controls the end of computer programs and may provide various services. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Regardless - your claim is this: "Those things are...
Mac OS X use versus Windows XP use... 600
Sandman I have no argument with that. Those things that YOU named are applications. A spell checker is an application, even if other applications can call on it. The...
Mac OS X use versus Windows XP use... 601
Alan Baker That isn't the only way. How do you think that Macs access Windows file systems? By running the Windows OS? You're wrong, as always...
Mac OS X use versus Windows XP use... 602
As components of the operating system. Just like a TCP-IP stack can be used as components in different operating systems. But...
Mac OS X use versus Windows XP use... 603
How you can open an app isn't influenced by the methods provided to you by the OS? For instance...
Mac OS X use versus Windows XP use... 604
Edwin, you're really going to have to provide us with a detailed definition of what an OS is, because no one here seems to be agreeing with you. Well, first...
Mac OS X use versus Windows XP use... 605
So you can remove it and still use your applications, can you? As usual, you miss the point. This isn't about Spotlight...
Mac OS X use versus Windows XP use... 606
Alan Baker Sure. Just use your CLI instead. Applications don't make file system calls. If that were true, applications would have to be written not only...
Mac OS X use versus Windows XP use... 607
Really? Word runs in a CLI? Fascinating. I didn't say that application make calls to the file system, because the file system can't accept calls. I said the application makes calls to the...
Peering inside the aluminum ball: Woodcrest, Conroe, and the "pro" Macs
Peering inside the aluminum ball: Woodcrest, Conroe, and the "pro" Macs By Eric Bangeman Sunday, July 16, 2006...
State uses Patriot Act to view private Facebook profiles 609
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Deuteros wrote on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:31:38 -0500 Privacy? What the hell does the term mean in the Information Age? Might as well ask whether...
State uses Patriot Act to view private Facebook profiles 610
John C. Randolph Facebook ain't exactly a public service. Read this, from Facebook's copyright agreement (part of the overall members' agreement): "By posting Member Content to any part of the Web...
State uses Patriot Act to view private Facebook profiles 611
ZnU Read that again. It says that the Facebook member "...automatically grant... an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive....worldwide license... to use, copy, perform, display, reformat, translate, excerpt..." etc, etc, ad nauseum...
State uses Patriot Act to view private Facebook profiles 612
The action in question here would mostly likely be covered by Sec. 2703(c)(2) of 18 U.S.C., "Required Disclosure of Customer...
State uses Patriot Act to view private Facebook profiles 613
ZnU A bureaucrat, whether attorney or not, takes a stack of names to a judge for a...
mac guided gunsight
zara some more stuff you will find on that website: "Tom Metzger is the director of The Insurgent AKA White Aryan Resistance and was born...
Dualdrive firewire enclosure
I am planning to buy a new Macbook-Pro when the Core2Duo models are announced in a couple of months. I plan to use Parallel to run Windows, and I currently have 65Gb in music...
Automator advocacy
I love Automator. I truly do. It's a wonderful tool. I'd like to share something I use automator for that...
Top 10 Windows Vista Hits & Misses
Alexander Wolfe at TechWeb has written a small preview of Vista and the ten hits and misses he find with it: Hit: Sidebar...
Ping Edwin: Virus damage
A while back you were downplaying virus issues, so I thought I'd snip a few tidbits from the July 10 Information Week, in an...
Ping Edwin: Virus damage 619
I seem resistant to what? Such as? You essentially just did. It's not. I've been using Windows 2000 for over six years without anti-malware software. And as I have proven to...
Ping Edwin: Virus damage 620
But one can make an informed determination. Since the systems are behind a hardware firewall (2000 doesn't have it's own), the systems are kept up to date with patches, and I run as a...
Ping Edwin: Virus damage 621
Yes, I did. I ran three pieces of anti-malware software (Grisoft AVG, LavaSoft AdAware, and Spybot Search and Destroy) at Snit's request. The...
Ping Edwin: Virus damage 622
Where am I doing that? That's one unqualified persons opinion. What's silly about it? I cannot stop something that I've not begun. We've already agreed that...
Ping Edwin: Virus damage 623
You keep arguing the strawman that I am claiming to be immune. I have told you point blank...
Ping Edwin: Virus damage 624
Grow up Snit. No Snit. The only thing that I'd "doing" is protecting myself in a way which is different than how you think I should. That's not the...
Ping Edwin: Virus damage 625
No, my logic is just fine. As evidenced by my having proven my claim that my systems were malware free despite the fact that I...
Ping Edwin: Virus damage 626
Irrelevant. My recommendations are just as effective against the smaller "trickles". My recommendations are just that...insurance. While they won't protect in every case they...
Ping Edwin: Virus damage 627
Geez, Snit, do you *ever* get a full night sleep? Anyway... let me draw you a picture of a very stupid hypocrite (that'd be you)... You're...
Mac Security: 20060719 Chit Chat &A#JD1Tg!d8
Hi to Mac Security fans. I have been enjoying a hiatus away from this regular post thanks to nice weather, lots to do, and nothing at all happening with...
Ordered iMac 20 inch
Can't wait. Full review to follow. Should be here by today or tomorrow at the latest, as per Apple. Oh and the business dept. of Apple were a a pleasure to deal...
Ordered iMac 20 inch
It might be for a few people -- it is quite obvious in the bulk of the manufacturing world that...
Ordered iMac 20 inch. 631
Be careful, Mitch: You might be placed in the same "room" as the others like to place me, with...
Ordered iMac 20 inch. 632
Unsend labor" in the Chinese Mainland is "farm workers and other laborers". Those who work in factories such as produce computers are being paid much more than "unsend laborers". Comparing the wages of...
Ordered iMac 20 inch. 633
Edwin We would all like to believe that, but the reality is that the 'buy American' requirement is a paper tiger...
Ordered iMac 20 inch. 634
Nashton, you will really be happy with your Intel iMac 20". A GREAT machine to run XP on. To bad it has no user-accessible expansion slots (other than the memory slots under the bottom...
Its Hot It Must Be Global Warming 635
Good article, Dave. Thanks for posting the URL. Here in Northern California, we are certainly feeling the consequences of our warming planet. We...
Its Hot It Must Be Global Warming 636
Record temperatures in the UK By July 17th most of the country was perspiring in the hottest temperatures in decades. It became too hot to work after midday, so...
OT Its Hot It Must Be Global Warming 637
Mayor of R'lyeh I would think the fact we use so many other alternatives means that the use of coal must be way down. There are very few steam trains or steam ships left...
OT Its Hot It Must Be Global Warming 638
ZnU's graph posted elsewhere in this thread suggests otherwise, showing as it does an exponential rise in CO2 in the past few decades. You're expecting today's vegetation to suck out several million...
OT Its Hot It Must Be Global Warming 639
No, not catastrophic consequences for thr planet, but rather catastrophic consequences for human habitation of the planet. The planet...
OT Its Hot It Must Be Global Warming 640
Show me where I said or even infered that? I did say that it would take decades to wean ourselves off of hydrocarbons, and it most butturedly would (meanwhile the warming trend continues to increase...
OT Its Hot It Must Be Global Warming 641
There isn't anything we can do about it. Doesn't mean we CAN'T try, we probably just WON'T try. I doubt seriously that we could...
OT Its Hot It Must Be Global Warming 642
So you are advocating doing nothing in the hope that climate change predictions prove unfounded? You're quite happy to risk the destruction of the world economy...
OT Its Hot It Must Be Global Warming 643
Wow, you sure read a lot into what I said.. all I said was that it makes no...
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