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iPodready cars, look at the macintards jump for joy 3174
Wegie Wrong. Thank you for displaying your ignorance of how drivers work. Wrong again. Mac users are mostly computer...
Sandman's Website Debate: Update 2 3175
You claim that you made this suggestion here: Actually there is an earlier post in the same thread where you what you apparently call 'suggestions'. Your post...
OT A note on obsessions on usenet
It's no secret that Snit is pretty obsessive about a number of posters here on csma - but I...
Apple trounces Dell...again
Apple remains at the very top of computer users satisfaction survey. From the article... "Dell still trails the quality leader in the personal computer industry...
Apple Releases Boot Camp 1.1
Apple Releases Boot Camp 1.1 Tuesday August 15, 2006 07:34 PM EST Apple has quietly posted an update to Boot Camp to version 1.1. According...
Add money to your Paypal account with OPRAH jrqf
Read this message until the end, and you will find out how the money flows in easy !!!!. Follow the steps and it WILL work. Trust me !!!!!. It's NOT illegal and it...
Windows Vista: Doomed In The Corporate World
Word on the street is that many businesses are simply not interested in Vista. The Seattle PI ran a recent...
My Ubuntu installation notes long
So, instead of installing linux on my high end ATI-powered gaming PC (since some said that GPU acceleration wouldn't work) I took an older 1.8Ghz P4 machine with 768MB of RAM and...
My Ubuntu installation notes long! 3182
First off my apologies if some of the points inline below have already been mentioned by someone else. Windows, last I checked, did the same. The option *needs* to be somewhere, but...
My Ubuntu installation notes long! 3183
Sandman You are enbreastled to your opinion but being that you appear to be new to Linux...
My Ubuntu installation notes long! 3184
Sandman The ATI binary drivers do actually work, they just aren't as good as Nvidia's. As I recall, the option on Ubunut 6.06 says something to...
My Ubuntu installation notes long
You could add a "I don't know what 'parbreastioning' means" button which would bring the user to some documentation explaining how it works, and what the significance and impact of the decisions are...
My Ubuntu installation notes long! 3186
Oliver Wong One of the reasons I love Debian, and by extension Ubuntu, is the apt-get package management system - indeed, I switched from SuSE to Mepis when Ubuntu and especially Kubuntu weren't yet up...
My Ubuntu installation notes long! 3187
Oliver Wong Some times there are going to be situations where there is an buttumption of knowledge. I think this is a reasonable one--if you...
My Ubuntu installation notes long! 3188
Sandman The ATI binary drivers do actually work, they just aren't as good as Nvidia's. As I recall, the option on Ubunut 6.06 says something to the effect of 'Boot into the live environment and...
My Ubuntu installation notes long! 3189
Snit Yes, you did--the sentence you snipped from the beginning provided *very* important context. "I'm not a huge fan of Gentoo. I...
My Ubuntu installation notes long! 3190
Chris Clement It is productivity where I find that Linux beats (or rather, blows) the socks off Mac and Windows. I speak from fairly recent (bad...
My Ubuntu installation notes long! 3191
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, owl wrote on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:58:18 +0000 (UTC) Don't worry. Microsoft Windows Vista(tm) will...
My Ubuntu installation notes long! 3192
Hello World, Snit I am at workplace now, running Windows on a corporate issue PeeCee, hence I have exactly One desktop. I am not...
My Ubuntu installation notes long! 3193
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:39:09 +0200, No, that simply switches...
My Ubuntu installation notes long! 3194
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Jim Richardson wrote on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:42:34 -0700 How does one switch a task in a computer anyway? There's one microprocessor and many contenders -- processes. The kernel says "OK, you...
My Ubuntu installation notes long! 3195
What resources? Memory? If that's in short supply the "wasteful apps" will get swapped out to disk and you will take a disk hit...
My Ubuntu installation notes long! 3196
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:56:29 +0200, by letting me get more done... I don't...
My Ubuntu installation notes long! 3197
You make no sense whatsoever. Sorry. Clse wha apps? I dont close any apps unless I am done with them about...
My Ubuntu installation notes long! 3198
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:59:00 -0700, Snit Ask Roy S to repost his screenshot of his dual-head setup, that contained a virtual pager...
My Ubuntu installation notes long! 3199
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:33:31 -0700, Snit I don't think so. The two have no relationship. This is not a mathematical formula we're...
My Ubuntu installation notes long! 3200
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Snit wrote on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:16:25 -0700 Eh? The computer doesn't have...
My Ubuntu installation notes long! 3201
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Snit wrote on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:03:45 -0700 Just disproving a false statement. :-) Of course this is COLA; is there...
Apple not interested in gaming
Pros * Blisteringly fast * Extremely quiet * Four SATA II drive bays and fast PCIe * Excellent value vs. Xeon-based PC workstations or Quad G5 * error...
Why Mac OS X Is Superior to Linux and Windows
Dean G. The way most people use the English language, customizing would correspond more to "special...
Macs no longer overpriced InfoWorld
this is for the Mayor, the guy that always gets confused on this subject. Before I get to the news of the week, I need to wrap...
The price of the original Mac: An interesting fact
that Edwin completely overlooked in his zeal to declare (wrongly) that the Mac only sold 50,000 units in 1984. Steve Jobs was not the big bad...
OT: Why I do not like to code on Windows
Chris Clement Allow me please... A guy like Billy Gates with a rich daddy gets his own monopoly after wiping his butt...
After 56 solid years the rents IBM spit the bit
Ok the rock solid P4 1.5, 1 gig, 80 gig has poo the bed. Just as well, tired of giving computer lessons. I am going to try this Apple thing one more time. My mom...
Read a rumor that DTrace will be in OS X Leopard
As we all know, the BSDs are having a major resurgence of late. BSD, Solaris 10 (X), OS X are of course cousins being offsprings from Bill Joy's (and other's) work. The resurgance...
YAFWP
Or Yet Another f***ing Windows Problem. I just deleted FedoreCore 5 Linux off my desktop PC...
Wireless MacBook Hack Confirmed Scam
This was obviously coming... the demo showing a MacBook being wirelessly hacked was a complete Scam and SecureWorks Black Hat have posted an apology. "This video presentation at Black Hat demonstrates...
Maynor and Ellch LIED through their teeth
SecureWorks has issued a disclaimer about the alleged demonstration of a Mac Book being compromised through its wireless connection. Contrary to reports it is now clear that...
Read a rumor that DTrace will be in OS X Leopard. 3212
Karen Hill One of the big issues with BSD was all of the "Forking" that...
Read a rumor that DTrace will be in OS X Leopard. 3213
Karen Hill Ugh, why won't the damn thing just stay down? How many times does it have to get end before the developers realize...
Read a rumor that DTrace will be in OS X Leopard. 3214
Snit Maybe you *can* learn, after all. Oops, there we go again. Dropping into these unfounded...
Read a rumor that DTrace will be in OS X Leopard. 3215
Snit In this context, it was an affirmation of the statement made--that Apple doesn't provide as many options as the rest of the PC industry. Having trouble with English again? Because you seemed...
Read a rumor that DTrace will be in OS X Leopard. 3216
Snit There are significant parts that were lifted from FreeBSD, but those are mostly limited to the userspace. This does not establish a relationship strong enough to justify a...
Read a rumor that DTrace will be in OS X Leopard. 3217
In my opinion the semantic game here is yours. If a loose definition of the word "crime" is used I can see how you could *potentially...
Read a rumor that DTrace will be in OS X Leopard. 3218
Guilty in a moral sense, of course... as you're obviously not talking about legal guilt. ***************** Here is where your 'new' guilt argument sprang from... an old argument you made about Bush... of...
Read a rumor that DTrace will be in OS X Leopard. 3219
Yes... in a moral sense (as opposed to a legal one). The very definition of "guilty" is being responsibility for having committed a "reprehensible" act (a...
Read a rumor that DTrace will be in OS X Leopard. 3220
Snit No, I cited several definitions, highlighted the one I was using, and stated that the other relevant ones would work as well if you disliked the one...
Kudos to Sandman 3221
And you keep running from my questions. These were your claims: 1. Your HTML doesn't validate - Could be interpreted as a suggestion...
Kudos to Sandman 3222
You keep running from the facts: These were your claims: 1. Your HTML doesn't validate - Could be interpreted as a suggestion. I corrected...
Kudos to Sandman 3223
No, it hasn't. If it had, there would be comments from you above. Here it is again: These were your claims: 1. Your HTML doesn't validate - Could be interpreted...
Kudos to Sandman 3224
You never showed me anything of the kind. All pages that are served by my CMS system has...
Windows Vista has critical bugs 3225
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 06:19:35 GMT, Mitch That's really irrelvant. Why? Because it doesn't matter how complex or well thought out the security is where flaws are concerned...
Windows Vista has critical bugs 3226
even ===Linux is no threat to Microsoft=== * - Scott Nudds - August 10, 2006 -* It's been about 15 years since the original version of the Linux kernel was produced by Linus...
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