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Would additional file sharing connections be of any use to the home user with a single computer...
Help Discussion, linux 274
There is no cost to MS to allow as many connections as possible. The only advantage is that MS charges more for services that cost them nothing. Therefore, the *reason* behind this...
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I am equally certain that Microsoft works diligently to maximize its profits and that is what a commercial corporation better be doing in a defensible...
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Good News! Do you know how simple it is to go to Heaven after this life has ended? Some people believe that belonging...
Saluting 25 Years of Microsoft 'Innovation
Ricola ! espoused: The tipping point concept is that you don't need to have a majority of a market, or even close to that...
Microshafting GPS software
Its in a slashdot story About M$ mis using the software patenting system to patent a combination of arbitrary symbols that will define a 'program' for logitude and latbreastude in...
Microshafting GPS software
7 I've got an idea: Just take the fp binary rep of the long-lat (or any other coord system used) in big-endian exp-mant order and convert it n-bits at a...
The Liberal Arts Major Test
The Liberal Arts Major Test Think an average Windows user would be comfortable in GNOME? John Meuser interviews a liberal arts major at Purdue University...
This has happended too many times before... 282
Greg Finnigan IT IS STANDARD to have to download updates and recompile parts of those updates for VENDOR specific packages after updating a kernel on ANY LINUX, UNIX or...
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Greg Finnigan Really? I have minimal Linux experience, but that experience says it just works. About 18 months ago, I got a great deal...
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begin Tom F. Where is "here"? But I do agree, this "Greg Finnigan" is a troll. It is "flatfish", a crossposting windows using retard...
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Slider There are two things about OS X that you generally don't see together in the Linux world, and they...
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I fully agree with this. Restricting hardware choices is very much a double edged sword, whilst its very likely to keep costs relatively high (unless some...
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On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:10:48 -0600, Liam Slider Over the years I have learned to take anything a Linux advocate says with a very small grain...
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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:35:43 -0500 Mostly because I happen to like the notion that everything's more or...
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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Tukla Ratte wrote on Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:26:23 -0600 Not sure. The instructions do walk you...
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On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:24:34 -0500, Greg Finnigan Don't you mean a *large* grain of salt? Do at least get your terminology right. A powerful...
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On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:24:34 -0500, Greg Finnigan Linux is Free as in Freedom. Yes. If you weren't posting...
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On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:43:02 -0600, Liam Slider Freedom from cost maybe. However for most professional people, TIME is money and Linux consumes A...
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On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 00:30:25 +0000, Greg Finnigan Doesn't consume a lot of time for me. There are far more games for Linux, than for the Mac...
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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Robert G. Cook wrote on Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:35:13 -0600 It's a term occasionally used by Linuxophiles to describe a certain other OS -- and is probably annoying to...
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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Liam Slider wrote on Mon, 07 Feb 2005 19:39:36 -0600 Not bad; 25 vendors (6 global, 19 regional) -- unfortunately, one of them is Dell...
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Greg Finnigan poked his little head through the XP firewall and said: And freedom from vendor lock-in, obscurantism, planned obsolescence, technical and licensing back-doors, and artificial limitations on functionality. No...
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BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 19:26:26 -0500, Not really. Plug in the CD, and go. I spend a lot less...
Cutting through the c.o.l.a. caca 298
Ralph That's true - nobody says it, and nobody here said it. How can Linux blow Windows out of...
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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:30:18 -0500 That does sound like a major performance issue, actually -- though a good chunk of it is because Windows "cheats". But Linux could equally...
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The Ghost In The Machine Rex Ballard made this claim as well (note it's best not to let your name...
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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:19:23 -0500 Well, my understanding is that Windows preloads -- chugging one's disk drive even as it presents the login screen. No...
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On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 23:00:11 GMT, The Ghost In The Machine The bloatedness of Windows comes from having no choice but to run the big apps even for minor...
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7 Where do you get those prices? 512mb RAM for $40 2ghz CPUs for $30 80gb hard drives for $30 Total $100 I think you're exaggerating like a Linux moron, as you...
Windopes Interoperability fails Episode I
Billy Goat vows 'interoperability' will never work on his platform as he don't know what it is. M$ is not open source therefore its not interoprable with anything else we know of. By Nicked Farrell...
Windopes Interoperability fails Episode II
Below is the email in full from Billy Goat himself: " Dear Windope (L)users everywhere, Mhahahhahhah! Tis I...
Proprietary platforms and you
What hgappens exactly if Microsoft decides it no longer os going to provide support or updates for one of their products? What happens to all of the people that are still...
Proprietary platforms and you. 309
There's a major oversight in your argument. Let's consider two different hypothetical programmers writing custom financial software back during NeXT's glory days. One reasons as you have, and therefore does not use NeXT...
Proprietary platforms and you. 310
rapskat you mean like, Windows 98, or Apple Mac OS 9 (or earlier) Well from my experience they do their darndest to make life miserable until you upgrade and then it...
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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, rapskat wrote on Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:37:23 -0500 You mean like Windows NT and Windows 98? :-) They get screwed, of course. About as likely as...
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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, billwg wrote on Tue, 08 Feb 2005 18:22:05 GMT You snipped the actual company name -- INTC. I'd agree that they are a *partner*, if only...
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Hard to accurately say what happens in a world without a Microsoft to act as a catalyst for the IBM PC clone business which is the...
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Presumable that is a failed attempt at humor. You give far too much Credit Debt to...
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billwg Really?? Well, then you already knew what it meant then didn't you. So, you are resorting to...
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billwg yeah, huyuck, huyuck... your humour is just like Goofy eh?? No, you are just being pigheaded about...
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I don't see it as much of a problem, a software program is going to work exactly the same as it did when the company was...
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They get support from elsewhere - Usenet, mailing lists, etc. - just like the vast majority of Linux users who have no corporate support or toll-free numbers...
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Should Microsoft go under, or otherwise stop supporting it, how do you plan on activating a copy of Windows XP? It's almost a good thing SCO sued. Once they are...
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Ray Ingles What's XP's activation got to do with Win 2K? I've got Win 3.1 on a machine here. That still works (if it ever gets...
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rapskat Windopes have to measure their exposure to risks with M$ Draw a grid, on the left put...
Proprietary platforms and you. Googlegroups: Posters killfiled by
begin It was on Tue, 08 Feb 2005 01:26:53 +0000, that B Gruff sent this dispatch...
Ringo Starr's Website
I do a lot of web browsing. Sometimes I think, "am I the only one browsing this web page". And, even weirder, I think, "am I the only...
Forget about uptimes
rapskat The man from the television crawled into the train. I wonder who he's gonna stick it in this time. Everyone was looking for a little entertainment, so they'll probably pull his...
Great opinion piece 326
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Linønut wrote on Tue, 08 Feb 2005 16:57:16 -0600 And here I thought ZDNet *liked* Microsoft. :-) But yeah, it appears the courts may have been a little less...
Great opinion piece 327
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, A Nengineer wrote on Tue, 08 Feb 2005 23:35:33 GMT I personally would prefer the market crush Microsoft...
OT Enough Bullpoo was: Great opinion piece
You know, I'm getting more than a little tired of what seems to be half the posts in this group having to include a bunch of libertarian bullpoo...
OT Enough Bullpoo was: Great opinion piece
Governments are elected, and thus represent the will of the people in so far as the system is able to do so. Companies do...
Great opinion piece 330
begin B Gruff dedi ki: This, I don't understand. How can one treat a court with contempt and get away with it? Exceptions aside, courts don't suggest or recommend. They...
Great opinion piece 331
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 11:28 Abdullah Ramazanoglu Well, look at this quote from the same article...
Postal 2: Share the Pain is available for immediate purchase
Linux Game Publishing announced that the latest release of Postal 2: Share the Pain is available for immediate purchase! It includes two games in one! Complete single player game...
From Windows to Linux
I made two attempts to go from Windows to Linux. The first was entirely a flop. Hardware driver problems. It was with Lindows (Linspire...
Goodbye Mr. Gates
Last year we spent far too much time and money dealing with spyware, malware, browser hijackers, viruses...
Goodbye Mr. Gates 335
DFS Of course you'd be suprised, your a CSS drone, you've had to click a EULA for decades now..... The GPL only takes effect when you DISTRIBUTE not install-use-run. You keep missing that...
Goodbye Mr. Gates 336
Monti is, of course, a prosecutor the same as Joel Klein for the DOJ, and he is unlikely to be giving both sides of the story. The EU actions are equivalent to those of...
Goodbye Mr. Gates 337
Whether you agree with the courts attempts to fix the illegal behaviour of Microsoft is not the...
Goodbye Mr. Gates 338
Ralph There never has been only one alternative for PC operating systems. Why do you persist in perpetuating this lie? I see. He didn't explain what changed or what...
Goodbye Mr. Gates 339
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 15:20:00 -0500, DFS Good lord, how old are you? You act like my 12 year old when I tease him about his favorite team not making the play-offs...
Goodbye Mr. Gates 340
CapsLock I'm in my prime: 42. Except for golf, I don't really care for sports (maybe a little NFL), but I think I understand your insult. You obviously...
DFS the TruthSayer 341
Daeron All true, for me, at the time I wrote them. What's the problem? "Install Updates". Guess what? It completely locked up the...
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