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WWDC Announced Today June 610
The world's largest unix conference is set for June 6th through the 10th in San Francisco. This is also likely when Tiger 10.4 will be announced. Apple on Tuesday announced the dates of its...
Goodbye Usenet. Hello Gayling Lists, Shat, and Wank forums. 705
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, rapskat wrote on Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:35:55 -0500 Vorgon?! 2 Vogon Constructor fleet. Here's what you do if you want to get...
Goodbye Usenet. Hello Gayling Lists, Shat, and Wank forums. 706
strung-out, diarrheic hog-nose, and pig drover, moaned: Surrealism And Dialectic Theory K. Hans O'Hara Department of English, Miskatonic University, Arkham, Mbutt. Contexts Of Paradigm The primary theme of...
Giving Views on Open Source Development
Hi all, A few days ago I was asked by a student in America (I am in the UK) if...
The Linux Advocates Playbook Revealed
First off, you will not find any Linux advocates in comp.os.linux.advocacy but you will find children, morons and other social defects for whom Linux is the only thing that they think they can...
The Linux Advocates Playbook Revealed! 709
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 first of all, let me call it as I see it: thou art a troll! Phillip Cornwallis and who says this (other than you)? hmmmmmmmmm. interesting. you also left...
The Linux Advocates Playbook Revealed! 710
Phillip Cornwallis wrote something like: Yep, their are a lot of trolls and other social misfits on...
Going Xandros
WOOOO This OS is hot. I mean, it is hot. It detected EVERYTHING. This is the system for those that don't want to learn...
Going Xandros 712
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:15:57 -0800, opus What's the point of using Linux, of you don't want to learn anything about...
Going Xandros 713
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kier wrote on Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:50:30 +0000 crunch This waxes philosphical, but at the end of the day, one merely wants...
Going Xandros 714
Them lazy bone headed jerks. Nope. This is the core of the problems with Linux. I found an easy fix. console, su, pbuttword, copy paste this line, run, works. But why the heck couldn't they...
Ubuntu 5.04...Linux done the right way
I've been pretty satisfied with Suse 9.2 for a while now but some things are bugging me. 1. Documentation is difficult to find. Yes the Admin guide is excellent, but...
Ubuntu 5.04...Linux done the right way
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 17:42:55 -0400, flatfish+++ I have used Ubuntu 5.04 a couple of months now and I am just as happy as you. This is the longest time I have...
Words That Must Haunt Bill
In Bill Gates' column in the New York Times, January 19, 1996, when asked about that 'quote': I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in...
Words That Must Haunt Bill Discussion, linux 718
The proof of what? That the quote is consistent with his atbreastude? Maybe. That he actually *said* it? Of course not. I don't really have...
Words That Must Haunt Bill Discussion, linux 719
I don't trust human witnesses when they claim to have read a particular quote over twenty years ago. Especially not when that quote has become a popular story in the intervening years...
Words That Must Haunt Bill Discussion, linux 720
I don't know of any case in which "circumstantial evidence" was sufficient to attribute words to an individual when we had no direct evidence that anyone ever...
Words That Must Haunt Bill Discussion, linux 721
You're wrong that he has *never* denied saying it. The following excerpt is from clearly denied saying it. ,---- By BILL GATES c.1996 Bloomberg Business News QUESTION: I read in a...
Isn't this Tux
wrote on 16 Feb 2005 06:39:23 -0800 This just in: Tux admits having love with a panther, a bobcat, a midget, a gear, a ship, a dinosaur, an armored...
Linux on the low down
People are DYING TO JUMP Microsoft. But they are not running to Linux. Many are having Linux rammed down their throats by the company for financial reasons, but the mbuttes are not running...
The best browser ever, looms
hedge-pig, and girl aged 5-18 employed as a coal-drawer, hummed: Stawt psychowogicaw pwofiwing Statistics...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 725
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 10:19:10 +0000, William Poaster "Thousands more linux desktops" is indeed a "huge increase", I don't dispute that, I emphasize it! Huge only by Linux usage metrics...
Thousands more Linux desktops
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 11:58:00 +0100, OK You missed this bit:- "TheCounter.com counts-tracks only the page on...
Thousands more Linux desktops! Discussion, linux
That is an impressive figure, but it's dated. The CNet article that your link refers to has expired. Strange that an earlier article...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 728
William Poaster poked his little head through the XP firewall and said: "And it said that Linux' market share will reach 33% by 2007, meaning Microsoft's margins will...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 729
poor john was still in diapers the last time apple unseated a giant. it's not numbers that dictate the ability to unseat an established player. apple...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 730
yes, but the applespawn a huge economy of cheap machines that knocked out venders such as sperry, wang, xerox, control data, etc... the high point of the applewas around 30% in 1983, the rest...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 731
IBM when through a horrible time in the 80's because of this, they had to lay off 300,000 people just to stay afloat, it was mbuttive damage...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 732
yes, all set in motion by the Apple-, just as the Mac completely altered the print and publishing industry now is doing the same to...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 733
system that did what huge mainframes were doing. where is ole Jac? Is he still alive? hum... no he wouldn't disagree with that... his pet came after the apple and...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 734
You are ignoring the people who download a single, and then go buy the CD. Try this: divide the number of iTMS songs sold by the number of iPods sold...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 735
Why? I thought everything was going to change when the iMacs were announced? Then it was all going to change when OS X was announced. Then...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 736
of the Personal Computer market, quite a bit in recent years, they are around 5-7% But if you...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 737
This is yet another take on a theme we've seen repeatedly since the Mac mini was announced. Everyone seems to be...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 738
No, it's wishlist stuff. It's "I would buy a computer from Apple if it had this...." I'm sure most people...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 739
You don't make much sense. I didn't say the only way to give the Mac mini more internal expansion would be to make it a full-sized...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 740
deletia "Solaris" is not a shell. If you think it is then it is you that has demonstrated a lack of understanding...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 741
OK, I'll give you today's Solaris. last time I actually used it (early '90s), it was most butturedly a shell. "Bastardized" is a pejorative. It usually describes something that...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 742
Nope, sorry. NeXT used Display PostScript, which has been entirely replaced. That's entertaining. Did you actually look at the iLife link I provided? There's loads of information there, including brief walkthroughs of how...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 743
begin LawsonE You happened to overlook that word "expandability" You happened to overlook that word "expandability" I did not claim that the 500GBytes are already present. You usually get...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 744
How many *people* can possibly be employed in positions to *use* those workstations Edwin? THINK...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 745
I lost 110 pounds over the last year, and it wasn't even any effort. :-) All I did was start keeping a log of everything I ate, and looked up the...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 746
I can not speak of his questions to you, Edwin, but you sure backed down in a...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 747
begin Oxford Ah, they could not supply enough processors? Really? And then they will be again at 3rd place? Really? Who...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 748
TravelinMan IOW, your name is Ediot. weeks buy. Well, first of all, Ediot, I mentioned Intel and AMD, not just AMD. "CUPERTINO, California-June 9, 2004...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 749
TravelinMan long really processors, the (PC) You're the confused one. Wintel was in 64 bit computing...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 750
TravelinMan boxes. good win, a to people years? and you to of Macs Sparc in at since the BSD the "The...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 751
Do you really believe that the number of workstations is 10x the number of PCs? You have a number that's clearly bogus. For example...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 752
TravelinMan Ralph don't For easier weakening. the 1985-1997 well the are claiming is to short last Out of approximately over half year there 2004. them, now blowhard? "absurd...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 753
TravelinMan the a sales. you had sold error. blowhard. "bogus." No you don't. You're to willfully stupid to see anything. of No, not by "Edwin logic." By Dr.Joe Ragosta's Jackbutt Logic(TM...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 754
Oxford Are you aware Mac is number three on the desktop? Unseat means sales - sales eating into the share of other OS's - where are they? Not on the...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 755
But not in Sales... that's where the action is, sure if you count every PC that could be turned on and turned into a Linux machine...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 756
Oxford Why o why, must Oxford reply with nothing but fallacies, half trues and plain old deceptive comments. Let's look at this little paragraph of yours and see...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 757
yes, i'm generalizing, but some linux advocate was trying to bundle a high end apple monitor just to bump up the price of the mini, and you...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 758
no, i do see that, and $140 is A LOT on a $499 item... I guess what I've never understood is why...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 759
Oxford Bullpoo. My RAM selection was clearly middle of the pack, and actually leaning towards...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 760
Oxford You quote US prices to a person from the UK. At least get the prices right. In your currency, Mini's start at $640 (UK) $668 plus 1 (Eire). Outside the US, do you think...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 761
TravelinMan G5 iMac is £560 more than the Mini. A Mac monitor is £68 plus 19.00. Buy a decent 17" PC LCD to go with your shiny Mini? No. The monitor is part...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 762
well no, apple doesn't build a screen smaller than 20", but the same rule applies to Linux, if you want the very best display, it's going to...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 763
TravelinMan See above. No. What I did was look at the cheapest base unit my supplier sells for £200 incl delivery. It's spec is the same as the Mini. The first price used...
Thousands more Linux desktops! 764
Parts are parts... the same HD goes in a mac as a pc... at 100GB 2.5 drive on the open market is $168 plus 1, not $260!!!! Yes, but we...
Why Didn't SCO sue APPLE
As other people have said, it depends very much on your definition of microkernel. It does implement some of the neater microkernel philosophies, but it is not "small". The last true microkernel...
Even Microsoft employees don't buy Microsoft any more
monkey, and almsman, hullabalooed: Start psychological profiling Statistics: =========== Approximate word count: 58 Punctuation: 4 full...
The 2.6 kernel is worse than 2.4
I thought the kernel development process was botched for the 2.4 cycle. With the scheduler fiasco and such, I thought the kernel team would be better...
The 2.6 kernel is worse than 2.4
Mike Cox Look at a mirror and see who the disaster is :-) ATAPI is SCSI commands sent over an ATA channel. Cdrecord is been working perfectly...
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