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Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1303
ZnU poked his little head through the XP firewall and said: As long as the GUI isn't refreshing any graphics, it won't be consuming much CPU time. I think the bigger issues...
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BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:15:22 -0600, he does...
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BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 06:33:42 -0600, Better for *whom*? "Better" isn't a binary, it isn't a numerical comparison, with this being...
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begin TravelinMan I do. And I dont want a server CPU wasting time on painting pretty desktops nobody is ever going to see Right. That is one of the reasons I don't waste...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1307
It ought to. There are very good reasons for *not* running a GUI on a server machine, particularly around security. GUIs are...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1308
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:10:00 -0600, You expect to be next to the machine to admin it...
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begin Mike Zulauf While seemingly insignificant, it still is something to be taken into account. And if it means that for every 50-100 servers you would...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:19:57 +0100, OK "Windows is Monolithic by Design, not Modular...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1311
Windows is Monolithic by Design, not Modular A monolithic system is one where most features are integrated into a single unit. The anbreasthesis of a monolithic system is one where features are separated out...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1312
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 06:30:47 -0600, Nope, just responding to your claim about location. Again, I have servers spread all...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1313
All of which has nothing to do with whether a GUI is useful for a server - which is what I was discussing. That's funny. I WAS having a dialog on whether...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1314
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:25:50 GMT, A GUI *for* a server, is diffent, than a GUI *on* a server. Which is...
Spent a weekend + with Open Source apps 1315
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:13:49 -0500, Monitoring != administrating. I use Nagios to monitor my machines, it's a web delivered system boxes, and (sad to say...
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TravelinMan poked his little head through the XP firewall and said: Actually, the command-line is faster for many admin tasks. Where...
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begin TravelinMan Nope, Oh Really Dimwitted One, the admin will sit in front of a nice machine which is connected to...
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So? Since you're so scared of OS X that you absolutely refuse to learn anything about it, let me spell it out for you: 1. Many admins DO...
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BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:46:38 -0600, Interesting statement. Exactly *what* limit in Linux are you referring to? Remote GUI? got that, had it for...
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well sure, but for a 3 year old upstart it's worthy of note. nothing is stopping apple...
WebSideStory: Firefox Gains Slowing
gudgeon, and cannery process operator, hummed: The Narrative Of Failure : Nihilism And Textual Desituationism O. Michel Abbott Department of Sociolinguistics, Mbuttachusetts Insbreastute of...
ext3 for Windows
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, When To Walk Away wrote on Sun, 27 Feb 2005 19:31:56 -0800 Define "run". I'll...
95% there
tells some incredible tales about the tribulations of using linux for this rather straightforward task...
Poor displayresource Debt Management in Linux
I booted into Mandrake 10.1 a little while ago, loaded up a Nautilus window, Kaffeine (with no video launched), and Gnome System Monitor. Started moving the Kaffeine window around on the screen, and watched the...
Poor displayresource Debt Management in Linux 1325
I noticed something from your other post about Linux being slow: The Intel video chipset has had a lot of issues under Linux...
Poor displayresource Debt Management in Linux 1326
flatfish Nautilus Monitor. watched the CPU video launched app window into the Bagger up the Now I'm How? Explorer, Started...
Poor displayresource Debt Management in Linux 1327
I didn't remove the page: Angelfire did. Note the new user name dfs0. Did you complain to Angelfire...
LinuxElectrons: Daily Digest 1328
This is the daily digest from LinuxElectrons for 02-28-05 Stop by the forums and say Hi at: ------------------------------ breastle: CNet...
Back to Life
A customer recently donated some old hardware he had laying around collecting dust. He said he was planning on binning the lot anyway, and when I said I could probably use some of the stuff...
Back to Life
I wonder what the minimum is to run those things nowadays? I've got a P166-16M-1.3G, and it won't handle it. It had run Red Hat 4 (or was it 5?) well, along with...
economics of saturation 1331
I saw a study I while back that claimed if all the buildings in London covered their roof surfaces with solar panels, they could almost completely...
economics of saturation 1332
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:26:26 +0000, It doesn't have to be perfect, to be good enough. All it has to...
economics of saturation 1333
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:01 Peter Köhlmann Thanks Peter. I hate to drift off topic like this, and apologies to anybody that...
Holy poo Does Linux SUCK
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Larry Qualig wrote on Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:41:35 -0400 Not sure about that average. Granted, I for one don't have all that big a...
A File Benchmark Nautilus falls down, Konqueror stands up well, Explorer beats both
Note subject change. In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Tim Smith wrote on Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:23:30 GMT An interesting notion for a benchmark, that. Granted, I don't...
Holy poo Does Linux SUCK
Well.. as far as out of the box hardware, I would have to agree. Linux generally does suck (compared to the others) HOWEVER: Do you know if your devices are open-standards based? It is...
Declaration of Independence: A Well Written Program
I was watching an interesting NOVA on preserving the principle documents of the Founding Fathers -- Declaraction, Articles of Confederation, Consbreastution -- and while they...
How to make MS "listen
unpleasant woman at them every day: support email 1: I've been experiencing Access 2003 crashes on many of my larger programs (lots of forms and VBA code). support email...
How to make MS "listen
Nah, I contributed some code to the Linux kernel. Yup. The scanner was an engagement gift from my...
LinuxElectrons: Daily Digest 1340
This is the daily digest from LinuxElectrons for 03-01-05 Stop by the forums and say Hi at: ------------------------------ breastle: IBM Ships Enterprise Storage Systems With...
linux printing is a joke
The other day I bought a USB HP psc 1215 'printer scanner copier' after being told it would work with Linux. I...
linux printing is a joke 1342
So the 1.1.20 in your version of Slackware gives the same error message as I get, right? At least...
linux printing is a joke 1343
begin Error log for Tue, 01 Mar 2005 07:25:55 +0000 - Bob Knox caused a follows... There is your first clue. There is your second clue. Question: If the test page printed...
linux printing is a joke 1344
begin Error log for Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:25:19 +0000 - 9 Way caused a page I reflected the disposition...
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begin Error log for Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:06:14 +0000 - 9 Way caused a page .vbs Not at all...
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begin Error log for Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:49:40 +0000 - 9 Way caused a page .vbs Yes, and you always do, no matter how...
Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% 1347
billwg And you fail to compare the NUMBERS. Talk about amateurish, you did not directly address what *I* *SAID*. I...
Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% 1348
You seem confused, Ralph, and your shift key is sticking! LOL!!! I think that you could do a lot better if you took a more logical view of...
Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% 1349
billwg So? your brain is dead. HAHAHAHAH! Geez can you be any more childish? Yes, considering that...
Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% 1350
Oh, I see. The linux share is a "stealth" share! Well, out of sight, out of mind! LOL!!! So you want to create a statistic in regard to how much data is actually served by...
Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% 1351
Market statistics typically describe both revenue and unit volume, Ralph, but your statement, i.e. "And that is ONLY sold servers, that does NOT count all the servers using free versions of Linux...
Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% 1352
In context I followed with "They are not part of the market although they may be a limiting factor." One factor to consider when investing in a market is...
Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% 1353
I guess you are poking fun at some misconstruction of my post, Ray, but I don't see it...
Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% 1354
Ah, but if the overall market size increases, the 'share' can change without anyone actually losing customers. Someone can lose share simply by not growing as fast as the...
Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% 1355
A lot of material here to comment on, Ray, and hard to do justice to that in one post. To start with, take...
Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% 1356
I notice you used the word "supplied". They did not write the key item they "supplied" to IBM - DOS. They *bought* that...
Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% 1357
Take for example: "Unable to agree to a deal, IBM turned to another small company, Microsoft, for what turned...
Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% 1358
I never said he did. Tell you what, I'll amend my statement: Some, but not absolutely every part of Microsoft's conduct in that Caldera 'statement of...
Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% 1359
Which "fact" do you deem the most reprehensible? Let's see if it really is. LOL!!! Well, that's no skin off Microsoft's hide, eh? Do...
Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% 1360
The AARD code, for one. The fact that it was deliberately obfuscated and concealed showed they *knew* they were up to...
Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% 1361
That's not a very tough one to field, Ray. If that is your best shot, then you may become...
Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% 1362
But it did it by checking portions of the DOS system that were entirely irrelevant...
Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% 1363
I'm not trying to disguise anything here, I'm in Rhode Island and using someone else's machine to post...
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That picture was just the example they used in the article. Here are some *quotes* from that article you claim to have read: "Although...
Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% 1365
I find no such cites in there, Ray, and the cold, hard facts of the matter are that the code was...
Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% 1366
It isn't Bill Gates' fault that you are a mushroom, clark! LOL!!! If you have no control over your personal situation, you will just have to resign...
Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6% 1367
As stated before, it didn't need to be, it was in the beta. Which went to around 12,000 sites, and "which was 'a marketing tool to get the product into the hands of people...
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