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Does anything in Linux work *well* 1565
Grug All nonsenses. I'm listening to music through my Stereo with Xmms. Even when the music sounds the events of KDE are mixed with the music, it's called "arts...
Does anything in Linux work *well* 1566
That happened to the MCSE geniuses at work, too. They serve to us with a 2K server (or, they...
Does anything in Linux work *well* 1567
If Linux is so great in hardware support as you say it is, then why it can't see my digital camera even though it has a right driver (or at least it said it has...
Does anything in Linux work *well* 1568
snips On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 10:34:52 -0500, allex First, you seem to confuse "great" with "perfect". They're not the same thing at all. It is...
Does anything in Linux work *well* 1568 plus 1
How did you ascertain that linux doesn't "see" it. Because you asked and it told you so...
Does anything in Linux work *well* 1570
Mine isn't supported either. But automount mounts it every time I plug it in, and...
Does anything in Linux work *well* 1571
Sinister Midget It also wasn't clear to me that Linux "saw" my digital camera or not. The difference between Windows and Linux is that when you plug in...
Does anything in Linux work *well* 1572
Mark Kent I'll give you that. , reliability, uptime, While I can't say that the Linux kernel itself is at fault, I've...
Does anything in Linux work *well* 1573
ahh, not so. This is completely different. BSOD=computer needs to be rebooted, in fact, in my Win2k machine, it just randomly reboots, in the middle of work...
Does anything in Linux work *well* 1574
Mark Kent I realize that technically it's different, but what is the real difference in impact...
Does anything in Linux work *well* 1575
Huge if you're running any kind of served process at all. Linux is extremely good at multi-user multi-tasking, so...
Does anything in Linux work *well* 1576
Mark Kent Well, we use our computers for different things, that's all. So different performance aspects are important...
Does anything in Linux work *well* 1577
Well, if Gnome crashed, then you're route out is ctrl-alt-backspace to I understand that it's the replacement BSOD. Instead of doing a...
OSS Wins
in I had the same problem with Red Hat 9, I just made a backup of all my files and changes I've made to the...
OK. I have to hand it to the KDE developers
I'm using KDE 3.2.3, and it's a wicked powerful window manager. It's not very snappy compared to Windows, and it has some quirks and a ton of 'why is that in there...
OK. I have to hand it to the KDE developers
Kier Yes. It comes with all those K* apps. I like that keyword search-result-config method because it behaves similarly to many of the database reporting applications I...
MS sock.puppet runs EU directorate says Florian Mueller
Microsoft & the Irish Blamed for EC Decision Not To Restart Software Patent Direc Maureen O'Gara Mar 04 2005 Florian Mueller, Who Mounted the NoSoftwarePatents.com...
Anyone read "Just for fun" by Linus Torvalds
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, I just finished the "Just for fun" book, the autobiography of Linus Torvalds and wanted to share...
Anyone read "Just for fun" by Linus Torvalds 1583
Johannes Bauer Imagine starting to write an OS, posting to USENET for help and within a few years your opposite numbers are Gates and Jobs...
Anyone read "Just for fun" by Linus Torvalds 1584
Sounds to me like someone *trying* to do a self buttessment and give an honest portryal (in the parts where he's on about himself) instead of the "Ain't I wonderful...
Anyone read "Just for fun" by Linus Torvalds 1585
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sinister Midget Well, to be honest, I haven't read...
Anyone read "Just for fun" by Linus Torvalds 1586
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ralph I also don't think it's up to you to judge that. Well, I have read his...
Anyone read "Just for fun" by Linus Torvalds 1587
Johannes Bauer I've seen enough of your posts. Enough comes though. Never mind that I have the right to judge what...
What I Would Pay
in I got FC3 freely, but I've paid for Red Hat 9 and Mandrake. But the money you...
Linux advocates are an "Embarrbuttment
Linus Torvalds laughs at Linux advocates in his book, "Just for Fun". He calls you wankers. I read that book in 2003...
Linux advocates are an "Embarrbuttment". 1590
Have you ever been on a Mac? Have you ever developed on a Mac? You don't have to know about all this Geek stuff. It almost configures...
Linux advocates are an "Embarrbuttment". 1591
him Richard Stallman is probably more to blame for those types of "advocates" than anyone else. He himself has an autistic, obsessive kind of fanaticism which some of the people who listen to him...
Linux advocates are an "Embarrbuttment". 1592
I would consider that Richard Stallman is responsible for free software in general, in that he kind of started it. In that sense, then, perhaps he's responsible. Beyond that, I don't think you can...
Hexus.net reviews Linux gaming
Hexus.net, a hardware enthusiast site, has a recent review of Linux gaming that seems to be quite favorable. Here are some...
Hexus.net reviews Linux gaming 1594
Liam Slider pooware? I hear another Linux loonie babbling in desperation. For years, since the release of the 9700, ATI has leapfrogged nVidia with each new generation of GPUs. It...
Hexus.net reviews Linux gaming 1595
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:35:53 -0500, DFS Linux? I knew ATI was poo *long* before I started using Linux. GPU alone means nothing, ATI cheats. They have, in...
Hexus.net reviews Linux gaming 1596
snips On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 23:49:05 -0600, Liam Slider To be fair, though, it should be pointed out that...
Hexus.net reviews Linux gaming 1597
Liam Slider nVidia, on the other hand, did cheat on benchmark tests Silly. ATI sells a lot more high and top-end video...
Hexus.net reviews Linux gaming 1598
On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 10:49:17 -0500, DFS Funny. I found this quote, by the people who originally accused them of cheating... "Futuremark now has a deeper understanding of the situation and NVidia's optimization strategy...
Hexus.net reviews Linux gaming 1599
Liam Slider Is that what you're going to do when you finally accept that MS is where they are because people buy their products, because their products are good? Wasn't very memorable, eh? Figures. Is...
How to leave Microsoft and be better for it
ray and grade will you that the Well no THAT is BS. Now I know what you mean. There are serevral...
COLA Stats 6 Mar 2005
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MEPIS where came it from 1602
I find MEPIS to be fantastic - it is currently the primary distro I'd give away-sell-recommend for people new to Linux...
MEPIS where came it from 1603
Up until the main machine started giving me problems, I used Mepis as my main distro all of the time. I installed others on differing parbreastions...
MEPIS where came it from 1604
Johannes Bauer Johannes i have been using MEPIS since it first appeared in 2003. right now, i am using the latest SimplyMepis 3.3 final that i just installed last week. i gotta tell you, i...
MEPIS where came it from 1605
I updated SImplyMEPIS and recently the new 3.3 and it's doing fine. You know, MEPIS would not be, without debian. Debian...
A Linux Nemesis on the Rocks
BusinessWeek MARCH 3, 2005 A Linux Nemesis on the Rocks SCO's lawsuit is floundering -- and...
Free online postgreSQL book 1607
mlw MySQL who big and a The you Do you mean Oracle and DB2's role-based auth system is a complete piece of poo? dunno, it's related to data...
Free online postgreSQL book 1608
Aquila Deus "Role based" security has always seemed problematic to me. Its more trouble than its worth, IMHO. If you...
Free online postgreSQL book 1609
mlw vendors honest some mature has piece trouble metaphor I Well, my company doesn't need it yet, since we don't rely on the database's security system (we're going to use LDAP) pretty...
Free online postgreSQL book 1610
Aquila Deus big snip Yea, "role based" security has been around forever, Notes had it years ago. I think...
Which distribution of Linux should I get 1611
If that's all you need, then you should have no problems whatsoever. I that distribution. Gentoo will enable you to create an installation of Linux which is tailored to your particular processor. If...
Which distribution of Linux should I get 1612
Peter Köhlmann I dropped off Usenet entirely for awhile. During that period, I switched from SuSE to...
Working with Linux on a PC
Well, I now have played with Linux on my PC. Let's start with the disclaimers...
Working with Linux on a PC 1614
Note that the difference between those is 7 hours, and you appear to be in a time zone that...
Working with Linux on a PC 1615
Try OS X's column view. You can select an item by starting to type its name. Keep typing until the item...
Working with Linux on a PC 1616
I know as I have been recently posting my experiences with Linux I have run into two general types of people: The first may or may not agree with all of my views...
Working with Linux on a PC 1617
Well, it depends. When I was running OS X 10.1 on a 400 MHz G3, I found that I stopped using keyboard navigation in the GUI, because all that jumping around was...
Working with Linux on a PC 1618
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 15:01:34 -0700, LiveCD config most like, works fine here, on a HD install...
Working with Linux on a PC 1619
Could be... and that could affect not only this but some of my other observations. Thanks. I looked for a config, but could not find...
Working with Linux on a PC 1620
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 06:42:12 -0700, It's something to bear in mind, esp with video performance...
Working with Linux on a PC 1621
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 02:22:16 -0700, Then it sounds like a bug, either hw...
Working with Linux on a PC 1622
Snit IOW you are giving your first impressions on a distro (or two) both running the Gnome desktop...
Working with Linux on a PC 1623
2:27 AM: Of course... and I am hoping some of my complaints will be met with info on how it is from a LiveCD only, or how...
Working with Linux on a PC 1624
Snit Agreed. Unless I and others here are the exception, and not knowing any different, I would agree it probably must be a...
Working with Linux on a PC 1625
8:19 AM: Agree that it is LiveCD or that it is good I know. :) I have not... perhaps I will. Good of you to not take my comments...
Working with Linux on a PC 1626
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 11:35:20 -0700, yes, drag a link...
Working with Linux on a PC 1627
Thanks for the info. I buttume this is similar to the arrows that both XP and OS X use? OS X does this *very* well. Much better than XP. For...
Working with Linux on a PC 1628
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:15:38 -0700, nichevo the emblem? I suppose, I don't do XP if I can avoid it, and I haven't tinkered with OSX...
Working with Linux on a PC 1629
Snit I can be as bristly as the next person. It depends on the OP's atbreastude. If they post 'such-and-such didn't work therefore Linux is a...
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