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Working with Linux on a PC 1630
12:37 PM: LOL... yup. I love the ones who bad mouth you and call you names and then try to buddy up to...
Working with Linux on a PC 1631
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:15:10 -0700, Seems to vary, slrn, and other text stuff, within a GNOME terminal, don't quite work that way. Since you...
Working with Linux on a PC 1632
Seems that *if* one were to use only "approved" or "standard" apps for a specific window manager that you could could come close to the consistency that one finds regularly on OS X. With...
Snit didn't go to the LUG in his area tonight Was Working with Linux on
Steve Carroll I have currently over 100 posts to go browse through, but I was taking a quick glance through the newsgroup before I went to bed this evening and thought I'd make a point...
Working with Linux on a PC 1634
You are welcome to disagree. The facts are not in question though we disagree on the importance of the facts. Fair enough? I mention a *good* thing...
Working with Linux on a PC 1635
Snit poked his little head through the XP firewall and said: It's a boot loader...
Working with Linux on a PC 1636
In your opinion. You are welcome to it. Does not change the fact that when I mention a good thing you suggest I look for...
Working with Linux on a PC 1637
On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 15:01:34 -0700, Snit On my box, I get a bios screen, then moves to the bootloader (which is graphical), followed...
Working with Linux on a PC 1639
Can not speak about KDE, as I have not played with it, but Gnome just does not impress me at all. I listed some of the reasons before, but here is a...
Working with Linux on a PC 1640
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 20:14:36 -0700, I think...
Working with Linux on a PC 1641
Good to hear - thanks. Did not see shadows on any theme - tied to alpha issues...
Working with Linux on a PC 1642
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:51:41 -0700, it's a view attribute of the window. Not only changes the size of the icon, but...
Working with Linux on a PC 1643
Still does not explain why the resize feature is available on the desktop but not elsewhere. Seems it works well then - perhaps not quite as well as the Mac version, but certainly better than...
Working with Linux on a PC 1644
Cool. Will be playing with - and reporting my findings - KDE soon. Maybe even today. Spring Loaded folders? OS X has both. Harder to find things - it *does* make a difference. You mean from OS...
Working with Linux on a PC 1645
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:59:47 -0700, Snit Spring Loaded folders? Doubtful. The folder highlights, and the window changes...
Working with Linux on a PC 1646
Not sure what you mean. Your sarcasm is not helping the conversation. Others have described in better detail the answer to...
Working with Linux on a PC 1647
Nobody has suggested that this should be changed. In fact, I have suggested that it should be easier to know what application you are in *and* what...
Should Suse Users abandon KDE ! 1651
The Ghost In The Machine I've never met a distro that was. No hurry, and...
Should Suse Users abandon KDE ! 1652
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Tukla Ratte wrote on Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:05:58 -0600 That's plenty CPU. I've built Stage1s using a 1.4 GHz Athlon. I'd want more...
Should Suse Users abandon KDE ! 1653
That's more machine then my gentoo server at work... It's a PII 233. When I installed the system it only had 128MB of ram and about 30GB of...
Should Suse Users abandon KDE ! 1654
in Well it seems up until recently Suse has preferred KDE over Gnome, which is understandable. KDE although for me is more buggy, and slower overall then Gnome has a richer and easier to...
Should Suse Users abandon KDE ! 1655
guts-griping lackey, and seller of second-hand goods, blew off: Mad, rambling f***tard detected. NETLOON PROFILER ON Start psychological profiling Statistics: =========== Approximate word count: 198 Punctuation: 10 full stop(s) Punctuation: 8...
Should Suse Users abandon KDE ! 1656
Jensen Carpenter, Astronaut I never ever could like Gnome. Sorry, no offence, but I wish it never existed. I cannot imagine an uglier interface than what GTK1 provided. GTK2 is much nicer, but...
Should Suse Users abandon KDE ! 1657
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 14:21:21 -0500, Ruel Smith Yea the truth that "Gnome is butt ugly" just slipped out as a little piece...
Should Suse Users abandon KDE ! 1658
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 14:39:56 -0500, Hannah Boaz Nonsense. Personally, I'm not a huge fan of Gnome, i went...
Should Suse Users abandon KDE ! 1659
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:46:50 +0000, Kier Have you actually taken a good look at the threads in this group...
Should Suse Users abandon KDE ! 1660
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:20:00 -0500, Hannah Boaz I should think so, yes, since I read posts here every day. Though i do have a killfile. Wrong. Those remarks along make me...
Should Suse Users abandon KDE ! 1661
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:12:43 +0000, Kier I don't even know how to use one with Outlook...
Should Suse Users abandon KDE ! 1662
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:39:58 -0500, Hannah Boaz Which is okay, but you might get flamed a bit becasue you doj't...
Should Suse Users abandon KDE ! Not for now
Jensen, and all: a a user I am using... both... and frakly if I find great value for both Gnome and KDE applications, KDE (QT) has some of the best applications: Quanta, Kile, Knode...
First impressions of Knoppix
To start with - wow! What a difference from the distros I looked at before with GNOME. Overall I like KDE better - as...
There's a first 1665
rapskat Out of curiosity, what brand was the card? I had the same thing happen with a...
There's a first 1666
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter Jensen That is very true. My system was going crazy...
There's a first 1667
rapskat Well, here's something remotely similar ( not quite what you want but ). Yesterday, I bought a new desk at IKEA. It's a corner desk...
LinuxElectrons Daily Digest 1668
This is the daily digest from LinuxElectrons for 03-08-05 Stop by the forums and say Hi at: ------------------------------ breastle: The Politics of Spam Author: Tommy The last election cycle saw unprecedented use of the...
Major component separation
I just tried "konstruct" for the first time. In KDE 2.x I used to download sources and do it by hand. Then I just got...
No longer advocacy
begin Error log for Tue, 08 Mar 2005 21:30:37 +0000 - S.Heenan caused a follows .vbs Yeah, I said that, so...
Software patents in Europe 1671
So far, the replies to my original question in this thread tend to downplay the significance of software patents as a threat to the open source software...
Software patents in Europe 1672
Mark, You did, in fact, point out many relevant, likely repercussions of swpats, and I did not intend to trivialize your comments. The main point I was trying to make in my expression of...
Software patents in Europe 1673
Perhaps they will. I don't know whether you mean to, but you come across as very aggressive. The sentence above is a good example. Whilst I agree with much of...
Software patents in Europe 1674
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:17:50 -0600, Liam Slider What we've had for the last several years is a recluctance on the part of large software corporations owning large patent portfolios to stir up...
Software patents in Europe 1675
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:59:02 +0000, firewoodtim What you don't understand is the interconnectivity of these patents. Every one of the big boys pretty well owns a bunch of chunks of everyone...
Software patents in Europe 1676
That is precisely why the large patent holders sign protection contracts with each other, which allow...
Software patents in Europe 1677
The problem is that Torvalds et al have developed Linux, without any effort to avoid patented technology. As I understand it, Linus has a policy of purposely not researching patents, in order to...
Software patents in Europe 1678
But none of the current patents ARE valid... They would have to be applied for IN EUROPE, but the moment they did apply for them, everyone and his dog could cry...
Software patents in Europe 1679
This really depends on whether we get the same kind of completely trivial, broad-brush patents in the EU which have been awarded in the US. If that happens, then it could leave open...
Well, this bug is just 8 years old
begin trojan.vbs It was on Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:26:57 +0000, that spike1 Umm, not really. You see M$haft say:- From their EULA :- Microsoft...
Blacks are Not Lazy." New OSI President Steps Down
You know, why does Microsoft even bother to spend money to thwart Linux when it's top supporters act like such buffoons anyway...?! New OSI President Steps Down By Steven J...
Blacks are Not Lazy." New OSI President Steps Down 1683
Do you know who is concerned about racism? White people. Blacks that I have met are...
Blacks are Not Lazy." New OSI President Steps Down 1684
begin Error log for Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:52:24 -0800 - in caused a page .vbs As usual with prejudiced persons, Nelson's heart was in the right place...
Blacks are Not Lazy." New OSI President Steps Down 1685
rapskat said: WelI thought out a clearly put. concur fully... `You know, why does Microsoft even bother to spend money to thwart Linux when it's top supporters act like such buffoons anyway...?! ' - in...
Blacks are Not Lazy." New OSI President Steps Down 1686
begin Error log for Wed, 09 Mar 2005 05:01:17 -0800 - Daeron caused a page fault at address follows .vbs Exactly. I don't see why these stereotypes are attempted to be put on...
Blacks are Not Lazy." New OSI President Steps Down 1687
Nice snipping there. I said: "His allegedly racist comments do appear to have been whipped up a bit in the media, but it's a bit difficult to check since his site has clearly edited the...
Blacks are Not Lazy." New OSI President Steps Down 1688
begin Error log for Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:17:58 -0800 - Reynolds Birthday as follows .vbs Actually, no they weren't. That is so inaccurate as to be laughable, but...
Was wondering about running programs
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote on Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:57:54 -0500 Depends on what version of...
Win2K on a laptop 168 plus 10
I prefer looking at slrn when I run it, seeing 253 articles, then finding 126 still looking at me (and another 40+ of those scored down) once I...
Win2K on a laptop 168 plus 11
snips On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 08:52:34 -0800, windowsmvp What's wrong with it is simple...
Win2K on a laptop 168 plus 12
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Linønut wrote on Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:43:53 -0600 Why not? :-) I just rescued my Linux system from a fate worse than rest, for example; it wasn't that...
UK workers are liars, says Gates
UK workers are liars, says Gates anon Mar 07 2005 Microsoft boss Bill Gates has slammed UK workers by saying most are liars because they tend...
UK workers are liars, says Gates
On Thursday 10 March 2005 00:14 Liam Slider Yes and no. I think it was announced about a year ago, and that he's just found time to...
Microsoft innovates instant messaging
Microsoft pushes new communications software Michael Paige Mar 08 2005 Los Angeles Bill Gates .. unveiled a new integrated communications application. "With these solutions, we can use the power of software to .. offer a...
Linux creator Torvalds switches to an Apple Mac 168 plus 16
snips On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 05:26:48 -0800, windowsmvp You misspelled "replace" and "fantastic"; you got them as "downgrade" and "crapysic". This *is* Torvalds we're talking about here; if anyone would be running Linux, we'd...
Linux creator Torvalds switches to an Apple Mac 168 plus 17
I have 3 here. One crashes constantly. That's been tracked to hardware. One crashed sometimes (see below), especially switching between the linux box...
Linux creator Torvalds switches to an Apple Mac 168 plus 18
snips On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:19:01 -0800, windowsmvp Except for the millions already using it and more every day, you mean? Oh, right, let's pretend...
The Linux desktop 050310
Well, I've just installed KDE3.2.2 on my Mandrake 10.1 system. Sitting back and using the system, my impression is that this is really slick. OK...
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