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ANOTHER HTC PDAphone boots Linux 2168 plus 1
Au79 The developement of software for pda's has always been a bit slow. I keep getting sent the trial versions for MS mobile (because of work I did in...
ANOTHER HTC PDAphone boots Linux 2170
A PDA isn't a desktop and shouldn't be treated that way. It's best thought of as an extension, a 'tentacle' of...
Could everything old be new again
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Wed, 8 Mar 2006 10:53:55 -0500 is typical (SC430 base unit). The OS selections are...
I Know I Told You This Before But
Jim Richardson Jim, Kier and Peter, If you say that John has nymshifted in the past then I will take...
India Seeks Open Source 2173
On Monday 13 March 2006 13:44 billwg While you are at it Roy, please consider this also, and *do* be honest about it:- 1. Do you think that it's a good...
India Seeks Open Source 2174
B Gruff on Monday 13 March 2006 15:36 Baa-lamb does not bother or demotivate anyone. I am often tempted to an- swer the trolls, though...
India Seeks Open Source 2175
Hard to believe that all Operating Systems are from Microsoft in India, goat. Presumably the more...
Public Annoncement : Kadaitcha Man 2177
BVDeviant who likes hard-core carnal pleasures with manatees, and whose partner is a gutter-slut with a dripping hairy chequebook, wrote in You could have waited until after we'd agreed...
Public Annoncement : Kadaitcha Man 2178
likes lethal ham ramming with puppies, and whose partner is a freaky-cum-girl with a dank privates...
Gentoo Graphical Installer
Has anyone given the Gentoo Graphical Installer a try, and if so what did you think of it? Will the...
Roy Culley is a coward and a hypocrite 2180
Roy Culley Here's your apology - Kiss my butt. No but I see a coward and a...
asp.net2
Sorry to mention net2 again, but I have had a serious look at it now and it really does have the potential to sweep all of the other web programming environments...
What is the real number of Linux users
And how do we tell? Not that anyone here has the resources to personally determine this number but how could-should this number be...
What is the real number of Linux users 2184
Larry Qualig It would be quite an undertaking, but a survey could be published (hard copy, online, telephone, etc...
What is the real number of Linux users 2185
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Larry Qualig wrote on 13 Mar 2006 08:40:59 -0800 The real number of Linux users can be counted on the hand...but only if one accepts my definition of "Linux...
What is the real number of Linux users 2186
Larry Qualig on Monday 13 March 2006 16:40 What is a "Linux user"? How do you handle or count dual-booters? What about...
What is the real number of Linux users 2187
Roy Schestowitz Part of the question asks what a "Linux user" is? My opinion is that "users" should be people. Clearly there are two distinct numbers one booting...
What is the real number of Linux users 2188
Larry Qualig on Monday 13 March 2006 17:19 It doesn't account for actualusage-. Does the number of heads count? Are all people counted as equal? Which...
Okay, so Linux isn't perfect 2189
Ray Ingles on Monday 13 March 2006 17:27 The hack will only expose the system to malicious access if: * A privileged user...
Okay, so Linux isn't perfect 2190
It never should have happened, you're right. But mistakes do happen, even ones that "shouldn't" happen. A proper security...
Is this our tab
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, B Gruff wrote on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:38:11 +0000 pbutt muster with most spellcheckers, with the possible exception of "Abuja", "synch...
Linux PC for $159 exposing the LIEnix liars once again 2192
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 04:13:52 +0000, Roy Schestowitz "For example, the system was fairly unresponsive. It took several seconds to...
Linux PC for $159 exposing the LIEnix liars once again 2193
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, flatfish+++ wrote on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:30:59 -0500 ... and 128 MB. A bit thin for...
Linux PC for $159 exposing the LIEnix liars once again 2194
matt that *would* be a solution, *if* there weren't problems in the way.... Arizona is a "right to...
Linux PC for $159 exposing the LIEnix liars once again 2195
Linønut standard full height IDE drive (the .75 Inch all form factor). try that with a 9 mm thick laptop drive and...
Linux PC for $159 exposing the LIEnix liars once again 2196
flatfish+++ on Saturday 11 March 2006 15:30 The article comes from a rather impartial source. The reviewer is with PC Mag and is not...
Linux PC for $159 exposing the LIEnix liars once again 2197
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:58:46 -0600, Linønutlinønut Blame the user. How can they fsck up? The OS was already installed? Exactly. You just made my...
XFCE4 Joins the Big Boys
Looks like KDE and GNOME have a upcoming contender in the Linux WM-DE market. Last I looked at XFCE, it was nice and very fast, but it...
XFCE4 Joins the Big Boys 2199
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:43:54 +0000, M Exactly. This is precisely what they do even with their Windows...
XFCE4 Joins the Big Boys 2200
After takin' a swig o' grog, rapskat belched out this bit o' wisdom: Version 3 of XFce was more like CDE...
Open Source Maturity 2201
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-03-28, JEDIDIAH spake thusly: I found this article thread especially interesting since I used to...
Open Source Maturity 2202
Mathew P. on Wednesday 29 March 2006 09:23 I happen to have hand-on experience with Macs and I can confirm that Apple haven't anything...
Open Source Maturity 2203
Roy Schestowitz What are the dangers to ordinary users like me for using Linux? I was reading on a Web site for newbies like myself that says...
Open Source Maturity 2204
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Dean40004 wrote on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:54:16 -0500 The most prevalent danger is never, ever being satisfied with vaporware. :-) AFAICT, this is more or less correct as it stands. It is...
Open Source Maturity 2205
On Monday 13 March 2006 20:54, Dean40004 stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: Actually, Minix existed for i8086 and i80268. Linux - the...
Open Source Maturity 2206
Utterly negligible. What about the above paragraph ("I was reading... 80x386 CPU") gives you *any* sort of concern about "possible legal implications"? This is not a rhetorical question. Seriously, what specifically would cause...
Open Source Maturity 2207
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-03-14, Dean40004 spake thusly: Forgive my memory segmentation faults, but here goes: I read an article (don't remember where) in which...
Linux in Canadian schools
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology Volume 31(1) Winter hiver 2005 Open Source Software...
Linux in Canadian schools
Lobo on Monday 13 March 2006 21:08 #include COFFEE rant begins The issue of commericialisation in academia makes the mind boggle. It is no exception to the privatisation of the Web and its services. Would...
help locating a web site
It seems as though it would require a great amount of research to find out if a particular distribution supports your Intel 2200bg card. Far less time would be spent choosing the...
Linux, where anyone can get the admin pbuttword
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:41:21 -0800, tab "There is a file that contains all the installation logs :var-log-installer-cdebconf-questions.dat In this file, there is all the questions asked to the user...
Linux, when all you need is a community admin pbuttword
This kind of reminds me of an amusing security hole that was in TOPS-10 at one point. There was some system code...
It doesn't take much 2214
Erik Funkenbusch blithely blithered Because they buttume an OS is supposed to be buggy? My Windows installation ate its own parbreastion table last week. I haven't bothered to fix it...
It doesn't take much 2215
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:45:24 GMT, Handover Phist Most people have never even heard of Linux, and if they had they...
It doesn't take much 2216
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 17:28, Erik Funkenbusch stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: You're contradicting yourself again as someone who finds GNU-Linux...
It doesn't take much Machine: #3, Drive #1 OS: SuSE 10.1 Beta 2
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:24:02 +0000, Aragorn I have said this for quite some time now...
It doesn't take much 2218
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:24:02 GMT, Aragorn I'm not contradicting myself. You're simply (probably deliberately) misconstruing...
It doesn't take much 2219
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:30:10 -0600, Erik Funkenbusch True, but as Aragorn implied, someone who is doing something because they MUST do it will not do as good a...
It doesn't take much 2220
On Thursday 16 March 2006 22:43, Erik Funkenbusch stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: Even the Linux kernel has a $MACHTYPE designation. Just type... echo...
It doesn't take much 2221
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:26:16 GMT, Aragorn So what? That's just an ID, and further proves my point. Mach is not the OS, the kernel running under it is. I can't...
It doesn't take much 2222
On Saturday 18 March 2006 15:40, Erik Funkenbusch stood up and spoke the following words to the...
It doesn't take much 2223
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 15:36:36 GMT, Aragorn I didn't say it was. Mach is a specific microkernel, based on a specific design. I think you misunderstood something. When I...
It doesn't take much 2224
That's an abbreviation for "machine", and has nothing to do with Mach. No, it's not...
It doesn't take much 2225
On Thursday 16 March 2006 17:29, rapskat stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: That depends on your definition of a UNIX - the...
It doesn't take much 2226
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:19:05 +0000, Aragorn And this is the crux of the matter. Linux is no less easy to use than any other modern OS...
It doesn't take much 2227
It's neither right nor wrong, it simply is. Then they should stay with the familiar OS. But the result is worth the work. If someone fresh from windows doesn't think that, then they are...
It doesn't take much 2228
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, AZ Nomad wrote on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:12:44 GMT Erm...*three*? If you're referring to floppies, maybe -- the rest...
French to End DRM
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 05:59:32 -0800, modrewrite, a rule such as this. RewriteRule ^-news-(.*)$dax-index.php-tags-news-$1 L will make a...
linux on mobile phones
Hi Stewart, There are more and more vendors that opt for Linux or embedded Linux for their miniature computing products. Symbian...
Be ye afraid be ye greatly afraid serve only me, and live. 2231
Lobo Forgive me, but may I suggest some grammatical corrections in the proper use of 'ye', 'thou', etc...
Be ye afraid be ye greatly afraid serve only me, and live. 2232
Now have I toold you soothly, in a clause, Th' estaat, th' array, the nombre, and eek the cause...
Thoughts on the Ubuntu security manhole
For windows, it might have been one more source of amusement, but for a major Linux distro...
Thoughts on the Ubuntu security manhole
Geico Caveman You are probable being a little harsh. There are benefits. I found (k)ubuntu much better when autodetecting...
Vista Could Become Last OS from Microsoft, Implies Gates
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Phil Da Lick! wrote on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:03:25 +0000 It would take some doing, but they still could, if they sucker the...
New Windows Trojan Encrypts Files 2236
Keep in mind that they are not allowed to publish "Benchmarks" without Microsoft's prior permission. In...
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