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Gates Mocks $100 Linux Laptop 2303
chrisv Truth be told, Mr. Gates has donated over $10 billion to charity, so he is not completely selfish. I believe the problem is that he is so wealthy and so far...
Wireless Suse 10 Router
I want to turn my SUSE 10 system into a wireless router using a PCI wireless adapter. On another...
Wireless Suse 10 Router
John Smith schrub: Router means, you need at least *two* interfaces - one is WLAN, and the other? Be sure to put...
person 3D game required to break linux into the mainstream
Earlier this year, our Linux Comes to the Desktop article caused a stir, when we stated that gaming on a Linux platform remained a limited proposition. Now...
Why Open Source Advocates are Obsessed with Microsoft 2307
Bottom line - until Linux is sitting on the retail shelf, right next to - or IN the machine that displays Microsoft's technology - there...
Why Open Source Advocates are Obsessed with Microsoft 2308
Rex Ballard on Saturday 18 March 2006 08:36 You voiced this argument before. It's intersting. You perceive our role as advocates as necessary...
Microsoft, SOA4Dummies, ESP Rules, UK Visit 2309
begin oeprotect.scr It all depends on openness. If it isn't open, then in the end, it's not proof against vendor lock-in...
Microsoft, SOA4Dummies, ESP Rules, UK Visit 2310
Malware Magnet I know what you mean with the rent-an-app dilemma. If storage (hard drives) were expensive then it would make more sense. But you...
Microsoft, SOA4Dummies, ESP Rules, UK Visit 2311
Larry Qualig To me it goes beyond that. Putting a "word processor" in an app has...
The $100 Linux Laptop
Just ran across the following on arstechinca... OK, so Bill Gates may not be fan of the MIT $100 laptop, but I personally can't wait to get my hands on one. I currently use my...
Things That People Talk About More Than Are Real was:The $100 Linux Laptop
The difference here is that MIT and the UN has already lined up more than 100 million tentative orders for these things. We are talking about multi-million and...
The $100 Linux Laptop 2314
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is patently untrue. Businesses fail because of market fluctuation or mismanagement or both...
The $100 Linux Laptop 2315
Larry Qualig Such places (in the UK, we're talking Poundland and suchlike) buy by the truckload and supply to franchises by the palletload, direct from the factory to the consumer's shopping trolley. Overheads are kept...
The $100 Linux Laptop 2317
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The zx81 was my first computer, and, like my first car, I often wax nostalgic over it. It had a membrane keyboard that couldn't be touch...
The $100 Linux Laptop 2318
begin oeprotect.scr I've still got a Z88 which is use as a serial terminal in VT100 mode for occasionally accessing otherwise headless...
Got Me a Brand New Dell. Why contagion it with Linux 2319
Richie Spano And you don't have to give any of that up. Because Linux ADDS value. You will get additional programs, additional capabilities, and additional tools and utilities - at a very reasonable cost...
Got Me a Brand New Dell. Why contagion it with Linux 2320
snips On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:30:10 +0000, Jim Just occurred to me - the desktop PCs here at work are...
Linux and Windows
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 05:37:32 -0800, bobby Yes. It is quite easy with most modern Linux distributions. I'd suggest you visit www.distrowatch.com to learn about your choices - there...
Home Secertary betrays computer users
Today I had a meeting with Rt. Hon. Charles Clarke MP, the local member of parliament for...
KUbuntu Issue 2323
billwg enlightened us with this load of crap: No, this is the testing version of the upcoming release. The current...
KUbuntu Issue 2324
snips Follow-up... On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:20:47 +0000, Roy Schestowitz Okay, doesn't seem to be an issue with handling, say, gtk apps; I've got the same problem running kontact. The...
How many of you would buy the OLPC computer right now 2325
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:18:05 +0000, Lobo Part of the human condition is to relate everything to time. Whether something...
How many of you would buy the OLPC computer right now 2326
Roy Schestowitz I'm fairly sure that we both saw the same audience-market for this laptop. We just expressed our views from different directions. Most personal computers spend a majority of their time begging...
How many of you would buy the OLPC computer right now 2327
Dean G. I hear what you're saying Dean and in theory it sounds plausible. But the problem I...
How many of you would buy the OLPC computer right now 2328
Lobo on Friday 17 March 2006 18:04 I guess one possible use that I can think of involves farming in the West. Factories might not need it because energy consumption is somewhat of a...
Does XP understand time
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-03-17, Larry Qualig spake thusly: Although I frankly don't...
Best OS for recording 2330
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:05:30 -0600, Steve King That is the crux of the Linux vs. Whatever debate. Linux looks good on paper, really it does. However in practice Linux turns...
Best OS for recording 2331
The "toys" that run under Windows??? Where is this bullpoo coming from? What in God's name is the purpose of...
Best OS for recording 2332
A Jones I don't believe in cross-posting, so I won't even crosspost my response to rec.audio.pro (or whatever group you came from). But if you read this: thanks for telling it like it...
Best OS for recording 2333
The racist, liar and software thief Schlomo Rabinowitz (flatfish) nymshifted: You lately nymshifted to Abbie Diaz, Aftab Singh, Allen Cusimano, Allie Perkins...
30 Trends for 2006: Pursuit of the Frictionless Business Platform
this year's special issue on Top Trends for 2006. To prepare this report, we combed through the 13 surveys...
Spywarekilling Vista could take out rivals
Spyware has become a serious security problem for users of Microsoft's operating system over the past years, giving rise...
Shamelessly copied
From Slashdot, but this is hilarious: Dont' worry, it'll be stone dead in a minute. $ rm -rfsource-vista-ie7-* But seriously... User: I wish to make a complaint! Ballmer: (hurriedly) Sorry, we're about...
Bono Says Nothing About $100 2337
John Bailo yep, this is what Clevo do for the most part nowadays. Their largest...
Bono Says Nothing About $100 2338
I thought Bono did contribute toward that project, along with Red Hat, and a number...
COLA
Village - 50 to 100 families. They need a generator (to recharge the laptop batteries) Put WiFi hubs near the...
COLA
begin oeprotect.scr Solar panels, a mini wind turbine and a hand-crank would cover all situations. The battery can then do its job - story energy in...
COLA
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-04-06, Ramon F Herrera spake thusly: No. Yes. A point I seem to have been a failure at making, or perhaps, the failure...
COLA
begin oeprotect.scr Which is the whole problem - there arenoteachers near most kids, but the laptop and the radio...
Note: Get the Facts Yourself, Redmond 2343
On Saturday 18 March 2006 12:23 Rick Really though, the complaints (as always) revolve around "Nothing is as compatible with MS Office as...
Note: Get the Facts Yourself, Redmond 2344
Op Sat, 18 Mar 2006 21:32:06 +0000, schreef billwg: Anyone who is stupid enough to e-mail .doc files...
Note: Get the Facts Yourself, Redmond 2345
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 21:32:06 +0000, billwg Couple points of contention here... First, I find it absolutely ludicrous that it is presumed that every one who is...
Note: Get the Facts Yourself, Redmond 2346
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:53:59 +0000, billwg In the mean time, the Arabs knew that...
IBM Will Lose Right to Offer Diversity 2347
Roy Schestowitz And since the introduction of PWC, now known as BCS, IBM has been going right for those same top level executives. Today...
IBM Will Lose Right to Offer Diversity 2348
Rex Ballard on Saturday 18 March 2006 16:34 What utter rubbish, as well as hypocrisy. Well, then come to consider the fact that as of last year...
Elive CD install
Had some trouble with my old Dell PC, so I took it off the network, and fiddled around for a while trying to diagnose what was wrong. On a whim, I decdied I might just...
All this Linux Stuff
A budget of $200 for a band is pretty constraining. I'm kind of not understanding...
COLA Stats 19 Mar 2006
ngstats.pl version 1.18 This report covers 2249 articles received by this system to newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toplist of Posters Pos...
Linux advocacy HOWTO
I almost always use Google to post here. On my primary computers COLA is a bookmarked but not on all of my...
Linux advocacy HOWTO
Larry Qualig That's because they mainly stay in their own newsgroups. How would the people in the Jag group react if a GM fan came in started dissing the cars? First...
Kororaa liveCD Anyone have luck with it
A link was posted here (last week?) about the Kororaa liveCD which was the first liveCD to support XGL. I downloaded the...
Why So Many Homoloveuals Lurking in the Linux Groups 2356
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 So anyone who doesn't share your views on homoloveuality is a homoloveual. Really mature reasoning there. It might be enough to scare some people away from responding...
Why So Many Homoloveuals Lurking in the Linux Groups 2357
Peter Jensen No. Butt people crawling out of the woodwork to object with twisted evidence, tend to be either homos...
Why So Many Homoloveuals Lurking in the Linux Groups 2358
Huh? I don't understand what you're getting at. Let's say I'm in a bar and a gay man "hits on me" and I politely explain to him that I'm not gay...
Why So Many Homoloveuals Lurking in the Linux Groups 2359
The racist, liar and software thief Billy (flatfish) nymshifted: You lately nymshifted to Abbie Diaz, Aftab Singh, Allen Cusimano, Allie Perkins...
Why So Many Homoloveuals Lurking in the Linux Groups 2360
Well I was going to clobber you for your apparent deviant beliefs, but then I looked at your web page and while I still believe homoloveuality is a disgusting...
Why So Many Homoloveuals Lurking in the Linux Groups 2361
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 But that's just what you do when you say it's wrong. The only reason you have for doing what you do is your own insecurity...
Microsoft Office 2007 Screenshots: Retraining Ahead
wrote on 19 Mar 2006 10:22:02 -0800 Woooo...pretty blue snapshots. Oh, wait, I'm supposed to...
Suspend2 and kernel developers
Nigel Cunningham, the creator of Suspend2, recently announced that he will no longer be attempting to merge...
Quotes! 19MAR2006
Snit: "I do not believe in consensus reality. I believe in facts." Snit: "It is easy: you are claiming that your view of group consensus equals reality when it comes to...
Trolls
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ###################################################################### # Group Traceback summary run for: Sunday, March 19 2006 at 02:07:49 # ###################################################################### - ------------------------------------------ Summary target group: comp.os.linux.advocacy 165549 articles are available...
You may be a Fundy GodHating troll if: 2368 plus 1
On 21 Mar 2006 14:47:09 -0800, "Dave Fritzinger" Both seem to me to be fair buttessments based on some of your posts. (No I'm not going to dig them up and debate you on...
You may be a Fundy GodHating troll if: 2371
Actually, no. I'd argue that the concept of an absolute moral framework is, much like the concept of the supernatural, meaningless...
You may be a Fundy GodHating troll if: 2372
See below. Once again, you keep trying to draw a distinction between what's wrong and what you...
You may be a Fundy GodHating troll if: 2373
It doesn't, It shows that "God's" morality is irrelevant. Because you have mischaracterized my words. I don't believe that there is no moral reference, I...
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