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BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-03-22, tab spake thusly: Just wondering: buttuming that you are referring to microsoft telephone support lines, Do you...
local root exploit in most popular Linux distributions
A few days ago, one of the trolls here claimed that OS X is no better than XP when it comes to security, on the...
Vista to be Released January 2007 At the Earliest 2582
Roy Schestowitz LOL You guys are really nuts. Nobody considering Vista *at this time* would even seriously consider moving to Linux. At the very worst, they might...
Vista to be Released January 2007 At the Earliest subquestion
Roger Grossenbacher on Thursday 23 March 2006 09:26 I am both humbled and flattered to have you ask that. There is...
Vista to be Released January 2007 At the Earliest 2584
Roy Schestowitz Really? How about polish and refinement? How about an OS that *works* instead of wasting time trying to figure how things work? How about an OS that recongnizes...
Vista to be Released January 2007 At the Earliest 2585
Grug on Wednesday 22 March 2006 18:52 OS X has nothing to offer that Linux has not had for...
Vista to be Released January 2007 At the Earliest 2586
I just read not long ago the buttertion, seemingly backed by the M$ Hoodlums(tm), that it was certain Fisted would be out before Christmas. The claim was that it would be done to make...
Vista to be Released January 2007 At the Earliest 2587
Sinister Midget on Wednesday 22 March 2006 11:27 Actually, Microsoft are doing the users-buyers-marks-sheep a favour. Last Christmas they left everyone with an unpatched WMF vulnerability. It...
Vista to be Released January 2007 At the Earliest 2588
Sinister Midget on Thursday 23 March 2006 10:51 As in 2009? For all I know, Microsoft are only buying time. They could wind up releasing Vista at the end of 2007 (you know, for Christmas...
Vista to be Released January 2007 At the Earliest 2589
begin oeprotect.scr It appears to be reduced to a service pack, which means Vista is going to be Windows NT 5.2 instead of Windows NT...
Vista to be Released January 2007 At the Earliest 2590
begin oeprotect.scr Does seem a strange thing to do, although it should be noted that the 90s MBA...
Internet Explorer Separated from Windows Explorer
See? Weasel-weasel-weasel. Gates wanted to know what would happen if Microsoft adopted the most extreme, hyperliteral reading of the order? What if the company were to comply with Jackson's...
Internet Explorer Separated from Windows Explorer Machine: #3, Drive #1 OS: SuSE 10.1 Beta 2
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:31:02 +0000, Mark Kent From "New Yorker" January 1998 - (In December 1997).. "Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, of the United States District Court in...
Novell's Messman: Only 2 Distros Will Survive
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:12:15 +0000, Roy Schestowitz What's that mean? Is that what I said? Did I somehow convey that opinion? You are reading more into what...
Advocacy in action! 2594
Gordon I've found the best way to advocate Windows is to ask people to install and try Linux. After...
Advocacy in action! 2595
Grug I have found just the opposite. My last Linux install went without incident. I cannot say the same for my last...
Advocacy in action! 2596
snips On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:59:46 -0800, Grug And since the installation procedure is vastly simpler, security higher, functionality on a par (for general users) or significantly higher (for power users) this advocates for...
Advocacy in action! 2597
Ah, just the person I'm looking for. I've got this MB USB flashdrive that I use...
Advocacy in action! 2598
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:29:25 +0000, William Poaster My friend has a Porsche Boxster. He keeps telling me what a piece of crap it is. At least once a week...
Advocacy in action! 2599
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:15:37 -0800, John Bailo My experiences differ. I use Windows XP for 99.99 percent of my DAW work and I can't even remember the last time it locked...
Advocacy in action! 2600
flatfish+++ Ok, you will tell me that I'm pulling your leg -- but guess what? About...
Linux Geek Does Windows
After several years of mostly Linux and Java consulting jobs, it has finally happened... I've signed on for a year long embedded Windows XP development contract. I was very honest about my...
Linux Geek Does Windows
The trick is to live well below your means. I lived with roommates well after...
remote root sendmail security hole 2603
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:32:05 -0600, Jem Berkes well this one is serious : Advisories Internet...
remote root sendmail security hole 2604
Some more details, this appears to be real. Sendmail, Inc. has recently become aware of a security vulnerability in certain versions of sendmail Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) and UNIX and Linux products...
ABUSE OF THE CREATIVE COMMONS PROTOCOL
Some of you may have noticed that Signs of the Times was down three times...
Forbes Columnist: Vista Not 'People Ready' 2606
And we'll all go to heaven, when the next release comes out! I think this officially...
Forbes Columnist: Vista Not 'People Ready' 2607
begin oeprotect.scr Having read this extremely damning article, in forbes, of all things, I wonder if Vista is going to be a bit of a disaster. Clearly Forbes do not see...
Micrsooft Employees Ashamed of Vista
Supposedly all from Microsoft employees: ,---- Large Snippet ? Being a 10+ year Microsoft vet I feel ashamed and sad. This company is a mess on so many levels. ? Here's the...
Microsoft Has Stopped Competing with Linux 2609
The Little boy is whistling in the dark, hoping that if he sounds big and brave, the bullies won't steal his lunch money. Microsoft has hardly stopped competing. They...
Microsoft Has Stopped Competing with Linux 2610
IBM really isn't in the OS business, or even in the business of Linux. About the only OS the actually "Own" exclusively are the "mainframe" OS modules...
Microsoft Has Stopped Competing with Linux 2611
Actually, the USL vs BSD case was settled just before Linus released his little kernel. Many of the original authors of the utilities...
Microsoft Has Stopped Competing with Linux 2612
Rex Ballard Why? Interesting. So you must have some proof MS provided funds to Bay Star? Where is your proof? Show me some proof, and I'll concede the point, and...
Microsoft Has Stopped Competing with Linux 2613
DFS I believe IBM has already been granted subpoenas to explore this more closely. Note that I said that Microsoft Arranged...
XBOX 360's latest hack is leaked to the public 2615
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-04-04, Mark Kent spake thusly: Indeed. But I was thinking more along the...
Here we go again
Peter Köhlmann In the thread "Is the SQL database market dead" I responded to a post, as an buttide to the response I told the poster about the security I found...
Windows Late, Linux "Right on Trucking" 2617
I hadn't heard that was final, just "proposed". It is decided now? But it's true that the article's not entirely fair in its...
Windows Late, Linux "Right on Trucking" 2618
Ray Ingles on Thursday 23 March 2006 15:17 I am almost sure it was finalised and was announced by Shuttleworth about 4 days ago. I read about it in various sites. I also wonder...
Novell Negotiate Linux Bundling with OEM's
John Bailo According to some theories the best time to buy a stock is when things look so bleek for a company that it couldn't possibly get any worse. In other...
Mozilla Lightning Screenshots 2620
Roy Schestowitz This statement becomes really funny if you look at it from the other side. That is, pretend that Mozilla Lightning...
Mozilla Lightning Screenshots 2621
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:43:08 -0800, Jim Richardson Yes, he was. You should follow your own advice. Why don't you stop with the patronizing...
Mozilla Lightning Screenshots 2622
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:14:13 +0000, Gordon "being used effectively on a network" is not the same as a client...
Mozilla Lightning Screenshots 2623
It's especially interesting how those two idiots keep trying to compare Lightning to Exchange and the...
Best linux for windows user 2624
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:54:53 -0800, AsherMaximum I'm fairly new to linux and to gain some experience, I've been sampling different flavours. I'm tending...
Best linux for windows user 2625
On 23 Mar 2006 22:04:27 -0800, shrini Same story here. I have had quite a few friends, and subsequently their friends etc install Suse and...
Best linux for windows user 2626
Lobo on Friday 24 March 2006 03:33 I agree. Ubuntu in particular (not Kubuntu) behaves more like Windows and remains rather simple. Much like any modern distribution...
Best linux for windows user 2627
Well, it didn't play nice with the other 3 Linux distros on HDB. It only recognized WinXP on HDA. Had...
ot ancient computerish technology
I was joking with someone at work today (we have a print division) about our respective "eras" in printing. I remember the days of Compugraphic, a phototypesetter that used a...
NYC LOCAL: Sunday 26 March 2006 New Yorkers for Fair Use Meeting: Call for Participation
New Yorkers for Fair Use Call for Participation ----------------------------------------------- New Yorkers for Fair Use will meet this Sunday, 26 March 2006 at 6:00 pm, at...
perhaps ot Bizarre networking problem
I've got a bizarre networking problem that I just can't seem to figure out. It may be Linux related, because i'm using ipcop. Despite our ideological differences...
Microsoft Office OneYear Delay! 2631
It had to be delayed. They sent their Offal guy over to help with the future delays of Winders...
Oracle: OSS Keeps Vendors on Toes
Mark Kent on Sunday 26 March 2006 20:41 Tell your colleague that (s)he will always have the source code; using it (executing) is a whole different question. Pay $1000, then be permitted to run...
From Forbes: Ballmer on Linux and OSS 2634
This is actually a brilliant answer. Ballmer knows that not only is there no direct proof...
From Forbes: Ballmer on Linux and OSS 2635
It's really not so clear as that. What's clear is that Microsoft and which happens to be the server segment that's growing rapidly. So far as I can tell, Linux represents...
Took A Survey Today
Actually that would be an accurate question. Linux is most correctly ONLY the kernel. The Linux distribution is the Linux kernel, along with a BUNCH of Open Source code, some portion of...
Flatfish+++ is right. Too many specialized Linux distros 2637
Settle down, idiot. It's a fact that office is being delayed. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it would...
Flatfish+++ is right. Too many specialized Linux distros 2638
Ok, try this. I am running Fedora Core 4 I want to do development work. I realize I need REALbasic REALbasic does not run on Fedora Core 4. So I install...
Flatfish+++ is right. Too many specialized Linux distros 2639
tab spewed this total nonsense: Why couldn't it run on Fedora Core 4? I think you're off your rocker... Isn't it commerical, non-OSS software? Why don't you ask them why...
Flatfish+++ is right. Too many specialized Linux distros 2640
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:08:53 -0500, Ruel Smith You're a fool, but by letting you have your say people will just buttume you are correct so I will proceed to...
Flatfish+++ isn't right
Rick spewed this total nonsense: I agree. It IS a strength. Choice is good. If I can install from binary, then great. But, if...
Flatfish+++ is right. Too many specialized Linux distros 2642
snips On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:00:53 -0800, Larry Qualig Me? Yes... but not in the way you think. I don't really give a rat's rear what you use, insofar as...
Flatfish+++ is right. Too many specialized Linux distros 2643
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 11:18:41 -0600, Linønut Not really because I have seen that exact situation happen...
Flatfish+++ is right. Too many specialized Linux distros 2644
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 20:58:43 GMT, Rick I am running Suse. I'm not sure...
Flatfish+++ is right. Too many specialized Linux distros 2645
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 10:26:16 -0600, Linønut You can't, but you can come pretty close. Windows comes pretty close and depending upon what you are trying to...
Flatfish+++ is right. Too many specialized Linux distros 2646
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:26:09 -0600, Linønut Verses how much time do you want to spend fiddling with different distributions and programs? I'm more...
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