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Reasons to Switch to Linux 2779
which has got these instructions: - Ensure that the .bin file you downloaded is executable. You can make the .bin...
Microsoft to Battle Windows Piracy 2780
Once upon a time I did post a link to Microsoft's OEM license framework. It did discuss the terms of most OEM contracts. Of course - these licenses...
Freedom of Speech 2781
On Sunday 26 February 2006 00:24 Liam Slider Well, the place where *I* live, the land was *also* merely occupied territory, captured...
Freedom of Speech 2782
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 26 Feb 2006 11:55:18 -0800, read more, the movie rating system is...
Bye Bye Windows Hello Linux 2783
Roy Schestowitz enlightened us with this load of crap: It depends on how adaptive you are. There are plenty of...
When Is a Linux Workstation Really a Desktop
Is Dell is on its way to becoming the first tier-one PC vendor to offer a mainstream business Linux desktop...
When Is a Linux Workstation Really a Desktop 2785
DFS enlightened us with this load of crap: I stand corrected. Bullpoo. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, FrameMaker, etc. are geared toward professional workstations used in...
NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 1 March 2006 ISOCNY: New York City Council Member Gale Brewer on
Personal note from Jay Sulzberger: Gale Brewer has begun an extraordinary effort to bring the Net to those in New York City who today cannot afford full Net access. So far the City Council has...
OT Freedom of Speech 2787
Mathew P. Nonsense to follow. love is not like a drug. This argument is put forth by people who have...
Thank God for IEDs" 2788
Tim Smith Within the confines of their church, they are allowed to believe whatever they want...
Darwin is a BSD unix
Darwin (upon which the rest OS X is based, much like KDE or Gnome uses X on top of Linux or a...
Darwin is a BSD unix 2790
TheLetterK You seem to have forgotten to supply any kind of proof of that claim. I'm sure you'll correct that oversight...
Macs: 1 button, Windows: 2 buttons, Unix: 104 buttons
What do you think I "made up"? Please be specific. Please note that the situation I described has...
Macs: 1 button, Windows: 2 buttons, Unix: 104 buttons 2792
The fact that an buttertion was bald? There's really not much to support there. It either is or isn't...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2793
Oxford Just double checked it. 3% of 4,661,999 is roughly 140,000--that would be almost 10 times the figure you originally quoted. You could also check it by dividing...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2794
on what planet? back here on earth hardly anyone even knows about linux, much less uses it. 1 in a...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2795
snips On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 16:26:36 -0700, Snit Actually, someone else - you, wasn't it? - brought...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2796
Kelsey"posted the following on 2006-03-03: Hardly a common task for the average desktop jockey though...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2797
Richard G. Riley Yup. There is nothing else which distributes viruses as efficient And *all* of them are pooty At least that's consistent with the rest of...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2798
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:58:54 -0700, Oxford Wow, given the number of kooks on USENET...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2799
Oxford stock GRANTS oxford, not stock OPTIONS. stock, freely given to him. and not vaguely tied to any retirement plan. jobs was apparently so unconfident about aapl that he had the board exchange his...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2800
and he has never exercised those options, nor stock, so he's been living on $9 for his day job...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2801
snips On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:20:35 -0700, Oxford You're talking about Don Estridge? What...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2802
estridge was a failure, he and his team only copycat'd the Apple design and i see his little project failed as of...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2803
but do they run DOS? no, they run a bastardized copy of the MacOS. thus, estridge's "copy...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2804
snips On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 12:24:37 -0700, Oxford What's DOS got to do with anything? You said the machine. DOS isn't a machine. The PC, however, is...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2805
simply because 50% of the machine is the OS, so you negated to include that portion in your buttessment of what consbreastuted estridge's "PC". DOS is no longer in use, people all use some...
Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro 2806
snips On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 14:24:34 -0700, Oxford Really. Funny, I buy "bare" machines regularly. Care to point out where the OS is installed? Nope, not on the disks, not in RAM...
Should the US Military Release a Linux Distro 2807
John Bailo But isn't they a risk that they will think all people who don't use Linux must therefore be persons and therefore should be invaded and forced to follow a Linux path...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2808
Canada is the US's largest supplier of oil and gas. We also send you a lot of electricity and refined products. You guys should be happy. You can buy...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2809
What will the climate be 30,000 years from now and will Yucca Mountain still be 100 miles from anywhere? How will they get it there? We...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2810
DU isn't "waste" from nuclear power plants. It's naturally-ocurring ore that has had the U-235 (the actually highly radioactive, useful stuff) removed. Um... that doesn't say...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2811
On 3 Apr 2006 09:35:30 -0500, Ray Ingles You have to process 1000 pounds of natural uranium to get 2 pounds of U-235. Fresh reactor fuel contains mostly natural uranium...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2812
With some trepidation I stick my nose into this discussion...although I don't know much about the controversy over DU munitions, I can...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2813
From what I've read it is 0.2% (spiked with other trace radioactive materials). At 1% U235 the fuel rods are considered...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2814
Again, I admit I don't know about the controversy, but part of what I'm saying is that I don't see any reason why the military...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2815
Well, 30,000 years ago people ate off hot rocks using their fingers, wolfie! By the time anything out West would move enough to cause a threat, I would...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2816
DU has several advantages. It is hard and heavy, and when deployed on the tips of missiles and bullets, it can easily pierce the heavy armor plating on tanks. Other types of...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2817
In which case the DU does not qualify as a contagion, eh? I think that you are on a crusade for world peace or something, wolfie, but you are going about it inefficiently...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2818
Reread my post. You snipped the relevant facts. I don't think so. Only the Americans with their politically controlled press don't realize what is going on in...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2819
Just because someone says something doesn't mean that it is true. Everyone selling something is going...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2820
This is a very confused statement. I don't know too many people who've managed to live for "eons". It's not going...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2821
On 3 Apr 2006 08:00:51 -0500, Ray Ingles Re-read it... Once the genes are damaged by radiation, that damage is pbutted on to the next generation and...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2822
If, and *only* if, that mutation happens in a gamete (i.e. a sperm in a male or an egg in a female). Generally...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2823
On 3 Apr 2006 13:25:19 -0500, Ray Ingles If you would have read some of the documentation you would...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2824
I have seen that butterted, yes. I have not seen any actual evidence presented to back that buttertion up, though. How exactly would...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2825
On 4 Apr 2006 07:53:07 -0500, Ray Ingles Even the military acknowledges health risks from DU munitions. They have special procedures to follow when dealing with it. You are rather pedantic, aren't you? Unless you...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2826
begin oeprotect.scr I have a mental image of loads of yanks, shivering in a fuel-less chill, or baking...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2827
begin oeprotect.scr They do seem to be heading for some fairly terminal times. I'm increasingly convinced that the PC is effectively dead, and once...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2828
opity A synic might say that MS appear to be making too public the problems with the current IE, seems out of character, until you remember...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2829
BearItAll on Thursday 30 March 2006 14:59 Excuse me for 'hijacking' this message from opity, but you triggered some...
Microsoft on the slippery slope 2830
opity on Thursday 30 March 2006 12:21 "Collapse" is a very strong word. I notice that Gordon oderated it some- what and 'cushioned the fall...
Viruses plague British businesses 2831
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, billwg wrote on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:00:58 GMT ObHuh: Huh? OK, someone clue me in here, but I thought there was, at one point in the timeline or another: 1 Amiga 500-600-1000-1200-2000-3000-4000...
Viruses plague British businesses 2832
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, billwg wrote on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:43:54 GMT "Not everyone" could mean 99% or 1%. Which is closer? If 99% of people want Linux, Microsoft has a major problem. If 1...
Another Day, Another Dollar 2833
Listen, idiot. My first point, which you so conveniently ignored, was that your claim "LESS THAN ONE YEAR" was wrong. "Boo-hooh. The bad man proved me wrong. Lalalala, I can't hear you." Which...
MacTard runs Rampant was Windwoes 2834
Sandman When did I say that? And how did you decide that your willful stupidity consbreastutes some sort of "higher standard?" You're still...
MacTard runs Rampant was Windwoes 2835
Sandman The context is to provocation. Therefore there is no "unprovoked insult." You just earned the breastle of "moron" again. See? No unprovoked insult. I...
MacTard runs Rampant was Windwoes
You always insult me first, Edwin. I treat you the way you treat me. Think about that. That's all you are, unprovoked insults. I realise...
MacTard runs Rampant was Windwoes 2837
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 15:30 +0200, Sandman You're a libelous liar. Repeating your lies will not make them become true. You just told another lie. If...
Switching 2838
Sutic Contestants I would suggest setting up one of the boxes with a dual-boot setup. This way you will be able to...
Easy Ubuntu 2839
B Gruff It's always nice that people are trying to make it easy for those new to Linux. I...
Easy Ubuntu 2840
Copy to following three lines. Make sure last line has c-r: sudo apt-get install subversion cd ; svn checkout svn:--freecontrib.org-easyubuntu gksudo easyubuntu-trunk-easyubuntu.py Paste to Kate I'm having a tough...
Bristol Saves a Million quid 2841
I can't speak with authority for you guys, but here (and in several other places) governments panic when they have to give anything back. Or...
Bristol Saves a Million quid 2842
On Sunday 02 April 2006 22:18 Roy Schestowitz Indeed, Roy. Consider our old friend Munich...
Disappointment with Linux 2843
7 Last weekend I took a Knoppix v4.0.2 (CD) for a spin for the first time on an old Compaq...
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