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Microsoft Copy Bugzilla 2978
Roy Culley on Friday 24 March 2006 19:06 Erik, you have become a real nuisance as well as a burden...
Microsoft Copy Bugzilla 2979
Roy Culley on Saturday 25 March 2006 13:10 For all I can tell, he is...
Request for Opinions Minimum Linux Desktop Hardware Requirements
This matter seems to be higlhy debateable for some reason, as many people have various preferences for their own desktop systems. So what I was wondering was what everyone would think would be the bare...
Request for Opinions Minimum Linux Desktop Hardware Requirements
I've got a 166 Pentium with 16 MB of RAM, and KDE runs fine in it. Not...
Where have all the wintrolls gone 2982
begin oeprotect.scr Well, on the OS front, Microsoft started by buying in QDOS, which was a CP-M clone. To make...
Where have all the wintrolls gone 2983
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, billwg wrote on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:29:02 GMT I wouldn't worry too much. People will eagerly * await Vista's offering, lining up at midnight on a certain...
Where have all the wintrolls gone 2984
Better" can only be measured against some set of criteria that the user considers to be pertinent to his evaluation. For example, if the user...
Where have all the wintrolls gone 2985
I have a need to support my local homeowner's buttociation website with my computer and I have a program that one of the residents wrote that connects to the SQL Server database...
Future BBC Online Services 2986
begin oeprotect.scr Try travelling to some other countries for a while, then come back - you'll see...
Future BBC Online Services 2987
Mark Kent I too have lived and worked outside the UK so I can appreciate what you are trying to say. How good or bad the BBC's digital radio and...
Future BBC Online Services Machine: #3, Drive #1 OS: SuSE 10.1 Beta 9
On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 18:05:01 +0000, M I still say the BBC can do even...
Future BBC Online Services 2989
begin oeprotect.scr BBC1 & BBC2 carry a fair amount of reasonable programming, but they're in direct compebreastion with ITV1,2,3,4 , Sky, Ch4 (various channels) and several others. Their programming is selected as such. BBC4...
Funny An Idiot's Benchmark Discussion, linux
Er, guys? This article was a joke. (Presumably Roy got it, since he marked it "Funny".) If the bits about virus scanners and defragging (or the DeVry credentials) weren't obvious enough, how about...
Good Bye Linux Audio 2991
Having read it, I actually see room for pretty much everything under the hood to remain the same (not that this is bad, just the same...
Good Bye Linux Audio 2992
I totally agree! At least with good sound architecture bit on Vista. What I can not understand is what the hell would this mythical "Joe Sixpack" want with a fancy sound system? In all...
Good Bye Linux Audio 2993
The racist, liar and software thief sue quinterra (flatfish) nymshifted: You lately nymshifted to Abbie Diaz, Aftab Singh, Allen...
Good Bye Linux Audio 2994
After takin' a swig o' grog, thor belched out this bit o' wisdom: Might as well supply some quotes from that article: However, the...
Good Bye Linux Audio 2995
snips On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:16:43 +0000, AZ Nomad Excuse? I didn't see *anything* so far in the discussion...
Good Bye Linux Audio 2996
snips- On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:04:33 -0600, JEDIDIAH A point you've failed to demonstrate...
Vista Hardware Perils 2998
Roy Schestowitz : I'm in no big hurry to deploy Vista even after next year. Customers in corporate atmospheres prefer solid and productive rather than eye-canyish anyways, so leave them on XP with all the...
Vista Hardware Perils 2999
So anyway, it was like, 00:04 CEST Apr 03 2006, you know? Oh, and, yeah, Erik Funkenbusch was...
Vista Hardware Perils 3000
On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 17:04:51 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch It *has* happened, and it's *still* happening. The problem...
Vista Hardware Perils 3001
Roy Culley : There's an interesting thought. From a gaming website that I run (my stats arent counted or there would be MUCH more Linux traffic) over the course...
Vista Hardware Perils 3002
Sinister Midget on Monday 03 April 2006 10:33 FWIW, here are last month's stats from my main site. The stats exclude robots and crawlers, which sum up to similar figures: Windows 573642 71.3 % Unknown...
Vista Hardware Perils 3003
On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:25:15 +0100, Roy Schestowitz Keep in mind that you post a lot of Pro-Linux and Anti-Microsoft content, and promote your site heavily on Pro-linux newsgroups...
Company vs. Community
Proprietary software like Windows is controlled by a company. Any company, no matter how large or how many...
Company vs. Community 3005
On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:21:44 +0800, Lee Sau Dan I apologize then. It never occurred to me that someone would interpret that statement to mean...
Company vs. Community 3006
begin risky.vbs I see what you are getting at but I think you are way off the mark...
Company vs. Community 3007
rapskat There are thousands and thousands of software companies building tens of thousands of proprietary (mostly Windows-hosted...
Company vs. Community 3008
DFS What an outlandish load of bullpoo. Do you always just make poo up when some advocate hurts your feelings? Besides, all these "companies" are making software applications for their own profit, not...
Company vs. Community 3009
DFS This is true, but its a misleading statistic for a couple of reasons. First, Microsoft has spent billions to encourage developers...
Company vs. Community 3010
DFS I'm familiar with the venture capital world. Of course, this doesn't apply to the person sitting alone in...
Company vs. Community 3011
On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:27:56 -0400, DFS If the individual software companies could be taken as a whole, then you would be...
Company vs. Community 3012
On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:06:47 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch Errr...the following is verbatim from the...
Company vs. Community 3013
I guess I don't have these either: --------------------------------------------------------------------- EXAMPLES findtmp -name core -type f -print xargsbin...
Company vs. Community 3014
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 14:32:48 -0500, Apparantly you haven't actually looked... from info find 8.2.2 Using the test utlity to compare timestamps - ------------------------------------------------- The `test' command...
Company vs. Community 3015
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 12:06:35 -0500, It wasn't hard to find at all, it was there on the front page, behind a link that said examples...
Company vs. Community 3016
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:57:22 -0500, move with the times, upgrade once in a while, this is Linux you are discussing...
People Who Just Can't or Refuse to Grip Computing
RAVE-RANT Moments ago, I received an E-mail from a colleague, to whom I initially recommended LaTeX as the tool for creating a poster...
People Who Just Can't or Refuse to Grip Computing 3018
Paul Hovnanian P.E. : It's only OK until that end user works his way into Debt Management and somehow thinks the server...
People Who Just Can't or Refuse to Grip Computing 3019
somebody said... Q: How is it possible MS held anyone or anything back? A: They didn't - it's impossible. This is a standard cola baby whine. Q: If so, what has magically changed such that the...
People Who Just Can't or Refuse to Grip Computing 3020
I take it DooFu$ is still an idiot trying to find his savant. 1. MICROS~1 is partially funding linux advocacy by...
People Who Just Can't or Refuse to Grip Computing 3021
Sinister Midget There's really no more intransigent idiocy than the idiocy found in cola "advocates". It's amusing sometimes. The heck...
People Who Just Can't or Refuse to Grip Computing 3022
DFS that's called tolerance. Something I've not seen demonstrated to any great length by M$ shills towards...
People Who Just Can't or Refuse to Grip Computing 3023
snips On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 05:22:36 +0000, Handover Phist No. The IT version of hell is this: Two windows-based...
Trying different distros, and playing with XP
I've spent the last few days playing musical distros, having a bit of a change around. SO now I've got...
Trying different distros, and playing with XP 3025
Kier on Sunday 02 April 2006 23:26 Welcome back, Kier. HP are selling (Ubuntu) Linux laptops these days. They start with SA and will probably expand this once the experiment is shown to have...
Trying different distros, and playing with XP 3026
On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:04:08 +0100, Roy Schestowitz Thanks. That's definitely good news. Can't justify another slap, though. Well, certainly, I've put a good few distros on the old laptop which is...
CD distros was: Trying different distros, and playing with XP
Try Ubuntu Dapper. You just add "persistent" to the boot line and you can use a properly formatted and named USB flash drive as permanent storage. A couple of things, though: 1. It...
Sniff, sniff... 3028
After takin' a swig o' grog, DFS belched out this bit o' wisdom: If you stick to x86. If you can pay for...
Sniff, sniff... 3029
Liam Slider You knew I meant x86 PC hardware. And who uses PPCs and MIPs and supercomputers? Certainly nobody here cares about them. You sure...
Sniff, sniff... 3030
On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 02:02:51 -0500, DFS Actually, I'm quite sure there are at least...
Linux advice: check cable
After takin' a swig o' grog, DFS belched out this bit o' wisdom: I had a freaky thing with Debian at work this week. I was having some weird problems with...
Why do I hate Windows
Let me count the ways. We all know that Windoze is so easy to use... The setup. A...
Why do I hate Windows... 3033
snips On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 23:42:47 -0800, Grug Simple: they don't. One client uses their XP laptop, plugged into a...
Why do I hate Windows... 3034
amosf"posted the following on 2006-03-04: No, funnily enough. In the "real world", the systems are...
Why do I hate Windows... 3035
snips On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 11:54:24 +0000, Richard G. Riley You have *got* to be kidding. Most of the users I talk to not only...
Why do I hate Windows... 3036
Here's a great list of groups where you can read about all of those "linux advocates" having Winders problems: I've never seen...
Why do I hate Windows... 3037
Not as you describe it. I've seen some that last a little while without problems. Days at most. A reboot often fixes the first signs of trouble, but that's normally no more...
Why do I hate Windows... 3038
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Richard G. Riley I've never seen one that worked to...
Why do I hate Windows... Machine: #3, Drive #1 OS: SuSE 10.1 Beta 2
On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 11:54:24 +0000, Richard G. Riley THAT is to stop *windows* viruses getting to any windows boxes that...
Why do I hate Windows... 3040
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-03-04, William Poaster spake thusly: Forgive the snipping, I was a bit pressed for time. One of the...
Why do I hate Windows... 3041
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Peter Köhlmann wrote on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 16:23:46 +0100 That's not quite right; 1 myriad = 10,000, though that's an archaic usage (nowadays, it's considered 'uncountable' or 'large but unknown', apparently). The...
Why do I hate Windows... 3042
Richard G. Riley wrote something like: The real world is also full of home users that do think that 'computers' do all these things. Most don't know what an OS is, other than...
Why do I hate Windows... 3043
On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 22:25:40 -0600, Vinella Agreed...Wholeheartedly Well, if it uses the same avision scsi over usb engine...
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