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Why do I hate Windows... 3044
My gaming Windows box has a wireless card. After I finished the installation Wizards, there were two...
Why do I hate Windows... 3045
Larry Qualig on Saturday 04 March 2006 05:09 You are advised to keep your Windows machine unconnected. It...
Why do I hate Windows... 3046
snips On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 05:49:07 -0800, Larry Qualig The reality is, nothing is perfect. Not Linux, not Windows, not OSX...
Why do I hate Windows... 3047
snips On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 07:05:01 +0000, Roy Schestowitz I note, with some amusement, that Funnybush has now decided that "f*** off" is...
Why do I hate Windows... 3048
Kelsey Bjarnason on Sunday 05 March 2006 13:26 He completely lost it. That's not how I pictured him, not even in my wildest of dreams. That exactly...
Why do I hate Windows... 3049
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-03-05, Roy Schestowitz spake thusly: One thing to add: I have found that command line installers tend to be much more functional and...
Why do I hate Windows... 3050
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Fri, 3 Mar 2006 23:50:43 -0500 DFS does have a point. In Microsoft, the bad drivers and...
Why do I hate Windows... 3051
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ruel Smith wrote on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:21:53 -0500 I use a HPLj6 myself. Apart from the fact that Ghostscript has to be put in the middle...
No Windows, no Business 3052
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 04:54:45 -0600, I just tried it myself, see log below. JR joined the incident...
Linux desktop The chicken and the egg
The irony of course, is that so much of his statements were no longer accurate. Dell DOES...
Why Linux is so successful
I bought a PCChips motherboard M848A SKTA + 1.4GHz AMD CPU bundle... Also bought a MX4000 graphics card...
Why Linux is so successful 3055
On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 15:00:02 GMT, 7 Most users don't swap out motherboards. They buy a new computer. Being "ready...
Why Linux is so successful 3056
Roy Schestowitz appologies it is more like 7Gb Luck has it I didn't de-install - I'm just...
Open Source Sold Out
I think this article completely misses the point. While development of the code and open source software advocacy are pretty easy to for free...
Windows Versus Linux Security: Reiterated
Roy Schestowitz Compared to Linux, which was based on a multi-user model from the initial stages. Even when Linux was used as a workstation, it was designed with the buttumption that services...
Chinese Supermodels Demo Linux Phones
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, John Bailo wrote on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 09:19:35 -0800 OK, dumb question. Why focus on the supermodels? We probably should be focusing on...
MS charges EU anbreastrust regulators... I mean criminals... with colluding. 3060
billwg Microsoft got a "Lucky Break" when Thomas Penfield Jackson decided to grant an interview with a reporter after turning his final rulings over to the clerks for final...
MS charges EU anbreastrust regulators... I mean criminals... with colluding. 3061
The issue never came up, Rex. Jackson said that MS was in violation of the...
microsof tdid violate U.S antitrust law
Actually, they didn't cancel all of Jackon's rulings, they agreed with his findings of law on 2 out of...
Vista Will Such" 3063
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 08:39:13 -0500, Bob Hauck Mea Cupla, I rememberd that USB 2 was 80Mb-s faster than Firewire, but...
Vista Will Such" 3064
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 15:12:30 -0600, Erik Funkenbusch Yes, but if the flash thing is not effective and RAM cache is then that's irrelevant. Lots of machines these...
Vista Will Such" 3065
Larry Qualig I read it years ago in an article explaining the windows boot process and...
Vista Will Such" 3066
On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 00:23:56 -0600, Rob Hughes Once again, you point to third parties, not...
Vista Will Such" 3067
Erik Funkenbusch Well, gee, since I can't call up Billy or Monkey Boy, I guess I'm stuck, aren't I? Bah... Do...
Vista Will Such" 3068
On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 10:16:15 -0600, Rob Hughes I'm not asking for quotes from any particular person. I'm asking for quotes from...
linux burned down my house
I installed this distro to see if linux lives up to the hype or not. this was a terrible mistake and...
linux burned down my house 3070
WHICH DISTRO! You start like a typical wintroll - absolutely no specifics whatsever. How did you get it? This whole story sounds like such a load of nonsense that...
linux burned down my house 3071
begin oeprotect.scr Our house heaters are 7kW. We just don't like wasting time... :-) Ours are 400V 50Hz 3 phase, so they need to be a...
linux burned down my house 3072
begin oeprotect.scr Modern ones don't flicker. Or at least, they do it at such high frequencies that you'd...
linux burned down my house 3073
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mark Kent wrote on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:11:29 +0000 I suspect there...
linux burned down my house 3074
begin oeprotect.scr If you move your coal by rail to your power station, then you're okay, because the power...
linux burned down my house 3075
begin oeprotect.scr Critical question... a review would need to look at farming practice as well as personal vehicle design. I suspect hybrids will be the way for...
linux burned down my house 3076
begin oeprotect.scr There's an enormous amount of US cash floating around the world, financially centred on London, as it's now effectively stateless. The US is continuing to grow its...
linux burned down my house 3077
begin oeprotect.scr Hehe :-) Yeah, we have a very comprehensive set of wiring rules, including how to run wires in walls, what height to set sockets at so that disabled people...
linux burned down my house 3078
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:01:57 -0800, Jim Richardson I was talking about the wiring within the house. In the...
linux burned down my house 3079
That's nothing. My cat liked to sleep next to my Windows box to keep warm. Then what we all feared HAPPENED! One...
linux burned down my house 3080
Don't laugh. This was not funny. Hundreds of people almost died before we got it under control. The MSCE's...
linux burned down my house 3081
You, my friend, are a complete dumbbutt. And just for posting this, I belive you deserved to lose your so-called "Multi Million Dollar" estate. there are a few things...
Browser wars 3: IE7 beta no match for Firefox 3082
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:02:02 GMT, becco That would be a good trick. I mean, Windows 3.1 shipped in early 1992, and while there...
Browser wars 3: IE7 beta no match for Firefox 3083
DFS MS jumped on the Internet bandwagon just as it was starting to take off. Giving away a free Web browser and email client (even if...
Puzzling over Vista 3084
Of course, at one time nobody thought a "home user" would need mulbreastasking, TCP-IP...
Puzzling over Vista 3085
On 5 Mar 2006 14:17:24 -0800, Rex Ballard At one time those things weren't needed by home users. When they became needed, they were added. Oh bullpoo...
Puzzling over Vista 3086
Erik Funkenbusch Yes, in response to Trumpet Winsock. And the Microsoft version was so flakey that it crashed almost immediately. The Trumpet...
Puzzling over Vista 3087
On 5 Mar 2006 19:14:15 -0800, Rex Ballard Which of course goes completely against what you just said. You said Microsoft added...
Puzzling over Vista 3088
snips On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 16:50:38 -0600, Erik Funkenbusch Took 'em long enough, though. Remember DesqView? I was using that to mulbreastask back in the good old days of DOS. Chance are you've never...
Puzzling over Vista 3089
GreyCloud It was not relate ONLY to Linux. Microsoft had 4 major compebreastors who presented a possible threat. OS-2 2.0 - IBM had been...
Puzzling over Vista 3090
Erik Funkenbusch This Lawsuit got a lot of publicity back in 1991-1992. I don't remember the exact dates. The case...
Puzzling over Vista 3091
On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 16:02:50 -0600, Erik Funkenbusch Really. I've got Debian installed on my server. I can handle exactly as many e-mail, web, DB and other clients as the hardware...
COLA Stats 5 Mar 2006
ngstats.pl version 1.18 This report covers 2349 articles received by this system to newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy 1...
31 Flavors of Baskin Robbins Are they nuts
snips On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:06:13 -0800, Larry Qualig On things they *understand*. Not on things they don't. Case in point: the client who bought a...
Concord Police Department Officer Ron Turner is a f***en dirty black pig cop
snips On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:41:09 +0100, 5-0 True enough, racism and the like is uncalled for. That said, the cops do tend to go overboard often enough...
Linux What's that My own survey. 3095
One road block to getting Linux to the desktop is the philosophy of Linux and many of the open...
Linux What's that My own survey. 3096
Yes, you raise a very legitimate point here, and I touched on the answer in an earlier post. Linux's strength among the geek crowd becomes...
Linux What's that My own survey
Agreed: though reading my comments above I would make one correction; I stated Apple gets...
Linux What's that My own survey
There is a lot of truth to that. Some of the trolling, though, is just clearly dishonest BS. Without naming names, here are some examples: Some of the trolls have accused me...
Linux What's that My own survey. 3099
snips On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 10:20:04 -0700, Snit * The tilde in an OS X path does *not* mean "the hard drive only" tildes somewhere...
Linux What's that My own survey
Much the same for OS X: it is simply *not* true that the tilde means "the hard drive only". Yet there is someone who repeatedly spewed such clearly incorrect things as: "YOU were the...
Linux What's that My own survey. 3101
snips On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 15:18:11 -0700, Snit snips Fine. They don't get it, they don't get it. Or there's simply a confusion of...
Linux What's that My own survey. 3102
I'm the person Snit had this initial discussion with... in my view, the context was...
Linux What's that My own survey. 3103
snips On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 23:01:08 -0700, Steve Carroll Sure. I may *think* you're guilty of, say, the wholesale dissolution...
Linux What's that My own survey. 3105
Spare me... Google shows where I and numerous posters pulled your argument apart from many different viewpoints. Even you admitted you had no proof...
Linux What's that My own survey. 3106
Evidence that might compel one person may not compel another. This is all beside my point... any such action of alleging guilt of another...
Linux What's that My own survey. 3108
No, Snit... politicizing the *hell* out of one person on one issue is never good for a...
Linux What's that My own survey
If there is blind following why have a country at all? I prefer freedom, thank you very much. Bush has not taken that right completely away. Yet. Who knows what the future brings...
Linux What's that My own survey. 3110
Snit You can't have freedom without the law. The best thing to do is to challenge those laws in court. Division just brings in...
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