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Windows Starter Edition Screenshots 3256
The Ghost In The Machine on Monday 06 March 2006 19:00 This afternoon, soon after I had linked to it from...
Windows Starter Edition Screenshots 3257
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz wrote on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:21:32 +0000 Nice, pretty transparent wastepaper bucket. Apparently the did. They now call it "Your computer", "Your network places", etc. Yeah, there's a significant change...
Linux Security 3258
Exactly. You are not going to find any farmers anywhere interested in seed genetics unless they are planning on selling their own varieties to others. It's patentable...
Novell reports 3259
Larry Qualig on Saturday 04 March 2006 13:00 It has been snowing in Manchester as well, but let's stay on topic. When I said "Microsoft's elbow" I was very specifically referring...
Linux Adoption Barriers 3260
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:03:56 -0500, Ray Ingles From what I understand of quantum computing, the overall conceptualization of the operation is...
Linux Adoption Barriers 3261
Let's buttume you're right. (You're not, of course... Windows 95 was just an attempt to be "Mac-like", for example. But let's buttume that...
Linux Adoption Barriers 3262
Oh all right, but I don't see why you place any stock in that, ray...
Linux Adoption Barriers 3263
Et quelle surprise! You didn't provide any. cites snipped You ask for examples of other "successful linux transitions" and I provide them. You respond by admitting that yes, they do exist. No...
Linux Adoption Barriers 3264
How interesting, you've provided close to the content of the memo - adjusting to the Internet was required. As Gates himself said: "Like the PC, the Internet is a tidal wave...
Open Source BIOS 3265
wrote on Thu, 02 Mar 2006 01:40:47 GMT I'm not all that up on it but I do have an old memory book (somewhere) which mentions...
Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor 3266
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 13:08:56 -0600, Erik Funkenbusch Heh... hard to keep up to date...
Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor 3267
Larry Qualig To Erik: MS doens't have to want to do it. Someone else that wants it in there will. This is also...
Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor 3268
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5 Mar 2006 18:06:32 -0800, It remained a secret at Interbase for 7 years or so. it wasn't until the software was...
Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor 3268 plus 1
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 01:06:02 -0800, Jim Richardson I wouldn't call a product that probably only had a few hundred people (at most) working on...
Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor 3270
Linønut hmmm...that sounds like a matter of trust. And there's no guarantee the bad OSS code was distributed. The bad guy is going to distribute the clean code. Maybe he checks...
Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor 3271
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Tue, 7 Mar 2006 17:28:24 -0500 It is. If one is competent in reading specifications (what does everyone think source code *is*, magic incantations??), it might...
Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor 3272
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Linønut wrote on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 07:23:02 -0600 "The" tar file? I've got news for you...the build descriptors can include tar files, patches, and a fair...
Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor 3273
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Tue, 7 Mar 2006 22:34:37 -0500 Gotta start somewhere. :-) Unfortunately, I don't want to destroy the microprocessor by popping...
Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor 3274
After takin' a swig o' grog, DFS belched out this bit o' wisdom: Indeed. But different enbreasties merit different levels of trust...
Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor 3275
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-03-07, Rick spake thusly: And open source software...
Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor 3276
Erik Funkenbusch Yup. So, when the guys says there is "no backdoor" and over "his dead body," he really can't be so certain, now can he? And when you say that it would be discovered...
Time for everyone to leave now
I found some groups that are much more suitable than COLA. alt.destroy.microsoft and alt.microsoft.sucks I'm sure...
Time for everyone to leave now..... 3278
Microsoft has their "Fast Facts" site, it's advertized on nearly every page that even mentions Linux, and provides as much pro-microsoft information...
Time for everyone to leave now..... 3279
Linønut What Erik does not realize is that there is cause and effect. Take OSX-apple as example. Until quite recently OSX was mantioned very rarely...
Time for everyone to leave now..... 3280
Erik Funkenbusch I'm sure the claim will be that they are not scared of Vista. At...
Time for everyone to leave now..... 3281
Linønut I'm not exaggerating. Just have to look in the mirror or reflect on your own writings below to realize how...
Time for everyone to leave now..... 3282
I don't have a problem with that it and of itself. But with Erik it's never quite that simple. With Erik it's often...
Time for everyone to leave now..... 3283
On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:38:53 GMT, Sinister Midget I do? When? I might claim that Windows (or some Windows software) has some feature that doesn't exist in Linux, and then Linux...
Time for everyone to leave now..... 3284
Side note: Larry, you really should learn to Trim at least the irrelevant parts of a post. If you're not going to address that part, trim it out. Also...
Time for everyone to leave now..... 3285
Hah! Wasn't it you that was justifying posts exceeding all sorts of sane levels just so all of the "context" was included? Isn't it...
Time for everyone to leave now..... 3286
Erik Funkenbusch Got it and thanks. I'll do this when a post gets real looooong as in some of the "deeper-nested" threads here...
Time for everyone to leave now..... 3287
No, Larry is looking at the surface and thinks he sees the bottom of the pool. Instead Larry is seeing...
Time for everyone to leave now..... 3288
Sinister Midget Quick note - This is clearly your *opinion* which is no more wrong or right than my opinion or that of...
Time for everyone to leave now..... 3289
Since you chose to delete the reasons I gave, let me quote meL Some of the presence of anti-M$ fodder is inspired by the pro-M...
Time for everyone to leave now..... 3290
BZZZZZT! Iamtalking about that. But I'm also talking about things like claims of deficiencies that are...
Weird
I've been trying to figure out why this problem happens, but am not having any luck. It happens in some test code I've written, which spawns a thread that ends...
Weird
After takin' a swig o' grog, mlw belched out this bit o' wisdom: Actually, after a few days of poking around and adding a --buffer option to provide a workaround, this problem still kept nagging...
Weird
After takin' a swig o' grog, mlw belched out this bit o' wisdom: Ahem. Then I say, change your approach. Then why bother providing a stacksize parameter for pthreads...
Weird
After takin' a swig o' grog, mlw belched out this bit o' wisdom: As I understand it, one often creates threads to process some data. If that data...
Weird
Linønut I don't see a single advantage to this code, I mean, it shows more how a little...
Weird
Linønut Well, for one, locking the main thread to copy data is just plain stupid, you have to create an additional synchronization strategy just to pbutt data to your thread...
Weird
After takin' a swig o' grog, mlw belched out this bit o' wisdom: My code indicates that the worst case is significantly worse. (Though that case would be uncommon in most applications.) Having the thread...
Terminology 101: Intuition, ease of learning
This sort of hangs on to the thread called "Oxford says Apple's OS X is a Linux distro", but it has come up...
Terminology 101: Intuition, ease of learning 3300
snips On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 21:22:50 -0500, Tim Murray I'll agree with most of this, but it completely neglects one critical aspect of the whole thing...
Terminology 101: Intuition, ease of learning 3301
Tim Murray Not quite. OS-X is a BSD distribution, it's not a Linux kernel...
Terminology 101: Intuition, ease of learning 3302
Tim Murray Glad you broke this out of that thread. It's approaching 1000 posts. Yes but with a caveat. Overall this is true. But for...
Terminology 101: Intuition, ease of learning
Sure. I am having a similar discussion in another thread. A well designed GUI is far, far more discoverable, easier to remember how to use, and clearly...
Terminology 101: Intuition, ease of learning 3304
Snit I'm not Eric but the one example that I always find myself doing is: find . -name 'foo' -print I suppose...
Terminology 101: Intuition, ease of learning 3306
Kelsey Bjarnason Samuel Adams to the rescue... maybe. OS X isn't any easier than Linux. What the younguns don't get is that it was the CLI that came first. It was...
Which Plugin do I install
tab enlightened us with this load of crap: We're back to this? Java is the responsibility of Sun. Flash is the responsibility of Macromedia. And on, and...
Hollywood OS wars 3308
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-03-06, Roy Schestowitz spake thusly: Yes. I for one, love that about good keyboards. In the old days they...
Hollywood OS wars 3309
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz wrote on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 07:14:39 +0000 For those who are interested: which among other...
OT Faster than light was: Hollywood OS wars
On Monday 06 March 2006 18:00, The Ghost In The Machine stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: Actually, accelerating a ship to lightspeed...
OT Faster than light was: Hollywood OS wars 3311
The laws relating mbutt to velocity contain the factor "lambda", of the form "1-sqrt(1-(v^2-c^2))". So, as v (velocity) approaches c (speed of light...
OT Faster than light was: Hollywood OS wars 3312
On Monday 06 March 2006 19:56, Ray Ingles stood up and spoke the following words to...
OT Faster than light was: Hollywood OS wars 3313
Well, you basically have relativity, FTL, causality , pick any two. What you're proposing there is essentially picking the last two and throwing out relativity as we understand it. I've never liked...
OT Faster than light was: Hollywood OS wars 3314
On Monday 06 March 2006 21:53, Ray Ingles stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: No, but it is hard for us to conceive what exists beyond the...
OT Faster than light was: Hollywood OS wars 3315
Right, but we're just playing word games. Whatever theory replaces GR is going to have to look a heck of a lot like GR...
OT Faster than light was: Hollywood OS wars 3316
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Aragorn wrote on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:57:00 GMT I said "Newton" for a reason, but you're right...
OT Faster than light was: Hollywood OS wars 3317
On Monday 06 March 2006 22:00, The Ghost In The Machine stood up and spoke the following words to...
OT Faster than light was: Hollywood OS wars 3318
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Aragorn wrote on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 15:46:53 GMT SR would not apply then; time and space *swap* (or some such) as the gamma goes imaginary after going through a pole. I...
The OpenOffice FUD Compaign has Begun 3319
Roy Schestowitz When you see Office 2007, OO is going to feel a lot more than 10 years...
The OpenOffice FUD Campaign has Begun 3320
Larry Qualig on Monday 06 March 2006 15:47 I tried two Slashdot mirrors. None of the two which I am familiar with managed to snatch...
The OpenOffice FUD Campaign has Begun 3321
Roy Schestowitz Stuff like this happens. A few weeks ago I printed up a couple of Linux and grub references...
The OpenOffice FUD Campaign has Begun 3322
Larry Qualig on Monday 06 March 2006 18:15 The site is not gone. It is temporarily unavailable due to heavy load. As regards your work habits, which involve the use of paper (it was...
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