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Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3528
Too subtle for you, eh? LOL!!! Of course that is where you can get Windows. And free of charge, too. That has already been done, as I once noted here. There are actually...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3529
Not at all, rick! LOL!!! I merely said that warez is a place to do so. I get my copies of Windows free from the MSDN subscription and...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3530
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, billwg wrote on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 23:53:42 GMT Define your needs. Of course, it may depend on various issues such as whether one wants to play games...
lies from billwg 3531
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Rick wrote on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:55:24 GMT This actually is far from clear. Why? Market elasticity. If both items in the bundle are "must-haves", then the...
lies from billwg 3532
One correction here, ghost. The OEM must add the "cost", as opposed to "price", of all the components to determine the overall cost of a unit of production. The OEM also must buttes the...
lies from billwg 3533
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, billwg wrote on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:55:16 GMT The OEM need do nothing of the sort. Check out the car parts market, for instance; it's rather...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3534
Roy Culley Extremely, if the OS CD (DVD more likely?) is a Linux distro - no monies would have gone to MS anyway; MS would insist that it was an OS CD(-DVD) in the form...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3535
begin risky.vbs For me its the opposite. At work I plug the laptop into the port replicator and I've got 2x1600x1200 display...
Don't sell PCs in UK without an OS! 3536
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, billwg wrote on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 23:53:46 GMT If a PC vendor can put Linux on a PC, it can put Windows on a PC...
Lenovo caught up in US security panic
Someone has a motive. I just haven't figured out who or why. I don't know that any M$ funny money is involved. But I wouldn't be surprised...
What goes around, comes around... 3538
Let me tell you a story.... Some years ago (many years ago!) a friend of ours had just started teaching. On her first day, she received some advice from an...
What goes around, comes around... 3539
To make sure there are no future SCOs. At one time (probably still true) Walmart took every case to court. If someone claimed to be hurt by falling...
What goes around, comes around... 3540
On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 13:34:37 -0400, DFS Because it has, you nitwit. It's up to FC5, now, and by all the reports I've read is much...
What goes around, comes around... 3541
On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 18:44:57 +0000, Kelsey Bjarnason I don't think he was necessarily talking about four years ago. Yes, it does. Absolutely. I started out with Mandrake 9.0, which had a good few...
What goes around, comes around... 3542
On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 10:26:54 -0400, DFS You overlooked the other part of his statement: 'Only two crashes since I installed it, *which is more than...
What goes around, comes around... 3543
One of them was Jbuttpa Emacs running in KDE. It started out doing strange things the first...
What goes around, comes around... 3544
They're bloatware. Jbuttpa Emacs used to be micro-emacs, a tiny, stripped-down, super-fast console-version of emacs that did nothing but edit files - no...
Linux as IES
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mathew P. wrote on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 03:01:16 GMT Linux can crash. It's a very rare occurrence and would look like a freezeup, although depending on...
Microsoft set to attack Linux with patents
On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:59:08 +0200, Roy Culley I'm thinking about this and I'm wondering whether it would even be feasible for M$ to do so. Despite the mbuttive resources...
Who Uses LinuxOSS YOU DO! 3547
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Sun, 2 Apr 2006 16:55:18 -0400 He *does* know that (or should!), and you're right. Usenet was ported...
Who Uses LinuxOSS YOU DO! 3548
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, rapskat wrote on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 17:50:24 -0400 "automotive computer Linux" coughed up which apparently is primarily for things such...
Why There's a "Dim" in Dimdows 3549
Erik Funkenbusch And your reply shows how desperate you are to make a point. Cutting off one's nose to spite...
Why There's a "Dim" in Dimdows 3550
On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:27:22 +0800, ws So pointing out how the original author was wrong 3 times over...
Why There's a "Dim" in Dimdows 3551
Erik Funkenbusch Well, you're cutting even deeper now. Remember, his original statement, and the only one he has...
Why There's a "Dim" in Dimdows 3552
snips On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:22:00 -0400, NRen2k5 Perhaps that's true... but if so, I keep not seeing it. IIs absolutely sucks compared to Apache. IE sucks compared to FireFox. Pretty much *anything...
Euro lobbyists demand end of levies on blank media 3553
begin oeprotect.scr The argument that blank cbuttette tapes should be the subject of such levies, which is when this...
Euro lobbyists demand end of levies on blank media 3554
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-04-06, Bobbie spake thusly: Too funny! If history teaches anything, it's that there is nothing that marketing won't suggest if it even sounds like it will...
Microsoft Expands AntiLinux Campaign
That would be "sanitation evangelist" if he's working at MICROS~1. Like this guy, who is descibed as an 'IE evangelist' and describes himself as a 'Longhorn technical evangelist': HEADLINE...
Linux advocates slam software licences
Yeah, they all want to start selling software as a "service" now. That's another way of saying that instead of...
What the Hell Happened
I'm a relative latecomer into the world of computing, so I missed out on many of pinnacle breakthroughs in early desktop technology. One thing I really just can't understand though is how Windows...
What the Hell Happened! 3558
rapskat The problem is you're looking at it from the bottom up rather than the top down, which is how the Consumer Debt sees it. Take a house. You...
What the Hell Happened! 3559
rapskat spewed this vile garbage: I'll tell you how... The price of hardware. You see, there was no Linux back then. Apple II, Macintosh, Amiga and others were expensive machines because they were proprietary...
What the Hell Happened! 3560
You could or could not have bought an Amiga cheaper, I'm not definite on that one and probably should have left out Amiga...my fault. I believe Amiga came late into...
What the Hell Happened! 3561
Not....quite... I think CP-M would've been better than the... alternative. It all harkens back to the disasterous mistake IBM made in giving microsoft carte blanch rights to sell and licence...
What the Hell Happened! 3563
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Tim Smith wrote on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 02:32:10 GMT I'm not at all sure at this point what consbreastutes the "bitedness" of a processor. All I know...
What the Hell Happened! 3564
spike1 Actually when DOS came out, it was an improvement over CP-M and modeled after CP-M. The MS-DOS Int21 calls...
What the Hell Happened! 3565
begin oeprotect.scr I'm not sure about the term 'improvement'. QDOS was a ripoff of cpm2.2, whereas DRDOS was built from...
collecting substantial arguments against Windows
I'd like to convince home desktop users, e.g. people I know, like friends and colleagues, to give Linux a try (I am a happy Linux...
collecting substantial arguments against Windows 3567
Thank you all for you insights and advise. Let me comment in digest-mode. Some Windows defenders...
collecting substantial arguments against Windows 3568
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-04-07, Chris Martel spake thusly: Two words; Live CD. Burn them a copy of Morphix, Damn Small Linux, or Knoppix. If you really want to impress them, Burn...
collecting substantial arguments against Windows 3568 plus 1
Chris Martel People don't like change. Many people will stuggle through with something they know instead of changing, even if the change...
collecting substantial arguments against Windows 3570
Chris Martel Another "advocate" steps up with Linux logic: you hate to see people suffer with Windows but they won't...
collecting substantial arguments against Windows 3571
1. Don't rescue them when they get in trouble with cruft, viruses, crashes, etc. No exceptions (unless she's cute and easy). When they have troubles, say something like...
collecting substantial arguments against Windows 3573
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:46:34 -0400, DFS Why should they be liars and you be...
collecting substantial arguments against Windows 3574
Bobbie Yes. Windows is so good, and so addicting, nobody can help themselves. (personally I wouldn't go that far, but to each his own). I have...
collecting substantial arguments against Windows 3575
After takin' a swig o' grog, DFS belched out this bit o' wisdom: Unfortunately, you're both wrong. Many people that I encounter have many complaints about Windows. In fact, a recent Forrester...
rsh without pbuttword, New problem
Hi all, Thanks all for having this group. I am New to the world of Linux and networking...
Linux" vs "GNULinux
Found this interesting transcript of a talk given by Richard Stallman while he was over in the...
LINUX IS A NIGHTMARE! GOOGLE EARTH and LINUX
Here is what the Linux user must go through to install Google Earth under Linux. No wonder...
Windopes expeeh Homo Edition IS A NIGHTMARE
Here are two more angles on this question. First, I wonder if anyone makes a *nix emulator for Windows? Can you report on the process of installing The...
Windopes expeeh Homo Edition IS A NIGHTMARE
This is a design problem Microsoft needs to address. Win xp Home just gives you the two choices: Limited and Computer Administrator, and the first is too limited and the second is too...
Windows to Ubuntu transition 3582
B Gruff spewed this vile garbage: I'm not 100% definite on this, as I don't know what the '-i' argument is for in dpkg (www.dpkg.org is down at this...
Windows to Ubuntu transition 3583
M spewed this vile garbage: So, you find it much better for a beginner to hack files sometimes...
Windows to Ubuntu transition 3584
Ruel Smith Just had a look on Google and it looks like I started trying linux out back...
Windows to Ubuntu transition 3585
M spewed this vile garbage: I'm referring that you are comparing a recent distro (probably the most current version of Kubuntu) to a distro that's older. There is...
Windows to Ubuntu transition 3586
On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 19:22:13 +0000, Mathew P. What version were you using? I started on Mandrake 9.0, which did have some issues, I admit, but I also had dial-up, which didn't...
Windows to Ubuntu transition 3587
On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 14:42:21 +0100, B Gruff Ubuntu has really come a ways since the last time I seriously played with it. It has...
Windows to Ubuntu transition 3588
Personally, I got SUSE 10.0 and really liked it. I've tried Ubuntu and found it to be a nice respectable Linux, but it seemed to...
Is this guy kidding
I've been reading some of these Linux vs Windows vs Apple vs Protools threads and it seems like it gets funnier with each...
Is this guy kidding 3590
I know several pro musicians who work with an Atari ST or 1985 Mac and old reel-to-reels to record...
Is this guy kidding 3591
anahata I'll confess that the majority of Linux users that I have encountered have come across to me and my friends as crackpots. Several of us including me have thought...
Is this guy kidding 3592
You are obviously pbuttionate, but you offer no criteria on which you base your preference. Without that, we have no way to...
Is this guy kidding 3593
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006 11:28:34 -0500, Steve King That is SOP for the proponents of Linux in that they seem to think that they can shoehorn Linux into...
Is this guy kidding 3594
I agree. But the original post in this thread (neglecting the fact that at one point the breastle...
Is this guy kidding 3595
On 8 Apr 2006 14:29:04 -0700, Richard Smol So do I, in fact right now I am transcribing a pile of R2R tapes (circa 1980) from an ancient Otari 4 track...
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