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Why There's a "Dim" in Dimdows 3731
Here's another interesting item innovative features in Linux, particularly compared to the aging Windows architecture. Things like: * it being trivially easy to determine exactly which configuration options were used to build the running kernel...
Why Windows is less secure than Linux 3732
Chris H The images are interesting, but without more info., readers don't really know *what* those images represent... for example, the...
Why Windows is less secure than Linux 3733
Erik Funkenbusch You are referring to two different surveys, using the Netcraft survey on one hand, which is host name based, but then refer to the Port80 survey, which is...
Why Penalize Watchers
I've been thinking about all the DRM lawsuits lately and been wondering "why"? Why do media companies want to punish people...
COLA Stats 16 Apr 2006
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COLA Stats 16 Apr 2006
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-04-19, Tim Smith spake thusly: What tripe. Linux users...
Linux going to be big in China 3737
Well, gecko, you can multiply, but you don't seem to be able to understand the result! Consider the companies like Red Hat and Novell who are doing the...
Linux going to be big in China 3738
Usually 1 above, ghost, but the real question is what does "market" refer to. My view is that it refers to the money that flows in the commerce of the...
Linux going to be big in China 3739
The idea that Linux users are unwilling to pay for software is a fallacy. It might be true for a few fringe users, but most are no different from...
Linux going to be big in China 3740
I've bought games that run on Linux - Descent 3 and Savage, for example. As in, actual money went from...
Linux going to be big in China 3741
Yes, but the conditions of illegal reproduction are narrowly defined and specific exemptions are spelled out in other parts of the...
Linux going to be big in China 3742
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ray Ingles wrote on 19 Apr 2006 11:12:08 -0400 I'm not so sure of that. It is illegal to *own* a "stripped...
Linux going to be big in China 3743
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ray Ingles wrote on 20 Apr 2006 11:21:26 -0400 It is almost as easy to rip a CD and distribute the resulting .wav files to...
Linux going to be big in China 3744
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ray Ingles wrote on 20 Apr 2006 14:44:48 -0400 A human being is a neural network, although I for...
Linux going to be big in China 3745
Well, ghost, you need not be a lawyer to appreciate the facts of the matter. Copying is "illegal" and violates the...
Linux going to be big in China 3746
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, billwg wrote on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:35:23 GMT ... always. It is only prosecuted ... I don't see why the criminal code does not apply...
Linux going to be big in China 3747
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mathew P. wrote on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:17:49 GMT Yes, it does. :-) Well, OK, just for the sake of argument. Exactly, and that's a problem, at least to those who would love...
Linux going to be big in China 3748
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, billwg wrote on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:34:42 GMT Section, please. breastle 17 covers copyrights, breastle 35 patents. Chapter 5...
Linux going to be big in China 3749
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ray Ingles wrote on 20 Apr 2006 14:34:54 -0400 Hm...good point. However, it's still law. Examples? Only one I can think of...
Linux going to be big in China 3750
How about addressing the examples I gave, which you did not dispute in the slightest, which show it's *you* who does...
Linux going to be big in China 3751
Even though they are direct examples of copying not forbidden by copyright? Terms used in legal senses very frequently don't correspond with...
Linux going to be big in China 3752
billwg quote China's Linux market revenue reached USD11.8 million in 2005, up 27.1% over 2004. 2005 saw a steady growth in the China Linux market, brought about mainly by the huge volume of...
Apple's Plan to Provide the Best Darned Windows Experience Anywhere Even Better Than Microsoft
One part of last week's column on Apple's Boot Camp that slipped past many readers was the idea that Apple would actually start shipping OEM versions of Windows Vista with...
Apple's Plan to Provide the Best Darned Windows Experience Anywhere Even Better Than Microsoft 3754
In much of the real world, vendor lock-in is not a problem, because projects have finite lifetimes. For...
Apple's Plan to Provide the Best Darned Windows Experience Anywhere Even Better Than Microsoft 3755
The project is basically a redesign of existing systems, using new technology. The diagrams are part of understanding the system that is being replaced. When...
Quality of code in Apache Friedman quotes on Apache and IBM
See separate thread, "Why Windows is Less Secure than Linux," and Here I cite from Thomas Friedman's recent book, The World is Flat...
Having one major version of linux kind of like Firefox
I recently had a thought that if Linux had one version that is backed by a lot of people (kind...
g++linux vs visual c++windows software build performance
Hi, I have some interesting data in comparing the software build performace on Linux and windows. They are sort...
Gates buying in and selling out to stop RedFlag Linux
China president at Gates house, not White House By Reuters Published: April 15, 2006, 5:19 AM PDT SEATTLE--The first lavish dinner of China President...
Linux Kernel will not allow closed source USB drivers after Feb 2008 3761
Sinister Midget Yes they do. You can get a very big speed advantage from putting these 'third party' modules into the kernel level. When MS did it for Win98, there was...
Linux Kernel will not allow closed source USB drivers after Feb 2008 3762
who read top down, I've put this in the reverse order just to help you. PS As you obviously read from bottom up, unlike the majority of...
Sending "printouts" as PDFs 3764
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Snit wrote on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:34:17 -0700 Interesting. So one pulls down a desktop menu, which prompts the user for a filename. (That requester, BTW, should also show a...
Sending "printouts" as PDFs 3766
Snit something like... BLOCKQUOTE The Pdf995 Suite offers the following features, all at no cost: Automatic insertion of embedded links Hierarchical Bookmarks Support for...
Linux audio
Why do I sense this entire thread (a few well-known and acclaimed knowledgeable people apart) is a monologue to self by the 'person who goes by many...
Can't block XP SP2 from phoning home
Because if you have a company name that is simmilar to microsoft, then it is possible...
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Imagine a huge company with a brandname product that is instantly recognizable all over the Western hemisphere. Its products are used by millions of people...
Windows and Dell Computers
Well, knock me socks off. We tried a new Dell Computer, and Windows had a...
Chinese no OS ban may open way for Linux
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Au79 wrote on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:04:18 -0700 It might. It might also be a...
Linux software support the shareware idea
This is an excerpt from a newsbit I posted earlier: L4L: Who is funding your effort? If no one, how can people help you...
Thought Experiment: What If Linux Never WAS ! 3774
John A. Bailo In UNIX world before Linux was taken seriously, we had quite a few advanced terminals. The likes of the Genisco's where much of the processing could be done...
Thought Experiment: What If Linux Never WAS ! 3775
Exactly. Once the 386 made Unix possible on Intel, it would have happened one way or another. Linux almost didn't...
Thought Experiment: What If Linux Never WAS ! 3776
The BSD developers were snobs at the time, which also helped Linux. The Linux developers were interested in getting Linux working with hardware people had, whereas the BSD developers...
OpenDocument Movement Gains Steam
Membership in the OpenDocument Format Alliance has almost quadrupled over the past month. "The Alliance, a coalition of organizations from...
President Hu and Bill Gates mixing mortar for the The Great Firewall
In a state controlled country, "People Ready Software©" takes on a whole new Orwellian meaning. With Google and Yahoo supplying restricted search engines, Cisco supplying internet backbone connections with...
The Linux Community is Killing Linux. I Thought This Was the FAQ 3779
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The Linux Community is Killing Linux. I Thought This Was the FAQ 3780
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:21:50 +0000, susan.fahgin Actually, I've tried mandrake, redhat, debian, and now ubuntu over the last three years I've been using nix. I've...
The Linux Community is Killing Linux. I Thought This Was the FAQ
Oh, here we go with the defacing a perfectly good FAQ... Let's put some CORRECTIONS in, shall we? WRONG! With the NVidia Linux drivers...
The Linux Community is Killing Linux. I Thought This Was the FAQ 3782
Yes, Ms. fahgina, that was low - although well written - yet with quite a few spelling, grammar, and syntax...
The Linux Community is Killing Linux. I Thought This Was the FAQ 3783
Welcome to comp.os.linux.advocacy, otherwise known as cola. This FAQ will try to address most of the issues regarding Linux and this group. Unlike the other FAQs, this one...
The Linux Community is Killing Linux. I Thought This Was the FAQ 3784
B Gruff Interesting. I can't seem to find any references to your FAQ Mr. Gruff. I...
The Windope eXpee Homo Edition Community is Killing Clippy. Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!! 3785
Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!! The micoshaft ship is sinking!!! "Windope Snobs: Real Barriers to Entry by Waiter V. Klingon for the OPINION-EDITORIAL section on reallyclippy.com. One particularly distraught new Windoze eXpee Homo edition user came...
The Windope eXpee Homo Edition Community is Killing Clippy. Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!! 3786
I paid nothing for that version as well, in fact I got it before they had triggers-and-stored-procedures-and-subqueries. It did everything I needed...
The Windope eXpee Homo Edition Community is Killing Clippy. Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!! 3787
After takin' a swig o' grog, DFS belched out this bit o' wisdom: Some prices are nice, but...
The Linux Community is Killing Linux
Of course we have absolutely no idea who that responder was and if he was an "IT professional" or even a "Linux pro". All we know is that the new Linux user thought he...
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The Future May Be Neither Linux Nor Windows
This gets a little weird. Earthlink, in their wisdom (probably at the prompting of SBC-Pac Bell), decided that I needed to redo my DSL...
In the interest of full disclosure
Part 1: Was working on Access2003-WinXP-Pentium4-1gig RAM system at a client site, and...
Strange Case of Disappearing Open Source Vendors
I found this article to be of interest to my reading, I am sure that the true Linux community will appreciate these points of views. ?page=2 The Strange...
An order of Ubuntu, and could you MepiSize that
I really like Ubuntu, but let's face it, it does have it's headaches. After using distros like Mepis and PCLinuxOS, I've become a bit spoiled about certain aspects of a...
An order of Ubuntu, and could you MepiSize that 3794
rapskat My biggest issue with most popular distros these days stem from this very thing. Getting something as simple as MP3's to play. Every time I see threads like this...
An order of Ubuntu, and could you MepiSize that 3795
Yep, unfortunately that happens way to much. What I think should be SOP is for the manufacturers who don't offer this stuff included in their distributions, for legal reasons and understandably, would be to put...
An order of Ubuntu, and could you MepiSize that 3796
Why? Better question: Why not? It plays Ogg files just fine, MIDI files, MOD, and WAV files too. Why...
An order of Ubuntu, and could you MepiSize that 3797
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:48:13 -0400, Segovia I just had some problems installing to a system with 2 Western Digital drives, both...
An order of Ubuntu, and could you MepiSize that 3798
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:48:06 -0400, rapskat Last time I tried Ubuntu, I had trouble with DVDs, but I got mp3...
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