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An order of Ubuntu, and could you MepiSize that 3799
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:48:06 -0400, rapskat Frankly having used just about every popular Linux distribution known in the free world, and then some, I fail to see the popularity of Ubuntu? The gnome...
An order of Ubuntu, and could you MepiSize that 3800
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:42:55 -0400, Rick No. I'm just saying I find it ugly looking and every single person...
A balanced view of Vista 3801
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, B Gruff wrote on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:40:24 +0100 Where it fails? I'd say it's succeeding...if only in the...
A balanced view of Vista 3802
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:39:42 -0700, roger reeves I run both Linux and Windows on my notebook and only on the first time is starting MSOffice slower on Linux than it is...
A balanced view of Vista 3803
1. Outhouse won't quit. It'll run, and run, and run. It says it's shutting down. But it never does. If I log out-shut down-reboot without explicitly killing the process, or if I...
A balanced view of Vista 3804
Windummies cheat, though. They count all of the reboots that do (the unnecessary ones) after installing software, plus the times they manually flick the switch because it...
A balanced view of Vista 3805
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, roger reeves wrote on 20 Apr 2006 17:41:07 -0700 The only real data (if one can call it that) I...
Windows vs. Linux 3806
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, High Plains Thumper wrote on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 06:26:35 +0900 The Department of Just Give The Businesses What They Want? :-) Sad Administration, this. But...
Windows vs. Linux 3807
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, High Plains Thumper wrote on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:26:52 +0000 (UTC) On Nov. 18, 2003, Lijun was found guilty of...
Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet 3808
Our testing with usability groups has shown that people saw it as much of a difference as going from Windows 2000 to Windows XP,‰ he...
Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet 3809
Au79 Well, YAOSA (Yet Another Open Source Analogy) skyscrapers vs pyramids, yawn. Ultimately, Linux or something like it will take over Microsoft. There are several reasons for this: (1...
Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet 3810
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:08:20 GMT, Lobo Installing the OS is only half the battle. Most distro's will create a working system when the installation...
Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet 3811
billwg There are real and perceived gains moving from Winders to Linux. A corporation will have already buttessed the feasibility of such migration, looked at its ROI, and celebrate after dumping MS...
Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet 3812
That dog can't hunt either, ray. The fellow was saying "According to Girardet, migrating from Windows to SLED is not going to be the painful process...
Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet 3813
As noted, it's not "all your existing apps" and for non-IT workers, what you need is (a) "productivity apps" like Office or...
Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet 3814
Erik Funkenbusch Then one selects a distro that is designed for newbies, like XandrOS. I...
Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet 3815
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:02:30 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch These are current problems I mentioned under third party software and hardware. You will see this disappear soon as Linux reaches the 'tipping point...
Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet 3816
Typical end users don't do this. I am not sure the pedestrian user would know...
Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet 3817
I don't know about that. Certainly the installs I've done in the last two years or so seem to pick up on the EDID data and choose the max supported...
Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet 3818
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 05:10:40 +0900, High Plains Thumper Sorry, but nothing ever sets that option by itself. You have to change it. Either you did, accidentally or otherwise, or someone else with...
Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet 3819
Erik Funkenbusch Go to GNOME Control Center, click on Screen Resolution and then choose a new screen resolution, I have the choice of: 1600x1200 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 1400x1050 1280x960...
Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet 3820
On 13 Apr 2006 14:44:36 -0400, Ray Ingles Yes, anything with Xorg will do that, but what if you don't want the max supported resolution? For example, my laptop has a...
Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet 3821
Well, on Ubuntu, it's the "System" menu, "Screen Resolution" option. I don't know about SUSE anymore, haven't run that for a while. Interesting. I thought they were basically AC'97...
Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet 3822
Frankly, I think MS will be around for quite a while. More as a 'boutique' brand, for those with more money than sense, but still around. However...
Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet 3823
Can you clarify your question a bit? What do you mean by 'where'? Are you talking market segments...
Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet 3824
You are trying to teach a new dog an old trick here, ray. Won't work the second time, the differentials are not there anymore. Plus the times they are a-changin'! MS Office supports the...
Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet 3825
billwg In the "real" corporate world, "real" users barely understand or use many of these features and most of not all would...
Building a Linux supercomputer using SSH and PVM 3826
Jim Well, with something like LAM-MPI SSH is only a control mechanism, computing data is sent unencrypted. Also, I dispute the buttertion that encryption and maximum speed will destroy performance...
Building a Linux supercomputer using SSH and PVM 3827
Mark Kent I think I get you here. If you're on about the size of project such as become an issue; basically because most...
Building a Linux supercomputer using SSH and PVM 3828
begin oeprotect.scr That's one example, yes. Okay, but if you think layered networking, with a co-ps trunk network, then it...
OT} My Beef With PDF Page Numbers
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, John Bailo wrote on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:53:52 -0700 Um...you *really* need...
The Real Truth About Micoshaft 3830
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:50:47 -0700, Richard Crowley I've pretty much given up on USENET for discussion groups because these Linux crackpots seem...
The Real Truth About Micoshaft 3831
Scott Dorsey I've seen that flatfish name mentioned before and in reading the comp.os.linux.advocacy group in particular it...
The Real Truth About Micoshaft
Tommy B wrote On 04-15-2006 01:00 PM: Oh, I butture you, an OS can make you "stupid." Microsoft works by catering to the lowest common denominator, while also succeeding at making...
The Real Truth About Micoshaft 3833
rec.audio.pro snipped from newsgroups. In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Michael Trausch wrote on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 16:42:37 -0400 Define "fully functional". There is a *large* contingent of issues within that statement. I...
The Real Truth About Micoshaft
The Ghost In The Machine wrote On 04-17-2006 12:57 PM: snip While I read all...
The Real Truth About Micoshaft 3835
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:53:46 -0400, Michael Trausch One man's strength is another man's confusion. Why do so many Unix fanatics...
The Real Truth About Micoshaft
Erik Funkenbusch wrote On 04-18-2006 01:47 AM: I've heard of it. WSH supports VBScript. What a language to support, out-of-the-box. And by the...
The Real Truth About Micoshaft 22:11:23
comp.os.linux.misc:93979 alt.os.linux:53896 rec.audio.pro:233938 alt.christnet.christianlife:294214 alt.os.windows-xp:168 plus 1578 The racist, liar and software thief...
Lights, camera, Firefox 3839
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Handover Phist wrote on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:20:37 GMT Ah. Well, the coffee might cure the hangover if one...
Lights, camera, Firefox 3840
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ray Ingles wrote on 17 Apr 2006 14:15:42 -0400 Another aspect of the problem is that...
Lights, camera, Firefox 3841
The Ghost In The Machine : Only time cures hangovers, and avoiding alcohol altogether helps in every area. You'll just have to trust me on that one. I was under the...
Lights, camera, Firefox 3842
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ray Ingles wrote on 17 Apr 2006 09:55:21 -0400 Battery-electric never can exceed, though they might equal, a "perfect" (Carnot-cycle) chemically-fueled engine. Both batteries and chemically...
Lights, camera, Firefox 3843
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Handover Phist wrote on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 22:32:13 GMT Hope you feel better. :-) More or less. Actually, the engine charges the batteries (it...
Dynamic DNS
My frickin' ISP sent out mail a couple of months ago, warning about a change to dynamic...
Dynamic DNS 3845
Most stand-alone home routers do indeed handle this. Have you given up on having your router handle this? If you can get that working, then...
Dynamic DNS 3846
Most home routers implement DNS forwarding. If yours does, you can set your resolv.conf to point to...
Dynamic DNS 3847
Linonut I hope that 'grog' is non-alcoholic, I've been sober for over six years now. :-) These days, who knows? They've got satellites that can hear...
Dynamic DNS 3848
Recall in my earlier post, where I said there were two things you could have been talking about? (1) Having your IP address buttigned by DHCP, and (2) finding out the...
Kororaa XglLooking Glbutt Desktop
As it had been discussed a bit here, I thought I'd download the Kororaa Live CD and try it out. Quite surprised at how well it works on my very modest 32 meg...
proof that mac users are communist
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Jamie Hart wrote on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:21:55 +0100 Speaking of moronic: is there and clearly shows what appears to be Mac OSX's...
Microsoft Patch Snafu Grows, Users Seek Workaround
The snafu involving one of Microsoft's recent security patches continued to grow as the developer acknowledged new incompatibility problems with some video...
Microsoft patch 'erases' Outlook Express addresses
Another Microsoft patch from the batch released last week is apparently causing problems, at least according to numerous Windows users on the developer's official message boards. "After applying the patch from security...
Third judge quashes Microsoft subpoenas
Giant accused of trying to undermine European laws, harm other firms" "BRUSSELS, Belgium - Another U.S. judge delivered a sharp rebuke to Microsoft Thursday as she quashed a subpoena of...
Windows Sucks A Wakeup Call
Every once in a while, especially while on vacation in foreign houses, I receive a reminder as...
Windows Sucks AGAIN! 3855
M on Tuesday 02 May 2006 19:33 I suspect not. Very mediocre user is the latter (Debbie) while the former (Scott) is very 'app-savvy'. I feel for your experience...
Windows Sucks AGAIN! 3856
Roy Schestowitz Ahhh but was he a fiddler, the competent one usually are :-) I suppose I have something of a tendency not to stray too far from default setups. A guy came over from...
Windows Sucks A Wakeup Call 3857
A quote from my brother who just took delivery of a new Dell yesterday: ------ SO, this box has AOL, Netzero, and Earthlink already...
Windows Sucks A Wakeup Call 3858
Or they could allow OEMs to put other companies' products with the install and-or stop sabotaging said products...
Windows Sucks A Wakeup Call 3859
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:30:18 GMT, Sinister Midget Microsoft has never prevented OEM's from installing other...
Windows Sucks A Wakeup Call 3860
Roy Schestowitz Of course it's not. It's not like it's Ubuntu or Fedora. And on the topic of work, I have to wonder about a few...
Windows Sucks A Wakeup Call 3861
Ray Ingles on Friday 21 April 2006 15:41 This reminds me of a story I was told last week. 7...
Windows Sucks A Wakeup Call 3862
Ruel Smith I see you're another Linux "advocate" with more mouth than brains. Show me a SINGLE Windows app anywhere in the world, produced by MS or anyone else...
Windows Sucks A Wakeup Call 3863
DFS I don't make boot disks. Does anyone else? I don't even have a floppy drive on any of...
Windows Sucks A Wakeup Call 3864
DFS ... For when you have to reinstall the Windwos duel boot which (possibly contrary to...
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