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Windows Sucks A Wakeup Call 3865
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:58:28 -0400, DFS Ubuntu and Fedora work, and work well. It's pretty clear you know little about either...
Windows Sucks A Wakeup Call 3866
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Robert Newson wrote on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:06:27 GMT This would appear to be an Act of the British Queen (or...
Windows Sucks A Wakeup Call 3867
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:02:08 -0400 Oh, I quite agree. It's the worst piece of junk I've ever seen...
Windows Sucks A Wakeup Call 3868
2006 15:57: Firefox is a lot easier to get people to use. Firefox had a huge ad campaign to get them kicked off, IIRC, with people donating...
Windows Sucks A Wakeup Call 3868 plus 1
Kier I've used them both. Then someone else (Roy 'The Liar' Schestowitz) isn't, 'cause he says Windows is a bad work environment, but nobody of any discernment who values their data would...
Windows Sucks A Wakeup Call 3870
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:52:04 -0400, DFS And learned nothing much about either, it seems. How much did you use...
Pirillo: Internet Explorer 7 UI Will Suck 3871
begin oeprotect.scr I find it hard to believe that Microsoft will do this. I suspect that they'll continue to support the non...
Pirillo: Internet Explorer 7 UI Will Suck 3872
B Gruff on Friday 21 April 2006 12:33 Precisely. I read the following only half an hour ago: ( "I?ve also been told that FeedLounge doesn?t work...
Pirillo: Internet Explorer 7 UI Will Suck 3873
B Gruff If Sharepoint is anything to go by in MS future strategies then they fully intend to nip out other browsers as best they can. I set some of my users on a...
Pirillo: Internet Explorer 7 UI Will Suck 3874
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Sinister Midget wrote on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:41:36 GMT I'm thinking a putrid shade of...
It's the about the apps stupid
My contention is that people don't give a darn about the Operating System they use. (Except for the zealots on either side of course...
It's the about the apps stupid 3876
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:43:39 -0700, Larry Qualig I don't think this is necessarily untrue, but it...
It's the about the apps stupid 3877
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:43:39 -0700, Larry Qualig It sounds like you should stick with MS. You might also put a bug in Intuit's ear about liking to have...
It's the about the apps stupid 3878
Sure, that'll work, ray! On the day that pigs fly! Take your premise "compete on price and merit" and see what happens when you look at that through the eyes of a typical...
It's the about the apps stupid 3879
Wow. I propose helping people move to cross-platform apps, and Bill says, 'the apps they use now aren't cross-platform'. Profound...
It's the about the apps stupid 3880
I don't disagree with that premise about software volume, although it necessarily isn't written "in house" either. IBM, Perot, EDS...
It's the about the apps stupid 3881
Which means your intial premise is that they have to use non-favorite applications. That puts you out of the ballgame before it...
It's the about the apps stupid 3882
Of course, your (barely) unspoken buttumption is that it's impossible to get people to switch applications. This is demonstrably not true - again, look...
It's the about the apps stupid 3883
Baloney, ray. Windows is extremely successful and people use it widely and do not have problems with it. They are not seeking any change because they are satisfied. You...
It's the about the apps stupid 3884
Baloney! Hogwash! LOL! (Ah, it's always so liberating to use billwg's arguing style against him. It's just *easier* when you don't even *try* to...
It's the about the apps stupid 3885
Yup... windows is so successful that the mother-in-law just decided to get an entirely new PC because her old machine is breaking under the...
It's the about the apps stupid 3886
Bullpoo Back. I've been immersed in the technology consulting ocean for the last couple of decades and I know exactly where Linux was when IBM jumped on...
It's the about the apps stupid 3887
What Windows has lost is pure speculation, thad. Windows gained its business in the server market mostly from dominating the expansion...
It's the about the apps stupid 3888
You are so completely wrong. Linux is where the really exciting new development is occuring, and it...
It's the about the apps stupid 3889
Huh? I'm not a cluster user, but hasn't there been Windows clusters since like 1995? I know a lot of our customers have server clusters for SQL Server and Exchange. I know we...
It's the about the apps stupid 3890
Linux has something like 90 percent of the mbuttively parallel computer clustering market. Yes, Windows can do fail-over...
It's the about the apps stupid 3891
I guess my next question is why would I need one of these things, linux or Windows based? I am...
It's the about the apps stupid 3892
I am not about to jump on a soap box and claim that Windows doesn't work fine as a...
It's the about the apps stupid 3893
Fine. Then I will. Being "happy with it" is a crude metric. Some people can be happy with living in a latrine simply because they...
It's the about the apps stupid 3894
The problem with using this model for a Windows to Linux comparison is you must essentially treat each major version...
It's the about the apps stupid 3895
Maybe you have to be a salesman to understand, jedidiah, or maybe you just have to be a winner. Getting the order is a goal and...
It's the about the apps stupid 3896
Nevermind morality or law. Nevermind 1981. I am talking about 1975. Microsoft is and always has been scum. Anyone that does business with them does so at their own risk. Microsoft always goes the...
It's the about the apps stupid 3897
Not I, em! I think that it is pretty common for a company like IBM that is looking for a special piece of software to solicit bids...
It's the about the apps stupid 3898
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Rick wrote on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 01:47:00 GMT indicates FireFox has a 24.5% compared to IE7's 0.6%. It would appear, however, that somebody's stealing FireFox's...
It's the about the apps stupid 3899
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-04-27, billwg spake thusly: I love firefox and use it exclusively, verson 1.0.7 . There are two two things about it which are irritating...
It's the about the apps stupid 3900
Hey there Kier.... Kier I haven't installed Wine on any of my machines. Trying not to. The point not mentioned...
It's the about the apps stupid 3901
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:50:30 -0700, Larry Qualig Hi, Larry. Well, of course, you wouldn't be doing it for *all* your apps, just thse few you...
Are you sick of "BORING SCARY SICK" Dreams at night
Are you sick of "BORING SCARY SICK" Dreams at night? Want to know a secret on HOW to Control the Dreams you have - FOR FREE...
Let's go shopping. 3903
owl They sell what people buy. Get enough people demanding Linux or BeOS and soon enough vendors will pop up...
Let's go shopping. 3904
rapskat You have a bbutt-ackwards understanding of free market enterprise and economics. Commercial, for-profit organizations are created to supply the products and services demanded by a...
Let's go shopping. 3905
deletia MacOS, NextStep, OS-2, BeOS. Making the OS is the EASY part actually. What you are trying to gloss over with your choice of words is the...
PCLinuxOS, It's the Little things that count
Yea, I know I've been excited over various Linux distributions in the past and I'm the first to admit it, but this one is a...
pwmconfig and unsafe temp file
Linux version 2.6.15-1.2054FC5smp (Red Hat 4.1.0-3)) #1 SMP Tue Mar 14 16:05:46 EST 2006 I'm trying to run a pwmconfig file to set up the...
Everything's There Already
Lately, every time I think have an issue or need that seems well beyond obscure, I Google it, and find that not only is there another person...
Everything's There Already
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 08:53:03 -0700, John Bailo I wish I could say the same. For example, i've been looking for something like FreeBSD's qmail toaster for Linux...
Linux desktop growth could spur new malware activity
When the Indiana Department of Education began installing PCs running Linux in schools last year, it installed open-source antivirus software on servers...
Xubuntu comes of age, now a sibling to Ubuntu 3911
Roy Schestowitz After Linonut suggested taking a look at XFce as it was less resource hungry than KDE...
Xubuntu comes of age, now a sibling to Ubuntu 3912
2006 04:14: One thing that I've noticed is that the response time won't "feel" that much quicker, but it does eat up less CPU overall, and...
COLA Stats 23 Apr 2006
ngstats.pl version 1.18 This report covers 1687 articles received by this system to newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toplist of Posters Pos Poster Msgs Bytes Quoted 4. DooFuS - LIAR WINTROLL RACIST 59 108942...
Windows Gurus Talk About Windows
Quote Let's start with Mike Danseglio, program manager in Microsoft's Security Solutions group. In early April at the InfoSec World conference, Danseglio was talking about Windows security. He said, "When you are...
Why There's a "Dim" in Dimdows 3915
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:54:11 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro And, like most Linux users, is almost completely wrong about everything. What it...
Why There's a "Dim" in Dimdows 3916
Kernel configuration is a separate issue from kernel patching. The Linux kernel allows you to configure it in all kinds...
Why There's a "Dim" in Dimdows 3917
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 15:09:31 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro No, it's not. You were saying that when you build a new kernel, you need only get the kernel config from proc. That's wrong, there...
OpEd Linux: Freedom Mac, Windows: Lockin
Mac, Windows, lock in, Linux, freedom, got it? ,---- Quote The Windows on a Mac story just...
Patents, Patches and Patently Absurd Ideas
He does talk about open source and patents: "The whole SCO-IBM-RedHat-Novell-Linux lawsuit mess over who wrote what code and who owns it and who owes what royalties to whom. If...
Ubuntu Linux Destroyed My Parbreastions! STAY AWAY
April 24 2006 19:00: I suppose the difference here is that I did not use the live CD, nor have I ever, to install the system. The default installer is a TUI on the...
Ubuntu Linux Destroyed My Parbreastions! STAY AWAY
I am sorry that you have run into so many who would run you down. If you are interested in linux I would recommend you try...
Welcome to the Big Leagues, son
Imagine a kid who grew up playing baseball. That's all he did with any time he could find - after school, on weekends, on holiday, whenever and whereever. If he wasn't playing...
Viruses and Spyware are getting bad 3923
BearItAll once pondered into the vast depths of his mind and came up with this to say: I love Linux, and I love the...
Viruses and Spyware are getting bad 3924
snips On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:39:41 +0100, BearItAll Indeed. I saw an ad on the TV last night. l Some outfit offering email, word...
Viruses and Spyware are getting bad 3925
Kelsey Bjarnason ... ``The first device that might be considered to be a computer in the modern sense of the word was conceived in 1822 by...
Viruses and Spyware are getting bad 3926
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-04-25, Ruel Smith spake thusly: Nothing is impossible. Warp...
Viruses and Spyware are getting bad 3927
Ruel Smith I don't think I suggested that on Linux we are allowed to be complacent. In fact...
Viruses and Spyware are getting bad 3928
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 02:10:04 +0000, Ruel Smith Killing a users file system on a desktop system is just about as bad as killing the entire system. On...
World's Smallest Linux System on View
Au79 You don't have to look at that long to think of a million and one uses for it. The first that popped into my mind was...
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