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Firefox to Overtake Internet Explorer by the End of 2007 4073
The Ghost In The Machine on Wednesday 26 April 2006 22:00 Works perfectly well over here. Installation of Opera on Linux is simpler than...
Firefox to Overtake Internet Explorer by the End of 2007 4074
28 2006 04:47: snip the news articles Interesting -- I've seen some of these before. It makes me wonder why the same thing isn't...
Firefox to Overtake Internet Explorer by the End of 2007 4075
29 2006 00:29: I was out for a little while earlier today and actively trying to think of reasons that Linux TCO could become more then that of Windows TCO, just as...
Firefox to Overtake Internet Explorer by the End of 2007 4076
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:31:26 -0400, Michael B. Trausch Let me give you an example. Even though I'm primarily a Windows guy, I still do a significant amount of Linux-Unix...
Firefox to Overtake Internet Explorer by the End of 2007 4077
29 2006 19:59: snip the other stuff more snipping That would make sense. IA32 is an...
Firefox to Overtake Internet Explorer by the End of 2007 4078
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 03:41:57 -0400, Michael B. Trausch In hindsight, sure. At the time, though, and the way the message was worded...
Firefox to Overtake Internet Explorer by the End of 2007 4079
30 2006 04:22: Except that the word "architecture" is something that has referred to the very...
Firefox to Overtake Internet Explorer by the End of 2007 4080
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 05:08:43 -0400, Michael B. Trausch The word "architecture" is mbuttively overloaded in computer terminology. Look up "software...
Firefox to Overtake Internet Explorer by the End of 2007 4081
2006 16:05: As am I, which is exactly why I would think of processor architecture first. The other stuff...
Firefox to Overtake Internet Explorer by the End of 2007 4082
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:23:16 -0400, Michael B. Trausch In many cases, they already own oracle for other reasons. They don't want to maintain two different databases, so...
process &&program
puppy While I've never heard the term "critical region" before its prolly referring to a critical section, which is a section of code in which there...
Microsoft Is Playing A Dangerous Game 4084
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:26:11 +0200, Thomas Jespersen Well, he's neither a legal expert...
Microsoft Is Playing A Dangerous Game 4085
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ray Ingles wrote on 25 Apr 2006 12:15:25 -0400 The real problem of course is that the studios want remuneration per unit released...
New Microsoftware allows you to read the news in a portable handheld format
I came across the story earlier this morning: Somehow it reached several media outlets; probably because...
live CD
Larry Qualig said the following on 29-04-2006 09:53 pm: I can get that, what I need to know is will any of them...
You may be a Fundy GodHating troll if: 4088
TheLetterK have the This is quite true. The Three are NOT "three gods". They together form ONE God. God was certainly not "bored" in any way. While Satan...
COLA Stats 30 Apr 2006
ngstats.pl version 1.18 This report covers 2011 articles received by this system to newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toplist of Posters Pos...
Windows VMWare
Silly little ponderance. I recently had to call up MS to re-authorize an XP install. Gave 'em the serial # off the box, got the code, away I go - except for one minor nit; they...
Windows VMWare 4091
Kelsey Bjarnason In my work I used to carry a Win DVD and office DVD and one for each of our main office applications. It made it easy to add items or...
Windows VMWare 4092
snips On Fri, 05 May 2006 17:30:20 -0500, flatfish+++ Not anymore, at least, no more than I have to. I realize your little pea brain can't grasp this concept, but...
Windows VMWare 4093
After takin' a swig o' grog, DFS belched out this bit o' wisdom: Many things. Try taking a Win 2003 machine and moving it to another domain as once happened here...
Windows VMWare 4094
I have no trouble at all (that I can detect) with malware. I don't use Internet Explorer AT ALL, now, since I can do the Monopoly Avoidance Two-Step by switching between Firefox...
Hardware hard in Linux
OK, here's the scenario. Dual boot box consisting of a P4P-800-E DLX, Nvidia video card, printer...
Is Windows becoming irrelevant 4096
notbob As much as I favour Linux over Windopze, Gimp does not (yet) come close to holding a torch to Photoshop. As much as I wish it would! Not in feature-richness, workflow...
Is Windows becoming irrelevant 4097
Aquila Deus on Sunday 30 April 2006 21:19 I beg to differ. The GIMP users mailing list and newsgroup get questions on that matter, usually from recent Photoshop migrants. Just...
Is Windows becoming irrelevant 4098
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:57:45 -0700, Aquila Deus comp.os.linux.advocacy isn't known for offering technical help-advice, but your statement about specs like RAM and...
Is Windows becoming irrelevant 4099
Roy Schestowitz It's not a plugin but a fundamental function in Photoshop. And I don't see why should anyone use Songbird...
Is Windows becoming irrelevant 4100
Michael B. Trausch on Monday 01 May 2006 16:06 I once attempted an amateur's benchmark. I ran pscp on Windows heaps of media, so I saw this as a good buttessment-sanity check opportunity. scp...
Is Windows becoming irrelevant 4101
2006 11:51: Network transfers and the like, yeah, those stink in Windows, too. On my desktop, the most I could download from Georgia Technical Insbreastute ("GA Tech" -- 20 minutes from my apartment) was 400KiB...
Is Windows becoming irrelevant 4102
Michael B. Trausch on Monday 01 May 2006 17:31 Over here, it was at most 33 MBit-Sec for Windows and 100 MBit-sec (maximal speed) under Linux. The system was idle enough to...
Is Windows becoming irrelevant 4103
2006 12:57: Oh, what I'd give to have a pipeline like that. The bottleneck wouldn't likely be my connection at that point, lol. Totally...
Is Windows becoming irrelevant 4104
The path that Windows takes is going to depend wholly on where it, and its users, go in the years ahead. Sure, it is installed by OEMs and the like at the...
Is Windows becoming irrelevant 4105
Just what kind of work do you do with image processing? Let me share my experience. My photos are either family pictures, or pictures of things to sell on ebay or to show as my...
Is Windows becoming irrelevant 4106
Ignoramus19383 I am also by no means a professional photographer, at best an amateur-with-some-potential. I own a prosumer type digital camera (Fuji S2Pro) and do the odd marriage, some product...
Is Windows becoming irrelevant 4107
Ignoramus19383 on Sunday 30 April 2006 18:59 I have some colleagues who are competent with both GNU-Linux and Windows. According to them, the Visual C++ debugger is one of their main...
Is Windows becoming irrelevant 4108
M on Sunday 30 April 2006 19:35 Probably 6, though I would have to take my mind into the past and maybe ask a few colleagues. The IT staff had it...
Is Windows becoming irrelevant 4109
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ignoramus19383 wrote on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:13:27 GMT Now, maybe. On NT I caught it in one memory corruption bug, though I don't know which...
Is Windows becoming irrelevant 4110
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:13:27 GMT, Ignoramus19383 I would say 95% of people I know would be better off with Linux. Those that...
Is Windows becoming irrelevant 4111
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Plato wrote on 2 May 2006 16:22:01 -0500 20? It could be for as long as 500 years...
Windopes: An amerikkkan whinos threat to our computers
BZZZZZTTT!!! Nope. It was invented in Europe by Charles Babbage, and taken to modern perfection by the Englishman Alan Turing. Public key encryption - yup you guessed it was first invented in the UK...
Stupidity: An American threat to humanity
Er ... the first automated "computing machine" was the Difference Engine, invented by Charles Babbage - a *British* inventor and mathematician: Or if you want to be *really* pedantic, it was the Babylonians...
Linux: A European threat to our computers
wrote on 30 Apr 2006 10:39:53 -0700 The Analytical machine was beset by technical issues -- he didn't have enough powers to...
Linux Scalability was: Why Linux is so successful
Jim on Monday 01 May 2006 03:01 To elaborate: It is very natural, if not innate, for people who never take-have...
Microsoft's oneday stock plunge: enough to buy all of Costco
I know it's past news. But it puts it in a perspective I didn't see...
Microsoft's oneday stock plunge: enough to buy all of Costco
I was going to post my opinions about the MS dividend, but it is easier to just link to the article I...
Java Could go Open Source 4119
But GCC is still around. And shows no signs of going away. The 'fork' doesn't seem to have hurt it in the slightest - indeed, it's apparently made it *more* atractive and effective. Why would...
Java Could go Open Source 4120
Ray Ingles Interesting link you provided. From that paper I read: "It has been known for some time that C++ templates permit complicated computations to be performed at compile...
Java Could go Open Source 4121
It would be a lot more efficient (and effective) if the template programming language were actually the...
Java Could go Open Source 4122
Ray Ingles I never did (and still don't) view the template capability of C++ as a 'programming language.' Although it can...
Java Could go Open Source 4123
Oliver Wong It's a strength of the language. It's something called flexibility. Take a for() loop and a while() loop. These two loop types exist in practically every programming language. In *all* cases...
Java Could go Open Source 4124
Otis Bricker Well you certainly "could" - All code ultimately ends up being executed as processor specific machine instructions. At the processor-machine-code level there are no while(), do-while or for() loops. Those are...
Java Could go Open Source 4125
Again, I have to refer to "The Art of Unix Programming". "Compactness is the property that a design can fit inside a human being's head. A good...
Java Could go Open Source 4126
Linonut Totally. I bet not a single person here understood it. I had heard of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, and Schroedinger sounded vaguely familiar (I may have read his name in Rhodes' "The Making of...
Java Could go Open Source 4127
It's not *intended* as a general-purpose programming language, I agree. But my point is that to cover all the bases of...
Java Could go Open Source 4128
I can't *ever* recall running into a situation like that, and I've been developing on Linux since 1995. Your...
Java Could go Open Source 4129
Ray Ingles If it were only that easy. The application I'm currently working on has over 500 lines of code just for the header file...
Java Could go Open Source 4130
Whoops, you're right, I had to do a fair amount of abstraction for process creation (the fork-pipe...
Java Could go Open Source 4131
After takin' a swig o' grog, Jeroen Wenting belched out this bit o' wisdom: Ahhh, the "Linux hippie" gambit. I thought the IBeeMer's are quashing that one. You are mistaken. The differences in Qt license...
NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 3 May 2006 Internet Society New York Chapter: Eben Moglen on Free
what="official ISOC-NY announcement" Eben Moglen on Free Software and Free Media Professor Moglen is currently a...
killbillsbrowser
James Godbolt on Monday 01 May 2006 23:31 New Firefox videos: I'll venture to guess...
Steven VaughanNichols: Opensource Vista 4134
It's a bit like Military secrets. Many materials are clbuttified, not because they want to protect information from the enemy, but because they don't want the general public to know how much they are spending...
Steven VaughanNichols: Opensource Vista 4135
Rex Ballard on Friday 28 April 2006 06:07 Microsoft do some cross-site cookie swapping, which is unethical. ,---- Quote...
More dirty OSS deals 4136
May 1 2006 22:57: I've not changed my stance, nor my reason. A business, when operating under the umbrella of the law in the United States, sort of has...
More dirty OSS deals 4137
2006 16:22: I don't need to; I don't care how or why they did something, nor that they did it. Just like I don't care that Microsoft does tons of stuff on a daily basis...
More dirty OSS deals 4138
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, arachnid wrote on Tue, 02 May 2006 14:29:40 -0500 Hmm...one wonders what they'll do about dual-boots...
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