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Import Export Merchandising Software
A Debt Management software for small size company in Garment, Fashion Accessories, Shoes, Bags, Luggage, Toys, Travel Goods, Sporting Products, Timepieces, Sundries, Household Items, Home Textiles, Plastic Products and etc. MerchanNet - Introduction 1. Objective. Provide an...

More Chewbacca Defenses
so ubuntu doesn't want to explain how much they paid for ubuntu.com, if anything. DFS buttumes the worst as he sucks up to a convicted...

OT, Chinese sites to purge 'unhealthy' content 4141
The Ghost In The Machine on Wednesday 26 April 2006 16:00 I posted this to the search...

OT, Chinese sites to purge 'unhealthy' content 4142
flatfish+++ Remotely related is this news story that I saw about a week ago. I'm actually surprised that I didn't see...

OT, Chinese sites to purge 'unhealthy' content 4143
GreyCloud Okay, it shows that the resources *are* being compiled into your app. This is the last thing that happens when the app gets built. The way it works is that the...

OT, Chinese sites to purge 'unhealthy' content 4144
GreyCloud Every exe has a 'main' entry point of some sort, might get renamed to something like WinMain, but this basic entry point has to be present, and it sounds to me...

OT, Chinese sites to purge 'unhealthy' content 4145
GreyCloud VS 6.0 is pretty good, there are a lot of developers who like it considerable more the VS.Net. It does try to be clever with the tree view so I have had it...

OT, Chinese sites to purge 'unhealthy' content 4146
GreyCloud I found this: so I presume this is what you are playing with? But this is rather dull looking. WSDLGFRAME produces much more attractive results. If you include a CAPTION statement with a...

OT, Chinese sites to purge 'unhealthy' content 4147
M Yes. Only a more recent version. Looks like that one above is from his...

Ballmer's Worrisome Memo 4148
Roy Schestowitz Dear Fellow Clippy Users, Throughout our history, Micoshaft has won without making big, bold bits, but by buying out our compebreastors and then putting...

Ballmer's Worrisome Memo 4149
7 You guys shouldn't worry too much. BG sold out in time! 14-Feb-06 GATES, WILLIAM H. III Chairman 1,000,000 Direct Sale at $26.37 - $26.48 per share...

Software Upgrades and Reboots
So I've been working at a new consulting client that uses Windows XP as their default desktop, and they have it configured to automatically...

What do you think of the new Windows
Nnigma3 Hello Mr Osterhout. Are you buttociated with Mr. Onuora Amobi of 65 West Dayton Street, #406 Pasadena, CA 91105 US, by any chance? Did...

Win Xp = Win 95
As I've been writing here, I acquired a new XP game. I wanted to explore some multiplayer games and found one called Auto buttault. I initially played it on my 5200 FX card but...

3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 4154
I never tried SuSE Linux. While I never tried to install Fedora Core 5, I have installed Red Hat Linux 5.0, 6.0, 6.2, 7.3...

3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 4155
Sinister Midget once pondered into the vast depths of his mind and came up with this to say: I've reinstalled Linux because I've done some stupid things in the past...

3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 4156
Sinister Midget Ironically; I've installed win98 once in 5 years - BUT that's ONLY because I know about the...

3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 4157
2006 12:58: I'd say it depends. Windows has the capacity to poop on itself more ways then any other system that I've ever seriously used in the...

3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 4158
April 30 2006 09:39: With the availability of free software and the license terms of the BSD...

3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 4159
First strike. If they were smart they would have made some changes long ago. Second strike. They've called the GPL a cancer. They've done everything to make others believe that linux just...

3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 4160
2006 04:40: I've only ever trashed my install once like that, and it was because...

3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 4161
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 05:27:59 -0400, Michael B. Trausch I've done it more times than I can count. Often times it's because i'm trying to prune the system down to...

3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 4162
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:41:47 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch Of course they do. Perhaps there is a reason for that. I spent half a work day removing all the malware Dell put...

3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 4163
I won't say never. I had a particularly bad experience with RH 5.1. Enough so that I had to go back to 5.0...

3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 4164
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:43:46 -0500, flatfish+++ People learn more by losing, not from winning. If people just click through dialog boxes and screens...

3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 4165
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:19:32 -0400, rapskat rec.audio.pro snipped. That's true but they have to be given a fair chance to succeed as well. Ubuntu-PCLinuxOS-Mepis-Suse all have parbreastioners that are well...

3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 4166
There will always be wierd hardware combinations that are going to be the exception to the rule and cause some catastrophic install failures. They are usually documented somewhere, but by the time you think...

3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 4167
I've never understood the attraction of dual boot systems. I've never understood the attraction of important information existing in only one place. We live in a world with multigigabyte drives...

3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 4168
it isn't a holy grail, but it is darn nice! really? 3 days? how did you go about searching for...

3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 4168 plus 1
wrote on 27 Apr 2006 16:28:07 -0700 You may want to file a bug on that one...

3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 4170
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, iforone wrote on 28 Apr 2006 11:57:19 -0700 Depends on one's viewpoint. For someone familiar with Unix and standards, Windows is...

3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 4171
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ivan Marsh wrote on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:08:39 -0500 Unproven but probable. Certainly trolls can be users...

3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 4172
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:00:09 +0000, The Ghost In The Machine ...and probably shouldn't try it for...

3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 4173
on Fri April 28 2006 07:28: I remember my first Linux install. When I was 14 (9 years ago...

Linux desktop a viable alternative to Windows: poll 4174
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:21:21 GMT, Sinister Midget Such as? The only time i use blogs as any evidence is when it's the opinion...

Linux desktop a viable alternative to Windows: poll 4175
So you expect opinion to matter as long as it's someone you think knows that of which they speak? But when someone else gives-has an opionion...

Linux desktop a viable alternative to Windows: poll 4176
It is suitable. For you. That doesn't necessarily translate to the "average user". That's what you claimed. And keep claiming. Just like my bad experiences with Windows is suitable for me. It...

ProOpenOffice Campaign Begins, Combats FUD with FUD
Larry Qualig on Wednesday 03 May 2006 17:44 It's a spin. Remember Microsoft's pro-Office FUD? OpenOffice are showing the effect...

California Sues Microsoft for Monopoly Acts, Settles for MS Coupons 4178
Roy Schestowitz * * * Snipped off * * * Read the Thread? * My experience... in a action Debt Settlement with Microsoft, consumers in 39 states were to receive a $5.00 voucher for certain licensed products purchased from sometime in 1996 thruough...

California Sues Microsoft for Monopoly Acts, Settles for MS Coupons 4179
M on Wednesday 03 May 2006 23:02 Having had a first pbutt through your message...

DFS Dream Task
Ok, I just enacted DFS Fantasy: I had to sort and select some information from sendmail...

DFS Dream Task 4181
The first step would be to examine other lines you are interested in, to see what is common among them (or poke...

DFS Dream Task 4182
After takin' a swig o' grog, DFS belched out this bit o' wisdom: Not in my experience, though of course we all have different criteria for "best". With bugs (some highly disruptive...

DFS Dream Task 4183
John A. Bailo heh! I do like data processing: capture, transformations, analysis, display, etc. It's what...

DFS Dream Task 4184
On Wed, 03 May 2006 19:18:21 -0400, DFS At least you're not beyond admitting the obvious. It's not "brainwashing", it's "convinced". I've seen just how effective and efficient Linux...

DFS Dream Task 4185
rapskat After they do it by hand about 10 times, I get calls from people at my client offices requesting me to automate monthly or weekly processes. Maybe you're...

DFS Dream Task 4186
2006 21:11: I certainly don't have Office. I know how to use it, as I've used it at various employers in the past, but I certainly don't have it, and I...

Pondering the future for Microsoft
Roy Culley on Thursday 04 May 2006 01:00 I imagine that the 60% re-write is intended to improve modularity. But you can't write *that* much...

The Microsoft malaise Dvorak
Let me preface by saying that Microsoft is not about to stop making gobs of money. It's just that there is virtually nothing interesting or anything the company is doing. "To make matters worse...

OpenDocument standard ratified
Intersting point. If you draw dependencies, interoperabilities and translation paths, you get somewhat of a tree structure. Microsoft Office used to lie at the top of...

VmWare Config Tweaking! 4190
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-05-04, Roy Schestowitz spake thusly: (troll droppings mopped from the floor) honors the header. One of the things I like (among many) about SLRN is the...

VmWare Config Tweaking! 4191
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-05-06, Roy Schestowitz spake thusly: No-archive is useful, and in a moment, I'll expand on why. It's not that I don't...

VmWare Config Tweaking! 4192
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Oops! Apparently, Google dosen't archive posts if the no archive header is detected at all, regardless of whether...

MA Throws in the towel 4193
Erik Funkenbusch "The Commonwealth of Mbuttachusetts has posted a Request for Information regarding Open Document Format plug-ins for Microsoft Office. Here's what they are looking for, information on any existing...

MA Throws in the towel 4194
Uhm...have you ever used OpenOffice? If the purpose of this was to deal with Office documents already in existence, then THEY WOULDN'T NEED...

MA Throws in the towel 4195
On Friday 05 May 2006 20:37 Mark Kent Indeed.... Just one thing that no one seems to have mentioned in this thread, Mark:- Perhaps you will recall...

MA Throws in the towel 4196
begin oeprotect.scr Exit barriers to technologies resulting from lock-in come in several forms, and each of these is being addressed gradually by the open source world. They're also being addressedin turn-... Barrier 1...

MA Throws in the towel 4197
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mark Kent wrote on Sat, 6 May 2006 11:30:03 +0100 The GUI is quite different in particulars but the general layout is similar. MSO2003 in particular has "Favorite Folders" and...

Jesus, Joseph and Mary
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I hopped on over to comp windows advocacy, or whatever the heck it's called...

Where's the Fish
No, I don't mean Flatfish. I was thinking today about the so called "Re-Training" issue with Office 2007...

OpenDoc plugin for MS Office users
ODF support will become a more compelling move once you (or anyone else for that matters...

Inquirer: Google to Beat Microsoft
Microsoft have liaised with Yahoo, as well as with Amazon (Alexa-A9) on the face of it. Moreover, giants like eBay have been consulting...

Firefox Users Won't Be Buying On Windows Live Shopping 4202
Working to correct it", my arse. The browser is a view on a page created at the remote server, the only reason browsers are excluded is because they choose to exclude them, it...

Firefox Users Won't Be Buying On Windows Live Shopping 4203
BearItAll on Thursday 04 May 2006 16:55 Live.com could become one more site-network to deter the...

Firefox Users Won't Be Buying On Windows Live Shopping 4204
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Thu, 4 May 2006 17:47:22 -0400 2038 will be the year...



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