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Firefox Users Won't Be Buying On Windows Live Shopping 4205
50 percent of the server market perhaps... the desktop will take much longer. Linux growth is likely between...
Microsoft's 8 Signs of rest
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz wrote on Thu, 04 May 2006 04:59:24 +0100 gussy -- to dress or decorate elaborately; adorn or embellish. Hmm...never had to...
Spyware Sponsors Windows Licences
Here's the latest report from my brother who just got a new Dell about two...
Spyware Sponsors Windows Licences 4208
Standard "We are not scum" disclaimer. Large pinch of salt there. HOWEVER: From the Dell help pages: QUOTE The Dell My Way Home Page is an Internet portal provided free...
Spyware Sponsors Windows Licences 4209
Jim on Thursday 04 May 2006 16:29 What bothers me most about this is that such data can be used for a larger variety of compebreastive advantages (not just targetted ads), all at the expense...
stick it to paypal... as seen on oprah
OK... this is crazy but seems to really freakin work... so do it! This was in the Wall Street Journal... I always hated PAYPAL.. now...
stick it to paypal... as seen on oprah
The hit me near the beginning of the phishing craze. They notified me that they froze my account because of suspicious activity. In order...
OT RFID Tags: Wrong Target
My post is a response to I'm not sure whether this is an expose, opinion piece, or warning (probably a combination of all three), but IMO they're...
OT RFID Tags: Wrong Target 4213
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, billwg wrote on Thu, 04 May 2006 19:43:31 GMT Nono...*Windows* would help with a cluster, since the RIAA would pay them handsomely to identify...
OT RFID Tags: Wrong Target 4214
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote on Fri, 05 May 2006 12:24:31 -0700 Define "bad". The insurance companies would *love* this -- at least until everyone cancels their coverage in protest. ;-) The...
OT RFID Tags: Wrong Target 4215
begin oeprotect.scr It's quite amazing the work some burglars and thieves will put in when selecting their victims. There are many...
OT RFID Tags: Wrong Target 4216
snips On Thu, 04 May 2006 22:00:06 +0000, The Ghost In The Machine Speaking of this... I was noodling something earlier. For all I know, it's already been done, but...
OT RFID Tags: Wrong Target 4218
snips On Wed, 10 May 2006 16:12:20 +0000, Tim Smith Unless, of course, one decides to drop p2p sharing capabilities into the zombies, at which point there's what, 40 million machines participating...
OT RFID Tags: Wrong Target 4219
But they can find people who participated in the distribution. They can criminalize that. Gonna be hard to get people to willingly participate in a P2P network if they go...
OT RFID Tags: Wrong Target 4220
snips On Thu, 11 May 2006 00:53:35 +0000, Tim Smith So, as I say, you simply add p2p capabilities to...
Can OSS Beat MS 4224
billwg But let's put that in terms of staff-years. Microsoft jealously guards most of the technology related...
Can OSS Beat MS 4225
Rex Ballard Why spout stuff like this that you have no idea about? You have ZERO information about the MS Office development team, or...
Can OSS Beat MS 4226
I may not know the exact structure of the Microsoft Office development team, but it's not too hard to do some math breakdown. One...
Can OSS Beat MS 4227
Rex Ballard It is a pretty good estimate - but only by your loose standards for facts relating to MS. In the real-world it's...
Can OSS Beat MS
billwg Remember that we have OO's big daddy too. Star Office, it isn't free download being a commercial product, but...
11 Reasons Why .NET Will Fail 4229
Roy Schestowitz Microsoft.net is very SLOW. It is too slow to be useful. When I made...
11 Reasons Why .NET Will Fail 4230
htgin I've use .NET2 in a real project, my first for a very long time on...
11 Reasons Why .NET Will Fail 4231
Erik Funkenbusch Ok, ERIK, take any one dotnet developer and take any one java EE developer...
11 Reasons Why .NET Will Fail 4232
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Erik Funkenbusch wrote on Fri, 5 May 2006 13:11:20 -0500 And these are ... ? Last I looked, there were two implementations of .NET, only one of which is official. (The other one, of...
net to Java plugin 11 Reasons Why .NET Will Fail 4233
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : I would think the biggest argument goes like this: If I use .NET and my idea for a website catches on, a...
net to Java plugin 11 Reasons Why .NET Will Fail 4234
Linonut The quote is unrelated, but the circumstances are identical (actions attributed to Bill Gates that have no factual foundation...
net to Java plugin 11 Reasons Why .NET Will Fail 4235
Linonut You know what? I have to give up on this one, and accept that MS *probably* did tell IBM they had a PC operating system they didn't actually...
net to Java plugin 11 Reasons Why .NET Will Fail 4236
I worked at Microsoft around this time so maybe I can shed a little light on the subject. Seattle Computer Products was a...
net to Java plugin 11 Reasons Why .NET Will Fail 4237
Linonut I thought my Atari ST was great :-) Bought a proper buttembler for it and learnt 68000 buttembler. DOS was OK but I used to laugh at PC's of the time because...
net to Java plugin 11 Reasons Why .NET Will Fail 4238
I was originally hired to be the 2nd tech support guy. We handled tech support...
Open Source Increases Corporate Profit
The REAL key to making a big profit from using Open Source software is to provide a service - whatever it is you do best, and do it the way you know it...
The Indicator of a Monopoly's dissolution 4240
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:59:22 +0100, Roy Schestowitz I think there are a lot of factors here. First, Microsoft is at the end of a product cycle, and there are lots of new products...
The Indicator of a Monopoly's dissolution 4241
Roy Schestowitz I wonder what exactly they have planned for the Internet. If the loss...
The Indicator of a Monopoly's dissolution 4242
BearItAll on Friday 28 April 2006 12:39 In another article pertaining to this (among many others that...
Vista 'Feature' Makes DualBoot Much Harder 4243
NoStop on Saturday 29 April 2006 16:48 *LOL* I can't say that I agree. It's an impulsive statement. If anyone shows true intentions of migrating to Linux for the first time, Cygwin...
Vista 'Feature' Makes DualBoot Much Harder 4244
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz wrote on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:25:43 +0100 Dual-booting is not as simple as it should be since, unless...
Vista 'Feature' Makes DualBoot Much Harder 4245
on Mon May 1 2006 15:37: Eh, it's not *terribly* hard, either. The thing is...
DELL to Sell Linux Laptops
B Gruff on Thursday 27 April 2006 14:35 If I recall correctly, Dell started by offering a Linuxdesktoprunning Mandriva. That was exclusively in France and goes back roughly 10 months. Since then, Dell...
He's talking about you, cola nuts 4247
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Mon, 1 May 2006 10:16:01 -0400 OK. Depends on the computer. I'm...
He's talking about you, cola nuts 4248
Michael B. Trausch When I say "headway" I mean against the MS-Windows juggernaut. When you really learn to program Access and use it as a data analysis-retrieval-manipulation-reporting tool, it goes...
He's talking about you, cola nuts 4249
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, ray wrote on Mon, 01 May 2006 16:25:40 -0600 "Need" is a relative thing. The only things really necessary are food, oxygen, waste disposal, and heat disposal, as far...
He's talking about you, cola nuts 4250
After takin' a swig o' grog, DFS belched out this bit o' wisdom: More innovation by Microsoft: December 16, 2004 - Microsoft purchases Giant Company Software.... July 15, 2004 - Microsoft announces...
He's talking about you, cola nuts 4251
Rick Sure. It was Rich Brodie (as I pointed out in a post a couple of weeks ago). But this...
Mac and Linux viruses 4252
Poor Microsoft, they don't have a new operating system to shovel into our computers yet, and even though they promised one for around 2003, it looks like...
Mac and Linux viruses 4253
Actually, I'd go even further than that and call it wishful thinking. There are some historical patterns which back...
Mac and Linux viruses 4254
Rex Ballard on Friday 05 May 2006 23:18 Was there a choice at all? The resistance should be directed at...
Mac and Linux viruses 4255
Rex Ballard on Friday 05 May 2006 00:08 I bet that Vista will be released *some* time in 2007, but it will...
Mac and Linux viruses 4256
Roy Schestowitz Actually, I would guess that, barring court actions, the release would be around August of 2007. This is based on Microsoft's historical record of releasing at the end...
Linux is Like The Metric System. 4257
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, billwg wrote on Fri, 05 May 2006 12:58:13 GMT Depends. Meter's way too big for such things as sand grains, and too small...
Linux is Like The Metric System. 4258
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 17:08 TheLetterK True-ish, but an added complexity is the...
Linux is Like The Metric System. 4259
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 21:50 Jordan Abel They still tend to show BHP as well, but only for the Brits and Irish (we - collectively...
Linux is Like The Metric System. 4260
On Wednesday 10 May 2006 00:12 Jordan Abel So why did you give up the currency system that we left you with? You had 12 pennies to the shilling, 20 shillings to the...
Linux is Like The Metric System. 4261
On Fri, 05 May 2006 17:49:44 -0700, John Bailo A lot of GM and Chrysler are made in Canada as well. He is correct...
Linux is Like The Metric System. 4262
flatfish+++ I just got home from riding it 12 miles to Starbucks (my after work exercise). It's a good bike, but I found that the people who sold it...
Linux is Like The Metric System. 4263
Jordan Abel BRITANNICA: aniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (b. May 24, 1686 in Gdansk,died Sept. 16, 1736, The Hague), German physicist and maker of scientific instruments. He is best known...
Linux is Like The Metric System. Desktop: KDE 3.5.2 Level "a" OS: SuSE 10 OSS
It was on Sat, 06 May 2006 07:55:25 +0100 when Mark Kent posted this: Quite right, the Imperial System was based on human dimensions. Rather crazy when you think about it, as humans come in...
Linux is Like The Metric System. 4265
Emmanual Kann The reality is that the metric system is a complete *joke* in America. We as a nation are simply too lazy to change. It's too inconvenient. Very little outside...
Canada's Linux Discrimination
While performing an interpretive dance to Enya's Carribean Blue, Roy Schestowitz exclaimed: I tried to access the online census on Tuesday but I was given instead: Quoted from page...
Who keeps the COLA stats 4268
You don't need mbuttive resources to run a stats program once in a while All you need is a unix-linux box, a news server (be it leafnode, nget or a fully-fledged...
Who keeps the COLA stats 4268 plus 1
begin risky.vbs Larry does tend to put his foot in it every so often. Google may well produce stats but they certainly don't post them. I used to use turqstat to generate the COLA stats...
Who keeps the COLA stats 4270
Roy Culley on Saturday 06 May 2006 01:22 Google, being an outsider and a third-party,mightbe irrelevant. I happen to use that code...
Adventures in 64bit land
So last week I took delivery of a new 64-bit machine. It's fast, lots of memory, large amounts of SATA storage and...
Adventures in 64bit land, windope expeeh has viral installer
DFS SuSE and Ubuntu don't delete it, and so do many other Linux distros. This is only a windope problem, one which had been deliberately...
Adventures in 64bit land 4273
Larry Qualig on Friday 05 May 2006 13:49 Greetings, Larry... Peculiar from whose perspective? *smile* This lights a particular lighbulb, in fact, which goes back just 3...
Adventures in 64bit land 4274
Roy Schestowitz Wow... did I mess that up. I was in such a hurry to get out of the house on time that I completely left out...
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