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You can use junk ... or you can be productive. 4479
Kier Application, not file system. Gnumeric is not slow to load. OpenOffice: so slow you're forced to leave it running. And even then, it's so slow to...
You can use junk ... or you can be productive. 4480
snips On Sat, 13 May 2006 21:42:03 -0700, NoNamer It really depends on a lot of things. Clbuttic example is a Windows box which normally connects to a domain, but for some reason, the domain...
So far on linux..... 4481
On Fri, 12 May 2006 18:19:42 -0700, tab Actually, they seem to work fine here, as a rule. However, getting Java working in Linux has been a bit of a chore - but that's...
So far on linux..... 4482
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, tab wrote on 12 May 2006 18:19:42 -0700 They're zip files with an atbreastude. :-P What problem? Of course Java .jar files suck in general, mostly because it's far from clear that...
So far on linux..... 4483
tab Browsing through the topics in this NG, I've just read two other topics by trent where...
So far on linux..... 4484
snips On Fri, 12 May 2006 21:15:55 -0700, tab WTF are you blathering about? What system I wrote? I...
It's official, Bittorrent doesn't suck
Bobbie well Azureus gets away with just one port... Which port should I use for Azureus? 1. Choose a port from the 49152 - 65534 range. Azureus needs only one port, but you...
Smokey gets it
On Linux Today a interesting op-ed piece by Brian Profitt was posted : "Editor's Note: Novell Pot Meets Community Kettle" The editor correctly identified some very...
Windows Platform Crashing
While performing an interpretive dance to Enya's Carribean Blue, NoNamer exclaimed: Seven years ago I was doing my practicum for a building maintenace course at the Royal Centre in Vancouver. The...
Windows Can be Hijacked Exchange Servers Can be Hijacked
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 10 May 2006 12:58:38 -0500, - From Secunia.org...
This reminds me of
remember the guy who sued Apple because he couldn't get his iPod to play Realmedia files (or something equally daft)? "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. anbreastrust authorities on Friday rejected concerns that a search feature in the...
Vista Bugs Bounty Hunt Begins
rapskat on Saturday 13 May 2006 18:42 See my answer to Linonut. In hindsight, I...
Daily Fact: Windows Zombie Spam 4492
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Wed, 10 May 2006 11:04:38 -0400 crunch The traffic cop + is equally facile at directing the telephone service truck as he is directing...
Daily Fact: Windows Zombie Spam 4493
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kier wrote on Wed, 17 May 2006 19:31:55 +0100 There are a fair number of issues here, but ad homs don't do much in...
Daily Fact: Windows Zombie Spam 4494
Sendmail itself doesn't do that sort if thing on its own, but it does have hooks that allows a wide variety of tools to...
Daily Fact: Windows Zombie Spam 4495
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Jamie Hart wrote on Fri, 12 May 2006 10:43:14 +0100 Dumb question. Where does the other 20% originate from? I could see spam sent...
Daily Fact: Windows Zombie Spam 4496
snips On Thu, 11 May 2006 15:43:07 -0700, Kavoorka I realize that thinking isn't your strong...
Continue Anyway Stop Installation
STOP WINDOWS XP USERS PLEASE READ FIRST! If you are using the WINDOWS XP Operating System, you will see the warning box to the...
4498
Homer If the price were thousands per certification then you might have a point. But for...
4499
Tim Smith Interesting tool. A long time ago when I was working out in Redmond Microsoft...
4500
Erik Funkenbusch It's very different than rebasing. Rebasing is what you normally do to DLLs so that their load address doesn't need to be fixed up...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4501
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, mlw wrote on Wed, 10 May 2006 09:34:52 -0400 Anyone with half a brain would be able to point out the obvious flaw...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4502
rapskat Arguing is not a waste of time. I love it. Most of us do. Which is exactly what I do - for the most part. You just don't like how...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4503
On Wed, 10 May 2006 10:07:06 -0400, DFS Use quotes for a more accurate sampling. This forces Google to search for the exact phrase, rather than returning millions of pages that happen to have those...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4504
DFS Actually, if you LOOKED at the results, you would see that much of the first few pages (the most relevant) seem to address hardware issues. Sure, but if you want to...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4505
Buford Ressup You mean less accurate if you're looking for instances of Linux systems freezing up, because if you dig through the results...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4506
I didn't dig through the site much. In fact, what bit I looked at was just some of a page my wife...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4507
Read what I said. Not what you wanted me to say or thought I said. It's right above your response. In fact, let me quote me: It may be devastating as...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4508
begin oeprotect.scr Wow - so 40 Million people - is not living up to your expectation? Wow. As...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4509
I'm saying, according to the claims that have been made for the last 25+ years, most or all of us should be dead, or getting so close to the point of rest as to be...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4510
Sinister Midget Farce is right. As I remember, there was plenty of talk about the "possibilities" by the...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4511
Mark Kent a écrit : I think this is the point. i.ecould Let me twist it a bit: 1. informatic-microprocessor systems compute dates among other thing 2. Y2K...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4512
begin oeprotect.scr Doh! Of course they do - do you have any experience with real-time alarming systems at all? The timing of alarms is positively critical, so that when they're introduced into correlation engines, they...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4513
Mark Kent a écrit : Well, we are maybe talking about two different things here. When you have a system to be supervised (like gas duct, or production...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4514
begin oeprotect.scr No, I'm talking about how real systems work, you seem to be making things up. These 'layers' do not correspond to any realistic...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4515
Mark Kent a écrit : You seems to work in a glbutt tower at the monitoring side, while...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4516
begin oeprotect.scr No, not at all... I've been working on similar systems for many uses over many many years, from designing them to operating to building to determining to everything else...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4517
I forget the year (I think it was early 90s, possibly late 80s), but I recall a "scientist" claiming the imminent happenstance of a huge earthquake...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4518
begin oeprotect.scr It's end told millions in every country, though, hasn't it? One issue to consider is how the average member of...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4519
I hasn't end millions in every country. It has end multi-millions in some countries. It has affected millions and-or multi-millions in several countries...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4521
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 14 May 2006 20:36:16 +0100, if it's 5 million a year, this year, and next...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4522
Mark Kent Mark, I think you have taken what Midget wrote in completely the wrong way...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4523
begin oeprotect.scr That would be point no.1, certainly... That would be my major issue - 40 Million deadso far-, a rising infection rate, currently at...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4524
Whether I made errors or not (nobody has actually pointed any out; instead what has been stated is what they've interpreted my words to mean rather than the actual meaning), to accuse someone...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4525
DFS It is provable that the two words "linux" and "freezes" have just as much, if not more so, a coincidental...
What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him 4526
mlw So go to page 47 and check out those results (your page 47 may be slightly different from mine) ####################################################### Results 461 - 470 of about 1,920,000 for Linux freezes. (0.84 seconds) server development mailing list...
LINUX OR WINDOWS SAME poo, IF YOU ASK ME
WINDOWS is one product even though Microsoft keeps doing what it thinks is the way to make people keep using this product. Linux iwas started as open source. Not...
LINUX OR WINDOWS SAME poo, IF YOU ASK ME 4528
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, fakir005 wrote on 13 May 2006 09:01:26 -0700 Windows Debatable; there are six or more Vista variants contemplated, and there are a number of XP...
LINUX OR WINDOWS SAME poo, IF YOU ASK ME 4530
Jeremy Fisher Microsoft not relevant for Windows users? lol who are you trying to kid? Why are linux desktops...
LINUX OR WINDOWS SAME poo, IF YOU ASK ME 4531
truer words were never spoken Those days are numbered, 10 years, maybe less. And when they grow up, they call tech-support...
LINUX OR WINDOWS SAME poo, IF YOU ASK ME 4532
NoNamer Thats not what I said, of course M$ is relevant to M$ users they know no better. Interesting, I used...
LINUX OR WINDOWS SAME poo, IF YOU ASK ME 4533
NoNamer I am a Linux user, and Windows is utterly irrelevant to me. I don't dual...
Dan Brown DID NOT write The Da Vinci Code! VICTORY for Christians
Dan Brown DID NOT write The Da Vinci Code! VICTORY for Christians ! He is a fraud! As seen on...
Dan Brown DID NOT write The Da Vinci Code! VICTORY for Christians
you do realise that Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code" is FICTION.................even Dan Brown says it was just a work of fiction with some parts...
COLA Stats 14 May 2006
ngstats.pl version 1.18 This report covers 1819 articles received by this system to newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toplist of Posters...
Drupal rocks
Well, for evaluating a bunch of CMS systems, and other things a web site might need, the quickest and easiest way to setup, manage, and update these things is to find a...
Comcast On Demand problems 4538
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-05-14, Cyberwasteland spake thusly: I don't know one human being on the face of the known planet that...
Comcast On Demand problems 4539
However, the latency for that is very high, so if you are interesting in gaming, or if you ssh to remote computers...
Comcast On Demand problems 4540
Cyberwasteland Cyberman - You don't usually jump to conclusions so I was a bit surprised to see that you wrote this. (I didn't actually pay too much attention to...
Comcast On Demand problems 4541
Larry Qualig Thanks for the tutor - I appreciate it :-) After much digging - I discovered a press Microsoft...
Open Source in First Place for Application Servers
This is interesting: "Richard Monson-Haefel, senior analyst for Burton Group, blogged on recent market share numbers for application servers. Interestingly, at least in this survey, contention for the number-one spot among...
How do you like DesktopLinuxAtHome.com
linuxStranger Nicely done. I have a lot of ideas for your site, but the one that sticks out is this: Create a 'start...
Microsoft Set to Stone Self 4545
Roy Schestowitz cowardly way out of not reading-seeing what you're afraid to see IMO. I generally like reading most of your posts anyway...
Microsoft Set to Stone Self 4546
Larry Qualig on Monday 15 May 2006 16:21 You are yet to prove I am a liar (but bear in mind that Larry is the only Windows sidler to whom I...
Architectural Windows Flaws 4547
On Sun, 14 May 2006 10:41:58 +0100, Roy Schestowitz Windows also has this feature. By default services are not interactive, and cannot interact with...
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