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Architectural Windows Flaws 4548
Your post was pretty close to being right on target. When someone goes the "Properties" dialog isn't directly tied to...
Architectural Windows Flaws 4549
Cults have evangelists (as do religions in general). Some of the following are the same guy, but are included to illustrate that there seems to be a common thread in referring...
Architectural Windows Flaws 4550
Unless I've missed something, people seem to be talking about thread creation time. It's not clear to me that this is even a very useful point of comparison, as you aren't going to start a...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish
boring crapfests about MS-Windows :-) ...... some Sunday afternnon Linux advocacy musings. I don't think Linux is perfect. I just think it's better and more interesting to use than Windows. I'm just a user, not...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4552
On Sun, 14 May 2006 16:02:24 +0100, Kier there are many different kinds of people who don't...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4553
Kier Nothing wrong with a longish post providing it has interesting content. Part of the problem here IMO is that...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4554
On Sun, 14 May 2006 08:54:24 -0700, Larry Qualig Glad you think mine falls that way :-) I think that...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4555
Kier Many reasons, I'm sure. A few that I can think of: 1. A monetary interest in proprietary software, especially Microsoft...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4556
So what? The world is looking for something better that keeps improving over time. Linux is a clone of...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4557
snips Amarok. Kontact. Konqueror. xmms. Mplayer. Mencoder. Blender. POVModeler. KDevelop. nvu. quanta. Pan. Kopete. Gaim. MythTV. The list of good and useful tools goes on and on and on...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4558
Hey, you know what? I *did* think of something to point out here. His normal merry-go-round notwithstanding, I can point out something about his "F=ma" comment. In evolutionary biology, major changes can...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4559
On Mon, 15 May 2006 13:19:40 +0000, billwg And you still think Linux is a straight clone of Unix, hmm? How strange. You must not have delved very deep...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4560
snips On Sun, 14 May 2006 22:37:56 +0000, billwg Something which has been working well enough to keep right on going after what, 30 years? While Windows is floundering about trying to get even the...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4561
You are obviously too blind to see, kelsey. Consider that Windows came from nowhere to world domination in a 10 year stretch. All...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4562
I'll semi-agree. Put it this way: the key to understanding people linke bilge thataren'tbilge is that they are trying to convince themselves. As for bilge himself, his only motivation is to...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4563
deletia Then BestBuy has to be seeing a lot of returns because general purpose computers in general have NEVER come completely set up. The end user always has to do something...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4564
Quit kidding yourself, Kier. People would not buy a desktop or even a server with the expectation of having to delve into the OS code to...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4565
Cripes, this was answered more than half a decade ago. -------------- The best analogy that illustrates this benefit is...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4566
snips funkenbusch.com says... And virtually all of those things *do* in fact have user-serviceable parts inside, it simply requires that the user actually know what they're...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4567
begin oeprotect.scr Of course, a maintenance engineer from any respectable, independent, maintenance company can service them. No problem. For example, my wife...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4568
snips Cleaning out fans, keyboards, etc, for starters. Cleaning out temp files, logs, etc. That depends on the OS and the issue. In Windows, given...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4568 plus 1
You've never installed a security patch? And you run *Windows*? I almost pity you... The high-school student who works in my wife's bakery got a new computer for Christmas. It was running Windows XP...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4570
You set the auto update to on, ray, and you can forget about it. I got a Dell laptop last summer and it has Windows XP...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4571
snips And this, of course, patches my apps from Borland and Adobe and Corel, right? No? Then it's a pathetic, sad, losing little thing, not remotely comparable to what's...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4572
snips On Tue, 16 May 2006 22:45:42 +0000, billwg While I don't tend to get my systems from...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4573
First of all, why does that matter? The fact remains that access to the source code allowed us to modify software originally written by someone else, which addresses your original point. Further, most Linux...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4574
billwg M$'s operating systems came to 'world dominance' in a much shorter time than that. Who were, at that time, doing business legally. ... because of the network effects if an illegally...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4575
One of my favorite jokes: ----------------- I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4577
On Sun, 14 May 2006 17:57:10 +0100, Homer Very true. It's astounding the number of people I've encountered who self-admittedly don't know...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4579
Homer on Sunday 14 May 2006 17:57 The "GPL is a cancer" and "Linux is cancer" are shining examples. "Are you going to trust some guy from China...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4580
begin oeprotect.scr There is a fundamental difficulty here, though, which should be understood by all. A lot of people have made a lot of money out of the...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4581
On Sun, 14 May 2006 17:57:10 +0100, Homer there are, I think, a lot of reasons non-technical people don't use Linux...
Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble longish 4582
Homer The "dent that Linux makes in commercial software sales" is actually over $50 million per day, on average, since 1997! The entire Fortune 1,000 corporations have switched to Linux. Sales of new...
Say what you want, but I like ATI on Linux
I've just recently upgraded the video card in my home system from an nVidia Geforce2 MX 440 to an ATI Radeon Pro 9800...
Installing Debian This Weekend
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Peter Jensen wrote on 14 Apr 2006 17:49:32 GMT I'm not sure such an installer is strictly...
OpEd 12 Reasons for Microsoft dissolution 4585
A better question is why is Sony offering this? Sony will be losing more per PS3 than MS loses per XBox360, so should have an...
OpEd 12 Reasons for Microsoft dissolution 4586
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 May 2006 01:44:16 GMT, that's not clear...
So where would your money go
Paul Welsh I've recommended it here about a year ago (search for "Linux stock tips") but the energy sector is still my preference. Peabody...
A simple, rhetorical, question 4589
John Bailo on Monday 15 May 2006 03:04 This does not justify the concept. A trusted site should have nothing to do with security. Paternal control is a whole different animal. Content which...
Despite Microsoft Payoff, Linux on GoDaddy Goes Up
Quote Netcraft says that 1.7 million hostnames at Go Daddy that had been listed by its survey as "other" in April are now recognized as Apache sites running Linux. Because of changes...
Will Apple destroy MS 4591
Geico Caveman I'm not sure Steve Jobs is about to declare an all-out war for the desktop. But I suspect that he will be testing the waters and looking for a sign of weekness...
Will Apple destroy MS 4592
begin risky.vbs Allchim summed it up so very well when he said you have groups of programmers working on a specific part of the OS in isolation from other groups working on other parts of...
Will Apple destroy MS 4593
begin oeprotect.scr That would be an insurmountable barrier, I think, but could explain recent announcements to remove IE from its 'deep...
Will Apple destroy MS 4594
Roy Culley It was for two reasons. 1. IBM is supplying hundreds of millions of chips to the three major game console makers. Apple's business is a drop in the...
Will Apple destroy MS 4595
The problem: 1. Fisted requirements: expensive hardware to run barely working software that will require a lot of babysitting. 2. Apple requirements: expensive hardware to run expensive software that eventually sometimes requires...
What The General Population Thinks of Linux
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:52:30 +0100, "Richard G. Riley" Without the 100's of thousands of unpaid, unacknowledged 'geek's' help, Windows would NEVER have...
For Larry the arsehole 4597
tab Roy is the most pathetic type of liar and hypocrite. He challenges me to prove my statement and I did exactly that. Confronted with FACTS, he runs and hides like the...
For Larry the arsehole 4598
Roy Schestowitz By the way Roy... read your original response to my post in the "Low Latency Audio." My post did...
For Larry the arsehole 4599
Larry Qualig on Monday 13 March 2006 15:50 You are right on that last point. I got a little carried away, so the arguments drifted off-topic. This tends...
Tuxmachines.org: SUSE Linux 10.1 Final Report
John Bailo I don't see why the man is so upset. I couldn't give a monkeys which shell is my desktop. I tend...
Tuxmachines.org: SUSE Linux 10.1 Final Report KDE: 3.5.1 Machine: #3, Drive #1 OS: SuSE 10.1
On Mon, 15 May 2006 10:01:40 +0100, Roy Schestowitz Ever since I've used SuSE I've used KDE, but also some...
Aww today was a great day
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, tab wrote on 13 Mar 2006 20:05:14 -0800 You might want to check Sun's distribution license. The full sequence. 1 Install Linux...
Aww today was a great day. 4603
Give me the EXACT instructions on how to do it.. What version of java you got? Global or local install? How did you get...
Aww today was a great day. 4604
Can't see why. Just create a shortcut, takes about 5 seconds. Plus I seriously doubt that on linux...
Microsoft to hide Irish Tax Haven data of subsidiaries that have saved it billions of
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-03-15, Paul Hovnanian P.E. spake thusly: You are correct. Mostly. See below. No...
Reliability FUD Campaign 4606
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz wrote on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 06:38:57 +0000 It might be, if one squints...
Reliability FUD Campaign 4607
snips On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:12:31 +0000, Roy Schestowitz Not quite. More simply: 1) Not all atheists maintain the non...
Reliability FUD Campaign 4608
snips On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:06:39 +0000, Jamie Hart Nope, I'm an atheist. Agnostic - "a gnostic" means, more or less, "without knowing...
OT sort of: BSA calling for software spies
Johan Lindquist what needs to be done is thesportof shooting needs to become more mainstream. I could count the number of members of my shooting club, which is apparently one of the most...
Home Secertary betrays computer users 4610
Why must you thank them? I fought something of a battle from within a central government department...
Home Secertary betrays computer users 4611
Hi, Tarquin Mills Did you mention the reasons behind this state of affairs and not the OTT way you've posted here? You must really get your ideas...
Home Secertary betrays computer users 4612
spike1 NTL has several terms and conditions documents and when a person uses their services they agree to all the applicable ones. The "Service Terms" document says under section...
Top 10 Reasons Linux pwns your OS
Keep in mind that Microsoft gets to decide WHEN a vulnerability gets announced. There are vulnerabilities which were exposed as...
Spywarekilling Vista could take out rivals 4614
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ever noticed that windows is always a day late and a dollar short when it comes to...
Spywarekilling Vista could take out rivals 4615
Outdeveloped IE, for example. Didn't you see the thread a few days back where Gates admitted they ignored the browser for too long and are now playing catch-up? (Hmm... one would think that...
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