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Best place for Open Source questions 4682
The Ghost In The Machine Everyone advertises. IBM used to advertise OS-2. I found out about BeOS long before it was available on store shelves (and I bought it as soon as I could...
Best place for Open Source questions 4683
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-04-19, DFS spake thusly: Good god! You have got to...
Best place for Open Source questions 4684
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:04:13 -0400 There's force and there's...
Best place for Open Source questions 4685
begin oeprotect.scr From a commercial perspective, you could very much liken the debate to lock-in versus commodity + support. Clearly, lock-in is wonderful for the vendor, but very poor for the customer. Traditional...
MS senior VP Says Linux Servers are Better than Windows 4686
John A. Bailo on Monday 15 May 2006 17:32 In relateion to this, as well as: John A. Bailo on Monday 15 May 2006 17:36 ^^^^^^^^^^^ Strikes a nerve. Disruptive! *chokes on coffee* This bugs (pun...
MS senior VP Says Linux Servers are Better than Windows 4687
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-05-15, Roy Schestowitz spake thusly: As the Caveman put it...
Expert needed McGrawHill professional technical book authorcontributor 4688
Hello Victoria! You need to contact a couple of people who are legends in the Linux audio production world. A fellow named rapskat who hangs out in comp.os.linux.advocacy has developed intrinsic methods...
Expert needed McGrawHill professional technical book authorcontributor 4689
Hello Victoria! You need to contact a couple of people who are legends in the Linux audio production world. A fellow named rapskat who hangs out in comp.os.linux.advocacy has...
The Future May Be Neither Linux Nor Windows 468 plus 10
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mathew P. wrote on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:49:02 GMT But he is correct. Desktops aren't required to be secure, merely functional, and aren't trusted by grade A1 servers anyway, presumably. (I'm...
The Future May Be Neither Linux Nor Windows 468 plus 11
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mathew P. wrote on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:03:59 GMT Indeed. Of course ideally one wouldn't have to worry about it. But then, ideally I'd be...
The Future May Be Neither Linux Nor Windows 468 plus 12
Linux provides the best "blend" of: Security Cost Features Performance Capability Reliability Support Costs Scalability Microsoft has a whole site full of "Fast Facts" in...
The Future May Be Neither Linux Nor Windows 468 plus 13
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:57:14 +0000, The Ghost In The Machine What you're failing to...
The Future May Be Neither Linux Nor Windows 468 plus 15
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:21:44 -0400 No. :-) Windows has *always* won in all aspects of the problem *except* technical innovation. 1 It was announced first. It beat X by...
The Future May Be Neither Linux Nor Windows 468 plus 16
After takin' a swig o' grog, DFS belched out this bit o' wisdom: Lessee, we're talking 1971. I'd say graphics and sound, for two. Kernel modules. MIME. HTTP. CIFS (Samba). Threads. NUMA, RAID, USB...
The Future May Be Neither Linux Nor Windows 468 plus 17
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Jamie Hart wrote on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:00:23 +0100 Bash command line editor. I don't know when ksh first came out but...
The Future May Be Neither Linux Nor Windows 468 plus 18
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ray Ingles wrote on 20 Apr 2006 15:34:01 -0400 I'd have to look. I don't know when Microsoft style DLLs first showed up. I...
The Future May Be Neither Linux Nor Windows 468 plus 19
The Ghost In The Machine ... $ mdir a: Volume in drive A is win30adisk3 Volume Serial Number is 5E18-3A16 Directory for A: CALC EXE 26038 10-31-1990...
In the interest of full disclosure 4700
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:15:51 -0400, DFS No comment. Not enough experience to comment. KDE is an amazing piece of software, and it continues to...
In the interest of full disclosure 4701
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-04-20, rapskat spake thusly: My troll detector starts to ding with these...
Are Linux Users Discrimintated against 4702
If they require IE, they almost require Windross. They're going to get a lot of stupid-people...
Are Linux Users Discrimintated against 4703
batevladi You have some nerve! 1. The socially challenged are always discrimintated against and Linux users as a whole are socially challenged...
Are Linux Users Discrimintated against 4704
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:11:17 -0700, batevladi Well, some fine points. What you are describing is not a "public service", it's a service that's extended only...
Are Linux Users Discrimintated against 4705
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, JEDIDIAH wrote on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:06:29 -0500 And that risk would be what, precisely? - DNS spoofing? Could happen, regardless of browser...
Are Linux Users Discrimintated against 4706
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, billwg wrote on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:02:57 GMT Nobody ever will, since IE is bog-standard. The discrepancies between IE's rendition of...
Are Linux Users Discrimintated against 4707
billwg Problem is not there are solutions to viral infection, because there are. However, one must remain vigilant to ensure their system...
Are Linux Users Discrimintated against 4708
Ignoramus10782 in question uses an insecure operating system, and find a better bank. I would...
Are Linux Users Discrimintated against 4709
They do if they want to use the provided online services. What you are basically advocating is that people can choose not to drive their pintos that tend to explode when run...
Server Fun
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kelsey Bjarnason wrote on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:12:00 -0700 Unfriendly: # walk over to old machine, or remotely log in # through a reasonably secure LAN $ cd $ tar czfsomewhere-home.tgz home # or $ tar czfsomewhere...
Certain prognostications
Its dangerous to make any kind of predictions, however, the recent interminable procession of bad news coming out of Redmond has prompted even my...
Certain prognostications 4712
On Mon, 15 May 2006 11:36:35 -0400, Geico Caveman Uhh... Methinks you're just watching a biased stream of information...
Certain prognostications 4713
There really is only two leading install formats, RPM and DEB, and there are even programs that handle both seamlessly. In general, most people just stick...
Certain prognostications 4714
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 May 2006 13:59:12 -0500, If that were true, MS would have been doomed after...
Certain prognostications 4715
Erik Funkenbusch Its unfortunate for your argument that you should drag politics into it, but one would imagine that a President...
Certain prognostications 4716
Geico Caveman on Monday 15 May 2006 16:36 Since it's Microsoft-inclined, I thought I'd pbutt on this one. And yet, a few points were too hard to get past without...
Certain prognostications 4717
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 May 2006 14:12:37 -0500, Non sequitur. Linux and MS-Windows both were plucking the "low hanging fruit" you mention. In the...
Certain prognostications 4718
Erik Funkenbusch Got anything that says Vista will happily work on older hardware? Looking at: https...
Certain prognostications 4719
Tim Smith Well lets put it this way, the 7Gb it is supposed to take up and this is enough to put me off! Okay, so...
Certain prognostications 4720
True, both Linux and Windows are eating at the Unix trough, and Windows has continued to expand with the overall market... but you...
Certain prognostications 4721
Erik Funkenbusch The very nature of Linux, with its multiple distros and different ways of acquiring it, makes it pretty much impossible to say with any certainty how many users are...
Certain prognostications 4722
While I agree that precise Linux desktop figures are difficult to pin down, I think it is very easy to establish that the trend is definitely upward. Looking at browser...
Certain prognostications 4723
Erik Funkenbusch Have you ever even met an open source developer, Erik ? I am a small time open...
Testing versus static verification 4724
WARNING I dont want to start a peeing compo of dynamic vs static languages - I'm a Java dev first after all. Chris Smith I wasn't saying they are they same thing. I was saying...
Testing versus static verification 4725
Hopefully, no one uses UML to document all the kinds of things that are documented automatically by type systems. That would...
Testing versus static verification 4726
Chris Smith I did say, 'depends upon what type you want' I didn't mean that to come across as using them to document Types relations that are done by type systems...
Testing versus static verification 4727
Chris Smith Just for background information: the Refactoring Browser is considered to be an absolutely essential tool by many (most...
Testing versus static verification 4728
Ah. I'm somewhat at a loss, then. I was talking about type systems providing documentation automatically. That seems to have little to do with UML at all. This, again, seems to...
Testing versus static verification 4729
Chris Smith me: I suspected as much ;-) Well, I disagree. (Ignoring the trivial, Crowlean, "Do as thou...
Testing versus static verification 4730
Sorry for the delay. For some reason, my server just now got all of your posts from the last few days. Okay. It's the one I've heard...
Testing versus static verification 4731
Thomas Hawtin It's as though they miss the point of their own pet languages ;-) high priest thereof -- the philosopher one -- interesting, well argued, and relevant. Things are looking up.) The other...
Ruby on Rails
the fact that you can easily predict what it actually does I even had trouble with the early examples. validatespresenceof :subdomain, :name, :emailaddress, :pbuttword validatesuniquenessof :subdomain end Okay, so as a human with...
BILL GATES MICROSOFT CAUGHT STEALING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ! 4733
BILL GATES MICROSOFT CAUGHT STEALING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ! THIS IS PART 3 ! The Art of Code Tweaking known as "The I'll bury you in court, forever - EFFECT" ------------- One day, a lecture...
BILL GATES MICROSOFT CAUGHT STEALING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ! 4734
BILL GATES MICROSOFT CAUGHT STEALING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ! THIS IS PART 3 ! The Art of Code Tweaking known as "The I'll bury...
Open Source Compels Proprietary to Collaborate
Mathew P. on Tuesday 09 May 2006 00:28 No, I was referring to the song: Hello muddah, hello faddah...
Vista Outlook is Bleak Linux Takeover Imminent
Quote Anyone who has been following the tech news lately knows that Microsoft has been taking a beating. In addition to the standard anti-Microsoft sentiments which we have come to expect...
Vista Outlook is Bleak Linux Takeover Imminent
Roy Schestowitz Its easy to feel a bit sorry for MS, they are on a no...
Vista Outlook is Bleak Linux Takeover Imminent
asj on Tuesday 09 May 2006 15:24 You must be envisioning a list of applications whose compatibility aligns with the O-S in...
Backdoor flaws found in Diebold evoting machines
The flaws could be used to change election results on the systems... "The voting watchdog organization Black...
Backdoor flaws found in Diebold evoting machines 4741
begin oeprotect.scr There is a fundamental problem here about trust, systems, and people. If a system is in place, then...
Backdoor flaws found in Diebold evoting machines 4742
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-05-18, Mark Kent spake thusly: A minor correction. Black box voting is a consumer...
Backdoor flaws found in Diebold evoting machines 4743
While performing an interpretive dance to Enya's Carribean Blue, Da'Punk-A exclaimed: I've scrutinered in two federal and two provincial elections. My opinion is that...
HewlettPackard Say Linux "Not Smart for VENDORS
HP exec on navigating the open-source waters ,---- Quote Question: HP sells PCs installed with Mandriva Linux in Latin America. When could we start seeing such Linux desktops elsewhere? HP exec: We could...
HewlettPackard Say Linux "Not Smart for VENDORS
Roy Schestowitz Wrong! Track record does exist! Almost all the real embedded devices are running Linux made possible with the openness of open source software. Wrong again. There are so...
My New Disk 4746
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, John Bailo wrote on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:55:58 -0700 Cedega? Isn't that a WinE variant? In any...
My New Disk 4747
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:19:05 -0700, John Bailo I just purchased the same disk a couple of weeks ago...
My New Disk 4748
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:26:25 -0700, "John A. Bailo" Diskpart.exe (located inWindows-System32), will createt a FAT32 parbreastion for you. However, documentation...
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