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My New Disk 4749
On Friday 21 April 2006 23:39 John Bailo Steady John:-) Each O-S actually needs what - 3GB? A bit more with apps? The rest is DATA - right? Obviously, you will make the O-S parbreastions...
Why Linux is so important
In 1989, I recognized that there should be a global free network for all the people to use to communicate. I was a mechanic at the time...
Why Linux is so important 4751
I am really glad this got so many responses, albeit some from many who couldn't resist pointing to antifreeze contagioning; this is why I don't work in the computer field anymore: too many who don't...
Why Linux is so important 4752
I think you didn't spit quite quickly enough. Nup, we benefit from the work the military did. The need to communicate brought us to where the internet is now. You...
Why Linux is so important 4753
This is an attempt to gloss over a very important detail. Yes, Microsoft is "just a business". However, they are also...
Why Linux is so important 4754
JEDIDIAH MS grew beyond anyones expectations. They were left with a huge animal that needed feeding, shareholders. They have to find way of...
Why Linux is so important 4756
Rex Ballard I disagree. In 2 years, I've never seen Rick or chrisv make even one interesting, thoughtful post. William Poaster: a joke that can't be...
M$ Patch tags pirated Windows Boxes
While performing an interpretive dance to Enya's Carribean Blue, The Ghost In The Machine exclaimed: A poke on occasion? Here's a very breif snip of my firewall: Apr 26...
USA FANS
Wouldn't It Be Great if The USA President Announced THIS! WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT TO TURN ON THE TV AND HEAR ANY U.S. PRESIDENT, DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN GIVE THE...
USA FANS 4761
tab Ok then, call the troops out, let the blood bath begin, then nip back later to get...
USA FANS 4762
Have you ever considered why most countries didn't make your first list? From the current polls in...
USA FANS 4763
begin oeprotect.scr Actually, a lot of our Nurses and Doctors go to the US, after training here at taxpayer...
USA FANS 4764
begin oeprotect.scr Like all politicians, he has his own agenda. Well, yes and no. Had it not been for Britain's holdings in Iraq in WW2, then we'd've run out of oil... It's an...
USA FANS 4765
Bush may be a bad businessman but he has been a fantastic tool-agent for big business. Virtually all of the corporations that...
OT USA FANS
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, tab wrote on 26 Apr 2006 09:13:13 -0700 rest snipped 1 And this has *what* exactly...
Microsoft Broke Anbreastrust Laws 4767
There are actually a series of related Judgements. In 1993, Microsoft nearly prosecuted for illegally bundling office with Windows 3.1. The Clinton Administration attempted to...
Microsoft Broke Anbreastrust Laws 4768
Actually, you are right. Since Judge Jackson has been quite silent on the whole matter ever since speaking to that reporter, one can only speculate on his motives. One possibility is that...
MSFT Down 11%: Oneday, Doubledigit Drop 4768 plus 1
Geico Caveman on Friday 28 April 2006 18:19 Exactly. The investor ideally sells at the peak -- the pinnacle of success. From there onwards, expectations are bound to go downhill...
MSFT Down 11%: Oneday, Doubledigit Drop 4770
L Leed I said that Microsoft has been *slowly* losing market share. Apple's market share has risen from less than 2% to close to 5% in the last 3 years. Linux...
MSFT Down 11%: Oneday, Doubledigit Drop 4771
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:08:19 -0400, Geico Caveman I agree with your post. What I think is happening is that we are looking at a company, Microsoft, that hasn't come up...
MSFT Down 11%: Oneday, Doubledigit Drop 4772
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:09:48 -0500, flatfish+++ The public isn't going to see 6 versions. What they will see is basically what they have today, plus the Ultimate option...
EU Says Microsoft Broke Anbreastrust Law To Seal Monopoly 4773
Au79 quote The commission found that Microsoft leveraged the power of its 95% share of the PC...
EU Says Microsoft Broke Anbreastrust Law To Seal Monopoly 4774
High Plains Thumper You are confusing several different ideas here. A patent can exist on a protocol and is not protected by secrecy when it is published 18 months typically after the filing...
EU Says Microsoft Broke Anbreastrust Law To Seal Monopoly 4775
Erik Funkenbusch You are not comparing apples to oranges. Back then, IBM was the mainframe giant and DEC was the minicomputer giant. We had access to their systems through terminal emulators. PC networking was in...
EU Says Microsoft Broke Anbreastrust Law To Seal Monopoly 4776
Rick on Saturday 29 April 2006 15:35 They can weaken them at the least. High Plains Thumper on Saturday 29 April 2006 10:59 Not only that, but...
You may be a Fundy GodHating troll if: 4777
Wait a minute! Does your illogic and circular reasoning have no bounds? Christians aren't the whole world. There are certainly people on this earth who worship Satan as a god. Therefore he DOES...
Hardware hard in Linux 4778
You might have problems here when-if you power down. In most of the machines I've used, if it didn't work at boot, there was some sort of a...
Hardware hard in Linux 4779
Kier I have a few Dell laptops and a Toshiba as well. Overall SuSE works fine on the Dell except for the following. 1) Built...
Hardware hard in Linux 4780
Kier on Monday 01 May 2006 10:39 See the following article, which was published last night: Linux gains enhanced WiFi stack This will ultimately...
Nokia 770 falters on realworld chores
rapskat on Sunday 30 April 2006 06:39 That article is actually a strong critique of the Nokia 770. I read it a...
Having Trouble with Protools and Linux
04-30-2006 Linux is Linux and windoze is1 windoze; they don't run the same programs, although some...
Having Trouble with Protools and Linux. 4783
It appears the very basic nature of some of the buttumptions you may have made have led others to question the sincerity of your inquiry. buttuming you're authentic, it's already been pointed out that Windows...
Having Trouble with Protools and Linux. 4784
wrote on 30 Apr 2006 15:20:45 -0700 Hmm..."Pro Tools" shows up on Google as "the industry's leading digital audio production tools". The website offers Mac OS9 and...
Having Trouble with Protools and Linux. 4786
A highly suspect, possibly nym-shifting WinTroll called Low latency kernels and audio apps can be built (or downloaded from Planet CCRMA - Red Hat and Fedora Core only), or you can simply install a dedicated...
Having Trouble with Protools and Linux. 4787
I disagree. Linux is useful for a subset of audio-video engineers that need a very open architecture for stringing...
Having Trouble with Protools and Linux. 4788
On Wed, 03 May 2006 19:37:09 -0500, Linonut So basically you accuse me of bullpooting, but yet you can't show me how to do what I say...
Having Trouble with Protools and Linux. 4789
On Thu, 04 May 2006 06:39:36 -0500, Linonut You're dancing now Linonut. The breastle says Protools, which is a high end audio recording application and my post is in keeping with the...
Having Trouble with Protools and Linux. 4790
This is not what you were saying earlier... you essentially said Linux could not be used in this...
Wasted hardware 4791
rapskat I think a fair few of us abandoned the 'power server for the office' approach long ago...
Wasted hardware 4792
Servers still do the heavy lifting. They tend to be optimized for this, even in the x86...
Want to be a commercial games programmer 4793
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Homer That would barely qualify as half of minimum wage for an engineer around these parts. Get a better union. *Any* engineering job can have...
Want to be a commercial games programmer 4794
Peter Jensen It gets worse. More details: "The current mandatory hours are 9am to 10pm -- seven days a week -- with the occasional Saturday evening off for good behavior (at...
Want to be a commercial games programmer 4795
DFS The IDGA (the professional body that represents games developers) seems to think that it's about more than just *one* company: "Despite the continued success of the games industry, the...
Another Win for Open Source
John Bailo on Tuesday 02 May 2006 15:16 Mercury Interactive have many clients on Windows (they also do UNIX...
IBM Manager: Desktop Linux Perfectly Appropriate for Domestic Workforce
Good post. It reiterates some of the suggestions I have made. When considering migration to Linux: 1-choose dual-platform applications wherever possible, do not purchase...
OT: I'll take it off his hands 4798
Kier I'm sure you are not alone in wanting "enough." I've done a fair amount of travelling the last 8 years and it's fair to say that...
Linux: Not Just for Programmers
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-05-04, The Ghost In The Machine spake thusly: True, OSS does tend to...
Where's the Fish 4801
Erik Funkenbusch Yeah right. Even Office 2003 failed to deliver those promises. Same FUD, same old...
Where's the Fish 4802
This is tremendously funny. For years the old "give a man a fish teach a...
ARM Processors Linux Support
Ray Ingles on Thursday 04 May 2006 14:57 Ray, I guess I opted for an overstatement in the subject line and I *did* pause before posting it as-is. Atmel just wasn't a name...
Gates: "Ubuntu is a bigger threat than Mac OS X to Windows" 4804
Linonut What consumers need is a choice at the point of sale. What they also need is for the cost of their operating system to be separated out. At the moment they are not really...
Gates: "Ubuntu is a bigger threat than Mac OS X to Windows" 4805
M Get to coding. Get to selling. The vast majority of the people don't care, and in fact are glad the system comes ready to run. This...
Gates: "Ubuntu is a bigger threat than Mac OS X to Windows" 4806
Kelsey Bjarnason spewed this vial garbage: I did say that it was a legitimate CLI app...
Gates: "Ubuntu is a bigger threat than Mac OS X to Windows" 4807
snips On Mon, 08 May 2006 16:47:23 -0700, Larry Qualig Well, yes, true, quality of apps...
Gates: "Ubuntu is a bigger threat than Mac OS X to Windows" 4808
DFS Well it rather depends on your definition of 'ready to run'. Not every PC with...
Gates: "Ubuntu is a bigger threat than Mac OS X to Windows" 4809
flatfish+++ once pondered into the vast depths of his mind and came up with this...
Gates: "Ubuntu is a bigger threat than Mac OS X to Windows" 4810
Ray Ingles spewed this vial garbage: Forget EasyUbuntu. PCLinuxOS already installs MS fonts, RealPlayer, Java, Flashplayer, and your choice of 2 different nVidia...
Gates: "Ubuntu is a bigger threat than Mac OS X to Windows" 4811
On Mon, 08 May 2006 21:06:12 +0000, Ruel Smith libdvdcss is in the repository as...
Gates: "Ubuntu is a bigger threat than Mac OS X to Windows" 4812
On Tue, 09 May 2006 00:25:25 +0000, Ruel Smith I've been using Suse for a long time and a friend of mine who is really into the bits and bytes of Linux tells me...
Gates: "Ubuntu is a bigger threat than Mac OS X to Windows" 4813
On Sat, 06 May 2006 13:14:41 +0000, Ruel Smith That's an interesting way of looking at it and I kinda think you are...
Gates: "Ubuntu is a bigger threat than Mac OS X to Windows" 4814
Ruel Smith Yes I have come round to that way of thinking too. I totally agree. I much...
Gates: "Ubuntu is a bigger threat than Mac OS X to Windows" 4815
Linonut once pondered into the vast depths of his mind and came up with this to say: I think that the problem...
Windows Tablet UMPC "Universally Slated" 4816
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 5 May 2006 13:06:40 -0500, Battery life has been stuck at under 200Wh-Kg...
Windows Tablet UMPC "Universally Slated" 4817
On Fri, 5 May 2006 11:43:35 -0700, Jim Richardson Indeed, and one can certainly expect that the components of the Origami will also reduce power...
Windows Tablet UMPC "Universally Slated" 4818
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 5 May 2006 16:51:34 -0500, There always is. But the buzz is about things like cost, ease of charging...
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