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Walmart Linux computers what's the experience 4819
Cyberwasteland on Sunday 07 May 2006 03:20 How do you do? Linux was received warmly by the customers, who clearly bought it for a reason. Other than gaining actualownershipof their data...
Walmart Linux computers what's the experience 4820
Roy Schestowitz In your opinion of course. I used Linux as my primary desktop OS for around 7 years and returned...
Walmart Linux computers what's the experience 4821
Just fine, thanks for asking. Whe weather is amazing at the moment and cold beer can be found in the fridge so now reason to complain. I'm...
Walmart Linux computers what's the experience 4822
Sounds Utopian. Is the beer Free as in Free Software? *grin* While the World Wide Web provides more eloquent and accurate...
Walmart Linux computers what's the experience 4823
That's could be intersting Freudian slip. They would probably play Solitaire, which as a phrase could describe them as *ahem*.. wankers. I carefully read what you have to say...
Walmart Linux computers what's the experience 4824
next time he kills some time on his kick-butt 486 machine running Windows 3.11. I am...
Walmart Linux computers what's the experience 4825
Chill down and don't be to defensive. I am not a troll. Although it would be quite cool, having a tail and all.. :- Still, you're not going to gain any new linux followers...
Walmart Linux computers what's the experience 4826
That doesn't sound like an argument for a "unified distro", sounds more like a cry for the installer to...
Walmart Linux computers what's the experience 4827
M on Sunday 07 May 2006 18:30 *smile* Just be tactful. Please. This was never my main reason for a Linux migration. Windows lacked power. Operation of Windows was far...
Walmart Linux computers what's the experience 4828
Thought never crossed my mind.. :- It actually has but I'm not sure if I could pull it of. I believe the...
Walmart Linux computers what's the experience 4829
Keeping your ear to the ground is no match for primary and secondary data gathered during a survey - even if it is conducted on a sample of a population (which is almost always the...
Walmart Linux computers what's the experience 4830
But until proper statistics has been released hearsay is unfortunately better than nothing. But I do will contact Walmart to see what they may have...
Walmart Linux computers what's the experience 4831
A guy I work with bought a box with Linspire from a Microcenter. Unfortunately, he was disappointed. He hasn't actually said so, but I get...
Linux" or "GNULinux
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-05-07, Roy Schestowitz spake thusly: "But the problem is that much of what people have come to buttociate...
Linux" or "GNULinux" 4833
Mathew P. He didn't even name the system in question; one of his hosters did. He has made known his dislike of the term "GNU-Linux," considering that the...
Linux" or "GNULinux" 4834
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-05-08, George Ellison (undercover) spake thusly: I didn't know about this. Could you tell me more about the Debian "incident". Ok, here's what I know about that...
Devastating hack proven L... Diebold voting machines running Windows 4835
gratuitous deletia ... This is actually old news. More recently (last Friday) a new, catastrophic Diebold security error was discovered. It it effects...
Devastating hack proven L... Diebold voting machines running Windows 4836
While your looking for improvements, you might want to mention that it would be nice if a...
Devastating hack proven L... Diebold voting machines running Windows 4837
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-05-11, *Rick* spake thusly: Ok, I have been reading these messages with a fairly high level of certainty that someone was going to bring up what I thought...
Devastating hack proven L... Diebold voting machines running Windows 4838
That's nice, but irrelevant to the hack that the original poster was talking about. That attack was on the memory...
Devastating hack proven L... Diebold voting machines running Windows 4839
Right, because the problem the article is discussing has nothing to do with the OS. You are arguing that the OS does have problems and that they also affect the security...
Xfce 4.4 beta 1 4.3.90.1 released
BearItAll on Tuesday 09 May 2006 13:18 Bear is right. This needs some context. For direct download: ,---- Command `---- For offline reading: ,---- Command `---- Translucency in xfce? Doesn't that beat the purpose or conflicts...
Patches Break Software
Roy Schestowitz Hmmmm. Interesting. My Ubuntu machine tells me it needs to patch Firefox. Let's see why... What's that again about designing secure software and not rely...
Jesus, Joseph and Mary
Mathew P. on Thursday 04 May 2006 09:22 I saw it just once. It was a scary land full of kooks, posers ,and nutters...
Vista renamed to "Windows IP" 4843
Bill Gates made the real mistake about 20 years ago, when, in about 1987, he decided that "Unix is dead" and sold most...
Vista renamed to "Windows IP" 4844
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:10:39 -0700, Rex Ballard By the mid-80's VMS and some variant of Unix were the two most common...
Vista renamed to "Windows IP" 4845
Ian Hilliard There were other proprietary contenders, but VMS was about the only one with any significant following. Ironically...
What happened to Walmart's Linux boxes 4846
Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Bill You have many replies and too much to read through. I went to the Walmart site and...
What happened to Walmart's Linux boxes 4847
amosf © Tim Fairchild Actually, the cost of installing multiple operating systems in negligable. Once you have a master image, let's say a 200...
What happened to Walmart's Linux boxes 4848
After takin' a swig o' grog, DFS belched out this bit o' wisdom: Not hard at all. Just try getting XP to work properly. I had a fun one today, though it may...
What happened to Walmart's Linux boxes 4849
snips Client calls me up because XP, on their laptop, won't boot. Not normally, not in safe mode. It won't even...
What happened to Walmart's Linux boxes 4850
Kelsey Bjarnason Last week I tried to boot a PCLinuxOS LiveCD I burned in a DVD player. The boot screen came up, I hit enter, the PCLinuxOS...
What happened to Walmart's Linux boxes 4851
snips On Tue, 23 May 2006 01:11:10 -0400, DFS Should not be happening; I would suspect, as the first culprit, a bad download. You did check the md5sums, right? Could...
PCLinuxOS, It's the Little things that count. 4853
I use PCLinuxOS 9.2. NIce stuff. Last I read, Tex said the new version has a newer c compiler. So many will have to re-install. No big...
PCLinuxOS, It's the Little things that count. 4854
flatfish+++ I've never tried PCLinuxOS, but it's good to hear that you have found a linux distro that you are really happy with. I suppose one of the...
PCLinuxOS, It's the Little things that count. 4855
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:23:33 -0400, DFS Slack was my first on something like 28 1.44 disks created from a CD because my CDROM...
PCLinuxOS, It's the Little things that count. 4856
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:12:14 -0500, Linonut The same could be said of any software, including Linux...
PCLinuxOS, It's the Little things that count. 4857
tab Still, what happens after a year onsite warranty? Windows doesn't give me headaches, but Slackware sure does. Lately everyone is ranting about PCLinuxOS as the distro d'jour (a few months ago it...
Linux Distributors Joins Forces, Settle on Standards 4858
snips On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:46:58 +0100, Roy Schestowitz I buttume you mean "Why don't you use find..." The issue isn't finding them for me...
Linux Distributors Joins Forces, Settle on Standards 4859
April 23 2006 02:30: snip article cut Yeah, I know how you feel about that. This whole world...
Why Knode sucks
snips On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:26:38 +0100, T Wake You have to remember, here, you're talking to someone who is absolutely incapable of writing code, yet is absolutely convinced otherwise. A few examples...
When Microsoft lovers bash Microsoft" Desktop: KDE 3.5.2 Level "a" OS: SuSE 10 OSS GM
It was on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:08:37 +0000 when Sinister Midget posted this: Well you could try! :-) The point I was getting at (about TCO...
RIAA sues family without computer for filesharing
Mark Kent Not easy to avoid paying even if you don't own a television. The definition of what is clbutted as a Televsion is also more than just a normal TV...
OT: UHF TV, was RIAA sues family without computer for filesharing
Robert Newson Channel 5 was given C37 in most areas as it was buttumed to be the place with minimal need to replace aerials - don't...
OT RIAA sues family without computer for filesharing 4865
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, JEDIDIAH wrote on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:33:26 -0500 Both sides are allowed, presumably, to...
OT RIAA sues family without computer for filesharing 4866
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Mark Kent wrote on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:44:17 +0100 The *filing* of the suit AFAIK can be done on a whim, although I for one have never tried it. Of course...
OT RIAA sues family without computer for filesharing 4867
Not necessarily. About 5 years ago I heard a lawyer talk openly about the recession in the early 90s. He said that some lawyers didn't...
Symantec CEO Bashes Windows 4868
Roy Schestowitz Microsoft go it alone in security and anti-virus? Don't give your job up just yet Mr Thompson, if Symantec were not there they wouldn't...
Symantec CEO Bashes Windows 4868 plus 1
BearItAll on Tuesday 16 May 2006 13:37 To what level this was actually intended, I am...
More Professional Video Editing in Linux
MainConcept MainActor v5.5.7 For Linux ,---- Quote The open source operating system, Linux, has been exploding in popularity for good reasons. It's got stability, it's light on the computer's resources...
The Universe on Your Linux Desktop 4871
osdfey You guys won't give up! How well does Linux run Adobe CS2? iTunes? Final Cut Studio? MaximDL? MS Office? Don't run The Gimp by me again, and...
The Universe on Your Linux Desktop 4872
On Wed, 17 May 2006 22:43:09 -0400, Davoud i think you misunderstand, i dont deny that OSX is an incredible operating system, but unfortunately im not gay. Also OSX wont run on...
The Universe on Your Linux Desktop
Davoud:: osdfey: You do that the same way you would do it on any other Unix platform. Or you might use FINK, or, in some cases you...
The Universe on Your Linux Desktop 4874
Davoud:: osdfey: Davoud osdfey: Davoud: osdfey: Davoud again: That's great, butyoureverything is notmyeverything. This confirms my suspicion: you are I are different people with different needs. Apparently my computer would far exceed your needs, and...
The Universe on Your Linux Desktop 4875
Davoud Geez, you guys don't handle praise very well, do you? I have no idea what you mean. You guys don't handle figurative speech very well, do you? Nowhere did I use the clear-cut...
The Universe on Your Linux Desktop 4876
Well, from where I'm standing, 'arcane' is never an adjective you want attributed to your tech, and 'little' hardly seems accurate...
The Universe on Your Linux Desktop 4877
Phil Wheeler I always knew you were clever. Taking a letter opener and slipping it in that CD slot and...
Municator 4878
You can hook it to a TV. Optical drive? Maybe a CD-DVD-ROM? Those can usually be bought pretty cheap if you stay away from the expensive name brands. Can't say for...
Municator 4879
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 02:41:27 -0500, and yet at other times...
Municator 4880
On Monday 24 April 2006 00:09 Larry Qualig I think that you might both be missing a very important point...
Municator 4881
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:30:03 +0100, B Gruff The Dell I mentioned comes with FreeDOS. You could install any...
Estimated Number of Windows Zombies: up to 47 Million 4882
Roy Schestowitz Someday MS will be held responsible for their actions. Thats what you'd like to say, but its hard to say it with conviction. We all...
Estimated Number of Windows Zombies: up to 47 Million 4883
begin oeprotect.scr It is rather fascinating to see how much Microsoft have done for the growth of cyber-warfare in the 'cypherpunk' view of the world. Who else...
Estimated Number of Windows Zombies: up to 47 Million 4884
BearItAll on Monday 24 April 2006 15:46 I am a sufferer of DDOS attacks, which are carried out by Windows botnets. Yet, I could never come...
Estimated Number of Windows Zombies: up to 47 Million Desktop: KDE 3.5.2 Level "a" OS
It was on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:38:35 +0100 when BearItAll posted this: Funny isn't it. DooFu$ claims 95% of computers in the world run Windows, yet denies that 80% of spam comes...
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