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SimplyMEPIS and PCLinuxOS
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 05:01:57 +0100, Roy Schestowitz Actually that's not really true. PCLinxos doesn't look any different than mepis, or even Suse or...
NEWS OpenOffice Foundation to MA: We have a plugin 4955
On Sunday 07 May 2006 03:25 arachnid I'm sure they are:-) One (perhaps the only) major concern of the public re. the MA decision came from the vision-impaired. Many (several?) vision-impaired MA...
NEWS OpenOffice Foundation to MA: We have a plugin 4956
I tend more towards technical than office use so I don't know much about openoffice. I wonder if this plugin...
NEWS OpenOffice Foundation to MA: We have a plugin 4957
On Sun, 07 May 2006 08:56:42 -0500, arachnid I'm not sure when this was, but 10 years ago, while at school, there were a lot of blind people...
NEWS OpenOffice Foundation to MA: We have a plugin 4958
Erik Funkenbusch I'm not sure where you got that impression. There is organisation afoot, quote We are members of the Gnome and KDE Accessibility Projects, and...
NEWS OpenOffice Foundation to MA: We have a plugin 4959
On Sunday 07 May 2006 09:02 Roy Schestowitz (you meant to type "...part of..." of...
NEWS OpenOffice Foundation to MA: We have a plugin 4960
B Gruff on Sunday 07 May 2006 09:50 Yes, I think it was implied. To add to the previous point, there will be enormous drive for compebreastion (or...
NEWS OpenOffice Foundation to MA: We have a plugin 4961
Roy Schestowitz Interesting way of looking at things :-) Traditionally Apple have always seem to me...
NEWS OpenOffice Foundation to MA: We have a plugin 4962
On Sunday 07 May 2006 22:08 Erik Funkenbusch We are talking of the famous "Total Cost of Ownership" here. It was calculated as 1.7 Million UK pounds over 5 years for staying with MS, and...
Linux Books: Free as in Free Beer 4963
Roy Schestowitz Well, that's how it should work, but many applications fall short. Consider Microsoft Word, for example. When you leave out the capital letter at the start of...
Linux Books: Free as in Free Beer 4964
Larry Qualig on Sunday 07 May 2006 15:10 Another post to appear in in this thread probably supports this point : So, yes... although it is possible to use information in electronic form, many...
Microsoft Employees Choose Google
Borek on Saturday 03 June 2006 09:46 Do you have a tool to translate (mbutt reverse DNS...
Linux is Like The Metric System
Linux is like the metric system in the USA. How you ask? Allow me to explain.... The USA...
Gartner: ISO Approval of ODF is a blow to MS 4967
Erik "the weasel" Funkenbusch Perhaps we already read it just fine, sociopath. Which is a lie, even IF Rex did something inappropriate. Occasionally...
Gartner: ISO Approval of ODF is a blow to MS 4968
begin oeprotect.scr An interesting set of thoughts. I suspect that traditional analysts probably do not have the best skill set for the emerging...
Gartner: ISO Approval of ODF is a blow to MS 4968 plus 1
begin oeprotect.scr An interesting set of thoughts. I suspect that traditional analysts probably do not have the best skill set for the emerging OSS and COTS hardware world, so it'll...
Who Owns Your Computer
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz wrote on Fri, 05 May 2006 18:43:46 +0100 He also has a good book on crypto, though...
MS Patents Snooping on Us Patent #703968 plus 19 4971
No, that's the Browser that Marc Andreeson developed. I did suggest the use of what we now call cookies as...
MS Patents Snooping on Us Patent #703968 plus 19 4972
As did about 250 million other Americans. And by the way, Mosaic is the engine behind what we now call Microsoft Internet Explorer. NCSA recieved $1...
On Open Source Content Debt Management 4973
asj on Tuesday 09 May 2006 14:23 Pushing this (a wee bit) into the realms of Open Source content Debt Management systems, I have used...
On Open Source Content Debt Management 4974
On Tue, 09 May 2006 17:57:16 +0100, Roy Schestowitz While I agree with you that many of those products are junk, sometimes they do something...
Rex Ballard Reverse Troll 4975
That's me. And I'm afraid my fiance' would disagree with you. And by the way, when I post, those postings are my own personal opinion, my recollections...
Rex Ballard Reverse Troll 4976
There is no bandwagon. I challenge Rex's bullpoo - all of it. What, you didn't read where he threatened to bite that guy's privates off? And even if he did insult me (which he has several...
Rex Ballard Reverse Troll 4977
If you want to pay me $5 billion-year and put me on television as a national spokesman, you can say anything you want about me. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer are international celebrities, largely...
Rex Ballard Reverse Troll 4978
That was orginally created to apply solely to Flatfish for a couple of reasons. One, there seemed to be at...
Open source compebreastion heating up, admits Ballmer
Microsoft has 'no trouble' beating open source rivals when competing head-to-head on features, chief executive Steve Ballmer claimed during a public speaking engagement in Silicon Valley...
Open source compebreastion heating up, admits Ballmer
Micoshaft and Blammer lying again in plain sight. Micoshaft has trouble beating open source rivals because it has no...
Sleazier Still
It's sleazier than we thought. In last week's Computerworld, Don Tennant spent his editorial going ballistic about an attempt by Microsoft to intimidate its customers. Tennant recounted how a Microsoft manager named...
Let's get going LOL GNULinux to Distribute Java
Roy Schestowitz I don't do client side desktop, but it looks like it'll become much easier to work and distribute Java desktop apps on Linux distros....good news for...
Sneaky
After reading some comments on this forum, a few CNN articles, and other bits and bobs around the web and in print dating back...
Can we help this Guy
Are Linux operating systems as easy as promised? We test them out. By MARK GOLDEN May 15, 2006; Page R4 Can the ordinary...
Comparisons of IE, Opera and Firefox on DOM JavascriptCSS support Opera wins
Using this page I made some rather unscientific computations of the levels of DOM (Document Object Model), ie, Javascript + CSS, support for IE 6, Opera...
India lays down 'open' challenge
Quote: ---------------------------------------------------- After his first trip to India, regular columnist Bill Thompson looks forward to the end of western domination of the free software community... My new friends...
Why would ANYONE used MySQL 4987
7 You may think anything you like. Hardly "unjustified." I'd rather discuss the various facts. In theory...
Why would ANYONE used MySQL 4988
on Thu, May 18 2006 20:00: Yeah -- I certainly wasn't taking that from any real tables, just whipping something up really quickly. The example works, buttuming that you use z.name in...
Why would ANYONE used MySQL 4989
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 18 May 2006 16:53:14 -0400, I think he's pointing out that no, MySQL doesn't have to lock the table-row...
Why would ANYONE used MySQL 4990
Kelsey Bjarnason I never meant to imply that it had a "single function," but a database server has a long list of standards and practices that make it suitable for a...
Why would ANYONE used MySQL 4991
snips On Wed, 24 May 2006 08:02:30 -0400, mlw I didn't say "shared data access and management", did I? No, I said functionality and utility, and limited most by the imagination of the geek driving...
Why would ANYONE used MySQL 4992
Kelsey Bjarnason If you don't need "shared" there are better options that aren't servers that are...
Why would ANYONE used MySQL 4993
snips On Wed, 24 May 2006 12:08:45 -0400, mlw That could well be. So let's take an example; running a DB to store ulogd firewall event...
Why would ANYONE used MySQL 4994
snips On Sun, 28 May 2006 12:40:00 -0700, tim.the.bastard No, numbnuts, the issue here is *your* contention. *Your* contention...
Why would ANYONE used MySQL 4995
snips On Mon, 29 May 2006 17:01:02 -0400, mlw Not particularly, for a DB server. However...
Why would ANYONE used MySQL 4996
mlw Hmm, I work quite often with Perl-MySQL but never had issues with locking (inserting-deleting-updating-selecting about 45000 rows-hour; sometimes a...
Why would ANYONE used MySQL 4997
There are different ways to skin a cat. MySQL is really best known for it's ability to very rapidly pull queries from it's database...
Why would ANYONE used MySQL 4998
Rex Ballard Correction, "any updates" while querying. Not sure I agree. MySQL's database modification behavior is, at best, lacking. Updates have to wait for queries to finish, and queries can't execute until updates are done...
OS X not slow on R
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 17 May 2006 23:39:48 GMT, *all* benchmarks are worthless in some context or another. The original benchmark...
Multistream files on Linux 5000
Mark Space on Wednesday 17 May 2006 17:22 So make it harder for the user (to break). Protect the user from shooting itself in the foot. Security at the...
Multistream files on Linux 5001
Roy Schestowitz from shooting proven to be depending on level (which Windows was Agreed, to...
Ubuntu Linux gained more than 2 million users worldwide
Ubuntu Linux has gained more than 2 million users worldwide since its release in October 2004, according to Canonical Ltd., a small vendor on the Isle of Man that oversees the...
Ubuntu Linux gained more than 2 million users worldwide
Da'Punk-A on Wednesday 17 May 2006 23:53 Oops. I posted a duplicate, not realising from the subject line that it refers to the corporate push at Canonical. With packages delivered over...
Pondering licencing
I dont post much, especially original stuff, but I'm pondering. Lets start with the old "comapre software to cars" stuff. When the automobile was first made it was a cumbersome beast. Mr. Ford created one...
AmaroK 1.4 Released 5006
On Thu, 18 May 2006 03:39:10 +0100, Roy Schestowitz I just don't get that program at all. Maybe I'm looking at it from...
AmaroK 1.4 Released 5007
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 18 May 2006 10:16:17 -0500, go to the music directory in konq, rt click, seelct...
Ubuntu Corporate Push
Roy Schestowitz That is good thinking, you get sick of upgrading on servers simply because the vendor has dropped your version, when you know they isn't really...
Google Web Toolkit Released for Linux
The history of AJAX is interesting. From Wikipedia: Although the term 'Ajax' was coined in 2005, most histories of the technologies that enable Ajax...
It's the little things one reason I prefer Linux over Windows
Occasionally, I have to use Windows. First, there are games. And second, I do work at a company that sells Windows applications, so sometimes I have to use Windows for work (I'm on the...
SCO's Round of FUD
Thus far, SCO has not actually substantiated any of their allegations in any substantial way. IBM had...
China Government Shows Interest in Open Source
Rex Ballard on Thursday 18 May 2006 17:45 I thought the same thing when I read this. There is plenty of prior evidence to show that the Chinese government was all along interested in...
George Soros Dumps Microsoft Stock and Redeploys into Stock Exchanges 5013
William Poaster on Friday 19 May 2006 10:33 At least to me, this is very exciting news. Someone at the level of Soros...
George Soros Dumps Microsoft Stock and Redeploys into Stock Exchanges 5014
begin oeprotect.scr For sure. Their monopoly is kind of dead now. It will be interesting to see if Microsoft can actually compete in a 'normal' way. Well, true.. :-) Margaret Thatcher did some very good things...
IBM gives Microsoft angst with Lotus Notes Office
Quote: ----------------------------- IBM has just given Microsoft another 125 million reasons to worry about the future of its one of its two biggest money spinners, Microsoft Office. Big...
Wireless NAS gadget dumps Windows for Linux
On Thu, 18 May 2006 16:08:31 -0700, Au79 Not quite on the same scale, but anyone here who needs a little less network storage at a lesser price ($90 + cost of...
The Naked Truth About "Naked PCs" 5017
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, B Gruff wrote on Fri, 19 May 2006 00:11:02 +0100 Well, yeah, naked PCs are like...
The Naked Truth About "Naked PCs" 5018
The Ghost In The Machine on Friday 19 May 2006 04:00 to self: Shouldn't "naked" refer to exterior rather than interior (software)? What could expand monopoly profit would be a statement...
2006 Jolt Award, Hall of Fame: MS Visual Studio 2005
Visual Studio 2005 Microsoft (msdn.microsoft.com-vstudio) Visual Studio 2005 is, in many ways, a bigger change for Microsoft's Integrated Development Environment than was the...
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