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so damn funny... the $100 laptop is no more... Negroponte's $100 laptop sputters along The prototype's arrival in the...
My very brief Love Affair with SuSE 10.1
I haven't played with SuSE since Novell took it over, so I figured it was due time for me to give it another look-see...
My very brief Love Affair with SuSE 10.1 5022
I'll snip here. I had a somewwhat contrary experience. I had troubles with 2 things: 1. The installer. It just quit and rebooted, probably...
My very brief Love Affair with SuSE 10.1 5023
rapskat on Friday 19 May 2006 05:41 commenting as I go along reading SuSE is, in my opinion, an excellent...
My very brief Love Affair with SuSE 10.1 Desktop: KDE 3.5.2 Level "a" OS: SuSE
It was on Fri, 19 May 2006 09:07:32 +0100 when Roy Schestowitz posted this: They've...
My very brief Love Affair with SuSE 10.1 5025
William Poaster I have never yet installed Susse so to date I have *no* first hand experience of it, however I did happen to come across this...
CNN Torvalds Interview
Tony Sivori on Saturday 20 May 2006 13:57 Wow! Thanks, man. I wake up at 3 AM...
Linux Getting Very Close to Mbutt Adoption
2006 03:25: I must say that at the very least, the Kubuntu project has things going very...
US Military Blocks Access to Open Source Sites
Larry Qualig nothing wrong in that. The military is there to do a job. They should only have access to the tools required to do that job, and nothing more to cause a distraction of...
Everything's back to normal now
Roy Schestowitz Those I convert to Linux, home users with a client or companies with a file server...
Symantec sues Microsoft over trade secrets 5030
2006 06:47: snip the Symantec information Most definitely, I agree with this statement. I think that with Microsoft's latest blunders, the FOSS community projects have...
Symantec sues Microsoft over trade secrets 5031
It should be interesting to see how this plays out. Microsoft has been filing a number of "Defensive patents" since it was recently sued for violating a patent granted...
Symantec sues Microsoft over trade secrets 5032
Sat, May 20 2006 16:12: Interestingly enough, they claimed that at first, and aborted it. They still feel, last I heard, that they should rewrite 60% of it or...
Symantec sues Microsoft over trade secrets 5033
This may be Symantec's way of getting free of Microsoft. Symantec could probably fill several very nice niches in the Unix-Linux market. There may...
The 'Prophetless' Linux Hackers a Geek Tragedy
Hackers? - Yea, plus the various extraordinary phenomena spawned from the same spirit. For example: The GNU approach - Linus's Law (bazaar model) - the wiki...
Linux FUD Voiced on BBC
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz wrote on Fri, 19 May 2006 14:46:33 +0100 The mind reels. I've lost count of the IE6 hangs...
Linux FUD Voiced on BBC
DFS Anyone who has ever worked with eBay will tell you that they are paranoid about security and extremely secretive about their systems. They will tell you "almost" the...
problem with installing XP with linux 5037
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sorry you had that experience. However, it's normally the other way around. Windows destroys...
problem with installing XP with linux 5038
You really didn't provide much information so it's not clear what you did and didn't do. Getting multi-boot to work properly is...
problem with installing XP with linux 5039
On Sat, 20 May 2006 13:26:52 +1200, Peter My laptop has slots for various types of flashram, so...
Linux on Old Laptops
Roy Schestowitz It's a shame Mr North saw KDE as "essential" for his laptop. I have an old laptop - Windows98 vintage (its...
Linux on Old Laptops
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz wrote on Fri, 19 May 2006 17:50:45 +0100 A few observations. 1 How old is a...
Yet Another XGL Article
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ray Ingles wrote on 19 May 2006 14:32:38 -0400 Define "need". In this case the easier it is to use Direct3D *, the more developers will use it...and the more Microsoft benefits from...
Sun should trim its $2 billion per year research
Roy Schestowitz I didn't know they spent that much on research. Just trim that and you'd see them pole-vaulting into profitability (although letting go some of their 35,000 employees sure...
Sun Commits to OpenSourcing Java 5044
John Bailo on Wednesday 17 May 2006 06:24 I am not sure that this point makes a lot of sense. Unless, of course, you want tighter API's that make use...
Sun Commits to OpenSourcing Java 5045
Erik Funkenbusch I thank you for your belief in them. Such faith is truly inspiring. Did you hear about the...
Sun Commits to OpenSourcing Java 5046
Mono has more than just what is in the standard. The Microsoft implementation basically consists of: 1...
Sun Commits to OpenSourcing Java 5047
Any vendors declaring ISO compliance? Any vendors declaring ISO compliance? Not an ISO standard. Who gladly will ignore most of...
Sun Commits to OpenSourcing Java 5048
In comp.lang.java.advocacy, Tor Iver Wilhelmsen wrote on 18 May 2006 19:21:37 +0200 gcc 3.3.6 on my Linux system...
What's the point 5049
You may think harder. The Harmony-project, an effort to create an open-source JVM, has Intel and IBM on board. Many other projects have joined...
What's the point 5050
But I've seen it. There is a common thinking that Sun and only Sun represents Java (TM). And only...
What's the point 5051
Free Java (TM) Big Foot. UFOs. Sun's JVM. Well, IBM spends more on Java research than Sun does. Is that what you're looking for? Personally, I...
What's the point
Depending on your definition of "represents", this common thinking is mandated by law. Java is a trademarked term, as you've noted, and Sun owns...
For Your Information. 5053
William Poaster I stand with William on this. ATTENTION JLAFORUMS: Material I post on Usenet (and yes, I am aware that it is a distributed network...
For Your Information. 5054
begin oeprotect.scr It is, which isn't very nice. Which is good, but usenet is a funny place. When you send your posts, they're gone - you know...
For Your Information. 5055
On Thu, 18 May 2006 13:20:41 +0100, William Poaster It is misleading certainly. However, in the...
For Your Information. 5056
Well, I haven't discussed this specific issue with an attorney, nor am I an attorney myself, so take this...
For Your Information. 5057
Ok, I am lost here. I looked at a bunch of messages and a big yellow box pops up with...
Sneaky
Jim Perhaps. Bill Gates thinks 20 years ahead, and is willing to make sacrifices in the short run for huge profits in the long run. He...
Microsoft: Open source 'not reliable or dependable' 5059
The parent article was I really find it hard to believe that Jonathan Murray, the vice-president and chief technology officer of Microsoft Europe, told...
Microsoft: Open source 'not reliable or dependable' 5060
Ignore previous post. I hit the wrong keyboard accelerator Rex Ballard on Saturday 20 May 2006 03:23 I urge you...
Microsoft: Open source 'not reliable or dependable' 5061
Roy Schestowitz Because they obviously have compared the systems and determined MS-Windows offers advantages for their situation. That's called brand extension marketing, or brand stretching. Linux can't offer that because it has...
NovellSUSE deployment
Yes indeed... we did it. Engineering and Help Desk have been switched to Linux... SUSE Linux to be exact. We didn't have to wait...
Soft Sleaze
This brings back memories - I was working for a large insurance company in 1997. Wow, I remember Janet when she had the company's account. I accidentally left a Linux CD on her...
The End of Unix 5064
billwg The sad sad truth here is not that Sun or SGI did anything to their businesses with open source, but that the market and environment for their wares is a...
The End of Unix 5065
On 16 May 2006 16:39:56 -0700, Larry Qualig What I find most interesting as that these companies were active supporters of open source (and Linux in particular, though Sun has had a fairly...
The End of Unix 5066
Larry Qualig ROTFLOL...in the first half of the 1990s, people were saying the same thing about Sun....and in the last half decade, they've again been saying the same...
The End of Unix 5067
asj I don't recall anyone saying this about Sun in the early 90's but I didn't pay attention to stocks and company finances...
The End of Unix 5068
Larry Qualig Bankruptcy doesn't always mean "dead". SGI still has some value, some revenue, and some heavy leverage. They may be...
The End of Unix 5068 plus 1
asj Sun uses a different sales model than Dell and HP. Sun has higher profit margins than HP-Dell but the later makes up for it in quanbreasty. The...
The End of Unix 5070
Larry Qualig This is an interesting story... but we've known that Linux has been eating into the UNIX marketshare for quite some time. Obviously, Sun also realized this...
The End of Unix 5071
That is actually funny. One of the reasons that Microsoft is such a huge monopoly, and that Bill...
Microsoft's 'Open' XML Ridiculed
Erik Funkenbusch Dear Erik, A standard for a document format is effectively an interface specification. An interface...
Comparisons of IE, Opera and Firefox on DOM JavascriptCSS support Opera wins
Travis Newbury on Wednesday 17 May 2006 12:16 If you like toys, that is. They adopt the same name and concepts as that which you find...
Comparisons of IE Mac, Safari, Opera, Mozilla and Icab on CSS
The Ghost In The Machine Yes, I have something for CSS2, but I am not...
Comparisons of IE Mac, Safari, Opera, Mozilla and Icab on CSS
Bob Not really -- these three concepts are fairly independent -- as independent as, say, HTML and CSS12. There are browsers that support a...
Ubuntu Linux and the PNL My Sprogs Are Out Of Control.Help Needed FAST
My sprogs are completely out of control and I need some help in bringing them back under control. My question is, will the PNL run with Ubuntu Linux? My Sprogs are...
Alert Raised for MS Word ZeroDay Attack
Gives more details on a story reported yesterday by Roy S. Quote: ------------------------------------- A zero-day flaw in the ubiquitous Microsoft Word software program is being...
Can Ubuntu jump from community to commercial
I am extremely disappointed in Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. He quotes four paragraphs of Laura DiDio spew in his article, as...
Converting wmv, mpeg,avi and mp4 to DVD 5080
On Sat, 20 May 2006 16:03:04 -0500, flatfish+++ The format used by DVD's is just plain old MPEG-2 for video and most console players can handle WAV or AC3 for audio. Avidemux...
Converting wmv, mpeg,avi and mp4 to DVD 5081
Ruel Smith I haven't been following this thread but you are correct... Nero is an entire suite of tools the primary one being CD-DVD burning. Other...
Windows Screws me
Well it finally got the best of me. I was transcribing about 80 LP's (Vinyl for you youngsters) to CD for a client, which is a typical service I offer. These were to...
SuSE 10.1 I agree with Rapskat's review
John Bailo Ok. Mission accomplished. Notes on install (actually an upgrade of a 10.0 system). 1. Quick and easy (during the install I made dinner and watched SNL) but...
Why Linux on the Desktop is a Total NonStarter 5084
Yes, inertia is a serious obstacle. Widespread Windows use attracts more Windows use. Many Linux (and Apple) detractors like to portray Microsoft's position as a black hole; past the point...
Why Linux on the Desktop is a Total NonStarter 5085
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Larry Qualig wrote on 22 May 2006 08:37:14 -0700 Windows machines have an average uptime of over a week. This is adequate for desktops, especially...
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