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Business Sinking Get More Towels! Microsoft Resumes Perks. 5282
John Bailo Changing the topic, and "testing" me? So desperate! * get the latest drivers for your graphics card * disable as many Services as...
NovellSUSE deployment
On Fri, 19 May 2006 18:04:21 -0700, Rex Ballard Aren't they? Imagine going to the grocery store to buy a can of beans. The...
Why open source will prevail
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, ryeancoke wrote on 19 May 2006 16:53:03 -0700 Hmm...interesting issues. Depending on my paranoia, I do wonder. 1 Net neutrality. Humans being what they are, it is probable that...
COX et al vs MICROSOFT
Unfortunately, this is the nature of clbutt action lawsuits. The defendant often encourages the clbutt action lawsuit, and tries to get as many plaintiffs as possible included in the clbutt. In most cases, they...
OT Office 2007 Public Beta available 5287
Jim on Tuesday 23 May 2006 20:41 Speaking of Open, check out the following: ,---- Quote Microsoft also introduces in Office 2007 a new XML-based...
Office 2007 Public Beta available 5288
On Sat, 27 May 2006 16:33:03 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch Ah...there's the real Erik we all know and love. For all your so-called claims of being "balanced" and "unbiased", anything negative stated...
OT Office 2007 Public Beta available 5289
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, chrisv wrote on Wed, 24 May 2006 11:17:30 -0500 He does have part of a point, of sorts. One problem that Linux systems have to deal with on...
OT Office 2007 Public Beta available 5290
If it's the MS car, you'd also need extra support: someone to supply the seats, another to give you a steering wheel, at least 3...
Office 2007 Public Beta available 5291
On Wed, 24 May 2006 07:37:11 -0700, NoNamer I'm going to draw a scenario, see if you can follow.... Suppose there was this kick butt new car stereo system that had all the...
Comp.OS.Linux.Advocacy's _X_Report
Hi All, Here's Comp.OS.Linux.Advocacy's XReport: Why Linux on the Desktop is a Total Non-Starter Comp.OS.Linux.Advocacy...
Controlling Your Home With Linux
High Plains Thumper A couple of years ago I did a fairly involved home automation project to our house so I have some first hand experience with this. Check-out a device called an...
scsi on Dell Poweredge
I know is isn't strictly speaking the right place to ask this. But there seems to be a lot of difficulty in the posts I have found on the Internet getting anything...
VistaFlexGo$100 PC T.J.Maxx Computing
John A. Bailo Pricing of home computers always seemed for year after year to hover around the £1000 mark, for The Up-to-date Machine anyway. So in effect the price was always...
Consumer attacked,mauled by Microsoft packaging
The stubborn plastic casing around the Microsoft Xbox 360 faceplate seemed to laugh first at the kitchen...
Truck Drivers admit Throwing Bottles Out Window Quicker at Disposal 5297
Yep. That sounds about right. Anywhere from 5 to 100 times slower, depending on what is being measured, on what platforms, and on what environments. If you start MS-Office after starting IE, it will...
Truck Drivers admit Throwing Bottles Out Window Quicker at Disposal 5298
Rex Ballard on Thursday 25 May 2006 20:16 Microsoft knows how to conduct benchmark the way that suits their hypothesis or even intent. 100 time...
Sun admits ODF is 5 to 100 times slower than Office 5299
Erik Funkenbusch oh, man, what a bogus post, the slime is oozing off my screen. (1) File format speed, it is absolutely 100% true that Microsoft...
Sun admits ODF is 5 to 100 times slower than Office 5300
Erik Funkenbusch breastle: Does the OpenDocument religion make sense? Posted by George Ou Quote But then I pointed out that even when I tested Microsoft Office with its own 2003 XML format plus...
Erik admits that he's a troll 5301
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, chrisv wrote on Wed, 24 May 2006 15:54:31 -0500 Does the OpenDocument religion make sense? Does this *question* even make sense??! Why...
Erik admits that he's a troll 5302
Wouldn't you like to know? But it has nothing to do with your lying. Nice attempted diversion. No cigar. Not really. But what does that...
Sun admits ODF is 5 to 100 times slower than Office 5303
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, mlw wrote on Wed, 24 May 2006 14:15:37 -0400 FSVO "load". I'd have to study the issue regarding WinWord files but it's not too difficult to design a rather silly file...
Sun admits ODF is 5 to 100 times slower than Office 5304
mlw Mine too, now that you slimed it up with your anti-MS bias. How cola-ish: a biased non sequitur. Of course there could be a WWW built only upon proprietary formats, standards and...
Sun admits ODF is 5 to 100 times slower than Office 5305
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Wed, 24 May 2006 15:34:08 -0400 I'm inclined to partially agree; it really depends on the format design. They'd have to be owned by MS if MS designed the entire...
Sun admits ODF is 5 to 100 times slower than Office 5306
DFS Not at all, we are talking about ODF which is a document format intended to be used as an exchange format between vendors. Bullpoo. I'm speaking from a canonical software...
Sun admits ODF is 5 to 100 times slower than Office 5307
Guys, what time are you talking about? How much? Milliseconds, a second maybe? Does the normal user even care? OpenOffice's blue line running from left to right started...
Sun admits ODF is 5 to 100 times slower than Office 5308
Erik Funkenbusch It isn't 100x slower, nice try. I'd like to see some real statistics, not some bozo saying...
Sun admits ODF is 5 to 100 times slower than Office 5309
One of the fundamental Differences between Open Document Format (ODF), and OpenXML is that Open Document converts EVERYHING into a published documented, open-source supported XML object, while OpenXML functions as more of a...
Sun admits ODF is 5 to 100 times slower than Office 5310
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Erik Funkenbusch wrote on Fri, 26 May 2006 17:13:51 -0500 AIUI the binary-within-XML never really got properly finished, so this works for both ODF and MSOpenXML. Not sure about...
Sun admits ODF is 5 to 100 times slower than Office 5311
However, according to the specfications that have been made public, there are provisions for binary...
Sun admits ODF is 5 to 100 times slower than Office 5312
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Wed, 24 May 2006 18:25:27 -0400 His problem, your opinion. Blame that on a flitting neologism through what's left of my brain. :-) Briefly, one...
Sun admits ODF is 5 to 100 times slower than Office 5313
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, mlw wrote on Wed, 24 May 2006 19:40:17 -0400 AIUI, TIFF is vaguely similar to the IFF format originally...
Windows Vista Beta 2: The key word is 'Beta
Apparently Beta 2 is available. It's also "quirky". I've just spent the past four days living and breathing Microsoft's Windows Vista Beta 2. I would like to...
Smaller Businesses and Linux Affinity 5315
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Gustavo Vasquez wrote on 24 May 2006 16:09:13 -0700 Linux is *no* business. It's a kernel. Of course, if one wants to talk business, that's easy enough. Pick a stock--any stock. MSFT...
Smaller Businesses and Linux Affinity 5316
Michael B. Trausch This is an interesting statement-observation in a number of ways. My view on this is that having financial resources is largely (but not completely) orthogonal to being able to...
Smaller Businesses and Linux Affinity 5317
Larry Qualig wrote in 10:30: Very true. Although, they could take (another) lesson from Apple and embrace the...
Smaller Businesses and Linux Affinity 5318
Michael B. Trausch I actually think this is a very good idea. I think you already mentioned somewhere that Apple was able to do it with...
Smaller Businesses and Linux Affinity 5320
26 2006 21:44: That is rather unfortunate. However, it certainly isn't unlike a corporation to do things in that way. Especially one so arrogant as Microsoft. They...
Smaller Businesses and Linux Affinity 5321
Larry Qualig on Thursday 25 May 2006 15:30 The developers need also cope withlarge amounts of code, which as we know, is difficult to get a grip on. With morale declining and staff jumping ships...
Smaller Businesses and Linux Affinity 5322
Roy Schestowitz I have no idea what the actual number is and I don't really try to find out either. It's a big project and it's difficult to pin down the exact number. The...
Smaller Businesses and Linux Affinity 5323
Larry Qualig on Friday 26 May 2006 03:15 Well, operating systems are modular, but often the question is: who works on the very core (a vaguely-defined concept in its own right...
Open Source Takes Over the Database Market
Roy Schestowitz And how much of that $100 million did you see? More importantly, how much did the MySQL and a...
How did this happen
DFS another interesting phenomenon is the "Google Whack". Well, it's more a game than anything. What you do is start with two words in the search...
Microsoft Confront IBM 5326
The article makes some very valid points. Specifically: When you want a shrink-wrapped, one-size-fits-all solution, and you don't really...
Microsoft Confront IBM 5327
I think it's really nice that Microsoft is letting IBM draw so much fire. It keeps them from being quite so inclined to deal with other compebreastors such as Sun...
I Never Would Have Tried Linux If
I had read comp.os.linux.advocacy first. This sorry butted so called --advocacy-- group is nothing but a complete waste of...
I Never Would Have Tried Linux If 5329
That is your space. You know better if it is a waste or not. I think so...
I Never Would Have Tried Windopes Viral Installer If
I Never Would Have Tried Clippy if I had read comp.os.linux.advocacy first. This sorry butted so called --micoshaft windopes clippy-- is nothing but a complete waste of space in...
I Never Would Have Tried Linux If 5331
LOL! The newsgroup is misnamed. It should actually be called: comp.os.linux.trashcan.for.trolls That point is pointed out over there every once in a while. That's one of it's real purposes. I have...
Microsoft forgot Nietzsche
comp.os.linux.advocacy is often infested with trolls, both with and without a Microsoft paycheck. They spend all the time deriding Linux and its applications, sometimes with merit, but more...
Get Ready for VistaSpeak and a partial translation
BitLocker - drive encryptor. Available already in Linux, though I'd have to look up the details. Certified for Windows Vista - Sticker on device. Third best of the four. FlexGo - pay...
KDE4 Will be everything that Vista Hopes to be....and then some
Coming soon to a desktop near you, Fall '06... PLASMA - A whole new desktop implementation for KDE 4. Improved Theme Debt Management and integrated components like the taskbar and desktop. OXYGEN - The eye candy factor...
KDE4 Will be everything that Vista Hopes to be....and then some! 5335
On Thu, 25 May 2006 00:21:28 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch How so? Let's review... Nope. The new KDE4 will run on existing hardware and setups just fine, it doesn't have the exhorbitant reqs like...
KDE4 Will be everything that Vista Hopes to be....and then some! 5336
snips On Sat, 27 May 2006 18:50:46 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch Actually, it does. Simple; he's used KDE before, and knows what they're doing...
KDE4 Will be everything that Vista Hopes to be....and then some! 5337
rapskat on Thursday 25 May 2006 04:52 Oh, yeah! Quarter 3. Look loverly and improves HCI aspects significantly. Every developer would want to get...
Microsoft Loses Grip Without Gates
Roy Culley on Saturday 27 May 2006 15:44 I find it hard to believe that Gates has done something at raw code level in the past decade or...
Microsoft to Introduce Proprietary Image Format WMP 5339
No. Here's the agreement: =================== READ THIS! THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN MICROSOFT CORPORATION ("MICROSOFT") AND THE RECIPIENT OF THE ABOVE REFERENCED MATERIALS, WHETHER AN INDIVIDUAL...
Microsoft to Introduce Proprietary Image Format WMP 5340
Ray Ingles Interesting that you should mention this because I was going to say something about it in...
Splitting old mailboxes by date the easy way
I've built up some large mailboxes over the years, and it was time to split and gzip...
Selling Buggy Software 5343
Rex Ballard Most bugs are nothing more than overlooked coding errors and omissions. Minicomputer software has bugs. In...
Selling Buggy Software 5344
High Plains Thumper I'll add to the list - code that needs to deal with situations the programmer didn't anticipate. This could be indirectly implied by your statement...
Selling Buggy Software 5345
Roy Schestowitz There are two types of software. There is well architected software and there is...
Selling Buggy Software 5346
High Plains Thumper on Thursday 25 May 2006 18:42 I quite like the slogan of...
Dell to Sell PCs With Google Software, Person Says Update2
Quote: ------------ Dell Inc., the world's biggest maker of personal computers, will sell PCs installed with Google Inc. software, dealing a setback to Microsoft...
Can't we at least try 5348
Roy Culley I hardly think that a person who posts a weekly post filled with vitriol is in any...
Can't we at least try 5349
They argue because they think someone actually gives a flying f*** about their dribble. COLA is more of an anti-microsoft campaign...
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