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Can't we at least try 5350
Roy Culley They are lifeless windope zealots and paid shills told to sell micoshaft heathen crap day in day out to get paid. Ignoring them...
Can't we at least try 5351
7 Why I am responding to someone whose age is the same as his moniker confuses me...
Can't we at least try 5352
You've almost got it. Now think a little bit farther, and imagine a set of new eyeballs coming around, and seeing...
Can't we at least try 5353
chrisv No chrisv. they will see people like you plonking everyone in sight who doesn't...
Can't we at least try 5354
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Interesting Nym. Like me, he probably gets tired of the incessant noise from those who are here to have fun at the...
Can't we at least try 5355
chrisv Fair enough. I post through google because I am posting from work and can't get to my ISP from here. I have more free time at work than I do at...
Can't we at least try 5356
Mark Kent Another "me two teacher, me two" post that says nothing but is designed to discredit the OP and make it look like many others disagree...
Can't we at least try 5357
What Tim "Weasel 2" thinks we should be doing is arguing the points scored by trolls thusly: TROLL: "Linux sux." ADVOCATE: "Linux doesn't...
Can't we at least try 5358
On Fri, 26 May 2006 04:29:52 +0000, Handover Phist It's exactly this type of thing that gets people like Tim and Erik's panties in a bunch. To them...
OT: Windows architecture, some installations, a mess
If I had experienced a db server-service pack installation on Linux like what I experienced last night installing SQL Server on Windows, I...
OT: Windows architecture, some installations, a mess 5361
M Yes, and it doesn't have to be that way, and it shouldn't. Like a lot of heavy software users, I like my system organized, clean and minimalist (as in remove means remove...
OT: Windows architecture, some installations, a mess 5362
DFS From what I can remember this seems to have started happening 'big time' when we moved away from MS-DOS to Windows. You are...
OT: Windows architecture, some installations, a mess 5363
Linux also has a simple solution for these short names. They are called symbolic links. The important thing is that...
Inquirer: Uncle Vista flipflops towards the grave 5364
So long as Gates doesn't want to fire Ballmer, and Ballmer doesn't want to fire Gates, and Paul Allen doesn't want to fire...
Inquirer: Uncle Vista flipflops towards the grave 5365
Rex Ballard Both can be fired by the Board of Directors at any time. triumvirent = triumvirate It may be...
Inquirer: Uncle Vista flipflops towards the grave 5366
DFS The board in a normal corporation holds it's power by virtue of the proxy votes held by the senior officers. In most corporations, the CEO and Chairman only hold...
Inquirer: Uncle Vista flipflops towards the grave 5367
Rex Ballard Yes I am correct. They can be fired at any time, for whatever reason the Board decides. But it is highly unlikely. Very highly unlikely. I...
Inquirer: Uncle Vista flipflops towards the grave 5368
DFS Microsoft has been investigated by the federal trade commission for it's use of vaporware, back in about 1987 IIRC. They agreed to alter their business practices and...
Inquirer: Uncle Vista flipflops towards the grave
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz wrote on Sun, 28 May 2006 00:37:10 +0100 I've been in the tube. It's been awhile, though. :-) And the Paris...
Oblivious No Mor
Quote: -------------- Two weeks ago, I recounted the tale of Dale Frantz, CIO at Auto Warehousing Co., who had been harbutted...
Oblivious No Mor
It looks to me like Microsoft is beginning to feel the backlash of it's Windows...
The geek who took on Microsoft
Quote: ---------------- The mild-mannered CIO of Mbuttachusetts sparked a standards debate when he made it policy that state workers use open-standard formats. In...
Linux Highly Suitable for the Grandparents 5373
I find most people have no idea how to set a computer up. I know, there will be some linux freaks, that will come out of the...
Linux Highly Suitable for the Grandparents 5374
Yup, Windows or Linux. The only thing keeping Windows going are the preinstalls. Linux is far easier to install and set up than Windows at this point, and...
Minor Linux turnoffs
Guys, Today was one of those days that I thought of taking a forceful break from Linux for a while. Eventually I am back on Ubuntu, but here's...
Ubuntu suggests I should restart 5376
Chirag Shukla wrote in 00:53: I've only seen this after a kernel upgrade -- is it happening more often then that? Typically, upgrades to the system kernel do...
Ubuntu suggests I should restart 5377
Michael B. Trausch on Saturday 27 May 2006 08:01 ( Red Hat Plugs Multiple Linux Kernel Flaws ) The good news, of course, is...
Ubuntu suggests I should restart 5378
snips On Sat, 27 May 2006 15:06:44 -0400, DFS Hey, look! Another idiot talking "market...
OpenOffice, speed, and odt
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I read with some interest, Erik's post on the unverified claims made...
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes
Over the past year or so, many of our customers have lost their faith in Symantec products. Many have turned to McAfee or TrendMicro because, among other...
XGL Live CD *must see this now
On 27-05-2006 16:15, ray spake thusly: AFAICT and IMHO the average Windows user puts style before content; hence their moans of "Linux is...
Microsoft Bashes Outlook 2007
Roy Schestowitz MS evangelist or not, most of these are valid gripes; such as #59: "Why does one dialog tie up the rest of Outlook? Seriously, sometimes those confirmation dialogs get hidden lost...
Microsoft Bashes Outlook 2007 5383
Mark Kent on Saturday 27 May 2006 15:08 I suspect he uses Outlook 2000. His Webcasts suggest this. In any case, I binned him. He RSS feed has...
Microsoft Bashes Outlook 2007 5384
Not what I get (from your link): This feed does not validate. * line 16, column 1: Undefined channel element...
ODF in France
B Gruff on Saturday 27 May 2006 23:51 I read more about their Apple conformatation today...
COLA Stats 28 May 2006
ngstats.pl version 1.18 This report covers 2298 articles received by this system to newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy 1...
New Microsoft Video 5387
2006 13:28: Many people have problems with believing information that flies in the face of what they...
New Microsoft Video 5388
Michael B. Trausch I have the book "The Fugitive Game", which describes the antics of one Mr. K. Mitnick. In it, he describes...
information about linux jobs 5389
AP is Microsoft dominant with most employers wanting skills on Windows platform. There should be some unix-linux related jobs for sure, with the...
information about linux jobs 5390
I don't feel what I've seen so far in this thread, looks like much relevant help for murthy4linux...
So this is Elive eh
Very nice, although I'm not much of an eye candy, bells-and-whistles kind of user. From an aesthetic perspective, I feel...
So this is Elive eh
Malware Magnet on Sunday 28 May 2006 09:43 Actually, I find that rather nice and unique. To anyone...
What the hell is this A group newsfeed
RMK on Sunday 28 May 2006 11:56 Over time, several people suggested that I carry on doing so. I think that, all in all, it elevates the relevance of the discussions and...
Parbreastion Advice for new Linux Install please... 5394
Preference!! And, this works for me. I am fine with getting new kernels with yum...
Parbreastion Advice for new Linux Install please... 5395
Marshall Different file systems are more suited to different tasks than others. For example, on an XP box, you can use NTFS on a system parbreastion because it's quicker...
Parbreastion Advice for new Linux Install please... 5396
After takin' a swig o' grog, M belched out this bit o' wisdom: Filesystem 1K-blocks...
Parbreastion Advice for new Linux Install please... 5397
So anyway, it was like, 16:16 CEST May 29 2006, you know? Oh, and, yeah, Linonut was all...
Parbreastion Advice for new Linux Install please... 5398
How long do you intend to go before installing a different Linux distribution? There are a lot of people here that like to try out different distributions. If you are one of...
Parbreastion Advice for new Linux Install please... 5399
Tim Smith The new Hard Disk is going in my main faster PC. This is going to become my main GNU-Linux box, (and I will be able to cold swap to windows if...
OT Tea Time 5400
rapskat Traditionally between 3 and 5pm, though tea can be drunk at any time. Personally I prefer...
OT Tea Time 5401
Why is the ice box of a fridge at the top? Because it's colder at higher albreastudes. If heat rises, why are the tops of mountain so cold? Shirley that's where all...
OT Tea Time 5402
Roy Culley `` The legend of the custom of drinking tea with milk has its roots not in taste but with economics. The long journey from the Orient made tea prohibitively...
OT Tea Time 5403
rapskat ... Hmmm. Rupert Brooke wrote this: ``Stands the church clock at ten to three? ``And is the honey still for tea?'' Implying...
OT Tea Time 5404
My girlfriend qualifies as a tea nazi, and she would mostly agree with your method. It is acceptable to use a tea bag as long as the boiling water...
OT Tea Time 5405
On Sunday 28 May 2006 17:59 rapskat Mine too - I drink far too much of it. Never "instant" though...
OT Tea Time 5406
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-05-28, B Gruff spake thusly: I find this most...
On the Closing of Apple's Mac OS 5407
alt Then how do you account for the sales prices on 7 to 12 year old MAC hardware? I have been servicing computers since 1965; 20...
On the Closing of Apple's Mac OS 5408
On Tue, 30 May 2006 00:29:44 +0000, linuxiac You should see some of the older Sun Stations and SGI boxen that come my way. Incredible technology, some of which...
On the Closing of Apple's Mac OS 5409
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-05-29, alt spake thusly: Indeed. Open source and open architecture is not a priority for everyone . It is for me...
On the Closing of Apple's Mac OS 5410
Maybe "Mandrake" did support PowerPC, but the current incarnation is called "Mandriva" seems not to. Never heard of Linux PPC 2000, but it sounds kinda old. Ubuntu is of course a Debian...
On the Closing of Apple's Mac OS 5411
asj Means very little. I always browse the web, identifying my firefox as a Internet Explorer 6 (Windows XP), and Konqueror similarly. There are far too...
On the Closing of Apple's Mac OS 5412
Mike "Linux servers continued to grow at 17 percent and now carries 12.2 percent of all server revenue. " "Linux and other Open Source Software (OSS) continue...
On the Closing of Apple's Mac OS 5413
On Tue, 30 May 2006 06:22:57 +0000, Rick I use my eyeballs to measure and while it's of course not even near to being scientific it's still...
On the Closing of Apple's Mac OS 5414
Mike So there is some "special rule" that allows you to reference something from 2 years ago to suit your argument: yet you jump all over a person for posting something...
On the Closing of Apple's Mac OS 5415
No special rules. Those are simply the latest Google numbers. I posted them to make a point - that being that they rather closely match the numbers from the same...
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