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Windows makes things easy 5481
Yes, it is no accident that Linux dominates the ISP webserver space. Having owned and operated an ISP and consulted at many more, I've plenty of first-hand experience...
Windows makes things easy 5482
snips On Wed, 31 May 2006 01:50:18 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch Which part of "fixed IP" is failing to filter through your puny little mind? Which part of "there's no reason for the fixed IP...
Windows makes things easy 5483
On Wed, 31 May 2006 11:05:19 -0700, Kelsey Bjarnason Duh, you just specify an IP of 0.0.0.0. Just...
Windows makes things easy 5484
snips On Wed, 31 May 2006 15:13:33 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch No, I would *never* do that in any TCP-IP environment, since 0.0.0.0...
Windows makes things easy 5485
On Wed, 31 May 2006 16:09:17 -0700, Kelsey Bjarnason Really? Not a valid IP address? 0.0.0.0 means "all" addresses. Often times this is also used as the "default" address. For example: # route -n Kernel IP...
Windows makes things easy 5486
On Wed, 31 May 2006 23:43:43 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch Correct. Try ftping to it sometime. Or set your machine to use it as a static IP. Oh, so...
Windows makes things easy 5487
flatfish+++ Not necessarily incompetent. He could be knowing stuffs on Linux or other OSes better than Windows. Old hardware and software might be hurting him. I worked on NT long time back and didnt work...
Windows makes things easy 5488
snips On Wed, 31 May 2006 19:30:26 -0700, Chirag Shukla Well, let's see. Did *I* set up this server to be both a public-facing web server...
Windows makes things easy 5489
On Wed, 31 May 2006 19:30:26 -0700, Chirag Shukla Sorry, I wasn't clear: I meant Windows. This guy lives for old hardware. Read some of his posts. I worked on NT long time back...
Windows makes things easy 5490
snips On Wed, 31 May 2006 22:38:51 -0500, flatfish+++ You know, you get more and more retarded by the day...
Windows makes things easy 5491
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 31 May 2006 01:50:18 -0500, having to click and point your way through a bunch of stuff that would be handled in...
Windows makes things easy 5492
On Tue, 30 May 2006 17:45:14 +0000, Kelsey Bjarnason Sounds like poor planning and system administration to me...
Windows makes things easy 5493
snips On Tue, 30 May 2006 14:11:53 -0500, flatfish+++ Because they weren't flaky five or eight years ago when...
Windows makes things easy 5494
Well, disk imaging is a very good way to get up and running quickly again. But I should mention about my experiences with the free...
Windows makes things easy 5495
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, flatfish+++ wrote on Tue, 30 May 2006 14:11:53 -0500 Eggzactly! It's all the user's fault! Can't possibly be Microsoft's. :-P I should also note that a flaky drive would have different characteristics anyway...
Dell Offers Mac Drivers 5496
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz wrote on Wed, 31 May 2006 02:17:53 +0100 Dell plays some weird games here. The Linux workstations can be reached in two clicks (Small Business...
Dell Offers Mac Drivers 5497
on Thu, June 1 2006 14:00: One of the distributions of it in the past had a set of freeware Ethernet and...
OpEd Commericial Software Dead 5498
Roy Schestowitz Rumors of it's rest are highly exaggerated. We have a former Texas Oil man, the son of an Oil man, who...
OpEd Commericial Software Dead 5499
I really liked Farenheit 911, Michael Moore's movie. Some of his interpretations were amusing, but he did a good job of driving up some...
Linux has Been Ready for the Desktop for Years
Roy Schestowitz Sounds Familiar, so I'll repost in this Thread. DFS Better is quite subjective, if you use Microsoft's criteria. In 1993 Microsoft's product was Windows 3.1 it featured Mulbreasthreaded - no preemptive...
OS2, it continues on despite IBM, WAS
IBM will never part with OS-2. They will strangle it, bury it, lose it, pretend it never existed, but they will...
OS2, it continues on despite IBM, WAS
Mark Dodel IBM and Microsoft jointly developed OS-2. In 1991, IBM presented evidence in court that Bill Gates had personally ordered the embezzlement of OS-2 code...
OS2, it continues on despite IBM, WAS
Snip of stuff claimed as fact, but which I have no knowledge of. Have you evidence of these contracts? I know microshaft bullied IBM into abandoning OS-2, to the point...
35,000 PC's Migrated from Windows XP to Open Source 5504
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Wed, 31 May 2006 01:17:53 -0400 The reporting is extremely...
35,000 PC's Migrated from Windows XP to Open Source 5505
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Erik Funkenbusch wrote on Wed, 31 May 2006 15:48:35 -0500 The original article states BB completes XP migration to open source so I'm still not at all sure...
Microsoft DRM
Well, I rebuilt my WinXP Home Ed parbreastion, but hit some snags. Looks like I'll be reinstalling it, this time in safe mode (network cable...
The Words of a DRM Idiot
Roy Schestowitz Can't say that I know anything about Neil McAllister. But in this piece he...
Linspire 5509
begin oeprotect.scr To be fair, when you encounter a problem with windows, there's generally no documentation on the machine which could possibly...
Linspire 5510
Mark Kent on Thursday 01 June 2006 11:09 Good post, Mark. When I was about 12, I actually spent some days with DOS help. I was exploring all the commands and, in the process, extended...
Linspire 5511
Ray Ingles Ubuntu is very nice and I'm running both the 32 and 64-bit version at home. My opinion on this is that consumers-people will generally use the...
One of the things that bugs me with Linux
I run a gaming community site and use qstat for querying my servers about how many that are playing on them and...
One of the things that bugs me with Linux
And this bugs you about linux.... why exactly? what does it have to DO with linux? Apart from the software being available for it? Software on CVS is usually cutting edge developer stuff, the general...
One of the things that bugs me with Linux
Read the whole post before asking that question. You would have known had you read...
Social Engineering and My Email
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody A while back, we were talking about...
Ballmer Defends Spending MSFT Drop Continues 5516
Actually, they are doing exactly that. When we talk about MS's 'cash warchest', it is not as if it...
Ballmer Defends Spending MSFT Drop Continues 5517
Super Spinner that's correct...HP laid off 13,000 workers recently i believe, and dell too is in trouble...basically...
Woman Targetted by Windows Flaw 5518
William Poaster on Thursday 01 June 2006 11:33 Well done, whoever he was and whatever his name is. A colleague of mine spoke...
Woman Targetted by Windows Flaw 5519
It also needs to be done in a measured way - there's been a couple of occasions over the last couple of years on either TV or radio where a Mac-head...
Woman Targetted by Windows Flaw 5520
begin oeprotect.scr As per a previous posting I made, I think the apparent apathy is that the perception of the effort required to learn about this stuff is tightly linked to...
Woman Targetted by Windows Flaw 5521
Mark Kent on Thursday 01 June 2006 11:23 The problem may be that one of the selling point of Linux involves the ridicule of a rival. Linux vendors will not play this game...
Woman Targetted by Windows Flaw 5522
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-06-01, Roy Schestowitz spake thusly: I have never seen or used Ubuntu, but I have heard good things about it here. I am...
Woman Targetted by Windows Flaw 5523
Mathew P. ... ... I suspect that the takeover is more like the pyramid selling schemes that come and go: each zombie tries a set of IP addrs to find a machine to takeover; when...
Red Hat Push for Openness and Linux Adoption
Roy Schestowitz It is true that RH use the Fedora people as unoficial testers, but they are very open about it, they talk about it on their web site. Basically those getting it free earn...
Internet Explorer Share Keeps Sliding
Kier on Sunday 14 May 2006 16:16 Thanks, Kier. Your opinion will definitely be taken into consideration in the future. I will try to...
The Danes go further
B Gruff A gradual change to ODF is likely anyway, simply because as said on the...
Microsoft's Linux overture: More sizzle, less steak
Mark Kent on Friday 02 June 2006 12:24 Some time in December 2004 (or January 2005) there was a press conference, or perhaps a meetup with...
Australia Pushes on with Linux
begin oeprotect.scr Rather depends on who wins the information war, or at least, where the new lines are drawn. The...
Economic Times: Goodbye MS Office, hello OpenOffice 5529
Roy Schestowitz Frankly, it sounds great but isnt actually the situation back in India *as far as I know*. Sadly...
Economic Times: Goodbye MS Office, hello OpenOffice 5530
It shouldn't "remind" you of it because it's exactly the same thing. Even to the point of hanging out at schools to hook innocent kids into a life of deadly...
Economic Times: Goodbye MS Office, hello OpenOffice
The Ghost In The Machine on Thursday 01 June 2006 21:00 I don't know if it's an installable option, but this sounds likely. The big(ger) question...
Merril Lynch Survey: SOA Up, Vista Down, Linux Up
tab on Friday 12 May 2006 19:40 You didn't read the article, did you. All the...
Pathetic sound card experience
Haseeb on Friday 12 May 2006 19:51 Hi, I will venture to guess that you are manipulating the wrong volume knobs. I suggest that you open the sound mixer (or 'Mixer'), wherever it...
Business Week: The DVD War Against Consumers 5534
Ramon F Herrera I agree with the first comment in that list, that once the big money men are out of it, then creativity can return. It...
Business Week: The DVD War Against Consumers 5535
Ramon F Herrera This entire DRM issue is a done deal. No amount of complaining is going to change it. The major studios *WILL* use DRM...
Business Week: The DVD War Against Consumers 5536
Sure, but the *intrusiveness* of the DRM is an issue. I already know people who were annoyed that they couldn't run their DVD player through their VCR to their TV thanks to Macrovision (though...
Business Week: The DVD War Against Consumers 5537
Yup. The overwhelming majority of people using iTunes almost never have occasion to notice that there is DRM, other than the first time they...
Business Week: The DVD War Against Consumers 5538
Ray Ingles I've never heard this before but I suppose it is possible if the hookup is through the RF connector...
Business Week: The DVD War Against Consumers 5539
Markus Schoder I haven't found that to be the case except when I tried to do a couple of music CDs for my niece on her XP machine. Using the MS player to rip...
Business Week: The DVD War Against Consumers 5540
Ramon F Herrera on Thursday 01 June 2006 11:42 If you want to boycott the entertainment industry, you can choose to...
Business Week: The DVD War Against Consumers 5541
Ramon F Herrera This article describes the proposed plan to provide copy protection for the new high density DVD devices (Blu-Ray and HD-DVD). The irony is that the more breakable of the two...
Ballmer: Microsoft Will Meet Threats of Google, Linux Over Time 5542
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz wrote on Sun, 14 May 2006 04:24:15 +0100 Hmm... I am here...
Ballmer: Microsoft Will Meet Threats of Google, Linux Over Time 5543
7 Learn to spell - you appear very immature or uneducated - in either case - you don't look very convincing. Please state where you think he was lying. Why should they? Microsoft is *already...
Ballmer: Microsoft Will Meet Threats of Google, Linux Over Time 5544
NoNamer BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!! Dear flatness, oh dear, what makes just you suspect I am educated, mature or convincing...
Winvocate FUD #1 GPL means "The code is 'free'" 5545
None of which limits the freedom of users of BSDL code. The original codebase goes on its way no matter whether people give back or not, or if the code is forked...
Winvocate FUD #1 GPL means "The code is 'free'" 5546
Erik Funkenbusch Now that's just nonsense. *IF* the code has not been changed sufficiently as to render the original code irrelevant. Again, the freedom the first user had is afforded the second...
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