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Winvocate FUD #1 GPL means "The code is 'free'" 5547
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:54:28 -0400, mlw No, the nonsense is yours. Even if it has, it doesn't change the...
Winvocate FUD #1 GPL means "The code is 'free'" 5548
An action that is 'optimal' in a short-term sense can be quite 'pessimal' in a context of...
Winvocate FUD #1 GPL means "The code is 'free'" 5549
mlw Actually, Eric is absolutely right. If you publish code under GPL, others are free to access...
Winvocate FUD #1 GPL means "The code is 'free'" 5550
Rex Ballard I do beg to differ. The one problem I have with GPL is nuance and subtlety making it easy to create confusing arguments. Yup. I think what you...
Winvocate FUD #1 GPL means "The code is 'free'" 5551
mlw Hurd and Linux are both legitimate GNU based kernels. Remember, the original concept of GNU was to create...
Winvocate FUD #1 GPL means "The code is 'free'" 5552
mlw Richard says it is. He can correct me if he likes. You are correct. The GNU libaries and applications came first, HURD Kernel was stalled in 1991 and early 1992. Here...
where are the jobs on a linux OS
tab Results 1 - 10 of about 58,100,000 for linux programming work. (0.28 seconds) Google Jobs...
where are the calls on a linux API actually done
note subject change In comp.os.linux.advocacy, tab wrote on 12 May 2006 18:17:16 -0700 You won't. *NOBODY* apart from libc developers directly talks to the Linux kernel; most application developers, myself included...
Linux more secure
Richard Rasker there's a website about this somewhere: I think the header goes something like "If Microsoft made cars" or some such. Taken from an article in...
size of a datatype 5556
First, next time paste in your exact code. The code you gave above is missing a semicolon, and so will give more errors than...
size of a datatype 5557
M on Sunday 14 May 2006 08:54 This tickles a few spots. Firstly, with wider throughput (in this case the number of bits and bus 'density'), you will be able to reduce the clock...
Linux Sees FreeBSD Arriving at the Scene 5558
2006 23:03: Yes, RPM doesn't come out-of-the-box on FreeBSD, though you can install a Linux compatibility layer and, in theory, use RPM on...
Linux Sees FreeBSD Arriving at the Scene 5559
Michael B. Trausch on Monday 15 May 2006 03:24 Netscraft run many of their servers (if not all) on BSD. I...
Linux Sees FreeBSD Arriving at the Scene 5560
2006 05:40: snip The BSD family is *quite* stable. They tend to have different developmental focus then the Linux set of...
Linux Sees FreeBSD Arriving at the Scene 5561
Roy Schestowitz Despite the opinion of a single developer as cited above, I don't believe FreeBSD is ever going to attempt to appeal to the mbuttes. That...
Even the Builders of Windows Find Tech Support a Challenge 5562
Sinister Midget I think you missed it... what I was saying was that there will always be a need for "tech support" such as...
Even the Builders of Windows Find Tech Support a Challenge 5563
I can imagine. I started up a little sideline a few years back. I'm sure I could have grown it if I could have...
A Linux Powered Internet Cafe
So my purchase of an old industrial warehouse building to convert into loft apartment office shop space mad scientist laboooooratory has fallen through (never try to buy a building from a seller with a severe...
A Linux Powered Internet Cafe
Yes, this neighborhood could use something like that. Milwaukee has a couple places like that, but not near this...
Linux Hardware with Dell
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:06:44 -0700, TomRossi7 I'm running Ubuntu with RAID on several Dell boxes right now. This...
More DRM Sh*t from Microsoft and Apple
Not directly related to Linux, but... Microsoft-led coalition bands against Apple iPod ,---- Quote The nine companies yesterday said they would co-operate to promote Windows Media-based music and video services...
The Fight Against Linux'Naked' PC's in China
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz wrote on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:30:59 +0100 With a gigantic gorilla making $33B-year breathing hotly down one's neck, it's far from clear if...
Lower Saxony Moves 12,000 Computers to Linux 5568 plus 1
begin oeprotect.scr Very interesting & important observation. As you say, for most people, once they've gone "forwards", they don't want to go back again. I think that the introduction of Linux will bring a whole...
Lower Saxony Moves 12,000 Computers to Linux 5570
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:42:10 +0100, Roy Schestowitz I've said it before, and I'll say it again. We keep hearing about all...
Lower Saxony Moves 12,000 Computers to Linux 5571
William Poaster on Friday 02 June 2006 23:27 As I once witnessed 1, they are also headed by somewhat of a self-promotional a spammer. The same issue (spam in GoDaddy) was...
Lower Saxony Moves 12,000 Computers to Linux 5572
That's why you see some of those. Usually pushed by vendors to make news. That's whay you see some of those. Usually pushed by vendors. to make news. Curious...
Lower Saxony Moves 12,000 Computers to Linux 5573
On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 06:18:23 GMT, Sinister Midget Amazon switched from Unix. Since when did a 50 person company become a medium to large scale enterprise...
Lower Saxony Moves 12,000 Computers to Linux 5575
On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 13:37:35 -0700, Jim Richardson Ok, let's do that. Here's what's returned: Indiana Department Of Education: Apart from this not being a business, let's dig a little deeper. This is...
Lower Saxony Moves 12,000 Computers to Linux
I am trying to help promote Linux and there is no argument from my side to what you say. Migration from one...
More Windows fun
Just to continue the saga of Windows idiocy... Got a couple XP boxes here. Boot the first one, log in...
More Windows fun 5578
snips On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 15:31:30 -0500, flatfish+++ Actually, it is - when it's done *right*. The new server is up and running and humming along, feeding out all...
More Windows fun 5579
Roy Culley It appears that opinion of only avid Linux users count here. Opinion does not count of whoever has 1 single point in favor of Windows or 1 single...
More Windows fun 5580
snips On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 20:35:51 -0700, Chirag Shukla Nope. Anyone's opinion here can count. Flatty, DFS and a few others, however...
More Windows fun 5581
Kelsey Bjarnason It doesnt seems so, Kelsey. Several times I mentioned about my own experience and perception and repeatedly that went off topic to describe where I...
More Windows fun 5582
On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 03:18:54 +0200, Roy Culley My posts generate dialog. YOUR posts die b4 they get started. It figures. You sound like a boring person. Thankfully no...
More Windows fun 5583
On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 23:00:44 -0500, flatfish+++ Your posts mostly generate noise and arguments. So, you can't concieve of anyone being different from you, liking...
More Windows fun 5584
snips On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:06:31 -0700, Murphy Douglas Let's see. The first thing I do is set up another Windows server machine...
More Windows fun 5585
After takin' a swig o' grog, Kelsey Bjarnason belched out this bit o' wisdom: Well...
More Windows fun 5586
Kelsey Bjarnason Wonder why DC ends with "controller?" Move the machine out to a workgroup and change the name of the machine. If there is any easier way, I dont know. If there is no...
More Windows fun 5587
snips On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:54:24 -0700, Chirag Shukla Then it loses all the authentication. As it stands, it looks like the only reason anybody can log in at...
More Windows fun 5588
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 20:16:32 -0700, Kelsey Bjarnason And how, precisely, could a user log in to a...
More Windows fun 5589
snips On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:19:57 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch Why wouldn't it be available? No... seriously. Consider the intended long-term design I'm building towards. Basically all the "servers" are virtual...
More Windows fun 5590
Right. Users whose authentication was cached could log in but nobody else. Yuck. Seen that one before! Okay, there...
More Windows fun 5591
snips On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:33:43 -0700, Chirag Shukla Actually, that's just the Windows machines *she* logs into. Two public-facing web servers Two...
More Windows fun 5592
snips On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:30:57 -0700, Chirag Shukla The LAN users are mostly Windows. The servers are primarily Linux, though we do have a lot more Windows...
OT My upcoming sourceforge project
I know most of you will not interest in things beyond monkey's brain capability (no offense intended, but you guys have been posting the same threads for 5+ years). Anyway, it makes...
My upcoming sourceforge project
Erik Funkenbusch NHibernate supports c# attributes for mapping. It's not native so you still have to read the final XML output if anything goes wrong, but better than none. I don't know much...
Novell Linux Business increases 20
Novell Stock Plummets (0) "Plummets" It's where it was less than a year ago: (1) "gave a weak third-quarter forecast during" So, it's off because the Company...
Advanced means easy to use
Linux is pretty cool, but these are my pet peeves: Why do so many people only release source code...
Advanced means easy to use! 5597
Developers don't usually release binaries for several reasons: Binaries built on one Linux distro may not run on...
Advanced means easy to use! 5599
This will change slowly when Linux distributions stop mushrooming. With a consistent distribution, we could do all binaries. Source code and compilation...
Advanced means easy to use! 5600
x0054 on Friday 02 June 2006 05:51 What do you think RPM's are for? Red Hat has simplified things by precompiling everything for various platforms, making installation...
Advanced means easy to use! 5601
Roy Schestowitz Not always 100% successfull, there are odd occasions when they don't seem to work. I used an RPM to install RealPlayer, I don't know if I did something wrong, but it...
BSD or Linux Chooser
The Ghost In The Machine I don't like GNOME or KDE, they're both bloatware. And KDE tries so hard to be...
ComputerWorld: 20 Bad Things to DISLIKE about Windows Vista
Ray Ingles on Friday 02 June 2006 14:31 And that is never a good thing. When dismissing leniently due to excess, there is loss of or erosion...
ODF Quandary Reveals Hypocrisy 5604
Roy Schestowitz That's the whole point. I can download OO and be able to read and write ODF documents, Word documents, Excel Documents, and Powerpoint documents, and I can create PDF documents...
ODF Quandary Reveals Hypocrisy 5605
DFS I believe this was just the LATEST version. There are about 822 million in the top 15 countries buttume the rest...
ODF Quandary Reveals Hypocrisy 5606
Stephen Fairchild Microsoft has tried that, and they have even tried to get them to accept licensed source code which...
Linux to Challenge Graphics from Adobe, Microsoft, Apple
The Ghost In The Machine on Friday 02 June 2006 19:00 When I initially read just the breastle, I became quite critical and prejudices. It delivers the wrong message, which to me...
Linux to Challenge Graphics from Adobe, Microsoft, Apple
Roy Schestowitz I used it for a couple of projects where I wanted scalable graphics, back when I was using a Sun SPArC-10 as my primary workstation...
Nice chart on usability and overall quality 5609
Ted Landry The picture is cute, but as the caption shows, the page is sponsored by Vista (or at least displays...
Nice chart on usability and overall quality 5610
Rex Ballard on Friday 02 June 2006 09:05 Rex, I spent about 10-15 minutes chasing information about the conductor of this little 'study'. My searches were not very...
OneCare goes Live
This is an interesting perspective... -- OneCare goes Live, but it doesn't make me trust Microsoft any better Microsoft finally ships its long...
OneCare goes Live
Cyberwasteland I agree with you, there is no real incentive for MS to secure Windows when they is extra income to be had from an addon product. But then they had...
AdobeMicrosoft Anbreastrust Lawsuit 5613
Roy Schestowitz I wonder if MS had PDF in mind as the way around the current document format battles they are having, when they were refusing to jump onto the ODF bandwagon...
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