First | Previous | Next | Last
AdobeMicrosoft Anbreastrust Lawsuit 5614
BearItAll on Friday 02 June 2006 12:56 The move to static documents (namely PDF in this case) had been announced before ODF emerged as a threat, if I recall correctly. The...
Open Source "Fundamentally American Concept" 5615
You are mistaking "free beer" with "free will". The US Consbreastution does not, in any manner, resemble your GPL. You nitpick...
Open Source "Fundamentally American Concept" 5616
On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:21:27 -0500, Linonut Yea I know. I'm sick of these forensic shows and at this point, after watching them for years, I think I could pretty much complete the...
Open Source "Fundamentally American Concept" 5617
On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:00:04 +0000, The Ghost In The Machine Again. You don't...
Open Source "Fundamentally American Concept
Roy Schestowitz It has also been said in another forum, that Open source is very much in keeping with the European Celtic way of life...
British Government Determines: Open Source TCO Much Lower 5619
I started to comment on this before. Then I started to write a rant about trolls. Then I didn't do either, and decided to wait. The wait got the result I...
British Government Determines: Open Source TCO Much Lower 5620
High Plains Thumper ... I dunno...just thinking about the old trailers for the Clbuttic FM drive time show (I think): "The computer crashed - typically" Why...
Windows Vista Drains the Juice Battery Life 5621
Jim Thanks for the invite Jim but I'm going to have to pbutt. Things are busy right now (lots of neices and nephews graduating school, etc, etc.) One of the laptops is a Dell...
Windows Vista Drains the Juice Battery Life 5622
Larry Qualig on Saturday 03 June 2006 06:36 I agree that it sounds rather ludicrous. The...
Improving user install experience
Improving the user installation experience Just a suggestion.... I came across a machine with a major...
Apple market share falling
thanks for proving me right Rick! that list chock full of duplications, overlap, modules, libraries, system components and... the same programs... but just compiled for a different processor. told you so! 1,991 Apps for Linux...
Apple market share falling 5625
On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:47:05 -0600, Oxford Oh my god. THAT's your list? Things like "AddressWeb - Utility for converting the address...
Apple market share falling 5626
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 23:26:53 -0300 Last I looked a topped...
Apple market share falling 5627
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Oxford wrote on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:32:21 -0600 Depends on the Mac. The Mac mini in particular has no internal slots. It may not need them (Firewire, 4 USB2...
Official proof Windies are losing market share
On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:17:22 GMT, 7 While you make it sound as if every single business is switching to open...
Official proof Windies are losing market share JLAForums: I am NOT a "Guest", I am
On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 21:13:15 -0500, Linonut Aunty frothing again, is she. I wonder what this "diminished functionality" is. If she means linux users don't get viruses, adware-spyware...
Office, Vista changed in wake of Adobe threat
Quote: -------------- Microsoft is making changes to the next versions of both Office and Windows as part of an effort to head off a legal...
100 laptop 'will boost desktop Linux' 5631
I was in WH Smith's the other day (that's a store that sells newspapers and magazines) browsing through the mags, and in one of the British Linux breastles...
100 laptop 'will boost desktop Linux' 5632
Actually, the screen is color, though it has both a back-lit and non back-lit mode, so the color may not be very evident in non lit mode. It should work much like the...
Sony Exec: We Don't Need No Stinkin' PC
Quote: --------------- Sony claims that PCs will be rendered useless by the PS3 The folks over at Sony are so confident in the power and capabilities of the new PlayStation 3 that they think...
Sony Exec: We Don't Need No Stinkin' PC
I think that a games console that doubles as a decent PC is a great idea. A lot of people agree that if you want to play games, get a console...
Novell Disgorges Crapware on Public
George Peppard No such link exists. I am not sure what your vague complaint is about, I am totally satisfied with...
UK's ESR Goes Linux
begin oeprotect.scr It would help. This is my favourite bit: Harmer appreciates the freedom that open source software brings. "We are not tied into any forced upgrade cycles dictated...
DualBooting Ubuntu and Another OS
Yup. The girl who works at my wife's bakery got a computer for Christmas that's already died. A Compaq; I tried to use their 'recovery parbreastion' but it...
Kubuntu 6.06 Review on TuxMachines 5638
Bruce Scott TOK on Saturday 03 June 2006 19:48 KDE (largely Qt-based applications) and GNOME (GTK+GDK applications) work interchangeably. Those applications thatjust using X with other development-UI toolkit -- likewise. In practice...
Kubuntu 6.06 Review on TuxMachines 5639
Bruce Scott TOK on Saturday 03 June 2006 20:02 I suspect not. Kubuntu is (was) a fairly independent project, much like nUbuntu is at the moment (like Goobuntu...
Aren't you glad this didn't happen... 5640
snips On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:14:15 -0700, Jim Richardson Speaking of dumping servers... Ran into a...
Aren't you glad this didn't happen... 5641
snips On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:35:13 +0100, Scott W Well... dunno about cops, per se... but we had...
Microsoft By The Hour 5642
Ian Hilliard on Monday 22 May 2006 19:39 The miserable act of a very baffled company. Very relevant to this discussion...
Microsoft By The Hour 5643
It's aimed at poor people. Many of whom can't afford computers. Many of whom don't even have phone lines, which is a requirement to recharge the computer...
Mews World's First Open Souce 3D Film is on YouTube
Handover Phist on Monday 22 May 2006 22:20 Less convenient, in my humble opinion. The same goes for the popular XGL videos. I quite liked the introduction and subsequent rise of video embedment in...
George Ou Against Microsoft's IIS, GoDaddy
Linonut His blog doesn't say that. It says that Go Daddy stonewalled him when he tried to get information andclaimedthat MS wasn't responsible: Microsoft flaw This...
Microsoft _can_ do better than Linux ... JLAForums: I am NOT a "Guest", I am BANNED
On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 13:11:47 +0100, Roy Schestowitz Did Allchin say that M$ can build a better product than linux? Judging from what I saw of a post from a Microsoft MVP in...
Microsoft _can_ do better than Linux
The keye here is All-chin said they *can* build a better one, not they...
The Impact on Linux Servers on the Industry 5648
Well, caveman, it certainly has been discussed, but so what? The whole thing is a matter of business, afterall, and the only thing that counts in business is...
The Impact on Linux Servers on the Industry 5649
That's an interesting jump. What data do you have to support the notion that there are "no profits involved"? Are...
The Impact on Linux Servers on the Industry 5650
Um, no. Seeing as I specifically said that and all. And yet the groups that people pay for predictions are suggesting ~9B...
The Impact on Linux Servers on the Industry 5651
Says the guy who produces links from 2003... To paraphrase Charles Babbage, "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of...
The Impact on Linux Servers on the Industry 5652
You're telling me that ten lines of code is a lot of effort for you? Linux has been growing quite well, for many years; indeed, outpacing everyone else in growth...
The Impact on Linux Servers on the Industry 5653
Well, it is not "outpacing" Windows now, ray. Your own calcs show the gap widening today. You hope and pray that...
The Impact on Linux Servers on the Industry 5654
Oh, give me a break. I just broke it down in tabular form and you pretend not to see. I don't need to jump on this merry go...
The Impact on Linux Servers on the Industry 5655
Your predictions haven't borne fruit in the past. I'm not worried about this one. And Linux is increasing its share faster than Windows is. Eventually they will bump more directly against...
The Impact on Linux Servers on the Industry 5656
I did read for the (I buttume you meant) context. It's right there. Why even utter the phrase "no profits involved" if that's not...
The Impact on Linux Servers on the Industry 5657
Well, I feel a little silly parsing a simple sentence for you, ray, but when I said: "The unit volume of the market is meaningless if there are...
The Impact on Linux Servers on the Industry 5658
Ah, but even by this interpretation, what you say is not true. Let's buttume for the moment that...
The Impact on Linux Servers on the Industry 5659
Just because they come as a package doesn't mean that application developers don't target them. When you buy an...
The Impact on Linux Servers on the Industry 5660
Well we do the very same thing, ray, and you get many of our products on linux because they existed previously for every variety of unix as well. But when it is a question of...
The Impact on Linux Servers on the Industry 5661
So, the presence of Linux encouraged your company to put development time into porting your Unix programs over. Thus...
The Impact on Linux Servers on the Industry 5662
What's really funny is that he has to deliberately ignore parts of the article he's working from...
The Impact on Linux Servers on the Industry 5663
Well, you say Linux doesn't affect you, and here you are anyway. But, of course, *you...
The Impact on Linux Servers on the Industry 5664
Not a very accurate recap, ray! I said that Windows was making inroads into the high end of the server market...
The Impact on Linux Servers on the Industry 5665
You can't actually show anyone buying those, though, can you? Funny, people are making money off 'em. Google for "supercomputer" and particularly "bioinformatics", and...
The Impact on Linux Servers on the Industry 5666
Um, yeah, a few. But PDAs are actually quite a small part of the embedded market, and getting smaller. It's smartphones that are taking over...
Splitting old mailboxes by date the easy way
Mark Kent on Friday 26 May 2006 08:59 My own habits are quite different. I prefer using the GUI wherever possible. Once in a few months (whenenver the PDA...
HACKING SUSE LINUX 10.1 5668
John Bailo on Saturday 03 June 2006 15:18 I remember that article fairly well (not sure if I posted it to COLA, but I suspect that I did) because its use of the word...
HACKING SUSE LINUX 10.1 5668 plus 1
Indeed, so it is. At any rate, I completed the SUSE 10.1 installation with no issues or errors. I noted two items that I...
Audience Gets More Inclined to Linux
Being one of those who develops solutions which include Linux, one of the reasons we do like "Enterprise Linux" is that it's pretty much been forged into...
Program exited with code 033
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, sonu wrote on 25 May 2006 23:13:54 -0700 1 This is not a technical help group, although we do what we can...
The geek who took on Microsoft
Good article. The irony of course, is that Microsoft's attempts to hijack a standards body have backfired. Those who have reviewed the documents provided...
Denmark moves toward ODF standard
begin oeprotect.scr It would be an excellent use of your advocacy skills. One good feature of Cola is that it's possible to see pretty much every angle...
Security Goes in Favour of Linux
There have been a few worms, all dying relatively quickly. I don't recall any viruses. There's...
Windows Vs. Linux: The real facts 5675
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Not to be nit-picky, but I have always wondered what is meant by 'zealots' as applied to operating systems. IMHO, there are those who are very enthusiatic about...
Windows Vs. Linux: The real facts 5676
snips On Sun, 28 May 2006 02:02:23 +0000, Mathew P. Generally, those who advocate one over...
Windows Vs. Linux: The real facts 5677
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-05-28, Kelsey Bjarnason spake thusly: Hi Kelsey :-) Ok, I can see your point. Makes sense, and I hadn't ever looked at it that...
Windows Vs. Linux: The real facts 5678
snips On Sun, 28 May 2006 21:31:59 +0000, Mathew P. An *irreparable* environment, which is the killing point. Nope. I was an avid...
Linux Advocacy
Newsgroups