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Windows Vs. Linux: The real facts 5679
On Sun, 28 May 2006 00:38:32 -0700, Kelsey Bjarnason I don't. I acknowledge Microsoft's somewhat shady past, their buggy software and their bully tactics. I also acknowledge Linux where it is...
COLA Stats 4 June 2006
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COLA Stats 4 June 2006 5681
On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:35:25 -0600, GreyCloud Better yet, ask him to prove I am Gary Stewart. The truth is he can't and neither could the original nutjob that...
COLA Stats 4 June 2006 5682
On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 07:36:56 +0100, Mark Kent Still perpetuating the myths you bozos created. You, nor anyone else has ever offered any concrete proof to back...
COLA Stats 4 June 2006 5683
Mark Kent What I'm still trying to find on OS X in thedev file is the DVD-CDROM drive designation. And then write a script that can do a weekly backup of only changed user...
COLA Stats 4 June 2006 5684
Mark Kent on Monday 05 June 2006 08:36 ...Point taken and to a great extent agreed upon. I have defended Roy C in this context several times in the past and I also know Grey's...
COLA Stats 4 June 2006 5685
begin oeprotect.scr I fully agree that it won't change the behaviour of the trolls, however, very importantly, it does highlight to any drive-by denizen who to take seriously and who not...
COLA Stats 4 June 2006 5686
On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 22:03:55 +0000, Peter Jensen I'm not trolling, I'm telling it like it is. I'll summarize: 1. Kelsey is an incompetent Windows system administrator and shouldn't...
Installation: FC5, U5.10, XPSP2
Colleagues, On an IBM PC 300PL (6862-N4U) P-III with 256 MB RAM, 5 GB HDD...
When someone can't get something to work, they go back to what they know works
Found this while hunting down info on Linux for a RISC AS-400 for someone: and LAUGHED MY ARSE OFF!! And then sobered up a little, when...
What does Netcraft know
It is running on IIS: tzs$ telnet dotware.co.uk 80 Trying 194.154.164.82... Connected to dotware.co.uk. Escape character is...
Desktops Need 3D and XGL Better than Vista 3D
Pixel abuse: the wonders of 3D graphics ,---- Quote Desktops themselves have seen little breakthroughs: the...
Desktops Need 3D and XGL Better than Vista 3D
Science is struggling with 3-D visualisationalready-. Holograms are one way to tackling this and I believe...
Elephants Dream Open movie yet not Copyleft
Fantastic achievement, of course. There's one thing I see which concerns me, to see something like this produced as an Open movie, rather than a Copyleft movie...
Elephants Dream Open movie yet not Copyleft
Roy Schestowitz Almost all the "Elephants Dream" material is under a license that allows derivatives, anyway, and there seems to...
IE7 Hmm
Just installed IE7. They have got to be kidding. First, they've "innovated" the interface - meaning...
IE7 Hmm. 568 plus 15
On Sunday 04 June 2006 03:28 am, Kelsey Bjarnason had this to say in comp.os.linux.advocacy: 1) Did you reboot Windoze? Sometimes...
IE7 Hmm. 568 plus 16
On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 03:28:26 -0700, Kelsey Bjarnason No, you have got to be kidding. The new UI follows the new Vista style guidelines. You don't "need" to run a program, you...
IE7 Hmm. 568 plus 17
snips On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 15:54:12 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch Which means they're changing the UI *again*. Wasn't one of the supposed points in support of the notion that Windows is easy to...
IE7 Hmm. 568 plus 18
On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 23:22:07 -0700, Kelsey Bjarnason Funny, when Windows went from 95 to 98, everyone said it wasn't a major upgrade, even though...
IE7 Hmm. 568 plus 19
snips On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:49:34 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch And this has precisely *what* to do with completely pointless UI changes? Right. Nothing. So you...
IE7 Hmm. 5700
On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:12:17 -0700, Kelsey Bjarnason Nice of you to delete the part where I said...
IE7 Hmm. 5701
On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:26:24 -0700, Jim Richardson Sure and while he fiddled Rome was burning. He got lucky. Oh, and I don't...
IE7 Hmm. 5702
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:00:10 -0500, no, because ghosting it doesn't solve any problem with...
IE7 Hmm. 5703
I was going to abstain from a Microsoft-bashing opportunity, but I can no longer hold off. Kelsey Bjarnason on Sunday 04 June 2006 11:28 Actually, they never kid about it...
InfoWk: Six Things U Didn't Know Abt Linux 5704
Alex Wolfe Apart from the fact that most vendors can make more money with Windows...
InfoWk: Six Things U Didn't Know Abt Linux 5705
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2006-06-04, Ian Hilliard spake thusly: Ian beat me to...
Lukewarm Suse 10.1 Review. 5707
flatfish+++ Here's one that compares SUSE with Vista. I don't think that is a proper comparison...
Lukewarm Suse 10.1 Review. 5708
VWWall MEPIS is another Debian-based distro that is extremely easy to use and configure, much like Ubuntu but with more labreastude to "tinker...
Ubuntu Dapper Drake Almost Ready for Download
Roy Schestowitz I downloaded and attempted to install Kubuntu 6.06 rc1. Downloaded the iso and burnt it. Started up the PC and used the verify option to check all was well, pbutted...
Xgl and the Wobble Windows
This sure is a weird environment -- and a bit buggy, too. But will Vista be as visually interesting? The equipment under test: an Athlon 1.4...
Xgl and the Wobble Windows 5711
If you're going to use a resource-hungry desktop, it's best to use a machine that can...
Xgl and the Wobble Windows 5712
I've tried Windows under VNC. Not XP, but still Windows. Not a fun thing to watch. I love how XP turns entire windows white except for the borders when it has trouble connecting to drives...
Winamp vs. Xmms
Rick on Monday 05 June 2006 06:19 XMMS runs for months (non-step) without a hiccup. It's...
Xmms
Roy Schestowitz (snip) "Our sister project XMMS2 has now reached Developer Release 1. The target...
Ballmer Lies About Linux FUD Interview
Ian Hilliard on Monday 05 June 2006 12:44 The comparisons are of course all very selective. The...
Critical Ubuntu Bug: Market Share
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Rick wrote on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 01:28:10 GMT But they all want Windows...
The Success of Open Source Book
Roy Schestowitz I liked the flow of that, I don't agree with the theory entirely, but in many ways we do seem to fit in with the conway law that he...
Microsoft Manipulates Politicians
Scott W on Monday 05 June 2006 10:54 I probably shouldn't have raised this subject as "News", but only hours ago did this hit mainstream media, with actual proof...
It's 2003 all over again
Nice blog: "Microsoft compebreastors should look at the increases in upfront costs as a sales...
It's 2003 all over again. 5720
Don't forget, too, the monopoly program that threatened businesses with a stick, and offered them a carrot, at the same time. They had to agree to a program with a...
It's 2003 all over again. 5721
ws on Monday 05 June 2006 10:56 It's more like the 'make believe' approach. Since to any given company it is extremely difficult to...
The Simplicity of Remote Linux Administration 5722
Roy Schestowitz VNC is a good solution, not only for this farmer, but for any IT and many home users. But...
The Simplicity of Remote Linux Administration 5723
BearItAll on Monday 05 June 2006 14:16 Linux can do both -- shall we call them -- paradigms. Windows, on the other hand, with old...
Windows Bashing
I have just been reading a post from someone called FlatFish that decided to attempt to take chunk out of Linux, and then continued to read on to see the...
Windows Bashing 5726
Chirag Shukla Not sure where you are living but here in the UK, linux is very rare in the office. I've only...
Windows Bashing 5727
rgould That is not necessarily a bad thing. Linux is all about choice, it can be anything that the user wants, except possibly a cure for...
Windows Bashing 5728
On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:01:25 -0700, rgould Why dounting? Deciding to give Linux a try may be a mite daunting to a less experienced computer user - particularly if they've never installed an OS from...
Windows Bashing 5729
VB, Java, Perl, PHP-CLI on Windows; Java, Perl, PHP-CLI on Linux. Files were flat files with...
Windopes Washing
flat fish sock puppet rgould Hi I'm a deranged clippy worshipping idiot also known as flat fish. Just...
Windows Bashing 5731
rgould email server? most of the main distros it is practically done for you out of the box, even the additional 'safe...
Windows Bashing 5732
rgould Look, I think we've all guessed that you don't mean anything malicious with all of this. The problem is...
Windows Bashing 5733
On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:56:35 -0700, rgould Welcome to COLA! In this group they attack the messenger far more often than the message. It's a method that they, the so called *Linux advocates...
Windows Bashing 5734
rgould Dear Mr. Gould, You have just chronicled to the world your total inability to think outside the tiny box, which Windows has provided. The first fact is that Linux is NOT Windows...
Windows Bashing 5735
Cameron L. Toew In the corporate network, there is a good amount of filtering of the network...
Windows Bashing 5736
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 13:55:22 +0000 (UTC), There was an AV product called Integrity Master that did this back...
How to troll like tab
Here's a dissociated-press of tab: -------------------- i totally trashed you in java on the desktop. i...
How to troll like billwg
Allow me to present *new* nonsense. Emacs has a 'dissociated-press' mode, which acts a bit like a Markov chain text...
Adobe yet to explain why no PDF in Microsoft Office
Quote: ---------------------- Microsoft has born the brunt of criticism for its mbuttive domination of the computer desktop since the release of Windows 95. For once, however, it is not Microsoft that has some explaining to...
Couple's Supposedly Destroyed Hard Drive Purchased In Chicago
This hypocrisy is laughable. The nutty world of Linux and open source software is 100x more guilty of spreading lies and misinformation about MS-Windows...
There's More to This Story
Quote: ----------------- There is going to be quite a bit to blog about today, with respect to Microsoft. First up, Wall Street Journal reports that closed-door discussions have broken down between Adobe and Microsoft...
Laura Didiot's Latest FUD Campaign
Reliability Survey: Windows Servers Beat Linux Boxes ,---- Quote On a broader note, said Yankee analyst Laura DiDio, the major server operating systems...
OpEd Linux is More Secure, But Still Insecure 5743
Roy Schestowitz No I don't go along with this train of thought, we have had similar posts in the news groups. When we say...
OpEd Linux is More Secure, But Still Insecure 5744
BearItAll on Tuesday 06 June 2006 10:56 For me, it has always been SSH. Rightfully, access and control from the outside are prevented until you prove that...
Mark Pilgim Ditches Apple, Chooses Ubuntu Linux
NeoOffice would be easier. If it's downloaded via Safari it'll mount the .dmg file as a drive after the download, which has the necessary instructions on it. It's actually pretty simple, though...
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