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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz wrote on Tue, 30 May 2006 17:16:36 +0100 I wouldn't expect Apache to. It's a bit like...
Hey, why don't you report this stuff
This just goes to show that linux guys will push a crappy distro, Ubuntu... I know, some of you are...
Debian Linux Gets Carrier Grade Linux Status
Linonut on Thursday 08 June 2006 03:20 OSDL is funded by giants such as IBM and Intel. These companies want something in return for their...
EU to decide on Microsoft fines by July
Quote: -------------------------- EU regulators will decide before the end of July whether they will fine Microsoft up to euro2 million ($2.57 million) a...
Erik Funkenbusch Libelous creep
Erik Funkenbusch Which is a matter to be decided by Ray and the author, of which...
Roy Schestowitz Pirate
Erik Funkenbusch I am not so sure it is crackers for Roy. After going to his root webpage and clicking...
Erik Funkenbusch scumbag
A cynical mind might buttume it is because he knows he has a few copyright infringing images on it...
IneffectiveByDesign: Linux at it's best
Such a yummy wintroll - chomp chomp chomp. Since this one is at least not rude, crude, lewd, and socially unacceptable, it's worth at least making attempt to address. Besides...
OT Micoshaft comes with its own root kit
Erik Funkenbusch You missed the footnote, I'll reput it here: 1 One presumes that the files containing the...
Get Ready for VistaSpeak and a partial translation 5822
The Ghost In The Machine on Thursday 25 May 2006 03:38 Also makes data inaccessible to Linux. Becauseallour customer's want that...
Get Ready for VistaSpeak and a partial translation 5823
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz wrote on Thu, 25 May 2006 10:48:51 +0100 Hadn't thought of that angle, but you're right; could get interesting. Yeah, but...
Windows Vista Beta 2: The key word is 'Betta
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Aunty Diluvian wrote on Wed, 24 May 2006 22:45:58 -0400 Is that a gold watch in your...
WikiPedia.ORGwikiJaffa_Cakes, WikiPedia.ORGwikiJaffa_orange
Oh yes it has - badly "Jaffa Cakes Jaffa cakes are small cakes-biscuits (see below). Traditional Jaffa Cakes comprise a round base of hard sponge...
Getting your site sorted for IE 7
Quote: ------------- Just how bad will it be? After five years of tweaking the hacks that make your site look the way it's supposed to in IE 6...
SUSE Knowcks Vista Out
Roy Schestowitz I just now installed Vista Beta 2 on a Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop (dual...
I DUMPED WINDOWS AGAIN
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Clogwog wrote on Sat, 3 Jun 2006 19:59:46 +0200 Microsoft would *love* that. much as 1 PC, although it depends on the PC. Avocent model will set...
See *The COLA Gang* Spring Into Action
I think I see what the problem is. You expect some good in everybody. You have a...
Minor Linux turnoffs 5831
Jim Richardson Here's a part of an interview of Michael Robertson, who at the time of the interview was the CEO of Linspire: Jo interviewer: On the...
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May 28 2006 09:21: Not to mention, take out the entire system. Obviously, Mr. Robertson has never used a copy of Windows installed with the default, Administrator-only type of users. The boxes that I...
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28 2006 13:50: Well, when you think about it, the entire system is open for...
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It would certainly make things a lot easier. It would still be difficult to get numbers approaching what Windows gets, even if the number of...
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BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 28 May 2006 13:10:37 GMT, Can you point to the code Linspire has "made proprietary"? I can't seem to find any. If you mean, they only offer...
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begin oeprotect.scr You've got to be kidding here. Windows has always been a nightmare to install, and never worse than now. All those hours trying to get the right service pack before...
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Mark Kent I am not kidding at all. And Windows + most Linuxes have been a piece of cake when it came to...
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BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 27 May 2006 12:58:15 -0700, Bear in mind that you are comparing MS-Windows, with a browser, and notepad, vs something like Ubuntu, which has a *lot...
Minor Linux turnoffs 5839
I install Windows and Linuxes all the time. I find them both pretty easy. Over 80+ new Windows installs in the last year or so - not even one case where machine got...
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begin oeprotect.scr Ah - you do itall the time- okay - by now, you've probably found out where to find the service packs, maybe have them on CD, found out where all...
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lol. You sound one frustrated guy who doesnt know how to install Windows easily. Silly. Told...
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begin oeprotect.scr answer. So you need a special floppy and CD (how many machines even have a floppy drive...
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What extra steps? There are no extra steps when you simply pop the CD in read whats on screen...
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Chirag Shukla wrote in 10:25: This is one of the problems, IMHO, with how people learn to use...
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begin oeprotect.scr I wonder if people really do that, or they just naturally memorise a series of steps? An analogy might be how supermarket shelves are constantly re-arranged so that you...
Minor Linux turnoffs Warning: Long 5848
2006 08:24: snip I will (hopefully) come back and answer the other things when I have a few minutes...
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places). Some other users thought I was giving them extra steps to install Windows and one user was understanding, without reading correctly, that he...
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Chirag Shukla spewed this vial garbage: Except that most of your hardware was installed and working...
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Ruel Smith barked: Yeah right. Got 2 calls today morning telling me that their monitor...
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Chirag Shukla spewed this vial garbage: Wrong. That doesn't mean all the hardware in question is supported in Linux. But, even if we buttume it is, you're...
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Ruel Smith If both OSes installed correctly to begin with, would you still think of hardware being an issue? Where's the argument on that anyway? So are you indicating that...
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Chirag Shukla spewed this vial garbage: Windows XP, even a brand new disk, will detect and install less hardware than will any given major Linux distro. Not...
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Ruel Smith barked: Lets see. Ubuntu did not detect one fellow's soundcard. He called me 20 minutes...
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Ruel Smith I cant control what you think and dont even try to control what...
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On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:21:39 +0100, Kier I have just as much proof of it...
UbuntuKubuntu Screen Blankage Was: Minor Linux turnoffs
Chirag Shukla wrote in 23:44: I would say to take a look atvar-log-messages and the output of 'dmesg' at...
Minor Linux turnoffs 5859
on Thu, June 1 2006 00:16: The one thing that I find works best when working with people is to give them a bit of education before beginning a migration from Windows...
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Jim Richardson I just finished three hours getting Windows to log onto a network, after all the crapola of getting tcp-ip to run...
Minor Linux turnoffs 5861
I started refusing to help anyone with their Winders boxen. If Gates-Blammer want to subsidize me to do it, I will. But...
Minor Linux turnoffs 5862
You're confusing software with bugfixes and security patches again. Samba is a program. A Service Pack is a bunch of bugfixes and patches all rolled into a single product. Sometimes bugfixes and patches require...
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begin oeprotect.scr It's worse than that, though - youmusthave the windows service packs to have any hope of keeping a machine clean, but in order to get them, you need to go...
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You must be using rpm-based. Or you're confusing bug fixes and security patches with ordinary installs...
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which is completely irrelevant to my point, buttuming we even believe your proposition. The obvious question is "why bother". Is there something in your...
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Michael B. Trausch spewed this vial garbage: Again, take a look at PCLinuxOS. The latest stable version is a bit old...
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May 27 2006 22:10: At some point, I will. However, the main system that I use at this point is my laptop, and I use that for...
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TheLetterK spewed this vial garbage: Have you installed and ran it? How can you make...
Minor Linux turnoffs 5868 plus 1
May 28 2006 11:01: Did you ever determine what the problem with that was? I have never actually had this problem myself, so I can't...
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Michael B. Trausch spewed this vial garbage: Honestly, I can't remember what I did about it. However, that was the only problem I've ever had with Kubuntu. I never made the comment that...
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Chirag Shukla As you have noticed you have to install gcc. Generally only people who know what they are...
Malware Industry Cannot be Trusted
Can the malware industry be trusted? ,---- Conclusion Today, players like McAfee, Symantec, Norton, and dozens of other firms fight for a share of a market worth tens-of-billions of...
Don't buy Lenov$, it may not be supported under Linux 5873
Doesn't have anything to do with China. I'm from upstate New York and live outside the US. I just went to a PC show this week...
Don't buy Lenov$, it may not be supported under Linux 5874
asj infrastructure.jhtml?articleId=188701277 "The Raleigh, N.C.-based company is clearly positioning itself as an exclusive partner of Microsoft, several weeks after the companies announced they were "reaffirming" global market development and cooperation agreements...
Don't buy Lenov$, it may not be supported under Linux 5875
On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:42:16 +0000, 7 I hate to break it to you but IBM is still pulling Lenovo's strings. Guess who has a...
Security Expert Questions Vista Security
Windows kernel protection expected to break soon ,---- Quote PatchGuard, a Microsoft technology to protect key parts of Windows, will be hacked sooner...
Security Expert Questions Vista Security
Roy Schestowitz This worries me you know, you don't need a powerfull nose to smell the poo that is coming our way. Of all the things MS has done this is the one...
US State Department fear bugged computers made in China
Hadron Quark With a binary, you have no way of checking your doubts about the program. With source code, you have the option to do so. With binary, you put the crap...
OpenDoument Format ODF FUD Attributed to Lobbying
Open Source Foes In Bed With Abramoff ,---- Quote "Citizens Against Government Waste has said some highly critical things about open source software in the past. They've also pounced on supporters of...
Microsoft Already Works on XP SP4 AKA Vista SP1
Microsoft puts the post-Vista wheels in motion ,---- Quote Windows Vista is not fully baked, but that doesn't mean senior Debt Management isn't already thinking about "Vista+1" as they...
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