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Fair Use' Becomes Fair Game in House 6077
The Ghost In The Machine Don't try to guess: 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use Notwithstanding the provisions of sections...
Digg Just Might Bury Slashdot
A hot new social-bookmarking site is deluging web servers all over the net with a tsunami of traffic -- and is starting...
Microsoft to Sell ClusterComputer System Bring Your Crash Helmets
Poor Billy. Linux must be his worst nightmere. Sure he had that good day when the MindCraft benchmarks showed that Windows was faster on SMP machines in a very special configuration, but...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality
systems on my own, I have come to the following conclusion: To say without qualification that Linux is better than Windows or vice versa is completely ridiculous. The truth is that Linux was originally...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6081
Eh, for some things Windows is on a par with Linux, or can be made...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6082
since i just now installed simplymepis to my hard drive, i will be able to comment on this more in the...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6083
Skeets Dual booting these days is about as difficult as lofty challenges like tying your own shoes or breathing without choking on your...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6084
tying your own shoes or breathing without choking on your own spit. I don't think the...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6085
Skeets Eh? Most distros these days have a newbie option enabled by default that doesn't even mention...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6086
The hard reality (for Linux advocates) is that OEMs would still rather sell a machine with Windows preinstalled than without it. After all...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6087
If ifs and ands were pots and pans, tinkers would be king!" goes the old saying. In business, you are trying to make...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6088
Wrong. People are interested in value and getting more for their money. Using one example configuration of a Linux server to compare...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6089
You delete the part of my post defining the context, mal! Kind of silly. The idea is that people who study marketing surveys are interested in...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6090
billwg Subsidiary markets. I'm pretty damn sure those sales figures don't count extended support contracts, nor...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6091
You can change the definitions of what you are talking about all you want, K, but linux still comes up short. Red Hat's income...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6092
Do you consider yourself sophisticated due to some habit of misstating a position and then trying to label your own construction as inane? Seems kind of childish, nut! I only made a valid...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6093
billwg Ford doesn't sell much fabric, do they? It's obvious they 'fall short' in this area, isn't it? I...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6094
billwg Yes, as total revenues from all operations. That is *not* the same figure as the sales figure, unless all income comes from sales. This is not typically the case. No...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6095
It can be expressed as a company's sales revenue (from that market) divided by the total sales revenue available in that market. It can also be expressed as a company's unit sales volume (in a...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6096
First of all, I'd really like to complement you on a very well thought out set of observations. Clearly you have really put some effort into both systems...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6097
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 03:11, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: Rex is probably confused here...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6098
Woah, just stop right there, as you've given it away. Follow this solution from the gui, why don't ya? Windows doesn't have the applications I want. I haven't...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6099
married to a common set of *nix libs and tools. It eventually became a 'server OS' because it's cheap and more effective than it's compebreastion. NT was designed from the ground up for...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6100
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:43:38 -0500, TheLetterK Not that rare. In fact, there's a process for feature removal, and a...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6101
Most hardware these days takes standard chipsets and glues them together with a couple chips and some firmware. Documenting those types of devices is just a matter of providing the...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6102
wrote on 18 Nov 2005 11:23:03 -0800 Debatable. There are scenarios on both sides -- for example, XP with firewall has a fighting chance of not getting infected...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6103
Depending, of course, your perspective on "better." This sounds a little like FUD, well devised to allow some kudos for Linux, but to implicitly downgrade its overall position in the argument...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6104
mlw ... Unix has its history as a system intended to develop and run a game ("Space Travel" on a PDP-7) that was...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6105
mlw That's probably technically true (my knowledge doesn't go back that far) but even if it is, it is irrelevant. That...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6106
The X Window System originated in 1984. The same year as the Mac. Not if you don't want to give them administrator rights... Can you name some specifics...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6107
Daveman750 I disagree. Statement without justification and by someone admitting that they do not have such knowledge. Oh? Are you saying the spreadsheets and word processors (visi...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6108
snips On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:39:20 -0600, Erik Funkenbusch This is just a tad dishonest. Most folks I know don't even use such apps...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6109
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 17:40:03 GMT, Kelsey Bjarnason Hmm.. Windows has all of that as...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6110
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:50:27 -0700, ray I didn't say it did. But those programs are...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6111
Erik Funkenbusch What Joe Average wants is "Word processing software"; what Joe Average says he wants is "Microsoft Word" or "Microsoft...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6112
Lee Sau Dan Wrong. You have made that buttumption, not I. They do not. They simply want stuff (like washing machines and browsers) to work...
Windows Vs. Linux: The unbiased reality 6113
Larry Qualig "4. Conclusions The Linux kernel is one layer in the architecture of the entire Linux system. The kernel is conceptually composed of five major subsystems: the process scheduler, the memory manager, the virtual...
Advocacy Understanding Software Development Models lengthy post 6114
When VA Linux went public, they offered developers credited in the Linux kernel the chance to buy shares at the actual IPO...
The World's Most Expensive 2 Button Mouse and Linux
Yet another example of Linux's failure to support modern hardware to the full level of it's capability. I purchased a Logitech Laser Mouse Model MX610. I wanted a...
The World's Most Expensive 2 Button Mouse and Linux. 6116
Patty Poppins ... You are obviously too upset to have a sane discussion on the matter... but I'll try anyhow... I agree. You see, hardware...
The World's Most Expensive 2 Button Mouse and Linux. 6117
Cara Yes. None. One. Add "Option Buttons "12" " to the mouse section and change Protocol to evdev. Basically, this is following the how to. mmm hmmm.... I've got logitech's drivers for...
The World's Most Expensive 2 Button Mouse and Linux. 6119
The liar, racist and software thief Patty Poppins (flatfish) nymshifted: You lately nymshifted to Aftab Singh, Allen Cusimano, allisonhunt1968 plus 1, Anna Banger, anonymous, Archie Watermann, Baba...
The World's Most Expensive 2 Button Mouse and Linux. 6120
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:08:33 -0500, Patty Poppins You just pop the CD into the drive, and select the *windoz* driver which the MANUFACTURER supplied on the disk. OK. Where on the...
The World's Most Expensive 2 Button Mouse and Linux. 6121
snips On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:35:06 -0500, TheLetterK Had to use a "five button mouse" or some such rot; it had extra buttons on at least one side...
The World's Most Expensive 2 Button Mouse and Linux. 6122
Patty Poppins My keyboard has 10 "special function keys" that run in banks of 5 down both sides of the keyboard. That needs a special Windows driver. I installed the driver...
The World's Most Expensive 2 Button Mouse and Linux. 6123
Patty Poppins Non-Windows Operating Systems Compatibility-mice and trackballs Question Will my mouse or trackball work in another operating system besides Windows? Answer *Yes*, the mouse or trackball should work in your operating system...
Novell Attacks Microsoft Linux Study
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, John A. Bailo wrote on Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:15:31 -0800 If Linux doesn't have...
The Clusterfsk Hardware *Support* of Linux.... 6126
Actually, that's the problem with the Z600 series. Lexmark would rather sell you a newer printer, preferably one that IS supported by Keep in mind that Linux printer drivers...
The Clusterfsk Hardware *Support* of Linux.... 6127
The racist, liar and software thief Patty Poppins (flatfish) nymshifted: You lately nymshifted to Aftab Singh, Allen Cusimano, allisonhunt1968 plus 1, Anna Banger, anonymous, Archie Watermann...
DOS XP: One size fits all ! 6128
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:32:02 -0500, Bob Hauck There is of course no way of knowing for sure, I was judging...
DOS XP: One size fits all ! 6129
Maybe they just have more trouble. Perhaps that is because of the proprietary drivers? IOW, this doesn't demonstrate anything at all about proprietary vs open...
DOS XP: One size fits all ! 6130
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:58:57 -0500, Bob Hauck Just a data point, the Audigy is a more complex piece of hardware than the onboard VIA sound chip. The 32bit Audigy Windows driver that came...
DOS XP: One size fits all ! 6131
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:01:52 -0800, Reaper, TG I don't doubt that is true, for a number of devices. Again, that's quite possibly right. Someone might well be working on the Audigy...
DOS XP: One size fits all ! 6132
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:57:56 -0800, You draw an unsupported conclusion from your data then. It is equally possible that most of the people on...
DOS XP: One size fits all ! 6133
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 06:41:27 -0600, Linønutlinønut Nah, I'd say he's rasing a valid point, even if it's...
Who uses Mutt 6134
7 Basically to finance Linux Format mag at $15.99 a pop. I like their software and book reviews, and interviews with various tech people, though I think they focus too much on Gimp (nearly ever...
Who uses Mutt 6135
7 It's not a matter of sloppy vs. what you think is proper. It's a matter of...
Who uses Mutt 6136
DFS I don't even go that far and stick to basic if then else and standard data types and leave the rest like user interface and comms modules to...
Linux to the rescue, yet again
The Ghost In The Machine Seems it affects different Linuxes differently too. I've got an Acer with a very much under powered powersupply, which got dumped on me when the original...
Solaris install
Well, I just installed Solaris and have figured out a few things. I loaded onto a P450 with 384Mb of RAM. Sun's...
Solaris install 6139
GreyCloud If someone has the available hardware then it's going to be somewhat different. But with computers so cheap now it sometimes more convenient (for me at least) to buy a cheapo computer to experiment...
Solaris install 6140
GreyCloud Thanks for causing me to re-think what I posted on this endian issue. Generally speaking, "most" C-C++ code will work fine when recompiled on a different endian processor...
Solaris install 6141
I'm not going to speak for Bob Hauck but what I think he was saying is that buttume that the data you have is in little-endian order. It's simply the format the...
See the Linux Advocates At Work. So are you going to depend on them for
Take a loke at the Logitech MX 610 mouse thread. See th insults? See the accusations? See the babies crying for their pablum? THIS, is LINUX. THIS is YOUR support structure when you have...
See the Linux Advocates At Work. So are you going to depend on them for
On Saturday 19 November 2005 05:05, Patty Poppins stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: Uhuh... I've stayed...
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