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Why is my old computer faster than my new computer 6210
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:47:13 -0500, DFS No, your insults are never funny. The difference...
Why is my old computer faster than my new computer 6211
On Sunday 27 November 2005 17:06, Kier stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: I...
Why is my old computer faster than my new computer 6212
On Monday 28 November 2005 00:26, amosf (Tim Fairchild) stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: That was a typo...
Why is my old computer faster than my new computer 6213
On Saturday 26 November 2005 10:57, Kier stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: My GNU-Linux life is far from boring. I also have better things...
Why is my old computer faster than my new computer 6214
The racist, liar and software thief Archie (flatfish) nymshifted: You lately posted as Aftab Singh, Allen Cusimano, allisonhunt1968 plus 1, Anna Banger, anonymous, Archie, Archie Watermann...
how to avoid intellectual property violations
The problem with this approach is that there is always the risk that one of your lawyers will miss a copyrighted...
Who The Heck is flatfish
The liar, racist and software thief Mooshoo Bong Singh (flatfish) nymshifted: You lately posted as Aftab Singh, Allen Cusimano, allisonhunt1968...
Microsoft does a better job with security
Daeron This is true. Even Linux is vulnerable to denial of service attacks. Bogus messages can cause a program to crash. A...
AV industry waiting for hard hitting Linux virus 6218
Daeron They will probably have to wait a long time. Linux has a number of safeguards and "bulkheads". For a virus to do significant damage, it would have to gain...
AV industry waiting for hard hitting Linux virus 6219
Bobbie This article did set me thinking. Beware of hubris. Linux isn't impervious to hacking, no OS is. Simple admin stupidity can provide...
AV industry waiting for hard hitting Linux virus 6220
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 23:51:08 +0000, Kleuskes & Moos I agree. I have no doubt that Linux is far more secure than Windows if for no other reason than Linux-Unix was written with...
In Soviet Russia you have only one operating system
In responding to ewik, he was insisting that "joe average user" wants consistency. Well, it occurs to me that in a WORKING free market system this doesn't happen, and users are...
In Soviet Russia you have only one operating system!!! 6222
O No. The reason that Microsoft had a stranglehold on the OS market is because of YOU and I - as in WE, US, the LEMMINGS, etc. There were other OS's available in the 80's...
In Soviet Russia you have only one operating system!!! 6223
Hmmm. That was a long time ago but when I wore the white shirt and...
In Soviet Russia you have only one operating system!!! 6224
mlw Probably so. Consistency in my mind doesn't mean one choice of spreadsheet or one standard; it means things like menu layouts and colors and...
In Soviet Russia you have only one operating system!!! 6225
mlw I read your original post, and I still don't understand what you mean by consistency. You seem to be confusing it with standards and...
In Soviet Russia you have only one operating system!!! 6226
mlw Actually, Erik is correct. Users do like consistency. They like standards that can be trusted. They want to know that if they press on the right pedal...
In Soviet Russia you have only one operating system!!! 6227
I didn't argue that they didn't want it, I said that consistency was not realistic in a working free market economy, and I stand by that. Really? Why? Just from historical "it has always been...
In Soviet Russia you have only one operating system!!! 6228
Larry Qualig Actually, the thrust of the post was that while users my "like" consistency, it is unrealistic in a working free market economy...
In Soviet Russia you have only one operating system!!! 6229
mlw Yes, they are overall "consistent" with each other while something like 'vi' is not consistent...
In Soviet Russia you have only one operating system!!! 6230
Larry Qualig vi is a different program with a different purpose. M$ Office and OpenOffice.org are similar programs for similar purposes, and thus...
Difference between Linux and Windows
Here's a good phenomenon for illustrating ideological differences between windows and unix. Suppose you just typed up a LaTeX document...
Difference between Linux and Windows 6232
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:56:42 -0800, adomplayer Goodness knows whay you did all that with your document. You could of written it in one of several applications and...
Difference between Linux and Windows 6233
Bogus example. If I were using CLI on Linux, I'd either write a one-liner command, an alias, or have a separate window for the "overhead" commands. This way I...
Difference between Linux and Windows 6234
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:43:20 -0500, DFS It is not exactly, but really close. I suggest that you read the links that you include before making a fool...
Difference between Linux and Windows Discussion, linux
Huh? What sort of program do you mean? One that obscures the steps of making the...
Difference between Linux and Windows 6236
Technical Cyber Security Alerts 2005 ID breastle Release Date TA05-312A Microsoft Windows Image Processing Vulnerabilities November 8, 2005 TA05-292A Oracle Products Contain Multiple Vulnerabilities October 19, 2005 TA05-291A Snort Back Orifice Preprocessor...
I've got the perfect solution to get wider adoption for Linux 6237
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Bill Baker wrote on 21 Nov 2005 01:04:46 -0800 Far more sophisticated picture algorithms are already in use on servers, although for a different purpose...
I've got the perfect solution to get wider adoption for Linux 6238
begin oeprotect.scr You rather missed my point! If he's forgotten his pbuttword, he can't get in at all, so the problem is more fundamental. Your approach is flawed, because toshowhim...
I've got the perfect solution to get wider adoption for Linux 6239
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 01:04:46 -0800, Bill Baker Are you one of those that gives yourself pbuttwords that...
I've got the perfect solution to get wider adoption for Linux 6240
First of all, the paradox of security is that you want to have information to validate the idenbreasty and authority of the user. If...
I've got the perfect solution to get wider adoption for Linux 6241
In summary, you feel that getting, using, and changing a root pbuttword is too much of an inconvenience and that any user should be allowed to install any...
I've got the perfect solution to get wider adoption for Linux 6242
Bill Baker schreef: Usually this would require rebooting the system and shoving in some resque disk, which (on my...
I've got the perfect solution to get wider adoption for Linux 6243
Bill Baker schreef: Ok. Also in a home environment security isn't an issue to take lightly, since the security flaws on...
I've got the perfect solution to get wider adoption for Linux 6244
Bill Baker schreef: Well, there's nothing I can do about that. All i can do is try to point out why I don't like...
good file manager for Linux
Do you know any good file manager for Linux? Almost everyone knows Midnight Commander. It uses ncurses, works in textmode... Many people...
good file manager for Linux 6246
There are a couple of file managers that are older. xfm - the x file manager uses the athena widget toolkit, which is much smaller (under 4 meg). Windows Explorer is based on xfm...
good file manager for Linux 6247
Kier on Monday 21 November 2005 10:16 I know many good file managers for Linux, but there are pros and cons to each as you pointed out. It's usually a...
good file manager for Linux 6248
Roy Schestowitz Back in the "DOS days" there was a file manager named "QDos" (from Gazelle systems) that very few people heard of, but everyone I know who used it really...
Copyright and "fair use
Actually, this was one of the reasons why the Copyright Act of 1976 revised the copyright law to allow a copyright holder to "License...
OT: Quiz for Aragorn and Kier 6251
This all sounds good Thad. More jobs, better schools, better life. All these studies you will find are PRISION STUDIES. Captive group of people dying to get out. You have to...
OT: Quiz for Aragorn and Kier 6252
Actually, that sounds a lot like how friends of mine in the inner city would describe their lives. They are trying to move to...
OT: Quiz for Aragorn and Kier 6253
On Monday 21 November 2005 19:17, DFS stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: Unless I misunderstand the question, I guess...
OT: Quiz for Aragorn and Kier 6254
Aragorn Good job you vile racist - that's exactly the right answer! Of course you can't prove that...
OT: Quiz for Aragorn and Kier 6255
I would be interested in seeing those numbers. The studies I recall seeing show that arrests are roughly the same, but blacks are more likely to do jail time. Some claim this is indicative...
Urgent Data recovery
You are being overly pessimistic. Someone already posted a link to an article dealing with ext2. Here's one for ext3: Although harder...
Windows Vs. Linux package Debt Management 6258
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:29:46 -0800, Daveman750 Of course, that said, your distro very likely...
Windows Vs. Linux package Debt Management 6259
You're obviously referring to rpm-based systems without using apt. If you weren't you woulnd't make that paststatement. Security. Here is a tiny sampling of examples: You need...
Windows Vs. Linux package Debt Management 6260
Daveman750 Package Debt Management also varies between Linux distributions. Remember that Linux supports RPM, Debian, and tarball packages. RPM and Debian packages also provide support for UNinstallation. Actually, that MS-DOS, Windows 3.1...
Windows Vs. Linux package Debt Management 6261
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:29:46 -0800, Daveman750 Originally all software for UNIX-Linux was compiled, this...
Windows Vs. Linux package Debt Management 6262
The linux package managers can also: 1. display a list of files and their locations. 2. show what other programs...
Windows Vs. Linux package Debt Management 6263
snips On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:11:42 +0000, m Not bloody likely. Consider: where do I, as the user, get my RPMs? I get 'em, generally, from my distro's repository. So to make...
Windows Cluster goes after Linux heartland
Another clueless wonder. Kleuskes & Moos Microsoft has tried repeatedly to enter the cluster market, and they have blown it badly...
BSD Licensed C++ compiler 6265
Tobias Weingartner Please, let's not have yet another long sub-thread arguing over the meaning of the GPL...
BSD Licensed C++ compiler 6266
Larry Qualig schreef: Once you achieve an optimal code generation, there simply isn't much room for improvement. Every now and then some improvements...
BSD Licensed C++ compiler 6267
Kleuskes & Moos I disagree and here is why... No problem here. No problem here either. Language...
BSD Licensed C++ compiler 6268
Larry Qualig schreef: That's not what you said previously. This is where I expect a carefully worded, reasoned rebuttal, with one or...
BSD Licensed C++ compiler 6268 plus 1
Kleuskes & Moos Actually it is what I said, it just wasn't clear. Congrats to you. I don't need...
Apple should buy SUN. 6270
Malware Magnet schreef: Their old graphics system drives just about 95% of all desktops. That's...
Apple should buy SUN. 6271
Mike Cox Unlikely. No significant benefit to either company. However Dell + Sun makes good sense. Dell...
Apple should buy SUN. 6272
Tim Smith Cheapest rack-mount server I can see at Dell is $779. They have tower...
Apple should buy SUN. 6273
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Tim Smith Oh give me a break. Try to compare vaguely similar products...
More MS innovation 6274
begin oeprotect.scr The blogs are an attempt by MS to emulate another aspect of open source software development. As virtually all OSS is developed very publicly, with home pages, CVS, mailing lists, and so on...
More MS innovation 6275
Then the EULA is conditional? Using your standard, I get to decide how the explicit rules apply. Right? So, if I...
Advocacy Why GNULinux is The Better Operating SystemTM caution: long article! 6276
On Monday 14 November 2005 08:49, Tim Smith stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: Replying...
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