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CCIA Calls on ECMA to Reject MS's Proposal 6821
ECMA is a steping stone to the ISO. That's exactly what they did with C#-CLR they standardized with ECMA and then fast...
CCIA Calls on ECMA to Reject MS's Proposal 6822
B Gruff What does that mean? Maybe. But they are publishing their formats - so that others can implement it. Please tell me...
CCIA Calls on ECMA to Reject MS's Proposal 6823
On Friday 09 December 2005 23:04 Tom Shelton Sorry so long to respond Tom - just not following...
CCIA Calls on ECMA to Reject MS's Proposal 6824
Won't help with "cheap" programmers: In the old days, to set a register to the value 1, even an average buttembly programmer would do something like this: xor ax,ax inc ax rather than...
CCIA Calls on ECMA to Reject MS's Proposal 6825
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Erik Funkenbusch wrote on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:39:11 -0600 OK, dumb question. The supported OSes do not include VMS; what technical hurdles would be present...
CCIA Calls on ECMA to Reject MS's Proposal 6826
GreyCloud Actually, you don't have to buy anything. Cygwin-X works just fine. How is a language composed of some 77 keywords (C#) MS...
CCIA Calls on ECMA to Reject MS's Proposal 6827
Tom Shelton I'm not so sure about HP in this. Erik mentioned IBM as well, but I've never seen any of them selling...
CCIA Calls on ECMA to Reject MS's Proposal 6828
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, John A. Bailo wrote on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 07:54:42 -0800 Why? Just declare Microsoft the de facto standard and be done with it. After all...
CCIA Calls on ECMA to Reject MS's Proposal 6829
B Gruff You totally missed my point. I don't care if everyone gangs up on MS. I don't care if OpenDocument becomes the one true standard...
Musing on Linux long
At times I find myself wondering, why are some people so dead-set against Linux. For a start, if they don't use it, how can it affect them? So, there will be more open...
Musing on Linux long 6831
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, philo wrote on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 09:22:34 -0600 buttuming, of course, that there's a Guest profile (or home dir) that they can screw up. One setup that I particularly...
Musing on Linux long 6832
Kier on Friday 09 December 2005 11:14 Good read. Simple, yet a good reflectant of true facts. Because they don't use it. *Everyone fears the unknown *Change of tide sweeps one's habit along with it...
Musing on Linux long 6833
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:18:37 +0000, Roy Schestowitz Thanks. I do try :-) This one is odd, in a way. After all, no...
There's going to be another party, but the linux community is still not invited
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison once quipped:" It?s Microsoft versus the entire rest of the world...
There's going to be another party, but the linux community is still not invited
Om Prakash Unnikrishnan Customer Relations Management is a broad field, ranging from systems used by large organizations such as SEIBEL to desktop solutions like ACT!. CRM involves legal issues...
Linux Stats Rising
I was reviewing my web server logs last night, and found something interesting. Here is the summary: Platforms --------- Windows = 82.3% Linux = 14.5% Mac = 3.2% Browsers -------- MSIE = 65.8% Firefox...
that four line siggie limit, in the third millennium
As computer resources and communications speeds have improved, my "give this lunk a job" siggie has...
that four line siggie limit, in the third millennium
Kent I used to use a very-large sig, but I got all kinds of flack for it. (As I recall, one person told me it make...
Mbutt. reversal of policy
A file format that's worth keeping - forever Jack Schofield Dec 08 2005 .. the commonwealth of Mbuttachusetts .. decided to make ODF its default file format for office documents from January 2007. This would necessitate changing...
seven minutes
Daeron Two Linux converts in two days. One guy had heard of Linux but wasn't sure what is was. He was using konqueror with tabbed views in under a minute...
Help me please, I have an essay to complete. 6841
Peter Hayes The numbers tell it all. Look at it this way: Two years ago, Apple was a floundering 3rd rate PC maker, doomed for extinction. Yet, by creating...
Help me please, I have an essay to complete. 6842
Beauregard Jackson Burnside This is like a law in statistics. Ultimately, Microsoft needs to maintain it's current revenue stream - roughly $40 billion per year, to retain it's current market cap and share price. If...
Help me please, I have an essay to complete. 6843
Good post. This can be balanced owing to lower wages: How much did they invest in that move? Was it 3.1...
More Linux virus FUD from Network buttociates
Linux - the new target for threats? Christopher Bray Nov 30 2005 .. the dominance of MS Windows, particularly as a desktop operating system...
More Linux virus FUD from Network buttociates' 6845
Kleuskes & Moos Doing this is a bit of a social engineering thing... And, you realize, that is really the way most current windows viruses work? They somehow trick the user into running it. And...
More Linux virus FUD from Network buttociates' Desktop: KDE 3.5.0 Level "a" OS: SuSE 10
Once upon a Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:41:03 +0100 dreary, as I laboured tired & weary, came a tapping at my door when Ian Hilliard...
More Linux virus FUD from Network buttociates' Desktop: KDE 3.5.0 Level "a" OS: SuSE 10
Once upon a Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:38:43 +0000 dreary, as I laboured tired & weary, came a tapping at my door when Mark Kent posted this, & nothing more... So do I...
More Linux virus FUD from Network buttociates' 6848
The Ghost In The Machine schreef: Ok. Thanks for the extra info, but it *was a hint... I did not want to give it all...
More Linux virus FUD from Network buttociates' 6849
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kleuskes & Moos wrote on 12 Dec 2005 12:14:50 -0800 I try. :-) Exactly. Erm...you wouldn't happen to have something a little newer, would you? The latest date...
More Linux virus FUD from Network buttociates' 6850
The Ghost In The Machine schreef: I have. But posting them in an advocacy group isn't exactly my idea of fun. I presume they are. Problem is where...
More Linux virus FUD from Network buttociates' 6851
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kleuskes & Moos wrote on 13 Dec 2005 02:00:05 -0800 Hmm...I can see why. Way too many wags in here. Nice. I hope...
More Linux virus FUD from Network buttociates' 6852
Daeron This his been a popular argument for years. Microsoft has been trying to claim that viruses damage Windows users because they...
Erik's Silence Was Linux gets some retail respect
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:29:28 -0600, Then what was...
eBay halts auction of Excel flaw
Hey, if the antivirus companies can get rich off of crapware.... An online auction of a "brand new vulnerability" in Microsoft Excel...
Open Source Violations
B Gruff This is a fairly good article. The author appears to have a bit of a bias, and seems to feel that Open...
What a Fine Looking Bunch
The racist, liar and software thief Devon Dawson (flatfish) nymshifted: You lately nymshifted to Aftab Singh, Allen Cusimano, Allison Juergans, allisonhunt1968 plus 1...
amaroK
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 21:07:23 +0000, The one annoying thing I find about amarok (and it's not their fault) is the Amazon policy re: album covers. If you...
COLA Stats 11 Dec 2005
ngstats.pl version 1.15 This report covers 1935 articles received by this system to newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toplist...
COLA Stats 11 Dec 2005
begin risky.vbs Bashing Windows is a lot of fun IMHO. I used to post anti-MS...
Another One Flipped
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 09:47:48 -0800, Skeets I managed to convert three users and three companies over the past week. The users include: 1) One of our Help...
Since when have geeks concerned themselves with the layman 6861
You are correct, the average person thinks in base 10. Even IBM tried to make computers which did computations in base 10 and...
Since when have geeks concerned themselves with the layman 6862
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:10:13 -0800, the renowned John Larkin About how big is the source...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6863
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 15:30:45 -0800, Daeron The Internet and such open resources such as Wikipedia are a great boon to...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6864
amosf (Tim Fairchild) .. .. "Naturally, governments are responding to the challenges posed by new media technologies by deploying increasingly sophisticated technology of their own (a notable...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6865
Mark Kent There's a paragraph which mentions political dissidents in conjunction with anonymity--this is a real issue. The New York Times January 25, 2006 Software Privacy for People Who Don't Show...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6866
Jesse F. Hughes Many slippery slope arguments are fallacious but not all. If you'd care to present a specific source I'll be glad to argue it with you. In the meantime: "Use...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6867
begin virus.txt.scr Rick You don't need to be total anonymous to do that. No employer would ever get the real name of...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6868
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Peter Köhlmann .. .. Ah, but impersonating other posters implies a victim, which trumps...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6868 plus 1
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:49:38 +0100, Except of course that you *can* yell fire in...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6870
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Jim Richardson .. it's illegal to cry "fire" in a theater when there's no fire. perhaps similarly, it's illegal (I imagine) to impersonate another poster...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6871
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:11:39 +0100, I was with you...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6872
In other words, you are all for it that everyone has the "freedom of speech" to cry "fire" in a theater: After all...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down Desktop: KDE 3.5.0 Level "a" Email: Use ROT13 OS: SuSE
Once upon a Thu, 22 Dec 2005 01:23:27 -0800 dreary, as I laboured tired & weary, came a tapping at my door when Jim Richardson posted this, & nothing more...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6874
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 13:19:24 +0000, *how* would you do this? explain, how you would apply such accountability? licence the PCs? require that every...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6875
I'm a little late for this thread, but seeing as no one else has given you a reason, I thought I should. Note that...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6876
begin oeprotect.scr Hmm, maybe you need a slightly more comprehensive tome :-) Which would achieve what, exactly? For a dissident to communicate with the outside worldat large-, then he must be recognisable as...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6877
Mark Kent .. I'll address the supposed speciousness later, but just came across this gem: 'Perspective: Create an e-annoyance, go to jail Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6878
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:53:32 +0000, Agreed, and with that level of control, comes things like govt spying on what you say, and to...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6879
wrote on 23 Dec 2005 02:51:23 -0800 And there are webpages which are populated by Usenet material. Google Groups is but one of many. :-) I'll admit I'm not sure how, beyond the obvious shutdown of...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6880
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:28:44 +0000, You rant nicely, too bad you can't seem to read. "Not wanting to lose rights because others may abuse...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6881
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, William Poaster .. .. Which, I imagine, is why hardly anyone would break the law, by inciting riot, slander, or...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6882
begin virus.txt.scr Jim Richardson Well, it is my real name, and if you are really inclined to do so you can find my address and telefon number on the net...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6883
Rick wrote something like: Damn. I'll have to fix my needle filter... It's hardly a matter of life and rest... Anyway, if you have a problem with...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6884
begin oeprotect.scr I know I keep harping on about this, but Ireallythink that they have...
fake Wikipedia author tracked down 6885
Yes, the media here in the US has sunk rather low. When it is not in the pocket of politicians, it is enslaved to the corporate advertising dollar. There is...