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Remeber: Linux is usually unstable
On the comp.os.linux.advocacy meeting for Monday 25 July 2005 12:08 pm, tab submitted the following proposal... The real question is, why would...
MS souce code 9859
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:23:53 -0700, Kari Laine Yet you keep talking about patents. Patents and Copyright are two very different things, though they both fall under the umbrella of "Intellectual...
MS souce code 9860
On 26 Jul 2005 11:16:36 -0700, Daeron Gee, and what does using code you're not licensed to use consbreastute...
MS souce code 9862
on July 25 2005 19:44:24 GMT billwg Well you do get a great deal of benefit from using Open Source. SCO puts the price of...
Linux: Hasta La "Vista" Baby 9863
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, B Gruff wrote on Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:56:15 +0100 s-fear-bullcrap-g Well, lessee...
Linux: Hasta La "Vista" Baby 9864
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, B. Kildow wrote on Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:17:28 -0700 One wonders. Personally, I think it was an innocent mistake...
Linux: Hasta La "Vista" Baby Machine: #3, Drive #2 NOTE: I ONLY post through Giganews
begin trojan.vbs It was on Tue, 26 Jul 2005 06:25:27 -0500, that Linønutlinønut Yes, & even to...
Getting Linux to the general public 9866
mlw Someone has to explain those advantages in an accessible way, without insulting MS (I know that's hard for Linux bozos). Did the idea of...
Getting Linux to the general public 9867
synex I can see that he has a point, but isn't his point what put windows in the virus trap that it is in right now? Sure linux could be...
Getting Linux to the general public 9868
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, mlw wrote on Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:45:46 +0000 Why should it matter? Ideally, the general public should be able to do what...
Microshaft get the facts wrong campaign budget widened
on July 25 19:47:08 EST Larry Qualig Thats 10^9 or a thousand million spent on knocking the opposition and not on the current virus-spam-phising...
Why I don't use Linux
It all boils down to being a square peg in a round hole, which is what Linux really is. I bought a Dell...
Why I don't use Linux! 9871
Tomas Bicsak You do realize that fitting a square peg into a round hole is a useful carpentry technique... right? Well, clearly you have...
Why I don't use Linux! 9872
Nico Kadel-Garcia I wonder. In about 1997 a couple I knew bought a Dell Dimension 200 (or something like that) and ran Windows 95 on it for a year...
Why I don't use Linux! 9873
Snip Its a shame 'Linux' didn't work for, I say its a shame because all the core things you mention you us your system for, Linux would be the ideal choice. Windows if you...
Why I use Linux 9874
Larry Qualig As someone who is a fairly recent convert to Linux, (dual-booting XP and Kubuntu 5.04...
Why I use Linux 9875
It's pretty much a fact at this point so there's no point in denying it. Fortunately I know enough about computers to setup my system so I...
Why I use Linux 9876
Sounds like they need a new support team then. Let me know where that shop is and I'll find a replacement...
Why I use Linux 9877
Well, yes. But that's not a difference between Linux and Windows. If Linux is going to replace Windows on the desktop it's going...
Why I use Linux 9878
That's how it should work. But if Linux takes off the same people writing crap Windows applications will be writing for Linux instead. I hope Linux is more forgiving but we...
Why I use Linux 9879
TuxSux schrieb: Did you read the description, that came with the CD? It probably reads: "DSL is an acronym for 'Damned Small Linux'. In other words, its a distro tuned for tight space constraints. At...
Why I don't use Linux! 9880
Actually, Linux is the round peg. It's Windows that has all of those awkward corners that stick...
Why I don't use Linux! 9881
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:28:15 -0700, Tomas Bicsak No, what Linux really is, is the kernel of a very good unixlike operating system...
Why I don't use Linux! 9882
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kier wrote on Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:43:05 +0100 Plus a large number of GNU and...
Security holes add up in second quarter
More than 422 new Internet security holes were found during the second quarter, according to data released Monday by the SANS Insbreastute. This represents an increase of 10.8 percent compared with...
Security holes add up in second quarter 9884
Shame brought on by publicity of problems they aren't fixing. And-or shame they know will be brought soon unless...
Security holes add up in second quarter 9885
Absurdly false. Every human that doesn't use a GUI frontend to TeX-LaTeX is "using" the...
Security holes add up in second quarter 9886
Right. (To the extent I know what you're talking about anyway: e.g. does "shading" mean text (-textcolor in the color package) or the background (pstricks package) or something else?) I would have...
Security holes add up in second quarter 9887
In LaTeX, we don't say "bold", "underline", "italic", "font size 12pt", etc. Rather, we mark up the documents **structurally** with structural markups:emph{emphasized text}, section{Section heading --- who cares...
Security holes add up in second quarter Discussion, linux 9888
The two claims are utterly distinct. LaTeX source *is* very easy to read (depending partly on the author's writing style...
Security holes add up in second quarter 9889
In the very rare cases when you should actually need to deal with those, TeX lets you. The point, though, is that these are things that you, in your...
Security holes add up in second quarter 9890
Edwards poked his little head through the XP firewall and said: Or even Open Office, if you save it in its native format, and...
Security holes add up in second quarter 9891
The following is a LaTeX example. The result of processing with Although it's just 3 pages, it does...
Security holes add up in second quarter 9892
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Tue, 2 Aug 2005 16:37:09 -0400 The final formatted product is hot plastic ink on bleached paper. You'll...
Security holes add up in second quarter 9893
I had never seen that myself, either. According to it appears to be a user-contributed package for...
Security holes add up in second quarter Discussion, linux 9894
I told you: glance through my articles and pick a page you want to see the source code for. If *none* of my articles have the kind of formatting you're interested in, well, then...
Security holes add up in second quarter Discussion, linux 9895
I wouldn't know. It is not the primary reason I choose open source. However, I can well imagine that businesses deal with these issues all the time. Is Visicalc still around? Still readable...
Security holes add up in second quarter Discussion, linux 9896
poohead. Why not ask for an email? Do it from a throwaway account if you're such a chickenpoo that you don't care to give a real address. Here is a short and utterly...
Security holes add up in second quarter 9897
Edwards poked his little head through the XP firewall and said: None. Small nit: Used...
Security holes add up in second quarter 9898
As far as I can remember, you can activate the style box in the tool bar with Ctrl-Shift-S. So, maybe, you could...
Security holes add up in second quarter 9899
amosf More like using Kynaptic, which installs non-working entries to the menus. Or upgrading to the latest version of a distro and watching your 3d video quit working. Or trying...
Security holes add up in second quarter 9900
DFS wrote something like: Don't know as I haven't tried it and I only have the word of an anonymous liar. Never had to...
Linux, the OS from Hell! 9901
rapskat Choice: Choose any OS you'd like, as long as it's not Windows. "I bought a whole bunch of PCs...
Linux, the OS from Hell! 9902
I bought a whole bunch of PCs and upgraded them and installed GNU-Linux and I have 15 of...
Linux training today
Yes, that is right users. You can get this free software, and in 10 easy two week programs, we will teach you root, apt, usr, bin, share, terminal, chmod, and lots of other...
Here is a pure GEEK
Probably because it can vary from distro to distro. Different distributions have different install methods. Some methods involve the cli, some don't...
Microshaft monopoloy is costing $10bn burden to industry 9905
What's so suprising about it? Linux *is* in "robust health". (oh, and embedded devices, and smartphones, and supercomputers, and...) Much of Linux's growth does come from "traditional Unix suppliers", but...
Microshaft monopoloy is costing $10bn burden to industry 9906
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ray Ingles wrote on 27 Jul 2005 10:41:48 -0400 Highly debatable. Recollect that Microsoft still controls 85-90% of the world's desktops. Admittedly, Microsoft seems to be shooting...
Microshaft monopoloy is costing $10bn burden to industry 9907
and...) Well, Rick, perhaps you have the answer and are not telling? Or are you just a silly pudding? But I looked at the cell phone business as a start and I...
Microshaft monopoloy is costing $10bn burden to industry 9908
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:21:09 +0000, billwg (Symbian promo snipped) You asked : What is this kind of business worth? I answered: Maybe you should just look at the worth of...
Microshaft monopoloy is costing $10bn burden to industry 9909
lot? Hell no, Rick! Are you that stupid? Maybe you better stick with teaching the...
Microshaft monopoloy is costing $10bn burden to industry 9910
I wouldn't call that a "strategy", John. It may be a sort of goal, but it is not their strategy. Their strategy is to create role specific versions of Windows server that target...
Microshaft monopoloy is costing $10bn burden to industry Distribution: All Sender: Martha H Adams Summary
Seems to me, I hear two separate topics in this thread. One is that guy about how bad...
Microshaft monopoloy is costing $10bn burden to industry 9912
A word to the wise, lucky, is that such tripe will only server to infuriate the IT professionals who...
MAKE LOADS OF MONEY FOR FREE
MAKE THOUSANDS!!! I found this on a bulletin board and decided to try it: I don't care about the useless pre...
Thanks Linux
Snit True. The clbuttic model for business software is to spend a bundle on the initial purchase with the carrot that you get a years' free tech support...
Knoppix
Whatever game Dom is playing. He gives a word. I have no idea if you're supposed to write the first thing that comes to mind (I...
Japan preps super supercomputer 10 quadrillion instructions each
Japan preps super supercomputer 10 quadrillion instructions each The world's fastest transistor has been developed with...
Go Linux, when you want to memorize commands
Op Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:43:14 -0700, schreef tab: No problem, just download & copy-paste command as specified in instructions. No need...
For Sale: Blinders
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, tab wrote on 27 Jul 2005 09:48:45 -0700 And your solution to this problem is ... ? At some point I for one (and others...
Dual Boot machines 9919
malloc ... Quite easily: 1) M$ Window$ is the most used OS. 2) To most people computer == M$ Window$ computer. 3) Most (easily obtained) software (from High Street outlets) runs on M$ Window$. 4) Unless...
Dual Boot machines 9920
You missed the point entirely, bob, just like the others, so I must not have been so clear. What I meant was that the OEM has to handle his...
Dual Boot machines 9921
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kari Laine wrote on Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:25:17 +0300 Because it is not in Microsoft's interest to do so. One issue with dual-boots that I have personally is that it's disruptive...
Dual Boot machines 9922
Being disruptive forsomeshouldn't make it a non-choice for others. If somebody would like to buy a dual-boot machine they should have the choice. I personally have no need for one...
Open source consultancy takes complaint against Microsoft to ACCC
Open source consultancy Cybersource is filing a formal complaint with the Australian Compebreastion and Consumer Commission (ACCC) this week claiming Microsoft is engaging in unfair practices which...