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Security vendors holding off on 64bit Windows
Companies looking to become early adopters of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows x64 Edition operating systems have one more reason to postpone the decision: They may find that their favorite antivirus software...
UK 'hacker' fights US extradition
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Jim wrote on Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:31:04 GMT Ah, but he's fighting terror! (Either that, or he's a holy terror. I'm not sure which.) George Bush...
You know COLA are liars when
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, tab wrote on 27 Jul 2005 17:23:16 -0700 You really need to be more specific here. 1 what is "it" in "it works"? Is it: a cp...
Is Eclipse the Commercial IDE person 9927
Roedy Green coughed up: That's how I see it, and that's what I'm doing. I refuse to give up on this PITA...
Disappointing response to OS2 open source 9928
I understand your point Esther. It is even possible that they are bound to silence by a legal agreement. However to say that they have...
Disappointing response to OS2 open source 9929
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:29:52 +0000, Matthew Trusting ANY mega-corporation is foolish behavior. IBM has it's sights set on Linux as well as it's...
Disappointing response to OS2 open source 9930
I would love to give OSX a try, unfortunately my hardware does not support it at this time. I use Linux, I have Fedora Core4 installed currently, have intatlled most major distro's...
Disappointing response to OS2 open source 9931
Yes, OS-2 made them money. According to some people at IBM I spoke with over the...
Call Ballmer and Taylor: Kenosha Has Fallen
billwg Here are my tests. I am using my cell phone, that has a stop watch function, to test...
Starting fresh... 9934
Lefty Bigfoot I've been using UNIX since the early 80s on a SUN 1. I spent a decade or so...
Starting fresh... 9935
mlw For some reason, Windows XP is the only OS that manages to completely drop my wifi connection in the middle of a download. This is with my Ralink minipci b-g...
Starting fresh... 9936
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 09:47:29 -0400, DFS You really should stop looking into mirrors, privateshead. Oh... I meant...
Starting fresh... 9937
Rick The creativity of a cola nut... I can only buttume it's because you're uninformed...
Starting fresh... 9938
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 11:58:40 -0400, DFS ... the bigotry of DFS ... How can you be so stupid and live? AGAIN... there wasn't a big deal court case in which the industry sent...
Linux Windows email programs with chat notification
I was working with an older man today - he is in his mid 80's. He learned to use e...
Linux Windows email programs with chat notification 9940
Which is cool, but the question was if, when reading or writing an e-mail, you...
Linux Windows email programs with chat notification 9941
Clear sarcasm on his part. Perhaps you missed it being that it is written, but the...
Linux Windows email programs with chat notification 9942
Wow... you have a really tough time with comprehension if you think these two things are the same: Your straw man: There is an e-mail...
Linux Windows email programs with chat notification 9943
You claim I am obfuscating... as you snip all meaningful content from the discussion. Real clever of you... :) Well, then, you are talking about a...
Linux Windows email programs with chat notification 9944
It's still there just upthread, and on google, if your memory is that bad. Here, for the mentally challenged: 0ad...
Linux Windows email programs with chat notification 9945
And look... you have not pulled yourself away from your need to name call and make silly accusations. Do...
Linux Windows email programs with chat notification 9946
Please point out where I called you a name, or made a silly accusation. I was very deliberate in my choice of words, so far in our exchange...
Linux Windows email programs with chat notification 9947
as long as you snip in a reasonable way I have no problem with it. Seems you are doing so in this post. Thank you. Please explain your "mentally challenged" comment. For that matter, what...
Linux Windows email programs with chat notification 9948
Snit Wait a minute - what's this "lack of integration"? Integrate with what? I understood that you had a grandfather here...
Linux Windows email programs with chat notification 9949
on 7-29-05 11:46 AM: Um, no. I had a client who wanted to communicate with his grandkids... and OS X's Mail iChat offered him an easy way...
Linux Windows email programs with chat notification 9950
LOL... your bias is not showing... nooooo.... :) Own desktop... so now you want someone who does not really understand applications to be playing with multiple desktops... OK... Um, OK. But does it...
Linux Windows email programs with chat notification 9951
on 7-28-05 10:49 PM: I am wondering if there is a similar common solution for Linux. As far as I know there is not, but I...
Linux Windows email programs with chat notification 9952
On the comp.os.linux.advocacy meeting for Friday 29 July 2005 02:03 am, Snit submitted the following proposal... Personally, I don't know of any, really because I haven't looked. You say it is "unlikely...
Linux Windows email programs with chat notification 9954
On the comp.os.linux.advocacy meeting for Friday 29 July 2005 03:40 am, Snit submitted the following proposal... Because it was posted in COLA. If you didn't want Linux...
Linux Windows email programs with chat notification 9955
No. He does not mean that. He did not say that. He did not imply that. He did not suggest that. Like most chat programs, iChat allows all sorts of notifications. In...
Linux Windows email programs with chat notification 9956
on 7-29-05 1:45 AM: Interesting straw man of yours to suggest I "didn't want Linux users to respond". Must say, I did not expect such silliness from you. Hence...
Linux Windows email programs with chat notification 9957
on 7-29-05 2:45 AM: No comment? Gee... I wonder why. :) You really do not like it when I point out your biases... Very good... hence the reason I asked a question...
Linux is like a pair of running shoes
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote on Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:04:38 +1200 The main problem...
Mozilla Founder Betrays The Linux Desktop 9959
John Bailo Fullname: Anonymous Location: Australia Occupation: SW-Developer Comments: I agree with all the points Asa Dotzler has...
Mozilla Founder Betrays The Linux Desktop 9960
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:20:24 -0700, John Bailo Mozilla Founder? He is a Foundation staff...
Mozilla Founder Betrays The Linux Desktop 9961
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:26:27 +0000, Rick He also says he's been using Linux (not necessarily exclusively, though), for *six years* - and he still seems...
OO 2.0 Question
I am a Netflix subscriber. I had them send me my rental history for the past year...
OO 2.0 Question 9963
John Bailo A short story, mixing fact with fiction... Facts. Exposition. Facts. WARNING!!! FICTION!!!! TALL TALES!!! FUD!!! LIES!!! HYPERBOLE!!!! You know...
OO 2.0 Question 9964
Quantum Leaper Agreed that the db part is not an Enterprise-level tool, but the querying and reporting modules can be considered such. I'll take a look...
OO 2.0 Question 9965
John Bailo I see that. Of course, it's not the standard usage of cut and paste between apps the world has used for 10 years - it's a special, strange OSS version where you highlight...
Is Microsoft driving freeloaders to Linux
Is Microsoft driving freeloaders to Linux? By Iain Ferguson, ZDNet Australia commentary Is this the week Microsoft finally got serious about fighting piracy -- and could its efforts...
Is Microsoft driving freeloaders to Linux 9967
Ahhh... about time for the trolls to gather and decide that since they can not actually give...
Is Microsoft driving freeloaders to Linux 9968
No doubt. They do? I work part time at a local college and at some local K-12 schools - do seminars, private consulting, some web design, tech support, and adult and disabled tutoring. Much of...
Is Microsoft driving freeloaders to Linux 9968 plus 1
We have this guy at work. He used to work in another shop that had some business with...
Is Microsoft driving freeloaders to Linux
snips Most of the dongles of the day could be daisy-chained. At least in theory. Usually, they plugged into the parallel port and had a backside port so you could still connect your printer...
LA Gym Goes Suse Reason: Windows Annoyances
Linux pumps up fitness retailer's network, desktops Thursday July 28, 2005 (09:01 AM GMT) By: Tina Gasperson Printer-friendly Email story Fitness equipment supplier LA Gym...
It sucks to be a Linux user
I'm trying out the latest version of Mepis on my Asus laptop and I'm not a happy camper because...
MS researching the "community" 9973
billwg This very much depends on many things. See below. There are many different approaches...
MS researching the "community" 9974
I always do this. I actually do specify the copyright belongs to them - as shown on an About form accessible from the Help menu. I put this form somewhere in 100% of the...
MS researching the "community" 9975
DFS wrote something like: He does have a white butt, I'm sure. This is typical of rascists...
SEC: Should I or Shouldn't I 9976
John Bailo For starters, you are a complete LIAR. And in case I didn't make myself clear... you are a LIAR. As a...
SEC: Should I or Shouldn't I 9977
Follow up. I returned the call of the SEC this morning. I was advised initially that anything I said "could be held against me". Apparently they take false...
SEC: Should I or Shouldn't I 9978
John Bailo What an imaginative LIAR you are. Here is how it really works. And I know because I've been through this. A couple of years ago I filed a complaint...
SEC: Should I or Shouldn't I 9979
John Bailo The first complaint (where I actually returned the forms) was filed about this time of the year in...
SEC: Should I or Shouldn't I 9980
John Bailo Hard to prove that the stock price was kept artificially high, since it has been wavering between $24 and $28 for almost 4 years now. Revenues have been consistent, expenses...
Spam is content that's Substantively_Identical
Hi TWake, You told me: I am not "TWake" - it is "T Wake" and I find it very...
Pyriform doesn't and can't write meaningful content
Hi Pyriform, You ooh, look, anotherJeffRelfsubthreadette ! Your failure to provide meaningful breastles, as the RFC suggests, is your loss, not mine... it...
What the h_ll motivates me to code something
Hi Pyriform, Speaking of my home page and Berners-Lee's URLs and HTML tags, I don't know why I don't simply write my own editor-webbrowser, one that would allow me WikiWiki edit any...
You're f_cked if you can't consume less and be more productive
Hi CNCTut, You told me: You started your discussion telling everyone how life had kicked you between the legs--then tried to make it sound appealing. I lost my wife and kids to another...
COLA Stats 31 Jul 2005
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OT "Vista" is gonna have many people following the upgrade train again... 9987
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 10:53:08 -0500, Rapskat was pointing out that...
OT "Vista" is gonna have many people following the upgrade train again... 9988
It's not a matter of still being in memory. Use strace, and log all the file I-O that goes on when you launch an app. Use that to write a little program or script...
OT "Vista" is gonna have many people following the upgrade train again... 9989
Let's discuss the scenario above (the "first case") versus the scenario below (the "second case"). It can be much slower. In the first case, no disk accesses beyond the requirements for...
OT "Vista" is gonna have many people following the upgrade train again... 9990
I guess I wasn't clear. In the second case, you should only read the same parts of the files...
OT "Vista" is gonna have many people following the upgrade train again... 9991
Yup. Application launch is quite interesting, when you look at it from the disk's point of...
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