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OT "Vista" is gonna have many people following the upgrade train again... 9992
I base mine on experience. We replaced everything on a machine 3 or 4 months back because the M$-Gurus(tm) wouldn't screw with it (not their equipment) and the poeple...
OT "Vista" is gonna have many people following the upgrade train again... 9993
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 11:41:32 -0400, DFS You say you're not a troll, yet here you are again, calling us Loonix loons, which is a silly, trolling...
Vista" is gonna have many people following the upgrade train again... 9994
There are a few things I have already found interesting and amusing. First is that they have FINALLY implemented the concept of a "home...
Vista" is gonna have many people following the upgrade train again... 9995
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, GreyCloud wrote on Tue, 02 Aug 2005 11:07:37 -0600 That might not be an issue if the CD-DVD burner comes...
Vista" is gonna have many people following the upgrade train again... 9996
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, TuxSux wrote on Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:46:17 -0500 No software is available for the Linux kernel for archival purposes...
Vista" is gonna have many people following the upgrade train again... 9997
They've been doing it since Win2K (NT probably): C:-Documents and How? Since those are approx. 4x...
Vista" is gonna have many people following the upgrade train again... 9998
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Sun, 31 Jul 2005 00:05:44 -0400 Ooooooooh......advertising copy........ Oh for censored's sake. Fast Boot and...
Vista" is gonna have many people following the upgrade train again... 9999
Oh, goody! Some of those "crazy uptimes" no doubt. What 4 months? 5? 6? it to finish those background tasks. At least...
Vista" is gonna have many people following the upgrade train again... 10000
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Mon, 1 Aug 2005 14:40:02 -0400 Hmph. I've been an engineer too long, I guess, but I'm too smart to be swayed by mere...
To install mplayer
Neither you nor I may need installation instructions... but that does not mean that new and non-techy users would be as capable as we are. The point...
Why use Open Source when Microsoft products are so cheap... 10002
One reason is that schools need to have a "standard." It would be inefficient for a history teacher to...
Why use Open Source when Microsoft products are so cheap... 10003
that OO can save in the .doc (MS-Word) format. You know that. I know that. Most people who will...
Why use Open Source when Microsoft products are so cheap... 10004
wrote on 2 Aug 2005 11:27:23 -0700 Is there a reason they shouldn't? :-) Bill Gates is an American Citizen...
Why use Open Source when Microsoft products are so cheap... 10005
OOo saves in standard formats. I send MSO users docs all the time. I just sent off 2...
Why use Open Source when Microsoft products are so cheap... 10006
That's not the way I meant that. If a student is just handing in an buttignment then how would the teacher know what it was created on. What I'm talking about happens long before...
Why use Open Source when Microsoft products are so cheap... 10007
I'm not going to go on a anti-DeBeers rant (perhaps it's already too late) but since fits in...
Why use Open Source when Microsoft products are so cheap... 10008
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:45:35 -0400 Inaccurate. MSOffice has many features, including the following...
Why use Open Source when Microsoft products are so cheap... 10009
snips You know, those are, really, pretty poor reasons to claim OOo sucks. Stop and consider the implications of each, for a moment. Let's start with...
Why use Open Source when Microsoft products are so cheap... 10010
Kelsey Bjarnason Whenever it's needed. Depends on your job. As far as I can tell, neither Kate nor KWrite or any other lightweight editor (in Linux or Windows) supports formatting more...
Why use Open Source when Microsoft products are so cheap... 10011
ws I wonder if SlowO.org has done any usability studies and surveyed people about their atbreastudes and experiences with SlowOpenOffice vs. MS Office. Probably not; the OSS world isn't customer-driven...
Why use Open Source when Microsoft products are so cheap... 10012
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Beowulf TrollsHammer wrote on 11 Aug 2005 08:13:51 -0700 Oh, for the love of -- I must have...
Why use Open Source when Microsoft products are so cheap... 10013
Op Sun, 07 Aug 2005 16:58:25 -0400, schreef DFS: OK, let me just step in here for a moment ... OOo is fast enough once it's loaded. It's just the first instance that is...
Why use Open Source when Microsoft products are so cheap... 10014
Richard Rasker I haven't used it for heavy editing of large documents. I can't say how it performs for reformatting 200 pages...
Why use Open Source when Microsoft products are so cheap... 10015
Which is an absolutely terrible design if it really does behave that way. Why "take...
Why use Open Source when Microsoft products are so cheap... 10016
The Ghost In The Machine Why would I have to quantify it? My quantification is not...
Why use Open Source when Microsoft products are so cheap... 10017
snips You have to quantify it because "slow" is meaningless. I've worked on codebases where, despite...
Why use Open Source when Microsoft products are so cheap... 10018
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:07:27 -0400 I was thinking something along the lines of megabytes per second, if...
Why use Open Source when Microsoft products are so cheap... 10019
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kelsey Bjarnason wrote on Sun, 07 Aug 2005 11:00:08 GMT Good points. I'll admit were I to design a system similar to MS's Word in documentation format, I'd use a...
Why use Open Source when Microsoft products are so cheap... 10020
snips For that kind of money, they should damn well be learning how to cope with life, rather than simply buttume it stays static. If the only thing they learn to use...
Why use Open Source when Microsoft products are so cheap... 10021
Bzzzzt. Wrong answer. This is even remotely the same as saying that "it will be additional work for students to "adapt...
Homeland Insecurity 10022
Kind of getting off track here a little bit. The original Carnivore thing didn't really work so...
Homeland Insecurity 10023
There are no absolute set patterns in human behavior and communication...especially not in a...
Homeland Insecurity 10024
I'm quite sure that anyone with a few years of programming experience could write some encryption scheme that *most* people couldn't break. But give your cipher-text to a cryptologist who works...
Homeland Insecurity 10025
Our customers were the CIA, NSA, FBI and lots of other 3-letter government agencies. The software was required to pbutt...
Homeland Insecurity 10026
Now, we're getting somewhere -- I have personally -- and very, very reluctantly -- set up pretty stable Outlook-Exchange (and OutlookBynari) systems, but only by not exactly following MCSE guidelines. Still, I...
Accountant closes Windows on Linux
I'm not sure this story should be used as an example of why to switch --from-- Linux. My comments are marked with **. Linux may be...
Accountant closes Windows on Linux 10028
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:05:23 +0000, Rick This is crucial. If you sit the average pedigreed winschill in front of a dedicated Linux server system they would be clueless of...
Accountant closes Windows on Linux 10029
If you can "fake it" with Windows and get by, but not Linux, then Windows is more intuitive than Linux. I have an MSCE friend who decided after discussing Macs with me...
Hackers race to expose Cisco Internet flaw
LAS VEGAS, July 31 (Reuters) - Computer hackers worked through the weekend to expose a flaw that could allow an attacker to take control of the Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO,Trade) routers that...
I don't usually, but
I'm afraid I couldn't resist it... Usually you don't find me saying how WinXP sucks, because on the whole, it's been okay for me. However, for my brother it sucks like...
I don't usually, but... 10032
snips Yes and no... Running any system on quality hardware is going to work better than doing the same on crap hardware. That said, I have a real and fundamental dislike of...
I don't usually, but... 10033
snips Debian. Because I have one, because it works, because there's no good reason not to? The...
I don't usually, but... 10034
snips Having done it more than once, yes. Depends. You want, say, Gnome or KDE, memory is going to be an issue - or performance is. Generally speaking, in Linux, you can do pretty much anything...
I don't usually, but... 10035
Kier For moderate record counts and concurrent users, Access is very stable. I've used it heavily for nearly 10 years, and rarely see data issues. If their Access systems (version 97 and...
I don't usually, but... 10036
Then you obviously haven't "used it very hard". And before you regurgitate the word 'moderate', I mean anything more than...
I don't usually, but... 10037
Dave.J Eggleston But I have, and it rarely lets me down. Is that all you can do? No wonder you...
I don't usually, but... 10038
On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 10:47:12 -0400, DFS More like yours. So, let me get this straight...not having a Primary Key defined is, according to you, a bad thing, and...
I don't usually, but... 10040
rapskat I notice you make a lie about OO Base defaulting to a PK. The...
I don't usually, but... 10041
On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 04:29:22 -0400, DFS Lie. On creating a new table with the Wizard, Base defaults to...
I don't usually, but... 10042
rapskat The Wizard? Access will hold your little uninformed paw and wizardly take you through life, too. The default with the Access table design wizard is also to...
I don't usually, but... 10043
On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:14:47 +0000, Rich Bell First, you are too stupid to live - you obviously didn't read what I wrote. The laptop had XP on it when...
I don't usually, but... 10044
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 23:32:36 +0000, Rich Bell Now isn't it funny that if anyone writes anything...
I don't usually, but... 10045
snips "Easy to use" is a relative thing. I just delivered a box back to a client. The box had anti-virus, anti-spyware and other buttorted defensive tools installed, yet AdAware found over...
I don't usually, but... 10046
Kelsey Bjarnason Even Mr. Dishonest Bjarnason can't slip that one by us: AdAware 'critical' is often anything but. If you posted the AdAware logs, and I'm sure you have...
I don't usually, but... 10047
Kelsey Bjarnason It can still get infected if they don't install critical updates, don't keep their security apps up to date or if they do stupid things like letting it run email attachements...
I don't usually, but... 10048
snips You can send me file attachments from now until the end of time, and not a *single* one of them will *ever* execute on my Linux boxen. Ever. Linux simply *does not...
I don't usually, but... 10049
snips No, they don't, since neither KDE nor Gnome have any concept of RPMs. Once again, demonstrating a fundamental cluelessness about...
I don't usually, but... 10050
Kelsey Bjarnason Spare me your pedantics. They don't reduce the sheer stupidity of Linux-KDE-.rpm installer reporting an empty text file results in " No kidding? I thought the Linux kernel...
I don't usually, but... 10051
snips So it's an RPM file. An incorrectly formatted one. Eventually, you'll figure that out. The computer figured it out ages ago; when are you going to catch up? You need to learn what...
I don't usually, but... 10052
Kelsey Bjarnason Sure, you have to make it executable, but do you honestly believe that people won't do it? Once again, users will take the extra step to make an attachment...
I don't usually, but... 10053
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 02:59:10 +0000, Rich Bell What you are not taking into consideration is the snowball effect. Suppose a new peice of malware slips...
I don't usually, but... 10055
Kelsey Bjarnason So what? You think that running a nasty on Linux can't do damage? What color is the sky in...
I don't usually, but... 10056
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:25:39 +0000, Rich Bell Most distros of Linux are more consistent between...
I don't usually, but... 10057
Kier I was out of state this past weekend attending a ceremony. We were over some relatives and my brother-in-law asked...
I don't usually, but... 10058
I'll do the easy one first.. the "don't respect the ACL stuff in Windows." It's not up to the application to respect the ACL (access control...
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