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Extended play around with OS X 11063
TheLetterK You mean like my G3-400? Been running the dev build for a year and a half, loving every minute of it. it's lack of things to do "under...
Extended play around with OS X 11064
I am on a single G4-800 - no complaints here... though if you want to get me...
Extended play around with OS X 11065
Snit My $700 DIY desktop would dissolution that system. It handily outpaces my 933mhz iBook G4, even when the I-O bottleneck is removed. Sure--getting *nix apps working on OS...
Extended play around with OS X 11066
It would? In what? Some arbitrary benchmark? Running iLife? Are you looking to place both computers in a boxing ring? Please...
Extended play around with OS X 11067
Snit Pick some objective task. Ditto. Personally? I've had quite a time getting various MUD servers up and running on OS X. Airsnort doesn't work...
Linux Compatible Cameras...Cool
John Bailo What are you using the camera for - if only for adding pictures to a web page then it's just good enough, if for taking serious photos where you're likely to want to...
Just because it works
I did a walk through for a customer to evaluate their infrastructure and see where it could...
Upgrading to Linux
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:20:16 +0000, TheNIGHTCRAWLER Really, the biggest question is what are the detailed hardware specs for the system you are building? I'm going to second your...
Linux Needs Dell
For $299.00 you can get a complete basic machine ready run. Celery 2.4ghz (400fsb) 256m 80gb 7200rpm drive CDRW-DVD combo...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11072
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:59:40 +0100, steve Oh yea, here is the offer: Offer Details: For a limited time only, purchase...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11073
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:59:40 +0100, steve See the big red balloon next to the picture of the machine? It...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11074
flatfish+++ poked his little head through the XP firewall and said: Cool. The monopoly continues. More news at 11:00. Personally, I...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11075
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Linønut wrote on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:37:47 -0500 Well, until someone out there can...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11076
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:37:47 -0500, Linønutlinønut Standard Linux zealot response #25. Dell is more...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11077
flatfish+++ poked his little head through the XP firewall and said: Standard flatfish non sequitur. You think wrong. Michael Dell's response to someone who asked him about his relationship...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11078
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:19:01 -0500, Linønutlinønut Sure he did, because he is making a fortune off of Microsoft. And in theory he could make even...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11079
flatfish+++ poked his little head through the XP firewall and said: Sure he would. No one can take their...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11080
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:11:25 -0400, flatfish+++ You are half right. Dell does make a fortune off of M$, however the reason they are not offering Linux on their desktop systems isn't...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11081
Linønut I'll say it again, just because I want to, and it kinda reinforces your point linonut - my kids are dragged through school on MS-Windows on underpowered...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11082
flatfish+++ poked his little head through the XP firewall and said: Because they are not really free to offer Linux. Because they get their deals only if...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11083
flatfish+++ My Linux box is a much better multimedia system than my winders box, or my Mac. Not even a contest. Well, it would be if said devices really were Linux unfriendly...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11084
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:10:08 -0400, TheLetterK Your entire reply can be summed up as : coulda' woulda, shoulda.. You make absolutely...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11085
flatfish+++ Are iTunes or Rhapsody somehow indicitive of the entirety of multimedia? As far as I know, iTMS and Rhapsody are just two examples of music download sites... How...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11086
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:48:23 -0700, lqualig Exactly my point. I have an Asus...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11087
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:43:16 -0700, lqualig What you are seeing is the rabid Linux zealot at work. They twist their *argument* with cute comebacks based upon the post...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11088
GreyCloud Thanks for reminding me. This is the exact same story that I saw on...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11089
GreyCloud Thats total B.S the concept of "transformerless" radios began in the late 30's to fill the need...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11090
begin oeprotect.scr This was standard design practice for most radios, televisions, gramophones and so on for many years. It began...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11091
Mark Kent Quite true. The power transformer had a tap off that supplied 6.3. Absolutely. You see the big difference here is the power...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11092
begin oeprotect.scr For sure, but that wouldn't help TVs, though. Wow. I guess with 110V mains, the anode voltage wouldn't've...
Linux Needs Dell...... 11093
flatfish+++ blithely blithered I'll have to agree without looking at it. Those are playthings designed to attract people who like...
Making Linux Viable II 11094
Apple will supposedly use what amounts to a proprietary CPU and-or chipset, though it's going to be made by Intel. USBalreadyworks for Apple OS. Everything I ever...
Making Linux Viable II 11095
Warning: Path difference. wrote on 31 Aug 2005 12:16:40 -0700 And where, precisely, does Gnome do this...
A Viable way to use Linux
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, ray wrote on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:52:34 -0600 Making money for Microsoft? :-) As for sharing files -- Samba-Win98 combo works for me at home; at work...
Community: Italian Province Schools Migrate to Linux
During the months of July and August 2005, the computer infrastructure of all public and private schools in the Autonomous Province of Bozen in Italy have been...
Too many choices, need advice Comments: This message probably did not originate at the above
Thanks for the replies. Is vector similar to zipslack? I know they are both based on slackware, which I thought before your reply...
Why is FreeBSD Unix and Linux not Are they in the right comp
This is confusing. In order to be UNIX, one must be licensed by some authority, right? That authority is the Open...
Why is FreeBSD Unix and Linux not Are they in the right comp
I would basically agree with that buttessment. Big-8 groups are created only on the premise that there...
The Mbuttachusetts Office party
John Bailo John: First of all, even the PDF binary format is not "highly proprietary". Adobe took the approach of publishing the PDF format and encouraging all kinds of companies that read...
Linux And Windows Square Off In Another Round Of TCO Testing
Two research reports sponsored by IBM argue that Linux is less expensive to buy and operate...
What's A Twain Device
I have mentioned that I bought a Vivitar Vivicam 35 and currently have no way to get the pictures into Linux. I does not allow USB mbutt storage browsing. I wrote Vivitar...
What's A Twain Device
Surprised that no one has answered the original question - found this by searching for 'twain compliant'. TWAIN is an industry...
Microsoft Holding Its Ground on Office for Linux
Some prominent figures in the Linux community believe that as enterprises increase their use of Linux on the desktop, Microsoft Corp. will be forced...
Ok I recant a little
My original installation was Red Hat Linux 7.0 (I've got three installations of Linux). When I set it up...
Alternative browsers pose challenge for cybersleuths 11107
On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 06:12:26 GMT, Tim Smith And even they are usually being foolish in when they do that. I have here a corporate training CD. The...
Alternative browsers pose challenge for cybersleuths 11108
It likely has more to do with the engineering and product marketing involved, Bob. The product was presumably designed to work in a specific way for a specific...
Alternative browsers pose challenge for cybersleuths 11109
Marketing? Maybe. No way is it related to engineering, since IT DOES IN FACT WORK on what you refer to as "fringe...
Alternative browsers pose challenge for cybersleuths 11110
That may be pure serendippity, Bob. The important point is that it works where it is warranted to work. Perhaps it works elsewhere, but there...
Alternative browsers pose challenge for cybersleuths 11111
I'm sure it is. But then, what it actually does is simple enough that such serendipty should be rather...
I Just Advocated
That's what I originally got it for. I didn't even know it would mount NTFS to allow me to delete the worms...
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Registration, Product Keys, Serial Numbers, Activation, DRM, WGA, where's it going? Imagine one day you purchase the latest US copy of Windows FU...
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On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:32:16 -0400, rapskat Make up to break up...(or whatever that strange...
does the root pbuttword ship with the machine
Hi guys. I just ordered my first computer with Linux pre-installed. I went a little nuts and got myself a dream machine from PCs for Everyone in Cambridge...
Political Advocacy
On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 09:44:56 +0100, Mark Kent No doubt he works on the committee (if you say him...
Linux TCO significantly lower than others 11117
This is a clumsy sort of statement construct, roy, so maybe the meaning isn't what the overall context of the thread would imply, but if it means what I think...
Linux TCO and Windows TCO 11118
billwg on Saturday 03 September 2005 15:22 Life is too short to proofread. If you...
Linux TCO and Windows TCO 11119
You have to keep a balance about you, roy. Sloppy work in one area carries over to others. If you get...
Linux TCO significantly lower than others 11120
Wait, let's parse this. The conclusion is "choosing Windows servers" has "a lower TCO". Why? First, Microsoft "puts a higher...
Linux TCO significantly lower than others 11121
Wow. That's a heck of a statement. Funny that Microsoft has that whole MSCE program. Are you saying that it's not really valuable, it's just...
Linux TCO significantly lower than others 11122
Op Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:43:46 +0000, schreef billwg: Nope, Linux IT staff isn't paid less - in fact, many seasoned Linux workers earn twice the hourly rate...
Debian what kernel to choose
I am having difficulties understanding what kernel package to choose? I've been a linux admin for ages but just recently moved to Debian. I have a...
Microsoft makes Unix changes
Microsoft plans to build more Unix features into future versions of its Windows Server operating system and cease...
rant IE shows its 'excellence' yet again
While researching other issues which I won't get into regarding UTF-8-ASCII-ISO8859-1, I've discovered the following. Apparently it thinks XML is always XML, even...
rant IE shows its 'excellence' yet again. 11126
A relative condition, ghost. You have the opinion that it is inferior to what might otherwise be used instead. To the degree that it is actually inferior and users can perceive that your solution...
rant IE shows its 'excellence' yet again. 11127
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, billwg wrote on Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:31:08 GMT It's an easy leap to make. Has it occurred to you that: 1 most...
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