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begin oeprotect.scr ... Sort of... it kind of neglects that you can either buy what people actually make, or you can...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12205
On Saturday 01 October 2005 11:55, Bob stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: Gnu-Linux filesystems have an intelligent file placement algorithm which avoids fragmentation. OS...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12206
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Dust wrote on Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:01:41 -0400 Well, my latest home...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12207
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Bob wrote on Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:19:54 -0700 Not sure what its problem is though I get the feeling it's something...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12208
snips On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:39:28 -0400, DFS Wrong again, moron. Does it ever bother...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12209
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kelsey Bjarnason wrote on Wed, 05 Oct 2005 18:14:58 GMT Erm...isn't the "click-buy" patented by Amazon? :-) Also, is this advantageous for Microsoft's revenue...
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snips On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:00:03 +0000, The Ghost In The Machine Well, the obvious is...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12211
Kelsey Bjarnason You're the only moron who can't think a situation past the end of your nose. Not only would the 'other vendors' not like it, they would...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12212
snips DFS I see, once again, in your quest to prove yourself the net's biggest idiot, you missed the whole bit about multiple vendors, multiple sources. Do you ever plan...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12213
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 20:52, DFS stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: I don't really think much about what strategy Microsoft should use to become less of...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12214
Aragorn He thinks MS should promote or sell or make available 3rd party software, from within Windows...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12215
On Thursday 06 October 2005 00:12, DFS stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: Of course that is not going to happen, because Microsoft's strategy is to have it all...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12216
DFS wrote something like: MS does the distro a little different. They buy in or have a partener, then they seem to bundle that or sell it as...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12217
On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 01:19:06 -0400, DFS I'm using 5.0.4. The disk comes with Inkscape on it. You go to Then it adds it from the Ubuntu 5.0.4 disk. To add additional software install...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12218
wd10 If you say so. When I used Synaptic to install it, it downloaded it from...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12219
On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 04:19:44 -0400, DFS There are two ways to get Inkscape (as explained directly below). One...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12220
On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 15:06:45 -0400, DFS Universally accepted? That is a bit of a strong statement. I'm not talking about the best Linux apps vs. the worst Windows apps. All those things came...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12221
On Thursday 29 September 2005 18:25, DFS stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: Am I supposed to say that I've experienced problems just to humor you when in fact I...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12222
On Thursday 29 September 2005 11:24, William Poaster stood up and spoke the following words to...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12223
This guy says that IBM has been doing a lot of work on Linux's mulbreasthreading. They would be the ones to do it! "Someone submitted a "real-time kernel" mod...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12224
I think it is more than that.... Great big thread on Linux threading from Linux.kernel ng (5...
Linus Torvalds "I HATE p
From same conversation, a Linux kernel developer says pthreads API "sucks": Yes, the pthread API sucks; yes...
Linus Torvalds "I HATE p
Funny, I can't reproduce that behavior on Linux, though I do see it on Solaris. See example program below. Some threads get as much as three times the...
Linus Torvalds "I HATE p
Sure, with a lot of despair. Why do you think so many of them are moving to Linux? They realize OS-2 is dead and they...
Linus Torvalds "I HATE p
Actually if the application is largely a service based thing such as a database server, the APIs function nearly identically, with Windows being a superset of OS...
Linus Torvalds "I HATE p
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Linønut wrote on Tue, 04 Oct 2005 10:11:25 -0500 I for one don't see the Windows NT kernel changing that much...
Linus Torvalds "I HATE p
Linønut I said that, but if you read it closely, and then go look in the mirror, you will notice that that's not you, correct? You...
Linus Torvalds "I HATE p
After takin' a swig o' grog, Bob belched out this bit o' wisdom: For the most part. But I still gotta defend the guys, right? Actually, I pretty much am an OS bigot -- I strongly...
Linus Torvalds "I HATE p
On Saturday 01 October 2005 18:06, Bob stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: Actually, it has, and if you had cared to check...
Linus Torvalds "I HATE p
Aragorn We'll see. Why did Linus Torvalds say, "I HATE pthreads and I think it SUCKS"? Ahhh ok. So it's an either or game. No problem. Yeah that's lame...
Linus Torvalds "I HATE p
On Saturday 01 October 2005 19:24, Bob stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: Well, who knows why he said that? He's an engineer, and he has to...
Linus Torvalds "I HATE p
Aragorn The only reason I quote that is because you were so defensive about pthreads being immaculate. If it needs work, fine. Go to it, coders. It looks like efforts...
Linus Torvalds "I HATE p
On Sunday 02 October 2005 06:35, Bob stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: I didn't...
Linus Torvalds "I HATE p
Aragorn Linus disagrees. That's a dumb thing to say! Anyway, all those ppl do is review code anymore anyway. No one has asked them. This conversation goes round and round...
Linus Torvalds "I HATE p
On Monday 03 October 2005 12:14, Bob stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: Just because there is room for improvement doesn't mean that...
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TJB replied A lot has changed in Linux threading in the last few years. The shuttle rarely blew up too, but it...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12240
See my posts on that subject. SIQ? Yeah, I think that was something MS insisted upon, LOL. I think IBM came up...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12241
Peter Köhlmann I don't know the technicals, but in the OS-2 groups, no one was impressed. They ran a bunch of benchmarks in there Linux vs. OS-2, and...
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Aragorn It was widely agreed over there that Linux was more stable than OS-2...
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Aragorn No argument here. If that were the case, then why would IBM have planned So it could run um Unix stuff more seamlessly? Same reason anyone...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12244
On Saturday 01 October 2005 13:37, Bob stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: IBM Mainframes are running Gnu-Linux...
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Aragorn I know, but I don't really understand that. There is not a mainframe OS under those 76,000 copies of Linux, or the 76,000 Linux copies are just running on mainframe hardware? And...
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On Saturday 01 October 2005 19:28, Bob stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: Logical PARbreastions. This means that a certain number of the CPU's in a mainframe is...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12247
Aragorn No, the spelling is correct. You ARE an ideologue because you cannot take criticism of your OS, and...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12248
On Sunday 02 October 2005 03:05, Bob stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: With rage??? My good man, I am actually quite calm about things, other than that I...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation Machine: #2, Drive #2 NOTE: I ONLY post through
begin trojan.vbs It was on Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:14:58 +0000, that Aragorn I started out with trying RedHat, & had Caldera too (I've still got the CDs somewhere!). I bought "The...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12250
On Thursday 29 September 2005 03:48, Dust stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...: Why don't you Windows advocates give it a spin...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12251
ray This 15 GB drive is rather occupied with Win 2000 stuff. - 80gb drives are about That's correct. I just spent $400 to upgrade...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12252
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Linønut wrote on Thu, 29 Sep 2005 07:20:23 -0500 FWIW: is a PowerEdge Blade server option. It...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12253
There's no firewall in the 64 bit standard edition. Sign me right up! I would also add that yes, with Linux, I can do real 64 bit development out of the box for that pricepoint...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12254
Bob WinServer 2003 mulbreastasks pretty well. I recently did some tests (I have 1gig of RAM on a P4-2.0ghz system): * launched...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12255
Why not tell the truth: "Winning Bid: $545". Double what you wrote. And of course, let's look at MSRP.... To be able to use 64Gb of RAM...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12256
Ferraris do not last twenty times as long, do not drive twenty times faster, do not require twenty times less maintenance. So, a Ferrari is not twenty times "better" than a Yugo. In fact...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12257
Tony Sivori I have Windows 2000 here and it hasn't gone down one time. It may have had to be rebooted once, not sure. It's nice. FURTHERMORE: It's an interesting transition to a Linux type...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12258
Tony Sivori I dunno, but it's much more of a multiuser OS than Win98. It's meant for a network. I have no idea! More than...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12259
wd10 It's not, and it's scary. And formidable. IE has taken a nasty blow, but MS has a tendency to recover. It's slow, but it *is* crumbling. Wow, how...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12260
Dust I used Windows 2000 for over a year, right before it and XP's (which I never touched) WPA and the Service Pack EULA (both 2000 and XP) drove me to...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12261
Bob Yes, it is true. 1 gig of ram, a fresh boot, not a single application opened (except antivirus and anbreastrojan...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12262
I hear ya on that one! I looked into their Express Edition only to find out that MFC...
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DFS That's the one I'm looking at. But you have to add a keyboard-mouse to...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation ~z'N
DFS A few days? How about three months? I have a Dell Inspiron m600 notebook, and I ditched Windows XP Home for Mepis the day I received it. The only maintenance I've ever had...
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BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:48:05 GMT, A client of mine has an office of 4 PCs, (plus a few laptops) and one W2k3...
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Aragorn That's a bit silly, you know. I used Win98 for years and it was really unstable! I just went to Windows 2000 and it is...
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Bob 4 month uptimes aren't very long, when compared with the (much less expensive) alternatives...
Windows 2003 is a great Workstation 12268 plus 1
TheLetterK Compared to Win98, which I used for years, XP seems like a dream. I know so many ppl hate it, but I have been using it on this Win2K box and it finally works...
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