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MS had a bad week, we had a good one maybe. 13357
Op Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:19:10 -0500, schreef Erik Funkenbusch: OK, my company (one-man, admittedly...
MS had a bad week, we had a good one maybe. 13358
His anecdote is illustrative of others. What's to tell? Hey, Erik. The sun came up today. The wind blew a little. No rain around. I went to work. Now I'm finished working. My son is...
MS had a bad week, we had a good one maybe. 13359
on Oct 29, 7:33 pm 24. Erik Funkenbusch Funny how when called on your bogus claims you have to invoke an imaginary...
MS had a bad week, we had a good one maybe. 13360
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:27:55 -0500, of course not, however, most of the big news transitions are less than a year old. yep, working just fine...
MS had a bad week, we had a good one
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:39:24 -0400, wd Oh, you're such a big man, aren't you. Respond and plonk at the same time, that...
dumb leading the dumber
the parade of butt clowns disguised as cola advocates is dumber than dumb. all of you idiot lintards...
dumb leading the dumber
wrote on 28 Oct 2005 16:52:58 -0700 Bad start. No way to know regarding alternate Universes, but the truth is that...
dumb leading the dumber windopes
the parade of butt clowns disguised as windiot advocates is dumber than dumb. all of you idiot wintards combined could not...
Linux switchers' remorse
Faced with a choice between a C$1,750 G4 iBook and an $800 T30 ThinkPad with similar specs, I opted for the ThinkPad. After twenty years of Apple...
What's up with the trolls
Well... I've had two long days behind me. Yesterday, it was already like 4 AM before I actually starting reading...
What's up with the trolls 13367
On Saturday 29 October 2005 07:34, Jericho Swarm stood up and spoke the following words to the...
What's up with the trolls 13368
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 06:50:20 GMT, Aragorn I don't give a poo why I'm in your killfile. If you want to killfile someone, that means you don't want to have discussions with them...
OT A Dream Come True
Once upon a time, there was a youngman. He was in his teens, and he was a real dreamer. He had this dream of...
Microsoft Hunts For Zombie Spammers
Thomas Wootten Normally no. But everyone has their limits. Grew up in New York. Went to school...
Building IT Infrastructure in UK Schools
BECTA (British Education Communication Technology Agency), is the UK agency in charge of defining IT policy for all schools in the United Kingdom. Among...
Bryant University standardizes on Linux
Bryant University in Rhode Island was ranked the the "second most connected campus in America" by the Princeton Review in October 2004...
Bryant University standardizes on Linux 13373
As an aside, I am completely unsurprised that you ignored the main point of my post...
Bryant University standardizes on Linux 13374
Um, actually, they replaced Solaris, HP-UX, and Windows. Unless you think either of the former OSes run on "Dell...
Bryant University standardizes on Linux 13375
Well take the Bryant University client software for example, Bob. If you look around the Bryant site or even...
Linux's Advantages For The Software Developer 13377
Not at all, dutch! You have just come to an understanding of the original idea! Congratulations. Ah, but that has been discussed. Very few true businesses are...
Linux's Advantages For The Software Developer 13378
billwg schreef: So moving the goal posts is your idea of "the original idea"? The term 'logical fallacy' does not ring any bells? So you offer no...
Linux's Advantages For The Software Developer 13379
The whole thread started in regard to BU not switching their student laptops, Ray. Why do you keep flopping back to servers? I think that the context of...
Linux's Advantages For The Software Developer 13380
Interesting, you say that Windows is 99% of the market. (And as usual, you offer no support whatsoever for this buttertion. Of course, I can now understand why...
Linux's Advantages For The Software Developer 13381
Ah, Ray, you are far too literal for your own good. Now I admit that I use...
Linux's Advantages For The Software Developer 13382
Of course, we've only your bare, unsupported buttertion that the "exceptions" *are* in fact "inconsequential", and that...
Linux's Advantages For The Software Developer 13383
That is what is known as "opinion", Ray! LOL!!! To be fair I often provide an argument...
Linux's Advantages For The Software Developer 13384
See the story elsewhere! LOL! (I've posted a link, go actually read it.) Um, no. I said: And you replied: I agree. But going through the...
Linux's Advantages For The Software Developer 13385
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2 Nov 2005 12:44:16 -0400, A case in point. Now, I am no Uber hacker, I can barely feel my way around in C. But I...
Bryant University standardizes on Linux 13386
Here's something I posted back in August: "Marketing will be necessary for Linux to 'take over' the desktop; in this, billwg actually has a point. But the case of Firefox, for example...
Bryant University standardizes on Linux 13387
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, billwg wrote on Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:55:36 GMT Lately, I'm not sure there have...
Bryant University standardizes on Linux 13388
An artificial issue. Beta testers for Win3.1 had to agree to use MS-DOS exclusively as part of the qualifications for being a beta tester. The...
Bryant University standardizes on Linux 13389
Got a cite for that? I don't recall even you claiming that before. Actually, Microsoft emails make it quite clear that they were using the Windows beta test as a way...
Bryant University standardizes on Linux 13390
Why I was a 3.1 beta tester, Ray! Took a lot of paperwork to get accepted. You had to have a real product that was based on Windows and...
Bryant University standardizes on Linux 13391
A couple more quotes from Funny, Microsoft didn't penalize anyone for not using MS-DOS, or remark upon any...
Bryant University standardizes on Linux 13392
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, billwg wrote on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:32:46 GMT Interesting. True. Or a monopolist trying to loss-lead a compebreastor out of existence...
Bryant University standardizes on Linux 13393
Not a lie at all, clark! However, your characterization of DRDOS having such a strong sales...
Bryant University standardizes on Linux 13394
Email from Brad Silverberg: "oem's and corporations that are thinking about standardizing on dr-dos now have reasons to worry about their decision. they know they will have problems now, and they know we...
qGates_a_doing_the_ms.Shuffle_=A9
Q: In or about June 1995, Mr. Gates, did you become involved in the planning for some meetings with Netscape? A: No. .. Do you understand the reference to Dan to be a reference to Dan...
project developers get the sack after converting to Open Source says ewic
billwg Keep in mind that anyone who has accepted the terms of the EULA, CULA, CELA, OEMLA, GLA (End user license agreement, Corporate User License Agreement, Corporate-Enterprise License Agreement, Original Equipment...
Windows Loophole Spawns Zombies Which Attack the Web 13397
Sinister Midget on Sunday 30 October 2005 12:00 Somebody has already told them about the idiotic loopholes. He even wrote a formal report about it. Microsoft continue with their arrogance and it doesn't seem like...
Windows Loophole Spawns Zombies Which Attack the Web 13398
This has been a Microsoft strategy at LEAST since Ultraviolet.org released a list of reasons why people should not use IE 4.0 with ActiveX controls. Of course, IE 4.0...
disappeared pro Linux evidence
Did Bill Gates Invent Linux and Has He Erased the Evidence? Tom Adelstein Oct 24 2005 Someone has started...
disappeared pro Linux evidence 13400
Someone who has programmed Windows more recently than I will have to jump in for a detailed answer...here is what I recall). Basically, in NT, everything that is represented in...
disappeared pro Linux evidence 13401
But the file descriptors *are* the way to access the functionality if you're not running in the kernel. It's not generally possible to bypbutt that interface...
FrankenTROLL fuds the disabled 13402
On 29 Oct 2005 11:00:08 -0700, Daeron It's called Section 508. I understand you're not from the US, but as usual, you pretend to know what you're talking about without even a hint of knowledge...
FrankenTROLL fuds the disabled 13403
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:24:34 -0500, Sorry Erik, that doesn't answer the question. The question was.. "Does msOffice pbutt any such criteria...
Vanderbilt server hacked for second time
Daeron Shame that Vanderbilt University had their *server* hacked. I always thought that Solaris was more secure than that. Netblock Owner IP address OS Web Server...
Something to make the wintrolls happy :p 13405
Thomas Wootten That does make me happy. What makes me even more happy is you...
Something to make the wintrolls happy :p 13406
The Ghost In The Machine You often have an interesting spin on things, Ghost, and your reasoned neutrality is appreciated by me if no one else. An Excel...
COLA Stats 30 Oct 2005
ngstats.pl version 1.14 This report covers 2773 articles received by this system to newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toplist of Posters Pos Poster Msgs Bytes Quoted 2. John Bailo 175 72465 45% 3. DooFuS - LIAR WINTROLL...
REFERENCE: U.S. says, "We own the Internet
The whole thread to which I refer is proof (in my mind) that allowing all of these political notions to fall under discussion in...
SuSE 9.3: next issue
So I bought a new keyboard and figured I'd install it on the -- for now -- SuSE 9.3 pc. After coming home I discover that the keyboard is QWERTY, but not US QWERTY rather than the...
SuSE 9.3: next issue... 13410
William Poaster on Sunday 30 October 2005 14:04 ...Well, interesting timing as I installed SuSE 9.3 on a new machine 4 or 5 days ago and Isuspectit had a few problems with my...
SHIFT button as Circle
Thomas Wootten on Sunday 30 October 2005 15:04 Just tried that, but could neither find...
SuSE 9.3: next issue... 13412
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:11:04 +0000, Kier That is true, but still, the facts speak for themselves and all of this political correctness...
SuSE 9.3: next issue... 13413
The racist, liar and thief bonobo magilla (flatfish) nymshifted: You lately posted as Aftab Singh, allisonhunt1968 plus 1, Anna Banger, anonymous, Archie Watermann, Baba Booey, Babu Singh, bill.gates.loves.me, bison, Bjarne Jensen, BklynBoy, Boyce...
Open Office not as good as Windows says Sun
Senators question file-storage shift Blind workers say change will make it hard to do their jobs Hiawatha Bray Oct 29 2005 "At issue is how the state government...
Open Office not as good as Windows says Sun
Erik Funkenbusch I actually have quite a bit of experience with this. The OS supplies the support for this but the...
MS ease of use
The Microsoft Windows Media Digital Rights Debt Management (DRM) system may not work if you make...
Gartner prognosticates on security
Gartner event focuses on security Michael Cooney and Neal Weinberg Oct 24 2005 Lake Buena Vista, Fla. - The Gartner Symposium and IT Expo 2005...
avian flu could threaten IT security
I'm not so sure. There are two big factors that control how effective something like...
the butterfly effect
The Butterfly Effect: Microsoft, Security, and the Developing World Charles Spencer Oct 17 2005 A year in China: I recently completed a year teaching English, Computers, and Philosophy at a Chinese university. Around the...
why make Bill Gates even richer
Why make Bill Gates even richer? Dan Mariano Oct 30 2005 Internet cafés are a godsend. However, these venues for self-improvement are in real danger of...
Microsoft helps UMbutt to teach
UMbutt is 'Information Technology Showcase School' Dan O'Brien Octr 24 2005 The Microsoft Corporation officially designated the University of Mbuttachusetts' flagship campus in Amherst as its first "Information Technology Showcase...
the case for Konqueror 13422
Daeron Konqueror is pretty good and I'm actually using it right now to post this. The only two complaints that I have is...
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