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Linux and the workload trends
Linux Adoption Stalls, Study Says Antone Gonsalves June 03 2005 Linux adoption may be "hitting a wall," as use of the open-source operating system fell over a nine-month period, a quarterly...
Linux and the workload trends
Daeron This was a survey of only 500 companies including large, medium, and small sized businesses. No mention of which, how many in each catagory, or even percentage...
Mandriva LE 2005
Installed this (download edition) on my shabby old Compaq Presario 701 laptop on Friday. Still don't go a bundle on the name, but I suppose...
Linux on Cell will blow Microsoft into history 16251
Hi Ralph, We track server and especially DBMS software closesly at work. We hear what our customers are asking us to support and we are seeing more and more customers ask for Linux and Microsoft...
Linux on Cell will blow Microsoft into history 16252
I didn't conveniently leave anything out. I provided a link and pasted parts of the...
And someone STILL puts in a MS server
End of school has arrived and I helped clean up the machines in the district. The technical staff is very competent, especially stacked next to some school districts. All machines were up to date with...
And someone STILL puts in a MS server 16255
On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 08:20:51 -0700, lqualig You are obviously in a area where...
And someone STILL puts in a MS server 16256
Correct. I live in America. (Mbutt)Taxachusetts to be more specific. 30 minutes outside of Boston to be even more concise. At the time when I was looking for my first job (1982) I would...
And someone STILL puts in a MS server 16257
Nope. That is the going rate in rural Texas and actually is a fairly high standard for a single...
And someone STILL puts in a MS server 16258
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8 Jun 2005 14:21:19 -0700, Much has been made of the claimed performance penalty, but there is a paucity of hard...
And someone STILL puts in a MS server 16259
snips Nothing at all. They're very handy. Wrong concept. The first rule of keeping a system secure and stable is "It doesn't matter how...
And someone STILL puts in a MS server 16260
When the GUI is actually being used this is the case. But we're talking about servers. Normally...
And someone STILL puts in a MS server 16261
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8 Jun 2005 07:15:19 -0700, you are showing your MS-centric viewpoint again. Why...
And someone STILL puts in a MS server 16262
I'm not. But somehow this thread took a turn down this rat-hole. On Windows you can easily run the GUI on...
And someone STILL puts in a MS server 16263
Working on the buttumption that the use is going to administer the system through a GUI vs other means you can: a) Log on to...
And someone STILL puts in a MS server 16264
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 7 Jun 2005 16:28:27 -0700, Evil is a strong word. But there are good reasons to eschew extra code...
And someone STILL puts in a MS server 16265
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Wed, 8 Jun 2005 08:01:50 -0400 Exactly. Everyone should just use the One True Editor or the...
And someone STILL puts in a MS server 16266
DFS I'll ask again - who needs a GUI to run a webserver? What's in a webserver? A kernel. A TCP stack. An...
And someone STILL puts in a MS server 16267
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Jim wrote on Wed, 08 Jun 2005 01:32:45 GMT One can construe this as a firewall-action call stack. Basically, one...
And someone STILL puts in a MS server 16268
wrote on 8 Jun 2005 11:13:45 -0700 So did mine. That hex keypad was kinda...
And someone STILL puts in a MS server 16268 plus 1
That's just great. But we're talking about real computers and real servers that a company might actually use. I guess by forcing a GUI on all those poor customers Microsoft shot themselves in the...
And someone STILL puts in a MS server 16270
You're saying therenever was a marketfor the TRS-80? I'll give you a clue here. Mulinux base+TCP stack+HTTP+telnet=685KB. Debian base+X11+KDE+TCP stack+Apache+PHP+MySQL...
The Borg are being Borged
FYI, from wikipedia: Framework, launched in the 1980s, was probably the first office suite - an integrated word processor, outliner, mini-database...
Fedora Core last of the big boys to not charge Crossposts: Ignored, deleted by
begin OEKillFileMe.vbs It was on Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:59:40 -0500, that JEDIDIAH was seen to write: Obviously the idiot troll 'tab' can't read either. He's no...
COLA Stats 5 June 2005
begin ngstats.pl version 1.8 This report covers 2997 articles received by this system to newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy...
What could be more generic than MicroSoft
Hi All, More evidence that MicroSoft is gaining on Linux, with Unix and Sun losing the most. Increasingly generic blade servers are replacing more...
I need a Bean_Can antenna
Hi Bailo and Rick, Look at these delicious anchovies: Why doesn't Safeway or QFC sell quality food...
Maybe I'll try a MiMo Wireless Adapter next
JeffRelf very not bad, for a widebeam. as do I. :) As I might have mentioned, a cantenna...
Why don't stores sell cantennas
Hi Jim, Re: If my open LANs are MiMo compatible, You Depends on how MiMo is built. Could be automatically switched, or software selected. I...
Are there actually two wires in there
Hi Jim, Re: Attaching my LinksysWUSB11 antanna to a rotatable can, You asked me: Are you thinking direct with no pigtail ? Easily doable. Cool, That...
I recently downloaded 3 gigabytes of files
JeffRelf sweet :) I found that an omnidirectional whisker antenna (resonator up the middle and groundplane made up of - you guessed...
My imaginary girlfriends
Hi Jim, Re: Why wardrive with a whiskerantenna instead of a cantenna, You told me: Whiskers are, for some reason, better at discriminating weaker signals... useful in...
Get ready to load OS XI on your Win_XP boxen
Hi All, Get ready to load OS XI on your WinXP boxen... Today, Reuters at Yahoo.COM said: Apple Computer Inc. plans to announce on Monday that it will switch to using...
Let us talk development
This is more of a problem then you think. I do Java Jar's and going Mono into executables. (Yeah, I am canning Tomatoe's) It worked great on Fedora 3 and 4 r3, but had path...
DRM in hardware 16283
On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 12:46:46 +0000, Jim It sounds to me like you are describing rogue code in the ROM (bios). There were rumors of scripts embedded in the bios...
DRM in hardware 16284
Ben Williams No, it was real. Some disgruntled employee or something in various PC manufacturers, ie Vertex, Intertan, IBM(!), embedded code while they were programming the BIOS ROM chip, some models had the...
DRM in hardware 16285
There were several buggy BIOS's in the late 80's but I question how useful...
Feh! A neat image viewer
I often take a lot of pictures at our local pro soccer team's home games, and...
Enterprises tout Linux's cost, performance benefits
Jun. 03, 2005 In contrast to its reputation for being difficult and sometimes expensive to implement, some large enterprises are beginning...
Red Hat's directory server set for release 16288
I hope this press release bumps RHAT stock up a few cents so I can dump my shares. I bought RHAT a while ago thinking it...
Red Hat's directory server set for release 16289
Yes. I would not buy RHAT (or any stock) without knowing how they intend on...
Red Hat's directory server set for release 16290
A simple services based business model isn't all that difficult to understand. They should focus on executing their business...
Red Hat's directory server set for release 16291
No. But I expect them to run their public company in a manner that will increase shareholder...
Is Linux so bad
Introduction : I have recently read a comment about linux which had for breastle "linux = bad", the author explained his point...
Is Linux so bad 16293
I'm in the middle of yet another try of Linux as a desktop OS, dating back...
Is Linux so bad 16294
Ha, that's exactly me!!! I've been trying Linux on average once every 3 years since 1992 or therabouts.. The first times it didn't install, then major hardware didn't work (like mouse...
Is Linux so bad NOT
06-05-2005 When an author starts with an ad hominem argument, why would you treat the remainder as anything but toilet paper? ROTF...
Is Linux so bad 16296
Good idea. Its already been done to some extent with human interaction studies on KDE and GNOME. Again good idea to some extent. But software evolves as its developed...
Is Linux so bad 16297
wrote on 5 Jun 2005 10:22:16 -0700 Highly dependent. LinuxFromScratch would probably require quite a bit...
Is Linux so bad 16298
Since when? If hard means you actually have to make decisions, then yeah sure its hard. If by hard, you...
Is Linux so bad 16299
On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 10:22:16 -0700, linuxamin Do they? I see no evidence of that. Is it? I've never had much trouble. True, text-based installs...
Is Linux so bad 16300
Knoppix: QTPartEd, make and swap parbreastions. Commit and exit. Run "knx2hd". Click four buttons. Go for lunch. Come back. Log on. How difficult is that? No it's not. Knoppix configures itself. Any...
Is Linux so bad 16301
A) Linux pre-installed on a computer is EASIER to use than windows. The Linux user does NOT have to deal with virus protection. The Linux user does NOT have defrag...
Is Linux so bad 16302
No. I have acknowledged on several occasions that this is my other account. I switched because I post through Google which has a limit of around 20 posts per day. I exceeded that...
Linux innovations 16303
Paul Hovnanian P.E. Thats great, thats the sort of thing I ment! My DSL modem-router thingy has a mini linux core...
Linux innovations 16304
It is not so easy to tell offhand whether you are for or against linux, but either way, the answer to the question that you are posing is not very significant. The important...
Linux innovations 16305
billwg PnP Modules for *nix. WINE Virtual Machines for Windows. Boot Manager without MS restrictions. First to...
Linux innovations 16306
Tim Smith OK. I should have qualified that one too. PnP for PCs. And by PCs I mean the commonly available hodgepodge of Intel based machines used...
Linux innovations 16307
Right, late 80's through early 90's. As far as booting was concerned, the Mac didn't care whether...
Linux innovations 16308
Actually, Plug-and-Play was actually a Linux innovation. Yddragasil (sic) Linux was the first to introduce this feature. It had the ability to probe, identify...
Micros~1 and the noninteroperability open protocol innovations
Op Tue, 07 Jun 2005 10:13:51 -0700, schreef lqualig: OK, then don't play silly buggers and give a decent response right away, instead of talking this "gimme all the blueprints" stuff at first...
OSX switching to Intel Confirmed! 16311
Ray Ingles Upgrades, yes, but then you are upgrading an existing copy of the OS. How do you get the original...
OSX switching to Intel Confirmed! 16312
Rick Now Rick is, of course, full of crap, as usual. Check the Apple OS X license standard terms: "2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions. A. This License allows you to install and use one...
teve Job$ Translation Machine 16313
Let's see how many errors, insults, and lies Peter K. can spew: 1: Peter pretends Macs are overpriced. 2: Peter pretends Macs are...
teve Job$ Translation Machine 16314
Yeah, we realize you don't like anything with an attractive design, it hurts your ego or something. I also note that you didn't have a *real* comment about the Finder in that bit... so...
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