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Microsoft warns of critical flaws 16716
Erik Funkenbusch Which means that the switched out processes for that user are not running. This is not muti-user or multi-tasking. It is called context switching in this case...
Microsoft warns of critical flaws 16717
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Erik Funkenbusch wrote on Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:51:33 -0500 There are several distinctions one might be able to make here. 1 Multi-owner. The system understands the concept of a...
Microsoft warns of critical flaws 16718
IBM.com runs Linux??? Looks like they run AIX. For the same reason that Sun runs Solaris on their web site. Besides... IBM.com may sell a few items over their site but I would hardly...
Microsoft warns of critical flaws 16719
begin risky.vbs Executive Summary Much ado has been made about whether or not Linux is truly more secure than Windows. We compared Windows vs. Linux by...
mbuttive increase in troll activity coming up to patch tuesday
Has anyone here noticed that trolling increases in the period immediately before some event. In this case I believe it was to distract us from Microsoft patch tuesday. ------ 10 vulns - three critical - in MS...
Linux Developers, Start Your Copiers! 16721
snips Ten? A million? Who cares? And who says the fonts are being used without license? Hint, hint, I have some 1,700 truetype fonts here... every single one of them licensed for my...
Linux Developers, Start Your Copiers! 16722
No, it's quite possible that some don't. Thanks to OEM bundling and so forth, that's pretty dang rare, though. Are *you* claiming that the majority...
Linux Developers, Start Your Copiers! 16723
So, yeah, that *is* what you were saying. Note that I didn't say you were lying about that. I just asked for substantiation, and I'll note I did it politely. My response was aimed...
Linux Developers, Start Your Copiers! Discussion, linux
It also prevents you from copying content you purchased for archival purposes, which is a fair use right. It prevents other legal forms of copying, such as...
Why major retailers are taking baby penguin steps with Linux
adding that demand also has to be generated, and Linspire is looking to keep pace with emerging demand while creating more. which have become a staple offering from cable...
The Rampantly Unofficial Linus Torvalds FAQ 16726
Well, to tell the truth, I would be one of the first to sign up as a Bill Gates fan if there were a club being formed. Obviously there...
The Rampantly Unofficial Linus Torvalds FAQ 16727
on June 16 08:48 pm billwg Well step forward billwg .. ;) VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION EXCERPTS OF BILL GATES BY MR...
The Rampantly Unofficial Linus Torvalds FAQ 16728
on June 17 2005 billwg What has your hero worship of Gates got to do with COLA. You ask do I have some kind of point to make. Well in that eulogy...
The Rampantly Unofficial Linus Torvalds FAQ 16729
on Jun 17, 09:13 pm billwg I'm not appariently implying anything. The record shows that Gates in his efforts to best his compebreastors and-or partners lied cheated and...
The Rampantly Unofficial Linus Torvalds FAQ 16730
Nothing in the record shows anything like that. You cite a "record" that was a one-sided set of allegations by the plaintiff that was rejected by the judge in dismissing the charges...
The Rampantly Unofficial Linus Torvalds FAQ 16731
Linux is late to the market, John, and does not provide the total coverage that you imply. At the very least it arrived after substantial investments have been made by Windows users in Windows...
The Rampantly Unofficial Linus Torvalds FAQ 16732
billwg wrote something like: Windows is not free. The downloaded copy of IE I have here says: IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALID...
The Rampantly Unofficial Linus Torvalds FAQ 16733
Well, amos, what part of "I realize that the company hosting the meeting was paying for the beer..." did you miss? Well somebody...
The Rampantly Unofficial Linus Torvalds FAQ 16734
billwg wrote something like: The beer was paid for therefore it wasn't free. Yes it was free for you as somebody hoped to get some revenue...
The Rampantly Unofficial Linus Torvalds FAQ 16735
Everything you get with the computer is included in the price, amos! The company makes...
The Rampantly Unofficial Linus Torvalds FAQ 16736
billwg wrote something like: What a lot of typing over nothing. People sell cheap PC's with no...
The Rampantly Unofficial Linus Torvalds FAQ 16737
Where in there did it ever say that Gates lied, cheated, or otherwise acted unethically? Gates...
Torvalds: A Solaris skeptic 16738
Well, given your general tone and the content of most of your responses to posts on this newsgroup, my opinion is that you are a...
Windows 2000 continues to rule corporate marketshare
Guess they're still hedging their bets on Linux... Windows 2000 continues to rule corporate marketshare Posted on : Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:02:00 GMT Author : James Simpson News Category : Technology buttetMetrix, a Canadian buttet-monitoring...
Windows 2000 continues to rule corporate marketshare
Win2k is very solid but this is a relative term. I don't feel it's the...
Thank me now or thank me later
Hi All, Below are the lyrics and audio to FiveForFighting's Jainy. Thank me now or thank me later...
Someone tell me I'm wrong 16743
begin KillFileMe.vbs (I'll presume this was a response to me. I don't back up for anyone not willing to make their intgentions known. If the response isn't to...
Someone tell me I'm wrong 16744
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Linønut wrote on Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:22:49 -0500 Personally, I'd like to see...
Linux books for DFS
useful. Maybe if you spend more time reading than you do trolling here, you'll learn something and be motivated to become a genuine Linux user. 'How Linux Works - what every...
Linux books for DFS 16746
snips Gods you're a weenie. You whine and cry that it doesn't work, because of broken dependencies, missing packages and the like... then you cry...
Linux books for DFS 16747
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 03:18:10 -0400, DFS So now you're going to attack easyurmpmi. Nice. Do you have the least idea what sort of work it takes - unpaid work, for the most...
Linux books for DFS 16748
Kier Like setting up urpmi on your system, it's a bit of work up front and then it's easy to maintain. Do you...
Linux books for DFS 16749
snips Do you recall what I said to you shortly after you arrived here? I'll refresh your memory. I said...
Linux books for DFS 16750
Kelsey Bjarnason I went from fairly intelligent to terminally stupid and retarded in a year? Must be something...
Linux books for DFS 16751
DFS wrote something like: Always a troll. The crap about anti-aliasing and urpmi made you look stupid. There are bugs in all software. Yes I am willing to work around and ignore...
Linux books for DFS 16752
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 09:44:51 -0400, DFS And the fact that they're willing to do this, to put in that work for the benefit of other linux users, goes right...
Linux books for DFS 16753
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:23:52 -0400, DFS Something was pear-shaped, but since I've never met the situation myself, I can't tell you what, precisely. It...
Linux books for DFS 16754
Kier Not on my part. I bet you can reproduce the dependency dialogs. I have a 'main' repository in my Media manager list, plus 3 entries representing the install CDs...
Linux books for DFS 16755
NoStop Here's my Pan on Windows screenshot: Now show me what Pan on Linux looks like (I wiped my Linux parbreastions earlier today, but I remember how...
Users Push Merits of Linux on the Desktop
Linux is very easy to use, and the idea that the open-source operating system is a command-line-driven environment is a misconception, executives told the LinuxWorld Expo...
Users Push Merits of Linux on the Desktop 16757
wrote on Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:41:15 -0700 Argh. I *hate* it when the popular press does things like this. Either they should follow...
Users Push Merits of Linux on the Desktop 16758
begin risky.vbs Why bizarre? Company security policy does not allow any direct connections to any Windows system from an untrusted network...
Forbes: Is Linux For Losers
wrote on Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:40:47 -0700 Theo de Raadt is largely correct. How do we improve the development system so that we don't produce crap...
Forbes: Is Linux For Losers
on June 19 07:59 pm Tim Smith His main problem seems to be the development model and the fact that Linux is immensely more popular the any of the other nixes. "It's...
DFS the proven liar Tidying up after Linux
begin Error Log for Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:50:42 -0400 - dfs You're the fscking liar and a moron to...
Tidying up after Linux 16762
Consider a text editor, editing file "foo". When you write out your changes, it might do it this way: 1. write...
Tidying up after Linux 16763
snips Take a look at a Windows .EXE file in a hex editor sometime. What's the first thing you see? Right... you see the letters "MZ". This identifies a particular type...
Tidying up after Linux 16764
I understand this perfectly well. Just like .zip files begin with "PK, .gif files begin with "GIF87a" and so forth. But when I read one of the original posts...
Tidying up after Linux 16765
snips Actually, the magic number is generally applied by the person(s) creating the file format; "GIF87a", for example, is a magic number, but is an integral part of the file...
Tidying up after Linux 16766
begin virus.txt.scr Larry Qualig In otzher words, you *buttume* I have zero knowledge That does not make it true, naturally...
Tidying up after Linux 16767
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, NoStop wrote on Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:00:45 GMT In a way. AIUI, it fires up a remote desktop display; the user then interacts with the display...
Tidying up after Linux 16768
Thanks for the tips. If I do something like this I would prefer to buy a CD somewhere rather than download it. I'm more than able to burn...
Tidying up after Linux 16768 plus 1
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 12:19:10 -0400, Larry Qualig To download Knoppix should take about three hours, but you can buy it very cheaply...
Tidying up after Linux 16770
snips It does do "all sorts of hardware detection", making it one of the easiest systems as far as auto-loading the requisite drivers to use your system. Before...
Tidying up after Linux 16771
Knoppix is often used as a diagnostic distro because it is so complete and it runs off a...
Tidying up after Linux 16772
That's good for Konqueror but we're talking about the desktop. The original claim was that the "windows desktop doesn't even compare with KDE." Correct me if I'm wrong but last I checked KDE was not...
Tidying up after Linux 16773
It's pretty clever how you subconsciously snuck that "OS thing" in there.... nice touch. But...
Tidying up after Linux 16774
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 12:12:37 -0400, Larry Qualig Possibly. but not all of us can run to dual monitors. Though you can do the same with Linux, I understand, I've neither...
Tidying up after Linux 16775
Perhaps this is why I ask questions. If you don't want to answer them then don't. But don't...
Tidying up after Linux 16776
For starters you need to calm down a bit. This isn't some rest-match compebreastion. It's supposed to be a civilized...
Tidying up after Linux 16777
JS wrote something like: That's nice. You only say that as you don't have them. They are very productive and the...
Tidying up after Linux 16778
I used to run virtual desktops for a while because it was neat but the...
Tidying up after Linux 16779
I think that's the key difference. Read on and this will make more sense. The "they are always there" is the key for me at least. I have a server tucked away in a...
Tidying up after Linux 16780
snips Larry Qualig Frequently. The usual is three desktops and a spare: One for development One for internet One for documentation Often the spare will be...
Tidying up after Linux 16781
snips To each their own. When I first encountered multi-desktops, they seemed rather pointless. Took me a while to get used to them, now I...