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Tidying up after Linux 16782
snips This is why I dislike working in Windows. I'm sure there are, indeed, multi-desktop tools out there. I'm sure there's at least one mail app that minimizes...
Tidying up after Linux 16783
snips If you've got a spare HD, you might take a look at any of several. I happen to like...
Help Two Softwares Needed
begin Error Log for Fri, 17 Jun 2005 04:59:36 -0700 - "Aquila Deus" follows: Appollon - QT-KDE based frontend, does all p2p protocols (except bt IIRC), but still in early...
Pirates and thieves
The Economist Rails on Flawed BSA Piracy Study Posted by Jason Schultz If you have a subscription to The Economist, make sure to check out their great...
FC4 won't install Acrobat Reader 7 RPM, Java with Netbeans
begin KillFileMe.vbs Try running the latter like it says: .jdk-blah-blah.bin -console IIRC libstdc++ is a separate file. It is independent of gcc. Or it was, anyway. There are plenty of...
Forbes: Open Source companies are turning on each other
Open Source Smack-Down Daniel Lyons, 06.15.05, 2:30 PM ET NEW YORK - Marc Fleury is shocked--shocked!--that IBM would use the same tactics...
Linux: In The Navy 16788
on June 18 06:59 pm billwg Do tell us why you spend a lot of your your time in a Linux group singing the praises of your namesake at the same...
Linux: In The Navy 16789
You should put a question mark at the end of an interogative sentence, malloc, it helps...
Microsoft Open XML formats not really =UTF8B4oCcT3BlbiI
Microsoft Open XML formats not really “Open". "The fact that Microsoft is trying to lock out GPL developers...
FreeBSD 16791
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 19:31:32 +0200, UNIX admin Why? It addresses my needs very well. Just...
FreeBSD 16792
I used it on my home machine for a couple of years. They have automatic bulk builds of all of the ports, the system is stable, the hardware support is pretty good, the filesystem is...
COLA Stats 19 Jun 2005
begin ngstats.pl version 1.8 This report covers 3175 articles received by this system to newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Toplist of Posters Pos Name Msgs Bytes Quoted 4. lqualig - WINTROLL MS APOLOGIST 124 98120...
X.org: high CPU load
Hi! From time to time X does heavily load the CPU. I do have the problem on two very different machines (SuSE 9.3 desktop and...
When was my file modified In Linux it depends 16795
So? He didn't say anything about the last accessed time. His complaint was about the modified time. BTW, if you use "cp -p", in order to preserve the...
When was my file modified In Linux it depends 16796
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:23:34 -0400 Obligatory. I've seen it used in other newsgroups, mostly for crossposted missives. For...
When was my file modified In Linux it depends 16797
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS wrote on Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:48:12 -0400 is probably as good a place as any to look up this genus, which among other things includes PET C64 C128 Amiga Vic-20...
When was my file modified In Linux it depends 16798
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, amosf wrote on Tue, 21 Jun 2005 04:10:58 GMT Depends on how one uses the term. The proper usage would include Canada, Brazil, Peru, Belize...
When was my file modified In Linux it depends 16799
To me this is one of those questions where the right answer depends on how you look at it. It's almost like those optical illusion pictures. Are the stairs going up...
When was my file modified In Linux it depends 16800
I can tell that you are a technical person-user. In all fairness the person(s) who devised the time...
THe bittersweet DVD distro install
You may recall that I'd installed Debian "sarge" on an old 200 MHz box awhile back. It's been working fine. The other day, I...
So what's wrong with desktop linux Discussion, linux
Or that OEMs have some other reason for providing only MS operating systems. To say that the...
So what's wrong with desktop linux
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 GeneralPF But he likes Thunderbird, not Eudora. Apparently it's not quite as good for him. I...
How to Conquer the World for Linux 16804
John Savard Not sure you could make a laptop for 300 dollars that would actually be useful... Consider that the LCD screen and batteries are the most expensive parts...
How to Conquer the World for Linux 16805
The problem with the laptop he describes (386, 4-Megs RAM, 32MB HDD) is that it is pathetically weak. It would probably be "okay" in running some of the smaller distros but starting and...
How to Conquer the World for Linux 16806
Yes and I wish that was all that it came with. I've had good luck with Dell systems but I hate the crap they preload the computers with. I'm not talking about...
How to Conquer the World for Linux 16807
amosf 95, 98 and ME could all be upgraded from Win3.11, and we all know MS had Windows install on...
How to Conquer the World for Linux 16808
begin KillFileMe.vbs Good for you, 'fessing up to your childishness. Particularly by repeating it. Confession is good for the soul. Good. We wouldn't want Billy to be unhappy, would we? I...
How to Conquer the World for Linux 16809
snips billwg Really? Do tell us, then, exactly what office, financial, development and other such tools are in the...
How to Conquer the World for Linux 16810
snips billwg Really? What can you do with it? Not word processing, not database work, not development, a...
How to Conquer the World for Linux 16811
Well, see the post to amos. I'll consider 95% as "everyone". With the 500 million PCs said to be in the worldwide installed base, 5 million running linux would be...
How to Conquer the World for Linux 16812
snips billwg That's just it - that's *not* all anyone cares about. Some of us care about...
How to Conquer the World for Linux 16813
Well la-di-dah, kelsey! Go green all you want, but when you are talking about markets, you are talking about money. If you are not talking...
How to Conquer the World for Linux 16814
billwg wrote something like: I'm not sure I care about what 95% of people think. Most people still believe in an invisible omnipotent being that magically created the universe, but...
How to Conquer the World for Linux 16815
I mentioned this in another thread so I'll keep it short. When I bought my Dell laptop 2 weeks ago I could not...
How to Conquer the World for Linux 16816
snips You're missing the point; XP is *not* "more than usable". You run XP, right? Okay. Try this. Go into...
How to Conquer the World for Linux 16817
Linux is a generic form of unix that runs on the Intel processors and is administered similarly to branded unix on...
How to Conquer the World for Linux 16818
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, billwg wrote on Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:10:11 GMT 1 Linux is not a Unix, though this is a technical point. 2 It...
Genug ist genug 16819
Sinister Midget Please, you pathetic hypocrite. You cola nutcases post the most horrible, insulting, unjustifiable things about MS and...
Genug ist genug 16820
Roy Culley I'm newbie turning heavily dependent Linux user. Its plain to see the likes of DFS are wet weepies that are mouth pieces for a dying OS...
things sure are big now
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 20:31:47 GMT, What does DSL have? XMMS (MP3, CD Music, and MPEG), FTP client, Dillo web browser, links web browser...
Programming is low_rent... like manufacturing
Hi All, The article below says programming is like manufacturing, ...tedious work best left to lowrent, thirdclbutt, Asians. RachelKonrad, an APTechWriter, wrote at Yahoo.COM: As an eager freshman in...
Behind the Curve, As Always
I'm buttuming that this Bush Depression that you speak of is the one that began in April-2000 when the dot-coms went bust. That was on Clintons watch...
Windows out of control! 16824
With a kernel update, if you don't reboot, you simply don't get the new kernel. So, you need to reboot for the update to actually be useful, but no...
Windows out of control! 16825
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:21:00 GMT, I don't know of a single upgrade (via package system) of a server app that I have done in the preceding...
Windows out of control! 16826
For system libraries, it's probably pretty safe, because the people who write system libraries have to be careful to...
Windows & Credit Debt card security 16827
begin KillFileMe.vbs That may be the claim. But 'worst case' can result in far more...
Windows & Credit Debt card security 16828
Op Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:07:56 -0400, schreef Larry Qualig: 1) The articles about this incident...
Windows & Credit Debt card security 16829
Larry Qualig Some sort of public key encryption stuff going on there between Dell (the merchant) and the cc companies (the transactors) which means that...
Comp.OS.Linux.Advocacy in a nutshell. 16830
Hi All, Below is Comp.OS.Linux.Advocacy in a nutshell, a.k.a. the 24 MostRepliedTo of the last 2,000 articles. Linux books for DFS Kier, Pipex.COM, E UU.NET, Pan014291, 16, 3.54 A Re: Microsoft...
Google: An AntiLinux Microsoft Tool
Erik Funkenbusch Yes, it occurs very often. There are always people working in large corporations, doing stuff that is on the cutting edge. Those ideas may be ahead of themarketingcurve and be...
Linux desktops not taking off: IDC 16832
Actually, this is an interesting number. First of all it focuses on the most unlikely Linux candidates...
Linux desktops not taking off: IDC 16833
Roy Culley The fact is that most of these whitebox vendors have no clue as to what will happen to...
Linux desktops not taking off: IDC 16834
Well, Rex, what would you want instead? The purpose of a market survey is to obtain information that the other guy doesn't have so that you can take actions that the other guy...
Linux desktops not taking off: IDC 16835
I think we both agree. IDC and Gartner, and many others publish a number of very valuable reports which...
Begin bug 16836
snips Larry Qualig Obscenities I can deal with. What bugs me isn't that, but rather, the folks who are *willfully* ignorant. You know, the ones who "try" something, have...
Begin bug 16837
I believe that you've hit the nail on the head on several points. I would say that many newsgroup posts (not just COLA) frustrate me more than anger me. For many of the reasons that...
Begin bug 16838
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kier wrote on Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:18:22 +0100 I'd have to look up an exact reference but there is a psychological experiment that verifies this as well...
Begin bug 16839
snips Larry Qualig Sure - but you're failing to include the troll contingent. In an office, you're not generally inundated with a never-ending series of folks, often changing their idenbreasties more often than their socks...
Begin bug 16840
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:46:41 -0400, DFS Really? If more people were willing to stand up and protest when being ripped off, less ripping off would occur. Being ignorant is one thing, being...
Sci.Physics in a nutshell
Hi All, Below is Sci.Physics in a nutshell. Below are the 24 articles with the most replies, most recent...
LQ the troll
begin Error Log for Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:37:53 +0100 - Kier The best discourse for such as the OP is just to ignore them. Responding just validates their crap...
so this is how liberty dies
The patent system was originally created so that inventive ideas could be shared and not monopolised. How ironic that the reverse is now becoming true. Software...
Why should I've used Direct Connect instead, Deus
Hi Deus and RoyCulley, Deus commented: Real men use Direct Connect ! ShareAza.EXE handles eDonkey2000, Gnutella2 and BitTorrent. It allows me to cap uploads, so everyone on the open LAN, including myself, has plenty of...
The Scheme to Discredit BitTorrent
Roy Culley poked his little head through the XP firewall and said: Dvorak is pretty humorous, this time: "For a good laugh view the Avalanche PowerPoint slide...
WOW64... 16846
flatfish+++ (liar, troll, software thief and racist) *you* would never I have, though. Running MS Office under Wine seems to ve about same speed as native windows I...
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