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OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! **OOPS** 17050
Well, it simply represents more advanced thinking on ideas surrounding ease of use. Windows and Linux are crippled since they...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! **OOPS** 17051
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 22:46:07 GMT, this sounds good, caveat below. I...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! **OOPS** 17052
Gnome is crap. Sorry - but, I just spent about month with it, and dumped it for fluxbox. And yes, I was running...
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On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 22:00:12 -0600, Oxford Did you? Did you? Does it matter? And it...
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snips On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 22:00:12 -0600, Oxford "We" who? Mac users? Apple users? Nope, get real. PCs - you *do* know what the term means...
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As usual, Peter remains on the furtherest edge of the tech loop... in this case he was wrong by 20 years...
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snips On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 19:21:15 -0600, Oxford Oh, you're absolutely right. After all, if I want to show someone the virtues of Linux over Windows, I...
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sure you are... maybe we could call it a "retro distro"... kinda catchy! And a LiveCD isn't a crutch? give me a break... Then why do they need this...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17058
snips On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 18:15:59 -0600, Oxford I often use LiveCDs as rescue...
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snips On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 11:45:13 -0600, Oxford Damned little pirating in Linux - no need to. I have, sitting here at hand, Knoppix, Mandriva, Mepis, Gentoo, Fedora, Ubuntu and several...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17060
yes, I now see why a Linux user might need such a CD, but for the Mac culture, it's obsolete. Ah, it would exist if it had value... If you pick up...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17061
Why? You keep trying to pulling Mac users back into the 1990's... we now use the web for factory fresh software, not months years...
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snips On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 21:44:00 -0600, Oxford You do? Good. So explain how you use...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17063
Why wouldn't you want to touch the HD in this event... just reinstall the OS and re-boot. It's...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17064
snips On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:27:10 -0600, Oxford Because there's valuable data on it, and the file system is in an unknown and very possibly fragile state. I said that...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17065
That's completely bogus... that's extremely unlikely with OSX... just reinstall the os, and you are done...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17066
How? It doesn't work that way in OSX... when you do an INSTALL you have the choice to do an "Archive and Install" which preserves all your data...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17067
snips On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 11:11:05 -0600, Oxford I realize you're not too bright, so rather than taking your word for it...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17068
Yes, that is all correct... now, please find an issue where the Directory was "Hosed" to the extent this...
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yes, that was cute... for a second I thought I may of typed exactly that... thanks for humor in these dark, deep discussions of nothing :) yeah, i...
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snips On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 13:31:04 -0600, Oxford Lessee... letting them play with a new OS version without having to...
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snips On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 19:01:55 -0700, Snit If I'm a commercial software vendor, publishing a program...
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buttuming they are all legal copies... Likely incorrect. If there are a million pirated copies of, say, PhotoShop, do you think all of those people would have purchases it...
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snips On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 21:42:10 -0700, Snit Doesn't really matter; if it's going for, say, $200 a pop, that's $200 million of revenue, based on *installed...
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Um, OK. Just do not pretend that everyone who pirates software would buy it if they could not pirate it. Please remember I am not condoning piracy. Do not...
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snips On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 07:43:47 -0700, Snit No, I didn't "excuse" it in any way. I stole the...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17076
Ah, the error appears to be on your side... look above, I clearly said: "centered around WiMax and wireless based IP phones" not sure...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17077
snips On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 22:36:02 -0600, Oxford Actually, it is. You seem to...
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Are you allowed to copy and hand out the commercial distros? Here is some of what I have found on that: ----- I had a chance...
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snips On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 07:46:56 -0700, Snit We are? How weird. Let's see: "We...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17080
It is true as long as you allow for, as you have admitted, conditions. It is not true of all distros of Linux, but it is...
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snips On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 23:07:58 -0700, Snit Hey, moron, what do you think the non-commercial distros are *for*? Hell, Debian...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17082
Sure. Why do you suggest anyone has said otherwise? In what way? I strongly believe Debian is...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17083
snips On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 07:51:58 -0700, Snit ROFL! You have *got* to be freakin' kidding! Can we legally make and distribute free copies of Linux? Bet your...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17084
Nope. Um, what on earth are you blabbering about? What part of my comments do you not get: I do hope that I am...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17085
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 23:46:23 -0700, "if your vuew is that..." are you that far behind in your...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17086
Oxford So, if you could obtain iDVD to run with your exernal DVD burner, you had to hack Apple's software to get the burner to run, which may or may not have been legal, but...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17087
begin KillFileMe.vbs This is a major POS annoyance! I'm surprised even Oxturd thought that was a strong point! The guy who thought it up, and...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17088
begin KillFileMe.vbs I *really* wanted to play with OS X. I dared not do it on the machine belonging to the formidable Mrs. Midget. Once junior got one, it...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17089
If you'd had enough nouce to have studied the headers in the first place you would have suggested that it was...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17090
With the Apple solution you can also use python or other languages... not hard to do at all. And have you looked at the examples on the gamin site? Compare that to folder actions... For...
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BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 19:47:07 -0700, I suspect...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17092
So we both do not know. Fair enough, woody wood pecker... just you whine about it. I do commend you for admitting you share my ignorance on this issue...
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begin virus.txt.scr Snot snotted: Well, You don't know. And whine about it. What I know or don't know in...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17094
It has already been made clear what you do not know. You share my ignorance about Linux in this area... and...
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begin virus.txt.scr Snot snotted: Really? When? You should stop making those dumb claims. Since I have not...
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Nah, it worked quite well, certainly more stable than any release of Windows. A screen full of gibberish? How can that be??? The mac never did that... so we have a...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17097
Buzz wrong... unless you had MacsBugs installed you would never see a screen full of "gibberish". If MacsBugs was installed it was by your own choosing and was probably a developer machine. Not...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17098
Why are you so fixated on a machine that doesn't work... that's so rare now days to be a non-event. If your Mac has problems, boot from the "Rescue CD...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17099
So what's your point? I explained it to you. I think I see now why...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17100
You are the one being unclear. Go read what you wrote again... Here... That's a disjointed paragraph... perhaps English isn't your...
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snips On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:05:58 -0600, Oxford "None has completelet failed in several years". Well, lucky you. I've got 2 40Gb IBM drives - both toast. A 30Gb Maxtor - toast. Several...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17102
So if they were all OSX based you'd have one every 4 months or so since the OSX can't be "hosed", you just reinstall on...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17103
snips On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 11:00:56 -0600, Oxford No, stupid. Only a complete idiot would *install an OS* on top of a fragile...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17104
i agree many of us do that, but it's usually based on solid reasons... Jag was fine 3 years ago, but things...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17105
Oxford wrote Yeah, any they all rhyme with "advocacy". So it didn't corrupt data three years ago, but now it does. yeah, that makes about as much sense as the rest of your...
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snips On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 23:14:37 -0600, Oxford And then stop to think that as they produce 100 million of them, it is...
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begin KillFileMe.vbs Since the pbuttage of the ADA by the Democratic Congress bad in the early 90s, and the subsequent signature of approval by then president George H. W...
OS X is PROOF linux that sucks! 17108
On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 22:20:07 GMT, Sinister Midget Let's be "fair and balanced" here. George H. W. Bush was a Republican President. He...
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begin KillFileMe.vbs I took that to be understood. But I suppose I shouldn't have buttumed such a thing. Anyway, that was *why* I mentioned it was a Democratic Congress. Otherwise some might...
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a dropped connection? that doesn't happen anymore... what type of ancient phone network are you dealing with? you've got to be kidding... at least I hope :) yes, I agree...
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On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 21:47:45 -0600, Oxford Umm... I think you have a somewhat wrong idea of how the...
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snips On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:00:09 -0600, Oxford Umm no. A diskless station typically runs its apps...
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Peter Ammon Can be done easily with the GUI tools in Mandriva. Both resolution and...
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in article Ahh, the one-size-fits-all myth. How droll It gets excellent battery life...
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