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OT Posix sucks, Linux sucks, I want my compatibility back
Crossposts reduced to Netiquette limit of three groups. "OT" added to the subject. Correction: A rotten child with his mommy's computer and credit card with 100 kindergarden sockpuppets, Who cares? This is about...
Posix sucks, Linux sucks, I want my compatibility back MailCopiesTo: never 2138
Ivan Marsh That depends on what 100% means. All OSs have bugs, so it's quite possible that some bugs would be in...
Posix sucks, Linux sucks, I want my compatibility back MailCopiesTo: never 2139
Bill Laird HTML spec leaves a lot freedom to the browser. A browser can be compliant, but you can't expect the output in different browsers to...
Posix sucks, Linux sucks, I want my compatibility back
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:50:20 -0700, TimeTraveler staggered into the Black Sun and said: snippage ? That...
Smartmontools and supported disks
I have just installed the latest rpm on my FC4 machine, but I have problem to...
Firefox keeps crashing
Hi I do not know what is wrong, but this morning, firefox started crashing on its own (Debian GNU-Linux Testing). I did an strace : ----snipped a large chunk...
Bluetooth: SDP timeouts and other strange probs
if you feel this is not the appropriate newsgroup, please suggest a different one Hi, I...
SUSE 10.1 IS FULL OF BUGS
The racist, liar and software thief echo.valley26809 (flatfish) nymshifted: You lately nymshifted to Abbie Diaz, Aftab Singh, Allen Cusimano, Allie Perkins, Allison...
Fedora Core 5 freezes on startup
I have a pc a few years old that I run Fedora Core 5 on. I bought a...
memtest86 and kernel badram
One of my 256MB modules has a bad region of memory -- from around 190MB to 220MB I have a intermittent...
Why I left Linux for Windows. 2147
Wow.. what an adequate place to post your current dislike for linux..... a linux newsgroup. Troll. You dont like...
Why I left Linux for Windows. 2148
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:50:52 -0500, JEDIDIAH I don't quite believe either points of view as they are quite too rigid and there are too many variables when it comes to making such grand...
Why I left Linux for Windows. 2149
Hadron Quark Nice of you to generalise advocates as "The COLA Gang". To the contrary, increase utilisation of Linux...
Why I left Linux for Windows. 2150
snips On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:38:51 -0700, donalkfellows You mistyped "Another cross-posting Yahoo subhuman worthless piece of poo" as "donalk". No, you weren't. You're simply...
Why I left Linux for Windows. 2151
Indeed. I sympathise. Linux simply hasn't the huge installed base of application software available yet to compete...
Why I left Linux for Windows. 2152
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:38:51 -0700, donalkfellows No doubt about it, Windows is indeed pervasive on the desktop. However, that alone is not a reason to forego using Linux in...
Why I left Linux for Windows. 2153
says... snip It will, indeed, and must, because as a desktop system it simply can't compete with Windows. I'm coming back to Linux after a two year absence, and...
Why I left Linux for Windows. 2154
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:43:32 -0700, George Peatty Apart from Posix standards, there needs to be a...
Why I left Linux for Windows. 2155
George Peatty Well it does if Linux is going to compete head on in the...
Why I left Linux for Windows. 2156
After takin' a swig o' grog, George Peatty belched out this bit o' wisdom: I have a real gripe with using "desktop system" as a factor to evaluate Linux. Strictly...
Why I left Linux for Windows. 2157
On Saturday 26 August 2006 05:45, Christian stood up and addressed the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.miscas follows...: Not necessarily so. GNU-Linux aims towards compliance with...
Why I left Linux for Windows. 2158
Yawn. Or help to make Linux more widely acceptable. Yes : a plethora of similar apps some, not all, just about working. There are few polished...
Why I left Linux for Windows. 2159
On Friday 25 August 2006 16:39, flatfish+++ stood up and addressed the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.miscas follows...: This is not my...
Why I left Linux for Windows. 2160
On Friday 25 August 2006 18:54, George Peatty stood up and addressed the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.miscas follows...: Possibly, but this also doesn't do away with the fact that purchased retail packs...
Why I left Linux for Windows. 2161
J On the contrary that is the biggest SINGLE problem that DOES need fixing, and it...
Is Linux the Islam of Operating Systems
Morning all; let's see if I can correct the errors of this post; my Prereply...
OT Who exactly is this Alan Connor person
Basically, I run a default gagfile, meaning that I only bring down the headers of any alias that isn't pbuttlisted. So I read strangers' headers instead...
OT Information about "Alan Connor" Was: OT Who exactly is this Alan Connor person
disappear from these groups about the time these articles (one of which "Simon Jones" is responding to) began...
PCLinuxOS .93 Big Daddy A Piece Of poo!!!!! 2165
If you're going to start flame wars, do it in *.advocacy, so that no one actually HAS to read the crap. Linux works just fine, even better than 'doze. Lets take...
PCLinuxOS .93 Big Daddy A Piece Of poo!!!!! 2166
Correction: The same idiot troll who has been posting anti-Linux garbage for the benefit of his own sockpuppets here for weeks, thinks that we believe that he is suddenly a...
PCLinuxOS .93 Big Daddy A Piece Of poo!!!!! 2167
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Scott Nudds wrote on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:11:10 -0700 You didn't even look at the provided link, did you? In any event, according...
PCLinuxOS .93 Big Daddy A Piece Of poo!!!!! 2168
Meaningless, as we are discussing the November release of Vista. You do realize that don't you LinTard... It was you who raised the issue. Stupid.. .Stupid...
The most powerful computer security tools
DiskNumen: www.FirmlySoft.com DiskNumen, the most powerful computer security tool, will make everything intact after your reboot even if there are Virus, Hacker, Rascal software, error operation or even...
mplayer problem
so, I tried to use -vo option for every devices from `mplayer -vo help`. It helps to playing sound, but noone device can display graphics. I was trying to use -vf spp,scale together...
A question about windoze trolls 2171
WCJ (snip trollish explanation of post) So spake the Evil One seeking to start again the OS Wars. poo happens. All OS have their good points and their bad points. A small number...
A question about windoze trolls 2172
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 04:54, WCJ stood up and addressed the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.miscas follows...: This has certainly been the case on one established...
A question about windoze trolls 2173
Aragorn I wonder if M$'s "unbiased internal investigation" is anything like Cingular's "independent study" that shows...
A question about windoze trolls 2174
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 02:10, WCJ stood up and addressed the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.miscas follows...: Not always, unfortunately. It is my experience...
aliasscript to access Google archives was A question about windoze trolls
Correction: Someone who sometimes calls himself the above I have a good one. Plus the keyboard macro to call it while using slrn. It produces reports like...
OT WCJ was: A question about windoze trolls
Correction: Someone who sometimes calls himself "WCJ" That's not the From header of a newbie. And trolls often make a point of...
A question about windoze trolls 2177
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article Actually Dave, I think...
OT General Usenet unawareness was: A question about windoze trolls
You are supposed to put "OT" on OT posts, Michael. (I added it.) You are not only feeding a troll, but behaving like one. A troll is a...
OT General Usenet unawareness was: A question about windoze trolls
This is an autogenerated message. Who is Alan Connor? A troll and kook, you be better...
Love, Laugh and Linux
Hi, friends! Laugh, and the whole world laughs with you. Weep, and you must be using Windows. Seriously! People who use *genuine GNU-Linux* have definitely a few extra advantages: they always have more fun...
hard drive problem
On Sunday 27 August 2006 01:31, The Natural Philosopher stood up and addressed the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.miscas follows...: That's why servers typically employ SCSI disks. You know that there's...
PCLinuxOS .93a The Official flatfish+++ review
Based on my email, several of you have been waiting for my review of this release of PCLinuxOS so here it is. As most...
OT More Trolldung
On Sunday 27 August 2006 21:41, Alan Connor stood up and addressed the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.miscas follows...: I am sorry to see that you're cataloging me among the trolls, Alan. Perhaps...
Do distro installers downsize shrink Windows 2185
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:48:49 +0000, Unruh AFAIK, ntfsresize is probably the common component used by the other...
Do distro installers downsize shrink Windows 2186
Snip... As another poster mentioned, I believe SuSE can do this, too (although I have NOT done this myself--caveat emptor). As always, I would not...
Announce: Open Instrumentation Project
This announces the Open Instrumentation Project (OIP), which has been formed to support open-source software and low...
X crashes, black screen video signal still there, and have to shutdown and power up
Hello! Within about five days, I noticed my Debian X.org crashed into blackness (my Samsung SyncMaster 763MB light still shows video signal). I am not...
X crashes, black screen video signal still there, and have to shutdown and power up
etc-inittab: init(8) configuration. # $Id: inittab,v 1.91 2002-01-25 13:35:21 miquels Exp $ # The default runlevel. id...
X crashes, black screen video signal still there, and have to shutdown and power up
Nuts. I just started and got another one! :( $ cat .xsession-errors Xsession: X session started for ant at Fri Aug 25 21:44:13 PDT 2006 xset: bad...
X crashes, black screen video signal still there, and have to shutdown and power up
OK, I fixed my swap file. I must had accidently put swap file during Debian's net-install a few months ago. Now, it is a swap parbreastion. However, that doesn't help with my black screen...
NAZIS TRYING TO INFLUENCE CHILDREN!! STOP THEM
On Friday 18 August 2006 09:03, Patrick stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...: Godwin's Law does not apply here since neo-Nazi's are the...
How to create a boot diskette & use of fsck & tune2fs
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:39:15 +0200, Stegozor staggered into the Black Sun and said: There's no need to run periodic fscks with modern journalled filesystems. The only time you need...
QEMU or Boch or something else
Well, BOCHS was really slow the last time I used it, as in a factor...
