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Why are Linux Applications So Unstable
Your description does suggest hardware issues. The fact that it runs WinXP just fine is a poor indicator as each use the hardware quite differently. For...
Huge Planned Linux Migration Put On Hold! 4092
FWIW - the VT6410 is supported in the latest kernel just fine. The fact is that when the hardware is released, the vendor ships a Windows driver -- because they have contacts that...
Do Penguins mail back any defective products
JeffRelf I have bought about 3 computers from Dell; these were for friends. We ran Red Hat Linux 7.3 on the oldest one (a Dimension 200...
Huge Planned Linux Migration Put On Hold! 4094
Snip... Obviously, I can't "prove" it's "for pay" but I darn well know it's very "helpful" to certain commercial monopolies to sabotage support for their compebreastors, any...
Linux, The Great Time Waster!! 4095
Rick browsing and processor synch and All well and good, but how many of them...
Linux, The Great Time Waster!! 4096
Kristine Coxx Blame Apple for the lack of support for the Mini iPod. THEY should support their own hardware. WE, the Linux community, should not have to...
Linux, The Great Time Waster!! 4097
All of them. Your problems were a) Your Raid controller did not work. It is possible. very new hardware takes longer for Linux...
Linux, The Great Time Waster!! 4098
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:10:59 +0000, Alexander Linkenbach I see several links more or less backing...
Linux, The Great Time Waster!! 4099
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:25:40 -0500, Sven Lossman He does, indeed. Lets talk about a few of them: I've had...
Linux, The Great Time Waster!! 4100
Hallo, Sven, You do not see te whole picture, do you? Posts like privates's are only intended to scare...
Linux, The Great Time Waster!! 4101
I don't know why the problems stated are so numerous. I've installed Linux and Windows on a large...
Linux Dependency Hell. KDE 3.4 DISASTER The Great Linux MerryGoRound
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:04:34 -0800, Kristine Coxx Yast Depency conflists list Deleted RPM in principle is a good idea, however how well it performs in practice...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4103
flatfish+++ No, there is newly raised abuse allegations by Terri's family and supporters. The facts are; Dr. Wolfson's December 2003 report to Governor Bush included this bit of factual history: The cause...
My Fat_Pipe to local artists
Hi CutAcrossShorty, God... I Lo-o-o-o-o-ove my housemates ! Today Mike1 gave me a DVD full to the brim with MP3s, including 14 ModestMouse...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4105
Liam Slider If I might be able to tie Terri Schiavo to IMAX theaters in the South for a moment, let me make one quick...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4106
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:22:49 +0000, Logan Shaw Ok, how about you demontrate to me that you have some of...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4107
Liam Slider That's a good point: if something did pbutt the Turing Test, it would be tough to defend...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4108
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:28:08 +0000, Logan Shaw Indeed it does. I think it's rather silly...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4109
I have to thank God that it isn't. You are not clear about what "alive" means, or what "human" means. Being human depends on having a functioning cerebrum at...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4111
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:24:00 UTC, Michael Heiming I don't know what being comatose has to do with...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4112
The issue is not whether or not someone with minimal brain function should be end. The issue...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4114
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:20:11 +0000, Stan Goodman Stan, I've read your pro-euthanasia stance throughout this discussion...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4115
Euthanasia" has not entered into this discussion at all. Terri Schiavo is not sick or disabled or "undesirable ethnically, she is missing a brain -- the seat of one's humanity. It is possible...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4116
I'm pondering, actually, mostly to myself as true ponderers do. Yeah, right. Are you naive? Every single day of God's creation here in France, and without a single doubt throughout...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4117
That's against the Hippocratic Oath too (modern version): I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4118
Lizards produce many eggs, humans few. It's a different strategy. Lizards don't gain from investing energy in their young because to do so would limit their...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4119
Pardon? You don't know. Patients who survive catastrophic brain damage may be left permanently unaware---in...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4120
I have expressed no "position" on the matter of Terry Schiavo. You are not competent to diagnose the condition of anyone, and neither...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4121
And her husband claims that she did. This is what courts are for-- resolving disputes. In this case the courts believed her...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4122
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:48:35 UTC, Michael Heiming This is truly unbelievable. That simply indicates your lack of good faith, Michael. Saddam did rather more than change pricing structure...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4123
Hundreds? Where did that come from? Or are you counting rests from accelerated "natural" causes over 20 years? He was in no way THAT deadly! Oh - maybe you are counting the millions dead...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4124
It's clear that if a condition exists, and its anbreasthesis exists, then there is a state half-way between, and a state 3-4...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4125
No it doesn't, and anyway, giving somebody the label of not being "human" is not a licence to kill them. It's reprehensible. Whether...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4126
opined: It isn't that it isn't good enough. Nobody has suggested that severely handicapped persons ought to be dispatched. It is that she has no life in any...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4127
You've suggested that this one in particular should be starved to rest. That seems to be hat I...
Please Try and Help Terri...... 4128
opined: No, no. The LAW leaves that as the only option, because it recoils from anything more active. Not generalizing. I sought analogies. You know about analogies? Without a...
Linux Is So Bad it Has To Be a Joke... Exposing the Linux Myth, or
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:11:10 -0700, Karen Livermore Damn! You've found us out! Yes, it's true. There has been a worldwide conspiracy for years to create more and...
Linux Is So Bad it Has To Be a Joke... Exposing the Linux Myth, or
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Karen Livermore wrote on 21 Apr 2005 17:11:10 -0700 What would you want? - One Linux to rule them all, One Linux to...
Linux Is So Bad it Has To Be a Joke... Exposing the Linux Myth, or
I'm sorry that you've had a less than stellar experience with Linux. My experiences have all been very positive. I've...
latest stratagy to disrupt COLA
Donn Miller Well, I don't think Windows really sucks. I don't like Microsoft - you could clbuttify me as a...
New to Linux. I'm not impressed : 4133
Mandy After two whole days, you decided to toss Linux out the window (you should pardon the expression)? Well, by...
New to Linux. I'm not impressed : 4134
Mandy Mandee, I hope this isn't how you deal with everything that doesn't work for you...
New to Linux. I'm not impressed : 4135
On Sun, 15 May 2005 18:29:09 -0400, Mandy snip I have no idea about Mac benchmarks, but I find Linux slower than Windows for most things, except file transfers (copy-move). Web surfing...
New to Linux. I'm not impressed : 4136
Mandy Hyperthread is dual channel. two programs can step through the cpu, for every clock pulse, instead of one. It is almost like having a dual cpu mainboard. You mentioned...
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It's interesting, but overblown. They can tell what pages of memory you are using by how long it takes you to read them too (if you have the right to)! Pages that are...
Hyper
Several months ago, I was warned to not argue with Peter T. Breuer. With that advice...
Hyper
Robert M. Riches Jr. I took the previous comments (including Peter's) to be referring to the second half of the original statement, nameley that "It is almost...
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Okay; different points of reference. I'll stand down from battle stations. :-) (In case anyone jumps into the middle of this thread, the article is...
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Robert M. Riches Jr. No one is questioning the credentials of the authors. You and I have read the same article, but gotten...
Hyper
I would have called that fine-grained time slicing, where each given piece works on a uop for one virtual processor then a...
New to Linux. I'm not impressed
Mandy You should not have to unless you are running Mr Jones' applications, setup, and configuration. And I would doubt even...
New to Linux. I'm not impressed : 4144
Mandy Although I am a fairly standard Linux user (I use Fedora-3 with KDE 90% of the time, Windows-XP 9% of the time, and an ancient Mac 1% of the time) I thought...
New to Linux. I'm not impressed : 4145
Noah Roberts No, that's silly. Mac OS X is Unix based, so it's just as capable of doing as much real work...
Mac vs. Linux was New to Linux. I'm not impressed
Noah Roberts OK. You are enbreastled to your opinion. This Mac iBook meets my needs as a Unixy notebook, but I run Linux for my servers, so we aren't entirely at odds...
Mac vs. Linux was New to Linux. I'm not impressed : 4147
On Tue, 17 May 2005 10:04:28 -0400, Tony Lawrence ............................................. However (and I know that Tony, I bought my wife a used Compaq Armada...
Mac vs. Linux was New to Linux. I'm not impressed : 4148
Tony Lawrence I was talking about hardware vendors. When things don't work for the mac you are...
Desktop Linux Where is it hiding Is this group a joke or something 4149
Martin Can't say I can argue with any of your points. I've used Linux since 98, but that is a personal preference. The Linux desktop is adequate for what I do...
