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Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5178
No they aren't. A pc o-s is something you load on an IBM pc, and an IBM pc is an open format. There is no "microsoft computer", and there is no such thing as...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5179
That doesn't at all address my point. The point is, there are large numbers of people looking for computers with Windows installed on them. If you sell this type of computer...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5180
That is an item of data which is largely true - it's not totally true, because most people could not...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5181
Peter T. Breuer Umm, it's not a judgment. Microsoft said you can sell Windows and other operating systems...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5182
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:49:27 -0700, "David Schwartz" said : They were demanding I sell a copy of windows with every machine I constructed, whether the customer wanted or not, even if the customer had...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5183
Roedy Green Right I understand that. You could have complied simply by only selling computers with Windows preinstalled...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5184
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 04:06:16 -0700, "David Schwartz" said : It is obvious to everyone WHY MS did this, to maintain monopoly. But ignore motive...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5185
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 04:06:16 -0700, "David Schwartz" said : I am going to summarise this then drop out. My blood pressure is at a boil...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5186
Mike Schilling Is that really true? I mean, I remember distributions of Linux that you could...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5187
If all of the hardware is known to Linux, that can work, and Linux has gotten much better at being able to recognize and auto-configure lots of devices...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5188
Paul Rubin How would it have been contradictory to the facts at hand to find that OSX competes with Windows? That's not what happened...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5189
Snip... And M$ is still intransigent about that LEGAL FACT, much to the dismay of the federal judge overseeing the latest (toothless) consent...
Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5190
Uh - when microsoft produced dos 1.0, or whatever it was, I was sitting at my Sun 360 workstation (with 4M of RAM, later upgraded to 8M), running SunOS 3.8 or thereabouts. And a mean game...
FC4: Device problems
Last night, my new fileserver running Fedora Core 4 got a problem. This is from thevar-log-messages file: oct 15 01:01:19 jedi kernel: nvsata: Primary device removed Oct 15 01:01:19 jedi kernel...
sockets and pipes
I've got a socket-pipe question.... I have a master process that communicates with a whole bunch of hardware (things like temperature sensors, position sensors, switches, and...
sockets and pipes.... 5193
Captain Dondo I worked on a system that ran a lot of terminals (advanced telephone sets connected to Dialogic boards), switches (more Dialogic boards), etc. What we did...
sockets and pipes.... 5194
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Dondo Sounds like your master process will have at least two threads: one for prioritizing and performing your reads and writes to your devices, and one...
RHEL high percentage of processor time from system
Linux 2.4.21-37.ELsmp #1 SMP I'm running RHEL on a dual Xeon box. When I run any...
RHEL high percentage of processor time from system 5196
I have a data-intensive set of programs, using IBM's DB2 V8.1.7 (IIRC). I used to run...
RHEL high percentage of processor time from system 5197
Ben Lots of possibilities. The IO system on the Fedora machine might be much faster (multiple 15,000 rpm Ultra-320 SCSI hard drives vs...
RHEL high percentage of processor time from system 5198
The disk i-o is actually pretty low ... I really don't think it should be an issue. No other processes are...
RHEL high percentage of processor time from system 5199
Ben It depends what is going on. I run BOINC projects at nice 19 to gobble up the spare time doing something remotely useful...
thinkpad T20 NIC not recognized ubuntu Breezy
hey folks, I had this problem with the Ubuntu Hoary upgrade from Warty also. I've filed a bug report twice, but got...
firewall script inetcpppipup.d
Greetings All, I have a dialup debian box that serves as a gateway for my home...
firewall script inetcpppipup.d
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 oinophlux Probably. The interface won't be initialized until theetc-ppp-ip-up script completes, and it's my guess thatetc-ppp-ip...
82865G Integrated Graphics Device & Screen Resolution XFree86
Folks, I've been trying to improve my video resolution to equal what windows Any ideas how to get it to...
Problem suspending apps with CTRLz under bash3.00
G'day... I've searched high and low, and can't find anyone else complaining of this. I've just upgraded from Slackware...
Problem suspending apps with CTRLz under bash3.00
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:36:28 -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson I believe I spoke too soon. I just booted my old Slack-10.0 install and recompiled bash there with the official SlackBuild script, and it...
RedHat: VFS: Cannot open root device
I have RedHat 9, kernel 2.4.20-31.9. I have rebuild the kernel to increase the VMALLOCRESERVE to 256MB. Here are the steps I have...
cdrecord k3b audio cd elapsed time problem
Hi, When I copy an audio cd using cdrecord or k3b, it seems to go without...
archlinux
Hi I use it since a year or so. It is great :) It is very stable although it updates in a...
CUPS
Hello I have HP PSC750 on usb. CUPS detected and configured it without problems. But when i try to...
Find components of "setup
Please forgive poor english. During slackware 10.2 install "setup" does many things. "xwmconfig" does one of "setup" things. "xwmconfig" is subset (called by?) "setup." How...
Find components of "setup" 5211
No problem. I'm afraid I have no idea what "setup" you are talking about. I'm not aware...
Find components of "setup" 5212
Vardan Kushnir Commands and executable files are basicly just two synonymous words. So, you are asking -How to find...
Find components of "setup" 5213
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In alt.os.linux.slackware, Vardan Kushnir dared to utter, Not a problem. Most of these...
Find components of "setup" 5214
Vardan Kushnir There are similar concepts in Linux. In Linux, the command prompt you see comes from a shell (usually...
Gnome toolbar 5215
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:19:35 -0400, Allan Adler Well, part of your problem has been the commercialization of RH. They...
Gnome toolbar 5216
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 01:47:42 -0400, Allan Adler That's right, but compare that to the effort you have to go through (and expense) to upgrade...
Gnome toolbar 5217
Allan Adler I cannot imagine anyone, especially the manufacturer of a discontinued product, to compile and maintain such a list. You could get many of the needed updates...
Gnome toolbar 5218
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:19:35 -0400, Allan Adler Frankly, I don't actually think every package...
Gnome toolbar 5219
After the above experiments, I shut down the machine. Today when I rebooted, I had no trouble...
Tomcat Administration admin tree broken
Cindy Results 1 - 100 of 25,000 posts in the last year. 1 CowboyBar 1 Moebius-chat 1...
Kernel panic any advice 5221
Peter T. Breuer Thanks very much for your response. Actually I have several kernels available, some of...
Kernel panic any advice 5222
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 01:54, Timothy Murphy stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...
Optimizing Fedora Core 3 5223
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, JesusFreak OK, here are a couple of things to check. Run "top". Is cpu usage (user + system + nice) often 100%? If so...
Optimizing Fedora Core 3 5224
This is true. My isp, cam.org turned off the newsgroups almost three years ago (and they did it in a really sleazy manner, telling us it was temporary, for two weeks while they...
Linux for a nonprofit org to be easy to switch 5225
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 05:52, Adam McCarthy stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...
Linux for a nonprofit org to be easy to switch 5226
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:52:19 -0400, Adam McCarthy My suggestions: standard wisdom is to start off by using the open source equivalent software (i.e. mozilla and OpenOffice) on MS...
Linux for a nonprofit org to be easy to switch 5227
Adam McCarthy I found Linux (Red Hat Linux 5.0 -- long since obsolete) easier to use than Windows...
Linux for a nonprofit org to be easy to switch 5228
There are a couple of other things in recent days. I just read something yesterday where the...
ReiserFS and a dying hard drive
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:39:31 -0700, chadseo I went through the dying hard disk a few weeks ago and retrieved all the data from it. Here's what I recommend based on my successful...
Suddenly Emails Bouncing 5230
What else does it say along with just the number? Is there something about the sending IP address being blacklisted? If you're trying...
Suddenly Emails Bouncing 5231
Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote (in part): I am one of these "snobs" who refuses e-mail from a couple of these lists using blackhole lists. It...
Why My Shop No Longer Sells Linux
My sister and I run a small computer shop (4 employees including myself) in a large...
Why My Shop No Longer Sells Linux. 5233
on Oct 19, 6:42 pm phoung Do you mind telling us the name of this large metropolitan city and the name of your 'computer shop...
Why My Shop No Longer Sells Linux. 5234
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:50:13 -0500, Linønutlinønut Don't overreact to this. The OP was commenting on human nature not on Linux. Normal...
