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Microsoft: One Stop Shopping for Your Windows AND Novell Suse Linux Needs!!! 7440
On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:06:28 -0500, flatfish+++ I think you need to read the article...
Microsoft: One Stop Shopping for Your Windows AND Novell Suse Linux Needs!!! 7441
flatfish+++ On the contrary, I think this is a very smart move by Microsoft. Their Vista development experience has taught them...
can Maple invert partial derivatives
On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:45:36 +0000, Unruh Well, this is OT, but I can't resist. That is not quite true. It is...
EWeek Article Microsoft is now at war with Linux directly 7443
Snip...Re: M$ Patent Lawsuit Threat... From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 (gcide) RisibleRis"i*ble-, a. F., fr. L. risibilis, fr. ridere, risum, to laugh...
EWeek Article Microsoft is now at war with Linux directly 7444
I don't see this as any surprise. Bendered has it right. The Evil Empire is on the move. They want the One Ring and they will resort to any devious slimey unscrupulous ruse it...
slow kernel when memory = 8G 7445
I am the original poster. Thanks for everybody for trying to help. Some of you rightfully complained that I didn't provide enough info. Here are the relevant infos: The kernel config file was grabbed...
slow kernel when memory = 8G 7446
Vilmos Soti Something else is wrong. I have a system with two Xeon (hyperthreaded) processors, an Intel E7501 chip set, and 8 GBytes RAM. It works fine and takes...
slow kernel when memory = 8G 7447
Michael Heiming Do you mean this stuff? Handle 0x0017 DMI type 17, 27 bytes. Memory Device Array Handle: 0x0016 Error...
Very smart of Microsoft
Microsoft might be utterly hopeless at creating quality software, but when it comes to old fashioned marketing, they are kings of the hill, no question. Consider this Microsoft - Novell deal and...
Very smart of Microsoft
actually, "marketing" has never been a strong suit for them either. It's their "LEGAL" manipulations of vendors and compebreastors that has made...
Luxi Mono
In my opinion, this font, in its truetype form, provides the best rendered console font available in Linux. Unfortunately, applications (such as everything in KDE) that depend...
Install Grub to a HDD image 7451
On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 12:52:15 -0800, Tim You have to completely model the disk's layout. This can be difficult, and is why my initial description focused on modelling floppy...
Install Grub to a HDD image 7452
When you install GRUB there are two choices for the location of the stage 1 boot code: 1) the Master Boot Record (MBR), and 2) the parbreastion boot...
Question about yum: 5 different machines, 1 slow dialup connection
throttling, connection recovery, etc.). Unfortunately CentOS 4 uses Yum 2.4... I ended up doing it a few packages at...
Why would creating symbolic link be disallowed permissions
On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 20:41:34 -0800, BillJosephson Your choice of filesystems depend on the following: 1. OS(s) you are using. Choose a native filesystem for...
swap space on DSL
On 6 Nov 2006 09:43:21 -0800, surf staggered into the Black Sun and said: Hope you don't need to do much. 32M isn't enough to run anything but...
chkrootkit finding 2 infected files
hello NG, i have two SuSE Linux 9.2 machines behaving strange. I booted with Knoppix 3.7...
Novell violates GPL Xbody: news.east.Ngroups.NET comp.os.linux.misc 113768
Yes, one can argue that it prevents the pbutting on, the free copying and distribution of the program. "If you buy from us, you...
Novell violates GPL Xbody: news.east.Ngroups.NET comp.os.linux.misc 113787
Snip... IMO SuSE's (relatively) minor Linux "commercial" market has never been the target for M$, except perhaps as a wedge...
Which OS provides the _fastest_ PostgreSQL performance
toby We may actually agree about all this. It seems to me that some of the following may apply: 1.) Perhaps the drive does not give "write complete" signal until the data are actually on...
need help regarding the modem driver and the installation. 7460
dear all, what happened to U guys, i was waiting for your help but upto now no one help...
need help regarding the modem driver and the installation. 7461
On Saturday 11 November 2006 04:05, electrogeni stood up and addressed the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.miscas follows...: First of all, please...
Question about linux filesystems
Given the fact that people were able to understand it, and that I got the answers I desired, I hardly think it qualifies as stupid. Ah yes, the clbuttic attempt at insults. It was...
yum Error Messages Linux Newbie questions
New to Linux. I've been a homebuilder and computer hobbyist forever. My first computer was a Kaypro 4 running CP...
OT: Most clueless ISP award 7464
Michael Heiming I'll bet a large percentage of their customers don't know about this policy or think it's great. Most consumer-oriented ISPs these days seem to offer...
OT: Most clueless ISP award 7465
What *I* have found to work (with Verizon) is to: 1) Write them a *letter* (old fashioned SnailMail). 2) *Important!!* CC the letter to (in *addition* to your 'local' (regional) office): A) The corporate...
OT: Most clueless ISP award 7466
Michael Heiming There are plenty of add-on spam filtering packages available, too. But like you just said, if it's not installed by default few...
OT: Most clueless ISP award 7467
On comp.os.linux.misc, in Philosopher" Blah. Prove it. Your posting history indicates that you are, at best, the newest of newbies. Most...
OT: Most clueless ISP award 7468
On comp.os.linux.misc, in Bob, Sure. That's right. But NP isn't. And I don't need to log into it, per se. (I mispoke there). All I need is the IP and permission to run a non...
OT: Most clueless ISP award 7469
Michael Heiming I just sent them e-mail about this, and a bot sent a non-responsive reply. I replied to...
What's the best linux distro around
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:41:45 -0500, General Schvantzkoph On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:41:45 -0500, General Schvantzkoph FC6 is the best FC...
yum Error Messages Linux Newbie questions Xbody: news.east.Ngroups.NET comp.os.linux.misc 113836
New to Linux. I've been a homebuilder and computer hobbyist forever. My first computer was a Kaypro 4 running CP-M (still have it, photos available on request ;-) ), but I've been running FC 5...
configure
I'm having what, for me, is a typical problem. I downloaded gpsim-0.21.11.tar.gz gtk+extra-2.1.1...
configure 7473
I do very much appreciate all the help I've gotten so far on how to cope with the inscrutable messages...
configure 7474
As I indicated in my posting, I solved the problem of locating pkg-config by setting the environment...
configure 7475
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:09:57 -0500, Allan Adler I would try building gtk+ from source, what do you have to lose if it doesn't work? I have...
configure 7476
I defined it to be . and then created the subdirectory sources and moved gtk+-2.8.20.tar.bz2 into it. Then I executed: export PKGCONFIG=-home-allan-PIC-LINUX-pkg-config-0.20-pkg-config sh gtkscript...
configure 7477
For some reason, linuxfromscratch isn't responding right now. However, I do have source for gtk+extra...
Questions from somebody who has never used Linux
Hi Guys and Guyesses, As the breastle says, I have never used Linux before, even though...
Questions from somebody who has never used Linux 7479
Steve I ended up stuffing Debian on a secondhand PC, and I got where I wanted to be finally, but it was a huge sweat. Not specifically because it...
Questions from somebody who has never used Linux 7480
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:22:10 -0800, Steve The question of which distro to use is a FAQ, for which I have written...
Questions from somebody who has never used Linux 7481
Steve Hi Steve! Your second PC is more than enough to run linux. Don't be scared. Installing linux hardly ever causes the machine to burst into flames and if it does, you can always...
Questions from somebody who has never used Linux 7482
On 12 Nov 2006 06:22:10 -0800, Steve Is that system to be linux only or dual boot, (windows and linux) Pretty much except it will require only one reboot. :-) You...
System Suddenly Not Booting Properly
I'm running SuSE 10.0 on a system which I use everyday. A couple of days ago I attempted to install additional RAM into this computer. The additional RAM didn't work so I disinstalled it...
Copy big folder from a NTFS parbreastion to an external HD 7484
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 10:55:50 -0800, horacius.rex The answer depends on how you intend to use the files once they are copied to an external disk...
Copy big folder from a NTFS parbreastion to an external HD 7485
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:16:29 -0800, horacius.rex Yes, you could have encrypted it. There are a variety of options, using device mapper. I would prefer using ntfsclone, instead...
Recognizing Canon Optura 20 camera
I have connected my Canon Optura 20 to the USB ports on my Linux box, and the camera seems to be recognized all right, as far as the USB interface is concerned. The output from...
permissions question 7487
On Monday 13 November 2006 23:26, hug stood up and addressed the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.miscas follows...: Yes, if he supplies...
top
Hi, I am not familiar with top output in linux. This is multicpu machine, but it says 68.7% iddle. But cpu00 looks busy. How can I read this...
ID3 Tags in Amarok Newbie Question
Hi there, firstly, sorry if this is completely the wrong place to post - if it is please point me to...
unable to start nfsd nfssvc "Address already in use" 7490
looks like a bug to me and not related to alredy running nfsd etc; strace -f -x -otmp-nfsd.trace...
unable to start nfsd nfssvc "Address already in use" 7491
comp.os.linux.misc without giving any context and without quoting the stuff to which he was replying: Given that you include no context, WTF are you on about? Now comes the "canned...
Linux server advice
I'm in a bit of a pickle. We run a mainly windows environment here at work, but have a consultant who we...
Linux server advice 7493
On 14 Nov 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article * Linux Consultants Guide version: 8.0 author: Joshua Drake available formats: 1. HTML (read online) 2...
Linux server advice 7494
I'm actually in Grand Junction (seems that you knew that though based on your comment about being up the street). The one...
Linux server advice 7495
On 16 Nov 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article Moe Trin It's in the headers of your post That is a disadvantage of having "published" information. Sometimes...
User IDs changing
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:20:20 +0000, piltdown Either someone has r00ted the system, or you are creating...
