Linux-Advocacy Digest #997, Volume #31 Tue, 6 Feb 01 00:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Bill Gates and Michael Dell ("Jason Weingard")
Re: Bill Gates and Michael Dell (Black Dragon)
Re: New Microsoft Ad :-) ("Tom Wilson")
Re: Bill Gates and Michael Dell ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: KDE Hell ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
how come you have to reboot when you change DNS servers in Windows? (jtnews)
Re: Linux performance results (J Sloan)
Re: NTFS Limitations ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Bill Gates and Michael Dell ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: NTFS Limitations (Was: RE: Red hat becoming illegal?) (J Sloan)
Re: Linux is awful (J Sloan)
Re: The Wintrolls (J Sloan)
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From: "Jason Weingard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,rec.games.frp.dnd
Subject: Re: Bill Gates and Michael Dell
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 22:09:57 -0500
"Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 04 Feb 2001 23:35:59 GMT, Wayne Fellows wrote:
> > >Easy: Michael Dell.
> >
> > Dell, while not a technical innovator was one of the pioneers of the
direct
> > sales approach, and took the fairly radical approach that he didn't hand
Dells
> > over to retailers. Not a technical giant perhaps, but certainly a shrewd
> > businessman.
>
> Unlike Gates, at least he's honest.
>
>
My Final Thought:
You expect a businessman to be honest?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,rec.games.frp.dnd
Subject: Re: Bill Gates and Michael Dell
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 03:41:35 GMT
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 22:25:09 -0500 in comp.os.linux.advocacy,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Ben Reiter' said:
: Ah, the IBM M-series ;) the massive clicky monstrosity that strikes
: fear into the hearts of LAN gamers everywhere... Between that and the
: Apple USB Extended II, The Just Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore.
Not only are they noisy, they weigh a ton. Those ARE *keyboards*. :-)
: The good news, for anyone living near a large university, is that you
: can usually find both in quantity at the property disposition yards.
: I've got quite a few Extended II's and M-series that were 5USD at
: Michigan State's salvage yard. Worth looking into - if you need
: another, let me know and I'll send you ten ;)
Got any left-side Function Key, keyboards? I know a number of CAD/CAM
jockeys (including myself) that would love to get there meat-hooks
on a few of those animals, and they are rather scarce today.
--
Black Dragon
Sign The Linux Driver Petition:
http://www.libralinux.com/petition.english.html
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From: "Tom Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: New Microsoft Ad :-)
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 04:03:30 GMT
"Chris Ahlstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Tom Wilson wrote:
> >
> > "T. Max Devlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Said Aaron R. Kulkis in alt.destroy.microsoft on Wed, 31 Jan 2001
> > > 16:59:33 -0500;
> > > >Kenn Guilstorf wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> As far as file systems, NTFS does a nice job. I like Linux's
ability
> > to
> > > >> link directories together much better, but it lacks the security
> > features
> > > >> inherent in NTFS. A trade-off, perhaps...
> > > >>
> > > >> As far as Win98, everyone I talked to found it much more stable
than
> > 95, and
> > > >> Win ME more stable than 98. It is getting better. I haven't yet
had
> > to
> > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > >
> > > >"I'm getting better!"
> > >
> > > "I'm not dead yet!"
> >
> > Quiet! You'll be stone dead in a moment...
>
> "I feel happy! I feel happy!"
*KERTHUNK*
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,rec.games.frp.dnd
Subject: Re: Bill Gates and Michael Dell
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 04:47:25 -0500
G3 wrote:
>
> in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aaron R. Kulkis at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote on 2/5/01 3:27 AM:
>
> >> Up to date? I'm just talking about navigating something that default
> >> installs with 3 separate interfaces! pick one dammit. And the other prob
> >
> > Like most low-IQ people, having a choice is a cause for panic.
> >
> > My SuSE box allows the user to select from any of 10 different GUI's
> > at login time. Why do you have such a fucking problem with this?
>
> 1: like most UNIX people you seem to ignore the fact there are actually
> scientific principles about how interfaces should be designed.
And your point is?
>
> 2: I'd have less of a problem if A) any of them did anything near the job
> even Win 3.1 did to make the computer easy to use and accessible. B) it
> didn't hodgepodge the 3 together.
You really are clueless about Linux GUI's.
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> is none of them are good at everything, they are all ok for one thing and
> >> shitty for everything else. The thing makes as much sense as a goat with
> >> duck feet. Maybe 10 year veterans find it easy to use but 60 year olds
> >> using windows ain't gonna.
> >
> > Why do you assume that everybody is as incapable of learning as you are.
>
> Why don't you take a look at the market there smart guy. Member how Caldera
> Open Linux was supposed to be a great consumer product? The proof is in the
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"was supposed to be" =/= "was"
Caldera's goofs have nothing to do with Linux as a whole.
> pudding. You problem is you assume everyone is some geek like you who has
> nothing but time on their hands when it comes to memorizing arcane
ls = list
cp = copy
mv = move
rm = remove
mkdir = make a directory
wow. That's hard.
Why is mkdir hard to remember if it's on Linux, but was not hard to remember
during the DOS days?
> programming codes in order to do even simple word processing on a UNIX based
> machine.
>
> >
> >>
> >>>> In my case I have yet to have a Linux system around as long as a Windows
> >>>> install because its so hard to get it to DO anything and the interface is
> >>>> such a piece of total smeg that I quickly realize I could do this in 3
> >>>> steps
> >>>> under Windows 3.11 and move from the linux machine to a PC or more often
> >>>> than not a Mac.
> >>>
> >>> Sorry to hear of your woes, perhaps you were
> >>> given some bad information.
> >>
> >> Not really. I already have Photoshop, and Word, and Explorer (my key apps)
> >> on both Mac OS and Windows. UNIX is a useless paperweight for me.
> >
> > Corrolary: G3 has deep difficulties with doing division by hand, too.
>
> Ah and you ignore completely the blatant truth that the software to do what
> MOST users need to do simply isn't available for UNIX machines and that with
> no central company behind UNIX there is no support on either the development
> or user side which is expressly necessary to marketing products toward
> consumers.
>
> Of course a UNIX geek like yourself only thinks about how much of an
> erection regular expressions give you, and you can't think outside that tiny
> niche box your so fond of.
I smell projection.
If I want an erection, I go get myself a hot-looking babe.
>
> >
> >
> >>
> >>>
> >>>> Linux is a nice free webserver that's about it.
> >>>
> >>> I admit it can be gotten for free, but that's not "it".
> >>> it's also quite a fast, flexible and capable webserver.
> >>>
> >>> In addition, it makes a great mail, ftp, dns or big brother
> >>> server - heck, it even makes a great samba server.
> >>
> >>> Our company mail, dns & ftp servers were moved to Linux
> >>> back in 1999, and it's the best move we ever made.
> >>>
> >>> For techies, Linux is a great workstation - I have to use
> >>> a windows pc at work at times (i.e. when there's a word doc
> >>> to be edited and passed on). I see windows nt and 2000 every
> >>> day, and I have to tell you, I much prefer my Linux desktop,
> >>> where I get 90+ percent of my work done.
> >>>
> >>> Then I come home to a Linux system, with OpenGL graphics,
> >>> Quake 3 arena and Unreal Tournament ready to go -
> >>
> >> I'll keep my mac and telnet to unix-based servers on an as needed basis
> >> thanks.
> >>
> >
> > Translation: Please protect G3 from direct interaction with a computer.
> > He's scared of anything beyond the "microwave" interface.
>
> Oh and by the way there smart guy not only am I a highly paid programmer,
> but I also am my companies web master and I do EVERYTHING in text except for
> image editing. Still that must come as a surprise to a real geek like you
> who is still pounding the table that these new fangled graphical user
> interfaces are just a fad. You probably DO think that image editing
> involves moving ASCII around your 14" monochrome CRT.
>
> >> Not only does it have better apps then either Linux or Winblows, Its at
> >> least as Stable as NT, and I don't have to worry about going through arcane
> >> text based config files if something goes wrong.
> >
> > text-based config files are a STRENGTH.
> > your problem is that you have a keyboard phobia.
>
> Yeah huge strength easily and frequently corrupted, consist of arcane terms
> that vary wildly from system to system, increase (and this is scientific
> fact) the learning time for the machine exponentially. Yeah they're a huge
> advantage if your some fat 50 year old IT dork praying to everything holy
> that your boss doesn't find out how with any system made in the last 10
> years could handle the job of the 20 486s you've strung together with a
> hacked up version of linux and thousands of lines of custom code, and for a
> quarter the price.
>
> You linux guys are as bad as the NT guys you've been clinging to these
> dinosaurs for job security so long you believe your own bullshit.
>
> -G3
> (Mac Columnist, and Professional Programmer, Graphic Designer, and Web
> Master)
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.sux
Subject: Re: KDE Hell
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 23:19:58 -0500
"T. Max Devlin" wrote:
>
> Said [EMAIL PROTECTED] () in comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sat, 03 Feb
> 2001 02:15:31 -0000;
> >On Sat, 03 Feb 2001 02:05:55 GMT, T. Max Devlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>Said Jim Richardson in comp.os.linux.advocacy on Sun, 28 Jan 2001
> >>> T. Max Devlin, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >> [...]
> >>>>>Reno (via the various fed three letter agencies at the time) fired incendiary
> >>>>>rounds into a wooden structure, used CS gas with a flammable propellant,
> >>>>>refused to allow fireengines access to the church, and in general, lied and
> >>>>>missrepresented the situation from day one.
> >>>>
> >>>>Yea, right.
> >>>
> >>>Truth is truth, whether it makes you uncomfortable or not is irrelevent. The
> >>>feds lied about a drug lab (they later admitted it was a lie) about child abuse
> >>>(which is not even in the federal jurisdiction in the first place.) and about
> >>>the actions they took. There wasn't a single day of the siege that went by,
> >>>without the feds lieing about something.
> >>
> >>I get real skeptical when I hear stuff like that.
> >>
> >>There wasn't a single day of the siege that went by that the Branch
> >>Davidians shouldn't have turned themselves in and had their day in
> >>court. Instead, they committed suicide. And that makes the government
> >>the bad guy?
> >
> > Yup.
> >
> > IT'S THEIR JOB TO BE IN CONTROL.
>
> They were. From all I've seen, its most likely the religious nuts
> torched their own compound.
>
> > They let things get out of control, therefore they failed.
>
> They waited patiently for WEEKS!!! While the religious nuts held their
> own children hostage!
>
> > The cops that beat up King are guilty of the same sort of
> > professional malpractice. Innocents DIED because of their
> > machismo and incompetence.
>
> Or because of religious zealotry? Which seems more likely, and which
> seems more media hype? Ever heard of a guy called Occam?
>
> > They blundered strategically and tactically. This should
> > be apparent even if you view Koresh as the anti-christ.
>
> I view him as just yet another nut/flake. And a potentially dangerous
> one, considering he would not surrender to lawful government demands and
> was stockpiling weaponry.
>
> > The "untouchables" raided what was essentially a monastery
> > and most Americans didn't even blink.
>
> "Essentially a monastery"? I believe I have heard relatively reliable
> reports that Mr. Koresh thought himself to be Jesus, and was screwing
> girls in the compound as young as 13 years of age. Sounds like another
> nut/flake.
>
> Despite that, I agree that what happened in Waco was outrageously
> tragic. I am simply not willing to jump to conclusions which are
> contrary to reason. That Koresh was a religious zealot who caused the
> death of all his followers is a reasonable explanation of everything
> that happened, and no amount of second-guessing is going to refute the
> fact that had he been a harmless law-abiding Christian he would have
> surrendered to the authorities. Or at least allowed his followers,
> perhaps some of the children, to flee the compound rather than die of
> smoke inhalation.
>
> I'm sure David Koresh might have believed the ATF SWAT teams would have
> mowed them down as they ran from the buildings, but I'm not convinced of
> that in the slightest, myself.
I thought you liberals were in FAVOR of diversity...
>
> --
> T. Max Devlin
> *** The best way to convince another is
> to state your case moderately and
> accurately. - Benjamin Franklin ***
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 23:21:17 -0500
From: jtnews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: how come you have to reboot when you change DNS servers in Windows?
I was trying to experiment with
various networking options in windows
98se and for each little different
configuration like changing a DNS server
I had to reboot windows. Why is that?
Does Win2K require you to do the same thing?
How come in Linux you can turn the networking
interfaces on and off and configure whatever you
want without doing any reboot?
Can't Microsoft make Windows more like Linux
in this regard?
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From: J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux performance results
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 04:22:39 GMT
Charlie Ebert wrote:
> This just came in from Byte.com. It was mentioned
> on slashdot.
>
> Linux (2.4 kernel) FreeBSD (4.1.1)
> Incoming e-mail: 317 mails/sec 289 mails/sec
> Mail relaying: 182 mails/sec 214 mails/sec
> Fetchmail POP3: 92 mails/sec 98 mails/sec
> Fetchmail and incoming together: 17 mails/sec 15 mails/sec
> But Linux under the 2.2 kernels the performance of Linux was half
> that of FreeBSD and 1/3 to double that of NT.
Don't forget this is a raw .0 kernel - there is a heck of
a lot of VM and other tuning that they are still working on.
I wouldn't be surprised if Linux was ahead by version 2.4.5
> Under the 2.4 kernel they show Linux just slightly behind in overall
> average. It may be a tie if they averaged in NFS performance which
> Linux always won at with FreeBSD.
I've used FreeBSD and have a lot of respect for it.
However I think the momentum of Linux is greater.
jjs
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: NTFS Limitations
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 23:22:24 -0500
Steve Mading wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy T. Max Devlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Said Steve Mading in alt.destroy.microsoft on 1 Feb 2001 23:33:10 GMT;
> : [...]
> :>Actually, the reason is too much reliance on higher-level things
> :>being done in kernel space (kernel code runs with absolutely no
> :>safety net, so it needs to be kept to a minumum if you want
> :>stability.) I fear the inclusion of lots of third-party closed
> :>source driver modules from hardware vendors into Linux - will
> :>it some day make it as flaky as the bad drivers in Windows make
> :>it?
>
> : I don't think so. Certainly the drivers themselves may be just as
> : flakey, but even then, the OS is far more stable, and prevents one
> : flakey driver from causing crashes to apps or other drivers.
>
> : But you do raise a valid point. This is why so much spontaneous effort
> : seems to go in to producing open source versions of any necessary
> : drivers. You can't make a piece of hardware available and not have some
> : Linux freak reverse engineer a driver for it; it simply can't be done.
> : Often it takes time, though. In the end, trying to use hardware
> : "incompatibilities" to control the market is doomed to failure, in a
> : competitive free market, the fact that its worked so well in the
> : monopolized world of Windows notwithstanding.
>
> The problem is that hardware is always changing. There is always
> a lag if the opensource people can't even begin development until
> after the card is out in the marketplace. This is an unfair advantage
> Windows has in drivers - Windows drivers get developed before the
> hardware is out on the shelves, opensource drivers get develeoped
> after the hardware is on the sheleves and some developer can get his
> hands on it.
>
> The Windows way is much faster, having the vendor supply his own
> drivers with the product, but it's also much less stable. I'm
> not sure where the best compramise lays. The opensource
> community-provided driver model wouldn't work if we lived in a
> world where there was not some big closed-source OS to drive
> initial sales of the hardware when it comes out. If we'd like
> to move to a world where Linux is commonplace, something has to be
> done to make the drivers start getting developed *before* the
> hardware is on the shelves. I'm not sure how to do that without
> just trusting the vendors to do it themselves.
Start writing letters to manufacturers AND vendors and retailers that
you will *NOT* buy any product for which an open source driver is
not in existance.
You might also mention that you make, or advise upon, hardware
purchasing within your company.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.advocacy,rec.games.frp.dnd
Subject: Re: Bill Gates and Michael Dell
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 23:27:03 -0500
Cerberus AOD wrote:
>
> On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 08:48:33 GMT, in my rec.games.frp.dnd coffee mug, which was
> quite moldy, G3, a dying weevil, wrote the following with his antennae:
> :)>in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cerberus AOD at
> :)>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2/5/01 3:12 AM:
> :)>
> :)>> They did? I could of sworn all they did was integrate the active desktop and
> :)>> give it USB and decent P&P (not to mention more stable than NT ever was). Same
> :)>> old devices and services and all that...
> :)>
> :)>Um Windows 2000 as in NT 5! perhaps you're thinking of Windows ME?
>
> No. I went from NT4 to NT5 and plug&play and an integrated active desktop is
> about the most difference I see, along w/ USB devices working. And it is
> actually more stable than even NT4. Only my video card will lock it up (due to
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Taller than a midget. Imagine that.
> trying to overclock it). I can go through and find about everything I had in NT4
> that 9x didn't have, so I have noticed little else.
>
> :)>-G3
>
> ------------------
> Cerberus AOD / A Paper Cut ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> ICQ UIN: 8878412 (take out SCREWTHESPAM to mail me, okay?)
> "Children of tomorrow live in the tears that fall today"
> -Children of the Grave, Black Sabbath
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
------------------------------
From: J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: NTFS Limitations (Was: RE: Red hat becoming illegal?)
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 04:28:00 GMT
Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> Go to this page:
>
> http://www.tpc.org/New_Result/TPCC_Results.html
>
> First select all results: You see nothing but Windows systems.
> Then go back and select clustered results: You see the same Windows systems.
> Finally, go back and select non-clustered results: You see all UNIX systems.
>
> I'm telling you, you master Baye's Theorem, and you'll never be bullshat
> by some damned statistician again.
Hmm, Bayes theorem....
Well, I suppose that might apply here -
Yes, I see it now - good call.
jjs
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From: J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.ms-windows,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is awful
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 04:33:23 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 5 Feb 2001 17:45:55 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (.) wrote:
>
> >YOU trashed your entire system, because you dont understand linux.
> Following instructions from Mandrake to the letter.
> Insert update CD from Mandrake.
> Select Live Update from Drakconf.
> System goes through it's paces for about 10 minutes.
> Next restart, nothing works.
>
> What needs to be understood here?
Obviously quite a bit, dear.
jjs
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From: J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The Wintrolls
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 04:35:47 GMT
Lloyd Llewellyn wrote:
> > No sane person would use Linux on a home desktop system as their primary
> > operating system.
>
> They all said I was mad.
Welcome to the looney bin then!
I've been using Linux as the primary OS both at
work and at home for years now, and I've never
regretted it for a moment.
jjs
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