Linux-Advocacy Digest #157, Volume #34 Thu, 3 May 01 13:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: women who pick criminals for mates are undesirable mates ("frank")
Re: Bill Hudson admits that he, Dave Casey, V-man and Redc1c4 ("Aaron R.
Kulkis")
Re: Bill Hudson admits that he, Dave Casey, V-man and Redc1c4 ("Aaron R.
Kulkis")
Re: Bill Hudson admits that he, Dave Casey, V-man and Redc1c4 are liars. ("Aaron R.
Kulkis")
Re: bank switches from using NT 4 ("Jon Johansan")
Re: Is StarOffice 5.2 "compatible" w/MS Office 97/2000? (Mark Styles)
Re: bank switches from using NT 4 ("Jon Johansan")
Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop (Chronos Tachyon)
Re: bank switches from using NT 4 ("Jon Johansan")
Re: KuKuNut, USA/USAF Doctrine for Airlift Operations? (WesTralia)
Re: bank switches from using NT 4 ("Jon Johansan")
Re: The upgrade (Pete Goodwin)
Re: Another Windows pc gets Linux (Pete Goodwin)
Re: bank switches from using NT 4 ("Jon Johansan")
Re: Another Windows pc gets Linux (Pete Goodwin)
Re: Another Windows pc gets Linux (Pete Goodwin)
Re: Another Windows pc gets Linux (Pete Goodwin)
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From: "frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: soc.men,soc.singles,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: women who pick criminals for mates are undesirable mates
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 00:36:35 +0800
What I don't understand is that such women are usually very sexy and
pretty. They uasually have big boobs, a shapely butts and small waists.How
do you explain this?
"Steve Chaney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Tue, 01 May 2001 02:32:14 GMT, "Deborah Terreson"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >----------
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nomen Nescio
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> who is more likely to be a total failure with women?:
> >>
> >> a. a drug dealer
> >> b. a dumb jock
> >> c. a jerk
> >> d. a criminal
> >> e. a computer nerd
> >
> >
> >Damn, that's cold!
>
> Any woman who picks a criminal over a nerd is definitely a suicidal
> headcase that should not be swimming in the gene pool. The rest are pretty
> much borderline headcases but a woman who picks d) is undisputably the one
> to avoid having kids with
>
> or even close relations, for that matter.
>
>
> -- Steve
>
> ===============================
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove the "-" to email me)
> This site is just TOO COOL for a counter! http://www.self-acceptance.org
> "As long as an enemy is judged solely by his
> appearance, his victory is assured." - Outer Limits
> STOP SMOKING NOW!!! ASK ME HOW!!! http://www.geocities.com/brenduh52/
> CATCH THE DODOJAILBIRD! http://www.best.com/~paladin/dwarfcranston
> The alt.bonehead.jim-dutton FAQ @ http://www.best.com/~paladin/jjd-faq.txt
> Ramalamer, 31337 h4x0r & MS Outlook user:
http://www.best.com/~paladin/ramalane.shtml
> "Let 'em eat eep" - Lady Veteran
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,us.military.army,soc.singles,soc.men,misc.survivalism,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Bill Hudson admits that he, Dave Casey, V-man and Redc1c4
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 12:35:45 -0400
billh wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > billh wrote:
> > >
> > > "Aaron R. Kulkis"
> > > > > That's your problem, Kulkis, every thing you post about the military
> is
> > > "off
> > > > > the cuff". It's why you are mostly wrong. Your classics of "class
> 2
> > > food",
> > > >
> > > > I never claimed such. Food is class I.
> > >
> > > Don't you ever stop lying? This is really pathetic, even for you,
> wannabe.
> > > I refer all her to: Your post (news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...)
> from 27
> > > Apr 2001 in the
> > > thread, "Re: OT: Treason (was Re: Communism)" proves you a liar. I
> repost
> > > it below:
> >
> > NOBODY but Bill Hudson else can find this message on their servers.
> >
> > Interesting...verrrrrrrry interesting.
>
> Funny that you're the one incorrectly using roman numerals for classes of
> supply. Interesting...verrrrrrrry interesting. LOL!!!
As usual, Bill Hudson doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about.
So, how many times have you been passed over for promotion, Bill?
http://www.adtdl.army.mil/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/100-16/F1001_25.Htm
FM 100-16
Appendix E
Classes and Subclasses of Supply
CLASSES OF SUPPLY
Class
Subsistence. I
Clothing, individual equipment, tentage, organizational II
tool sets and tool kits, hand tools, maps, and administrative
and housekeeping supplies and equipment.
POL: petroleum fuels; lubricants; hydraulic and insulating oils; III
preservatives; liquid and compressed gasses; bulk chemical
products; coolants; deicing and antifreeze compounds, together
with components and additives of such products; and coal.
Construction materials, including installed equipment and all IV
fortification/barrier materials.
Ammunition of all types, including chemical and special weapons, V
bombs, explosives, mines, fuses, detonators, pyrotechnics, missiles,
rockets, propellants, and other associated items.
Personal demand items (nonmilitary sales items). VI
Major end items: a final combination of end products that are VII
ready for their intended use, for example, tanks, launchers, mobile
machine shops, and vehicles.
Medical materiel, including medical-peculiar repair parts. VIII
Repair parts (less medical-peculiar repair parts): all repair parts IX
and components, to include kits, assemblies, and subassemblies--
reparable and nonreparable--required for maintenance support
of all equipment.
Materiel to support nonmilitary programs, such as agricultural X
economic development, not included in Classes I through IX.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
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....
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
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"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
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.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,us.military.army,soc.singles,soc.men,misc.survivalism,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Bill Hudson admits that he, Dave Casey, V-man and Redc1c4
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 12:36:43 -0400
billh wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis"
>
> Kulkis, the first sign we know that you know you are beat is when you
> reapeted repost the same post. It's especialy funny when that post is
> idiotic.
Actually, that post VERIFIES everything I said.
The fact that you, Bill Hudson, are blind, is a personal problem,
and none of my concern.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
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....
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
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"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
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.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
us.military.army,soc.singles,soc.men,misc.survivalism,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.military.folklore,misc.survivalism
Subject: Re: Bill Hudson admits that he, Dave Casey, V-man and Redc1c4 are liars.
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 12:37:49 -0400
billh wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis"
>
> > > You're a wannabe and everybody knows it..
> >
> > In other words, you admit that you made the whole thing up.
>
> No, you often prove, without anyone's help, yourself to be the true wannabe
> that you are. Requires absolutely no action on my part, KuKuNut.
So says Bill Hudson, Pathalogical liar.
The man who doesn't understand what defines strategic air lift.
The man who claims that medics are NEVER deliberately shot by poorly-trained
soldiers.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
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....
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
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"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
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.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
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From: "Jon Johansan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: bank switches from using NT 4
Date: 3 May 2001 11:43:12 -0500
"Ayende Rahien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9coaa0$k34$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> "Jon Johansan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:3aef6b26$0$41693$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > "Greg Copeland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Dave Martel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > > >
> > > > It's a hardware-based registration system. Perhaps they'll overlook
a
> > > > single hardware change, but I tend to change several things at a
time.
> > > > No use getting a bigger meaner video card if your MB & HD don't have
> > > > the necessary throughput. Or at least, that's my excuse for buying a
> > > > lot of expensive new toys all at once. :-)
> > >
> > > Can you say CPU Serial ID??
> >
> > Sure: CPU Serial ID disabled in BIOS. Hmm???
>
> It can be changed when the OS is loaded without needing to reboot.
Via a 3rd party piece of software - if you loaded that software and enabled
the serial number then what would be your worry? i hardly suspect you would
claim MS is going to override your BIOS setttings to extract the CPU Serial
ID without permission and documentation - the fall out if such a thing was
done and done secretly is too huge for MS to even THINK about doing.
MS makes mistakes but they are not blindly stupid.
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From: Mark Styles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.advocacy,alt.solaris.x86,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Is StarOffice 5.2 "compatible" w/MS Office 97/2000?
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 12:44:28 -0400
On Wed, 02 May 2001 16:25:49 GMT, Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Agreed; I meant a bitch to learn to become wizardly. I'm also talking about the
>mental switch required to think "modal". When I say wizardly, I mean knowing
>much more than the basic hjkl w b commands. I'm thinking markers, yanking and
>putting text in different file buffers, and changing text to some arbitrary
>character pattern.
Learn and Master are two different things. I learned the basics of vi
around 10 years ago, but I still can't say that I've truly mastered
vi, as there are still new things I learn occasionally (and I keep
forgetting some of the more obscure functions!).
I've also taught vi, and you are absolutely right about the modal
thing. That's the thing people struggle with the most. Once they've
grasped it the rest comes easy.
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From: "Jon Johansan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: bank switches from using NT 4
Date: 3 May 2001 11:45:06 -0500
"Tom Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:MdSH6.6166$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> The thing I have against MS's plans, is that once I buy a product I have
no
> further use for the vendor outside of any technical support issues that
may
> arise. I also don't like their having knowledge about the hardware I use.
I
> smell SPAM and direct mailings galore from those tidbits of information.
The ONLY information sent during activation is: YOUR indication of the
country you are in.
Pick "USA" or pick "Ireland" or whatever - there is no other information
passed. Packet sniffers will prove this truth.
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From: Chronos Tachyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 16:44:44 GMT
On Thu 03 May 2001 05:23, Matthew Gardiner wrote:
[Snip]
>> yet l. ron hubbard has thousands of followers to this day.
>> jackie 'anakin' tokeman
>>
>> men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin,
>> more even than death
>> - bertrand russell
>
> Who's Ron Hubbard?
>
> Matthew Gardiner
>
>
L. Ron Hubbard used to be a (rather mediocre) science fiction author. He
founded a religion called the Church of Scientology, which on the surface
appears to be a new-agey self help group ("Dianetics" is perhaps the most
well-known piece of Scientology) but basically sucks large amounts of money
from its members to "prepare" them for revealing the "truth": that we're
all a bunch of alien spirits called "thetans" that were massacred when the
evil galactic warlord Xenu imprisoned them in volcanoes and detonated
H-bombs on them. Many people speculate that Hubbard created Scientology as
a way to get filthy rich, but surrounded himself with his followers and
began to believe his own crap as he descended into madness.
Basically, Scientology gets its power from the fact that it targets
celebrities and the rich for new recruits, then threatens anyone who would
leave using tactics that Big Brother would be jealous of. Quite a few
Hollywood actors are Scientologists, perhaps most visibly John Travolta.
The U.S. mostly turns a blind eye to the CoS, but quite a few countries in
Europe treat them as the cult that they are.
You can read more about Scientology (always great for laughs!) at Operation
Clambake, <http://www.xenu.net/>. The name comes from the fact that
Hubbard claimed that humans were descended from clams.
--
Chronos Tachyon
Guardian of Eristic Paraphernalia
Gatekeeper of the Region of Thud
[Reply instructions: My real domain is "echo <address> | cut -d. -f6,7"]
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From: "Jon Johansan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: bank switches from using NT 4
Date: 3 May 2001 11:45:19 -0500
"Ayende Rahien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9cp41d$ku7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> "Tom Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:zySH6.6169$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > "Ayende Rahien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:9cf54s$r2p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > >
> > > "Tom Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:51CG6.1636$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > >
> > > > "Jan Johanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > > news:3ae8f1ec$0$21761$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > >
> > > > <snip>
> > > >
> > > > > Well - the only claims for stability I make of W2K are simple:
> > > > > I have these W2K machines - they have never crashed. They stay up
as
> > > long
> > > > as
> > > > > I leave them running. I don't know how better to claim uptime
than:
> > they
> > > > are
> > > > > always up. Whatever the history of other previous products might
> be -
> > > the
> > > > > product I use today is reliable and stable. I know this because I
> use
> > it
> > > > and
> > > > > it is.
> > > >
> > > > And what, exactly do we do with our W2K boxes?
> > >
> > > Keep using them? XP is a big upgrade for desktop/workstations, not so
> for
> > > servers.
> >
> > Just from the commercial side of things, I don't see XP taking off for
> quite
> > a while. So many of these shops have just now upgraded to W2K. I think
MS
> > would have been better served to have given W2K a miss and just waited
> until
> > XP was done. The whole thing is more than a little strange when you
> consider
> > their past marketing efforts. It just doesn't make sense.
>
> XP is currently aimed at workstations & desktops, the servers would come
in
> about a year afterward, I think
Servers are following by 6 months.
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From: WesTralia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,us.military.army,soc.singles,soc.men,misc.survivalism,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: KuKuNut, USA/USAF Doctrine for Airlift Operations?
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 11:40:15 -0500
"Aaron R. Kulkis" wrote:
>
> WesTralia wrote:
> >
> > "Aaron R. Kulkis" wrote:
> > >
> > > billh wrote:
> > > >
> > > > "Aaron R. Kulkis
> > > >
> > > > > Nah. Bill Hudson just doesn't want to admit that equipment is ROUTINELY
> > > > > used in ways that lie outside their doctrinal classification.
> > > >
> > > > Happens quit often, Kulkis. That doesn't change the fact of your idiocy in
> > > > claiming the C130 is a strategic lift asset. You're a liar and a pathetic
> > > > wannabe, KuKuNut. Nothing more, nothing less.
> > >
> > > Let's see now.
> > > http://www.google.com/search?q=strategic+C-130
> > >
> > > Separating the wheat from the chaff, we get a mighty fine array of citations:
> > >
> > > http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/c-130.htm
> > > http://www.spectrumwd.com/c130/int_05.htm
> > > http://www.spectrumwd.com/c130/int_02.htm
> > > http://www.sunnersberg.com/c1_c3_hercules.htm
> > > http://www.rin.org.uk/env/personnel.html
> > > http://british-forces.com/cig/aircraft/c-130.html
> > > http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/dd77148e.html
> > > http://www.gdls.com/releases/IAV_Specsheet.pdf
> > > http://news.lmasc.com/article.htm?article_id=57
> > > http://www.monmouth.army.mil/monmessg/newmonmsg/mar102000/10plane.htm
> > > http://www.tea.army.mil/dpe/Aircraft.htm
> > > http://www.adtdl.army.mil/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/55-65/ch4.pdf
> > > http://www.ado.army.mil/weapons/firesupt/lw155.htm
> > > http://enterpriseconsultancy.cs.amedd.army.mil/asp/result.asp?I=36296091947
> > > http://call.army.mil/products/trngqtr/tq1-00/chapc.htm
> > > http://www.mcguire.af.mil/PA/news/21stfact.htm
> > > http://books.nap.edu/books/0309063787/html/134.html#pagetop
> > >
> > > GAME
> > > SET
> > > MATCH
> > >
> >
> > The only thing, and I do mean the only thing that you have proven is
> > that anyone with access to a search engine can become a half-wit
> > expert on any subject.
> >
>
> So, you are claiming that the Commander of the 21st Air Force,
> the Commander of the Air Force, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff
> didn't know what the fuck they were doing when they designated
> the C-130's in the 21st Air Force as Strategic Airlift.
>
> Bwwwwwwwwwwahahahahahaha.
Yeah Aaron, that is *EXACTLY* what I am claiming, along with me being
a decorated veteran of WWI, WWII, the Korean War, Vietnam, The Gulf
War, and I am still only 18 years old and own a fortune 500 company.
Aaron, you are truly a clown who has become disconnected from his
rubber nose.
>
> > Now dance boy, dance!!! OUTED! LOL!
>
> The only one dancing here is you.
OUTED! LOL!
--
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From: "Jon Johansan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: bank switches from using NT 4
Date: 3 May 2001 11:49:14 -0500
"Tom Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:zySH6.6169$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Just from the commercial side of things, I don't see XP taking off for
quite
> a while. So many of these shops have just now upgraded to W2K. I think MS
> would have been better served to have given W2K a miss and just waited
until
> XP was done. The whole thing is more than a little strange when you
consider
> their past marketing efforts. It just doesn't make sense.
Imagine this:
XP is the achievement of a single code base. One set of drivers, you do not
need to maintaine different drivers for W9x and ME and W2K. There is only
one set of updates. Only one GUI to learn. One way to do things. It's the
termination of a KNOWN ugly line of code. It's the end of ANYTHING remotely
to do with DOS (other than emulation for backwards compatibility).
XP is a godsend for tech support. No longer having to ask: what version of
windows are you running? and then having to fork your knowledgebase and
script based on that.
I don't see XP as a wait for it or think about it upgrade, I see XP as a
must have upgrade. Give me a shop running W2K servers and W2K/XP desktops
and I'll show you one that has cut tech support by half just from
eliminating support for old crap.
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From: Pete Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The upgrade
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 17:35:30 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> > Did I leave out anything actually relevant?
>
> I thought so.
Like what?
> > I can't comment as I don't have an NE2000.
>
> You can trust me there, Ive had these cards (no name elcheapo's) for about 5
> years after buying a box of them.
Old huh?
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All your no fly zone are belong to us
My opinions are my own
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From: Pete Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Another Windows pc gets Linux
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 17:39:06 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> > Yes but LyX actually needs one as it produces a file to be converted to
> > postscript then printed, does it not? Word goes straight to the printer.
>
> No it doesn't, Lyx supplies a file name of its own (just tested that).
Does LyX write out the file then convert it (or it gets converted)? One
step Word doesn't do.
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Pete Goodwin
All your no fly zone are belong to us
My opinions are my own
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From: "Jon Johansan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: bank switches from using NT 4
Date: 3 May 2001 11:53:09 -0500
"Greg Copeland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> You need to be A LOT more informed. This is a CPU function and has
> NOTHING to do with the BIOS. When you disable it in BIOS, the BIOS
> simple issues the needed instructions to turn it off.
I know this.
Likewise, any
> OS during boot can choose to turn it back on.
True - but Windows does not do this.
> This was well established
> by Intel when it first came out. In short, if you think you have ANY
> protection by turning it off in BIOS, you have been horribly mislead.
It gives DEFAULT protection. If I turn it off in BIOS then I know the ONLY
way it's back on is if something *I* installed turns it back on.
> My
> understanding is that even a properly written application could do this
> (turn it on and back off) if it had proper permission to access the CPU.
Sure, but ONLY if *I* install such an application. I think it's quite
paranoid and stupid to think that MS would do such a thing that is so easily
detected and suffer the fallout of this sort of privacy breech. I think this
is a non-issue.
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From: Pete Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Another Windows pc gets Linux
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 17:49:08 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >Rasperberry.
>
> Can't seem to pull of an onomatopoeia, can you? Doh!
I could spell it "raspberry" if you want. I think I like my spelling
more though.
>
> >Yet explorer is faster than konqueror.
>
> When it doesn't grind to a halt under load, maybe.
Yet I can view a directory across the network with thousands of files
with explorer; I can do the same with konqueror, but I have to wait a
_lot_ longer.
> >I knew what it meant. Unfortunately, you have no understanding of
> >something called "sarcasm".
>
> Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha. You call that sarcasm?
Yep. Better than your childish bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha!
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Pete Goodwin
All your no fly zone are belong to us
My opinions are my own
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From: Pete Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Another Windows pc gets Linux
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 17:41:49 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >Please explain how I'm wrong? I load word, I start typing. I then print
> >it. I don't even need to name it.
>
> Why not just say "I just do it." Do I really need to explain to you why
> your instructions are sort of worthless, and thus your argument is ad
> absurdum?
So, what's your explanation of how I'm wrong?
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Pete Goodwin
All your no fly zone are belong to us
My opinions are my own
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From: Pete Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Another Windows pc gets Linux
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 17:40:32 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >You have to convert to postscript! Oh boy! Insert File in word, and it
> >does it straight away!
>
> No telling what "it" is, of course; Word does really weird things with
> embedded graphics.
"it" is Word.
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Pete Goodwin
All your no fly zone are belong to us
My opinions are my own
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