Linux-Advocacy Digest #638, Volume #34 Sun, 20 May 01 05:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux beats Win2K (again) ("Ayende Rahien")
Re: Rather humorous posting on news.com commentry forum: (GreyCloud)
Re: Mandrake 8 sets the standard - for Desktop users anyway. (GreyCloud)
Re: Mandrake 8 sets the standard - for Desktop users anyway. (GreyCloud)
Re: Mandrake 8 sets the standard - for Desktop users anyway. (GreyCloud)
Re: Linux Mandrake Sucks!!!! (GreyCloud)
Re: Dell Meets Estimates (GreyCloud)
Re: Rather humorous posting on news.com commentry forum: ("Matthew Gardiner")
Re: Linux posts #1 TPC-H result (W2K still better) (GreyCloud)
Re: Microsoft - WE DELETE YOU! ("Matthew Gardiner")
Re: Microsoft - WE DELETE YOU! (GreyCloud)
Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop ("jet")
Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop ("jet")
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From: "Ayende Rahien" <don'[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux beats Win2K (again)
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 10:28:14 +0200
"GreyCloud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ayende Rahien wrote:
> >
> > "GreyCloud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > > I think the SETI program is a farce! No offense to you, but I often
> > > wonder what good does it do them? Radio waves travel a little slower
> > > than the speed of light. And if the radio waves are coming from many
> > > million light years away I'd say it was very old news we would be
> > > receiving. But I doubt they will get anything from it as they
advertise
> > > they are looking for. All I know is that the end user gets a block of
> > > data to crunch... do we really know what this data is? Could it be
> > > entirely something else?
> >
> > Bah!
> > Get some lessons in physics first.
> > Radio waves and light are the same thing!
> > They travel at the speed of light, and unless some funky think happen,
that
> > is the fastest thing around.
> > Yes, if it reached from any decent distance, then it's old news *where
it
> > happened*, not here. Time isn't constant, it's flexible.
>
> I did. Time is flexible! Radio waves and light are not the same! There
> is a lag and an inherent inertia to radio waves. Academics are not in
> touch with the current state of the art. My education was from the very
> best in there fields. I also was very lucky to get my education from a
> nobel prize physicist! His name is Rodger Packett! He was contracted
> to the U.S. gov. to teach to DOD specific candidates.
>
> Most academic physics classes ... well, what can I say?? OLD??
> I worked with what I was told to work with.
>
> I heard that Gallileo had the same problems.
Why don't you post to rec.arts.sf.science, this is not the place to agrue
about physics.
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From: GreyCloud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rather humorous posting on news.com commentry forum:
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 01:37:37 -0700
"Rob S. Wolfram" wrote:
>
> Matthew Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [snip quote from news.com]
>
> >Doesn't the above just summarise the problem with the populous.
>
> Not quite. There is much difference in the various kind of {end,l}users.
> Now, I really had to share this humorous piece of Userology, posted by
> Calle Dybedahl to the Scary Devil Monastery back in 1998.
> The really sad part is, of most of these categories I know real life
> examples...
>
> <quote>
> USEROLOGY
> =========
>
> On Different Kinds of Users and How to Spot Them
>
> The Common Idiot
> ----------------
> The basic user. Mostly just sits in front of its monitor and drools
> over some pornsite.
>
> Typical dialogue:
> U: "Machine no work."
> S: "What's wrong with it?"
> U: "Machine no work."
> S: "Ok. Which machine do you use?"
> U: "Machine no work."
> S: "Right, I heard you. Where is your machine?"
> U: "Machine no work!"
> S: "*sigh* I'll come with you back to your room."
> U: "Machine no work?"
> S: "Go back to room."
> U: "Go back. Room."
>
> Frequency of appearance:
> *Much* too often.
>
> Suggested treatment:
> Kill.
>
> The Mumbler on the Treshold
> ---------------------------
> Appears at the sysadmin's doorstep and speaks very, very softly.
> Sometimes it's possible to get it to speak up a little. Very often,
> it'll go away at the slightest provocation.
>
> Typical dialogue:
> U: "mumblemumblenetscapemumblemumblemumble"
> S: "Excuse me?"
> U: "mumblemumblemubleservicepackmumble"
> S: "Sorry, I can't hear you."
> U: "...can't start Netscape..."
> S: "Try clicking on the Netscape icon."
> U: "mumblemumblemumblemumblemumblemumble"
>
> Frequency of appearance:
> Much too often.
>
> Suggested treatment:
> Kill.
>
> The Rabid Guesser
> -----------------
> Barges into the sysadmin's room and starts spouting nonsense, usually
> in a quite aggressive fashion. Has picked up a technical term or two
> somehow, and blames everything on those terms.
>
> Typical dialogue:
> U: "You have to do something about the collisions on the SCSI
> channel!"
> S: "What?"
> U: "It can't go on like this, you must fix it, now!"
> S: "What was the problem again?"
> U: "The SCSI doesn't work, that's what. And it's slow."
> S: "How can it be slow if it doesn't work?"
> U: "I don't know, you're the expert, not I."
> S: "What's the problem?"
> U: "It's slow. Didn't you listen when I told you?"
> S: "*What* is slow?"
> ...and so on until the sysadmin grows tired, follows the user to
> its workplace and discovers that it has pulled the network cable
> out of the workstation. Why it started talking about SCSI is
> never revealed.
>
> Frequency of appearance:
> Much too often.
>
> Suggested treatment:
> Kill.
>
> The Economist
> -------------
> This is a *really* nasty one.
>
> Typical dialogue:
> U: "So, what are the options for the new server?"
> S: "Well, first we have the Dungheap MT. It's larger than our
> computer room, needs the Niagara Falls to power it, it's
> ugly, it laughs evilly if you get too close to its console,
> it reeks of brimstone, Greenpeace and Exxon have made a
> joint statement cursing the moment it was created, it's
> illegal to import to most of the civilised world, it has a
> habit of sending nasty email to CEOs, its mother was a
> hamster and its father smelled of elderberries. And it
> doesn't do what we need anyway. Secondly, we have the
> Frotzpock 3000. It's small, elegant, doubles as a coatrack,
> draws its power from the Earth's magnetic field, it sings
> cute little songs, spreads happiness wherever it goes,
> cleans the floor, washes the dishes, rubs your back, reminds
> you of your wife's birthday, does everything we need
> perfectly and without error and it only costs $5 more than
> the Dungheap."
> U: "Ah, the choice is clear, then. We go with the Dungheap MT."
> S: "WHAT?!"
> U: "Well, you *did* say it is cheaper, didn't you?"
>
> Frequency of appearance:
> A handful per company, usually.
>
> Suggested treatment:
> Take off and nuke the site from orbit (it's the only way to be sure).
>
> The Firm Believer in Trade Magazines
> ------------------------------------
> May be difficult to tell apart from the Common Idiot, but the
> differences will be apparent if it ever ends up in a discussion about
> what sort of equipment to purchase.
>
> Typical dialogue:
> S: "...so you see that the Frotzpock is the natural choice for us."
> U: "I read a very bad review of the Frotzpock in a trade
> magazine. The reviewers had great problems opening the box
> it came in."
> S: "Well, that won't be a problem for us. I *do* know how to
> open cardboard boxes."
> U: "They much preferred the Dungheap 89. That one didn't need
> any stupid box, it just oozed in under the door."
> S: "Er, the Dungheap doesn't even do what we need the new
> machine for."
> U: "...and DungUser Magazine said that the new version's father
> only smelled *slightly* of elderberries!"
>
> Frequency of appearance:
> Much too often.
>
> Suggested treatment:
> Kill.
>
> The Incessant Talker
> --------------------
> Appears at the sysadmin's door, starts describing some sort of problem
> and just never stops.
>
> Typical dialogue:
> U: "Hello I hope I'm not interrupting you I have this problem
> you see I can't print pictures from Netscape anymore even
> though I could do that yesterday and the day before and even
> the day before that but not last Wednesday for some reason I
> think it may have had something to do with the blackout that
> day don't you printers don't usually work very well without
> electricity do they neither do computers for that matter I
> couldn't log in at all until the power came back I must have
> tried at least a million times I think well maybe not quite
> that many but ten thousand at least my keyboard was all worn
> down so I couldn't see what it said on the keys any more so
> the day after I went down to Office Supplies to get a new
> one and they said I couldn't just get one I had to fill in a
> form first have you heard anything that stupid don't they
> realise that I'm very important to the company and do a lot
> of valuable work here without me nothing would get done I
> tell you and of course I told them in no uncertain terms but
> they just wouldn't listen to me and kept insisting that I
> needed that stupid form so in the end I went to get a form
> but discovered that in order to get the form you had to send
> a mail to someone and I couldn't send mail since my keyboard
> didn't work can you believe that eventually after two days I
> managed to type out the mail using only my nose you can't
> believe how hard that was it took almost a whole day and
> after I sent the mail I was told that I didn't really have
> to send it anyway since our departement has a stack of those
> forms lying in the tray between the printer and the copying
> machine so I went over to Bob and asked him hey Bob do you
> know where we keep the printer and the copying machine and
> he told me that he thought they were being repaired at the
> moment so I couldn't use them anyway but I told him that I
> weren't going to use them I just wanted to know where they
> were so that I could go here and get..."
>
> Frequency of appearance:
> Much too common.
>
> Suggested treatment:
> Let it be. It's fairly easy to ignore, and as long as it's there
> no other users can get in.
>
> The Fixer
> ---------
> Suffers from the delusion that it is capable of fixing problems by
> itself, thus turning mishaps into fullblown disasters. Often
> masquerades as a sysadmin.
>
> Typical dialogue:
> U: "The mailserver was running slowly, so I thought I'd have a
> look at it. I saw that it was really busy relaying mail, so
> I thought I'd remove some old processes that nobody used any
> more. But as soon as I killed this really old process kalled
> 'init' the machine crashed!"
>
> Frequency of appearance:
> Much too common.
>
> Suggested treatment:
> Kill.
>
> The Drone With The Write-Once Brain
> -----------------------------------
> A fact once got stuck in its brain. Since then it uses said fact for
> everything.
>
> Typical dialogue:
> U: "My machine is slow. There is a large process running on my
> system. Kill it."
> S: "Um, that's your X server. Do you *really* want me to kill
> that? And it's not really that big, it's just fake memory."
> U: "Yes. Kill it."
>
> <Next day>
>
> U: "My machine has crashed. There must be a large process
> running. Kill it."
> S: "How would I do that if the machine has crashed?"
> U: "Yes. Kill it."
>
> <The day after that>
>
> U: "My machine is on fire. There must be a large process
> running. Kill it."
> S: "Don't you think it'd be better to call the fire brigade?"
> U: "Yes. Kill it."
>
> Frequency of appearance:
> Much too common.
>
> Suggested treatment:
> Kill.
>
> The User
> --------
> If you find one of these, consider yourself *very* lucky.
>
> Typical dialogue:
> U: "Excuse me?"
> S: "Yes?"
> U: "I have a slight problem. I hope I'm not interrupting you?"
> S: "Not at all. What's the problem?"
> U: "It's the BogoGraphics package. I'm trying to use one of the
> new functions in version three, but I can't get it to work.
> I've checked that there is enough memory, the permissions on
> all the files look correct and I installed it exactly
> according to the instructions in the README file. I do get
> an error message. It's not very informative, but I wrote it
> down for you anyway. I tried looking it up in the manual,
> but it's not there. And the FAQ doesn't say anything about
> version three yet. Do you think you could have a look at it?"
> S: "Marry me!"
>
> Frequency of appearance:
> Believed to be mythical.
>
> Suggested treatment:
> Don't let him/her get away!
>
> </quote>
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
> --
> Rob S. Wolfram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key 0xD61A655D
> The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore,
> be regarded as a criminal offence.
> -- E.W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5
ROFLMAO!!!! Even Dave Barry couldn't do BETTER!!
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From: GreyCloud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 8 sets the standard - for Desktop users anyway.
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 01:40:46 -0700
Brad Sims wrote:
>
> Around three month ago, Win98 decided to eat it's TCP/IP stack.
> Ok I said I will just release the IP address and it will pull a
> new one and a way it would go.... WRONG. It wouldn't let me do
> that because it couldn't read the stack. In other words I can't
> fix it because it is broken, WTF.
>
> I deleted the bindings on the network card,(reboot) reenstalled
> the bindings (reboot) ...still nothing.
>
> I renstalled the drivers (reboot) ...guess what still nothing.
>
> I deleted the card from Device Mangler. (reboot), (it made me
> physically remove the card, reboot, put the card BACK IN,
> reboot, before PnP would set up the card) ..reenstalled the
> drivers... (reboot). It still had my settings as they were
> buried someware in the Registry. So it finally worked again
> after 50 minutes and 7 reboots
>
> Meanwhile I could boot Linux and get online just fine. Just goes
> to show how "stable" win98 is.
> --
> I sense much distrust in you. Distrust leads to cynicism,
> cynicism leads to bitterness, bitterness leads to the
> Awareness of True Reality which is refered to by
> those-who-lack-enlightenment as "paranoia" I approve.
Well Brad, welcome to the world of Microsoft! Pnp equates to Plug and
Pray!
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From: GreyCloud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 8 sets the standard - for Desktop users anyway.
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 01:42:19 -0700
Terry Porter wrote:
>
> On Sat, 19 May 2001 19:13:49 GMT,
> Pete Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > I changed my motherboard recently, and swapped sound card. Windows had to
> > reboot about four or six times (your '22' seems laughable). Linux had no
> > propblems - except it left the old setup for the old sound card and I had
> > to manually intervene to fix it. The installation/detection stuff still has
> > a way to go.
>
> Only in areas of putting Linux into "safe mode", or rendering the Linux box
> unbootable. However I suspect that in these areas, Windows will reign supreme
> for some time to come.
>
> >
> >> And the huge online source and newsgoups (not this one) and local user
> >> groups. The resources for help are far more accessable than what you can
> >> find for losedos.
> >
> > You mean fanatical user groups.
>
> OS's are fanatical things Pete, you know that. Its the reason you troll
> on COLA.
>
> >
> > --
> > Pete
> >
>
> --
> Kind Regards
> Terry
> --
> **** ****
> My Desktop is powered by GNU/Linux.
> 1972 Kawa Mach3, 1974 Kawa Z1B, .. 15 more road bikes..
> Current Ride ... a 94 Blade
> Free Micro burner: http://jsno.downunder.net.au/terry/
> ** Registration Number: 103931, http://counter.li.org **
If sound was his only problem?? For many users, installing windows
again with the other vendors drivers is a nightmare!
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From: GreyCloud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 8 sets the standard - for Desktop users anyway.
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 01:46:55 -0700
Terry Porter wrote:
>
> On Sat, 19 May 2001 23:41:35 GMT, Brad Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In ashen ink, the dread hand of Pete Goodwin wrote:
> >
> >> >Ah yes, I love the documentation in SuSE 7.1, the stuff
> > written
> >> in German in an English book...
> >
> > /me pulls out the 63 page Quick Install Manual... nope, English
> > /me pulls out the 106 page Applications book... English
> > /me looks at the 261 page Configuration book... English
> >
> > Well that covers the Personal edition, lets look at the 581 page
> > Handbook (easily the equal to Running Linux, by O'Reilly) SuSE
> > adds to the Professional edition.... still English.
> >
> > Pete, do you ever get tired of being wrong?
>
> Pete is somewhat of a contradiction to me, at times he seems
> quite reasonable, then he makes a claim like this?
>
> Does Pete Goodwin, really think people who do the things, that
> he is unable to do, and on a daily basis, believe these claims?
>
> --
> Kind Regards
> Terry
> --
> **** ****
> My Desktop is powered by GNU/Linux.
> 1972 Kawa Mach3, 1974 Kawa Z1B, .. 15 more road bikes..
> Current Ride ... a 94 Blade
> Free Micro burner: http://jsno.downunder.net.au/terry/
> ** Registration Number: 103931, http://counter.li.org **
I'm beginning to think that Pete is truly a wintroll. He claims to
manage a VMS system... which in my opinion he does very poorly... funny
he was never fired from the job! Any truly talented IT Pro can install
Linux without difficulty... mere childs play. Too many conficting
opinions from him... at first I thought he was genuine... but after I
told him about the limitations of DHCP it gives the looks of dishonesty
leading to Win-Zealotry.
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From: GreyCloud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Mandrake Sucks!!!!
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 01:50:35 -0700
Terry Porter wrote:
>
> On Sat, 19 May 2001 12:58:52 GMT,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=terry+porter+linux&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&btnG
> >=Google+Search&meta=site%3Dgroups
> > Relevant Messages for terry porter linux Results 1 - 10 of about 4,330.
> > Search took 0.56 seconds
> >
> Gee I'm a prolific Wintroll baiter arn't I :)
>
> > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=flatfish&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&meta=site%3Dgr
> > oups
> > Results 1 - 10 of about 2,800. Search took 0.38 seconds
> >
> > Now then. Who is spending 'their entire lives posting ..." ????
> >
> > Idiot.
>
> Shame shame Uberdummyspitter, I have always posted under 'Terry Porter",
> (my real name), I *never* change my ID.
>
> Now even to a intelectually challenged Wintroll like yourself
> it should be apparent that Flatfish's 2,800 posts would far
> exceed that number when results from a search for :-
>
> "Steve,Mike,Heather,Simon,teknite,keymaster,keys88,Sewer Rat,
> S,Sponge,Sarek,piddy,McSwain,pickle_pete,Ishmeal_hafizi,Amy,
> Simon777,Claire,Flatfish+++,Flatfish"
>
> were added to the 2,800 above.
>
> Please do your research properly in future, its boring
> waiting for you to get a clue.
>
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Kind Regards
> Terry
> --
> **** ****
> My Desktop is powered by GNU/Linux.
> 1972 Kawa Mach3, 1974 Kawa Z1B, .. 15 more road bikes..
> Current Ride ... a 94 Blade
> Free Micro burner: http://jsno.downunder.net.au/terry/
> ** Registration Number: 103931, http://counter.li.org **
Heck, if you are an expert at it... maybe you could bait a
master-baiter!
:-)
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From: GreyCloud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,misc.invest.stocks
Subject: Re: Dell Meets Estimates
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 01:51:39 -0700
Jon Johansan wrote:
>
> "Shun Yan Cheung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:9e4ulh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > In article <9e4lh4$ccu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2 + 2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > >That's just a Sun press release.
> >
> > At least it has benchmark numbers for TPC-H....
> > TPC-C is too simplistic and has been considered to
> > be outdated, SAP is a better measure. Go to
> >
>
> SAP is excellent:
>
> a..
> 1.. In SAP Sales & Distribution and Retail Benchmark performance tests:
> 2.. A 32-way Unisys ES7000 running the SAP Sales and Distribution
> benchmark achieved 18,500 SD users. This compares to the best Sun result of
> 23,000 SD users on a 64-way E10000. The Sun E10000 is at the end of its
> product life, while Unisys expects to further enhance the ES7000 with 900
> MHz processors in the very near future.
> a.. In the SAP Retail Benchmark, the best Windows 2000 and SQL Server
> solution scored 3,165,000 transactions per hour while the best Sun solution
> scored only 2,412,000 transactions per hour.
> b.. Over half of new SAP sales are on Windows-based systems. Over
> one-third of existing SAP sites run on Windows platforms. SAP has over
> 10,000 customers running on Windows platforms. (Source: SAP)
>
> Of course, W2K owns SAP too...
How about SAP SUCKER!!
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From: "Matthew Gardiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rather humorous posting on news.com commentry forum:
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 21:01:12 +1200
> > >Why even have a registry? by now, with all the money Microsoft has
made,
> > >they should have already shipped the first, self repairing OS, that
repairs
> > >the code when the OS crashes, thus ensuring it doesn't happen again.
Or,
> > >when a file is screwed, it is automatically mended without user
> > >intervention. File systems that are immune to fragmentation,
corruption,
> > >and other problems. Yet, 15 years, and several billion dollars later,
the
> > >mecca of computing has not been delivered.
> >
> > You won't get any argument from me. IMO Microsoft has set the computer
> > revolution back 10-15 years. With all their money and resources and
> > all the years they've been in the OS business, there's really no
> > excuse for Windows' continuing problems.
>
> How true! Back in the early 80's I was expecting a multi-tasking O/S.
> The closest one could get for a low price was O/S-9 on a COCO.
>
I remember using computers back in the 80's, and it was shocking if a person
released a buggy piece of software. It would ruin the reputation of the
software company in one foul swoop. However, these days, consumers no
longer have that demand of quality from hardware and software vendors.
Consumers are happy with half-ass efforts even though they course more
problems than they fix. Hopefully in my life time some one will show that a
computer is only as unreliable as the OS that runs on it.
Matthew Gardiner
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From: GreyCloud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux posts #1 TPC-H result (W2K still better)
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 02:02:33 -0700
Ayende Rahien wrote:
>
> "GreyCloud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Ayende Rahien wrote:
>
> > > Again, that is now how you would do it in Windows.
> > > The usual thing to do is to register an extention and put the
> > > \path\to\interpreter args_to_interpreter as the openner of this file.
> >
> > I have Perl for windows too as well as for Sun. Under windows the
> > #!/bin/sh/perl line isn't needed... the file extension of .pl is all
> > that is needed. However, the Perl binary needs to be in the execution
> > path. Not much difference.
>
> No, it doesn't need to be on the execution path, only if you do stuff like:
> perl hello.pl
> from the command line.
>
> If you registered .pl files correctly, you could do this:
> hello.pl, and it will run the perl's binary on its own.
> I can post an explanation on how to do this, if you are interested.
No, I'm using both. I'm currently studying from O'reilleys book and
Visual for windows.
I use the wordpad program under windows and it works pretty good.
Under Solaris I just use the filename to get execution.
Thanks tho for your offer.
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From: "Matthew Gardiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsoft - WE DELETE YOU!
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 21:05:04 +1200
"Bob Hauck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sat, 19 May 2001 19:14:17 +0200, Roy Culley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > What does W2K come with out of the box that Solaris doesn't? I'm eager
> > to know.
>
> Something called "3D Audio" (according to Goodwin), fading menus, and a
> drop shadow under the mouse pointer.
>
Which is bloody useless unless you have 4 speakers and a sub.
Matthew Gardiner
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From: GreyCloud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsoft - WE DELETE YOU!
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 02:04:20 -0700
Ayende Rahien wrote:
>
> "GreyCloud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Ayende Rahien wrote:
>
> > > DirectX, registry, COM (I know that Solaris has it, how can it compare
> to
> > > Windows' COM?), DCOM, COM+ (This is equilent to J2EE system + Solaris.
> How
> > > many KLOC does WebSphere has?).
> > > Just a couple of things of the top of my head.
> >
> > Solaris does not have a registry. COM is in there albeit in a different
> > way. DirectX isn't in there. I suspect that directX is another word
> > for direct ACCESS to the video hardware.
>
> No, it isn't.
> DirectX is an abstraction layer from the hardware. It allows you to write
> games without needing to write to a spesific hardware.
> It can emulate missing hardware if needed, too.
That is nice to know... it is only a speculation from my part. Have not
seen any direct X in the MSDN CD-ROM set... unless its in there..!
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From: "jet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: soc.men,soc.singles,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 02:05:51 -0700
Robert W Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> <>gotta love the linux advocacy in this thread
>
> I was thinking the same thing. I would love to know how this thread went
linux
> vs windows to a discussion of homosexuality.
Windows is like totally gay.
J
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From: "jet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: soc.men,soc.singles,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 02:08:18 -0700
Robert W Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "jet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> <>And what about using birth control?
>
> I was not aware that those who engage in homosexual behavior needed it.
Can you
> enlighten me?
Just wondered if the person considered the use of birth control "deviant" or
people who use it "defecive".
J
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