Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-20 Thread Roger Markus
On 11/21/05, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Roger Markus wrote: > > Do give yourself an overlap period to get used to Linux. Once you're up > to > > speed with it, you'll never want to touch a Lose-W machine again, but > there > > > use the Lose-W box less and less, but don't attempt a "Bang!

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-20 Thread mark
Roger Markus wrote: On 11/20/05, John Boyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To Discuss and Daniel Carrera: Your suggestions are being followed by me as fast as I can. I need one KVM switch so I can use my monitor for both Win and Linux, until I get my Linux under control, I mean knowledge the end

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-20 Thread CPHennessy
On Sat November 19 2005 22:48, John Boyle wrote: > > To Discuss and Daniel Carrera: Your suggestions are being followed by me > as fast as I can. I need one KVM switch so I can use my monitor for both > Win and Linux, until I get my Linux under control, I mean knowledge > control. I bought a 64 bit

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-20 Thread Wesley Parish
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 23:36, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Terri Sprague wrote: > > Quite a few of us, even though we have internet satellite > > connections, do not stay connected all the time. In my > > opinion, that is a disaster waiting to happen because of > > hackers, viruses, etc. > > Why not switch

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-20 Thread Daniel Carrera
Roger Markus wrote: but don't attempt a "Bang!" one day swtich-over, it's not realistic. I did it :-) I had only used Windows for years (at home). When I got my first computer (486) I put Slackware on it, no Windows. Never looked back. Cheers, Daniel. -- /\/`) http://oooauthors.org

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-20 Thread Roger Markus
On 11/20/05, John Boyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To Discuss and Daniel Carrera: Your suggestions are being followed by me > as fast as I can. I need one KVM switch so I can use my monitor for both > Win and Linux, until I get my Linux under control, I mean knowledge > control. I bought a 64

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-19 Thread John Boyle
Daniel Carrera wrote: Terri Sprague wrote: Quite a few of us, even though we have internet satellite connections, do not stay connected all the time. In my opinion, that is a disaster waiting to happen because of hackers, viruses, etc. Why not switch to Linux or Mac OS and avoid the problem

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-19 Thread mark
Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:15:39 -, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ian Lynch wrote: On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 18:32 +, Alexandro Colorado wrote: MS is the only OS that have virus. think about it? Not even your cellphone running Symbian OS has vriuses. Windows 9

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-19 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:15:39 -, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ian Lynch wrote: On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 18:32 +, Alexandro Colorado wrote: MS is the only OS that have virus. think about it? Not even your cellphone running Symbian OS has vriuses. Windows 95/98 was the most large sca

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-19 Thread mark
Ian Lynch wrote: On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 18:32 +, Alexandro Colorado wrote: MS is the only OS that have virus. think about it? Not even your cellphone running Symbian OS has vriuses. Windows 95/98 was the most large scale virus ever deployed ;-) About five years ago, there was a site on

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-19 Thread Alexandro Colorado
I have read about this columns 100 times, but I have never seen one actual virus. Why dont you just show us a linux machine infected with a virus Chad. On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 18:50:11 -, Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/19/05, Alexandro Colorado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: MS

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-19 Thread Tim Fairchild
On Sunday 20 Nov 2005 04:50, Chad Smith trolled: > On 11/19/05, Alexandro Colorado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > MS is the only OS that have virus. think about it? Not even your > > cellphone running Symbian OS has vriuses. > > http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2143697/grisoft-warns-linux-virus >

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-19 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 13:50 -0500, Chad Smith wrote: > Grisoft predicts Linux virus plague This is typical of a Chad Smith post. Whenever anyone looks at the future and what might happen as Open Source software gets increasing take up Chad ignores it and focuses on now and the past because it sui

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-19 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Saying that a virus company warns about Linux virus is like saying Microsoft warns that firefox can be a virus when you try to download it. On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 18:50:11 -, Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/19/05, Alexandro Colorado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: MS is the only OS

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-19 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 18:32 +, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > > MS is the only OS that have virus. think about it? Not even your cellphone > running Symbian OS has vriuses. Windows 95/98 was the most large scale virus ever deployed ;-) -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-19 Thread Chad Smith
On 11/19/05, Alexandro Colorado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > MS is the only OS that have virus. think about it? Not even your cellphone > running Symbian OS has vriuses. http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2143697/grisoft-warns-linux-virus Grisoft predicts Linux virus plague 'Only a matter of

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-19 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:59:17 -, Shawn K. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 21:06 -0800, Terri Sprague wrote: I am one of over a million RV full-timers in the US. Quite a few of us, even though we have internet satellite connections, do not stay connected all th

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-19 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 21:06 -0800, Terri Sprague wrote: > I am one of over a million RV full-timers in the US. > Quite a few of us, even though we have internet satellite connections, > do not stay connected all the time. In my opinion, that is a > disaster waiting to happen because of hackers, vir

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-19 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 05:06:51 -, Terri Sprague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As a user, I hate online only apps. In fact, I think they are becoming more and more popular because they are being offered at less cost that the offline versions. I think we should divide what aree web-apps and

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-19 Thread Daniel Carrera
Terri Sprague wrote: Quite a few of us, even though we have internet satellite connections, do not stay connected all the time. In my opinion, that is a disaster waiting to happen because of hackers, viruses, etc. Why not switch to Linux or Mac OS and avoid the problem altogether? The problem o

[discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-18 Thread Terri Sprague
As a user, I hate online only apps. In fact, I think they are becoming more and more popular because they are being offered at less cost that the offline versions. While I am online quite often (ok, my husband say that is a gross understatement), when I am online it's because I am doing somethi