Re: [expert] oooops -OT- and Holy Wars

2002-01-21 Thread daRcmaTTeR
, January 16, 2002 4:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ps -OT- and Holy Wars How soon we forget: OS/2. Well, not completely - my wrist pad says Starting today, everything your computer has ever done, it will do better. OS/2 Mike Leone wrote: comment Holy Wars about

Re: [expert] oooops -OT- and Holy Wars

2002-01-21 Thread Lee Roberts
I doubt we'll ever see a Warp 5 client. At 09:33 AM 1/21/2002 -0500, daRcmaTTeR wrote: Scott, I mean no offense, but thats just gross! My Penguin at home just winced when I opened this message. Eeasy now...this is a Linux list. Mark (a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR) Scott Thurmond wrote: When is

Re: [expert] oooops -OT- and Holy Wars

2002-01-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Larry Varney wrote: How soon we forget: OS/2. Well, not completely - my wrist pad says Starting today, everything your computer has ever done, it will do better. OS/2 I -still- know people who are big on Atari/Amiga's! smile Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney

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2002-01-17 Thread Mike Leone
Livin' in Linux is getting much easier nowadays, no need to scandisk, defrag (thx to reiserfs and ext3), restart, reinstall (when we got win crashed), and As I said ... my Win2K OS never crashes, and I've never had to re-install the OS. In previous versions of Windows, especially the consumer

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2002-01-17 Thread mike
How often do you reboot your W2k machine? Not because it crashed or anything, just because? On Thursday 17 January 2002 10:29, Mike Leone wrote: Livin' in Linux is getting much easier nowadays, no need to scandisk, defrag (thx to reiserfs and ext3), restart, reinstall (when we got win

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2002-01-17 Thread Battista, JohnX
think at that point they really need to check the system, something just is not right With their hardware. -Original Message- From: mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 4:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mike Leone Subject: Re: [expert] ps -OT- How often do you

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2002-01-16 Thread James Sparenberg
Ron, I trust him to do whatever benifits him in the short run and fsck's the consumer and it's wallet. James Political sig 2002: I've got my daddy's shoes, his pants and his old job.. wonder why he says he want's to keep the trains? On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:42:42 -0500 Ronald J.

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2002-01-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Carroll Grigsby wrote: Look, you stick to your vices, I'll stick to mine. (Actually, I've got the Model 69+ with the semi-automatic beer dispenser, dual overhead cams and racing stripes.) -- cmg Semi-automatic beer dispenser? I -want- one! ;-) --

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2002-01-16 Thread mike
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 8:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ps -OT- On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:21:10 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: Jason

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2002-01-16 Thread Mike Leone
Mandrake has a lot of catching up to do in being as lousy an operating system as Windows 2000 (wife has it on her machine, support it 40 hours each week, it sucks). A lot of stuff is coming out daily about XP also (which is why I See, I gotta disagree. I use Win2K daily at work, and do

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2002-01-16 Thread Franki
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Leone Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2002 4:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ps -OT- Mandrake has a lot of catching up to do in being as lousy an operating system as Windows 2000 (wife

Re: [expert] oooops -OT- and Holy Wars

2002-01-16 Thread J. Craig Woods
Mike Leone wrote: See, I gotta disagree. I use Win2K daily at work, and do support it. It ain't a bad OS. It for sure is better than NT or Win9x/ME. comment Holy Wars about which OS is the best will go on forever. And we can thank Linus for this because only a few short years ago there were

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2002-01-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
mike wrote: Mandrake has a lot of catching up to do in being as lousy an operating system as Windows 2000 (wife has it on her machine, support it 40 hours each week, it sucks). A lot of stuff is coming out daily about XP also (which is why I am not suggesting wife upgrade to it). I fear

Re: [expert] oooops -OT- and Holy Wars

2002-01-16 Thread Ric Tibbetts
J. Craig Woods wrote: Mike Leone wrote: See, I gotta disagree. I use Win2K daily at work, and do support it. It ain't a bad OS. It for sure is better than NT or Win9x/ME. comment Holy Wars about which OS is the best will go on forever. And we can thank Linus for this because only a

RE: [expert] oooops -OT- and Holy Wars

2002-01-16 Thread Scott Thurmond
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry Varney Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 4:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ps -OT- and Holy Wars How soon we forget: OS/2. Well, not completely - my wrist pad says Starting today, everything your computer has ever

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2002-01-16 Thread mike
The OS that runs my toaster is better than NT or 9x. On the other hand I would't trust 2000 to run my toaster either. On Wednesday 16 January 2002 15:14, Mike Leone wrote: Mandrake has a lot of catching up to do in being as lousy an operating system as Windows 2000 (wife has it on her

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2002-01-16 Thread mike
Amen! Actually it was Mandrake 6.5 that really drove me to hate Windows. I must have bellowed fo 2 days straight about how it was poosible to create a real OS and Microsoft was charging big bucks for garbage (Win2000). Mandrake 7.2 was da bomb, and 8.0 did solve more problems than it

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2002-01-16 Thread meta
Win2K might be good. But, too expensive to buy another sotware tools that I need to do programming. Visual Studio? CF Studio? Well, I got only My 3 disk Mandrake, and support from a very active linux community all over the world (nothing's is free from M$). I got all tools to do web

Re: [expert] oooops -OT- and Holy Wars

2002-01-16 Thread Mario Michael da Costa
Ric Tibbetts wrote: Each of the current batch of OSs have their strengths weaknesses. It's yeah well some of the OS's have more weaknesses than others. my Rs. 0.02 worth, and trust me a Rupee is way less then a $ :o) Regards, mario Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

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2002-01-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Jason Guidry wrote: so you'll have to excuse me if I don't join you guys in lamenting that LM8.1 isn't more like Windows ME. Jason, I won't even ask anyone to excuse me! That Mandrake (any version) is not more like Windog is a blessing... grin --

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2002-01-15 Thread Mark Weaver
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:21:10 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: Jason Guidry wrote: so you'll have to excuse me if I don't join you guys in lamenting that LM8.1 isn't more like Windows ME. Jason, I won't even ask anyone to excuse me! That

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2002-01-15 Thread Dwaine Felch
Weaver Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 8:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] ps -OT- On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:21:10 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: Jason Guidry wrote: so you'll have to excuse me if I don't join you guys

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2002-01-15 Thread Michael Leone
On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 20:23, Dwaine Felch wrote: The truth of the matter is if Mandrake is compared to Win9x or ME Mandrake Is far superior BUT, put Mandrake up against Win2000 or better yet WinXP and Mandrake has a lot of catching up to do. Dunno about a LOT. But in *some* areas, maybe.

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2002-01-15 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 15 January 2002 08:38 pm, you wrote: On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 20:23, Dwaine Felch wrote: The truth of the matter is if Mandrake is compared to Win9x or ME Mandrake Is far superior BUT, put Mandrake up against Win2000 or better yet WinXP and Mandrake has a lot of catching up to

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2002-01-15 Thread Michael Leone
On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 21:50, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 15 January 2002 08:38 pm, you wrote: On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 20:23, Dwaine Felch wrote: The truth of the matter is if Mandrake is compared to Win9x or ME Mandrake Is far superior BUT, put Mandrake up against Win2000 or

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2002-01-15 Thread s
On Tuesday 15 January 2002 08:50 pm, you wrote: SuperStud Model 69 Combination LOL. Am I the only one for whom this name didn't conjure up a picture of a scanner, coffee maker, cig lighter? -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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2002-01-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Dwaine Felch wrote: The truth of the matter is if Mandrake is compared to Win9x or ME Mandrake Is far superior BUT, put Mandrake up against Win2000 or better yet WinXP and Mandrake has a lot of catching up to do. I have to politely disagree. ;-) My brother is running XP on his machine,

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2002-01-15 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 15 January 2002 10:21 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 15 January 2002 08:50 pm, you wrote: SuperStud Model 69 Combination LOL. Am I the only one for whom this name didn't conjure up a picture of a scanner, coffee maker, cig lighter? -s Look, you stick to your vices, I'll stick

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2002-01-15 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 15 January 2002 10:21 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 15 January 2002 08:50 pm, you wrote: SuperStud Model 69 Combination LOL. Am I the only one for whom this name didn't conjure up a picture of a scanner, coffee maker, cig lighter? -s

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2002-01-14 Thread Jason Guidry
ok, all in good fun, but to the guy who nuked his /ect/whatever... all in good fund00d, U R so 31337/fun second: On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 17:50, Randy Kramer wrote: D. R. Evans wrote: I know that Civileme disagrees with me (he says to use frequently- backed-up CVS), but this is the One

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2002-01-14 Thread Syed Irfan
not sure how about just getting back /usr/local/share dir but the links below can help undeleting, not sure if its part of the file system or the full file system, some of them are free to use, as files are actually not delted, just that the inodes are marked for reuse by the file system check

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2002-01-14 Thread Mark D'voo
On Tuesday 15 January 2002 07:48 am, you wrote: not sure how about just getting back /usr/local/share dir but the links below can help undeleting, not sure if its part of the file system or the full file system, some of them are free to use, as files are actually not delted, just that the