RE: FW: [newbie] curious ....
On Monday, July 02, 2001 3:46 AM, Franki [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: oh yeah, I meant to respond to this as well.. MS is full of innovation. Thanks to them millions upon million of users can now use a PC. OS2 didn't do that, neither did UNIX or Linux. It was Windows 3.1 that started it and Windows 95 that really made PC's sell. I may not like MS, but I can not denied their kudos. thats not innovation, its marketing MS's marketing companys costs them a half a billion a year, and they earn every cent.. Apparently and for the sake of the lawyers allegedly the 95 in Win95 wasn't just the year of release, it was also the percentage of M$ total investment in the product (including development) that was spent on marketing.
[newbie] fully-qualified domain names....
This one should be really easy, but it has me baffled. I'm supposed to give my computer a fully-qualified host name, and I don't know what name to give it. At the moment it is not connected to the Internet so I don't suppose it is that important, but when I do get it connected (a task that will involve recompiling the kernel with support for the Alcatel ADSL USB modem I anticipate much grief) it probably will. On the other hand, I won't be using the system to provide any services outside the local area network (192.168.1.0); my website is remotely hosted and I collect my mail from a remote server, so no external clients need to use DNS to find my machine. An additional possible complication: I use one ISP - call it isp.com - for the connection (and outgoing mail); another company (call it hostingco.com) hosts my webspace and mailboxes; while a third (domainco.com) provides my domain names and forwards mail and http to hostingco.com. (It just worked out cheaper that way). So should the fully qualified host name be: myhost.isp.com myhost.hostingco.com or myhost.mydomain.com (where mydomain is registered with domainco.com) Or doesn't it matter? And where does the Samba workgroup name come in?
RE: [newbie] Hotmail Mail
On Tuesday, June 19, 2001 11:31 PM, Jose [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Hotmail was designed to be used from any browser. You can still go to www.hotmail.com to read, answer, write and save your emails. While it is easier to use Outlook Express, you can use any browser. It was also built and runs on Linux (MS are embarrassed by this and plan to migrate it to W2K, I don't know if they've done so yet)
RE: [newbie] Speaking of Dell and Linux.........
On Saturday, June 16, 2001 12:42 AM, Michael [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Does anyone know where you can lease machines and get service contracts with Linux installed? Could be a business opportunity out there... Linux does need more support than Windoze, but not much; if you were to offer small and medium size businesses a turnkey Linux solution, it should be competitive with Windoze with the additional support costs being met from savings on Windoze licence fees (these are only going to get more punitive with XP and Microsoft's move to becoming an application service provider). Key to making such a business work would seem to be hardware standardisation; the main obstacle at the moment is file and UI compatibility. (Businesses need to exchange files with clients and suppliers so they need a de facto standard format which is at present Office97; they need to get staff productive as soon as possible so MSOffice skills are standard in the employment market). But both of these obstacles can be overcome. OpenOffice will produce O97-compatible files, and even MS is moving towards open xml-based file formats; and intuitive interfaces are standardising around the WIMP-style GUIs pioneered by Xerox a quarter of a century ago at PARC. [Mind you I think that those interfaces have now reached an unsustainable level of complexity and are no longer as ergonomic as they were when conceived, but that is another story]
RE: [newbie] kups paper size...
On Friday, June 15, 2001 6:16 AM, mooseman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: X-RebelTech Is Here: www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit i have a problem with printing from my lm8 pc. i can print ok, but for some reason, my printer keeps throwing a page size error. it seems that it is being told to use A4 paper. we don't use A4 around here. can't resist a little chuckle. ever since there've been page printers, we in Europe have faced the opposite problem.. luckily most printer and driver manufacturers have now realised that US letter paper is pretty rare outside the US...
RE: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft
On Friday, June 15, 2001 12:07 PM, Paul [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: There are several other news sites that also have information on this review by Gartner. And they all focus on the fact that the review is sponsored by Microsoft. I am positive that this is just another attempt from Microsoft to convince the rest of the world that there is no life outside their windows. Which apparently is a very narrow viewpoint. I think the people Microsoft is trying to convince are the commercial software vendors. Windoze still has a slight edge over Linux in the availability of business software, although with developments such as KOffice and Open Office the gap in the office applications suite sector is closing fast. They want to make sure that developers produce applications for Windoze first, or don't bother porting applications to the Linux platform. Pity for microsoft then that it's made so many enemies in that market with its assimilate and destroy strategy
RE: [newbie] DVD Question
On Friday, June 15, 2001 7:15 AM, h3rb [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: What is a CSS-encrypted DVD? Cryptanalysis of Contents Scrambling System CSS is a scrambling system used in the distribution for movies on DVD ( Digital Versatile Disc ) a high capacity CD like storage system. Its main purpose is to prevent the unauthorized duplication of disc contents. This is achieved through encrypting the files, and storing keys in hardware. Its primary purpose at this stage in the evolution of the medium is in fact to enforce the regional encoding system on DVDs; until DVD-writers become widespread or network bandwidth increases by a further order of magnitude, the risk of illegal duplication is fairly small. Hollywood insists on being able to stage the release of movie titles in different formats in different parts of the world as part of its strategy of reinforcing US cultural imperialism fortunately, the regional coding system is broken.
RE: [newbie] error: failed dependencies
On Tuesday, June 12, 2001 7:25 AM, Michael Falzon [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 error: failed dependencies -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBOyW1nx+m/6t6W/SaEQJTagCg+2PICONXT2uLAeTNmqfAsytAJZkAn3aB m51HjlIJk1XDO16Wn2NiNYot =WZ/w -END PGP SIGNATURE- Michael is using PGP 7xx. This is a fundamentally UNTRUSTWORTHY implementation of PGP because NSA, who now own PGP, decided not to release the source code. It is a fundamental maxim of computer security that there is no security through obscurity. This was one of the reasons that Phil Zimmerman, who invented PGP, left them - although he says that 7.0.3. is secure and was finished under his watch, we have only his word for it whereas if the source was available we could (if we were so minded) walk through the code and satisfy ourselves as to its integrity. For non-commercial use, there are 6xx releases of PGP with published source; or there's GPG.
RE: [newbie] Setting up Intel print server on CUPS
On Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:06 PM, Wendell Gragg [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Ok, well since Mandrake refuses to help me on their official tech support site, I hope you guys can get me through it. Lousy way to do business if you ask me. oh I don't know. There's a company in Seattle, WA that's done quite well by being even less helpful to their customers...
[newbie] monitor resolution
How do I configure xfree86 4 to produce legible fonts while still using the highest resolution on my monitor? The KDE help centre suggests editing the order of the fonts lines in xf86config, but there are no such lines, just a note saying that a font server is now used. Where is the relevant config file for the font server? under windows I used 125dpi fonts so it is not surprising that 75dpi are illegible Edward Barrow
