Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Steve Coleman
Randall R Schulz wrote: I think we have to work with the legal system, not try to subvert it. Microsoft has a right to set the licensing terms it wants. We have a right to tell them to go to hell. Currently however, and as you note, the power relationship is highly skewed. It ain't easy to

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Tim Prince
On Thursday 03 April 2003 06:54, Steve Coleman wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: I think we have to work with the legal system, not try to subvert it. Microsoft has a right to set the licensing terms it wants. We have a right to tell them to go to hell. Currently however, and as you note,

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
Tim, At 07:28 2003-04-03, you wrote: ... Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows XP64, but it seems Microsoft would rather lose out to linux and HPUX than let their customers run cygwin. It may be they don't understand how many customers depend on cygwin, which

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Steve Coleman wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: I think we have to work with the legal system, not try to subvert it. Microsoft has a right to set the licensing terms it wants. We have a right to tell them to go to hell. Currently however, and as you note, the power relationship is highly

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Tim Prince wrote: Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows XP64, but it seems Microsoft would rather lose out to linux and HPUX than let their customers run cygwin. It may be they don't understand how many customers depend on cygwin, which is their fault too, since

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Tim Prince wrote: Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows XP64, but it seems Microsoft would rather lose out to linux and HPUX than let their customers run cygwin. It may be they don't understand how many customers

RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Stephan Mueller
DeFaria Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Big Brother is Real On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Tim Prince wrote: Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows XP64, but it seems Microsoft would rather lose out to linux and HPUX than let their customers

RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
with #ifdefs, yes -- is that the objection here? stephan(); -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 8:31 AM To: Andrew DeFaria Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Big Brother is Real On Thu

Re: RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Timothy C Prince
-Original Message- From: Stephan Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 10:37:19 -0800 Subject: RE: Big Brother is Real Can someone elaborate on exactly which APIs have changed incompatibly (in 64-bit Windows)? I'm only mildly familiar with the 64-bit

Re: Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Timothy C Prince
-Original Message- From: Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 07:34:20 -0800 Subject: Re: Big Brother is Real Tim, At 07:28 2003-04-03, you wrote: ... Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows XP64, but it seems

Re: Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 12:22 2003-04-03, Timothy C Prince wrote: ... We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company. -- Lily Tomlin __ They may care. I doubt their chances of overtaking linux-ia64 or making back their investment in XP64 this year are

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:28:14AM -0800, Tim Prince wrote: Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows XP64, Wow. I had no idea I was so powerful. I think I need a raise. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:37:19AM -0800, Stephan Mueller wrote: Can someone elaborate on exactly which APIs have changed incompatibly (in 64-bit Windows)? I'm only mildly familiar with the 64-bit story, but my understanding is that the the 64-bit APIs are basically the same as 32-bit (with the

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:37:26PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I think the only problem is that Cygwin probably just needs to be debugged to see what's going on. If someone wants to send me a nice 64 bit system running WinXP 64 (or whatever it's called), I'll see what I can do.

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:47:39PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:37:26PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I think the only problem is that Cygwin probably just needs to be debugged to see what's going on. If someone wants to send me a nice 64 bit system running

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:49:43PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:47:39PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I got a hint lately about stuff working different on 64bit. If a 32 bit application is called from a 64 bit application the stack is 0xc000 lower than if the

Re: Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Timothy C Prince
-Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 16:34:41 -0500 Subject: Re: Big Brother is Real On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:28:14AM -0800, Tim Prince wrote: Lack of cygwin support has impeded the market penetration of Windows XP64

RE: RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Stephan Mueller
, the efforts made to remain compatible with existing apps are astounding. stephan(); -Original Message- From: Timothy C Prince [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:09 PM To: Stephan Mueller Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE: Big Brother is Real

Re: RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:12:24PM -0800, Stephan Mueller wrote: Speaking only for myself, and not my employer (because I don't know what he thinks) I can only say that from everyone I've met, and everything I do know, it appears to me that API changes are always made with backwards compatibility

Re: RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:16:14PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:12:24PM -0800, Stephan Mueller wrote: Speaking only for myself, and not my employer (because I don't know what he thinks) I can only say that from everyone I've met, and everything I do know, it appears

Re: RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-03 Thread Martin
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 5:20 PM Subject: Re: RE: Big Brother is Real On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:16:14PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:12:24PM -0800, Stephan Mueller wrote: Speaking only for myself, and not my employer (because I don't know what he

Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 07:14 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: ... XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS. [snip] Thorsten ... with completely unrealistic licensing (see the last paragraph of http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#office). OH. MY. GOD. I installed SP3 on my

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: At 07:14 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: ... XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS. [snip] Thorsten ... with completely unrealistic licensing (see the last paragraph of

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Martin Gainty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 8:29 AM Subject: Big Brother is Real At 07:14 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: ... XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS. [snip] Thorsten ... with completely unrealistic

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Randall R Schulz (03-04-01 17:29 +0100) At 07:14 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS. ... with completely unrealistic licensing (see the last paragraph of http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#office). OH. MY. GOD.

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
: Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 8:29 AM Subject: Big Brother is Real At 07:14 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: ... XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS. [snip] Thorsten ... with completely

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Thorsten, At 07:50 2003-04-01, you wrote: * Randall R Schulz (03-04-01 17:29 +0100) At 07:14 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS. ... with completely unrealistic licensing (see the last paragraph of

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Fred Ma
OH. MY. GOD. I installed SP3 on my Win2K. Ignorance is NOT bliss. I guess it really is time to move to Linux. Randall Schulz Any comments on whether a firewall helps? I don't use office, just Win2K (and even then, mostly on cygwin). I recall a time Kerio and ZoneAlarm kept asking for

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:24:15AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: Thorsten, At 07:50 2003-04-01, you wrote: * Randall R Schulz (03-04-01 17:29 +0100) At 07:14 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS. ... with completely

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Randall R Schulz (03-04-01 18:24 +0100) At 07:50 2003-04-01, you wrote: * Randall R Schulz (03-04-01 17:29 +0100) At 07:14 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS. ... with completely unrealistic licensing (see the last

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Herr Doktor Faylor, At 08:38 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:24:15AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: Thorsten, At 07:50 2003-04-01, you wrote: * Randall R Schulz (03-04-01 17:29 +0100) At 07:14 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: XP is the first

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Chris, At 08:38 2003-04-01, you wrote: I don't recall giving you my permission to move to Linux, Randall. You're too valuable to the cygwin community for me to allow this move. Maybe a gold star would help persuade me to stay... Sorry. cgf Randy (there he is again) -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:05:51AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: At 08:38 2003-04-01, you wrote: I don't recall giving you my permission to move to Linux, Randall. You're too valuable to the cygwin community for me to allow this move. Sorry. Yes, master. How shall I punish myself? Just monitor

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: Chris, At 08:38 2003-04-01, you wrote: I don't recall giving you my permission to move to Linux, Randall. You're too valuable to the cygwin community for me to allow this move. Maybe a gold star would help persuade me to stay... Sorry. cgf

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:05:51AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: At 08:38 2003-04-01, you wrote: I don't recall giving you my permission to move to Linux, Randall. You're too valuable to the cygwin community for me to allow this move. Sorry. Yes, master. How shall I punish myself? You

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:05:51AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: At 08:38 2003-04-01, you wrote: I don't recall giving you my permission to move to Linux, Randall. You're too valuable to the cygwin community for me to allow this move.

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Chris, At 09:19 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:05:51AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: At 08:38 2003-04-01, you wrote: I don't recall giving you my permission to move to Linux, Randall. You're too valuable to the cygwin community for me to allow this move. Sorry. Yes, master.

RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread günter strubinsky
. If, lastly Office 11 would not be backwards compatible with their previous documents, I see the sun rise! guenter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randall R Schulz Sent: Tuesday, 01 April, 2003 10:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Big Brother

RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Günter, At 09:56 2003-04-01, you wrote: I missed out on that.. What does sp3 for win2k do? It opens a back door for MS snooping. DRM indeed! Btw. I only use amd cpu's. To my understanding they don't have the cpu id (I don't trust a software that allows me to turn the id of because obviously

RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread günter strubinsky
To: 'Randall R Schulz'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Big Brother is Real I missed out on that.. What does sp3 for win2k do? Btw. I only use amd cpu's. To my understanding they don't have the cpu id (I don't trust a software that allows me to turn the id of because obviously software can also turn

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:31:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:05:51AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: Yes, master. How shall I punish myself? You didn't read your discworld careful enough. It's spelled

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread pd
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:31:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:05:51AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: At 08:38 2003-04-01, you wrote: I don't recall giving you my permission to move to Linux, Randall. You're

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Martin Gainty
Linux STILL doesnt have driver support for the latest video cards.. In other words if you're working in Linux keep that VGA card ! -Martin - Original Message - From: Thorsten Kampe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 9:53 AM Subject: Re: Big Brother

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:31:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:05:51AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: Yes, master. How shall I punish myself? You didn't read

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:40:03AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: Chris, At 09:19 2003-04-01, you wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:05:51AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: At 08:38 2003-04-01, you wrote: I don't recall giving you my permission to move to Linux, Randall. You're too valuable to the

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 10:10 2003-04-01, you wrote: A lisp would be already a good start. Just don't write programs with it... Hey! Lisp is my all-time favorite language! Corinna -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread günter strubinsky
] On Behalf Of Randall R Schulz Sent: Tuesday, 01 April, 2003 12:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Big Brother is Real Günter, At 09:56 2003-04-01, you wrote: I missed out on that.. What does sp3 for win2k do? It opens a back door for MS snooping. DRM indeed! Btw. I only use amd cpu's. To my

RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Randall R Schulz
Günter, That first remark of mine was meant facetiously, of course. SP3 does more than just open a privacy hole (I assume). My guess (nope, I haven't done the research--I had my child-like naivete destroyed by Igor's URL just today!) is that it's during system update that you're going to be

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 10:38:15AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: At 10:10 2003-04-01, you wrote: A lisp would be already a good start. Just don't write programs with it... Hey! Lisp is my all-time favorite language! Yeth, thath the thame with all Igorth... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

RE: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
Randall R Schulz wrote: Obligatory disclaimer: I ANAL. You? You'd better make that IANASCJ gsw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:14:23AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: At 08:38 2003-04-01, you wrote: I don't recall giving you my permission to move to Linux, Randall. You're too valuable to the cygwin community for me to allow this move. Maybe a gold star would help persuade me to stay... Ok,

Re: Big Brother is Real

2003-04-01 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:14:23AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: At 08:38 2003-04-01, you wrote: I don't recall giving you my permission to move to Linux, Randall. You're too valuable to the cygwin community for me to allow this move. Maybe a