Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 01:23:08PM +, Jayton Garnett wrote: Hi, Search for Microsoft Yahoo on Google ;-) and you will see MS offered $44.6B :-o late yesterday after the big boss of Yahoo resigned. The keyword is offered to buy, not bought for. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, since two or three minutes, Yahoo also has this news. This does not reflect very well. Erich Jayton Garnett wrote: Hi, Search for Microsoft Yahoo on Google ;-) and you will see MS offered $44.6B :-o late yesterday after the big boss of Yahoo resigned. Jayton On Feb 1, 2008 12:18 PM,

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Jayton Garnett
Hi, Search for Microsoft Yahoo on Google ;-) and you will see MS offered $44.6B :-o late yesterday after the big boss of Yahoo resigned. Jayton On Feb 1, 2008 12:18 PM, Erich Dollansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just heard rumours like this on German websites. What impact could this

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

2008-02-01 Thread Oliver Fromme
KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you guys are meanies! beasties even! I'm not sure if your question is meant to be serious or not, but I'll try to give a serious answer anyway. I'm working on that file right now. :-) Basically the name is kept for historical reasons. When the

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

2008-02-01 Thread Dan Langille
Oliver Fromme wrote: KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you guys are meanies! beasties even! I'm not sure if your question is meant to be serious or not, but I'll try to give a serious answer anyway. I'm working on that file right now. :-) Basically the name is kept for historical

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

2008-02-01 Thread Allen
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 22:23 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you guys are meanies! beasties even! I'm not sure if your question is meant to be serious or not, but I'll try to give a serious answer anyway. I'm working on that file right now. :-)

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

2008-02-01 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Oliver Fromme wrote: KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you guys are meanies! beasties even! When the forth-implemented boot menu was introduced, the forth file displayed that menu alongside an ASCII picture of the BSD daemon [1] mascot which is commonly called

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Erich Dollansky wrote: I just heard rumours like this on German websites. What impact could this have to the FreeBSD project? it was a news story on the san francisco news. they said that a federal investigation was going to decide if there were

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread johan beisser
On Feb 1, 2008, at 4:18 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: It could be anything from more support for FreeBSD to no support from Yahoo's side at all anymore. I like to think that MS learned their lesson on pulling FreeBSD from production use when they bought Hotmail. Perhaps not. Eat your own

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

2008-02-01 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Allen wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 22:23 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought it was neat, my first FreeBSD release was 4.0 from the Powerpak :) I love how FreeBSD does things like this for historical reasons, I love reading

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

2008-02-01 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Frank Shute wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:23:31PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you guys are meanies! beasties even! The options to enable it are: loader_logo=beastie loader_color=YES in /boot/loader.conf loader updated

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

2008-02-01 Thread Glenn Sieb
KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Allen wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 22:23 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought it was neat, my first FreeBSD release was 4.0 from the Powerpak :) I love how FreeBSD does things like this for historical

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Erich Dollansky wrote: KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Erich Dollansky wrote: I just heard rumours like this on German websites. What impact could this have to the FreeBSD project? it was a news story on the san francisco news. they

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

2008-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Allen wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 22:23 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you guys are meanies! beasties even! Wo ist dass? I didn't know it was still there! Only one 's' in dass is the correct spelling. man loader.conf will give you the hints

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread jerry
umm.. Uncle Bill is the one doing the buying.. so.. umm.. i read that as the courts viewing microsoft as becoming the monopoly. google made a run for the desktop a while back, right? so google is trying to compete with microsoft on a certain level. you can't exactly call these things

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread jerry
Erich said: I also wonder how Google earns so much monez with its search engine. Is it just the adds? Is it reallz this simple? On the other side, Google must be so much better than other search engines to get so much more hits to earn money with this free service via the adds. The problem

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erich said: I also wonder how Google earns so much monez with its search engine. Is it just the adds? Is it reallz this simple? On the other side, Google must be so much better than other search engines to get so much more hits to earn money with this free service

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Nikola Lečić
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 12:23:36 +1100 Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, 1 February 2008 at 16:58:31 -0800, johan beisser wrote: [...] Eat your own dogfood doesn't come pleasant when your dogfood is crap. Sure, but

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Dan Langille
Nikola Lečić wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 12:23:36 +1100 Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, 1 February 2008 at 16:58:31 -0800, johan beisser wrote: [...] Eat your own dogfood doesn't come pleasant when your dogfood is

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Brett Glass
At 07:19 PM 2/1/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been through many MA deals. MS will be able to successfully argue that the MS+Yahoo! combo does not constitute a monopoly, since: 1) the share of search of the combined companies does not equal that of it's competitor, Google (source:

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2008-02-01 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 01/02/2008, KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i was reading a book on discrete math (they didn't require that in madison.. er.. it didn't exist) and i stumbled upon a problem that perked my ears http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/tree/chill/p1310059.vhtml

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Nikola Lečić
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:48:54 -0500 Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikola Lečić wrote: Whatever be the case, I've always been wondering why people say that Yahoo! is a supporter of FreeBSD. Maybe someone can explain this, but what

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

2008-02-01 Thread spellberg_robert
i am learning not to top_post, albeit slowly. [ snip ] i was reading a book on discrete math (they didn't require that in madison.. er.. it didn't exist) and i stumbled upon a problem that perked my ears http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/tree/chill/p1310059.vhtml

Firefox in Multiple Windowing Systems

2008-02-01 Thread Crist J. Clark
Not FreeBSD-specific enough for me to feel OK putting this in freebsd-questions. Anyway, anyone know of a trick to get Firefox to work in multiple windowing environments at once? Specifically, I have a machine that runs a local Xorg desktop as well as one or more Xvnc instances. I don't know how