On Friday 06 January 2006 23:27, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
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Fortunately, I'd say that roughly 1/2 of the home users Just
Don't Care. They aren't looking to run any super-duper MS-specific apps
or games or anything. They want:
1) E-mail
1a) To be able to watch the (virus-laden) attachments
On Sunday 08 January 2006 09:34, Ted Roche wrote:
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Yup, I thought Microsoft had a good plan in keeping Intel on the
straight-and-narrow and giving UNIX a run for its money with Intel-
AMD / PowerPC / Alpha / MIPS rollouts of NT. I saw NT demoed on Alpha
at Valinor in Manchester, and it was
Mac is not really an option for me at this time, and I may indeed have to
sweat it out. I do have something of a BlueTooth stack currently on my Linux
system, but all it does now is tells me it's getting packets from the PDA. I
really don't have that much time to tinker with it; too many higher
On Monday 09 January 2006 00:08, Ben Scott wrote:
Some general commentary...
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I was once told that NT on the Alpha was fairly limited in it's
support for 64-bit operation, and didn't even properly support the
large memory model. I think it was by someone trying to sell OSF/1
licenses,
I remember finding this relatively easy to do, once I sat down and followed a
15 minute how-to for the BlueZ package. DUN was a little tougher, but I got
that working too and it was mostly a matter of finding the right connect
strings for T-Mobile T-Zones, which can be different for different
On Sunday 08 January 2006 10:06 pm, Brian Chabot wrote:
On Sunday 08 January 2006 09:37 pm, Bruce Dawson wrote:
Ben Scott wrote:
|On 1/8/06, Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|I have a relatively new machine that pauses for 20-120 seconds between
|SYN/ACK and issuing the banner on all
On 1/9/06, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some general commentary...have lost interest.So for practical purposes, PalmSource and Palmmight as well be one company.And PalmSource got sold off
And, of course, Microsoft isn'tanybody's friend.It continually amazes me that people keep falling for
--- Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 09 January 2006 00:08, Ben Scott wrote:
Some general commentary...
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I was once told that NT on the Alpha was fairly
limited in it's
support for 64-bit operation, and didn't even
properly support the
large memory model. I think it was
Hi,
I've followed this thread with interest, because I
have an old DEC Alpha (PC164LX) that was used as a RIP
Server (Raster Image Processing). It has about 128 MB
of RAM, and is currently running Debian/Gnu Woody.
I obtained it from a friend who worked for a company
out on route 128, that was
The weekly SwaNH mailing contained this tidbit:
New Potential Legislation
An Act establishing a committee to study requiring NH state
government to consider using open source software when acquiring new
software has been introduced. You can read the Act here http://
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 13:53:30 -0500
Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
New Potential Legislation
An Act establishing a committee to study requiring NH state
government to consider using open source software when
acquiring new
software has been introduced.
Hopefully this will pass and
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I'd be open to suggestions as to what I can do to enhance my Alpha
experience.
Since we now have an opportunity to create a technical discussion..
One of the things that made the Alpha/Linux combination so fast was that the
Alpha systems typically have a very large
Who: All are welcome to attend.
What: Introducing our new Zope/Plone based SLUG website
When: Monday, January 8 at 7:00pm
Where: Morse Hall rm 301 (Directions available on http://slug.gnhlug.org)
How: The talk will cover how to join and add content to our new server. We
In general, I am still baffled by companies who withold
Linux drivers for their HW, my current employer included.
However, this article:
http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060108163615614
...provides at least a glimpse into that mindset.
On 1/9/06, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In general, I am still baffled by companies who withold
Linux drivers for their HW, my current employer included.
However, this article:
http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060108163615614
...provides at least a glimpse into
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