On 2/18/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That the Linux community pushing 'You now have choice' breaks down
when it comes to the general public. And that perhaps we can actually
learn from WHY people prefer Windows in general.
My experience (from putting GNOME/KDE boxes in front
On 2/18/07, Jeffry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/18/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That the Linux community pushing 'You now have choice' breaks down
when it comes to the general public. And that perhaps we can actually
learn from WHY people prefer Windows in general.
My
Ok, now sit her down in front of a formatted hard drive, :-D
O.K., but let's talk oranges and oranges (I almost said apples and
Apples(R), but that would have been confusing).
It has been a long time since I installed a Microsoft product from a
bootable OEM disk, but it was not pleasant.
On 2/18/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/18/07, Jeffry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/18/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That the Linux community pushing 'You now have choice' breaks down
when it comes to the general public. And that perhaps we can
On 2/17/07, Jeffry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And don't forget that real Engineers (Professional Engineers) sign
their work and take responsibility for failures (reputation, money,
etc).
Not all real engineers need a PE.
Civil Engineers do.
Some Mechanical Engineers do.
There's a
On 2/18/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/17/07, Jeffry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And don't forget that real Engineers (Professional Engineers) sign
their work and take responsibility for failures (reputation, money,
etc).
Not all real engineers need a PE.
In some states
grep -in hosstrad ~/Mail/...gnhlug.x/*
Perhaps the shell did not expand the file names in dated order
You're right about that, but that would only be part of the
problem; MH msgs are stored in files with simple numeric names
like 1, 2, 423, , etc, but although the numeric ordering
of those
Boston Linux Installfest XXIV
When: Saturday, February 24, 2007 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061
Parking: parking is available in front of the building.
What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power strips and your
Linux distributions. We do have copies of some
On 2/17/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/17/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/17/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
business pixie dust, we'd all be using Amiga's.
Sure, the i386 brought a number of other advantages to the table,
chief among them
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:05:43 -0500
Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:18:41 -0500
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shouldn't
[grep -in hosstrad ~/Mail/...gnhlug.x/*]
yield *every* line which has Hosstraders in it?
-i = case insensitive
Ben Scott wrote:
Such as? Serious question; I'm at most a very casual student of
micro-architectures, so I don't know. I enjoy learning, though. So
educate me. :)
Hehehe. And Windowz is also sometimes credited for the success of
the Pentium. Does that define it as a killer app?
Tip: there were LOTS of files, each one with a filename of a
string of decimal digits, the values of which grew by +1 with
each successive message as it arrived (and they had not been
sorted or renamed). For instance, the messages bridging New
Year's 2006 were:
snip
Greetings, all...
The slideshow which I presented at the SLUG meeting back in October
has been updated and is now available online. The URL for the slides
is:
http://peapod.podzone.net:1234/hive/lojban-thing
Enjoy!
Dave Montenegro
On 2/18/07, Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
P.S. The prize has yet to be awarded. Ben's explanation is close,
but his wording (including that perhaps) makes me hold out for
one or two details.
Well, I'm not really familiar with MH in practice; I've read a FAQ
and a web page or two, is
On 2/18/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had VGA on my '286. And Minix and Windows 3.0.
I installed an 8-bit ISA Western Digital Paradise VGA card in my
Tandy 1000 SL, which had an 8088 and 640 KB of RAM. There was no way
in hell I was going to run MS Windows, but PC/GEOS looked a
Apparently, you never had to fight to get 3 KB more
out of conventional memory, to load just one more TSR
or that much of a bigger program.
RAM was indeed precious, leading to some extreme maneuvers.
One of the cooler TSRs I used early-on (around 1983) was a
driver that implemented a RAMdisk
P.S. The prize has yet to be awarded. Ben's explanation is close,
but his wording (including that perhaps) makes me hold out for
one or two details.
Tip: there were LOTS of files, each one with a filename of a
string of decimal digits, the values of which grew by +1 with
each successive
On 2/18/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/18/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MS-DOS was, is, and always will be limited to the 1 MB address space
of the original 8086-based IBM-PC design, in 64 KB segments at a time.
That's further eaten into by space reserved for
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