I think the discussion would add value by debating on yet another dimension:
I think we have had ENOUGH of this vs that OS wars. Migration /
adoption of this or that Operating System question is shortly going
to be irrelevant at many a places for a variety of valid reasons.
However, what is going
Hi,
On 6/26/07, Surjo Das [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you happen to visit any middle class home who have a PC for
their entertainment purpose, invariably you will find it loaded with Windows
in at least 95% of the cases.
Original, authentic, licensed?
If they really knew the amount they had
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Also, if you are familiar with Windows you
On 6/26/07, Surjo Das [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Its not a question of addiction. It's a matter of habit. Gabbar Singh
equates to Amjad Khan and not to Amitabh Bachchan what Ram Gopal Varma is
trying to do. He's fighting a losing battle. I went OT here. But this is
the best example I could
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Surjo Das wrote:
Its not a question of addiction. It's a matter of habit. Gabbar
Singh equates to Amjad Khan and not to Amitabh Bachchan what Ram
Gopal Varma is trying to do. He's fighting a losing battle. I
went OT here. But this is the best
Hi,
On 6/26/07, Surjo Das [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All PC's that are coming
out from factories have Vista on them or with a Vista ready sticker.
When was the last-time you visited a kitchen in a 5-star hotel in
India? My advice is please don't. You will never again eat in 5-star
hotels. The
--- Shakthi Kannan wrote:
When was the last-time you visited a kitchen in a
5-star hotel in
India? My advice is please don't. You will never
again eat in 5-star
hotels. The ambience/cleanliness you see in the
restaurant, is not the
same in the kitchen.
When I visited Delhi for a day, I
Surjo Das wrote:
It is just a matter of time. Time changes everything.
How much time are we talking of here. Microsoft released Windows 95 in
1995. They predicted that all PC's will be manufactured with pre-loaded
Windows. Now we are in 2007. Red Hat came out with their 6.2 version in
Hi,
On 6/26/07, Roshan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, there are
authorities, that are there to watch-over the 5-star
hotels?
But, are they doing their job? You will never know.
I never knew until I went for a friends' reception at Taj, in Chennai,
and saw a 'waiter' licking the ice-cream
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 16:39 +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
Our aim is not to fight Microsoft.
Yeah, that is the point.
Don't make a bad father out of MS, and don't make a crybaby out of
GNU-Linux (actually, the genealogy of GNU-Linux posits its lineage much
before the birth of this bad
--- Surjo Das [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have never come
across any mission critical
applications running on Windows servers. Its mostly
UNIX or Linux.
Do you have some data from some research or is this
because you feel it that way?
Regards,
--Naresh
On 26-Jun-07, at 7:47 AM, Surjo Das wrote:
so you recommend we all shift to vista?
I never recommended that we all shift to Vista. It is a matter of
choice of
every individual user. I am using Vista at home because my wife is
familiar
only with Windows. I didn't try to convert her
On 26-Jun-07, at 9:13 AM, Surjo Das wrote:
community, I feel it's up to companies like Red Hat and Novell to
promote
the Linux desktop. And there too, they are targeting corporate and
not the
home segment. IMHO, its up to Red Hat and Novell to promote Linux
on the
desktop and not
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I have never come
across any mission
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On 26-Jun-07, at 9:13 AM, Surjo Das
My Father and mother use Linux (FC6) on our home PC with no issues at all.
Infact they did not even feel a change from XP. They edit pictures,do
mail, internet.
I did not have to hand hold them at all.
On the other hand several of our managers at work complain endlessly
about how it
used to work
During Windows Vista's first six months on the market, Microsoft released four
security updates to address 12 total vulnerabilities. In the National
Vulnerability Database, the National Institute of Standards (NIST) rated 10 0f
these issues as high severity, one as medium, and one as low.
Hi,
On 6/25/07, Lokesh Bhog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
During Windows Vista's first six months on the market, Microsoft released
four security
updates to address 12 total vulnerabilities
... out of how many undisclosed vulnerabilities?
SK
--
Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20070622/bs_nf/53263
On 25-Jun-07, at 8:56 PM, Surjo Das wrote:
So what can we conclude from this report ? I have been using
Windows Vista
Ultimate for the last 4 months and I send my mails from Outlook. I
have
never faced any issues. I do agree that Linux is an excellent OS
but it
holds good only
On 6/25/07, Lokesh Bhog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the basis of these numbers, Jones concluded that Vista was more
secure than its open-source counterpart.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20070622/bs_nf/53263
Besides the point made by Shakti Kannan, how many
applications does Vista have and how
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so you recommend we all shift to vista?
I never recommended
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Surjo Das wrote:
It is a matter of choice of
every individual user.
Agreed! :)
I am using Vista at home because my wife is familiar
only with Windows. I didn't try to convert her to Linux as she has never
heard of it. She heard it for the
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I won't accept that people think GNU/Linux
On 6/26/07, Surjo Das [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I never recommended that we all shift to Vista. It is a matter of choice of
every individual user. I am using Vista at home because my wife is familiar
only with Windows. I didn't try to convert her to Linux as she has never
heard of it. She
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