Re: MS url

2004-01-07 Thread Colin Walls
The Register gets it just about right http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/34734.html > -Original Message- > From: Ceruti, Gerard G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 07 January 2004 13:15 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MS url > > > Hi People > > Is anyone aware of rebuttals to the d

Re: Free love? What have I been missing?

2003-11-20 Thread Colin Walls
> -Original Message- > From: Phil Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I've lain in the bath a few times over the last few months > (no smart remarks - usually I > shower) and contemplated the idea of free software. > > I've come to the conclusion that it's inevitable and > unavoidable, and th

Re: SCO CEO's letter to Open Source Community

2003-09-09 Thread Colin Walls
> -Original Message- > From: Ann Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 09 September 2003 15:28 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: SCO CEO's letter to Open Source Community > > > http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/09/09/123246.shtml?tid=187&tid=88 This all reminds me of the Red Queen from "A

Re: SCO - more water torture

2003-07-07 Thread Colin Walls
> I'm not picking on you specifically, especially since you > can't help it, but those idiots have mandated 6 lines of > boilerplate for > every four-line message -- 150% overhead in this case!! Its less of an overhead than that. After all, everyone sends emails in Word don't they, so an extra 300

Re: SCO - more water torture

2003-07-04 Thread Colin Walls
Absolutely agree with you - but unable to do anything about it. The fsking stuff is added by our mail gateway. > -Original Message- > From: Alan Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 03 July 2003 21:06 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: SCO - more water torture > > Another of them bein

Re: SCO - more water torture

2003-07-03 Thread Colin Walls
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Lionel Dyck wrote: > > > Another good article on SCO's water torture of the Linux community > > > > http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_27/b3840089.htm > > > > Is the authour prejudging this" > "True, SCO should be free to protect its software, in this case core >

Re: Processor Comparisons

2003-03-27 Thread Colin Walls
You can go to the standards sites (www.spec.org, www.tpc.org) to get some idea of the processing power of these machines. You might also want to look at the index of the world's best performing machines at www.top500.org. However, comparison is still difficult. You will find that the top end machi

Re: Linux Uprising

2003-02-26 Thread Colin Walls
> Microsoft really does NOT get it: > > http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/25/HNimcrisis_1.html "Greenwich (the MS IM product) will roll out with multiparty chat capabilities, peer-to-peer voice and video conferencing, data collaboration, authentication, encryption, multidomain support and e-m

Re: vi vs. ISPF

2003-02-24 Thread Colin Walls
> -Original Message- > From: Peter Flass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 20 February 2003 14:05 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: vi vs. ISPF > Simpler, but extremely annoying. The whole "insert" thing > just blows my > mind. I prefer the ISPF editor to xedit, but both are miles ahead

Re: Microsoft to convert world to "shared source" - by 15,625 AD

2003-01-23 Thread Colin Walls
> -Original Message- > From: Phil Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > "I think most people don't want their employees using the > source code everyday. Really, they > don't. That's a distraction from real work," Ballmer said last year. > > http://212.100.234.54/content/4/28981.html This es

Re: OT- Website creation Software

2003-01-09 Thread Colin Walls
> Slightly off topic , what software is the for website > creation under Linux (> ala FrontPage) ?. I can't think of anything as bad as FrontPage. Personally I use Xemacs with the psgml extension. If you want to go for something that is more GUI like, then try Quanta. Internet communications are

Re: News.com Article: Ballmer on Windows and Linux

2002-09-26 Thread Colin Walls
> "We will beat Linux on clusters. We can't beat them on price, > but we have to > add value." Can you say Wolfpack? When was the last time you heard about this? On the other side, can you say Beowulf and are you sick of hearing about the latest implementation? Internet communications are not s

Re: Strange results with DF Command

2002-09-26 Thread Colin Walls
You may be victim of one of the classic UNIX tricks. Create a file, open it and then delete it without closing it. What you now have is an anonymous file, it appears in no directories but has an associated inode. This is extremely useful where you want to create a temporary file that will go away

RE: SlickEdit ® Announces Availability of Visual SlickEdit for Linux on IBM eServer zSeries

2002-09-11 Thread Colin Walls
> From: Paul Matthews jnr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: SlickEdit ® Announces Availability of Visual SlickEdit for > Linux on IBM eServer zSeries > > > Thought this may be of interest to some of you, probably the more > developer orientated types will enjoy it most, but its still > fun

Re: General LINUX Question

2002-09-09 Thread Colin Walls
> -Original Message- > From: Rick Troth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Is it as "user friendly"? No. UNIX is user friendly - it is just very particular who its friends are. Internet communications are not secure and therefore the Barclays Group does not accept legal responsibility fo

Re: Clear Case

2002-06-25 Thread Colin Walls
Have a look at BitKeeper. This is used for version control on the Linux kernel. > -Original Message- > From: Lionel Dyck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 24 June 2002 17:23 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Clear Case > > > Is there a Clearcase to CVS migration tool? > > --

Re: Clear Case

2002-06-24 Thread Colin Walls
The alternative, which we are using, is to use Samba to export the Clear Case filesystem. > -Original Message- > From: Thomas David Rivers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 22 June 2002 01:25 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Clear Case > > > Gerard Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Sun takes yet another back-handed swipe at mainframe Linux

2002-06-18 Thread Colin Walls
-Original Message- > From: Scott Courtney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Look on page 2 of this article: > > http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,53006,00.html > > Unless the author (who is generall pro-opensource, based on > his other writings)took the comments way out of context, Sun >