Re: On the other side...

2006-05-11 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 12 May 2006 01:10:20 +1200 Rik Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Code Breakers > > "The poorest countries are now beginning to use free or open source > software (FOSS), a software that parallels many of Microsoft's programmes" > > http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickpa

Re: On the other side...

2006-05-11 Thread bossman
I know but just think how the site wiould handle this sorta message. they'd rant on about it being proaganda just like she beleived that the server she was using was an MS one not *nix server. Quoting Carl Cerecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ShellyTheRepublican is a spoof site making fun of extreme v

Re: On the other side...

2006-05-11 Thread Rik Tindall
The Code Breakers "The poorest countries are now beginning to use free or open source software (FOSS), a software that parallels many of Microsoft's programmes" http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickpage.asp?pageid=2783

Re: On the other side...

2006-05-10 Thread Carl Cerecke
ShellyTheRepublican is a spoof site making fun of extreme views in the republican party. Cheers, Carl. On 10/05/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Shame on you Now that it's released and is under the MS umbrella *nix won't be such a communist thing anymore, ShelleytheRepublic

Re: On the other side...

2006-05-09 Thread Adrian Mageanu
About fifteen years ago when NT was just emerging on the back of DEC collapse I said at a geeks' conference: M$ has still a long way to go until becomes a unix system. Although is getting closer by the year, it is still true. Adrian On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 08:47 +1200, Steve Brorens wrote: > Some

Re: On the other side...

2006-05-09 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 16:58 +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OR maybe in 10 years from now she'll be claiming that MS developed *nix and > linux is just an off shoot ... They did develop *nix for years: Xenix :)

Re: On the other side...

2006-05-09 Thread bossman
Shame on you Now that it's released and is under the MS umbrella *nix won't be such a communist thing anymore, ShelleytheRepublican won't be able to bang on any more unless she desides that the OSS staff that have been brought into MS have hypontised everyone at Redmond and have implanted the

RE: On the other side...

2006-05-09 Thread Wesley Parish
I'm aware of that, which is partly why I keep making such suggestions. When companies such as IBM open some of their source and start growing, as has happened, and Microsoft doesn't for such a crucial interoperability thing - imagine its usefulness if it could be connected to an sshd -, and stays

RE: On the other side...

2006-05-09 Thread Steve Brorens
unix way' to Windows admin. The Microsoft long-term plan hasn't changed, just the tactics - steve > -Original Message- > From: Wesley Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 10 May 2006 1:58 p.m. > To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz > Subject

Re: On the other side...

2006-05-09 Thread Wesley Parish
Quoting Steve Brorens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Some interesting developments on 'the other side'... > > POWERSHELL (aka Monad, MSH) - See > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell for an intro. Very > strong *nix flavour, and Exchange12 administration GUI's will be built > upon this - ie

RE: On the other side...

2006-05-09 Thread Steve Brorens
> From: Michael JasonSmith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 10 May 2006 11:37 a.m. > To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz > Subject: RE: On the other side... > > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 11:32 +1200, Steve Brorens wrote: > > Well it's a mixture of all thing

RE: On the other side...

2006-05-09 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 11:32 +1200, Steve Brorens wrote: > Well it's a mixture of all things from all over the place (eg Perl and > SQL) plus the whole .NET thing, but it feels *much* more like an > extension of bash, awk and friends than it does anything from the > DOS/Basic/WSH side. Really power

RE: On the other side...

2006-05-09 Thread Steve Brorens
n via the 'man' command!) If you have to work with Windows it's a promising way to use the 'trad unix way' in that environment. -Original Message- From: Michael JasonSmith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 10 May 2006 11:09 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canter

Re: On the other side...

2006-05-09 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 09:05 +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote: > Is it time to bring out that 1987 quote about re-inventing unix? >From what I have read about Monad, it is not that Unix like (or sh-like). Rather, it is more like Python or Ruby.

Re: On the other side...

2006-05-09 Thread Carl Cerecke
Is it time to bring out that 1987 quote about re-inventing unix? Cheers, Carl. On 10/05/06, Steve Brorens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Some interesting developments on 'the other side'... POWERSHELL (aka Monad, MSH) - See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell for an intro. Very stron