Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-17 Thread et
On Thursday 18 July 2002 12:29 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 16 July 2002 9:04 pm, Carroll Grigsby did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Large bodies of water don't seem to make any difference -- most of them here are idiots, too. Say Linux and they get the panicked look of a deer

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-16 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 15 July 2002 11:26 am, Alastair Scott wrote: On Sunday 14 July 2002 2:08 am, magnet wrote: If you are ever in West Thurrock, Essex somewhere near the PCWorld store [M$World] please take the time to pop in to chat with their upgrade assistant and confirm that no... you cant play

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-15 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 14 July 2002 2:08 am, magnet wrote: If you are ever in West Thurrock, Essex somewhere near the PCWorld store [M$World] please take the time to pop in to chat with their upgrade assistant and confirm that no... you cant play Linux on an

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 14 July 2002 10:49 am, you wrote: ??What's Linux? bigger grin Anne Hi Anne! Yep, thats just about the usual reponse I get... lol -- /\

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-14 Thread Jay
HAHAHA.. I do the same thing and no one has a clue Do this all the time every place I go, yes, thats great - but does it work under Linux?... grin -- /\ DarkLord \/ If you are ever in West Thurrock, Essex somewhere near the PCWorld store [M$World] please take the time to pop

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I think the aim is to weaken Microsoft rather than to strengthen GNU/Linux. Microsoft loses over $US125 per XBox sold, and they hope to recoup those costs through the sale of games. Despite this, MS have lost billions on the XBox already. If you can buy an XBox, put GNU/Linux on it and run any

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 13 Jul 2002 10:29 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 13 July 2002 03:57 pm, you wrote: I plan to start a new hobby -- whenever I'm at a computer show or store, I'm going to go around and ask about different products saying -- does that have a driver for Linux. I'll try not to

[newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-13 Thread Randy Kramer
I plan to start a new hobby -- whenever I'm at a computer show or store, I'm going to go around and ask about different products saying -- does that have a driver for Linux. I'll try not to become too well known, or the vendors will see that one nut who asks about Linux drivers. (I'll try to

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-13 Thread Miark
I do that on occasion too. I have to move in a couple months and was looking for new work when I came across a job for a network admin. I'm not really interesting in the job, but the description mentioned that it was a Windows network that will soon be upgraded to Windows 2000 or Windows XP. I

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 13 July 2002 03:57 pm, you wrote: I plan to start a new hobby -- whenever I'm at a computer show or store, I'm going to go around and ask about different products saying -- does that have a driver for Linux. I'll try not to become too well known, or the vendors will see that one

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-13 Thread Randy Kramer
Miark wrote: I have to move in a couple months and was looking for new work when I came across a job for a network admin. I'm not really interesting in the job, but the description mentioned that it was a Windows network that will soon be upgraded to Windows 2000 or Windows XP. I couldn't

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-13 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 12:34, Rick Henderson wrote: On Saturday 13 July 2002 09:08 pm, magnet wrote: Do this all the time every place I go, yes, thats great - but does it work under Linux?... grin -- /\ DarkLord \/ If you are ever in West Thurrock, Essex

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-13 Thread Miark
Michael, See http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/ Also not that someone will dump $100,000 into the project each time the porting team completes each of two tasks. You'd think there are better place to dump $200,000 into the Linux community. Odd. Miark Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: