On Tue, 11 May 2004 22:03:55 -0700
David E. Fox disseminated the following:
> regardless of which OS is being used.
True enough, but keep in mind that Longhorn will be using all these resources
*sitting doing nothing*.
Hell, WinXP uses over 120 MB of RAM just at idle, if you want to do anything
On Wed, 5 May 2004 12:49:04 +0100
"Tony S. Sykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think this might be the high standard system spec around in 2 years
> time anyway. Scary thought though that we will have 2 gig of memory
> and a terabyte of disk space in one machine.
Just put in perspective, that's
On Wed, 5 May 2004 17:40:13 -0400
JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You bring up a good point. Xandros, Libranet, Mandrake, all the 'not
> free as in beer' distros, trumpet their ease of use, including their
> support for
At least in the case of Mandrake, much of that stuff is in plf for
obvio
On Wed, 5 May 2004 12:49:34 -0700
Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The biggest linux Thorn in my side is MP3 players Linux just can't
> handle the propriety file systems We need an OSS standard for this.
Dunno what mp3 has to do with proprietary file systems (ITYM proprietary
encoding sys
Lanman wrote:
Tony S. Sykes wrote:
Microsoft is expected to recommend that the "average" Longhorn PC
feature a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of
RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired
port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics process
On Wed, 05 May 2004 17:14:57 -0700
Eric S. Dye disseminated the following:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I am wondering if anyone has had problems using the Evolution Mail
> Program
> in the new
> 10.0 Linux. My Evolution crashes on closing it. If anyone else's
> does, do
> you know how to alleviate
> the pr
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 04:11 pm, JoeHill wrote:
> On Wed, 5 May 2004 15:27:57 -0700
>
> Aron Smith disseminated the following:
> > > You bring up a good point. Xandros, Libranet, Mandrake, all the 'not
> > > free as in beer' distros, trumpet their ease of use, including their
> > > support for pr
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Hi Folks,
I am wondering if anyone has had problems using the Evolution Mail
Program
in the new
10.0 Linux. My Evolution crashes on closing it. If anyone else's
does, do
you know how to alleviate
the problem. Thanks for any help given.
Eric S. Dye
On Thu, 6 May 2004 09:11, JoeHill wrote:
> One notable exception, comes in perfectly with just the basic RealPlayer:
>
> http://www.airamericaradio.com/
>
> ...bunch of lefties, must be smarter than the...er...others. :-D
>
> But ya, didn't someone point out on here the iRiver player will support
On Wed, 5 May 2004 15:27:57 -0700
Aron Smith disseminated the following:
> > You bring up a good point. Xandros, Libranet, Mandrake, all the 'not free
> > as in beer' distros, trumpet their ease of use, including their support for
> > proprietary formats like RealOne, Flash, etc. and proprietary s
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 02:40 pm, JoeHill wrote:
> On Wed, 5 May 2004 12:49:34 -0700
>
> Aron Smith disseminated the following:
> > > How much easier can it get?! For the majority of users, whose greatest
> > > demand on their desktop is maybe getting their scanner or digital
> > > camera to work,
On Wed, 5 May 2004 12:49:34 -0700
Aron Smith disseminated the following:
> > How much easier can it get?! For the majority of users, whose greatest
> > demand on their desktop is maybe getting their scanner or digital camera to
> > work, we're already there. With products like Xandros and Libranet
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 12:16 pm, JoeHill wrote:
> On Thu, 06 May 2004 04:48:33 +1000
>
> Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following:
> > We've got two years to work on linux and the desktop.
>
> How much easier can it get?! For the majority of users, whose greatest
> demand on their desktop is maybe
On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 05:16, JoeHill wrote:
> On Thu, 06 May 2004 04:48:33 +1000
> Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following:
>
> > We've got two years to work on linux and the desktop.
>
> How much easier can it get?! For the majority of users, whose greatest demand on
> their desktop is maybe get
On Thu, 06 May 2004 04:48:33 +1000
Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following:
> We've got two years to work on linux and the desktop.
How much easier can it get?! For the majority of users, whose greatest demand on
their desktop is maybe getting their scanner or digital camera to work, we're
alread
On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 20:56, Lanman wrote:
> While I'm currently drooling all over those specifications, I can't see
> Longhorn being ready to ship for at least 2 years
We've got two years to work on linux and the desktop. LongWhore's
demands are going to be the winning hand for putting linux on
On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 00:44, JoeHill wrote:
> If Billy's prediction that hardware will eventually be essentially free doesn't
> come true, MS are in a whole world of hurt .
(Hey Joe - where ya going with that gun in your hand?)
Meanwhile, just as a side-fart, since Friday night I've been asked b
On May 5, 2004 04:56, Lanman wrote:
> Tony S. Sykes wrote:
...
> On the other hand, I can see many of us telling our employers that we'll
> bite the bullet and accept Longhorn on our systems, just so we can have
> that kind of horsepower on our desktops, after which we would promptly
> install Linu
On Wed, 5 May 2004 09:16:56 +0100
Tony S. Sykes disseminated the following:
> Microsoft is expected to recommend that the "average" Longhorn PC feature a
> dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a
> terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an
Tony S. Sykes wrote:
Microsoft is expected to recommend that the "average" Longhorn PC
feature a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs
of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired
port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs
t
Microsoft is expected to recommend that the "average" Longhorn PC feature a dual-core
CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1
Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics
processor that runs three times faster tha
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