Linux-Advocacy Digest #252
Linux-Advocacy Digest #252, Volume #35 Fri, 15 Jun 01 01:13:02 EDT Contents: Re: Why homosexuals are no threat to heterosexuals (drsquare) Re: Why homosexuals are no threat to heterosexuals (drsquare) Re: Opera (drsquare) Re: Getting used to Linux (drsquare) Re: Getting used to Linux (drsquare) Re: Linux dead on the desktop. (drsquare) Re: Linux dead on the desktop. (drsquare) Re: Redhat video problems. (drsquare) Re: Linux freindly ISPs? (drsquare) Re: Dennis Ritchie -- He Created Unix, But Now Uses Microsoft Windows (drsquare) Re: Dennis Ritchie -- He Created Unix, But Now Uses Microsoft Windows (drsquare) Re: OT: The point of all of this... (was Re: Where is American pride?) (drsquare) Re: LINUX PRINTING SUCKS (drsquare) Re: *Newbie* Linux/Windows 98 Dual Boot (drsquare) Re: Linux wins again (drsquare) Re: Why homosexuals are no threat to heterosexuals (was: chaney: retard) (drsquare) Re: OT: Where is American pride?... (was Re: European arrogance and (Rotten168) Re: Where is American pride?... (was Re: European arrogance and (Rotten168) Re: Where is American pride?... (was Re: European arrogance and (Rotten168) Re: So what software is the NYSE running ? (Rotten168) Re: Linux wins again (Linux Admin) Re: This will not happen again, said the Microsoft spokesperson. Period. (Flacco) From: drsquare [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: soc.men,soc.singles,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh Subject: Re: Why homosexuals are no threat to heterosexuals Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 05:13:29 +0100 On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:00:43 -0400, in comp.os.linux.advocacy, (Sky King [EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... just posted FACTS. You can get the same info from gay and lesbian sites. sky OK, a few points about the site: 1) It only mentions being about cases in the US. I thought we were talking about the developed countries. Sure you can screw up the numbers if you go to Africa etc. sky We were talking about ALL countries. And even with developed countries, the US is still but a small fraction. You'll have to provide statistics for the entire world if you want to prove anything. The US is but a small percentage (~4%) of the world. Testing 4% of people will not give an accurate result. 2) It only mentions cases of AIDS, not instances of HIV. There are probably many more with HIV who have not developed AIDS yet. Yep and in the U.S. most would be gay too. sky Who mentioned the US? 3) The date only seems to go up to 1997, and is therefore obsolete. Updated data would be the same only larger numbers. sky Prove it. 4) It does not mention how the statistics were obtained. 5) It does not mention any independent bodies who verified the data. 6) The data was collected by a body from a predominantly homophobic country, therefore making the statistics next to useless. Ah there we have it. All your other reasons do not matter. Just like I said above. It does not matter who does the statistics if the statisticians are from the U.S. they are flawed because of homophobic attitudes. It would not matter how they were obtained etc. sky So you agree that the statistics are worthless? Thankyou. It is not a predominantly homophobic country. Yes, it is. Gays like to label anyone that disagrees with their lifestyle or special rights for gays as being homophobic. No, just people who try to opress them because of it. They don't fear homosexuals they are simply disgusted by their lifestyle. No, they're just taught by the vicar to hate and fear homosexuals. Especially men with men. Lesbians are more tolerated. Besides homosexuals do not tolerate those that disagree with their lifestyle. sky Hardly surprising as the heterosexual majority finds it extremely difficult to tolerate homosexuals. I'd like to see your replies to the above points. You just did. sky And I just had to laugh. -- From: drsquare [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: soc.men,soc.singles,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh Subject: Re: Why homosexuals are no threat to heterosexuals Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 05:13:30 +0100 On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:18:36 -0400, in comp.os.linux.advocacy, (John LaVoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: OK, a few points about the site: 1) It only mentions being about cases in the US. The US is but a small percentage (~4%) of the world. Testing 4% of people will not give an accurate result. That's what is being discussed, i.e. the developed world Since when does US equate to i.e. the developed world? 1) We never cut it down to the developed world. 2) The US is a small fraction of the developed world. 2) It only mentions cases of AIDS, not instances of HIV. There are probably many more with HIV who have not developed AIDS yet. But there is no reason to suspect that hets develop AIDS at a different
Linux-Advocacy Digest #252
Linux-Advocacy Digest #252, Volume #34Sun, 6 May 01 12:13:05 EDT Contents: Windows makes good coasters (Chris Ahlstrom) Re: Richard Stallman what a tosser, and lies about free software (Roberto Alsina) Re: WinTrolls and advocates are the ones who are geeks! (Chris Ahlstrom) Re: Richard Stallman what a tosser, and lies about free software (Roberto Alsina) Re: I think I've discovered Flatfish's true identity... (Michael Vester) Re: Richard Stallman what a tosser, and lies about free software (Roberto Alsina) Re: Why is Microsoft opening more Windows source code? (Ray Chason) Re: Richard Stallman what a tosser, and lies about free software (Roberto Alsina) Re: How to hack with a crash, another Microsoft feature (Charles Lyttle) Re: Linux a Miserable Consumer OS ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) From: Chris Ahlstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: alt.linux.sux,alt.linux,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy Subject: Windows makes good coasters Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 15:17:38 GMT dale wrote: i can understand the digicam stuff especially if it is usb but the burning stuff is totally out of line!! Cd record is a wonderful prog and deserves all credit it can get.. Have you ever tryed it? i dought it! cdrecord is great for copying Microsoft CDs, audio CDs, and for making archives of your /home/luser directory when you decide to strip your machine down to reduce the amount of space used by Windoze, and increase the amount used by Linux. Combined with mkisofs, it would seem pretty difficult to me to beat the flexibility and safety of CD burning on Linux. As far as obtaining audio data, cdparanoia is great. You can often reconstitute a broken CD (one with tracks that skip) with it. Is there any software like that available for free in the Windoze world? In any case, every Windoze user I've talked to that burns CDs tells me about how often they've coastered a CD. I've never coastered one under Linux, so I have no intention of wasting my time booting to Windoze 2000 to burn CDs. Windoze, even of the NT/2000 ilk, has too high a peak interrupt latency to be worth risking a $0.50 CD-R. You never know when Windoze will pop in and garbage collect, and not respond to the CD interrupt in time. Windoze latency is like 10 msec typical even in the most advanced desktop versions. Linux latency, on the other hand, is measured in microseconds. To which OS would you trust your time-sensitive operations? That being said, take note that Linux needs modification for use in real-time applications. John Travis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... But when I want to do things such as web surf, read news, send email, download pictures from a camera, use my burner to create music compilations any technology made in the last 3 years, in other words, there is no choice other than windows. See the above. Mac osX can't even burn a freaking Cd. Yeah I like bringing up the cd thing too ;-). I like to play with lots of multimedia stuff, which unfortunately means I can't use only Unix. You guys need to research where Linux is at now. It's a moving target, and it's moving forward even faster than Microsoft can whip its pony. Chris -- Free the Software! -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roberto Alsina) Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,misc.int-property Subject: Re: Richard Stallman what a tosser, and lies about free software Date: 6 May 2001 15:17:52 GMT Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 05 May 2001 03:26:15 GMT, T. Max Devlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Said Roberto Alsina in comp.os.linux.advocacy on 4 May 2001 14:15:16 On Fri, 04 May 2001 04:16:38 GMT, T. Max Devlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Said Roberto Alsina in comp.os.linux.advocacy on 3 May 2001 15:08:24 On Thu, 03 May 2001 15:02:48 GMT, T. Max Devlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I'm sure. No, it has not been done in practice; it is impossible in practice to write a program which requires a library that doesn't yet exist in any way. What can I say? It *is* possible, and I can prove it by example. What commercial grade product have you produced using this insane method, then? When did commercial grade enter the picture? Again, we are talking software that people would be willing to pay for, or the entire issue of copyright goes poof. Bollocks. Good software can be a derivative work of bad software, so copyright of bad software is quite important. But if you really need that, I produced a image archiving system for a newspaper, without access to the database used by the newspaper. I did have another database that implemented the same API, though. And you're still going to refuse to see why that small distinction is a big one, are you? What small distinction? [...remainder of Roberto missing the point again deleted as unproductive...] Fine by me. Now
Linux-Advocacy Digest #252
Linux-Advocacy Digest #252, Volume #33Sun, 1 Apr 01 12:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Communism ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Communism ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Doug, Doug, Doug(was Re: Communism) ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: ATTN: Outlook Express Users and Virus's ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Multitasking (Chad Everett)
Re: I regretfully conclude that Linux is a piece of CRAP. (Chad Everett)
Re: Linux needs a standard, user proof distro (Byron A Jeff)
Re: Baseball (Chad Everett)
Re: Communism (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: Communism ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,misc.survivalism,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,soc.singles
Subject: Re: Communism
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 10:38:28 -0400
Mathew wrote:
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Aaron R. Kulkis wrote:
Mathew wrote:
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Aaron R. Kulkis wrote:
Mathew wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Chad Everett wrote:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 01:03:09 +1000, Mathew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Gunner © wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 01:59:15 -0500, "Aaron R. Kulkis"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cuba has dedicated itself to the principle that, within its means, it
will try not to kill any human beings due to lack of food, shelter,
medical care, poor sanitation, etc.
But they got real good at shooting down Cessnas..
I wonder what Cuba would be like if Batista and the Mafia still ruled.
It would be a lot like Las Vegas, Nevada
I heard the Mob is not so much in control of Vegas now.
Which one of the voices in your head told you that?
Logic.They control it very much less now than they did in the 60's and 70's.
The Feds want to make sure they get all of their tax money.
Considering that it's an ALL CASH business, perfect for money
launderinghow would taxation deter the mob from desiring
and maintaining control in Las Vegas?
Tight regulation of the businesses,undercover agents.
Good god, Matthew, you really are a fucking moron.
What part of "no recievables, no deliverables" do you not understand?
All they have to do is have a planted "bettor" come in and deliberately
lose at the blackjack table. Ta-daa. Money successfully laundered.
What records?
What's the undercover agent going to see, other than some slob losing
at blackjack (even better if he buys a drink or two so he can play
the part of DRUNK stupid slob.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shelala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
--
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,us.military.army,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,soc.singles,misc.survivalism
Subject: Re: Communism
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 10:45:50 -0400
GreyCloud wrote:
"T. Max Devlin" wrote:
Said Aaron R. Kulkis in alt.destroy.microsoft on Sat, 31 Mar 2001
Roger Perkins wrote:
Again you illustrate
Linux-Advocacy Digest #252
Linux-Advocacy Digest #252, Volume #32 Sat, 17 Feb 01 00:13:03 EST Contents: Re: Hmm interesting quote from Kulkis on alt.support.depression (Aaron Kulkis) Re: Kernel upgrade - not bad at all (Brent Pathakis) Re: Windows XP! Will it really be reliable? (Aaron Kulkis) Re: Whistler/.NET will Help Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Re: Hmm interesting quote from Kulkis on alt.support.depression (Aaron Kulkis) Re: Hmm interesting quote from Kulkis on alt.support.depression (Aaron Kulkis) Re: ReiserFS (Tim) Re: Interesting article ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) From: Aaron Kulkis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hmm interesting quote from Kulkis on alt.support.depression Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 23:38:13 -0500 Paul Teale wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... meow wrote: "Yes its true. My uncle abused me as a child and i never got over it. I now get back at the world by talking shite on newsgroups" I did not write that. From the search i did it seems your a bit of a regular in there I've never posted in there. I suggest you read the nntp headers more carefully. Aaron R. Kulkis Unix Systems Engineer DNRC Minister of all I survey ICQ # 3056642 H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because you are lazy, stupid people" I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the challenge to describe even one philosophical difference between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact, Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4, The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle), also known as old hags who've hit the wall A: The wise man is mocked by fools. B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a direction that she doesn't like. C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me. D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup ...despite (C) above. E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until her behavior improves. F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn. -- Aaron R. Kulkis Unix Systems Engineer DNRC Minister of all I survey ICQ # 3056642 H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because you are lazy, stupid people" I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the challenge to describe even one philosophical difference between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact, Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4, The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle), also known as old hags who've hit the wall A: The wise man is mocked by fools. B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a direction that she doesn't like. C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me. D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup ...despite (C) above. E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until her behavior improves. F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn. G: Knackos...you're a retard. -- From: Brent Pathakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Kernel upgrade - not bad at all Crossposted-To: alt.linux.sux Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 04:40:37 GMT Kyle Jacobs wrote: "Edward Rosten" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:956t7e$sjn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Again, Mandrake 7.2 is throughly hard modified to support USB without "a hitch". As for the HID device (your mouse) Windows will find that instantly, just like most other USB peripherals on "the market". XFree86 doesn't even recognize USB devices yet, it has to rely on GPM and other OS level support for the peripheral. You just don't understand, do you. That's the beauty of a modular operating system. Every program that wants to use a mouse has to know about a generic mouse. Only one program needs to know about every kind of mouse. That makes all the programs smaller and bug free. What you think is a bad thing is actually
Linux-Advocacy Digest #252
Linux-Advocacy Digest #252, Volume #31Fri, 5 Jan 01 00:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: Operating Systems? Where would you go next? (Chris Ahlstrom)
Re: Profitability of Linux being a challenge (J Sloan)
Re: Global Configuration tool (WAS: Re: linux does NOT suck (oh yes it does) )
("Kyle Jacobs")
Re: Global Configuration tool (WAS: Re: linux does NOT suck (oh yes it does) )
("Kyle Jacobs")
Re: Uptimes (J Sloan)
Re: Nobody wants Linux because it destroys hard disks. ("Kyle Jacobs")
Re: Nobody wants Linux because it destroys hard disks. ("Kyle Jacobs")
Re: Linux, it is great. (J Sloan)
The 2.4.0 kernel was released at 4pm pst. (Jim Broughton)
Re: Microsoft tentacles squirm deeper into software hosting (Sgt Detritus)
Re: My experiance with win98 and SCSI vs Linux ("David")
Re: Red hat becoming illegal? (T. Max Devlin)
Re: Red hat becoming illegal? (T. Max Devlin)
Re: Red hat becoming illegal? (T. Max Devlin)
From: Chris Ahlstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.networking.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Operating Systems? Where would you go next?
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 04:30:20 GMT
Gary Hallock wrote:
"Aaron R. Kulkis" wrote:
John Brock wrote:
Having used both extensively I have to agree. In particular I miss
the "ALL" command in Xedit, which has no counterpart in any other
editor I've used.
s/bad/good/g
/g stands for GLOBAL.
You failed again. I already told you in a previous post that this is not
equivalent to ALL. Why don't you look up the ALL command in the xedit
manual and then get back to us.
Gary
Why don't you just say what the ALL command does?
I, for one, am dying to know, having run xedit and man xedit, and
not finding the info you state.
--
Flipping the Bozo bit at 400 MHz
--
From: J Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,alt.linux.sux
Subject: Re: Profitability of Linux being a challenge
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 04:32:01 GMT
"Chad C. Mulligan" wrote:
Then please explain this excerpt from the top of a message:
excerpt
"R.E.Ballard ( Rex Ballard )" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:92vpkt$ej2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
"Aaron R. Kulkis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hackerbabe wrote:
This type of info was snipped from the posting in question.
give it a rest -
jjs
--
From: "Kyle Jacobs" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.sux,alt.microsoft.sucks
Subject: Re: Global Configuration tool (WAS: Re: linux does NOT suck (oh yes it
does) )
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 04:29:30 GMT
Sounds like you have real computing problems.
"Peter Hayes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
On Wed, 03 Jan 2001 18:13:03 GMT, Giuliano Colla
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jure Sah wrote:
"Aaron R. Kulkis" wrote:
?? Tell me of a OS that crashes on it's own!!!
Moron...
Windows. I've seen it crash more than once before even getting
to the fucking LOGIN screen.
Can't get any more "crashes on it's own" than that now, can you...
TIME is beyond your capacity of understanding? Did you have any
software
runing before?
If you mean that the only way not to have Windows crashing
is to boot up after a fresh install, without running any
software at all, I concur with you that this may somehow
reduce the probability, but it can still happen.
Just try inserting a CD during the boot process, to make an
example.
I have a machine with 'ME on it that won't complete the boot process until
I hit the eject button on the CD drive. No CD needed, just eject the tray
and push it back. Maybe not exactly a "crash" but the next best thing
Peter
--
From: "Kyle Jacobs" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.sux,alt.microsoft.sucks
Subject: Re: Global Configuration tool (WAS: Re: linux does NOT suck (oh yes it
does) )
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 04:31:32 GMT
Is THIS your problem with Windows computing? Too few choices?
Is there ANY legitimate problem you have wintel computing? Or do you just
love to downplay it so that your clients not DARE Think they can get away
with paying you a quarter million for your "UNIX Computing Talents"?
"Aaron R. Kulkis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Jure Sah wrote:
Peter Hayes wrote:
I have a machine with 'ME on it that won't complete the boot process
until
I hit the eject button on the CD drive. No CD needed, just eject the
tray
and push it back. Maybe
Linux-Advocacy Digest #252
Linux-Advocacy Digest #252, Volume #30 Wed, 15 Nov 00 13:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Aaron R. Kulkis - Who is this guy? ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: A Microsoft exodus! ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Help!! (Michael Vester)
Re: True GTK+ will eliminate Qt in next few years? (James Hutchins)
Re: Lets try serious advocacy/discussion. ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: NT/2000 true multiuser? ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: NT/2000 true multiuser? ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: [OT] Bush v. Gore on taxes ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: True GTK+ will eliminate Qt in next few years? (Roberto Alsina)
Re: Most important computer program in the history of humanity ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Most important computer program in the history of humanity ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Most important computer program in the history of humanity ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Aaron R. Kulkis - Who is this guy?
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:33:08 -0500
Jake Taense wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Aaron R. Kulkis" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Are you claiming that having taken a course, in say, english literature
is the difference between being an engineer or not?
What part of fulfilled or EXCEEDED all core curriculum requirements
do you not undferstand?
Do you hold a degree in an engineering field?
No, you don't.
Do you claim to be an engineer in your sig?
Yes, you do.
Have I been paid by various Fortune 50 companies as an engineer for the last 5 years?
Yes
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
--
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.unix.advocacy
Subject: Re: A Microsoft exodus!
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:35:19 -0500
Bruce Schuck wrote:
Aaron R. Kulkis
Les
You don't and generally shouldn't if you want to be able to work
with a variety of machines and different versions of things. You
just need to know how to quickly find the details for the things
you may never have seen before. On unix-like boxes, the man
pages usually provide exactly that. On of the reasons I dislike
windows is that there is no equivalent,
Help.
Go to the command line and type help.
From the list of commands type "help [command]" or [command] /? for further
help.
Which is more intuitive? Man? or Help?
Precisely
Les and Aaron are amazingly ignorant.
C:\W98 help
Bad command or file name
C:\W98
Apparently, not nearly as ignorant as the people who made Windows.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that sh
Linux-Advocacy Digest #252
Linux-Advocacy Digest #252, Volume #29 Thu, 21 Sep 00 19:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: The Linux Experience
Re: The Linux Experience (Roberto Alsina)
Re: End-User Alternative to Windows (Garry Knight)
Re: "Real Unix" Vs Linux (Gary Hallock)
Re: [OT] Global warming. (was Public v. Private Schools) ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: The Linux Experience
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:21:29 -0700
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Roberto Alsina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:00092114153600.01744@pc03...
El jue, 21 sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:10:14 -0300, Roberto Alsina
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
El lun, 18 sep 2000, Jake Taense escribió:
Spent some of my Sunday helping out a friend with a problem.
Seems she has been happily using Linux for most things (RedHat 6.2) for
a
little bit now. However, like many users, she disliked the lack of
Truetype
support.
So, she called up another linux user and asked what she could do to fix
that.
"Oh, just add a truetype font server."
"Where can I get that?"
"I'll mail you a link. Download the tarball and make sure you follow
the
instructions in the INSTALL file."
To her credit, she did exactly that. She downloaded the right file,
extracted
it properly, and followed the instructions precisely. She replaced the
existing xfs file with the new one as indicated in the INSTALL file,
replaced
the man page, and the other files as necessary, taking care to back up
the
originals.
Finally, the moment of truth - she rebooted. What happened? The xfs
server
failed during initialization. She uses the redhat graphical login.
Result? A
machine that just sat and kept switching video modes. Killing the
x-server
with ctrl-alt-backspace didn't fix it. All she could do was
ctrl-alt-delete,
which shut everything down.
She was without a machine until I could come over and fix it.
"What was I supposed to do?" she asked.
"You did everything fine. In fact, I'm glad this happened. Welcome to
the
linux experience."
Better answer: "Don't get desperate, and wait 3 minutes until init stops
respawining xdm".
Or better yet:
Execute that well known "three finger salute".
Wait for the machine to power cycle.
Enter "linux 3" at the LILO prompt.
In a fast computer with a quirky video that can be pretty hard to do,
if xdm is cycling quick.
When making modifications to X, the best way is to use a little foresight
and boot into a non-X runlevel, and use startx to fire X up. If X dies you
are back into your normal command line environment. From there attempt
repairs and fire up X with startx again and repeat as many times as needed.
By the time xdm is cycling quickly the error of lack of foresight has
already been made. I don't hold the neophyte too much at fault for this
lack of planning, I hold the person providing her the advice at fault for
the lion's share of the errors.
--
From: Roberto Alsina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: The Linux Experience
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 19:42:41 -0300
El jue, 21 sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
Roberto Alsina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
someone else had said:
She was without a machine until I could come over and fix it.
"What was I supposed to do?" she asked.
"You did everything fine. In fact, I'm glad this happened. Welcome to
the
linux experience."
Better answer: "Don't get desperate, and wait 3 minutes until init stops
respawining xdm".
Or better yet:
Execute that well known "three finger salute".
Wait for the machine to power cycle.
Enter "linux 3" at the LILO prompt.
In a fast computer with a quirky video that can be pretty hard to do,
if xdm is cycling quick.
When making modifications to X, the best way is to use a little foresight
and boot into a non-X runlevel, and use startx to fire X up. If X dies you
are back into your normal command line environment. From there attempt
repairs and fire up X with startx again and repeat as many times as needed.
By the time xdm is cycling quickly the error of lack of foresight has
already been made. I don't hold the neophyte too much at fault for this
lack of planning, I hold the person providing her the advice at fault for
the lion's share of the errors.
Sure. I was just giving an example of how to better handle this specific
sit
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Linux-Advocacy Digest #252, Volume #28Sat, 5 Aug 00 19:13:06 EDT Contents: Re: Would a M$ Voluntary Split Save It? (T. Max Devlin) Re: Would a M$ Voluntary Split Save It? (T. Max Devlin) Re: Would a M$ Voluntary Split Save It? (T. Max Devlin) Re: Would a M$ Voluntary Split Save It? (T. Max Devlin) Re: Would a M$ Voluntary Split Save It? (T. Max Devlin) Re: Would a M$ Voluntary Split Save It? (T. Max Devlin) Re: Would a M$ Voluntary Split Save It? (T. Max Devlin) Re: Would a M$ Voluntary Split Save It? (T. Max Devlin) Re: Would a M$ Voluntary Split Save It? (Chris Wenham) From: T. Max Devlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Would a M$ Voluntary Split Save It? Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 18:46:42 -0400 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Said [EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.os.linux.advocacy; On Sat, 29 Jul 2000 23:55:42 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote: [...] You mean an adult that doesn't know what Windows is? C'mon, jedi - you're reaching, even for you. That's absurd. Not at all. Most end users are not saavy enough to tell the difference between a wiley window manager or efx or bare windows. Plus, they simply don't understand what an OS is to begin with. I honestly believe you believe that. I think that's flatly and absurdly wrong, but hey, more power to you. I'm afraid you're too far removed from real life, 'dc'. Not only don't most adults know what "Windows" is, they don't really care at all, either. -- T. Max Devlin Manager of Research Educational Services Managed Services ELTRAX Technology Services Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] -[Opinions expressed are my own; everyone else, including my employer, has to pay for them, subject to applicable licensing agreement]- == Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News == http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! === Over 80,000 Newsgroups = 16 Different Servers! == -- From: T. Max Devlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Would a M$ Voluntary Split Save It? Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 18:46:52 -0400 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Said Shocktrooper in comp.os.linux.advocacy; "josco" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Christopher Smith wrote: I find it rather funny that Mr. Allchin doesn't even suggest that Microsoft add innovative new features to IE. He just accepts that the best Microsoft can do is "copy everything that Netscape does packaging and product wise." Integrating IE *was* an "innovative new feature". As was componentising it. Integrating IE was the tactic of a monopolist. It is classic violation of anti-trust law. Crystal clear. And already ruled to be legal by a district appeals court. No, it was ruled to not be a per se violation of a previous consent decree; whether it was legal according to anti-trust law was never even examined, let alone considered, in the District Appellate Court. -- T. Max Devlin Manager of Research Educational Services Managed Services ELTRAX Technology Services Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] -[Opinions expressed are my own; everyone else, including my employer, has to pay for them, subject to applicable licensing agreement]- == Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News == http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! === Over 80,000 Newsgroups = 16 Different Servers! == -- From: T. Max Devlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Would a M$ Voluntary Split Save It? Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 18:47:09 -0400 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Said Chris Wenham in comp.os.linux.advocacy; T. Max Devlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The one who thinks the original words he used are not themselves sufficient for communication of his intended meaning. Are you saying you don't respect the authority of a dictionary on the meaning of words? Of course I am. What a stupid idea. A dictionary is supposed to provide *definitions* for words. "Meaning" is far more quixotic, and not easily reduced to a few pristine examples. Anybody who thinks they can rest an argument or line of reasoning on whether a particular definitions does or does not support their or someone's particular meaning within a discussion is, simply, not thinking hard enough. -- T. Max Devlin Manager of Research Educational Services Managed Services ELTRAX Technology Services Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] -[Opinions expressed are my own; everyone else, including my employer, has to pay for them, subject to ap
