Re: Gratuitous Microsoft Bashing (was: let's torture and kill viruswriters)

2000-05-06 Thread imagelab
I run W95 on one of my computers. The two applications which give me the most trouble are Windows Explorer and Outlook Express. OE regularly and WE occasionally crash with the 'Illegal Operation' warning and the laughable sugestion that if this problem persists to get in touch with the applicati

Re: 8 bit ISA ethernet card?

2000-05-06 Thread Charles Farinella
On Sat, 6 May 2000, Thomas Charron wrote: > Why an 8 bit ISA card? Someone gave me a Compaq Presario 2200 desktop PC. There are no empty slots. If I can find the right card, I can swap it for the existing modem, and plug it into my home network, but it has to be the right size to fit in th

Re: 8 bit ISA ethernet card?

2000-05-06 Thread Thomas Charron
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Re: 8 bit ISA ethernet card?

2000-05-06 Thread Thomas Charron
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Re: ISSalert: Internet Security Systems Security Alert

2000-05-06 Thread Karl J. Runge
On Sat, 06 May 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael O'Donnell) wrote: > > > Good grief! Did anybody else notice that the bulletin > from ISS with Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was dated Fri, 5 May 100 18:16:49 -0400 (EDT) The software is undoubtly using the tm_year member of a struct tm. The

RE: Gratuitous Microsoft Bashing (was: let's torture and killviruswriters)

2000-05-06 Thread Karl J. Runge
Hi Jim, In your post you say all of the Linux/Unix Apps "don't even come close" to the Windows counterparts. I'm confused what metric you are using. I'm willing to grant you that each of the Windows counterparts have some number of features that you really like and/or are very convenient for yo

Re: ISSalert: Internet Security Systems Security Alert

2000-05-06 Thread Michael O'Donnell
Good grief! Did anybody else notice that the bulletin from ISS with Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was dated Fri, 5 May 100 18:16:49 -0400 (EDT) ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in

Re: Gratuitous Microsoft Bashing (was: let's torture and killviruswriters)

2000-05-06 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you checked out the new StarOffice 5.2 beta? In my playing with it >I've found it has a number of minor improvements (it's a minor version >number increase), but the one that sticks out the most is the *.DOC filter. >It does a *much* better job

RE: Gratuitous Microsoft Bashing (was: let's torture and killviruswriters)

2000-05-06 Thread Derek Martin
Today, Jim Ryan gleaned this insight: > But it also made me think, "why do I always end up back on Windows?". The > answer for that is it's just easier to get my day to day work done. I read > my mail, check my appointments, pay some bills, read news groups, and browse > the web. I think that'

8 bit ISA ethernet card?

2000-05-06 Thread Charles Farinella
I need an 8 bit ISA ethernet card, and am having trouble finding one. I am told a good place to try would be the HamFest (I'm not sure what it's called) in Rochester. Is this next weekend the 13th? Any other suggestions? TIA, C -- Charles Farinella [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Bandwidth degredation on a socket..

2000-05-06 Thread Thomas Charron
Tried many. Application really doesn't matter, any app transfering large amounts of data has this issue.. After more research, I believe that the problem does not rely on the Linux box itself (I plugged my machine into their hub, and observed the same issues), but in the sDSL router/hub

RE: Gratuitous Microsoft Bashing (was: let's torture and killviruswriters)

2000-05-06 Thread Jim Ryan
Well, this certainly has been a thought provoking thread. At least it's made me think about why I'm interested in Linux and what I think is so cool about it. I guess I like it because it does make me think and apply actual computer skills again. It's an exciting thing to watch grow and develop

Re: Need help restoring first 1.44 bytes of hda1

2000-05-06 Thread Michael O'Donnell
>> Like a bonehead, I did this: >> >> dd if=loaf1.img of=/dev/hda1 > >Oooo, that hurts! I can picture this: you type the >command, hit enter, nothing happens with the floppy drive, >you look at the command you just typed and say, "Oh, shit!" The internationally recognized unit of time for me