Linux-Advocacy Digest #602, Volume #29 Wed, 11 Oct 00 16:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Aaron R. Kulkis [Off-Topic Idiot Tres Grande] (Jason Bowen)
Re: Unix rules in Redmond ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: The Power of the Future! (Chris Wenham)
Re: Unix rules in Redmond ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Migration --> NT costing please :-) ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Aaron R. Kulkis [Off-Topic Idiot Tres Grande] (.)
Re: The Power of the Future! (Mike Byrns)
Re: BeOS and switching resolutions (was: The Power of the Future!) (Chris Wenham)
Re: Linux Sucks ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: BeOS and switching resolutions (was: The Power of the Future!) (Roberto Alsina)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Bowen)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject: Re: Aaron R. Kulkis [Off-Topic Idiot Tres Grande]
Date: 11 Oct 2000 19:46:00 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David T. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>Jeff Glatt wrote:
>>
>> >"David T. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >Aaron R. Kulkis has posted a total of at least 256 unique messages in
>> >comp.os.os2.advocacy during the month of September, 2000 on five related
>> >threads, none of which have anything to do with OS/2, OS/2 advocacy,
>> >computer software, or even computers:
>>
>> Your post is off-topic for COOA. Read the newsgroup charter you
>> worthless and clueless poor excuse for an alleged "OS/2 Advocate"
>> (whose primary mission appears to be to harrass and denigrate
>> remaining, active OS/2 developers. Are you working for Microsoft?)
>
>I have never harassed and denigrated OS/2 developers. Please delete
>this post or face the consequences.
Brad Wardell is an OS/2 developer. Marty Amodeo is an OS/2 developer.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Unix rules in Redmond
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:54:32 -0400
Drestin Black wrote:
>
> "." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8s01oc$1c61$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > In comp.os.linux.advocacy Drestin Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > >>
> > >> So, again: where is Compaq's machine that can do 160TPM?
> >
> > > So, again: who cares?
> >
> > Apparantly you only care about performance up to and including the very
> top
> > of compaq's product line.
>
> No - I just don't care for the comparison. I don't see the value anymore of
> a large, expensive, monolithic uni-server solution any more in todays
> models.
The concept of reduced hardware and administration costs means nothing
to you, does it.
>
> >
> > > Do we say: "Ah, Google with Linux is so pathetic, they
> > > have to use clusters! ahahhaha." then add: "Show me the single linux box
> > > that can run Google"?
> >
> > An IBM S/390 64x64. Theyve even got cool light up blue stripes down the
> side.
>
> Again... if the choice is SOOoooOooOoo obvious - Google must be pathetic
> idiots not to take the simple route then eh? I'm sure it's not easier to
> manage thousands of linux boxes intead of one pretty shiny IBM?
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
http://directedfire.com/greatgungiveaway/directedfire.referrer.fcgi?2632
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 (D) 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.
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Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Power of the Future!
From: Chris Wenham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 19:55:49 GMT
>>>>> "Dolly" == Dolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Which does not apply to Windows 2K which was the combination
> discussed... only to NT4 with SP6 on... what... 4 different
> server models with very limited configuration.
_WRONG_. You even introduced the "off topic note" yourself and you
did NOT discuss Windows 2K as part of the combination, NOR did
Drestin.
Here is where YOU introduced the topic of databases and C2 security
in a thread that HAD been about AMD's supposed manufacture of chips
under the Intel brand:
"On another off topic note... guess what database/commerce solution
manged to get C2 security? IBM's. MS has applied, but like their
last attempt at C2 with NT, they will fail. YES, MS failed in the
C2 rating for NT on a network, so they reapplied with no network
card or modem to get the bogus rating they weasled out which is of
course useless in the real world)."
Number of times Windows 2000 was mentioned by YOU: _ZERO_
NT was explicitly named as the operating system in question.
Drestin's response was:
>> > Drestin Black wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Guess which database solution managed to get C2 security? MS SQL 2000
>> >> Guess what rating NT4 has ON a network: C2
Number of times Windows 2000 was mentioned by Drestin: _ZERO_
You are wrong when you claim that "Windows 2K was the combination
discussed". You clearly do not remember how you yourself introduced
your own topic.
Established as fact is that MS SQL 2000 running on NT 4 connected to
a network has C2 level security as determined by the United States
Government.
That satisfies what Drestin was claiming is so and refutes absolutely
what you were claiming, specifically:
"This clearly states that DB2 has it, that NT only has it if not
networked and that SQL Server (MS) has applied for it but not gotten
it."
Your claim: "NT only has [C2 certification] if not networked"
_WRONG_, proven here: http://www.gcn.com/vol19_no3/news/1284-1.html
which was PUBLISHED ON THE SAME DAY as the article you were citing to
back up your case.
"The San Diego company?s lab, with Microsoft funding and NSA
supervision, tested the NT 4.0 OSes on Compaq Computer
Corp. uniprocessor and multiprocessor systems in networked and
standalone modes."
And wrong on a second level is the fact that when you said "This
clearly states...NT only has it if not networked" with "This" being
the article you referenced, yet the article DOES NOT contain any such
claim. Read it again:
http://www.gcn.com/vol19_no3/guide/1259-1.html
There's absolutely no mention of what you say there is.
Your claim: "SQL Server (MS) has applied for [C2 certification] but
not gotten it."
MISLEADING, because the article you cited was written in February
7th, 2000 and as such is obsolete information. Obsolete because on
October 2nd, just over a week ago, but still BEFORE you made your
claim, the publication you chose as your source reported that MS SQL
2000 had received C2 certification:
http://www.gcn.com/vol19_no29/news/3049-1.html
"SQL Server 2000 is the first Microsoft Corp. database management
system to be certified at the C2 security level through the
government?s Trust Technology Assessment Program."
I think your demand that he should "eat his words" is out of line.
> Far from what he or MS is touting it as, making it seem like the
> certification extends to W2K - which it does not.
As proven above with direct and unedited quotes, you are
WRONG. Drestin does /NOT/ make this claim. As to whether Microsoft
does, that's a separate claim entirely up to you to prove.
Regards,
Chris Wenham
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Unix rules in Redmond
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:56:03 -0400
Drestin Black wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Drestin Black wrote:
> > >
> > > "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > Drestin Black wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > "." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > > > news:8rfm9h$r59$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > > > In comp.os.linux.advocacy Drestin Black
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > "." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > > > > > news:8rd6gr$26rc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > > > >> In comp.os.linux.advocacy Drestin Black
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > >> > I'm sorry dude, but sometimes you hear something so silly you
> > > can't
> > > > > stop
> > > > > > >> > from laughing...
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >> > I'm sure he'll post the tux results ... it's all they've
> got...
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >> Dont you have something better to do?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Yup - it's what I do the rest of the time... right now I'm
> laughing
> > > at
> > > > > the
> > > > > > > sun rep who tried to sell some 10000s to one of my clients...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Oh I remember you, youre the one that thinks (incorrectly) that
> > > microsoft
> > > > > > can compete in the heavy-server market. We've all been laughing
> at
> > > you
> > > > > > for some time.
> > > > >
> > > > > One name: "w2k data center"
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yeah, now show us one that actually works.
> > > >
> > >
> > > start here butthead
> > >
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/guide/datacenter/studies/default.asp
> >
> > Big fucking deal.
> >
> > Microsoft's definition of "working" is "doesn't catch fire and roast the
> > adjacent equipment when you plug it in"
Notice how Drestin Lack-of-facts leaves this undisputed, and IMMEDIATELY
dives into a hand-waving misdirection routine.
> >
> >
>
> Allow me to simply quote from your own sig:
>
> > --
> > Aaron R. Kulkis
> > Unix Systems Engineer
> > ICQ # 3056642
> >
> <snip>
>
> > G: Knackos...you're a retard.
>
> I think that sums it up perfectly - thank you for reminding us all of this
> every single time you post
Yes,...Knackos is a retard. Do you dispute this.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
http://directedfire.com/greatgungiveaway/directedfire.referrer.fcgi?2632
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 (D) 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.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Migration --> NT costing please :-)
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:57:35 -0400
Drestin Black wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Drestin Black wrote:
> > >
> > > "Gardiner Family" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > love the reply, I have used Windows 3.1/98/NT 4/2000, until I
> obtained a
> > > copy of
> > > > UNIX (and then later, Linux) I naively, like you, believed Windows NT
> was
> > > the "bees
> > > > knees". Yes and I do know what a PCI card is, the card I removed
> was a
> > > Soft-modem
> > > > from an Intel BX motherboard. I have also installed a ISA card as
> well
> > > whilst the
> > > > machine is on, and no adverse effects. However, I did lie a bit, I
> was
> > > using
> > > > Solaris 8. Windows does have its uses, however, not as a server. If
> you
> > > look at
> > > > the various technologies included with Windows NT/2000, many of these
> have
> > > been
> > > > borrowed from UNIX and other OS's, here are some examples is Terminal
> > > Server, a
> > > > quick rehash of the of X-Server and X-Dumb-Client setup used back in
> the
> > > 1980's
> > > > (surprised Microsoft went for the centralised processing model
> considering
> > > they were
> > > > the first to jump up and say Sun Microsystems idea of the Sun Ray as a
> > > stupid idea,
> > > > trying to resurrect time sharing and centralised processing of the
> 1960s),
> > > HTFS, a
> > > > close replication of HPFS used by OS/2 Warp, TCP/IP how long has the
> UNIX
> > > world had
> > > > this protocol in service for? a long time.
> > > >
> > >
> > > How strange. You say that W2K has it's uses but not as a server - then
> you
> > > go on to list the server qualities that W2K has that, according to you,
> it
> > > borrowed from Unix - which we all know is definately a server OS. I
> would
> > > say that definately makes W2K server material. Thanks for proving that.
> >
> > Fuck off, liar.
>
> OUCH - the truth hurts!!! Thanks for proving THAT too.
I'm just sick of you and all of your fucking lies.
No wonder you absolutely fucking REFUSE to reveal your name.
>
> Again, let me leave you with a quote from your own .sig:
> >
> >
> > --
> > Aaron R. Kulkis
> > Unix Systems Engineer
> > ICQ # 3056642
> <snip>
>
> > G: Knackos...you're a retard.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
ICQ # 3056642
http://directedfire.com/greatgungiveaway/directedfire.referrer.fcgi?2632
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 (D) 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.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (.)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject: Re: Aaron R. Kulkis [Off-Topic Idiot Tres Grande]
Date: 11 Oct 2000 19:59:01 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy David T. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jeff Glatt wrote:
>>
>> >"David T. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >Aaron R. Kulkis has posted a total of at least 256 unique messages in
>> >comp.os.os2.advocacy during the month of September, 2000 on five related
>> >threads, none of which have anything to do with OS/2, OS/2 advocacy,
>> >computer software, or even computers:
>>
>> Your post is off-topic for COOA. Read the newsgroup charter you
>> worthless and clueless poor excuse for an alleged "OS/2 Advocate"
>> (whose primary mission appears to be to harrass and denigrate
>> remaining, active OS/2 developers. Are you working for Microsoft?)
> I have never harassed and denigrated OS/2 developers. Please delete
> this post or face the consequences.
Please suck me and quit crossposting to groups that dont give a shit
about your petty-fag insinuated threats.
=====.
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From: Mike Byrns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Power of the Future!
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 20:06:01 GMT
Dolly wrote:
> Mike wrote:
> >
> > "Dolly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Mike Byrns wrote:
> >
> > > > Christ are you going to be one of those Kulkis, Devlins and Blacks that
> > > > make these wild ass statements that stretch credibility and then post no
> > > > evidence to back it up? When the hell was this momentus event supposed
> > to
> > > > have happened? AMD did make 386 and 486 chips but they were NOT Intel
> > > > designs. BTW, I agree with you that AMD do own fabs, in Texas and
> > Germany
> > > > but I, after having been a Intel and Microsoft systems engineer and
> > > > programmer for over a decade have no recollection of AMD EVER making
> > chips
> > > > for Intel.
> > >
> > > You want evidence? How about a picture of one? Or perhaps you
> > > are one of those people who believes if a tree falls on your
> > > house but no one is there to see it, then it didnt happen.
> > >
> > > I'll send you an AMD Chip with the (M) AMD imprint
> > > and an Intel chip with the (M) Intel imprint.
> >
> > Ummm.... huh? Don't _most_ AMD chips have an AMD copyright, and _most_ Intel
> > chips have an Intel copyright? Am I missing something here? Why on earth
> > should seeing the Intel logo on an Intel chip convince me that AMD designed
> > it?
> >
> > BTW, I am also unaware of AMD ever designing processors for Intel. I say
> > designing, not manufacturing, because the chip designer places the logo and
> > copyright. If an Intel chip was designed by Intel, you can bet they aren't
> > placing AMD's logo, much less their copyright, on it.
> >
> > -- Mike --
>
> Intel DESIGNED and COPYRIGHTED them. AMD (M)anufactured
> them for a time... as already stated by someone
> else in the group. Next... the link to the statement
> by someone else confirming it and a pic...
>
> May not have been a very large number, but it was
> enough. When Intel was in a bind, that's where they
> turned. Sometimes it was keyboard controllers, sometimes
> it was 286 CPU's.
So where is this link and pic we've been promissed so many times? And who is this
ethereal "someone else" that remembers AMD making Intel's chips? So far you've
perpetrated this whole argument on promises of proof and other people that no one
has seen that agree with you. So what's so hard about posting a link?
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Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: BeOS and switching resolutions (was: The Power of the Future!)
From: Chris Wenham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 20:07:04 GMT
>>>>> "Dolly" == Dolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> CTRL-ALT-[Plus/Minus key] can be used to switch resolutions in XFree
>> on the fly on all platforms.
> Here's a question... other than selecting only
> certain pixel depths when configuring (or edditing)
> the config file, is there any way to change
> those?
I don't think so.
Also, while /technically/ the mentioned keystroke combination changes
resolution, someone else was also right when they said it really only
changes the viewport resolution. This is kind of a user interface
issue, since when you change the resolution of the viewport, the
virtual screen is still the same size and you must pan the viewport
around the virtual screen. It doesn't attempt to scale the windows
currently open.
I also don't know of any mechanism that supports multiple resolutions
on multiple virtual desktops like BeOS does. But I have seen X cope
with heterogenous resolutions on a multi-head system.
Regards,
Chris Wenham
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux Sucks
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 20:08:43 GMT
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 19:19:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grega
Bremec) wrote:
>...and [EMAIL PROTECTED] used the keyboard:
>>No...wasting my time responding to your twisted rhetoric gives me a
>>headache.
>
>However twisted Jedi might seem occasionally, there usually is a very
>good reason to introduce that twistedness. A common response to that
>kind of content would be thinking about it in a rather depth. <hint>
I prefer a direct rebuttal to a statement. For example "Linux needs
applications that average Joe uses, and at a quality a feature set at
least as good as Windows, in order for Linux to cut into MS desktop
business. (This was my post)
He responds with highly twisted plays on words and insults.
>>SuSE is in business to make money.
>
>True. They aren't all _that_ insane (yet).
<BG>!
>>People work towards wealth.
>
>Also true, given the means of doing so. We all know that working
>_with_ MS representatives doesn't account for that. Working _for_
>them, OTOH deprives one of significant ammount of freedom to innovate.
>MS isn't the Alpha and Omega of computing business either, you know (I
>gained impression from your past articles that you had somehow became
>blundered about that fact, assuming that anything concerning computing
>had to deal with MS almost inherently).
The only MS software I use is Windows and Flight Simulator. I hate
Office and Encarta and so forth. There are much better alternatives.
>>All the Open Sores philosophy in the world won't change the fact that
>>SuSE and RH and Corel etc want to make money off Linux.
>
>Also, true. They have legal means of doing that as well.
People should be paid for their hard work. If they choose to give away
their efforts that is their choice. It shouldn't have to be mandatory.
As an end user I wish everything was free though :)
>>In COrel's case they were looking toward Linux to save them from sure
>>death. Ironic that Microsoft stepped in and did that.
>
>I wouldn't comment on that one, because I don't have the information
>you seem to have. Nevertheless, the entire point doesn't depend on
>this statement of yours. We could without harm mark it as irrelevant
>to this debate, since the specific problem introduced was dealing with
>SuSE and their marketing strategy. Corel is an entirely different kind
>of beast, having been dependant on MS for a vast ammount of their
>lifespan. Quite logically, sitting on two chairs at a time _does_ tend
>to be difficult.
Press says they are looking at support for that net thing they (MS)
are pushing. From what I have seen I don't like it at all.
>>If you feel otherwise, write SuSE a letter and tell them to send their
>>net profit to charity and give away their complete products for free.
>
>Why should they? As mentioned above, there are ways of making money by
>not targetting MS market share. If a logical consequence of a quality
>product that had been designed to be adaptable to diverse environments
>seems to actually be _adapting_ it to the aforementioned, you can't
>blame people for infact attempting to achieve that, can you?
His comments indicate that they are in business for the joy of
overthrowing evil Microsoft.
>They should be working towards wealth, after all.
>
>>And BTW you haven't proven me wrong on one single point.
>
>Oh, yes, he seems to have. At least to somebody who gave up the agony
>and false hope of trying to make things work on certain platforms half
>a decade ago and hadn't looked back since.
But what is he blindly giving up in order to prove his point and
militaristic stand against Microsoft?
If the applications that I have tried to use under Linux are the same
ones he is using, he has no idea how much he is missing. If he only
needs certain functions of these applications, than maybe he can make
due with what he has. He will save some money for sure.
I offer Pyro (www.cakewalk.com) and MusicMatchJukebox as well as
BlackIce and Norton Internet Security Family edition as examples of
super easy to use, easy to set up (don't even have to look at the
book) and powerful software
.
BlackIce is state of the art intrusion detection software (not a rules
based system), that works very well.
What does Linux offer?
Firewalls that involve editing text files to make work?
If jedi wants to spend time configuring firewall rules that's fine.
How about all of the Active-X plug ins (compressors, reverbs, special
effects etc) for the Windows audio programs on the net for free?
I can do mp3's, burn CD's, add special effects (remove scratches from
records or tape hiss), update my CD Library and the program actually
remebers my song directory. Linux Xmms? Buggy and clunky.
Children's educational software?
Where is it under Linux?
Easy ICS setup?
Again where?
Judging by the Linux network group the How-To is in need of updating.
He doesn't answer any of these direct queries but responds with
twisted semantic plays on words and half truths which are easily
exposed when one looks at the capabilities of the applications he "on
occasion" will offer.
That's not advocacy, it is ignorance based upon a mission and the
mission is "Windows is bad" and Linux is great.
Linux certainly has it's uses and I have said this over and over
again. At home on the desktop is not one of them. People put in front
of a Linux computer and given StarOffice and a dial up have no idea
how much else is out there to explore in the WIndows world. Unless
that is all they need and then touche' to them.
Unless you are a techno nut or programmer or want to save a buck,
running Linux on a home desktop is a huge step backwards and jedi has
yet to prove me wrong.
claire
>Cheers,
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From: Roberto Alsina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: BeOS and switching resolutions (was: The Power of the Future!)
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:16:36 -0300
El mi�, 11 oct 2000, Chris Wenham escribi�:
>>>>>> "Dolly" == Dolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> CTRL-ALT-[Plus/Minus key] can be used to switch resolutions in XFree
> >> on the fly on all platforms.
>
> > Here's a question... other than selecting only
> > certain pixel depths when configuring (or edditing)
> > the config file, is there any way to change
> > those?
>
> I don't think so.
>
> Also, while /technically/ the mentioned keystroke combination changes
> resolution, someone else was also right when they said it really only
> changes the viewport resolution. This is kind of a user interface
> issue, since when you change the resolution of the viewport, the
> virtual screen is still the same size and you must pan the viewport
> around the virtual screen. It doesn't attempt to scale the windows
> currently open.
>
> I also don't know of any mechanism that supports multiple resolutions
> on multiple virtual desktops like BeOS does. But I have seen X cope
> with heterogenous resolutions on a multi-head system.
Just run multiple X servers. Of course you can't copy&paste or move windows
from a desk to the other (but I think there is a way to do that... moving X
sessions between servers, I need to think about it).
--
Roberto Alsina
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