Linux-Advocacy Digest #714, Volume #30 Thu, 7 Dec 00 10:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Blurry Fonts: Is there a solution? ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Blurry Fonts: Is there a solution? (stelex)
Re: Linux Sux ("Bracy")
Re: Linux is awful (Uncle Fester)
Re: Linux is awful (Uncle Fester)
Re: Linux is awful (Uncle Fester)
Re: Of course, there is a down side... ("Chad Myers")
Re: Of course, there is a down side... (Karri Kalpio)
Several items (Re: Nothing to say but, WOW) (Stephen King)
Re: Of course, there is a down side... (JM)
Re: Of course, there is a down side... (JM)
Re: A Microsoft exodus! (JM)
Re: Nobody wants Linux because it destroys hard disks. (JM)
Re: Windows 2000 sucks compared to linux (JM)
Re: Linux Sux (JM)
Re: Linux Sux (JM)
Re: Linux is awful ("Ayende Rahien")
Re: A great Shockwave flash movie ("BcB")
Re: Blurry Fonts: Is there a solution? ("kosh")
Re: Linux is awful (Spamedi)
Re: Blurry Fonts: Is there a solution? (Swangoremovemee)
Re: Of course, there is a down side... (Swangoremovemee)
Re: Nobody wants Linux because it destroys hard disks. (Swangoremovemee)
Re: Of course, there is a down side... ("tony roth")
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.sucks
Subject: Re: Blurry Fonts: Is there a solution?
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 08:21:46 -0500
Bob Nelson wrote:
>
> Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [the usual ``content'' mercifully elided]
>
> > F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
> > adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
>
> Ahem...that would be Jessica, not Tammy.
Yes. Now, can you figure out how it applies to Unit_4?
--
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.
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From: stelex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.sux
Subject: Re: Blurry Fonts: Is there a solution?
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 13:27:11 +0000
Swango wrote:
>
> I'll save you the time, it doesn't work.
If applied properly it always works.
> You still don't get the smooth anti-aliased looking fonts that you do
> under Windows.
How to fix it in Netscape; it works for the author, it works for me (and
I don't run RedHat, but it works):
http://people.redhat.com/~scoile/fonts/fixing.html
or http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Font-HOWTO.html
(It's not Deuglification Mini Howto).
Or import MS font pack, simple as that.
> Linux is painful to look at, nevermind even worse to use.
Depend whose mouth the statement comes from; trolls and lazy wankers
will always agree with you. The rest of us are enjoying crash and virus
free GNU/Linux.
> Swango
>
> On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 02:43:15 GMT, tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >In article <90mofc$dt5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > "kosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> That is the Font Deuglification Mini Howto unfortunately the geforce
> >> drivers are broken if you use the ones from nvidia so they will not
> >use
> >> 100dpi fonts which makes a very big difference.
> >>
> >> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/index.html
> >
> >I thought you were being sarcastic or, at the very least, making a joke
> >with "Font Deuglification Mini Howto". I can't believe there's
> >actually one called that! :0
> >
> >In checking out your link, it appears this might be exactly what I
> >need, but I'm going to copy down the link and check it out later (after
> >work) at home, where I can go online in Mandrake and do the stuff in
> >real-time.
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >Tom
> >
> >
> >Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> >Before you buy.
>
> "It Don't Mean a Thang if it Ain't Got That Swang"
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From: "Bracy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Sux
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 13:19:43 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Swango"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Linux Sux the big wazoo......
Oh, so now you've changed your name to "Linux?"
I see...
Bracy
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From: Uncle Fester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Linux is awful
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 13:37:14 GMT
Tom Wilson wrote:
>
> "Erik Funkenbusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:mMGX5.1659$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > "Uncle Fester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> > > >
> > > > "Uncle Fester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > > Odds are, you're under 80% free. As a gamer, anything under 85%
> > > > > required a reboot or thing started getting slow. And it's only been
> a
> > > > > couple hours! ;-) But I'm just a BS'ing Linux asshole, what do I
> > know?
> > > >
> > > > That's complete bullshit. You don't even know what that figure means.
> > > >
> > > > Hint: Resources are not what you think they are.
> > >
> > > First 640k of memory.
> >
> > Just as I thought. You don't know what it means.
> >
> > System Resources is an average of the three 64K system heaps in 16 bit
> > Windows. These are used for GDI handles, Menu handles, global 16 bit
> memory
> > handles, etc.. They have nothing to do with the first 640k.
> >
> > Further, being low on resources does not slow your system down. The only
> > negative aspect that these resources are capable of producings is if you
> run
> > out of them completely, in which case windows will fail to open and a few
> > other peculiarities.
>
> Some software, even MS's own software, fails to release GDI handles and that
> fragments the crap out of your memory pool. Legacy Win16 apps are
> particularly bad about it. It indeed can slow things down over time. Kept up
> long enough, one of those peculiarites is a completely schizo box that can
> and will crash with a boom. Even NT boxes. One of my projects did that very
> thing until I tracked down the offending code.The problem behavior went away
> after I corrected it.
Thank you. I know what I used to encounter all the time in Windows, it
went on for too long.
Personally, I have no problem with anyone expressing a preference for
any OS they choose. What I have a problem with is when they choose to
deny any problems that plague their particular OS of choice. It's OK to
like it despite it's shortcomings, but don't deny those shortcomings
even exist.
--
Chuck Kandler
Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Registered Linux User #180746
http://counter.li.org
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From: Uncle Fester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Linux is awful
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 13:39:53 GMT
Ayende Rahien wrote:
>
> Netscape 6 got bad reviews in the Linux world, which was my point.
OK, agreed. I don't care for N6 myself and don't use it. I'm still
running the 4.x series, and probably will be for a while.
--
Chuck Kandler
Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Registered Linux User #180746
http://counter.li.org
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From: Uncle Fester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Linux is awful
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 13:41:46 GMT
"Aaron R. Kulkis" wrote:
>
> scatterman wrote:
> >
> > All I can relate is my personal experiences, But if you can keep windows up
> > for that long then your a wizard.
>
> He's counting in dog weeks.
<SPEWWWW>
Damn! There goes *another* keyboard! Please, warn me next time. <g>
--
Chuck Kandler
Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
Registered Linux User #180746
http://counter.li.org
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From: "Chad Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Of course, there is a down side...
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 13:38:51 GMT
"Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Ayende Rahien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>
> | > >>It can most certainly edit text.
> | > >>Why do you claim that it can't edit text?
> | > >
> | > >OK, it can barely edit text, but that's about it. For Christ's sake,
> | > >there are less than 10 shortcut keys in the whole thing! You can't
> | > >even use Ctrl+S to save. It's a good job I've got emacs for Windows.
> |
> | Ctrl+S - Save
> | Ctrl+N - New
> | Ctrl+O - Open
> | Ctrl+P - Print
> | Ctrl+F - Find
> | F3 - Find next
> | Ctrl+H - Replace
> | Ctrl+G - Go To
> | Ctrl+A - Select All
> | F5 - Enter Time & Date
> |
> | Exactly 10 shortcuts key. :)
> |
> | > And here the MS advocates may choose to respond: "but the average
> | > Joe User doesn't need shortcut keys..." or some such drivel.
> |
> | He does and there are in my notepad (win2000) there aren't on the 9x notepad
> | .
>
> It's really difficult to advocate notepad as an editor.
>
> It's really just a viewer with VERY basic editor functions. Even an
> average user will soon be looking elsewhere for something more capable.
> Not to mention that Notepad's wrapping engine is buggy.
I don't think anyone was advocating it, just setting the record straight.
It's a very basic editor designed for editing simple text files and
nothing more. A prime example is just editing your hosts file and adding
and removing some entries.
If you want to write code, then you get TextPad or UltraEdit32 or something.
-Chad
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From: Karri Kalpio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Of course, there is a down side...
Date: 07 Dec 2000 16:02:26 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Goldhammer) writes:
> On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 04:44:11 GMT,
> Kelsey Bjarnason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >That some OSen _may_ bundle more useful utilities is
> >nice, but hardly significant; if this is the determining factor, you might
> >want to try a Mac with a bundled office ensemble.
> We are talking about a text editor. Not an office suite. I don't want
> to install an office suite to do a basic task like editing text efficiently...
But Windows is a graphical environment - you don't need to edit
text with it!
;-b
--karri
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From: Stephen King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Several items (Re: Nothing to say but, WOW)
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 14:15:06 GMT
sfcybear wrote:
>
> "...server hosting more than 1500 virtual Linux servers simultaneously."
>
> http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-07-001-01-PS
Puny.
>From ZDNet today:
IBM scored a Linux coup Wednesday as Telia, Scandinavia's largest
telecommunications and Internet service provider, announced it was
replacing its 70 Sun Microsystems Inc. Web hosting servers with a single
IBM mainframe S/390 G6 enterprise server...
The S/390 is able to host up to 30,000 virtual Linux servers at the same
time, using IBM's VM (Virtual Machine) operating system.
###
On viruses: If Microsoft didn't write such security-free software we
wouldn't have these wee beasties. Be glad that the virii have done so
little damage - if early one's hadn't forced MS to clean up their act we
might now have a mega-virus wiping out ALL windows machines completely.
(not that that would bother me in the slightest) No disease - no
resistance.
ZDNet earlier this week reported that 1,000 new viruses a month are
appearing.
This is simply due to Microsoft's FUNDAMENTAL LACK OF ADEQUATE SECURITY.
###
On reliability and uptime:
I'm using a little old IRIX system here - last time it stopped working
was because I turned it off to reroute the cabling behind my desk.
38 > uptime
9:00am up 64 days, 14:20, 5 users, load average: 0.12, 0.17, 0.18
Here's one of the Linux servers I manage:
8:59am up 71 days, 20:22, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.13, 0.14
Now look at Netcraft's longest uptimes:
http://uptime.netcraft.com/today/top.avg.html
Not a single Windows box in the top 50.
Number one is an IRIX machine, 855 days.
###
Further, I develop in Python/Perl/PHP3/MySQL all of which run on any
*nix. My code is completely portable to virtually all *nix platforms.
So, what was it we needed Microsoft for? To get rich from the production
of lame, bloated, overpriced, closed, anticompetitive code?
Flame away!
--
Porsche Boxster 88,295,395 Club-Z points away
Stephen J King :: RR2 Utopia Canada L0M 1T0
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JM)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Of course, there is a down side...
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 12:24:51 GMT
On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 01:53:16 GMT, in comp.os.linux.advocacy,
("Chad Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
>"JM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>We are talking about NOTEPAD.EXE, right? Found in Windows95 and higher?
Yes.
>Well, the Win95 -> NT 4.0 Notepad has everything BUT CTRL+F.
>The Win2K Notepad has everything INCLUDING CTRL+F.
My notepad on Win98 doesn't even have Ctrl+S.
>Would you like me to post a screen shot of both?
No thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JM)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Of course, there is a down side...
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 12:24:52 GMT
On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 03:43:42 GMT, in comp.os.linux.advocacy,
([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)) wrote:
>On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 00:01:35 GMT, JM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Anyone remember DOS edit? Now, was that a pile of piss or what that a
>>pile of piss?
>Well, yes, it was bad. But it could edit bigger files than Notepad.
And it doesn't put .txt on the end of every new file.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JM)
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: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 12:24:53 GMT
On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 03:18:33 GMT, in comp.os.linux.advocacy,
("Les Mikesell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
>
>"JM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 19:15:43 -0500, in comp.os.linux.advocacy,
>> ("Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
>>
>> >> (I think that should be something that appears on the status line
>> >> at the bottom: "Composing action to repeat N times".)
>>
>> >There's a simple solution to all of this.
>>
>> >If in doubt, hit the escape key. This puts you in command mode.
>> >Then hit type "i" to begin inserting at your current location.
>>
>> Wouldn't it be easier to have a character in the corner telling you
>> which mode you were in?
>The newer versions do have an option to show the mode on the bottom
>line. However, if you had ever worked from a 300 baud modem
>you would understand why the original version didn't do that
>by default.
I don't think I've ever had the (dis)pleasure of using such a modem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JM)
Subject: Re: Nobody wants Linux because it destroys hard disks.
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 12:24:53 GMT
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000 23:43:01 -0500, in comp.os.linux.advocacy,
("Dennis Popov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
>Looks like most of the Linux advocates are nothing but a bunch of trollable
>morons with shit in place of brains. You people disgust me.
You really are queer.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JM)
Subject: Re: Windows 2000 sucks compared to linux
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 12:24:54 GMT
On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 07:34:57 -0500, in comp.os.linux.advocacy,
("Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
>JM wrote:
>>
>> On 05 Dec 2000 10:09:31 -0700, in comp.os.linux.advocacy,
>> (Aaron Ginn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
>>
>> >"Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >
>> >> Act like an adult, and I'll treat you like one.
>> >
>> >
>> >Oh the irony!
>> >
>> >
>> >> Until then, I'll treat you like some playground-jerk, as that is
>> >> congruent with your current behavior.
>> >>
>> >> Do you get it, rectum-face?
>> >
>> >
>> >That's it, Aaron. Congratulations on becoming the only entry in my
>> >killfile. Your constant childish insults add nothing to the
>> >discussion in this forum. You are the antithesis of a Linux
>> >advocate. You would do well to read and memorize the Linux Advocacy
>> >HOWTO. You are by far the most annoying poster in this newsgroup, and
>> >that is indeed an impressive accomplishment with posters the likes of
>> >Chad Myers, MH, and claire_lynn here.
>> >
>> >And before you accuse me of being a Wintroll, please check the
>> >headers.
>> >
>> >And let me be about the one thousandth person to say your sig is
>> >annoying.
>>
>> And apparently he lies about fighting in the Gulf.
>
>You disagree with the Department of Defense?
Don't shoot the messenger, I read it in alt.seduction.fast
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JM)
Subject: Re: Linux Sux
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 12:24:55 GMT
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 01:05:58 -0500, in comp.os.linux.advocacy,
("Walton Simons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
>Great, a troll posting some bullshit and a bunch of morons replying to it.
>All right now, here it comes. Swango gets !PL0NK!ed for posting such an
>unoriginal troll, and everybody who reples to this gets a resounding !SPNAK!
>laid upon them for not using their gray matter.
>*SPNAK!*
>*plonk*x10^999...
You can hardly complain: you quoted the entire thing, thus doubling
the damage.
>
>Swango <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Linux Sux the big wazoo......Linux Sux the big wazoo......Linux Sux
>> the big wazoo......Linux Sux the big wazoo......Linux Sux the big
>> wazoo......Linux Sux the big wazoo......Linux Sux the big
>> wazoo......Linux Sux the big wazoo......Linux Sux the big
>> wazoo......Linux Sux the big wazoo......Linux Sux the big
>> wazoo......Linux Sux the big wazoo......Linux Sux the big
>> wazoo......Linux Sux the big wazoo......Linux Sux the big
>> wazoo......Linux Sux the big wazoo......Linux Sux the big
<snip>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JM)
Subject: Re: Linux Sux
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 12:24:55 GMT
On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 09:01:07 GMT, in comp.os.linux.advocacy,
("Tom Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
>
>That's the only time it ever goes down though <g>
>
>
>"Swango" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Linux Sux the big wazoo......Linux Sux the big wazoo......Linux Sux
>> the big wazoo......Linux Sux the big wazoo......Linux Sux the big
>> wazoo......Linux Sux the big wazoo......Linux Sux the big
What the fuck's "the big wazoo"?
And why does everyone responding quote the entire thing?
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From: "Ayende Rahien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Linux is awful
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:18:45 +0200
"Uncle Fester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ayende Rahien wrote:
> >
> > Netscape 6 got bad reviews in the Linux world, which was my point.
>
>
> OK, agreed. I don't care for N6 myself and don't use it. I'm still
> running the 4.x series, and probably will be for a while.
>
I understand that Mozilla should be better, but it would have to take 50%
less than N6 did before it would be considered as a resource hungry
application.
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From: "BcB" <youdon'[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A great Shockwave flash movie
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 09:31:19 +0500
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Ari, Nasit -AES" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Check out this new flash movie that I downloaded just now ... It's Great
> Bye
>
WHAT?? WHERE?? HOW IS THIS LINUX RELATED??
--
In the Land of Penguins
"A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but
to end it requires considerable skill."
--Lord Mancroft
System Uptime:
0 Days, 8 Hours, 25 Minutes, and 52 Seconds
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From: "kosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.sux
Subject: Re: Blurry Fonts: Is there a solution?
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 07:43:33 +0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Swango"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'll save you the time, it doesn't work.
>
> You still don't get the smooth anti-aliased looking fonts that you do
> under Windows.
>
> Linux is painful to look at, nevermind even worse to use.
>
> Swango
>
If those instructions don't work for you then you must be very bad at
following instructions or you have an nvidia card which seems to be
incapable of running x at 100dpi with their driver. Honestly X just does
not come with very good fonts. Mandrake and other linux dists need to
invest in some better fonts for an out of the box install. I replaced
many of my fonts with better ones and things look a lot better. 100dpi
fixes most remaining font issues but the nvidia driver is broken.
> On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 02:43:15 GMT, tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>In article <90mofc$dt5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> "kosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> That is the Font Deuglification Mini Howto unfortunately the geforce
>>> drivers are broken if you use the ones from nvidia so they will not
>>use
>>> 100dpi fonts which makes a very big difference.
>>>
>>> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/index.html
>>
>>I thought you were being sarcastic or, at the very least, making a joke
>>with "Font Deuglification Mini Howto". I can't believe there's actually
>>one called that! :0
>>
>>In checking out your link, it appears this might be exactly what I need,
>>but I'm going to copy down the link and check it out later (after work)
>>at home, where I can go online in Mandrake and do the stuff in
>>real-time.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>Tom
>>
>>
>>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
>
> "It Don't Mean a Thang if it Ain't Got That Swang"
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From: Spamedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Linux is awful
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 14:55:37 GMT
In article <cfKX5.9743$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> All I can relate is my personal experiences, But if you can keep windows up
> for that long then your a wizard.
s/wizard/liar/
S
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From: Swangoremovemee<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Blurry Fonts: Is there a solution?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 14:56:25 GMT
On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 08:05:26 GMT, tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Check this out. NOW in trying to open the pdf's of the ebooks that
>came with Mandrake, neither Xpdf nor gv will open them because of some
>problem with the books' encryption?!? This is giving me a headache.
>
>Tom
Get used to it because you seem to be discovering already that simple
tasks under Windows become adventures under Linux.
After you wade through all of the documentation your eyesight will be
even worse than it is now.
Swango
"It Don't Mean a Thang if it Ain't Got That Swang"
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From: Swangoremovemee<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Of course, there is a down side...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 15:01:28 GMT
On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 08:04:37 -0500, "Aaron R. Kulkis"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Try telling them to do the same thing using vi.
>
>much easier.
>
>use the / (find) and n (repeat) keys to get them positioned
>where you want them to be.
Ha ha ha. I attended a class on basic Aix system administration and
when the instructor got to the vi topic he pulled out a set of ear
muffs because he said all of the beeping drove him crazy. It also
drove the rest of the class crazy as well.
vi is the most hostile editor ever made and while programmers may get
their jollies playing with it that doesn't change that fact.
Swango
"It Don't Mean a Thang if it Ain't Got That Swang"
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From: Swangoremovemee<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Nobody wants Linux because it destroys hard disks.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 15:07:46 GMT
On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 04:21:59 GMT, "Les Mikesell"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>If you are so modern, why didn't you load the current RH or Mandrake
>with USB support instead of complaining about an old copy?
>
And it might be a good idea for you to learn how to read. Where did I
say what version of Redcrap I installed? You are making incorrect
assumptions here.
FWIW it is the latest version RH 7.x and it sucks just as bad as every
other version of Linux I have used.
Swango
"It Don't Mean a Thang if it Ain't Got That Swang"
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 10:00:51 -0500
From: "tony roth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Of course, there is a down side...
Tom,
Netware sucked hard all the way up to 4.11 sp8 after that I can't tell
you because we were forced to move to NT because of netwares lack of
reliability. We had the best CNE's that Novell could assign to the case
(actually Novells engineers worked directly on the problem) they said wait
till the next sp. Yes for simple file serving without a complex NDS schema
it would probably work fine but use anything dynamic in nature and NDS falls
on its face!
As far as performance nt4 sp6a with multiple cpu's kicks netwares ass in our
environment!
"Tom Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:msGX5.2276$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> "B. P. Uecker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Tom Wilson wrote in <7BsX5.5083$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > >> Netware is famous for abending at the drop of the hat. If all you do
> > >> with Netware is sit it in the corner and serve out saved documents to
> > >> PC users using IPX, it works.
> > >
> > >That's all you should have done with it. Its' what it was designed for.
> >
> > Yes, no shit, that's why it's dead. Next post: Tom writes in to tell
> > the world that Lotus 1-2-3 is dead, and anyway you should just use
> > whatever came with your Linux distro. What a genius.
>
> The only thing this post has shown me is that you're either young or don't
> know your ass from a hole in the ground. Possibly both.
>
> Your claim that NetWare its "famous for abending at the drop of a hat".
Tell
> that to anyone who routinely managed properly implemented Novell servers,
> back in the day, and you'll get showered in spit from the laughter. Make
> the same claim about NT and you'll most likely get an agreement. Instead
of
> raising the bar, NT lowered it. That its' performance with something so
> simple as file serving doesn't at least equal its' predecessor is damned
> near inexcusable. And to top it off, NT's stability is several notches
below
> its' predecessor too. Hell, Charles Manson is more stable than NT.
>
> For that matter, with all that funding and development time behind it, NT
> got its' ass kicked by a Unix clone built by a loosely coordinated band of
> hackers and some guy in Finland. Now that is SAD!
>
> Novell had to die to make way for THAT....
>
> I'm still not sure if WinAdvocacy stems from inexperience or denial. Maybe
> someone out there can enlighten me.
>
>
> --
> Tom Wilson
> Go home Al....
> Game over, man!
>
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