Linux-Advocacy Digest #352, Volume #31 Tue, 9 Jan 01 11:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux is not UNIX(tm) (Ian Pulsford)
Re: You and Microsoft... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: KDE Hell (Craig Kelley)
Re: Why does Win2k always fail in running time? (Craig Kelley)
Re: Why does Win2k always fail in running time? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Why does Win2k always fail in running time? ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: kernel problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: You and Microsoft... ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Linux is not UNIX(tm) ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: KDE Hell ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Linux 2.4 Major Advance (Craig Kelley)
Re: KDE Hell ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: linux does NOT suck (oh yes it does) (Craig Kelley)
Re: Why does Win2k always fail in running time? ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Could only... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Why does Win2k always fail in running time? ("tony roth")
Re: Linux is crude and inconsistant. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Does Linux envy Microsoft? ("tony roth")
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 01:13:02 +1000
From: Ian Pulsford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux is not UNIX(tm)
elmig wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Sloan) wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >Mart van deWege wrote:
>
> [ . . ]
>
> >At the risk of pointing out the obvious, time has proved Linus correct -
> >
> >jjs
> >
>
> Theoritical a microkernel is not a bad idea. And the kernel 2.4.0
> uncompressed takes about 150 MB, this is not a good idea.
> linux allows to fit all the drivers in the kernel. Theorical this is bad
> but in practice is very effective.
Yes! I can make a 400k kernel to boot my diskless PC that is very
clean, lean and also mean. No fscking about with modules and I can cat
it straight to floppy.
IanP
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: You and Microsoft...
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:17:30 GMT
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 16:29:16 -0600, "Erik Funkenbusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>"Pete Goodwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:V3l66.22619$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>>
>> > > You will never be able to install Microsoft Windows via the
>> > > internet.
>> >
>> > You can already.
>>
>> Really? How do you do that? If your PC gas nothing on it, how do you get
>it
>> across the internet? What "something" do you need in order for that to
>work?
>
>http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/msdos/tcpip.html
>
If you have an NT server just try:
Start->Programs->Adminstrative Tools->Network Client Administrator
You can make a boot disk to install Windows 95 from an NT server - it
even launches the setup program from the NT share. If your card isn't
listed you simply need to put the NDIS driver on ths boot disk.
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.sux
Subject: Re: KDE Hell
Date: 09 Jan 2001 08:21:51 -0700
"Kyle Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Firstly, if you had bothered to read what you clipped, you'd note that this
> was a response to KDE not being the "desktop" answer it's cracked up to be.
>
> Second, "Linux not for the desktop" is a load of shit. Tell Linux.com to
> openly admit that Linux isn't for desktop use, never has, and never will be,
> and I swear I'll stop posting to ANY Linux newsgroup.
>
> Finally, there seem to be more "blind men" in the Linux community than
> seeing ones, because I've seen KDE be praised as everything from "the end to
> all things Microsoft" to "the worst thing to hit Linux since Windows users".
And I hear the same thing about Windows all the time.
Different strokes, different folks. Bad cliche, albeit an obvious
one for this situation.
Ask your favorite Mac user how great EXPLORER.EXE is -- it's the same
thing as KDE/GNOME for UNIX. Does that mean the Mac users are "blind"
as well? Hmmm.
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Why does Win2k always fail in running time?
Date: 09 Jan 2001 08:26:49 -0700
"Bobby D. Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Matt Soltysiak wrote:
>
> > I've noticed that a lot of Windows advocates/users/kids are spreading
> > enormous bullshit regarding Windows 2000's stability.
>
> For a discussion at Linux Today, I pulled some stats from Netcraft a couple of
> days ago. You can find the relevant posts at
Noooooooooo! No more Netcraft wars; PLEASE!
:)
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,alt.linux.sux
Subject: Re: Why does Win2k always fail in running time?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:33:14 GMT
On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 05:00:46 GMT, "Matt Soltysiak"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've noticed that a lot of Windows advocates/users/kids are spreading
>enormous bullshit regarding Windows 2000's stability. Here's my tests on
>Win2k and true _FACT_ about this nice, bloated operating system.
***Snip the rest of a very bad troll.******
Matt, if you are going to troll at least make it reasonable because
this one is a total zero on the troll meter.
Flatfish
Why do they call it a flatfish?
Remove the ++++ to reply.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Why does Win2k always fail in running time?
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 10:32:49 -0500
tony roth wrote:
>
> Matt,
> You win the stupidest usenet poster award. It was Aaron but you've just
> whipped the snot out of him!
>
Tony
Your stupidity is surpassed only by your ignorance.
> "Matt Soltysiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:2Ww66.114530$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I've noticed that a lot of Windows advocates/users/kids are spreading
> > enormous bullshit regarding Windows 2000's stability. Here's my tests on
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: kernel problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:34:49 GMT
On 9 Jan 2001 05:32:14 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (.) wrote:
>And lots of time to lie about how much you understand about high level
>sound engineering, of course.
Tell us again mr . all about how VM is "sort of an operating system"
Flatfish
Why do they call it a flatfish?
Remove the ++++ to reply.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: You and Microsoft...
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 10:34:37 -0500
tony roth wrote:
>
> hmm I have servers that have uptimes of 2 years.
So have I...usually IBM mainframes.
Not one of them was running anything from Microsoft.
[Notice how tony neglected to specify which OS was running on those servers
which he saw with 2 year+ uptimes]
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > tony roth wrote:
> > >
> > > hmm, like I've said before the only possible way to crash an nt4 sp6a
> > > server is by administrative ignorance!
> > >
> >
> >
> > Then how come we don't see any NT4 boxes with 180 day uptimes?
> >
> > > "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > tony roth wrote:
> >
> >
> > --
> > Aaron R. Kulkis
> > Unix Systems Engineer
> > DNRC Minister of all I survey
> > ICQ # 3056642
> >
> >
--
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: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux is not UNIX(tm)
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 10:36:05 -0500
Ian Pulsford wrote:
>
> elmig wrote:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Sloan) wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > >Mart van deWege wrote:
> >
> > [ . . ]
> >
> > >At the risk of pointing out the obvious, time has proved Linus correct -
> > >
> > >jjs
> > >
> >
> > Theoritical a microkernel is not a bad idea. And the kernel 2.4.0
> > uncompressed takes about 150 MB, this is not a good idea.
> > linux allows to fit all the drivers in the kernel. Theorical this is bad
> > but in practice is very effective.
>
> Yes! I can make a 400k kernel to boot my diskless PC that is very
> clean, lean and also mean. No fscking about with modules and I can cat
> it straight to floppy.
>
And I wrote a kernal that fits on a 64k machine, including multi-user,
multi-tasking, and interprocess communication facilities.
On the other hand...i wouldn't even try to argue that it has modern capabilities.
> IanP
--
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: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.sux
Subject: Re: KDE Hell
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 10:37:49 -0500
Kyle Jacobs wrote:
>
> Firstly, if you had bothered to read what you clipped, you'd note that this
> was a response to KDE not being the "desktop" answer it's cracked up to be.
>
> Second, "Linux not for the desktop" is a load of shit. Tell Linux.com to
> openly admit that Linux isn't for desktop use, never has, and never will be,
> and I swear I'll stop posting to ANY Linux newsgroup.
Linux has much nicer desktops than any commercial version of Unix (in fact,
Sun has actually thrown out CDE in favor of Gnome)....and Unix *IS* the
standard desktop for the automotive and aerospace industries...EVERYWHERE,
WORLDWIDE.
--
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: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 Major Advance
Date: 09 Jan 2001 08:45:53 -0700
J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Conrad Rutherford wrote:
>
> > "2 + 2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:936gbr$put$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > "The 2.4 kernel is compatible with upcoming generations of computer
> > > microprocessors, including Intel Corp.'s (NasdaqNM:INTC - news) upcoming
> > > 64-bit Itanium chip, and supports symmetric multiprocessing, which allows
> > > machines to run up to 32 computer chips at once."
> > > See http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010105/tc/linux_torvalds_dc_2.html
> > >
> >
> > Wow! 32 "computer chips" at once! Is that like counting the CPU, memory HUB,
> > BIOS, hard drive controller, sound controller, etc? A whole 32 chips! woo
> > hoo!
> >
> > p.s., W2K can support 64 CPU's (and lots more computer chips too!) at once
>
> Actually the so-called "32-CPU" windows system is just four 8 way
> systems. If you call this supporting 32 CPUs, then you have to admit
> that the 256 CPU linux supercomputing clusters out there support
> 256 CPUS - can't have it both ways!
Not to mention S/390 systems, which blow the doors off *anything* x86
can do (and, since Windows only runs on x86....).
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.sux
Subject: Re: KDE Hell
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:46:24 GMT
On 9 Jan 2001 06:14:23 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
wrote:
>Bullshit. Linux is not widely used by home users, because "being
>used by home users" is not one of its design goals. All of a sudden,
>lots of Windows users jump on the bandwagon and say "I want to make
>Linux an OS my grandma can use", but they don't realise that it
>just wasn't designed for that, and trying to force something to
>do what it wasn't designed to do is always an uphill battle.
Sure looks like it is trying to be like Windows to me. If that were
not the case why not just leave the gui as it was 4 years ago with
fwvm and CDESim and such?
Why are the improvements to Linux mostly in the gui area?
No. You may hope that Linux is not trying for that market but the
movers and shakers with the money riding on Linux sure are hoping it
is.
>I think the parable of the three blind men and the elephant is applicable
>to the misconceptions about what KDE is. One blind man thinks KDE is a
>development environment (he sees kstudio). One man thinks it's an office
>suite (after someone shows him koffice). Another thinks it's a window
>manager.
No a blind man (the Linux users) see a bunch of pixels on the screen
and this is what he focus's his attention on.
A user sees an entire Window on the screen filled with his
applications.
A concept that seems to be foreign to the Penguinista's.
Flatfish
Why do they call it a flatfish?
Remove the ++++ to reply.
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.sux
Subject: Re: linux does NOT suck (oh yes it does)
Date: 09 Jan 2001 08:48:16 -0700
"Ayende Rahien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Les Mikesell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:IPu66.56936$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > "Kyle Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:kst66.13389$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Windows has a unified configuration system called the REGISTERY.
> > >
> > > Linux has /etc.
> > >
> > > Guess which one is light years ahead of the other.
> >
> > The one that allows you to run a test instance of a program at the same
> > time as the production copy but using a command line switch to
> > point it to an alternate file. The one that allows recovery of
> > an unbootable system by using an alternate boot (floppy, etc.)
> > and copying in correct versions of some files.
>
> And your point is?
> Both things are doable with the Registry.
Eating ice cream through a straw is doable as well.
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,alt.linux.sux
Subject: Re: Why does Win2k always fail in running time?
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 10:48:33 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Tue, 09 Jan 2001 05:00:46 GMT, "Matt Soltysiak"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I've noticed that a lot of Windows advocates/users/kids are spreading
> >enormous bullshit regarding Windows 2000's stability. Here's my tests on
> >Win2k and true _FACT_ about this nice, bloated operating system.
>
> ***Snip the rest of a very bad troll.******
Pot calling the snow black.
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Could only...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 10 Jan 2001 01:49:09 +1100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charlie Ebert) writes:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>Don't get me wrong --- but unless I would be willing to shoot people
>>as soon as I "feel threatened", the chances are my attacker has her gun
>>out before I even relaize that I should shoot her. Which means my chances
>>of getting in the first shot are pretty damn slim.
>Well Bernie. Don't get me wrong but it seems to me if they suspect your
>armed they won't be around anywho.
So does it seem to you like those would-be muggers were to do instead?
Do you suppose they specialise in mugging scantily clad women at the beach,
and exotic dancers who can't be bothered to put on a coat after their show?
It's not like many people think "oh, well, I could go get a job. Or I could
just mug someone. Hmmm, hard choice. Which one shall it be. Can't decide".
The criminals are not going away. And if they want to, they will even be
armed. And if they really want to, they will even be armed with a firearm,
although around here, a decent knife (*decent*, I said. That's not a knife.
*This* is a knife :), a syringe, snake, knucklebuster or baseball bat seems
to do the trick.
Now, when confronted with someone like that, I'd much rather have them feel
at ease then on knife's edge. The simple act of mugging is probably flooding
their blood with adrenalin already, I really don't want them to worry about
whether I am grabbing my wallet or a concealed weapon.
>And I do suggest going to the range to learn how to shoot that thing if
>you buy it.
Oh, of course. But the fact remains --- unless you are willing to do what
one US citizen did on the subway, which is to just shoot everyone you feel
potentially threatened by, you end up *re*acting in a mugging. You are not
the person who starts the interaction, nor the person who controls it.
In that situation, you are at an inherently inferior position; And you can
bet that you are not the only one who learned "how to shoot that thing".
>BTW, if you get shot in the guts your going to die, gunless or not.
Exactly. Which is why I want the person who has the gun pointed at my guts
to be at ease. It's not like she has anything to fear from me. I am more than
willing to hand over my wallet, and if she so desires, even my car keys
(although that would be a stupid thing to steal --- not much use in a getaway
car that one cannot start, and which also stands out like a sore thumb).
I am not going to try and shoot someone who is mugging me. I am not even
going to argue, or to wisecrack, or do *anything* to upset them. I like
living.
>Might as well have one.
What good is it going to do me.
>At least you can say you died trying to live.
I'd much rather say I was mugged and didn't get shot. Plain and simple.
Of course, I have never been mugged, assaulted or in any other way
violently attacked. When I got myself into situations where something
like that had a better chance of happening than around home (Germany),
like hitchhiking through Eastern Europe and Spain in the middle of the
night, I did so with the implicit understanding that anything I had
on me was dispensable and replacable. Heck, I even bought a crappy used
camera for hitchhiking all the way around the Baltic, because I fully
expected to have at least some things stolen. Got stuck with the stupid
thing for *years*, until I finally drenched it in pineapple-flavoured
milk and had an excuse for buying a decent one ;-)
Let me ask a simple question --- would you rather escape from a mugging
having shot the mugger, or would you rather have her caught by the cops
two weeks later, and of course with your wallet's contents long gone?
Bernie
--
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve
change amid order
Alfred North Whitehead
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From: "tony roth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why does Win2k always fail in running time?
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 07:50:12 -0800
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
oh my god, ouch!!
"Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> tony roth wrote:
> >
> > Matt,
> > You win the stupidest usenet poster award. It was Aaron but you've
just
> > whipped the snot out of him!
> >
>
> Tony
> Your stupidity is surpassed only by your ignorance.
>
>
>
> > "Matt Soltysiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:2Ww66.114530$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > I've noticed that a lot of Windows advocates/users/kids are spreading
> > > enormous bullshit regarding Windows 2000's stability. Here's my tests
on
>
>
> --
> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.sux
Subject: Re: Linux is crude and inconsistant.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:55:53 GMT
On 9 Jan 2001 16:32:03 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>What "standard" is it you are talking about? What "standard" says that
>a PC from IBM, using an IBM VGA card and a 3COM NIC, is "nonstandard"?
It's a Microchannel based IBM PS/2 with non standard hardware. The
SCSI cables use IBM Proprietory mini 68 pin connectors (not the
standard ones) and an abortion of an adapter on the internal one.
The SCSI adapters, while built by name brand vendors (Future
Domain/Adaptec) use IBM proprietor BIOS's on them and have trouble
working with non-IBM drives.
Try buying cards for it and see how standard it is :(
>>Run Linux on it and be happy.
>
>That won't work --- I bought this machine to run a specific application
>on it, which only runs under Windows. And quite frankly --- I don't need
>another Linux box. There are 6 in this room alone, a further 3 upstairs,
>and one in the lounge room.
>
>Bernie
Ten machines in your house?
You sound like a nut !!! <smile>!!
Flatfish
Why do they call it a flatfish?
Remove the ++++ to reply.
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From: "tony roth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Linux envy Microsoft?
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:01:10 -0800
MS has filed an appeal and is asking for a new trial! hmm they're saying
the whole thing was a sham forget the sentance!
"Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
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