Linux-Advocacy Digest #497, Volume #33 Wed, 11 Apr 01 01:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Basement Boy: Aka Aaron Koookis ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: US Navy carrier to adopt Win2k infrastructure ("Chad Myers")
Re: NT is stagnant while Linux explodes ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Need your recommendation for a full-featured text editor ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Communism ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Basement Boy: Aka Aaron Koookis (Brent R)
Re: MS and ISP's (Brent R)
Re: MS and ISP's (".")
Re: Article: Windows XP won't support USB 2.0 (Marada C. Shradrakaii)
Re: US Navy carrier to adopt Win2k infrastructure (Chad Everett)
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Basement Boy: Aka Aaron Koookis
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 23:48:35 -0400
Chad Everett wrote:
>
> Please tell use again why the Army camoflauges their tanks?
>
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 11:14:04 -0400, Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >I've got a 500MHz K6-2, with 256MB of memory on board, connected to
> >80 MB SCSI-II (Ultra-Wide) disks, and the disk drives are STILL the
> >major bottleneck.
>
> He forgot to add: running SuSE linux with a @home cable modem in
> Royal Oak, Michigan.
That's another machine.
Close, though...
--
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 Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
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.
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From: "Chad Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: US Navy carrier to adopt Win2k infrastructure
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 03:39:29 GMT
"David Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9auqf3$4hp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In other words, it is somehow a problem that Linux needs a modern kernel, or
> a patch for older kernels, to be able to support files bigger than 2 Gb,
> while it is no problem that NT requires a massive and bug-ridden service
> pack (SP 4 was so full of problems that it reduced a SP3 machine to the
> stability of the original NT4) to be able to support files bigger than 100
> MB.
um... surrrre...
Do YOU even think you know what the hell you're talking about?
SP4 was pretty good actually. Perhaps you were smoking a little too much
during those days, eh?
-c
>
>
>
> Goldhammer wrote in message ...
> >On 9 Apr 2001 22:16:04 -0500,
> >Chad Everett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 01:37:58 GMT,
> >>Chad Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>"David Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >>>news:9arpf3$l7p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >>>>
> >>>> Goldhammer wrote in message ...
> >>>>
> >>>> >
> >>>> >AFAIK, ext2 supports files up to 16Eb. The reason
> >>>> >why files >2 Gb on 32-bit machines require the
> >>>> >'bigfile' patch has to do with the size of int
> >>>> >on a 32-bit machine. But linux on an Alpha doesn't
> >>>> >have any 2 Gb "limit". Therefore, the 2 Gb "limit"
> >>>> >cannot be considered limitation of Linux. It simply
> >>>> >isn't, unless one argues that Linux on an Alpha isn't
> >>>> >really Linux.
> >>>> >
> >>>
> >>>It _IS_ a limitation in Linux, because few other OSes have
> >>>this problem on 32-bit architectures.
> >>>
> >>
> >>It is _NOT_ a limitation in Linux. The linux 2.4.x kernel handles files
> >>> 2GB in size just fine thank you.
> >
> >
> >Besides, there's nothing objectively wrong
> >with having a 32-bit int filesize limit
> >on a 32-bit machine. Just as there is nothing
> >objectively 'wrong' with having 32-bit memory
> >addressing on a 32-bit machine. It's a design
> >implementation. However, there *is* something
> >wrong with an OS, namely NT, which is supposed
> >to support large files, yet craps out on >100 MB
> >files unless the kernel is bugfixed:
> >
> >http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q171/4/58.ASP
> >
> >"Windows NT May Fail On Request to Open Large Files
> >
> >"The information in this article applies to:
> >Microsoft Windows NT Workstation versions 3.51, 4.0
> >Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 3.51, 4.0
> >Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0, Terminal Server Edition
> >
> >"SYMPTOMS When an application tries to open large files
> >(over 100MB), the open request may fail with one of the
> >following error messages: Insufficient Resources - or -
> >Invalid Handle. The actual error returned varies depending
> >on the application being used to open the file.
> >
> >"RESOLUTION The allocation for paged-pool memory was
> >modified to correct any problem that might occur on
> >systems that have large files (greater 100MB) that
> >are repeatedly opened sequentially, updated, and then
> >closed. Ntoskrnl.exe and Ntkrnlmp.exe have been updated
> >to correct this problem.
> >
> >"Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT 4.0
> >and Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition. This problem
> >was first corrected in Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4.0 and Windows
> >NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition Service Pack 4."
> >
> >
> >--
> >Don't think you are. Know you are.
>
>
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,soc.singles
Subject: Re: NT is stagnant while Linux explodes
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 23:50:06 -0400
"T. Max Devlin" wrote:
>
> Said cat < nonsense > cola in alt.destroy.microsoft on Sun, 8 Apr 2001
> >"T. Max Devlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> Said WGAF in alt.destroy.microsoft on Sat, 07 Apr 2001 13:24:45 GMT;
> >> >
> >> >"667 Neighbor of the Beast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >> >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> >
> >> >> 41% is not rules. Anyway, since Linux is is Unix, let us combine the
> >> >> Unix and Linux scores. Now it reads:
> >> >
> >> >Except for the fact that Unix is not Linux and one shell not combine them
> >> >into one. Unless one knows nothing about either of the OSes....
> >>
> >> What the hell are you talking about? *UNIX* is not one. If shell did
> >> combine it, shell can combine Linux, as it is little more than a
> >> freeware Unix. Would you consider FreeBSD Unix? Linux is a hell of a
> >> lot more popular, thanks to the GPL.
> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > Not to some - Not to business - Certainly not to a business that
> >develops embedded products.
>
> More popular than embedded Windows, that's for sure!
>
> >I am talking about business; mind you, business
> >for profit. Not the dot-com madness or the IPO of the month club, or the
> >next near-great warm and fuzzy thing on Freshmeat.
>
> Sorry; either you accept business as business, or you admit you're
> trying to narrow your sample down to only those examples that support
> your argument. IBM is investing 300 MILLION dollars in Linux
> development this year. You were saying....?
>
> > Based on my readings of late, the far less restrictive philosophy of
> >FreeBSD is attracting most of the serious inquiries from people looking to
> >make money. Why? -because they are NOT GPL.[...]
>
> Let me explain why this is so confusing. You look at some businesses
> (IBM, RedHat, VA-Linux) and they are very pro-Linux. You look at others
> and, as you noted, the GPL would scare them off, because it removes the
> possibility of profiteering, forcing you to compete on the merits of
> your product. So is "business" pro or anti-Linux, in general?
>
> Well, I'll tell you how I unravel this Gordian knot. Its a pretty big
> sword, and a pretty sharp one, if you tend it well. Its called "a free
> market". They all duke it out, and in the end, it doesn't matter even a
> tiny itsy little bit whether a business is pro- or anti-Linux, or pro-
> or anti-GPL. The only thing in all the world that matters is whether
> that businesses *customers* are pro-Linux or pro-GPL. Since customers
> tend to like good, free things, either FreeBSD or GPL seem to be good
> enough to meet the demand. The businesses which like FreeBSD or some
> other GPL-avoiding tactic may in the end be able to provide a better
> product than GPL, due to their ability to capitalize on someone else's
> intellectual property. If this ends up being a successful method, long
> term, in the free market, then I'm perfectly happy with it. But as far
> as I know, customers like what is cheaper and better for them, not what
> is cheaper and better for the producer.
>
> As a consumer, I know that a GPL codebase ensures that no vendor or
> producer will ever be able to hold my data hostage, or force an upgrade,
> or unfairly increase their prices. So it seems from my perspective that
> others see things similarly enough that GPL is very very popular with
> customers, and so nobody gives a rat's ass whether it is popular with
> businesses, per se.
>
I just wanted to see that again.
> --
> T. Max Devlin
> *** The best way to convince another is
> to state your case moderately and
> accurately. - Benjamin Franklin ***
--
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 Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
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.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
24hoursupport.helpdesk,alt.comp.shareware.programmer,comp.editors,comp.lang.java.help,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.java.softwaretools,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Need your recommendation for a full-featured text editor
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 23:52:50 -0400
Roberto Selbach Teixeira wrote:
>
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Randall Parker wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 06:00:03 GMT esteemed JLI did'st hold forth
> >> thusly:
> >> > For simple editing work vi is properly the best tool on UNIX.
> >>
> >> Does it do color syntax coding or language and library sensitive
> >> code expansion?
> >>
> >> Its been a long time since I used vi and it was the second editor I
> >> learned to use. But I think perhaps I should learn it again to help
> >> when administering Linux and Unix boxes.
> >
> > vim does.
> >
>
> And it sucks too! The obvious choice is (and always will be) FSF Emacs!
Emacs is a bloated hog...and it's not universally installed...and where
it is installed, which version is it? Is it *really* emacs, or is
it jove? or temacs? or ????
If you do work on a LOT of systems, especially for a large number
of companies, on site...then trying to survive solely on emacs will
kill you.
vi is universally installed, and unchanging.
>
> --
> Roberto Selbach Teixeira [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Conectiva, S.A. http://www.conectiva.com
>
> "You don't *learn* emacs, you learn *from* emacs."
> -- Alain Picard
--
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 Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
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]>
Subject: Re: Communism
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 23:54:23 -0400
GreyCloud wrote:
>
> billh wrote:
> >
> > "T. Max Devlin"
> >
> > > >> Said Roger Perkins in alt.destroy.microsoft on Thu, 5 Apr 2001 21:18:13
> > > >> >And there you go! You finally figured him out.
> > > >> >
> > > >> >Roger
> > > >> >AIRBORNE!
> > > >>
> > > >> Fuck off.
> > > >
> > > >that was pretty funny
> > >
> > > Fuck off.
> >
> > That's a mighty puerile sentiment.
>
> I wonder whats got him so sore?
Lack of lubricants.
--
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 Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
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: Brent R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Basement Boy: Aka Aaron Koookis
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 04:01:22 GMT
"Aaron R. Kulkis" wrote:
<snip>
> I don't care if people know my name...it's the name of the OS, and
> the software that I'm using that I want obscured.
So as a "UNIX administrator" you're running an insecure system right?
Or you're lying.
--
- Brent
http://rotten168.home.att.net
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From: Brent R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS and ISP's
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 04:05:24 GMT
"Aaron R. Kulkis" wrote:
> Considering that Mafia$oft has NEVER created even an adequate
> OS, let alone a "world-class" one, the premise of your statement
> is false.
Considering that you actually use the term "Mafia$oft" and use it ad
nauseum, the credibility of your statement is negligible.
--
- Brent
http://rotten168.home.att.net
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From: "." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS and ISP's
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:14:19 +1200
> > Considering that Mafia$oft has NEVER created even an adequate
> > OS, let alone a "world-class" one, the premise of your statement
> > is false.
>
> Considering that you actually use the term "Mafia$oft" and use it ad
> nauseum, the credibility of your statement is negligible.
It all depends on your definition of world-class. If your definition is
'sold in the world', then yes, Windows is world class.
If your definition includes 'performs favourably when compared with others',
then we are going to have a nice big holy war ;)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marada C. Shradrakaii)
Date: 11 Apr 2001 04:17:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Article: Windows XP won't support USB 2.0
>Microsoft says it's a quality issue, which is nonsense (what -
>Microsoft, concerned with quality?
I don't understand what quality concern they would face. Doesn't most of the
burden for proper support lie on the driver authors, many of which are working
for the hardware makers? Are they admitting they can't even develop a quality
driver API or underlying framework?
--
Marada Coeurfuege Shra'drakaii
Colony name not needed in address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chad Everett)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: US Navy carrier to adopt Win2k infrastructure
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 10 Apr 2001 23:06:35 -0500
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 03:38:35 GMT, Chad Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>"Chad Everett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 01:37:58 GMT, Chad Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>> >
>> >"David Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> >news:9arpf3$l7p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> >>
>> >> Goldhammer wrote in message ...
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >AFAIK, ext2 supports files up to 16Eb. The reason
>> >> >why files >2 Gb on 32-bit machines require the
>> >> >'bigfile' patch has to do with the size of int
>> >> >on a 32-bit machine. But linux on an Alpha doesn't
>> >> >have any 2 Gb "limit". Therefore, the 2 Gb "limit"
>> >> >cannot be considered limitation of Linux. It simply
>> >> >isn't, unless one argues that Linux on an Alpha isn't
>> >> >really Linux.
>> >> >
>> >
>> >It _IS_ a limitation in Linux, because few other OSes have
>> >this problem on 32-bit architectures.
>> >
>>
>> It is _NOT_ a limitation in Linux. The linux 2.4.x kernel handles files
>
>Because it _WAS_ a limitation, they merely fixed it, FINALLY. NT could
>support >2GB files years ago.
>
First you say it _IS_ and when called on it, now you say it _WAS_
NT used to have a 2GB file limit: doesn't anymore
Linux used to have a 2GB file limit: doesn't anymore.
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