Linux-Advocacy Digest #714, Volume #33 Fri, 20 Apr 01 00:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: Communism, Communist propagandists in the US...still..to this day. (Michael
Ejercito)
Re: Justice Department LOVES Microsoft! ("JS PL")
Re: Why left-wing communist assholes hate Reagan. (was Re: (Matthew Gardiner)
Re: Exploit devastates WinNT/2K security ("tony roth")
Re: What's the point ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: What's the point ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Am I ****? HP Photosmart C500 and Win 2000 ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Why left-wing communist assholes hate Reagan. (was Re: Communism,
Communist propagandists in the US...still..to this day.) (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: Microsoft gets hard (Matthew Gardiner)
Re: Communism ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Blame it all on Microsoft ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Ejercito)
Crossposted-To:
misc.survivalism,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,soc.singles,alt.society.liberalism,talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Communism, Communist propagandists in the US...still..to this day.
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 03:50:48 GMT
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 03:27:39 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(silverback) wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 03:25:19 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael
>Ejercito) wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 23:26:20 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>(silverback) wrote:
>>>sure 100K killed on the job yearly
>> Proof? And ebign killed on the job is usually not murder.
>i
>
>it sure the fuck is if there were violations of safety standards. And
>then we can add millions more each year for the ones dying of
>occupational diseases or cancer from exposure to cancer causing agents
>at work.
So are you implying the US government committed murder on a mass
scale for the past fifty years?
Michael
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From: "JS PL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Justice Department LOVES Microsoft!
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:54:08 -0400
"Martin Eden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said
> The reason Microsoft should be broken up is due to the fact that the
corporation
> itself has become so large that it is possible for Microsoft to directly
alter
> or disrupt the national economy.
Lets think about that statement for a minute. Microsoft is #79 on the
fortune 500 list. And their activities no matter how extreme would have
almost no impact on the US economy. If they shut their doors tomorrow, what
possible effect could that have besides the fact that users of their
software would eventually end up using something else an a few years. If
they raised the price of the Consumer OS to $1000 it would only increase
pirating and sales of Linux. OEM's would probably start loading Linux or
sell systems without an OS leaving consumers to pirate their own copy of
Windows. But it definitely wouldn't affect the economy.
Lets take a look at some of the Fortune 500 companies that rank ABOVE
Microsoft that aren't under any peril of being broken up but have much more
of a direct relationship with National Affairs, and the economy:
#1 on the Fortune 500 list, Exxon/Mobil - the daily whims of this company
definitely affect the economy. As a matter of fact, they are increasing
inflation as we speak!
#2 WalMart, they move about � billion dollars/day in cash. Microsoft is but
a small knat on WalMart's economic ass.
#30 Merk, they could raise the price of a product 1000% at a whim, and many
would either pay OR DIE! Many people ALREADY DIE!
> A group of unelected plutocrats in Redmond, Washington now have more real
power
> at the disposal of their whims than the Congress of the United States.
What power would that be? I submit Microsoft has no power at all over anyone
except maybe their own employees.
> Do you begin to get the picture now?
No.
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From: Matthew Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why left-wing communist assholes hate Reagan. (was Re:
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:54:03 +1200
<snype>
I find it rather humorous that septic tanks throw all Islamic people in
one big group, however, very few of you have atually visited Islamic
countries. Many things you do see, such as the extreme or totally
covering up of women, have nothing to do with the teachings of
Mohummad, but instead it is the teaching of Islam crossed with local
customers then those rules bought to the extreme. For example, if you
were to look at the likes of Lebanon, the rules are very liberal in what
women and men can and cannot wear. Also, many of you actually need to
read the koran and realise what the rules really are. They are that
people, both men and women wear modest clothing, hence, don't look like
a slut or skank. I am not surprise that 40 years of xenaphobia since
the Vietnam war has created a nation of people out of touch with other
cultures.
Matthew Gardiner
--
I am the resident BOFH (Bastard Operator From Hell)
If you don't like it, you can go [# rm -rf /home/luser] yourself
Running SuSE Linux 7.1
The best of German engineering, now in software form
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From: "tony roth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Exploit devastates WinNT/2K security
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:59:02 -0700
dumbass do yo think nfs is secure? blocking port 139 is standard issue
other than that any sniffer on the local net can get you any nfs or smb data
that you'd like its not encrypted either way ...
"Matthew Gardiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Roy Culley wrote:
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/18370.html
> >
> > Here's a snippet:
> >
> > "However, if for some reason it's necessary for you to use the many
thrilling
> > features of Windows networking without NTLMv2, then there is absolutely
> > nothing you can do but pray."
>
> Microsoft love re-inventing the wheel over and over again. There was a
> perfectly adequate file sharing protocol, called NFS which all UNIX's
> had, from IRIX to Solaris, you were guaranteed that they could
> inter-operate, but no, Microsoft had to be different, and now they are
> facing the consequences for their arrogance. Do I have any sorrow for
> those who went down the NT track? hell no. I personally could not give
> a shit and hope that they get their machines hacked to pieces by a 10
> year old script kiddie, whilst the real work, yet again, is done by
> servers running UNIX, using standard compliant file sharing protocols
> developed over decades of work.
>
> Matthew Gardiner
> --
> I am the resident BOFH (Bastard Operator From Hell)
>
> If you don't like it, you can go [# rm -rf /home/luser] yourself
>
> Running SuSE Linux 7.1
>
> The best of German engineering, now in software form
>
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What's the point
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:55:43 -0400
Nigel Feltham wrote:
>
> > ZX-81 and a TI-99/4a) but never did I use UNIX or OS's like that. In
>
> Gosh, the talk of the Texas TI-99/4a brings back memories of my second
> computer (the first was a Sinclair Spectrum) - this was a bit of a joke of
> a machine. It was the first 16 bit home computer yet it was slower than
> most 8 bit machines around at the time due to a stupid design where all
> user memory was controlled by the display chip and this chip passed
> commands a few at a time to CPU memory. The CPU is also the only one I know
> which stores it's memory registers in external RAM - the only internal
> register is a memory pointer to these registers which allows you to
> effectively push all registers onto the stack instantly by changing this
> pointer and later pull them back by resetting it - must have made debugging
> a bit of a nightmare though.
This is what's called a "stack machine", because all work is done through
the stack-pointer. There have been good stack machines, but the TI-99/4
was not one of them.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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]>
Subject: Re: What's the point
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:58:04 -0400
Brent R wrote:
>
> surrender wrote:
> >
> > In article <9bkprh$s9f$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David Coto"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote something like:
> >
> > >> Note: Now I have a dual 650Mhz PIII System at home running Linux that
> > >> still runs faster than my dual 650Mhz PIII system at work running WinNT
> > >> w/SP6. On top of that, my home system doesn't crash (unless I mess
> > >> with the kernel which I'm known to do).
> > >
> > > Which measures are you doing to prove that ? Math calcs ? CAD design
> > > ?
> > > What to say so absolutly that 1CPU performs better than 2CPU's ...
> > > obviously
> > > they are not CPU intensive tasks.
> > >
> > >> Yes. Even my wife who isn't computer saavy sits down at my Home System
> > >> and uses Applixware when I'm not on my computer....She chooses my
> > >> system although she could use Word97 on her own WinME computer.
> > >
> > > That does not prove she works better, just that you are a good
> > > advocate :-) and that she likes new things (all women I know do that).
> > >
> > It's not a new thing. Bill Gates said that linux was based on 20 or more year old
> > technology, which is totally outdated compared to the Micro$oft�
> > Windows�-products.
> > ;)
> >
> > --
> > Greets,
> > surrender
> > --
> > $ apt-get moo
> > (__)
> > (oo)
> > /------\/
> > / | ||
> > * /\---/\
> > ~~ ~~
> > ...."Have you mooed today?"...
>
> Actually, and I didn't know this until recently, but MS-DOS is based on
> IBM DOS which has been around since the 60's.
wrong. MS-DOS was based on CP/M, which some guy wrote for an 8080-based
machin in the mid 1970's.
> --
> - Brent
>
> http://rotten168.home.att.net
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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: Am I ****? HP Photosmart C500 and Win 2000
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 00:02:15 -0400
GreyCloud wrote:
>
> Dreamspinner3 wrote:
> >
> > What I find objectionable is that someone had to whine about the fact that a
> > child might see the particular word posted here. I feel, along with other
> > posters in this thread if you have read it through, feel that parents should
> > be WATCHING their kids and censoring what they do on the Internet, rather
> > than expecting everyone else to do it for them. Usenet is a wide-open field
> > and one should expect to see all kinds of stuff on it, including people who
> > like to use bad words. Thus parents should be supervising their kids
> > Internet activity and not expect everyone else in the world to censor
> > themselves just become they might offend their precious child. Parents
> > should be responsible for their children! That is that!
> >
>
> I find it rather amusing to see people worrying about what their
> children are reading or going to read about on the net... go to the
> school yard and hear some real profanity!
> Poor state of the education system. Things sure have changed.
True.
Allowing any child to attend a public school in the US is child abuse.
>
> As to the C500, if the program can acquire an image that is twain
> compliant then it should acquire it. Adobe PhotoShop acquires from my
> twain compliant scanner without any problems. The O/S has to know that
> the device is there.
>
> > "Rick Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Dreamspinner3 wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Did you see me swearing at all? Hmmm???? Yes, I know what this group
> > is
> > > > about. Yes, I agree with you (suprise!!) such language as he used is
> > > > unpleasant. However, why whine about it? And you're the one who
> > mentioned
> > > > your children.... He has a right to post here. I just ignore and/or
> > > > killfile people I don't like. I don't whine about it or try to impress
> > my
> > > > morals upon them. I guess that is where we differ.
> > >
> > > This is not a difference. This is a similarity. Some "whine" about
> > > language, while you "whine" about whining. You try to impress your
> > > notion of proper discourse upon the "whiners."
> > >
> > > Why does the "photophile" have the right to post here, while the "whiner"
> > > does not? You could ignore the "whiners", just as you admonish them
> > > to ignore the references to human-camera sex. The kill file option works
> > > just as well with either.
> > >
> > > You do not find foul language objectionable, yet you find objections
> > > to foul language objectionable. Interesting.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Rick Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> --
> V
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
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can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Subject: Re: Why left-wing communist assholes hate Reagan. (was Re: Communism,
Communist propagandists in the US...still..to this day.)
Date: 20 Apr 2001 04:02:39 GMT
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:17:32 -0400, Aaron R. Kulkis wrote:
> Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
> Never been in Saudi Arabia, have you, so please keep your ignorant
> stereotypes to yourself.
I'm not invoking "ignorant stereotypes", I am quoting what I believe is
a fairly good source.
> For example.
>
> Non-muslim women are not only not expected to cover their faces, etc.,
Except that it's a religious state, so if you're a citizen, you had better
be muslim.
>> You pretend to be such a passionate advocate of freedom, but now you are
>> showing your true colors by coming clean with the fact that think that
>> only men are entitled to any freedom at all (and even the men have fairly
>> limited freedom, apart from freedom to rape and beat their wives and
>> servants)
>
> Nah.
Yeah.
You obviously think freedom is not very important, because you hold
in high regard a religious state that offers no freedom.
> I'm just saying that women in Saudi Arabia have a much better life
> than American woman...thanks to American feminists.
How do they have a better life ? Your claims that they are "safer" do
not hold water, and even if they did, would you trade all your freedom
for these perceived benefits ? Is freedom really that unimportant
to you ?
--
Donovan Rebbechi * http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/ *
elflord at panix dot com
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From: Matthew Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.arch,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Microsoft gets hard
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:03:18 +1200
Jan Johanson wrote:
>
> "Matthew Gardiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > <snype>
> > > I do things which truly astound and bill for it.
> >
> > Admin NT servers, the most astound things? my guess, getting them to
> > stay up for longer than one week whilst maintaining the same throughput.
> >
> > Answer the question sonny. Until you start admining s/900z, s/390, and
> > clusters of UNIX servers, I suggest that you should keep your trap shut.
> >
>
> Now that is funny - I love it when the best come back a unix-nut has is:
> until you've suffered as I've suffered and continue to suffer you are
> nothing. The fact you can do what I can do in 1/4 the time with 1/8th the
> effort means you _obviously_ must be an idiot and I am a genius for slaving
> away working on much bigger and more compliated proprietary hardware.
>
> as if run time had anything to do with throughput - silly...
Nope, I can just setup a server and mainframe and it just keeps on
work'in, where as the poor o'l NT admin is praying that the server wont
suddenly in the middle of the night crash because of a minor issue. I
can get things done 3 times faster in that I don't need to keep hanging
around making sure the darn thing doesn't crash. With UNIX, you setup,
test, they fuck off home in the knowledge that it will just keep on
work'in.
Matthew Gardiner
--
I am the resident BOFH (Bastard Operator From Hell)
If you don't like it, you can go [# rm -rf /home/luser] yourself
Running SuSE Linux 7.1
The best of German engineering, now in software form
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,us.military.army,soc.singles
Subject: Re: Communism
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 00:06:16 -0400
billh wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis"
>
> > That explanation is not open for Bill Hudson, as he rejects it when
> > anybody else refuses to discuss classified things.
>
> Not quite KuKuNut, I called you on your BS when you stated you were in clas
> ops in Iraq but couldn't talk about it until 2041. After LMAO, I pointed
> out that by your very post you "talked" about it. I also pointed out that
> if it were true it would actually be 2066, IF ever. I also pointed out you
Here's a test, Bill:
x=1991 + 50
What is x?
> were a "wannabe" at best or a security risk at worst. Since then we've all
> known what you made so plainly obvious: you are a simple minded liar and
> "war-hero" wannabe.
Tell us again your theory about how the Germans, Japanese, North Koreans,
Chinese, Viet Cong, and North Vietnamese never shot American medics.
>
> Now go polish the wreath around the Presidential Unit Citation you claimed
> your unit was awarded for counter-terror action in Atlanta, Georgia. LOL!!!
For someone who claims to have a master's degree, you sure are a stupid
fucking pile of diarhea. I never claimed any such thing. You ERRONEOUSLY
connected two independant statements
1) My company was awarded th PUC
2) My battalion was decorated for CT duties at 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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]>
Crossposted-To: comp.theory,comp.arch,comp.object
Subject: Re: Blame it all on Microsoft
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 00:08:51 -0400
Peter da Silva wrote:
>
> In article <9bikaq$6a8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joseph T. Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Then move the whole company over to open protocols and interfaces! :)
>
> That turns out to be harder than it looks, unless one doesn't mind losing
> jobs because one can't deal with oddball Windows-only stuff that customers
> send you. And Star Office is just the beginning.
Simple. You tell them to send it back to you in a format that's useable.
People do this all the time.
>
> > A wonderful free tool called VNC can help the migration process
> > tremendously by allowing Linux boxes to run Windows apps running on
> > other boxes and vice versa.
>
> Not to mention Citrix, and Windows based X servers, and VMware.
>
> But eventually you have to go cold turkey.
>
> > Windows. Then, as groups of users become less and less dependent on
> > M$-only software, you can move some of them over to Linux boxes
>
> FreeBSD, actually.
>
> --
> `-_-' In hoc signo hack, Peter da Silva.
> 'U` "A well-rounded geek should be able to geek about anything."
> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Disclaimer: WWFD?
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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