Linux-Advocacy Digest #580, Volume #34 Thu, 17 May 01 22:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: Campaign: Microsoft Free by October 1st (Terry Porter)
Re: Rather humorous posting on news.com commentry forum: (Charlie Ebert)
Re: Linux posts #1 TPC-H result (W2K still better) (T. Max Devlin)
Re: Win 9x is horrid (Daniel Tryba)
Re: Campaign: Microsoft Free by October 1st (Terry Porter)
Mandrake astroturfing? ("Flacco")
Re: Justice Department LOVES Microsoft! ("billwg")
Re: Justice Department LOVES Microsoft! ("billwg")
Re: Microsoft - WE DELETE YOU! (GreyCloud)
Re: Microsoft - WE DELETE YOU! (GreyCloud)
Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop ("Rich Soyack")
Re: Linux is paralyzed before it even starts (Terry Porter)
Re: Linux LCD problem (Terry Porter)
Re: Why did Eazel shutdown? (GreyCloud)
Re: Sea Change (Mike Martinet)
Re: Why did Eazel shutdown? (GreyCloud)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Porter)
Subject: Re: Campaign: Microsoft Free by October 1st
Reply-To: No-Spam
Date: 18 May 2001 01:08:02 GMT
On Thu, 17 May 2001 15:52:16 +0000,
Karel Jansens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>>When you write "months without rebooting", does that mean that your
>>>Windows 98 pc stays powered on continuously, or do you occasionally shut
>>>it down voluntarily? And if so, how often do you perform these
>>>"maintainance reboots"?
>>
>> Yes, it does mean that I leave it one continuously. In fact, the only
>> time I really have to reboot anymore is right before I burn a CD on my
>> new CD-RW so the buffer doesn't time out. But I think it's because my
>> comp is so frickin so moreso than the operating system. (200mHz, 64
>> MB RAM, parralel port to CD-RW). I wish I could afford a better
>> machine, but I simply can't.
>>
>
> Not to call you a liar, but I have _never_ met anyone who managed to keep
> Win 9x running for more than a working week (i.e.: five days) in a normal
> office or home environment (*). Most people call themselves lucky if they
> get through the day without a three-finger salute to their grey box.
>
My Wifes Win98 box has been continuously on for a couple of weeks without
lockups, but obviously either the OS leaks memory, or some apps do, as it
just gets slower and slower, and its this slowdown, that can be as short
as a few days, that usually requires her to reboot it.
My Linux box, is up for periods of 30 days, before a power
outage or electrical storm kill my uptime.
When I used to run Win95, in the days before I went Linux only
(1996-1997 approx) I used to always shut down at the end of the day,
and the same with the other Ms OS's I ran before that (Win3.1, Win3.11).
--
Kind Regards
Terry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charlie Ebert)
Subject: Re: Rather humorous posting on news.com commentry forum:
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 01:10:17 GMT
In article <ys_M6.12927$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Flacco wrote:
>> What is keeping Linux off the desktop is ignorance and arrogance rolled
>> up into a little ball called, "Linux is too hard!" + "Why should I learn
>> how to use it?". You hear users bitch and moan, but when a replacement
>> comes along, they make excuses, even though all they do it write a
>> letter to Aunt Dolly and email some crap to work. Something Linux is
>> more than capable of doing.
>
>You're not helping that user choose Linux by calling him "ignorant" and
>"arrogant". Quite the opposite, really.
>
>If it gets your rocks off to stroke yourself in the advocacy forum, great,
>enjoy yourself.
>
>Just do so with the knowledge that your attitude actually hurts Linux.
I HATE YOU FLACCO!
--
Charlie
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From: T. Max Devlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux posts #1 TPC-H result (W2K still better)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 01:12:42 GMT
Said Ayende Rahien in comp.os.linux.advocacy on Wed, 16 May 2001
>"David Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:9du5h6$ika$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>
>> Ayende Rahien wrote in message <9du459$qed$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>
>> This makes the situation even clearer. Thing what sort of profits MS
>makes
>> per copy of W2k Advanced Server + SQL Server. I don't know the prices or
>> the profit margins, but lets guess $5,000. In effect, entering a machine
>> for such benchmarking is advertising - for it to make sense for MS to
>enter
>> a machine (sponsering the hardware) at $500,000, they would have to reckon
>> that their entry would lead to 100 more sales.
>>
>> For the SGI/IBM solution, the profit margins on the hardware and software
>> (DB2) would be very large - they might need just ten customers who want
>> those sorts of speeds regardless of the cost per transaction.
>>
>> But consider the case for Red Hat entering a solution based on PostGres or
>> MySQL. At $79 per software pack, they make maybe $10 profit. If they
>pick
>> low-end hardware (relative to the others here) for $20,000, they have a
>cost
>> of $30,0079 (hardware, entry fee and their own software). That means they
>> have to gain 3,000 new customers because of their benchmark entry. Given
>> that a hefty proportion of people seeing these results will be just as
>> likely to use a free copy of Red Hat, or another distribution, or use the
>> same copy on several machines, they are going to have to impress something
>> like 30,000 potential customers. They need to impress 300 times as many
>> potential customers as MS, using hardware for around 5% of the price,
>before
>> they can afford to enter the benchmark. And every dollar they spend on it
>> helps their direct competition (i.e., other Linux distributers) just as
>much
>> as themselves.
>>
>> The SGI/IBM solution is a large, proprietry, commercial
>results-at-all-costs
>> solution - the fact that it ran on Linux was almost incidental. Had they
>> chosen Irix or Aix, there would not have been more than a few percent
>> difference on either the price or the performance - it is totally
>> unrepresentative of typical Linux and free software solutions.
>
>
>Software needs to pay for the advertisement and the development costs, after
>that, it's mostly all profit.
>And RH doesn't make 10% of the stuff they stuff into their distribution,
>btw.
>
>You bring important points, but forget something, this isn't OS contenst,
>this is *solutions* contenst.
>This mean that it *isn't* RH or MS that submit those benchmarks. It's
>CompaQ, Dell, IBM, SGI, etc.
>Those guys *have* the money to put up more than decent boxes.
>IBM doesn't care if it sells Win2K or Linux, as long as it makes its profit
>from the hardware.
>If the SGI solution could've done as well on P-SQL, they would've used it.
>However, I doubt that P-SQL can handle datasets that large.
A very rational and well-reasoned analysis, Ayende. But by that same
logic, just as rigorously but reasonably applied, IBM doesn't have any
need to put up a Linux system on such a benchmark, nor does anybody
else. You forget, Linux has the "low cost" approach nailed down, and
that is all the competitive advantage it should or does ever need. It
would simply make no sense to put up a concerted effort to place on a
commercial benchmark, either way.
Thus, the fact it is not placed says nothing about its ability to place;
it could well have the ability to DOMINATE, and that would *only*
provide more reason for it not to ever appear! Not that I think it
would dominate; you get what you pay for in a free market. In a
monopolized market, you get monopoly crapware, no matter how much you
have to pay (and it is always, by definition, too much), but that is
beside the point, in a way.
--
T. Max Devlin
*** The best way to convince another is
to state your case moderately and
accurately. - Benjamin Franklin ***
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From: Daniel Tryba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win 9x is horrid
Date: 18 May 2001 00:08:52 GMT
Erik Funkenbusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It's much easier for Microsoft to spy on their users via data
>> transmitted in encrypted form over the Internet . Most users will be
>> blissfully unaware
>> even if 40-50k, perhaps even 100k of data - a full inventory of their
>> hard disks, for example - were to be sent to Microsoft.
>
> Again, MS could send 1 byte of data extra in a TCP header every time
> you connect to microsoft.com and do the same thing. They do *NOT*
> need to do it through activation. It simply makes no sense whey they
> would choose this method, and not some other less visible method, *IF*
> they were going to do this. Merely using their software is enough.
You don't _need_ to connect to *.microsoft.com or whatever host they
could use to collect data (you might even not be on a network at all),
but you _have to_ get an activation code.
If I had to do some (illegal) datacollection I would probably do it
during activation.
--
Daniel Tryba
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Porter)
Subject: Re: Campaign: Microsoft Free by October 1st
Reply-To: No-Spam
Date: 18 May 2001 01:19:00 GMT
On Thu, 17 May 2001 16:06:28 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Karel Jansens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Not to call you a liar, but I have _never_ met anyone who managed to keep
>> Win 9x running for more than a working week (i.e.: five days) in a normal
>> office or home environment (*). Most people call themselves lucky if they
>> get through the day without a three-finger salute to their grey box.
>
> Most people are always screwing with their systems. Once you have a
> working, stable system, don't fuck with it by installing the latest driver
> or whatever. it'll stay up a lot longer than you think.
>
I'd agree with Eric there, however sometimes just adding an app can render
Win9x unstable. The same can happen to Linux also (memory leaks).
Overall my Windows experience was not that bad, Win95 was just so much better
than Win3.11, and I rarely suffered any lockups. I do recall being hesitant
to d/l more than 1 file at a time, as it *always* resulted in corrupted files.
Interestingly that requirement was negated by Linux, and I can count the
number of d/l corruptions on one hand, since I went Linux full time in 1997.
In opposition to the claims of Wintrolls, I have never claimed that Windows9x
was that bad, and I went to Linux because of the APPS, more than anything else.
Mind you, having used my Wifes Win98 box, I'm less than impressed, and
she often wishes she had Win95 on it still.
--
Kind Regards
Terry
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From: "Flacco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake astroturfing?
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 01:29:44 GMT
I've noticed a lot of messages, in a lot of places, praising the new
Mandrake release - in the newsgroups, in talk-backs of the various Linux
sites and ZDNet...
Some of them don't seem particularly "natural", some seem repetitive, and
sometimes they are just barely relevant to the message to which they
reply.
Is there some kind of Mandrake astroturf campaign underway?
Just an observation...
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From: "billwg" <[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: Fri, 18 May 2001 01:30:26 GMT
"Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Well genius, why do you think there's not much app development going on
> for Commodre 64/128, Apple II, Tandy Color Computer, Atari ST, etc?
> Becasue no one buys the apps. Developers develop for the primary market
> place. Which is micro$oft - who stole the market.
>
Maybe no one buys the apps because no one has the machines! Do you use any
of them? Do you have a crystal set radio too? I don't think you can say
Microsoft stole that market, they just showed everyone a better way.
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From: "billwg" <[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: Fri, 18 May 2001 01:24:23 GMT
"Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Name 5.
>
There are companies that make a substantial amount of money selling Windows
application software, with or without competition from Microsoft, and there
are companies that make a good profit in direct competition with Microsoft's
OS products. There's IBM/Lotus for starters with a very much alive Domino
Notes database and document/message communications system. There's
companies such as Adobe, Real Networks, Crystal Decisions, InstallShield,
Computer Associates, and VERITAS who sell products that go well beyond the
applet capablities of the "free" integrated software that comes with
Windows. There are others such as Intuit and Oracle that make more money
from their Windows products than Microsoft does from their own Windows
products that are direct competitors. There are even companies that have
battled Microsoft for over a decade, such as Corel, Borland, and Novell,
that are still very much alive and kicking today.
There are a lot of dead bodies along the road from the S-100 days to the
present, but they were not all killed by Microsoft, or even a majority of
them. Most are effectively suicides brought about by the same narrow
thinking that says that no one can compete with Microsoft. The trick is in
knowing how.
BTW, Stac is still in business although they changed their name last year to
Previo. Try http://www.previo.com/about/ and read about them today.
They've moved way beyond disk compression, helped along by the tens of
millions of bucks they got from suing Microsoft.
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From: GreyCloud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Microsoft - WE DELETE YOU!
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 18:39:38 -0700
Chad Myers wrote:
>
> "Matthew Gardiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > GreyCloud wrote:
> >
> > > Jon Johansan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > "Matthew Gardiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > > Interconnect wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > [HUGE SNIP]
> > > > > > > This is coming from a person who plays games on the server, ROFL!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Matthew Gardiner
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What do you expect from a dedicated Windows *professional* :D
> > > > >
> > > > > Of course. Chad Myers is the sort of idiot who would user a server as a
> > > > > workstation as well. On several occasions that was he said thats what
> > > > > he also used the server for.
>
> Reason #19210801982 why I killfiled him. Not only is he a complete moron,
> but he lies too!
>
> > > > This cracks me up coming from the linvocates who KEEP talking about linux
> > > > being free and saving money is so important...
> > > >
> > > > Lets park a file/print share server in the closet and let it's CPU and Mem
> > > > usage stay idle for years just cause a server is a server and a
> workstation
> > > > is where you run things, never the two shall meet. Sheesh... while I don't
> > > > see myself running many games on a server I #1) have no fear of doing it
> > > > cause, it's a computer, it's there to do what you want it to when you want
> > > > it to, it shouldn't be single tasked. #2) would do it just to piss off the
> > > > server elitists who'd cringe at the idea and #3) cause sometimes having a
> 0
> > > > ping kicks ass! <smile>
> > >
> > > Nothing like having Jon, Chad and Eric in the same ng.... like watching
> > > the three stooges in action!
> > > --
> > > V
> >
> > They belong to the: Windows And Network Klub ---> or WANK for short :)
>
> <sigh>
>
> You guys are completely devoid of any logic or reason. You present no
> facts and only fling the personal insults.
>
> Completely clueless...
>
> *pl0nk*
>
> -c
You wouldn't know fact from fiction lad.
You've been brain-washed by staring at BSODs too long. :-))
--
V
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From: GreyCloud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Microsoft - WE DELETE YOU!
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 18:41:31 -0700
Matthew Gardiner wrote:
>
> > > They belong to the: Windows And Network Klub ---> or WANK for short :)
> >
> > <sigh>
> >
> > You guys are completely devoid of any logic or reason. You present no
> > facts and only fling the personal insults.
> >
> > Completely clueless...
> >
> > *pl0nk*
> >
> > -c
>
> Try removing that 10 foot cactus from out of your ass, then you will not be so
> sensitive to a joke! Fuck, now I know what Kevin Bloody Wilson meant by Yanks can't
> joke about themselves. Chad, you the official representive of Anal Retention
> America.
>
> Matthew Gardiner
--
HAHAHAHA!! Once in a while one has to be able to laugh at yourself. Us
Yanks can laugh at ourselves a lot... and I also laugh at a lot of them
as well. :-)
V
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From: "Rich Soyack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: soc.men,soc.singles,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 01:43:58 GMT
"Ray Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9e1ou3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Ray Fischer wrote:
>
> >> And where do you suppose the men gets AIDS?
> >>
> >> From women.
> >
> >Bzzzzzzzt! Wrong.
> >There is no transport mechanism for any such infection to happen.
>
> Well, it seems that the United States Centers for Disease Control
> believes otherwise.
>
> But what do they know? The all-knowing homophobe Kulkis says
> otherwise.
>
> http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/faq/faq21.htm
>
> Can I get HIV from having vaginal sex?
>
> Yes, it is possible to become infected with HIV through vaginal
> intercourse. In fact, it is the most common way the virus is
> transmitted in much of the world. HIV can be found in the blood,
> semen, pre-seminal fluid, or vaginal fluid of a person infected
> with the virus. The lining of the vagina can tear and possibly
> allow HIV to enter the body. Direct absorption of HIV through
> the mucous membranes that line the vagina also is a possibility.
>
> The male may be at less risk for HIV transmission than the female
> through vaginal intercourse. However, HIV can enter the body of the
> male through his urethra (the opening at the tip of the penis) or
> through small cuts or open sores on the penis.
What was left out of this statement was the fact the there would have to
be vaginal lessions for the AIDS virsus to be effectively transmitted to the
male in vaginal intercourse.
Rich Soyack
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Porter)
Subject: Re: Linux is paralyzed before it even starts
Reply-To: No-Spam
Date: 18 May 2001 01:41:18 GMT
On Thu, 17 May 2001 17:02:12 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 17 May 2001 04:16:02 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Porter)
> wrote:
>
>
>>Umm ... why yes, Max is my clone brother, from the Linux advanced
>>bot labs!
>
>>Kind Regards
>>Terry
>
> Naahhh.
>
> You guys are the prototypes that somehow got loose from the lab.
Hahahahah.
Hey Flatty can we get on with the advocacy v-s trollism please ?
I always begin to like you when your Wintroll agenda is on the
backburner!
>
> flatfish
--
Kind Regards
Terry
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Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware,hk.comp.pc,tw.bbs.comp.linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Porter)
Subject: Re: Linux LCD problem
Reply-To: No-Spam
Date: 18 May 2001 01:44:46 GMT
On Thu, 17 May 2001 23:09:06 +0800,
Jerry Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anybody help?
>
>
> X_ESP ���g��峹 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>I am using CTX PV520 LCD monitor...
>>after I installed Linux 7.0, I cannot use graphical login....
>>I tried all the generic monitor type in Xconfigurator but it didn't
>>help...
>>Please help me ...thanks a lot
>>
>>
>
Perhaps there is no Linux driver (yet) for this display ?
I have a LCD display (2x20) that runs from a parallel port
and displays uptime, cpu load, time of day, and ram usage
but thats the extent of my Linux LCD experience.
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Kind Regards
Terry
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Current Ride ... a 94 Blade
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From: GreyCloud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why did Eazel shutdown?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 18:53:02 -0700
Matthew Gardiner wrote:
>
> Or maybe the boogie man may hunt you down, and live under you bed to scare
> you.
>
> Matthew Gardiner
> "Anonymous" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Matthew Gardiner wrote:
> >
> > > Unless you are doing something illegal, what have you got to hide? The
> > > only people who use annoymity are those who are not on the straight and
> > > narrow.
> >
> > I disagree, exposing your identity
> > and email address not only generates
> > a lot of spam problems, but also
> > makes you a nice target for identity fraud.
> >
> > Welcome to the Internet.
> >
> > --------== Posted Anonymously via Newsfeeds.Com ==-------
> > Featuring the worlds only Anonymous Usenet Server
> > -----------== http://www.newsfeeds.com ==----------
No,... identity fraud is a very real threat in the US. There are dozens
of news articles here of identity theft that has caused people
nightmares.
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From: Mike Martinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sea Change
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 18:56:03 -0700
Charlie Ebert wrote:
>
> I assume properllorhead refers to video games.
It means I like machines and what makes them run. At least, that's what
it means to me.
>
> Humm. subject titled sea change, that's a strange title for such
> an article.
<snip>
> It was the small business which got it all started then.
> And it's the small business which is getting it started this
> time. Microsoft has become as useless and bloated as all
> those Mainframe contractors they replaced 20 years ago.
>
That's what I meant by 'sea change'. A sea change is (as I understand
it) an inescapable change in the fundamental nature of things
http://www.word-detective.com/back-u.htmlis. You can do nothing about a
sea change, you can only try to adapt. In my opinion, small business is
the sea.
When Microsoft started, very few small businesses used computers. Now
they all do. If Open Source/Linux is going to compete, I honestly don't
believe it's going to be on the desktop. It's going to be on all the
servers stuck in closets, crammed in nooks and hoisted onto the back
shelves of small business.
MjM
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From: GreyCloud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why did Eazel shutdown?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 18:55:16 -0700
Central Authority wrote:
>
> "On Thu, 17 May 2001 14:19:00 +1200, in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Matthew Gardiner spoke in class today..."
> >
> >pip wrote:
> >
> >> Matthew Gardiner wrote:
> >> > Geeks talk? most programmers I have meet are recluse, social impotant twitts
> >> > who couldn't string a sentence together to save themselves.
> >>
> >> Gee, thanks.
> >
> >Forgot to add, they are commonly Windows programmers. Linux programmers, well,
> >at Uni, were the ones dress up like a Goth whilst listening to the likes of
> >Marilyn Manson or on the other end of the spectrum, sometimes they were the
> >people you least expect. Me? I'm the type of person who can get up in and speak
> >to a group of 500 people without the need to prepare a speech. One of the speechs
> >at Uni. I made was concerning Linux and development, 96% was the mark I received,
> >4% was taken off as many people were lost when I went into great detail, however,
> >the lecturer did note that I was able to make computer fun by ensuring that
> >there were comparisions between complicated issues, such as kernel internals and
> >what happens in the real world.
> >
> >Matthew Gardiner
> >
>
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Hmmm... must have coughed up a hairball!
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