Linux-Advocacy Digest #737, Volume #34 Wed, 23 May 01 18:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: Warning to new users of Windows XP (David Kaczysnki)
Re: Using Army and Marines to enforce gun-confiscation... ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Using Army and Marines to enforce gun-confiscation... (Roberto Alsina)
Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop (Roberto Alsina)
Re: Linux dead on the desktop. ("Ayende Rahien")
Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: rad50 character set (was Re: Blame it all on Microsoft) (Dan Pop)
Re: Justice Department LOVES Microsoft! (Rick)
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From: David Kaczysnki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Warning to new users of Windows XP
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 14:08:03 -0700
Reply-To: Remove the "." in "HUS.HMAIL" for valid email address
On Wed, 23 May 2001 14:05:25 +1200, "Matthew Gardiner"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>1. This OS will probably hang around for 18 months to two years depending on
>the progress of .net.
.NET will never (be allowed to) succeed.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: soc.men,soc.singles,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.law-enforcement
Subject: Re: Using Army and Marines to enforce gun-confiscation...
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:09:34 -0400
Roberto Alsina wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 May 2001 16:45:15 -0400, Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Roberto Alsina wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, 23 May 2001 16:06:00 -0400, Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >Roberto Alsina wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> On Tue, 22 May 2001 18:46:45 -0400, Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >> >Roberto Alsina wrote:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> On Tue, 22 May 2001 15:34:49 -0400, Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> >> >> >> >Roberto Alsina wrote:
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> On Tue, 22 May 2001 15:15:03 -0400, Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> >> >> >> >> >"You've got MALE.. sex organs!" wrote:
> >> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> >> Aw, suck my dick, you little right wing turd. I'll insult little
> >> >> >> >> >> phoney fuckheads like you all I want. I've earned my rights to
> >> >> >> >> >> criticize little bastards like you.
> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >I hope you get your wish for nationwide gun ban. Then me and all my
> >> >> >> >> >rightwing gunnut friends can legally invade your home and totally
> >> >> >> >> >trash it out looking for yours.
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> Apparently you are unaware that doing such a thing is illegal,
> >> >> >> >> and a ban on guns would not change that situation. In fact, even without
> >> >> >> >> a gun, according to what I have read lately, he would be legally
> >> >> >> >> entitled to anally electrocute you.
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >Evidently, you haven't noticed that the POLICE and the (all volounteer)
>ARMY
> >> >> >> >and MARINES are all, according to the anti-gun people, "right wing gun
>nuts"
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> You are not a policeman, and you are not a soldier. You are a reservist.
> >> >> >> You are, though, a right wing nut, and if you did the above, it would be
> >> >> >> illegal.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Absolutely not.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Read the Posse Commitatus Act. It **CLEARLY** states that the Army can be
>used
> >> >> >to do law enforcement with the permission of the governor of the state(s) in
> >> >> >question.
> >> >>
> >> >> With permission.
> >> >>
> >> >> > Remember all the times the Army was used in the 1950's and 60's.
> >> >>
> >> >> Sure.
> >> >>
> >> >> >The MARINES can be sent into any state WITHOUT the permission of the Governor.
> >> >>
> >> >> And they will still not be a law enforcement agency.
> >> >
> >> >Bzzzzzzt! Wrong.
> >> >They can do anything the President orders them to do, within the limits
> >> >of the Constitution.
> >>
> >> If the law says a presidential order is enough to enter a person's house,
> >> the presidential order *is* permission to enter such a house.
> >>
> >> Yet, the marines and the army are not a law enforcement agency. If you say
> >> they are, please feel free to explain yourself.
> >>
> >> Can the president ask that the investigation of a murder be carried on by
> >> the marines in all cases, for example?
>
> Notice, no response.
>
> >>
> >> >> >> >Who the fuck is going to enforce this gun ban, other than the POLICE,
> >> >> >> >the ARMY and the MARINES?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> The police, yes. The army and the marines, no, because they are not
> >> >> >> law enforcement agencies. It is illegal for a soldier to enter
> >> >> >> your house without permission, is it not?
> >> >> >
> >> >> >See above.
> >> >>
> >> >> Above, you said the governor can give permission for them to become
> >> >> a law enforcement force. Not that they can enter your house without
> >> >> permission.
> >> >
> >> >is it not the gun-grabber's wet dream to get universal gun confiscation
> >> >WITHOUT the necessity of a search warrant...
> >>
> >> I don't know. I am not a gun grabber. You are the one who is grabbing
> >> a gun and getting a hardon about it.
> >>
> >> >a) no
> >> >B) YES!
> >>
> >> I don't know. Is it a wet dream of yours?
>
> Notice: no response.
>
> >> >> >Also, if the gun-phobes' wet-dream of CONFISCATION is to implemented,
> >> >> >how would it be done without entering citizens' homes?
> >> >>
> >> >> Right now, possession of certain kinds of pronography is forbidden,
> >> >> and if found it is to be confiscated. Guns are not any different.
> >> >
> >> >is it not the gun-grabber's wet dream to get universal gun confiscation
> >> >WITHOUT the necessity of a search warrant...
> >>
> >> Once more, Aaron. If you want to argue with the voices in your head,
> >> you can do that using a puppet teather, and there is no need to do
> >> it over usenet.
> >>
> >> >a) no
> >> >B) YES!
> >>
> >> No or yes what?
> >
> >Thank you for demonstrating that you can't even follow the conversation.
>
> Actually, I was rather confused by your message, since it clearly
> was not a response to what I wrote, depite being formulated as one.
> So, I thought you may want to clear it up.
>
> I notice you don't reply anything at all, and your post consists of
> solely this non sequitur. How typical.
>
> >Game
> >set
> >match
> >
> >you lose.
>
> Oh, like when you said
>
> "game set match moron [...] I win!" ! Thanks for the memories of
> your embarrasment.
>
> You are still saying it wrong, you know. Go to the house of a friend
> that can afford ESPN and watch the end of a tennis match someday.
>
> >> >> >> And even a policeman will need a search warrant.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >The gun-phobes' wet-dream is a law that requires no search warrant.
> >> >>
> >> >> Stop arguing with the voices in your head. You said that if a
> >> >> gun banning law is passed, you would invade another person`s
> >> >> house. That would be illegal, unless certain OTHER laws are
> >> >> passed. You could just as well say that you will blow his
> >> >> brains with a bazooka, because in your mind a law will be
> >> >> passed allowing you to shoot people with one.
> >> >
> >> >is it not the gun-grabber's wet dream to get universal gun confiscation
> >> >WITHOUT the necessity of a search warrant...
> >> >
> >> >a) no
> >> >B) YES!
> >>
> >> Perhaps you feel repeating yourself makes you look less insane. Let me
> >> warn you that is not the case.
>
> Notice: no response.
>
> >> >> >Why is that, coward...
> >> >>
> >> >> Coward? I say that blind retaliation is the chicken's path.
> >> >> Dare live peacefully, if you have the balls to do it.
> >> >
> >> >Why should I STUPIDLY attempt to live peacefully with those who REFUSE to be
>peaceful.
> >>
> >> Well, obviously you don't dare do it. Are you a christian by chance?
>
> Notice: no response.
>
> >> >If they want war, then I will give them war like they have never imagined
> >>
> >> The basis of your madness, obviously. Perhaps you:
> >>
> >> a) Lack imagination
> >> b) Feel a need to threaten strangers
> >> c) Have a severe inferiority complex, that you hide by posing over usenet
> >> d) Were kicked too often in 3rd grade
>
> Notice: no response.
>
> >> >Hope that helps.
> >>
> >> Oh, it does, Aaron. It's always nice to show casual readers what kind
> >> of nutcase you are.
>
> Notice: no response.
>
> Aaron, you chicken. Of course you need guns. You are too much of a coward
> to deal in fair terms. You can dish it, but you can't take it. You are,
> sir, a wuss.
No. I'm tired of arguing with a fool.
[that woudl be YOU, Roberto]
>
> --
> Roberto Alsina
--
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: soc.men,soc.singles,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:10:32 -0400
Roberto Alsina wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 May 2001 16:45:50 -0400, Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Roberto Alsina wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, 23 May 2001 16:08:12 -0400, Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >Roberto Alsina wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> David L. Moffitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >"Roberto Alsina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> >> >> On Tue, 22 May 2001 15:34:49 -0400, Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> >> >> >> >Roberto Alsina wrote:
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> On Tue, 22 May 2001 15:15:03 -0400, Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> >> >> >> >> >"You've got MALE.. sex organs!" wrote:
> >> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> >> Aw, suck my dick, you little right wing turd. I'll insult little
> >> >> >> >> >> phoney fuckheads like you all I want. I've earned my rights to
> >> >> >> >> >> criticize little bastards like you.
> >> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >> >I hope you get your wish for nationwide gun ban. Then me and all my
> >> >> >> >> >rightwing gunnut friends can legally invade your home and totally
> >> >> >> >> >trash it out looking for yours.
> >> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >> Apparently you are unaware that doing such a thing is illegal,
> >> >> >> >> and a ban on guns would not change that situation. In fact, even without
> >> >> >> >> a gun, according to what I have read lately, he would be legally
> >> >> >> >> entitled to anally electrocute you.
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >Evidently, you haven't noticed that the POLICE and the (all volounteer)
>ARMY
> >> >> >> >and MARINES are all, according to the anti-gun people, "right wing gun
>nuts"
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> You are not a policeman, and you are not a soldier. You are a reservist.
> >> >> >> You are, though, a right wing nut, and if you did the above, it would be
> >> >> >> illegal.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >Who the fuck is going to enforce this gun ban, other than the POLICE,
> >> >> >> >the ARMY and the MARINES?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> The police, yes. The army and the marines, no, because they are not
> >> >> >> law enforcement agencies. It is illegal for a soldier to enter
> >> >> >> your house without permission, is it not?
> >> >> >
> >> >> >%%%% They did at Waco.
> >> >>
> >> >> Those were not soldiers, they were federal law enforcement agencies.
> >> >> And they did have permission, in the form of a search warrant.
> >> >
> >> >1. They did NOT have the warrant with them
> >>
> >> Ok.
> >>
> >> >2. The warrant was void, because it was obtained under false pretenses.
> >>
> >> Do you feel an urge to fill a truck with fertilizer?
> >>
> >> >> >> And even a policeman will need a search warrant.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >%%%% They didn't at Waco.
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> And having guns did them a whole lot of good, to those Davidians,
> >> >> didn't it?
> >> >
> >> >Are you saying that if confronted with a totalitarian regime, one
> >> >should just submit? Go find a holocaust survivor to clue you into reality.
> >>
> >> Are you saying you are a volunteer soldier for a totalitarian regime?
> >> I *lived* under a totalitarian regime, kid, and it seems you are
> >> a collaborator, since you call the regime you are defending totalitarian.
> >
> >No. I'm not part of the ATF.
>
> You claim to be a soldier. Are you not defending the US government?
> The ATF is part of it. You *are* defending the ATF, vichyst.
The ATF hass become a rogue organization.
Most soldiers are as disgusted by the behavior of the ATF as the
German Wermacht was disgusted at the SS and the Gestapo.
>
> You can't have it both ways: either the US government, of which the ATF
> is part, is a totalitarian regime, and you are its minion, or it is not
> a totalitarian regime, and the davidians were not defending against a
> totalitarian regime.
>
> --
> Roberto Alsina
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roberto Alsina)
Crossposted-To: soc.men,soc.singles,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.law-enforcement
Subject: Re: Using Army and Marines to enforce gun-confiscation...
Date: 23 May 2001 21:13:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 23 May 2001 17:09:34 -0400, Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> >Hope that helps.
>> >>
>> >> Oh, it does, Aaron. It's always nice to show casual readers what kind
>> >> of nutcase you are.
>>
>> Notice: no response.
>>
>> Aaron, you chicken. Of course you need guns. You are too much of a coward
>> to deal in fair terms. You can dish it, but you can't take it. You are,
>> sir, a wuss.
>
>No. I'm tired of arguing with a fool.
Yes, the voices in your head are not all that smart.
>[that woudl be YOU, Roberto]
Oh, sorry, I rushed. Prove it by abstaining from replying to my posts in
the future, if you have any balls. Of course I am not tired of mocking
you, so I will continue to insult you (tastefully and with flair, of
course) whenever I feel like it. Deal?
--
Roberto Alsina
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roberto Alsina)
Crossposted-To: soc.men,soc.singles,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop
Date: 23 May 2001 21:16:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 23 May 2001 17:10:32 -0400, Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Roberto Alsina wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 23 May 2001 16:45:50 -0400, Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Roberto Alsina wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, 23 May 2001 16:08:12 -0400, Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> >Roberto Alsina wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> David L. Moffitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >"Roberto Alsina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> >> >> >> On Tue, 22 May 2001 15:34:49 -0400, Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>> >> >> >> >Roberto Alsina wrote:
>> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> On Tue, 22 May 2001 15:15:03 -0400, Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>> >> >> >> >> >"You've got MALE.. sex organs!" wrote:
>> >> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> >> Aw, suck my dick, you little right wing turd. I'll insult little
>> >> >> >> >> >> phoney fuckheads like you all I want. I've earned my rights to
>> >> >> >> >> >> criticize little bastards like you.
>> >> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >> >I hope you get your wish for nationwide gun ban. Then me and all my
>> >> >> >> >> >rightwing gunnut friends can legally invade your home and totally
>> >> >> >> >> >trash it out looking for yours.
>> >> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >> Apparently you are unaware that doing such a thing is illegal,
>> >> >> >> >> and a ban on guns would not change that situation. In fact, even without
>> >> >> >> >> a gun, according to what I have read lately, he would be legally
>> >> >> >> >> entitled to anally electrocute you.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >Evidently, you haven't noticed that the POLICE and the (all volounteer)
>ARMY
>> >> >> >> >and MARINES are all, according to the anti-gun people, "right wing gun
>nuts"
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> You are not a policeman, and you are not a soldier. You are a reservist.
>> >> >> >> You are, though, a right wing nut, and if you did the above, it would be
>> >> >> >> illegal.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> >Who the fuck is going to enforce this gun ban, other than the POLICE,
>> >> >> >> >the ARMY and the MARINES?
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> The police, yes. The army and the marines, no, because they are not
>> >> >> >> law enforcement agencies. It is illegal for a soldier to enter
>> >> >> >> your house without permission, is it not?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >%%%% They did at Waco.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Those were not soldiers, they were federal law enforcement agencies.
>> >> >> And they did have permission, in the form of a search warrant.
>> >> >
>> >> >1. They did NOT have the warrant with them
>> >>
>> >> Ok.
>> >>
>> >> >2. The warrant was void, because it was obtained under false pretenses.
>> >>
>> >> Do you feel an urge to fill a truck with fertilizer?
>> >>
>> >> >> >> And even a policeman will need a search warrant.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >%%%% They didn't at Waco.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> And having guns did them a whole lot of good, to those Davidians,
>> >> >> didn't it?
>> >> >
>> >> >Are you saying that if confronted with a totalitarian regime, one
>> >> >should just submit? Go find a holocaust survivor to clue you into reality.
>> >>
>> >> Are you saying you are a volunteer soldier for a totalitarian regime?
>> >> I *lived* under a totalitarian regime, kid, and it seems you are
>> >> a collaborator, since you call the regime you are defending totalitarian.
>> >
>> >No. I'm not part of the ATF.
>>
>> You claim to be a soldier. Are you not defending the US government?
>> The ATF is part of it. You *are* defending the ATF, vichyst.
>
>The ATF hass become a rogue organization.
>
>Most soldiers are as disgusted by the behavior of the ATF as the
>German Wermacht was disgusted at the SS and the Gestapo.
Anyway: the ATF *is* a federal agency. It can not be rogue, any more
than your hand can be a roghe member. You are, my friend, a minion of the body
of which the ATF you so hate is a member. You are a collaborationist.
Just like it would have been better if the Whermacht surrendered soon,
it would be better if you gave up your foolish endeavour of supporting
a regime you deem totalitarian.
If you don't, you are scum, or a hypocrite.
>> You can't have it both ways: either the US government, of which the ATF
>> is part, is a totalitarian regime, and you are its minion, or it is not
>> a totalitarian regime, and the davidians were not defending against a
>> totalitarian regime.
--
Roberto Alsina
------------------------------
From: "Ayende Rahien" <don'[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux dead on the desktop.
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 00:15:58 +0200
"Nigel Feltham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9eh72f$3107c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ayende Rahien wrote:
>
> >
> > "Interconnect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:9eeplc$rc4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > > Besides apart from compatibility reasons what percentage of MS users
> > > would use the ADVANCED features of Office? I believe business would
take
> > advantage
> > > of some of these components however the *AVERAGE* user, we are so fond
> > > of talking about, would hardly use any of the advanced functionality
of
> > > WORD, EXCEL let alone MS Access, Powerpoint and Project Manager.
> >
> > Compatability? I can get a WordViewer for free, and it will let me cut &
> > paste to any half-way decent word proccessor.
> > Certainly to older versions of Word.
> > I don't need to buy new versions for that.
> >
>
> I can get a package for linux that not only views Word and Powerpoint
files
> but can also edit them and re-save them in Word and Powerpoint compatible
> file formats - Staroffice, Openoffice or Koffice can do this.
StarOffice sucks, it's a memory hog and I can go on for quite some time
regarding the faults it has in UI alone.
That aside, the above software do encounter a failure, don't they?
The viewers doesn't.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: soc.singles,soc.men
Subject: Re: Why Linux Is no threat to Windows domination of the desktop
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:39:55 -0400
Dark shadowy figure on usenet wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" wrote:
>
> > You can choose as to whether to engage in this behavior or not.
>
> How about choosing to edit your posts and stop spamming the fucking
> newsgroups with your stupid sig?
make me.
> I'll bet Jet Silverman could kick your
> ass.
Put your body where your mouth is, and you do it.
Since you're the one making the challenge...I choose the weapons.
Fixed bayonets.
Ready to play?
>
> > Hope that helps, pea-brained idiot
>
> Talking to yourself Kulkis? First it was having sex with yourself, now
> you're talking to yourself. What a spamming, pea-brained, first-class
> WANK. So, what position did you have in the military, dork? Whore for
> the drill sargeant?
>
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--
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]
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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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Pop)
Crossposted-To: comp.theory,comp.arch,comp.object
Subject: Re: rad50 character set (was Re: Blame it all on Microsoft)
Date: 23 May 2001 21:35:16 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Eric Smith
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leonard Fehskens) writes:
>> Since many alphanumeric applications could get by with 50 characters
>> (26 single case alphabetics, 10 numerics, and 14 punctuation and
>> "carriage control" characters), "radix50" was a common encoding on the
>> early PDP machines.
>
>rad50 was 50 octal, so it had fourty (decimal) characters. 26 alpha, 10
>numeric, four symbols, and no carriage control.
The whole idea being to be able to pack 3 characters in a 16-bit word:
40 x 40 x 40 = 64000.
Dan
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Dan Pop
CERN, IT Division
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mail: CERN - IT, Bat. 31 1-014, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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From: Rick <[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: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:48:48 -0400
Daniel Johnson wrote:
>
> "Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [snip]
> > Thanks. I did some more looking around the TRS 80 sites. Very
> > interesting. It's kind of sad Tandy couldnt keep TRS-DOS and/or CP/M
> > going.
>
> My I ask, um, why?
You can ask...
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Rick
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