Linux-Misc Digest #158, Volume #24 Sat, 15 Apr 00 14:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux newsgroup -bad experience (Steve)
Re: Forgot my ROOT PASSWORD... (anok)
Re: rlogin/rdist problems... (Ricky Crow)
problems sharing Netscape folders (Alberto Ferrante)
Re: Find and Mandrake 7? ([NCA]orbvs)
Re: Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To: New Version (Jean-David Beyer)
help installing hp laser jet 1100 (Richard Fell)
Re: Linux (Leonard Evens)
Re: newbie: Help! Ultra66 & Linux (Leonard Evens)
Re: Forgot my ROOT PASSWORD... (Bill Unruh)
Re: Copying NTFS, ext2 partitions (Hotel Balderdash)
Re: Microsoft (Jan Schaumann)
Re: Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To: New Version (Bill Unruh)
Boot Linux / DOS ("benoit")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Linux newsgroup -bad experience
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 15 Apr 2000 17:16:32 GMT
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 19:00:15 +0200, Rafael wrote:
>I have very bad experiance with Linux NewsGroup. It is very dificulkt to
>get answer for problems. Why I always get answer in Microsoft Windows
>News, are Linux people not so friendly like they should be?
>I am realy disapointed.
>What's your opinion?
>Maybe somebody can give advise where to write when you have problems
>with Linux?
What others have said is good advice.
I like to answer people in the NG when I can and can often answer
aobut one in 5-10 questions. But I sometimes have more pressing
business than answering questions in the NG so a subject line like
"WHY DOESN'T MY MOUSE DRIVER WORK?" would at best not get an answer
and at worst get a piece of my mind.
I've been quite bussy this week doing other things and havn't been
able to answer any questions, last Saturday or Sunday when I looked
in I had 34 unread messages in this group today I got round to having
a quick look and I now have more than 700 unread messages. The unread
messages of last week are going to have to wait for a very rainy day as
each time I d/l news there are about 50 new messages in this NG alone.
For a beginner to intermediate user I can't stress enough how useful
a good book is, I've been using both "Learning RedHat Linux", and
"Running Linux", by O'Reilly.
Remember that if you want to do something different with Linux, the
answer is 'yes you can', but it's usually up to you to find out how
and then share your knowledge with others who may want to do the same.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
4:34pm up 11 days, 19:08, 5 users, load average: 1.01, 1.05, 1.05
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From: anok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,nf.comp.linux,redhat.general,linux.redhat.misc,aus.computers.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Forgot my ROOT PASSWORD...
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 16:29:07 GMT
> Tux, no. You don't reinstall Linux to fix a bad password; that's
> Microsoft Mentality speaking.
>
You know, maybe for once, this isn't such a bad thing...Isn't there a
certain security hazard with being able to login as root to a linux box
without knowing the password?
clonex
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From: Ricky Crow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: rlogin/rdist problems...
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 11:32:46 -0500
Does anybody here have any ideas on how to get this to work? We have
been doing this on BSDI machines for years, and it just seems to update
properly via rdist, but without allowing logins as root, unless you're
on the console. I have gotten rlogin to successfully work, now. I can
rlogin under MY username from one machine to the other, but it doesn't
do it when I am root. It asks me for a password, and when I type it in,
it says invalid login. I am assuming this is how it's supposed to work,
but for some reason, rdist still doesn't want to update the password
file. If anybody can give me some ideas of how to implement this
wrapper script and such, that would be very helpful.
Ricky
P.S. Here is what it shows when I try to run rdist:
bash# rdist -f distrib
204.xx.xx.xx: updating host 204.xx.xx.xx
204.xx.xx.xx: LOCAL ERROR: Unexpected input from server: "Permission
denied.".
204.xx.xx.xx: updating of 204.xx.xx.xx finished
Please help!
No Spam for me thank you wrote:
>
> Thats cause root remote logins are forbidden...
> If you would like to do this anyway try writing a wrapper-script that > uses sudo to
>change the password file...
>
> "Ricky Crow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I am setting up two Linux machines on a network. I want to keep
> > password files identical between the two machines. I plan to use rdist
> > to make this possible, but I am having a problem trying to get rdist to
> > work. I have set up forward and reverse DNS so that everything resolves
> > properly, I have set up the .rhosts file to allow connections from the
> > other machine. I can rlogin to the second machine as a user, with the
> > .rhosts file set up, but it will not let me run rdist as root (since
> > it's the password file that I am updating, it needs to be run as root).
> >
> > When I am logged in as root on the first machine, I can try to rlogin to
> > the second machine, but it asks me for a password. When I type in the
> > password, it gives me an invalid login message, which all appears to be
> > correct, but what is stopping rdist from working?
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From: Alberto Ferrante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problems sharing Netscape folders
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 16:30:50 GMT
Hi all, it's the first time I write on this newsgroup and I need some
help from you: I would like to share Netscape mail folders under Win98
and Linux on a FAT16 partition (they are there because I already made
them shared under OS/2 and win). The problem is that Linux's Netscape
needs the folder "Inbox" with a capital letter at the beginning, but,
over a FAT16 partition this is impossible . I already tried doing
symbolic links to the folder files from my Linux partition but it's
useless because when Netscape modifies the folders, it overwrites the
links with files.
Any suggests?
Thanks to all
Bye
Alberto
--
Alberto Ferrante
Student of computer engineering at Politecnico di Milano
Home e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Home page: http://web.tiscalinet.it/albertoferrante
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From: [NCA]orbvs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Find and Mandrake 7?
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 16:30:08 GMT
The first time I saw that happen was on my
FreeBSD box running on an IBM PS/1. The hard
drive just went nuts, for like half an hour
cause of the slow CPU :).
Michael Albert Rowe wrote:
>
>
> I'm running Mandrake 7 and at what seems to be random times and by
> nothing I've done my box starts up a find job and will run it for a
> few minutes grinding at the HD and then will stop.
> Does anyone know what is causing this and what the fix would be?
> I've tried killing the process and that works for a couple of seconds but
> then another find job starts up, not the original which has been
> sucessfully killed but a whole new job, and continues for another couple
> of minutes before stopping. I have nothing running besides X and
> WindowMaker on a clean install of Mandrake 7 and my system isn't hooked
up
> to the net. Any ideas?
>
> --
> * That is not dead which can eternal lie, * Mike Rowe *
> * and with strange aeons even death may die. * E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
> * - translation from the Necronomicon * ICQ: 1833229 *
> * (Kitab Al-Azif-`book of the approacher') * *
>
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To: New Version
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 13:04:49 -0400
Kenny McCormack wrote:
> Also, why no mention of cpio? cpio has always seemed to me the safest,
> easiest, most reliable way to do "XCOPY" under Unix. I learned it 15 years
> ago and it still works...
I never understood why tar survived. When I worked at Bell Labs, I think we
got rid of it in the early 1980's; I am not sure of the exact date. We
replaced it with cpio because it was so much more reliable and flexible (we
had to exchange data with multiple machines of differing architectures (byte
ordering, high-endian vs. low-endian, etc.). tar, at least in those days, just
could not deal with that.
--
Jean-David Beyer .~.
/V\
Shrewsbury, New Jersey /( )\
Registered Linux User 85642. ^^-^^
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From: Richard Fell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help installing hp laser jet 1100
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 12:35:54 -0400
I am trying to get a hp laser jet 1100 to work with Red Hat 6.0, but
with no luck so far. I used printtool to install the printer (choosing
hp laser jet 4/5/6 series).
/etc/printtcap was edited, as expected. However, nothing prints. Here is
the output of lpc status:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries
no daemon present
I suppose the problem might be related to the last two lines above.
Here also are the contents of /etc/printcap
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL ljet4 600x600 letter {} LaserJet4 Default {}
lp:\
:sd /var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:\lp=/dev/lp0:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
Has anyone any suggestions? Thanks very much for your help,
Dick Fell
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 13:10:00 -0500
Big Daddy wrote:
>
> Scribbling furiously, Pencil Necked Geek managed to write....
> : use fdisk: delete partitions, format drive.
>
> and then probably fdisk \mbr, if you installed lilo.
fdisk/mbr
It is an (undocumented) option passed to the DOS fdisk command.
>
> -fdisk; delete all partitions, re-make them how you want them.
> -format, install windoze on whatever your C partition is.
> -install linux on the other one, and lilo (if you want)
>
> --
> Big Daddy
>
> For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie: Help! Ultra66 & Linux
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 13:13:17 -0500
Silviu Minut wrote:
>
> Not true. No 2.2.x kernel supports it out of the box.
Is this a typo? Do you mean 2.3.x? Otherwise, you are contradicting
yourself and what you say does not agree with various bits of
documentation.
> There exist patches
> for 2.2.x.
> However kernels around 2.3.4 and above are supposed to support it by
> default. These are developmental kernels though and might not be stable.
>
> Andrew Tkachenko wrote:
>
> > is it truth, that Ultra ATA/66 supported in kernel ver. higher 2.2.10? I
> > saw it in a READ.me for Ulotra 66 driver, wich i downloaded from
> > promise.com.
> > Neither Mandrake 7.0 nor RedHat 6.2 can't find my drives, connected to
> > Ultra66. Terrible..:((
> > --
> > ===========================================
> > Buing a Pentium III you can reboot faster
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,nf.comp.linux,redhat.general,linux.redhat.misc,aus.computers.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Forgot my ROOT PASSWORD...
Date: 15 Apr 2000 17:22:03 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> anok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Tux, no. You don't reinstall Linux to fix a bad password; that's
>> Microsoft Mentality speaking.
>>
>You know, maybe for once, this isn't such a bad thing...Isn't there a
>certain security hazard with being able to login as root to a linux box
>without knowing the password?
Yes, there certainly is.
However, if someone has physical access to the machine, then security is
already severely comprimised. However, having to say remove the hard
disk is certainly more of a barrier than simply typing
linux 1
However you can also password lilo ( man lilo.conf) so that booting into
single user mode causes you to have to enter that password. Youcan also
password your bios, so that booting from a floppy requires a password.
Unfortunately if you forget those passwords, then you not only have to
reinstall but you have to open up your case and zero out your CMOS. So
the level of security should be tailored to your security threats.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hotel Balderdash)
Crossposted-To: nz.comp,comp.os.ms-windows.nt,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc
Subject: Re: Copying NTFS, ext2 partitions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:24:26 GMT
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:56:22 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
>This reminds me: I am still looking for an NT tool capable of writing a disk
>image, preferably a *compressed* disk image, directly to a hard drive (for
>writing an arbitrary image on an installed disk for use elsewhere). Has anyone
>got anything?
Norton Ghost
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From: Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 13:29:04 -0400
Bastian wrote:
>
> On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 00:08:12 GMT, Juergen Heinzl wrote:
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bastian wrote:
> >>On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 12:53:50 -0500, Robert Wiegand wrote:
> >>>"David .." wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> > Old joke: Windoze is "Where do you want to go today", OS/2 was "Where do you
> >>>> > want to run today", and linux is "Where do you want to fly today".
> >>>
> >>>> Hmmm! I thought Linux was "Where you will be tomorrow". ;o)
> >>>
> >>>I heard: Linux - "Do you actually want to get there"
> >>>
> >>
> >>I heard: Windoze - "Do you actually want to be chained to it?" :-)
> >
> >"Windows - Which one are you going to jump out of today?"
>
> Windoze - Which one throws you out today?
Well, you wanted it this way!
Here we go:
MS-FORTUNES:
If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed...
...Oh, wait a minute, he already does.
%
Win98 error 001: Unexpected condition: booted without crashing.
%
Win98 error 002: Insufficient diskspace. You need at least 300 GB free
memory.
%
Win98 error 003: Illegal ASM instruction. If your modem worked properly,
the
FBI would have been called.
%
Win NT error 001: Error recording error codes. All further errors not
displayed.
%
Win98 error 004: Virus activated from DOS Prompt - but the virus
requires
Windows. Your system will be rebooted for the Virus to take effect. [ OK
]
%
Win98 error 005: Mouse not found. Click left mouse button on ok to
continue.
%
Win98 error 006: Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue.
%
Win98 error 007: Fatal error: unforseeable condition: Your system has
booted
without crashing. Shutting down to compensate.
%
Win98 error 008: Illegal copies of Microsoft software found on harddisk,
and
the modem didn't respond to our attempts to call the FBI.
%
Win98 errors 019-999: Reserved for future use; presently used only to
occupy
49.3 MB diskspace.
%
WinNT error 002: Out of memory - you have only 536,870,912 bytes of free
RAM.
%
WinNT error 003: FPU error - enter any 11 digit prime number to
continue.
%
Hiroshima '45, Tschernobyl '86, Windows '98
%
Sbelling chequed wyth MICROSOFT SPELLCHECKER - vorgs grate!
%
It's Windows 95 rather than Windows 4.0 because starting 1995, the
government requires a decay date on software.
%
Computers have a lot in common with air conditioners:
Once you open WINDOWS, they stop working properly.
%
Windows 98 is like a gun - unless it's loaded, it's harmless.
%
Customer: "I've just installed Windows 98..."
Tech Support: "And?"
Customer: "The computer stopped working."
Tech Support: "You already said that..."
%
The ultimate Windows 98 keyboard: Ctrl, Alt + Del on one big key!
%
Win98 is called Win98 because 98 is the number of bugs occurring right
after
inserting the CD.
%
Win98 is called Win98 because 98 bugs have been added since the last
version
%
Win98 is called Win98 because after the system crashed 98 times, you
have to
reinstall.
%
Win98 is called Win98 because you need 98 MB RAM to install it.
%
Win98 is called Win98 because no matter how fast your computer is,
Windoze
will use up 98% of the system resources for itself.
%
Win98 is called Win98 because it is 98% slower than Linux.
%
Win98 is called Win98 because there is a 98% probability that it will
crash
during installation
%
Win98 is called Win98 because it will take 98 years until the next
version
will be released - it was announced for 1999...
%
Win98 is called Win98 because 98% of the code is untested
%
Win98 is called Win98 because 98% of all hardware components will need
driver updates.
%
Win98 is called Win98 because 98% of all hardware components will NEVER
have
WDM-drivers
%
Win98 is called Win98 because you need to update at least 98% of your
hardware before it can be installed
%
Win98 is called Win98 because it is about as stable and flexible as
Linux
0.0.98 (or at least, Microsoft claims it is)
%
The difference between Microsoft and 'Jurassic Parc':
In one, a mad businessman makes a lot of money with beasts that should
be
extinct.
The other is a film.
%
Windows 98 - the operating system of world records!
100 million sold copies, 200 million installed copies,
200 billion crashes.
%
Windows 98 is *NOT* a virus - viruses are small and efficient.
%
286 emulator for Pentium II released: It's called Windows NT.
%
Windows - what do you want to crash today?
%
System Error - Virus 'MS-WINDOWS' found!! Erase [Y/Y]?
%
Windows 98 supports real multitasking! It can boot and crash
simultaneously!
%
Windows 98: Not Plug & Play, but Bug & Pay!
%
Win98 error 009: Press any key to continue or any other key to quit.
%
Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be restarted for the change to
take
effect. Reboot now? [ OK ]
%
Do you remember when you only had to pay for windows when *you* broke
them?
%
Microsoft should switch to the vacuum cleaner business where people
actually
want products that suck.
%
The first time Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is when they
start making vacuum cleaners.
%
NT (as in Windows NT) is short for "Not Trustworthy".
%
NT (as in Windows NT) is short for "Not Tested".
%
NT (as in Windows NT) is short for "No Thanks".
%
NT (as in Windows NT) is short for "Nasty Technology".
%
NT (as in Windows NT) is short for "Nothing There".
%
NT (as in Windows NT) is short for "Needs Testing".
%
Microsoft is not Y2K compliant: Windows 95, 98, ... and back again to 01
%
"Nobody will ever need more than 640k RAM!"
-- Bill Gates, 1981
"Windows 95 needs at least 8 MB RAM."
-- Bill Gates, 1996
"Nobody will ever need Windows 95."
-- logical conclusion
%
%
Choose two:
(A) Fast
(B) Efficient
(C) Stable
(D) Windows 98 (counts as two)
%
Are you scared of speed? If so, try Windows NT.
%
Windows 98 is the most popular virus on the market today.
%
Windows 98 is so intuitive that you need only 9.8 megabytes of help
files!
%
Windows is the only solitaire game that requires 16 MB of RAM.
%
The word "Windows" is a word out of an old dialect of the Apaches.
It means: "White man staring through glass-screen onto an
hourglass..."
%
Double your drive space: Delete Windows!
%
Windows 95 is crash compatible with Windows 1.0, 2.x, and 3.x.
%
The nice thing about Windows is, it doesn't just crash, it
displays a dialog box and lets you press 'OK' first. (At least,
occasionally...)
%
Some Windows were made to be broken.
%
Turn your Pentium II into a Gameboy: Type WIN at C:\>
%
Windows NT - Insert wallet into Drive A: and press any key to empty.
%
I'll never forget the 1st time I ran Windows, but I'm trying...
%
I still miss Windows, but my aim is getting better.
%
Breaking Windows isn't just for kids anymore...
%
Beat me, whip me, make me use Windows NT!
%
A computer without Windows is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
%
Coming soon: Visual Edlin for Windows.
%
Microsoft just released a new product:
Microsoft Windows for Windows(TM).
The ultimate Windows emulator for the Windows platform! Only $900!
%
%
Windows 99 has been released! (PC Magazine, April 2013)
%
Windows 98 is guaranteed to make your system 98% slower.
%
The Windows 98 CD-ROM makes an excellent skeet shoot target.
%
Downgrade your system for only 89 dollars! Install Windows!
%
Welcome to Hell! Here's your copy of Windows 98!
%
Windows NT Performance, on the next "In Search Of"
%
Windows NT: Only 64 megs needed to play Minesweeper!
%
Windows: an Unrecoverable Acquisition Error!
%
The package said "requires Microsoft Windows 95 or better" - I don't
understand why it doesn't work on my pocket calculator!
%
The sad thing about Windows bashing is that it's all true.
%
Linux vs. Windows is a no-WIN situation.
%
In 1968 it took the computing power of 2 C-64's to fly a rocket to the
moon.
Now, in 1998 it takes the Power of a Pentium 200 to run Microsoft
Windows 98.
Something must have gone wrong.
%
Microsoft broke Volkswagen's world record: Volkswagen only made 22
million bugs!
%
Robert Tappen Morris, Jr., got six months in jail for crashing 10% of
the
computers that Bill Gates made $100 million crashing last weekend.
%
It is not too late to turn back from the GATES of hell. Use Linux.
%
The gates in my computer are AND, OR and NOT; they are not Bill.
%
It's always a bad time for bills - especially phone bills and Bills
Gates.
%
There are two kinds of people: people who USED Linux and like it
and people who never used Linux and don't like it.
%
If at first you don't succeed, work for Microsoft.
%
The Microsoft Motto: "We're the leaders, wait for us!"
%
Windows: celebrating ten years of obsolescence
%
Microsoft Windows didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over
ten
years of careful development
%
How dare the government intervene to stifle innovation in the computer
industry! That's Microsoft's job, dammit!
%
It's trivial to make fun of Microsoft products, but it takes a real man
to
make them work, and a god to make them do anything useful.
%
Win98 error 009: Erroneous error: Nothing is wrong.
%
Time out error: Operator fell asleep while waiting for Windows NT to
complete
boot procedure.
%
Quick! Call Guiness book of world records! My Windows 98 hasn't crashed
for
2 hours, 43 minutes and 9 seconds!!!
%
Quick! Call Guiness book of world records! Windows NT has been running
for
2 days without crashing!
%
Windows found - Remove? (Y)es (S)ure (F)ine (O)K (M)ake it so
%
Is that a 286 or are you just running Windows?
%
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were playing a friendly game of Frisbee at the
Gates
estate on the shore of Lake Washington. At one point, Bill accidentally
sends
the Frisbee over Steve's head, and the Frisbee lands in the lake. Steve
walks
out onto the surface of the lake and retrieves the Frisbee.
The next day the newspapers report:
Gates' Throw Exceeds Expectations
Apple CEO Unable to Swim
%
Q: How do you fix all Windows bugs at once?
A: Type DELTREE C:\WINDOWS
%
Q: What is the difference between Jurassic Park and Microsoft?
A: One is an over-rated high tech theme park based on prehistoric
information
and populated mostly by dinosaurs, the other is a Steven Spielberg
movie.
%
Q: What's the difference between Windows 95 and a highly destructive
virus?
A: About 300 MB of hard disk space.
%
%
Q: How many Microsoft support staff does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Four. One to ask "What is the registration number of the light
bulb?", one
to ask "Have you tried rebooting it?", another to ask "Have you tried
reinstalling it?" and the last one to say "It must be your hardware
because
the light bulb in our office works fine..."
%
Q: How many Microsoft executives does it take to change a light bulb?
A: We can see no need for uninstallation and have therefore made no
provision
for light bulbs to be removed.
%
Q: How many Microsoft tech writers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Twelve. One to work the bulb, and eleven to write a 1,123 page guide
to
changing lightbulbs ("Learn Lightbulb Management in 21 Days").
%
Q: Why is Microsoft's Product Support a failure?
A: Because Microsoft needs a Support Group instead.
%
Q: What's another name for the "Intel Inside" sticker they put on
Pentiums?
A: Warning label.
%
Q: What do you call 50 Microsoft products in a trashcan?
A: A darned good start.
%
No Microsoft products were used in any way for the creation of this
message.
If you are using a Microsoft product to view it, BEWARE! - I'm not
responsible for any harm you might encounter as a result.
%
In most countries selling harmful things like drugs is punishable.
Then howcome people can sell Microsoft software and go unpunished?
%
Microsoft Fortune v1.1
(c) 1901-1998 by Microsoft, Corp., Redmond, USA
FORTUNE caused a general protection fault in module FORTUNE at
0123:4567.
Press [ OK ] to reboot.
%
When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare
at
you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*".
%
If Microsoft built cars, every time they repainted the lines on the road
you would have to buy a new car.
%
If Microsoft built cars, your car would frequently die on the freeway
for
no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
Occasionally also, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and
fail and you would have to re-install the engine. For some strange
reason, you
would accept this too.
%
If Microsoft built cars, you could only have one person in the car at a
time, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT". But, then you would have to
buy
more seats.
%
If Microsoft built cars, the Linux community would make a car that was
powered
by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive,
and
available freely - but only 5 percent of the people would use it.
%
If Microsoft built cars, the Linux car owners would get expensive
Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would make their cars run much
slower.
%
If Microsoft built cars, the oil, gas, and alternator warning lights
would
be replaced by a single "general car fault" warning light.
%
If Microsoft built cars, seats would force everyone to have the same
size
butt.
%
If Microsoft built cars, the airbag system would say "are you sure?"
before going off.
%
If Microsoft built cars, If you were involved in a crash, you would have
no idea what happened.
%
If Microsoft built cars, you would have to press the "Start" button to
turn
them off.
%
Microsoft's biggest and most dangerous contribution to the software
industry may be the degree to which it has lowered user expectations.
%
Last night (9/30-10/1) at midnight, Mr. Bill's Browser 4.0 was released.
Late last night, between midnight and 1:30, somebody (MS? probably)
dumped a huge IE logo on Netscape's front lawn (a metal shell,
apparently, deep enough to stand up on its own). They probably expected
that we wouldn't notice until morning, and wouldn't be able to get
equipment to move it until 11:00 or so, and some press cameras would
come
by in the meantime; we wouldn't be able to bring legal action, 'cause we
wouldn't have any proof, and we'd just look whiny.
Well. Needless to say, MS was dumb: they forgot that we're *here* at
midnight! Somebody spotted it, and, rather than waste effort trying to
get rid of the logo, they decided to slap MS in the face with it
instead.
(Figuratively. :-) They gathered people to help, and they tipped over
the
IE logo so that it was lying on its back, spraypainted "Netscape Now" on
the side facing the street...and then carried over our 7-foot-tall
statue
of Mozilla (Netscape's Godzillaoid mascot) and stood it up on top of the
IE logo.
So now we have Mozilla standing on top of the defeated IE (with his
thumb
up and a grin on his face), and people are wandering by and taking
pictures; it got covered in by local papers and TV, and I've been told
Reuters picked it up. Not the sort of thing we'd publicize on purpose,
'cause it is a little childish...but they started it! :-)
-- A Netscape employee
%
NT is secure....
as long as you don't remove the shrink wrap.
%
Windows 98 recently won a price as best vacuum cleaner ever.
Comment from one of the testers: "Windows 98 sucks more than anything...
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann
http://jschauma-0.dsl.speakeasy.net
One day you may achieve something that we Simpsons have dreamed about
for generations. You may outsmart someone.
-- Homer Simpson
Bart the Genius
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To: New Version
Date: 15 Apr 2000 17:42:18 GMT
In <8da26q$nr4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny McCormack)
writes:
]>Principal changes in this version: Use of "tar" to copy hard disks no
]>longer recommended due to a bug.
]Just out of curiosity, which bug is this? I'm curious because I don't use
]tar b/c of a bug that I am aware of - and want to know if yours is the same
]as mine.
You are as bad as each other. You also do not state what your bug is. Is
this some secret society handshake being conducted in public?
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From: "benoit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot Linux / DOS
Date: 15 Apr 2000 17:42:12 GMT
after a failed linux installation, which MBR command to restore an
automatic DOS boot? and have Win xx automatically ?
thanks
philippe
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