Hi there!
On 2 Nov 99, at 0:59, Christopher J. Trybowski wrote
about "Re: OT: Computer Philosophy (was: R":
Before the crash he had 1 primary and 1 extended partition, 2
logicals on the latter. After the crash, he had only *one* (primary)
partition. The rest of the partitions
Wednesday, November 03, 1999
Hello Alexander,
Wednesday, Wednesday, November 03, 1999, you wrote:
Alexander Hi there!
Alexander On 2 Nov 99, at 0:59, Christopher J. Trybowski wrote
Alexander about "Re: OT: Computer Philosophy (was: R":
Before the crash he had 1 primary and 1
Monday, November 01, 1999, 11:28:35 AM, Ali wrote:
Many OSS programmers chimed in at that point to say that they get paid to
develop OSS. That's the funding I'm speaking about. If this type of funding
doesn't in anyway apply to GNOME and KDE development, then I stand
corrected.
The
Wednesday, November 03, 1999, 9:06:50 AM, Kevin wrote:
They chose to use it, didn't they?
I honestly don't know very many people who have a choice of what OS they
use in their jobs.
I honestly don't know of very many IT managers that don't have a choice.
It is still a (l)user's
Hi,
Exactly. It's windows. It's therefore not the users fault when that
frustrating crash occurs. :)
They chose to use it, didn't they?
I honestly don't know very many people who have a choice of what OS they
use in their jobs.
OK, so 99.9% of the people don't have a choice. And yes
Wednesday, November 03, 1999, 9:33:41 AM, Kevin wrote:
OK, so 99.9% of the people don't have a choice.
Isn't that a little high given the amount of home PCs and number of
businesses that do allow users to chose?
And yes it does become a problem FOR them. But I think the point was that it
Hi,
Wednesday, November 03, 1999, 9:33:41 AM, Kevin wrote:
OK, so 99.9% of the people don't have a choice.
Isn't that a little high given the amount of home PCs and number of
businesses that do allow users to chose?
No, I don't think so. In businesses not very many allow you to chose
Wednesday, November 03, 1999, 12:11:59 PM, Kevin wrote:
Actually, it would be better to have a variety. Makes viruses kind of
hard to propagate, doesn't it?
Probably, but I wouldn't make my choice of OS at home based on that. :-)
No, but it is about as valid a reason as any other.
Hi,
Probably, but I wouldn't make my choice of OS at home based on
that. :-)
No, but it is about as valid a reason as any other. IE... not all
that valid.
No, not as valid a reason as "I don't want to work in two different
word processors, I want to be able to transfer stuff from work to
Wednesday, November 03, 1999, 3:52:51 PM, Kevin wrote:
No, not as valid a reason as "I don't want to work in two different
word processors, I want to be able to transfer stuff from work to
home", etc. So it's not as valid a reason as any others.
Those are no more valid at all when you
On Monday, November 01, 1999 Alexander V. Kiselev wrote:
Before the crash he had 1 primary and 1 extended partition, 2
logicals on the latter. After the crash, he had only *one* (primary)
partition. The rest of the partitions just perished. The data lost.
On the primary partition
Wednesday, November 03, 1999
Hello Kevin,
Tuesday, Tuesday, November 02, 1999, you wrote:
Kevin Hi,
Sunday, October 31, 1999, 10:09:38 AM, Paula wrote:
a computer with a problem, which wants to waste my time trying to
interpret its pouting silence or irritatingly cryptic outbursts. Rather
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 01:55:56 +0700
tracer [EMAIL PROTECTED] expounded:
Wednesday, November 03, 1999
Hello Kevin,
Tuesday, Tuesday, November 02, 1999, you wrote:
Kevin Hi,
Sunday, October 31, 1999, 10:09:38 AM, Paula wrote:
a computer with a problem, which wants to waste my time
Hi there!
On 31 Oct 99, at 13:35, Thomas Fernandez wrote about
"Re[3]: OT: Computer Philosophy (was":
MDP Completely and utterly true. It *is* a just small percentage of the
MDP millions of computer owners and users that have actually put any
MDP effort or time into training,
Saturday, October 30, 1999, 9:35:22 PM, Thomas wrote:
A niche market is still a market, but I agree with you in principle.
A niche market, when the target isn't the lowest common denominator, does
not much resemble the "bad" influences the general market exudes on products.
I'm thinking
Sunday, October 31, 1999, 10:09:38 AM, Paula wrote:
a computer with a problem, which wants to waste my time trying to
interpret its pouting silence or irritatingly cryptic outbursts. Rather
like men.
Rather like women, actually. Most of the men I know will state flat out
what the problem
Hi all,
On Monday, November 01, 1999, 12:12:57 PM (-5 GMT), Steve scribbled:
The Desktop environments KDE and Gnome are significantly driven by this open
market. This is where most of the funding is coming from isn't it?
What funding? Both projects were started and are heavily
Hi,
Sunday, October 31, 1999, 10:09:38 AM, Paula wrote:
a computer with a problem, which wants to waste my time trying to
interpret its pouting silence or irritatingly cryptic outbursts. Rather
like men.
Rather like women, actually. Most of the men I know will state flat out
what the
On Saturday, October 30, 1999, 3:51:35 PM (GMT+0800), Steve Lamb wrote:
SL Computers are *NOT* complicated. Women, now that is a complicated piece
SL of equipment!
Oh, puhleeze. Women are not equipment and I'd much rather deal with a
woman with a problem, who only wants me to listen and
Monday, November 01, 1999
Hello Paula,
Monday, Monday, November 01, 1999, you wrote:
On Saturday, October 30, 1999, 3:51:35 PM (GMT+0800), Steve Lamb wrote:
SL Computers are *NOT* complicated. Women, now that is a complicated piece
SL of equipment!
Paula Oh, puhleeze. Women are not
Friday, October 29, 1999, 1:37:24 AM, Thomas wrote:
They have to breath, wehtehr they want to or not. They don't have to
use comptuers - "we" want them to. For commercial, political, or other
reasons. The bone won't walk to the dog. (German saying, meaning if
you want to sell something, you
Hi all,
On Saturday, October 30, 1999, 2:51:35 AM (-5 GMT), Steve scribbled:
That's just it, we don't have to go to the market, either. There is
enough of a "market" out there to go for a niche, not the general market. In
the goo-goo eyed craze to get the large numbers one misses the
Hallo Marck,
On Saturday, October 30, 1999, 7:22:24 PM (GMT+0800), Marck D. Pearlstone wrote:
Well, the OS is software in my vocabulary, so you are actually
saying you agree with me? :-
SL No, OS does not equal software. The same software on 6 different
SL OSs could yield 6
Hi Steve,
on Friday, October 29, 1999, 12:04:47 AM GMT+0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
Why? Even if this was meant to offend computers (which it wasn't), why
do you take it personally?
SL Because it is an attack on those who don't find computers in that manner.
I don't feel it that way. Hmm.
Hello,
On jeudi 4 novembre 1999, someone (you) said :
Bashing NT has nothing to do with this mailing list or what this
thread started out about (though about 90% of your messages seem to
end up going in that direction).
SL It wasn't bashing NT. It was pointing out a very *VALID*
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