comp.os.linux.advocacy | Computer Group

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-hj-6rZp-4 He's an idiot. And that's my final answer. -- K. http://slated.org ..---- | "Ibland är jag själva hindret. Oftare länken." |("Sometimes I am the obstacle. More often the link.") | ~ Ibi "Kopimi" Botani, Piratbyrån co-founder. `---- Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) on sky, running kernel 2.6.31.5 16:46:18 up 4 days, 4 min, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

9/8/2010 3:46:43 PM

Homer <use...@slated.org>

Sweaty Ballmer finds a new job

Apparently the guy in this video has just retired, opening up a new vacancy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vAfXNzXueE Sweaty the Impaler is well qualified for the position: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL4hyATkQ74 -- K. http://slated.org ..---- | "Ibland är jag själva hindret. Oftare länken." |("Sometimes I am the obstacle. More often the link.") | ~ Ibi "Kopimi" Botani, Piratbyrån co-founder. `---- Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) on sky, running kernel 2.6.31.5 16:15:39 up 3 days, 23:34, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00

9/8/2010 3:16:11 PM

Homer <use...@slated.org>

US trying to cram DRM rules down the world's throats

<Quote> ....the secret, closed-door copyright treaty that will bring US-style copyright rules (and worse) to the whole world. Particularly disturbing is the growing support for "three-strikes" copyright rules that would disconnect whole families from the Internet if one member of the household was accused (without proof) of copyright infringement. The other big US agenda item is cramming pro-Digital Rights Management (DRM) rules down the world's throats that go way beyond the current obligations under the UN's WIPO Copyright Treaty. In the US version, breaking DRM is always illegal, e

9/8/2010 3:12:11 PM

nessuno <nessuno7...@gmail.com>

Don't be evil propaganda video

http://www.pcworld.com/article/204815/antigoogle_group_launches_creeptastic_video.html The video shows a creepy Eric Schmidt giving free ice cream to kids and then asking them leering, leading questions about the activities of their parents. Actually, the character reminded me of DFS somehow. -- A lie is an abomination unto the Lord and a very present help in time of trouble. -- Adlai Stevenson

9/8/2010 11:29:40 AM

Chris Ahlstrom <ahlst...@xzoozy.com>

OT: "greed is bad" says Jeremy Clarkson

An unlikely candidate for moral guidance, I know, but there we have it: [quote] You may remember a film called Wall Street in which Gordon Gekko said greed was good and greed works. It doesn't, if you're watching this children, greed is bad," he added. [/quote] http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/sep/07/jeremy-clarkson-stig-sacked Personally, I'm with the Stig - not because I support his supposed "greed" in writing an autobiography, but because I support his freedom to do so. Still, it's funny to see Clarkson going all Gandhi over the loss of his slave. -- K. http://s

9/7/2010 11:55:47 PM

Homer <use...@slated.org>

It works!

A few weeks back I listed a bunch of junk I had on Craig's list: Sun Workstation complete ( it was an old 110mhz unit) It had come with Solaris on it but I loaded it with the SPARC port of Debian. EGA monitor Composite monitor Box of ISA cards and 486==> P-II mobo's etc After a guy offered to buy it all for me for $40 I felt that heck, if he was willing to buy it... I'd just give it to him free as my real motive was to clean out my basement and attic. However at the last minute I told him that I'd take anything he had to trade. So he gave me a "repairabl

9/8/2010 12:02:35 AM

philo <ph...@privacy.invalid>

More evidence that Microsoft IGNORES security vulnerabilities

http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/microsoft-investigating- long-known-vulnerability-in-ie-545 "...traced it back as far as 2002." "I have been unsuccessful in persuading the vendor to issue a fix," ==> i.e. Microsoft ignores security vulnerabilities !!Microsoft official policy on security vulnerabilities!! Only fix when: + the exploit is publicly known + there is working exploit code out in the wild + the exploit is in widely used to infiltrate systems + a minimum of one (1) million systems have been infected + the discoverer can't be pooha'd into shutting up

9/7/2010 11:14:03 PM

Dave U. Random <anonym...@anonymitaet-im-inter.net>

Linosuck did make me laugh!

"DFS is one of those trolls who will tell you what you do, how you do it, and what you know, and he'll tell you in a leering, sneering, insulting manner." LMAO!!! Except for the 'troll' label, I'm afraid I can't deny that. See, cola liars need to be put in their place when they start bullshitting about 'forced upgrades' and 'multiple Windows reboots per day' and 'MS won't let an OEM install Linux on netbooks' and 'Vista requires 20x the resources of Linux' and 'MS threatened to revoke an SDK if they developed a Linux version' and 'Windows takes days to setup', etc. As y

9/7/2010 8:14:43 PM

DFS <nos...@dfs_.com>

Get tissue if you must uise Loonix

You will cry, so get tissue if you must use Linux.

9/7/2010 12:35:46 AM

"Ibrahim Al-Qassam $Abdelaziz$" <IranWillRuleWo...@alibaba.ir>

Get rkill -- if you must use Windows

rkill saved my wife's XP computer... again. She was searching for a sample W2 -- so my daughter, who is getting her first job, would be familiar with it. She was hit with ransom-ware and, even though she unplugged the computer immediately, she got infected. I had already fixed her computer when it had this problem once using rkill. The first time she got one of these, I had to rebuild everything. Just download it and leave it on your desktop. When Windows boots, hit rkill before it has a chance to load in the malware crap. It will stop it in its tracks. Then run Spybot and cl

9/6/2010 11:56:35 PM

RonB <ronb02NOS...@gmail.com>

Fedora13 - boatload of puss

Linux stinks, but this release is even worse - it's lurid stench

9/7/2010 12:15:33 AM

"Ibrahim Al-Qassam $Abdelaziz$" <IranWillRuleWo...@alibaba.ir>

Testing Fedora 13 -- good

As mentioned in an earlier post, I've taken the "big" hard drive (160 Gigs), removed openSUSE 11.0 from it, and moved it to my main computer. I installed VectorLinux Deluxe 6.0 there (now my main home Linux), but left space for CentOS 5.5 so I can still learn Red Hat. I changed my mind, CentOS is still on my laptop, but I decided to dual-boot to Fedora 13 on this computer instead. It's basically the same, but has newer libraries so I can install Chrome and a few other programs that won't work on CentOS 5.5. As Red Hat gets closer to version 6, version 5 point releases are getti

9/6/2010 11:10:45 PM

RonB <ronb02NOS...@gmail.com>

Re: Chris Ahlstrom is a Lying Cunt

On 9/6/2010 10:44 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > Gordon, try to always correct the Subject line to make it non-insulting > and accurate. > > The troll will try to reinstate his tripe, so be vigilant. > > It is all too easy to forget. >

9/6/2010 8:05:58 PM

Anonymous <cri...@ecn.org>

For Homer and Co : Latest Inventions and IP/Patents

Hopefully some of these guys get something back for their endeavours. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11180146

9/6/2010 3:32:10 PM

Hadron<hadronqu...@gmail.com>

Re: Chris Ahlstrom is a Lying Cunt

9/6/2010 7:22:23 PM

Nomen Nescio <nob...@dizum.com>

Re: Chris Ahlstrom is a Lying Cunt

9/6/2010 7:29:28 PM

Anne Onime <anonym...@rip.ax.lt>

Bing To Be Sole Default Windows Phone 7 Search Option

<Quote> Microsoft, with its 90,000 or so employees, supposedly ran into some technical problems when it came to accommodating search rivals. Greg Sullivan, a senior product manager at the company, explained to Stuart Miles, "The search engine has been heavily integrated into the OS, so it would be hard to offer an alternative." </Quote> http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/07/22/bing-to-be-sole-default-search-option-on-windows-phone-7 Reminds you of another time when they just couldn't remove their browser, doesn't it? <Quote> Microsoft's defence took a potentially fatal hi

9/6/2010 1:39:00 PM

nessuno <nessuno7...@gmail.com>

the Texas Antitrust Complaints against Google

<Quote> I guess you heard that the Texas attorney general has opened an investigation into antitrust complaints against Google, complaints lodged by Foundem, SourceTool, and myTriggers.com. Them again? Their complaints are not new. Here's Google's blog post about it. And likely you heard about that utterly tasteless ad in Times Square from Consumer Watchdog, a cartoon of a creepy looking Eric Schmidt handing ice cream to children and asking for their secrets. I think I can explain both events, because they are part of one campaign. Or as American Lawyer describes [PDF] the lawyers b

9/6/2010 1:28:39 PM

nessuno <nessuno7...@gmail.com>

OT Musical Entertainment

too much bickering here so enjoy this http://www.trilulilu.ro/lyv1970/0326fe1f8fc394

9/6/2010 12:58:03 AM

philo <ph...@privacy.invalid>

OT Old Computers

Nostalgia http://oldcomputers.net/

9/6/2010 1:01:41 AM

philo <ph...@privacy.invalid>

Microsoft Visual Studio 2018 for Linux / Mac OS / Windows NXT

"Now with .NET 6.5 and DirectEngine support for Windows NXT, Linux 3.0 and Mac OS!" After the fall of Windows from preeminence Microsoft will become pragmatic and start producing its software for multiple platforms...just as it did when it was founded.

9/5/2010 8:30:08 PM

Dave U. Random <anonym...@anonymitaet-im-inter.net>

Telnet's fantasies 'The year is 2014'

"Another great Linux year, the kernel is now 2.8.40, and the Linux ARM netbooks sales are flattening out after record levels from 2010 when they hit the shelves. .... The fact that Microsoft pulled a SCO and went into chapter 11 last year isn't helping their chances either." http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/browse_thread/thread/da85bcc3e797daf5/b05fc5de9a527f09 Wow! Well, 2010 is nearly 3/4 over and the only Linux-ARM netbook I can find for sale is a 7" screen, outdated Android piece of crap sold from Indonesia: http://www.ecrater.com/p/8463867/7

9/5/2010 2:34:25 PM

DFS <nos...@dfs_.com>

Microsoft panics on Android, starts spewing crap

http://gizmodo.com/5625796/microsoft-android-hidden-costs-are-expensive It now seems Microsoft is completely panicked about the uptake of Android and is starting to spew total nonsense in pure desperation. If someone gives away a competing operating system for free Microsoft is reverting to its standard slogan of 'hidden costs.' Ha! Like there aren't any hidden costs with Windows?!! How about the downtime because of Blue Screens of Death? How about downtime because of virus and malware infections? How about downtime because of the endless patches that need to be installed to

9/5/2010 8:54:43 AM

"Anonymous Remailer (austria)" <mixmas...@remailer.privacy.at>

Re: Where Linux isn't so good

If it is true that major manufacturers like Panasonic, Samsung and Sony use Linux in there equipment . Then why is full screen HD internet video on my Sony 46" TV so much better than any Linux distribution can deliver on a smaller monitor. There may be Film studios' using Linux and dozens of other companies in the media business getting great results using dedicated Linux systems. Even in 2010 distro's like Suse, Unbutu ,Fedora etc still leave a lot to be desired as far as video playback concerned. Peter

9/5/2010 8:54:59 AM

"Peter" <linuxlater-...@yahoo.co.uk>

Linux: where ISN'T it used?

I recently purchased a Blu-Ray player from Panasonic at a discount store. I knew from reports that many consumer electronics manufacturers use Linux in their equipment, among them Samsung, Panasonic and Sony. And lo-and-behold my BD player runs on Linux too! In the manual it has a few links where people can download the source code: http://www.am-linux.jp/dl/JPRCBW98 Can Windows claim it runs most of the worlds TV's, PVR's, set-top boxes, wireless routers and internet appliances? No, off course not. Windows has all but disappeared from the embedded space. I can't think of o

9/5/2010 12:50:11 AM

Nomen Nescio <nob...@dizum.com>

More and more computing vendors are moving to Linux, Windows bleeds to death

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1729225/pictures-toshibas- tegra-tablet-tip Both Toshiba and LG have announced Tegra-based tablet computers. Since the Tegra is an ARM-based processor, it's certain both of these devices will run some variant of Linux, probably Android, which is popping up all over the place. The result is that Windows is bleeding to death, losing both mindshare and developers.

9/4/2010 12:02:48 PM

Dave U. Random <anonym...@anonymitaet-im-inter.net>

108/153 killed

Blissfully quiet so far. :-) -- My face is new, my license is expired, and I'm under a doctor's care!!!!

9/4/2010 10:58:22 AM

Chris Ahlstrom <ahlst...@xzoozy.com>

Google celebrates the Buckyball

http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/09/04/buckyball-origami-how-to-make-the-structure/ It�s the 25th anniversary of the fullerene (aka Buckyball) and Google have done their bit today with the Buckyball Google Doodle, and the feedback so far about Richard Buckminster Fuller has been very positive. -- A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensible answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from i

9/4/2010 10:59:23 AM

Chris Ahlstrom <ahlst...@xzoozy.com>

Articulate Linux Advocates At Debcon 2010

George Hostler 312 Remuda St. Clovis, New Mexico 88101-9338 Ph: 505-763-1077 -- "It is fair to say though that because of troll activity, more advocates have taken on anonymous identities to avoid identity theft." - George Hostler aka HPT

9/4/2010 1:35:05 AM

Nomen Nescio <nob...@dizum.com>

Everbody ok in New Zealand?

Hope so. Earl is fizzling here in New England. Mostly a lot of rain and very high surf. -- Moshe Goldfarb Collector of soaps from around the globe. Linux...Disappointing users for 19 years. Linux::It's free when your time has no value. See Liarmutt in action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SazBzvQ0ZAM

9/4/2010 1:30:51 AM

Moshe Goldfarb <moshe_golf...@yahoo.com>

How Windows 7 wreaked my PC

9/4/2010 12:25:10 AM

Anne Onime <anonym...@rip.ax.lt>

Android steals more market share from Apple

<Quote> While Apple's iOS is still the dominant player within the U.S. mobile market, you can see that it's been on a pretty steady roller coaster ride downward in terms of share. Android, on the other hand, has been on a meteoric rise -- in fact, August marked the platform's largest single-month growth since November of 2009, when the original Droid debuted. </Quote> http://blogs.computerworld.com/16883/android_apple_market_share Windows mobile nowhere in sight.

9/3/2010 11:11:00 PM

nessuno <nessuno7...@gmail.com>

New OS Announcement

OpenSoresBSOD: a new OS resulting from a cross between a Squirrle & Can Opener

9/3/2010 9:52:21 PM

"Ibrahim Al-Qassam $Abdelaziz$" <IranWillRuleWo...@alibaba.ir>

About the DELL issue

I don’t use Ubuntu, but once I tried it and seemed really easy to manage and install software to it. Personal Experience... A client I have, from the USA, which came to live in Chile. I switched his Windows XP laptop (Acer Aspire) to Fedora, saved all his documents and with a single yum install line, installed everything he needed. He is the kind of clients that confuses browser or “Mozilla” with Operating System. zero idea about computers. anyway, he can pretty well surf on the Internet and do his things. (He is Realtor and works in thing about finances which I have no dam

9/3/2010 7:19:21 PM

Marious Barrier <marious.barr...@gmail.com>

Palm Pre (WebOS/Linux)

Was at the pub for our clubs championship win, and saw this Brit using a phone that looked oddly familiar. What is it? A Palm Pre Plus, he says, and then he gets excited describing it to me, saying it's the best phone he's ever used, and he's a cell phone salesman. Compared it enthusiastically to the iPhone. So I pull out my Palm Pixi+ and show it to him, telling him I like it, too, and that you can get a Linux command line. Nice to see it in the wild. I hope HP can keep it alive. -- A small town that cannot support one lawyer can always support two.

9/3/2010 6:35:22 PM

Chris Ahlstrom <ahlst...@xzoozy.com>

PC, MAC or...

Za Warudo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGA6p_j9ulA

9/3/2010 6:50:29 PM

Marious Barrier <marious.barr...@gmail.com>

Love the netbook

Again while on holiday, I took my ASUS 4G Surf with me. Because of its compact size, it was an easy fit as airline carry on luggage. I left my Dell laptop home, which would have been considered as an additional item. Sent out several work related E-mails, browsed the net using the hotel's wifi. Kept track of my E-bay listings. All this under Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix. Life is good. -- HPT

9/3/2010 1:43:40 PM

High Plains Thumper <...@invalid.invalid>

Another well-spoken, polite Linux user

"Stupid Bitch, Stupid News, If that shitty as Dell was running windows the moment she even clicked shitty Internet Explorer (windows explorer not responding). Ubuntu is fucking amazing, my 8yo cousin can use it. That bitch is just fucking stupid." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qj8p-PEwbI This is the kind of person that advocates Linux.

9/3/2010 11:44:40 AM

DFS <nos...@dfs_.com>

OT Hawking

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/09/02/2010-09-02_stephen_hawking_in_the_grand_design_god_create_the_universe_it_would_have_happen.html?r=news When it came to the creation of the Universe, God just wasn't necessary. That's the conclusion renowned scientist Stephen Hawking has made in his latest tome, "The Grand Design," set to hit book sellers next week. "It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going," Hawking writes, according to an excerpt featured in London's The Times. The Big Bang was a natural event which would have

9/3/2010 7:07:24 AM

philo <ph...@privacy.net>

From "Linux just works. Linux doesn't crash" to "All software has bugs" .... Thanks Ubuntu!

My my but the Linux "community" has eaten some real crow over the last few years, as their prized distro - with the most users, the most testers, and the most money behind it - has turned out to be a bug-riddled mess. MS is doomed.

9/2/2010 8:12:43 PM

DFS <nos...@dfs_.com>

The other =?UTF-8?B?ZGF54oCZcyBmaWx0ZXI=?=

Some day someone posted a huge list of filters for trolls, but I cannot find that post anymore. can someone please link me to those filters? And, how to use them in Thunderbird? (to add them all at all) Thanks in advance.

9/2/2010 7:50:38 PM

Marious Barrier <marious.barr...@gmail.com>

How do you get someone to like Ubuntu (the most popular Linux distro)? Harass, beg, wheedle and cajole and gradually wear them down

"Unfortunately this cannot have been my problem; the only wifi device currently functioning in my household is in the hands of a non-believer: my Ubuntu-phobic wife. I'm wearing her down though..." #955 at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1478787&page=96 Note: My wife *refuses* to even boot a Linux LiveCD. She's no fan of MS, or Windows, either. She likes her MacBook pretty well.

9/2/2010 2:44:49 PM

DFS <nos...@dfs_.com>

Lunix loser thinks Ubuntu freezing problems are a Microsoft attack

"Pardon my pessimism but after so long with no relief I fear my faith is starting to wane... In darker moments, I've even theorized about how this bug could be Microsoft's sneak attack upon Ubuntu..." #949 at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1478787&page=95 Left side of mouths: Take credit and blab about your successes. Right side of mouths: Blame Microsoft for your failures. You sad, pathetic weenies.

9/2/2010 1:38:55 PM

DFS <nos...@dfs_.com>

antiword

I'm looking for an automatic way to convert Microsoft DOC files to a more tractable format. The ultimate goal is a document with Doxygen markup; even better is something that lets you specify the output format. "antiword" works pretty well at getting the basic content out of a DOC file, but I'm not sure, based on a quick trial, that it's only XML output mode, Docbooks, handles headings and subheadings properly. There's a mention of doc2* here: http://users.skynet.be/six/gpure/tech/linux/config/doc.html Any real-world usage to help me out? Thanks! -- We should realiz

9/2/2010 11:13:07 AM

Chris Ahlstrom <ahlst...@xzoozy.com>

Microsoft Patents Operating System Shutdown

This is all very worrying. I'm accustomed to shutting down my machines every night - unlike some of you guys with the long up-times. Unless somebody can find some "prior art" or something, it looks as though I'm infringing a Microsoft patent? http://www.conceivablytech.com/2530/products/microsoft-patents-operating- system-shutdown/ http://tinyurl.com/35lj2y3

9/1/2010 8:56:50 PM

bbgruff <bbgr...@yahoo.co.uk>

Game - Set - Match - it's over for other video formats. H.264 goes royalty-free ... forever

<quote> H.264 goes royalty-free ... forever By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes August 27, 2010, 5:19am PDT MPEG LA, the firm that controls licensing for a number of video standards, announced yesterday that it will never charge a royalty fee for videos encoded using H.264, as long as those videos are free to the end user. </quote> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/h264-goes-royalty-free-forever/9489

9/1/2010 5:21:40 PM

"Ezekiel" <not-z...@the-zeke.com>

Migrating users from Windows to Ubuntu

At my work, we are migrating some users from Windows to Ubuntu. The users' main job is to run some of our "apps". I tried pretty hard to automate everything, so we do not have to set up "desktop appearance" or "icons" for everyone separately, pretty much everything is done with scripts. There is a custom install disk that installs the OS exactly the way we need, with all settings, shared drives etc all available by magic. After that, one shell command sets up the user account, preferences, installs user apps, etc. This would hopefully improve the cost of ownership equation, as

9/1/2010 4:01:08 PM

Ign0ramus4117 <ingoramus4...@NOSPAM.41179.invalid>

linux usage at TWO YEAR LOW as everyone drops crapware and uses Windows 7

BAWWAWAWAWAAW!!!!! look at linsux usage sink like a turd. http://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustom=Linux&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=116&qpnp=25 but the world seems to be loving Windows 7. In the past month there have been more NEW win7 users than there are TOTAL linux users. almost twice as many. BAWAWAWWAWAAA!!!!!! http://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=11&qpcustom=Windows+7

9/1/2010 3:24:19 PM

"One Shot, One Kill" <fred...@gmail.com>

is Linux shit or worse?

Linux is shit. it creates no jobs, no economy. It's bad for economy. It's communism.

9/1/2010 3:11:15 PM

"Ibrahim Al-Qassam $Abdelaziz$" <IranWillRuleWo...@alibaba.ir>

Hey, Android People, Is It True That The All-In Cost Of Android Is Much Higher Than $15 Per Unit?

<Quote> Well, well. And here we were wondering why all of a sudden everyone seems to be suing Android. Microsoft would like you to know that they indemnify, and that the Android lawsuits are costly. That is very like what Microsoft said when SCO sued IBM, after Microsoft paid SCO millions, that they would indemnify and that Linux would be plagued by litigation for years. </Quote> http://www.groklaw.net/ Quote is by PJ, regarding article

9/1/2010 2:00:08 PM

nessuno <nessuno7...@gmail.com>

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