Tell Me About AMD Chips815 (1/6/2004 6:20:11 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Questions about AMD CPUs... Ok, so the Duron is the Celeron, right? Then the Althlon is the Pentium, right? So what is the XP (and why did they call it that) ? the 2000 ? and the Thunderbird (do they ma... SARS
BAD ASP Programming -- Part 3131 (1/5/2004 11:53:32 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Excuse the hack job with the GIMP ( airbrushed my acct. number ) http://home.earthlink.net/~jabailo/ScreenshotShareBuilder.png ... SARS
Open Office Calc and PDF ( Free and Built In )129 (1/5/2004 10:45:00 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I was saving an Open Office Calc spreadsheet to put up on a website. I noticed, right on the file menu, an /export as PDF/ . Right there, I can save to PDF. Can anyone doubt that OSS has better functionalit... SARS
CPU specs431 (1/5/2004 10:34:42 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy In Windos, I can see the CPU specs like clock speed. How can I see those in Fedora Linux? ... SARS
AMZNing ? Yes! MSFT ? Not !023 (1/5/2004 10:20:54 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Look at all the money you would have made if you sold that MSFT stock and bought a true technology company like Amazon with a great honest leader like Jeff Bezos: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=1y&s=MSFT&l=o... SARS
20 minutes of Rod Serling2214 (1/5/2004 9:03:27 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I am just finishing watching a documentary about Rod Serling. It was cool, but after 20 minutes it got boring and all I wanted to do is subscribe to Net Flix and rent the Twilight Zone episodes. Some times t... rawrite1(55)
Never From the Internet728 (1/5/2004 9:45:02 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I would never want to date or meet anyone from the Internet. Internet people are _creeps_ I prefer chance encounters in bookstores and crosswalks. ... rawrite1(55)
What will you do when Linux wins?2223 (1/5/2004 11:53:27 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Serious question actually. Life will so much more boring without a cause, and so much more empty without the feeling of satisfaction you get from being right all of the time. Furthermore, Linux has minority ... user7(3884)
A bunch of you guys are FOS3468 (1/5/2004 8:41:43 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I've seen references to "200 million" and "500 million" Linux desktops in China. The actual number, from Sun themselves, is 500,000 - 1,000,000 per year for 4 years. That's only 2 - 4 million desktops. Sure,... generalpf(2660)
[OT] Prediction: The free car432 (1/6/2004 4:19:51 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Following the model of giving away computers and cell phones in exchange for subscribing to a service, a large car company will give away or substantially reduced price in exchange for a subscription service li... mlw(2191)
How to sell Windows to the mob2124 (1/6/2004 5:07:45 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I needed to replace an old Win98 machine for my parents and since they only surf the web and do nothing else with it, Linux is the natural thing for them. I could set it up and not worry about keeping them upd... nowhere3(179)
Tell Me About AMD Chips815 (1/6/2004 6:20:11 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Questions about AMD CPUs... Ok, so the Duron is the Celeron, right? Then the Althlon is the Pentium, right? So what is the XP (and why did they call it that) ? the 2000 ? and the Thunderbird (do they ma... SARS1(44)
Open standards create competition5323 (1/6/2004 6:33:13 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Open standards like telephone, TV, and radio have created huge mass market competition. Closed and "defacto" standards create chaos and vendor lock-in. Even open source applications, like Open Office, should ... mlw(2191)