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Humor: "Malware: It's like a bad dream" 0 25 (11/27/2004 2:44:54 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Some nice humor. In fact it was the best laugh I've had in a while. And like the article says, it is not meant to be about any real persons or businesses, so "The King", his "monkey boy jester" and "Janet, th... Tony

CNN: Spyware is Sneaky, annoying threat 6 25 (11/1/2004 5:37:41 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy When will reporters learn that the horrors of malware infestation are a symptom of defective Microsoft software? It would be nice if news items like the one below always noted that these things never infest Lin... Tony

Linux Runs The Most Powerful Computer On Earth 84 24 (10/27/2004 2:18:31 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy It's NASA's spanking new 10,240 processor 42.7 Teraflop supercomputer. It runs Linux. http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=134592&liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID=1&liChannelID=4&liFlav... Tony

SCO tries to buy the Linux kernel for $50,000 3 23 (10/13/2004 4:18:25 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy So they can relicense it under the BSD license, apparently. Not to mention get their tit out of the courthouse(s) wringer. Only they tried to sneakily buy it with an induhvidual named Jeff V. Merkey doing the n... Tony

New Linus Interview 15 21 (10/12/2004 4:54:39 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Nice interview of Mr. Torvalds on the Seattle Times: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002059632_linus11.html -- Tony Sivori ... Tony

Happy 13th Birthday, Linux! 14 25 (10/5/2004 2:21:26 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1991Oct5.054106.4647%40klaava.Helsinki.FI Yes, even though you're barely a teenager, you're already competing in the adult world - and you're doing very well. Your future ... Tony

Five Things About Windows Servers That Annoy Me 26 27 (9/29/2004 3:34:18 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8419 "makes my life a living hell with endless activations or steep entry fees for corproate licensing, this is the saddest part of their OS." Ah, Windows Product Acti... Tony

CNN: Windows besieged by hackers 0 40 (9/20/2004 2:35:25 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/20/technology/symantec_msft.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes "Computer security firm says number of viruses aimed at Windows soars by more than 400%." Another news item from the NY Times on... Tony

Life With Microsoft 17 17 (9/7/2004 4:23:01 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18301 The above is almost real life for me. Last week a friend's son bought an IBM laptop that runs XP. He paid $1700 for the laptop. His XP desktop computer stays so infes... Tony

A Departure From the *Usual* FUD 0 17 (8/26/2004 3:56:59 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy In an unexpected break from the "different day, same FUD" routine that is typical of Microsoft lackeys, now the unholy partnership of the Smoking Crack Organization (SCO) and Microsoft attempts to spread contra... Tony

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New Linus Interview 15 21 (10/12/2004 4:54:39 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Nice interview of Mr. Torvalds on the Seattle Times: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002059632_linus11.html -- Tony Sivori ... TonySivoriMSWORMS (290)

Linux Runs The Most Powerful Computer On Earth 84 24 (10/27/2004 2:18:31 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy It's NASA's spanking new 10,240 processor 42.7 Teraflop supercomputer. It runs Linux. http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=134592&liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID=1&liChannelID=4&liFlav... TonySivoriMSWORMS (290)

Best4 Newbies? 19 25 (11/2/2004 2:55:39 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Hey, Total Newb here, And proud!! :P Well I been looking on the net at this Linux stuff, seems pretty cool. totaly hate M$, hate the company and the products (even tho the products are really that bad anymor... GC

[OT] More Windows Nonsense 20 27 (11/5/2004 5:27:42 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Had a person unable to install their usb webcam on XP Home. Windows recognized it, prompted for drivers, installed it and set it up ok, but it wouldn't initialize it at all. Tried all 6 USB ports and the same... rapskat (1101)

What Linux advocates do when they lose a debate - they try to shut down your account 111 16 (11/5/2004 5:47:39 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Here's what Linux users do when beaten in a debate... .... they go crying to your ISP and try to get you kicked off. From: "Doug Menthol" Subject: abusive usenet msg To: abuse@comcast.net This customer of ... simonREMOVEcooke (368)

distro recs for newbie 8 13 (11/8/2004 1:59:16 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Greetings - I've been using Linux for quite some time now - and am 100% comfortable tweaking, working from the command line, and otherwise futzing with code. Increasingly, though, colleagues here at my Univer... cooch17 (356)

Is Hamilcar Barca Really a Microsoft Troll? 25 32 (11/8/2004 3:27:37 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy This guy has to be a Microsoft troll pretending to be a legitimate Linux user because all he ever does is stick his snoot into just about every thread posting off topic messages.It appears obvious that Hamilcar... r69ru42 (2)

Mandrake 10.1 destroyed my harddisk. 29 24 (11/10/2004 7:01:16 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Watch out for this Linux junk because it screwed up my entire harddisk and now I had to use the cd that came with it to try and fix it but it didn't work. So now my Windows partition is completely gone and all ... pantee_boy (1)

Linux is twice as fast as Windows. 11 31 (11/11/2004 5:51:06 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I have a dual processor Tyan Motherboard which supports seperate memory for each processor. The board was 400 dollars. I have Opteron CPUs in that motherboard and about a Gig of ram in each memory bank, makin... mikecoxlinux (646)

BusinessWeek cover story on Linux 17 27 (1/21/2005 6:51:16 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy The cover story of the 1/31/2005 issue of BusinessWeek is entitled "Linux Inc.". Here is an excerpt: '[] the community of Linux programmers has evolved in recent years into something much more mature, organize... beliavsky (2207)