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Windows Vista Website non-compliance. 13 20 (7/23/2005 1:00:02 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Microsoft's done it again. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx shows some interesting quirks. [1] Blank line before ? [2] This may be a new attribute but if so it's not clear. [3] OK, l... The

One in three music CDs 'illegal' 9 20 (6/27/2005 11:00:03 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4124252.stm One in three music CDs 'illegal' [inset: Compact discs An estimated 1.2 billion pirate CDs were sold in 2004] One in three music CDs sold ... The

"Microsoft Continues Movement To Crush Unix/Linux" 1 19 (6/22/2005 9:00:02 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy [Gotta love this headline -- though admittedly it is a bit of a worry what Microsoft is doing with Sybari.] Microsoft Continues Movement To Crush Unix/Linux John Stith | Staff Writer 2005-06-22 Microsoft an... The

A Rant Against Internet Explorer (XML/XSL) 10 14 (5/30/2005 6:00:04 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy First, a description of the problem. This may actually be something to do with my Gentoo setup but for whatever reason I've had problems with "linuxdoc" SGML, so at some point a few weeks ago I converted all m... The

Wooo..."New Windows Operates on 64-Bit Computers!" 14 21 (4/25/2005 9:00:02 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Microsoft "innovation" at its finest... http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=701352 New Windows Operates on 64-Bit Computers Microsoft Finally Ships New Windows That Operates on Systems R... The

XMingw32 swallowed X. Sort of. 9 27 (1/21/2005 5:01:38 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy The compilation succeeded, as did the link, after some ... OK, make that a *lot* ... of fixing. I had to touch 188/1321 lines of code from X.CPP. (The resultant file I named XMingw32.C for various reasons.) ... The

RealPlayer Gold 10 30 13 (1/20/2005 7:01:42 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy A few issues regarding RealPlayer Gold 10; nothing major, admittedly. As you probably all well know, the US President was inaugurated this morning. Whoopee. However, I on impulse decided to try to listen on ... The

A Bug Puzzle 2 29 (1/3/2005 7:01:35 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I am a bug infecting port 80. [*] I do an HTTP request SEARCH / [0x90] ([0x02] [0xB1])* [0x90]* 0x8B 0xF9 0x32 0xC0 0xFE 0xC0 0xA2 0xFE 0XAE 0xFF 0xE7 then space HTTP/1.1 . What am I? :-) It didn't take al... The

Panic! PANIC! PANIC!!!1!1!!! Oh, wait, it's already patched. 0 42 (12/23/2004 12:01:24 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy No doubt this is old news, but it showed up on Yahoo! News today. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1738&ncid=738&e=9&u=/zd/20041222/tc_zd/141526 Unix, Linux Security Bugs Patched Wed Dec 22,10... The

DOOM3 Demo 0 23 (11/10/2004 7:00:09 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy This is probably old news, but I downloaded it last night. While I can't say I like it (way too much gore for my taste; one wonders if one will slip on the stuff at times!), I admire it, although it needs a goo... The

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IBM System z9 3 39 (7/26/2005 8:53:55 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/systems/systemz9/z9109/ Just try to guess which OS will *not* be running on it -- Longhorn error#4711: TCPA / NGSCP VIOLATION: Microsoft optical mouse detected penguin patterns ... Peter.Koehlmann (13202)

Microshaft monopoloy is costing $10bn burden to industry 23 16 (7/26/2005 10:35:25 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy From /. Microshaft monopoloy is becoming an economic burden to businessses costing $10bn in lost revenues to companies from exploiting full market potential. http://www.cybersource.com.au/about/monopoly.html ... website_has_email2 (2088)

For Sale: Blinders 5 18 (7/27/2005 4:48:45 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Yes, you can now get your linux blinders, for $9.99 USD. When you put them on, you will think LINUX is the be all and get all of all operating systems. You will be proud that there are different distro's that ... trentallenblack (2529)

Dual Boot machines 24 23 (7/27/2005 6:25:17 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Nowadays harddisk space is ample and machines comes bigger harddisks that practically nobody is using all the space. So why PC-manufacturers wouldn�t sell dual-boot machines? I mean you would stand out from t... kari.laine (55)

What's inside the X-360? 78 13 (7/28/2005 7:30:58 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy This is somewhat off topic (I Hope), but I have a bit of a conundrum... First: M$'s new gaming console, the XBox 360, uses a derivative of the PowerPC processor made by IBM as its core CPU. Second: AFAIK, no... rapskat2 (2035)

Microshaft to be prosecuted for IP and monopoly violations 11 20 (7/28/2005 9:15:37 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Microshaft to be prosecuted for IP and monopoly violations http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050728-5145.html Long running saga of how microshaft thought its powerful enough to force smaller companies in... website_has_email2 (2088)

Bye Bye #2 18 15 (7/29/2005 3:10:45 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Yes, I am going. I met my goals, and now gonna take my spoiled ass out of here. Have a hoot! ... trentallenblack (2529)

UK 'hacker' fights US extradition 3 19 (7/27/2005 11:07:17 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4721183.stm The extradition hearing of a British man accused of hacking into the US military computer system has begun. [...] "The British public need to ask themselves why Brit... malloc_SNIP2006 (291)

You know COLA are liars when 11 15 (7/28/2005 12:23:16 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy They say it works, but don't tell the distro. (I would test it) And yes, every once in a while some people will have a distro that was stuff they want, but there are many that do not. WRONG DISTRO, WRONG HARD... trentallenblack (2529)

Lies Again 18 15 (7/28/2005 12:45:33 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Asked them to install JAVA 5. Yep, they installed Java. But it is not really Java, it is GCC, which, by the way, does not run all Java programs. We had to change our Java to run this weird Java. I installed ... trentallenblack (2529)