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From: Gordon Darling on 13 Apr 2010 18:53 On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:03:07 +0000, Bear Bottoms wrote: > Maybe you should rethink making accusations which are slanderous and get > you sued. I'm not here to sue people, but when there is a line crossed, > decisions have to be made. You clearly crossed that line. If my attorney > has to take extraordinary steps to find you, the stakes go up. Of course > you could recognize you crossed that line, and retract the accusation! I > would end it there. "X-Trace: news.datemas.de " Haven't you worked it out yet. Anonymous forging fuckwits can't sue their way out of a paper bag. -- ox·y·mo·ron n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra or ox·y·mo·rons A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in Microsoft Security, Microsoft Help and Microsoft Works.
From: wasbit on 14 Apr 2010 07:10 "wasbit" <wasbit(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:hpraf3$de8$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > "Mark Warner" <mhwarner.inhibitions(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:82ciq0FbsmU2(a)mid.individual.net... >> >> Just curious. How many here use desktop Linux on a regular basis? Doesn't need to be your primary >> platform, but use it enough to consider yourself a "user". >> >> -- >> Mark Warner >> MEPIS Linux >> Registered Linux User #415318 >> ...lose .inhibitions when replying > ------------------------------------------------------ > First & only PC I ever bought (built all the rest since then) > > Duron 1000 Cpu with 512MB Pc133 RAM > > XP (SP2) dual boot with PC LinuxOS > -------------------------------------- Seems like I posted under false pretences .... well I call twice a year regular. OT Having dragged the old pc out & dusted it down I decided that perhaps I ought to see if my brain was nerdy enough to cope with something different. Then I remembered, something had previously got corrupted & I only had Xp. Added an old 20Gb drive (much easier than partitioning the XP drive & risking any loss), then Kubuntu which took nearly an hour to install & then wanted to download another 186 updates. I searched for an hour to find out how to change the Home Page in Konqueror without success. Back to the drawing board with PcLinuxOS KDE 2009.2 (previously had the 2007 version). Loaded as a Live Cd OS & then fully installed all within 20 minutes. Took me all of 2 minutes to find where to change the home page. Even though I don't use Vista & W7 at least I can find out how to make simple changes. There is no noticeable difference in speed between the two Operating Systems & for basic tasks this Pc is not much slower than either of my other two dual core rigs. Regards wasbit
From: Craig on 14 Apr 2010 14:37 On 04/14/2010 04:10 AM, wasbit wrote: > Back to the drawing board with PcLinuxOS KDE 2009.2 (previously had the > 2007 version). Loaded as a Live Cd OS & then fully installed all within > 20 minutes. Took me all of 2 minutes to find where to change the home > page. Even though I don't use Vista & W7 at least I can find out how to > make simple changes. > > There is no noticeable difference in speed between the two Operating > Systems & for basic tasks this Pc is not much slower than either of my > other two dual core rigs. Interesting that Kubuntu took so long, especially the install stage. Were you using the Beta (10.04LTS) perhaps? The speed issue is one thing that I take for granted now but is still a pleasure. I'm recycling pc's with Celeron D's & P4's which have either 1/2 or 1 full GB. Either way, they are quite snappy and expect them to be for quite a while. And they're not appreciably slower than the dual-core over there <indicates pc at other desk>. Thx for the post. -- -Craig
From: Mark Warner on 14 Apr 2010 15:01 Craig wrote: > On 04/14/2010 04:10 AM, wasbit wrote: >> Back to the drawing board with PcLinuxOS KDE 2009.2 (previously had the >> 2007 version). Loaded as a Live Cd OS & then fully installed all within >> 20 minutes. Took me all of 2 minutes to find where to change the home >> page. Even though I don't use Vista & W7 at least I can find out how to >> make simple changes. >> >> There is no noticeable difference in speed between the two Operating >> Systems & for basic tasks this Pc is not much slower than either of my >> other two dual core rigs. > > Interesting that Kubuntu took so long, especially the install stage. In my experience, all the *buntus take longer to load the Live CD and to install than nearly anything else I've tried. > The speed issue is one thing that I take for granted now but is still a > pleasure. I'm recycling pc's with Celeron D's & P4's which have either > 1/2 or 1 full GB. Either way, they are quite snappy and expect them to > be for quite a while. It's always a kick to install to an old low powered machine and have it perform like a champ. (By some people's standards that would include my mainstay desktop -- AMD XP2000 1.67GHz single core with 1024MB of 266MHz.) My favorite was a recent install of Vector 6 KDE Classic to a 900 Duron with 256MB -- the performance was shockingly good. And I still get perfectly adequate performance from my PIII-700MHz/512MB laptop; I've had a hankerin' for a new laptop for a long time, but can't justify spending the money as long as the old Dell is performing as well as it is. -- Mark Warner ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: H-Man on 14 Apr 2010 16:10
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:18:12 -0400, Mark Warner wrote: > Just curious. How many here use desktop Linux on a regular basis? > Doesn't need to be your primary platform, but use it enough to consider > yourself a "user". +1 -- HK |