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Re: Canonical Responds to Ubuntu 9.10 FUD

highplainsthum...@gmail.com (High Plains Thumper) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 11:55:28 UT

Snit wrote:
[quote]
"In the end he is being a hypocrite: either he is gay and is
embarrassed you outted him or he is not gay and takes the claim as an
insult."-Snit
Where are you disagreeing Snit?
And you should note that it seems to be only you that has linked being
called gay with being insulted Snit, frankly I consider it an insult

Re: A Little Bird Sent Me This..........

highplainsthum...@gmail.com (High Plains Thumper) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 11:37:55 UT

Snit wrote:
Snit: "You never did explain why you lied about that."
Tatoo Vampire: "I didn't. The voice on the phone was the same voice
heard in your videos. So unless you've got someone doing voiceovers
for those, it was indeed you who called. With a blocked caller ID, no
less. Not that I really minded you calling, I just hate it when

Re: What's up with this boot time focus?

zekegreg...@netscape.net (Gregory Shearman) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 11:30:34 UT

Botfly lava extraction:
[link]
Mmmmmm...pickled parasite....<drool>

Re: Distributed Computing Client for Windows?

n...@mail.invalid (Rick) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 11:29:02 UT

Apparently there are enough people that disagree with you for the
derivatives to exist.
Installing one DE, then the other wastes a lot of disk space, which some
people may not like. I used to do that when I was primarily running
WindowMaker. When I switched to KDE, I started just installing the Gnome/

Re: Roy Schestowitz

zekegreg...@netscape.net (Gregory Shearman) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 11:25:25 UT

The troll is seductive. It repeats its lies, expecting correction,
hoping for attention.

Re: The Register Slams Ubuntu 9.10 karmic as a nightmare....

zekegreg...@netscape.net (Gregory Shearman) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 11:22:44 UT

Thunar... I've got 1.01 on my lappy desktop. I've stopped using xfce and
have gone back to KDE since I upgraded the memory in the laptop. I've
still got xfce installed and can start a session if I want, but I'm
quite happy with KDE's performance. It's still 3.5.10 though. Gentoo
still won't release KDE 4.x as stable.

Re: Distributed Computing Client for Windows?

tommy.bongae...@gmail.com (TomB) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 11:22:23 UT

On 2009-11-08, the following emerged from the brain of Gunnar Gren:
At least Debian starts X with the --nolisten tcp flag as default, so
that's not exactly true.
It is. I have a server at work that acts as an ssh proxy for remote
administration of the other servers on the network. It's a FreeBSD
virtual machine doing nothing else than listening for incoming ssh

Jaunty to Karmic Upgrade - Short Notes

justnob...@justnowhereatall.arse (seani) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 11:11:49 UT

Of course that should read "Jaunty to Karmic" Oops.

Re: Distributed Computing Client for Windows?

tommy.bongae...@gmail.com (TomB) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 11:11:08 UT

On 2009-11-08, the following emerged from the brain of Snit:
To each his own. I find it odd that Snit, DFS and now you as well
consider the different editions of Ubuntu as different distros. They
are not. They are the same distro. They just offer a different set of
default packages on the installation medium.

Karmic to Jaunty Upgrade - Short Notes

justnob...@justnowhereatall.arse (seani) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 11:10:50 UT

Dabbled with Xubuntu 9.10 in a VM from a downloaded ISO - not good. I had
the reported problem of endless cycles round the login screen.
Occasionally I could login after a console login on the same box, but I
couldn't repeat the pattern reliably.
However, an "in distro" upgrade from my current 9.04 physical

Re: Swiss govt agency declares Linux/OSS crapware "not a sufficientalternative to Microsoft products"

d...@gnu.org (David Kastrup) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 10:41:46 UT

Not really. Alexander certainly has lots of resources for talking
nonsense, but in this particular case of word meaning, it is you who is
barking up the wrong tree.
Word meanings are not decided by evidence but consensus.
Still wrong. You are confusing this with "geistlich" which indeed means
"spiritual/religious".

Re: The Register Slams Ubuntu 9.10 karmic as a nightmare....

toylet.toy...@gmail.com (Man-wai Chang to The Door (+MS=32B)) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 09:51:49 UT

1. The article didn't quite mention the hardware configuration in which
Ubuntu failed to install properly.
2. Notebook computer support has been a weakness of Linux because
manufacturers don't offer quality drivers.

Re: Distributed Computing Client for Windows?

use...@gallopinginsanity.com (Snit) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 08:13:50 UT

Hadron stated in post hd5snk$bm...@news.eternal-sept ember.org on 11/8/09
12:41 AM:
This whole thing came from me noting that some systems are designed to be
servers and some are designed to be desktops... and the difference is far
more than if Apache is or is not installed.

Re: Karmic Krapware: 6 serious problems, "deeply unimpressed... Hell no I won't recommend it to friends"

hadronqu...@gmail.com (Hadron) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 07:56:35 UT

Want a good laugh? Google up how to properly use Alsa Mixer.
I know.
I just went through hell trying to get the main sound outputs to cut out
when headphone were in.

Re: Roy Schestowitz

hadronqu...@gmail.com (Hadron) — Sun, 11 Nov 2009 07:51:50 UT

Serious Question : is it true that the whole reason he does this is that
MS turned him down for a summer job? A reliable source told me that he
was effectively offered a post and then someone copped on to the fact
that he might not be the one to honour the concept of IP as is necessary
when working for a company which pays your salary. I suspect those