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  1. Wish them the best! by dattaway · · Score: 1 · on Burlington Coat Factory installs 1,300 Linux boxes

    A workplace is a good workplace when computers do not crash and people can work. Linux will help them do it!

    Hopefully, MS won't send the goons out and make things difficult.

  2. Perens Comment on O'Reilly - Link by Aaron+M.+Renn · · Score: 1 · on Bruce Perens Resigns From OSI
    Here's the link to Perens' comments about O'Reilly:

    http://www.dejanews.c om/=gh/[ST_rn=qs]/getdoc.xp?AN=444382781.

    He is right to criticize O'Reilly for this bogus "collaborative software" award.

  3. Refund process for Thinkpads and other IBM machine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Windows Refund Day update

    I have 2 Thinkpads 560. Both are running Linux.
    They came with Windows 95. I have tried calling
    a few numbers but have not been able to get in
    touch with a human. Does anybody have any phone
    number or the name of a person to call?

    I have already setup a homepage for this effort.
    Please visit : http://homestead.dejanews.com/user.atif5 5/index.html

    atif55@yahoo.com

  4. some facts (I know you're not used to those here) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Why Netscape shows ? instead of '


    It's amazing to me how even labelling of charsets turns into a Microsoft flame fest here every time! Don't you people ever get tired of gazing into your own navels?

    For the record, this other character set that Microsoft uses (that is a superset of Latin1) is, in fact, an ISO-registered character set. It is properly known as ISO-8859-1-Windows-3.1-Latin-1.

    In this particular case, Apple's poor decisions have been more of a problem than Microsoft's, because the character set that Macintosh tools use (MacRoman, which is not ISO-registered) is not even a superset of Latin1 (ISO-8859/1.)

    If you're interested in facts, you can see an article I posted to comp.infosystems.* about this way back in 1997.

    If you were really interested in doing something productive, you could contribute to Mozilla so that future web browsers could (as the old saying goes) be lenient in what they accept, and in a cross-platform way.

    Or, you could just continue your endless whining here, feeling superior without actually doing anything, and wait for someone else to fix it all for you.

    -- jwz

  5. SW Striped 100GB + FS at VA.... by KMSelf · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: How Reliable are Enormous Filesystems in Linux?
    I can't tell you how well it worked, but I was watching VA set up at least one 100 GB+ FS for a customer who insisted on SW striping several nonsymetrical disks together to form a 100 GB partition. It's doable, but not recommended (VA was recommending several saner alternatives but the customer wouldn't buy it). This is pretty much the best way to guarantee yourself problems down the road -- HW RAID 5 or RAID 1/0 is a much better alternative for a reliability standpoint. If anyone at VA is interested in commenting on successes/failures with very large filesystems....

    There are a number of well-known websites which utilize Linux, including Deja News. Not sure what kind of partition sizes they're using, but it would be fun to know.

    FWIW, you can modify the reserved % parameter using tune2fs rather than mke2fs and save scads of time. You can also force an fsck (man fsck) to time the operation if you want.

  6. Great Flick! by Aaron+M.+Renn · · Score: 1 · on "Pi" is out on VHS and DVD

    See my http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN =381686845 review of it.

  7. Like who? by C.+E.+Sum · · Score: 1 · on The Music Industry and the MP3

    SSSSSSSSSKKKKKKKKKKOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLDDDDDD!!
    Nevermind. You just had to be there.