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Well that was quite possibly the most useful and worthwhile comment on this page... entertained me for a while anyway...

Regards,
Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

"...call it a random act of education"

That's an excellent turn of phrase... I'll have to remember that :)

Good idea too, by the way...

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Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

Jeez, how embarassing :)

And only a coupla weeks after I complimented someone on their .sig that pointed out the difference...
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Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

I don't use Samba, so maybe that's why this doesn't make much sense to me - there main point would seem to be that they want w2k support - surely that is high on the main Samba list of objectives anyway?
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Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

Class .sig

*round of applause from me and the guy reading over my shoulder*

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Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

You've been reading for years but never got a user ID? Bullshit.

Less than six months after I started reading /. I realised that it was almost 100% necessary to create a user account if you wanted to be able to do any of the interesting little odds and ends the site allowed then (and that it has increasingly offered since then).

Okay, I suppose there's an outside chance you were too dumb to realise that a user account would be useful - in that case, you're too dumb to have one with a 'cool' low number (and what the hell difference does the account number make dimwit? The functionality remains the same whether you're #2963 or #987654321).

But anyway, my theory is, you're full of shit :) You've been reading the site for less than a year, and you've bought into all this 'low user IDs are cool' crap that has sprung up in that time...

Regards,
Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

irc.linpeople.org is the same thing as irc.openprojects.org as mentioned above... and yes, they are the absolute best for friendly helpful support - the post I'm replying to reads exactly like the one I was going to post myself - first serious perl related problems at work, I joined #linpeople on irc.openprojects.org and I had solutions coming out of my ears 5 minutes later!

Nice people...
Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

You already have to pay to use samples (from movies or other records or whatever). If you don't pay for them and your record goes somewhere, you will get sued for compensatory damages.

Disclaimer: IANAL - however, my dad does work in the music business, doing royalties accounting, so I do know a fair bit about this subject...

Regards,
Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

Linux UK runs on PHPSlash, which is a PHP port of the Slash engine that this site runs on... hence the similar look and feel...

Hopefully, as time progresses, Linux UK will move away from looking like 'Yet Another Slashdot Clone' and gain its own identity...

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Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

I don't know about KDE, what I've seen of it looks pretty good (I use GNOME personally) but I very much doubt if Corel are at a newbie friendly stage yet... I found their distribution to be a pain in the neck, and couldn't wait to fdisk it... worst of all was that nasty file manager that they're so proud of...

I think they have some good ideas for making Linux more newbie friendly, but the implementation is a long way from perfect at this time... I dread to think what perception of Linux people could get from a Corel Linux box running Netscape (not our most reliable piece of software I think it's safe to say!), AOL (hate hate hate), and running on whatever hardware Intel want to get rid of because they're pushing new products out so fast that last year's stuff is now worthless in their eyes...

Maybe I am just overly pessimistic, but this seems fraught with potential to make Linux look bad, in my overly vocal opinion...

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Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

Can someone post a URL for this bug-reproduction on this thread? Thanks...

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Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

Two guys walk into a bar. Which is weird, because you'd of thought the second one would of gone round after the first one hit it...

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Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

Throw 'em all in the Pratchett scorpion pit I say - on one wall it clearly says "Learn the words" - no more than they deserve for the nightmares they must engender in small children... :)

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Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

To my understanding this company was about as dead as a coffin nail (according to the Dickens phrase). So why do people persist in talking about them?

Most people agreed that Apple was 'dead as a coffin nail' (or whatever) a couple of years ago... then they released the iMac and sprang back to life like something out of a bad Hammer House of Horrors movie...

Now I'm not suggesting that Amiga are going to release a translucent / aqua machine (they'd get sued ;) - but perhaps there's life left in the old dog yet?

Regards,
Denny

PS, I've never used an Amiga in my life, so I know even less than usual about what I'm pontificating about :)

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

Comparing a beige Mac and an iMac is like comparing a Pinto to a Jaguar

Well, the Pinto is (basically) American, and therefore common as muck, whereas the Jaguar is (basically) British, therefore classy as you like!

Yep, you're right, there's definitely a parallel there :)

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Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

I don't think the first post was claiming that sendmail's config difficulty is necessarily a bad thing, merely that he finds it amusing to see an article on user-friendliness on the site that gave us that config system...

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Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

If you were building The Matrix: NT or Unix? (I thought so :)

Winner of my own personal ".sig of the week" competition :) Nice one...

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Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

Thou shalt not read the words of the fake prophet! Our only hope for salvation can be found in the arms of our loving lord, RMS !!!

:)

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Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

There was a ZX Spectrum game called Daley Thompson's Decathlon, and most of the games involved you pressing Z and X alternately as fast as possible... the best solution I ever saw to this was a group of friends who figured out that on the original 'rubber-thumb' spectrum keyboards, you could wet your finger and simply slide it back and forth across the appropriate area to get really high scores!

the main problem with this was you destroyed the lettering on the Z and X keys very quickly, but then they were the left and right for almost every game, so everyone knew where they were anyway :)

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Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

...and although I wouldn't want to call Poe 'twisted' as such, he was definitely, well, shall we say 'interesting' ? :)

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Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

Yeah, the joke's really on me there, I thought othello and go were the same thing... guess I should look go up online some more then, figure out what the diff is!

Thanks for the enlightenment people :)
Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

...although maybe that's a UK thing - I don't know how popular ZX Spectrums were in the US, but over here they rocked the home gaming world for a few years...

A friend of mine recently got a spec emulator for windows, and seeing him playing all those old games made me wonder what happened to my youth, at my now advanced age of 26 ! :)

Regards,
Denny

PS - this story broke on Linux UK much earlier today - something to do with the time difference I imagine, most slashdot stories seem to appear in our afternoon...

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

...although maybe that's a UK thing - I don't know how popular ZX Spectrums were in the US, but over here they rocked the home gaming world for a few years...

A friend of mine recently got a spec emulator for windows, and seeing him playing all those old games made me wonder what happened to my youth, at my now advanced age of 26 ! :)

Regards,
Denny

PS - this story broke on Linux UK much earlier today - something to do with the time difference I imagine, most slashdot stories seem to appear in our afternoon...

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

ppl from the uk and the eu may be interested that www.linuxuk.co.uk had this story online several hours ago.
sometimes things can take a little long to reach /. so maybe you should drop by and see what we have to offer from time to time.
BTW I love DOSEmu and think all the guys that have worked on the project over the last 8 years really deserve a big hand, DOS had so much hidden away that recreating all the undocumented stuff can't have been easy.

On your website, in the history section, you have a link to some information about pulsars...

Were you an astronomy student, and if so how did you go from studying pulsars to CTO of a major Linux distributor?!?

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Denny

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I notice you are a keen Go player... the GNOME version of Go (Iagno) seems much more attractive to me than the KDE version (kgo). I was wondering what software you use to play games, or are you not really interested in the interface at your level of play?

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Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

To save you asking questions that other KDE developers have already answered this week, you could try reading this story on Linux UK which is an interview with Mosfet (a KDE developer). Mosfet also works at Mandrakesoft...

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Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

To save you asking questions that other KDE developers have already answered this week, you could try reading this story on Linux UK which is an interview with Mosfet (a KDE developer). Mosfet also works at Mandrakesoft...

Regards,
Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

To save you asking questions that other KDE developers have already answered this week, you could try reading this story on Linux UK which is an interview with Mosfet (a KDE developer). Mosfet also works at Mandrakesoft...

Regards,
Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

I much prefered Microsoft Buys IBM!!!

Now all I will have to do is up-grade my motherboard, memory and Graphics card now...
I wonder how hot these processors run
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try out this UK based linux site www.linuxuk.co.uk

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80Mb is a lot of RAM - which I think makes more difference to most Linux apps (particularly graphical ones) than extra clock-cycles will...

I have a P100 laptop with 16Mb of RAM and it won't run a full GNOME system - all the apps die on startup, giving me loads of really entertaining error dialogues... I might try again with sawmill, as that was GNOME running on E and many people have commented that E is the slowest bit of a GNOME environment... I am now running sawmill at work and it seems okay, but that's on a P3-500 (64Mb RAM) so it's not really a low-end machine...

Oh yes, I had a point when I started all this - I don't think your machine counts as bottom of the barrel when it has that much RAM - most people with P100 - P166 are suffering with 16 or maybe 32 Mb of RAM, which is probably their main problem...

Regards,
Denny

# Using Linux in the UK? Check out Linux UK

PIGLET includes the following new features:
- A new and improved Anaconda [tm] installer

...which failed to work on my system, unlike the one that shipped with 6.1 (which did look like it was working although later turned out not to have modded most of the config files that it should of (eg UK keyboard and Logitech mouse were installed as US keyboard and Generic 2-button mouse)).

I dunno, these GUI installers look nice, but they're not going to impress any Windows converts until they actually do what they say they are doing :)

Denny

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