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Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
News The UK Unix User Group is up in arms at the prospect of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates receiving an honorary knighthood. Following the news that the Microsoft founder, who is the world's wealthiest man, will receive an honorary knighthood for...
[January 27, 2004, 14:55]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Adebayo Omo-Dare : "One wonders how long you have been burrying your head in the sand" I think its you who has been drnking the Linux cool aid pal. And it shows. Did you read the US Ambassador's letter fully at all?
[January 30, 2004, 11:16]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback I would like to invite you to this event. The coolest Tech Gathering MacCenter's Meet and Geek Event In Fort Lauderdale Mistermarc Mistermarc
[May 8, 2004, 16:27]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback "Bascule : "Less secure? One flaw in 7 years" Wrong again. Go to CERT and check their figures. According to CERT, Linux has had up to 3 times as many security break ins as Windows 2003. Bascule was clearly referring to OpenBSD, not Linux.
[March 24, 2005, 5:08]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback "Smithy" is clearly a troll. He has used personal insults so I would suspect that he is abusing the Ts & Cs of Talkback (I haven't checked though). Anyway, if xNIX is so insecure and M$ is so much better, why do all the banking systems, military...
[March 11, 2005, 13:00]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback It's common knowledge that if you mention Hitler in a discussion that has nothing to do with WWII, then you've lost the arguement. See ya Smithy.
[March 8, 2005, 16:56]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Windows 2003 smokes Linux yet again! Figures for file and print serving from Veritest, re Windows 2003 versus Linux at : http://www.veritest.com/clients/reports/microsoft/ms_netbench.pdf Key Findings:
[January 30, 2004, 18:32]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Bascule : "Though I agree there are far to few benchmarks to really get a clear picture on the 2003/*nix debate. I disagree 2003 smoked, it was close, all who read will see that is so. Check these head to heads between Windows 2003 and Red Hatd...
[January 30, 2004, 18:08]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Bascule :"The debian source code got stolen? It's OPEN SOURCE! duhhhh " Debian source code, open source code, schmopen source code, who cares? Bottom line : Despite constant boasts from the open source/linux crazies about how secure and bullet...
[January 30, 2004, 17:49]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback smithy ' they Linux ource code was easily hacked. And if Debian had not admitted it, those hackers would simply have released that info on the internet' The debian source code got stolen? It's OPEN SOURCE!
[January 30, 2004, 13:08]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Adebayo Omo-Dare : "Neither am I ignorant about the effects of the US' 20+ trillion deficit on the US economy -. Yeah? Listen. I have lived in Europe for over 10 years, before moving to the United States.
[January 30, 2004, 11:36]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Bill Gates did not hold a gun to the head of anybody to buy Microsoft software. adebayo omo-dare asserts that : "one would say that indications of Microsoft's basic attitude with regards to the so called Developing Nations was clearly seen in...
[January 29, 2004, 19:22]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Smithy, I am not at all ignorant about economic disparities in the US. Neither am I ignorant about the effects of the US' 20+ trillion deficit on the US economy - present or future. Neither do I have to be Anti-US to know of such things.
[January 30, 2004, 10:14]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Smithy, type in to google - ambassador peru nunez microsoft - or go to http://www.msl.mit.edu/esd10/sslinks/links.php? cat=116 or other places. One wonders how long you have been burrying your head in the sand.
[January 30, 2004, 10:10]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Bascule whines: "Scalability - 2003 running on 32 processor 8Gb RAM machines is it? NASA run redhat on theirs, why? It does it better and it also exists in the current Mars rover.Now that's scalability "
[January 30, 2004, 7:04]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Bascule, the linux fundamentalist, screeches You are the one who sounds like the fanatic round here, stick with the facts not opinions" Then to show how he sticks to "facts" and not opinions, "Bascule" comes up with this gem
[January 30, 2004, 6:50]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Smithy I think you are merely a troll. You are the one who sounds like the fanatic round here, stick with the facts not opinions. Benchmarks: http://www.open-mag.com/features/Vol_66/TuxNET/TuxNET.htm Pretty close to be fair, the other benchmark is...
[January 30, 2004, 4:52]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Jonsaw : " Smithy, if the person who wrote the virus that attacked SCO is a Linux loon, then would it follow that the people who collaborated to attack the Debian server are all Microsoft goons? Nope.
[January 29, 2004, 20:36]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback Bascule : "You also said in anything windows smokes linux hands down, expand on this for me please. Reliability? Stability? Choice? Economy of resources? Flexibility? Power? Scalability? Windows 2003 simply smokes Linux in every single one of the...
[January 29, 2004, 20:14]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback According to Bascule : "Many many companies are hacked and don't reveal that this has happened, debian do. As an example the half life 2 source code is freely available on the net, produced by your beloved M$"
[January 29, 2004, 20:07]
