IBM gives Microsoft angst with Lotus Notes Office

.itwire. ^ | Wednesday, 17 May 2006 | Stan Beer

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

A lot of OLD stuff is still alive:

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Thursday, February 2nd, 2006 - Qbix
DOSBox 0.63 has been downloaded 2.000.000 times!

[Richard Kimball]

Actually, I'm pretty much in awe. I run several web sites, teach at a college and run a sideline photography business, though, so I get on the computer, do my stuff, freep and the time's gone.

I've always thought of the Linux guys as being the same type as the guys who put together their own race cars and hit the dirt tracks on the weekends. I don't want to do it, but respect the talent and ability.

[Echo Talon]

just use openoffice.org its FREE.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Here is a place for real serious under the hood stuff:

sandpile.org
The world's leading source for pure technical x86 processor information.

[ThePythonicCow]

I do use OpenOffice, for its word processor. But for spreadsheets, nothing beats Improv (if you were lucky enough to buy it back in the early 1990's when it was available.)

[Echo Talon]

openoffice.org is great for a free program. :)

[ThePythonicCow]

Yes - OpenOffice is great.

[Echo Talon]

its nice that people make free software! :)

[ThePythonicCow]

I am paid good money to make free software (portions of the Linux kernel, and some related memory management libraries and utilities, in my case), because it's in my companies best interest.

I used to manage a group doing this software as proprietary software, as it is vital to our customers use of our systems. Now we've laid off most of group and I do it single handedly, along with one or two engineers from each of several other companies, cooperating on a common solution that is better than any of us could have done separately. Don't worry about those laid off, as they all have jobs doing things of particular interest to them.

[Echo Talon]

awww man.. im so bummed out... I just tried to download alinux.iso from distrowatch.com with Mepis 6 and when firefox download manager said the file was complete it was nowhere to be found on my hdd... :( any suggestions? the file was a little over 700mb's is that to large for ext3 partion or something? guess I will download it again via windows..

[ThePythonicCow]

A file of 700 Mb is certainly not too large for ext3. To find your download file, try doing:

find / -mtime -1 -size +500000

at a shell prompt, which should find any file modified in the last day of size 500Mb or larger. It will take several minutes, or more, depending on the size of your file system and speed of disk.

Or perhaps try downloading some other small file, and notice carefully as you do so where the Firefox download dialog says it is putting the file. Good chance your linux .iso is in that same directory.

Or use wget or curl to download the file, instead of your browser, so you have more control over, and visibility into, what is happening.

[Echo Talon]

thanks for the help.. it didn't work... maybe firefox deleted it or something? i'll DL it again with windows... firefox said downloading to desktop... i download a small file and it went to the /tmp folder(it was supposed to go to the desktop)
maybe the /tmp folder has a size limitation or something?

[ThePythonicCow]

There is no inherit size limit on /tmp, other than your available free disk space. Does a command:

df -kl /tmp

show enough space (700,000 kbytes) free for your iso file?

I prefer using 'curl' to handle big downloads, as I can see better what's going on and resume a failed download.

[Echo Talon]

i'll check later on today... im download the iso with windows right now...

[Golden Eagle]

i'll check later on today... im download the iso with windows right now...

LMAO! You couldn't write stuff much better.

[Echo Talon]

LMAO! You couldn't write stuff much better.

Its a beta linux distro I just downloaded an ISO with linux and burned it to cd with linux, the ISO i just downloaded and burned on Mepis 6 beta3 was Zen Walk 2.6.iso

[rzeznikj at stout]

So? Does it really matter?

Or is it simply anything to pick a fight?

[rzeznikj at stout]

Do they still make OS/2?

[Echo Talon]

i dont know, i Downloaded PCLinuxOS with mepis 6 beta3 and burned it.. no problems, now im using the PCLinuxOS its a great distro.. highly recomended! :)

[rzeznikj at stout]

That was intended mainly for you-know-who...

I pinged you as a courtesy...

But thanks for the review of PCLinuxOS!! 8^)