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Windows "professional"? My @$$!
A port of Windows XP was developed for an earlier version of Xen, but is not available for release due to licence restrictions. ...... you still > > have to fiddle with /boot/loader.conf to get the sound to go, which is > > completely braindead, but I'm sure it'll be up to the standard of Linux > > distros 2001.

freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 116, Issue 20
You wouldn`t describe such a setup as ordinary, wouldn`t you? This should be VERY stable running computers, and they are, they run linux. Thus, upgrading to Whistler is (IMO) too expensive at any price. It is. And this change from (Codename) Whistler to Windows XP doesn`t do any good with their plans of ripoff

watson.el v0.7 --- query web search engines and aggregate results
What no-one can seem to answer is why the OS installer seems to be completely braindead about it sources. The only suggestions I've had so far are to use yum Distros such as Ubuntu are just as easy to use as Windows XP and provide a far better installation/uninstallation/upgrade system for software than is

Vista is beyond belief
I also run another machine with 3 operating systems (FreeBSD 5.4, Suse 9.2, and Windows XP). My original objective was to install Hylafax on the server and share it with ..... Use a *REAL* ftp client and not that braindead Redmond crap :) <rant> That is completely true. Why anybody would use IE for ftp is baffling.

New Debian alpha Packages
Then I booted from a Win98SE setup disk and ran FDISK with the aim of deleting and recreating the C partition - chose "View Partition Information" and that was it You probably attempted to install XP without the patches on this hard drive's C drive and XP being the braindead OS it is famous for, just puked and

Windows XP! Will it really be reliable?
Since the package is architecture-all, the Sparc porters do not need to build the package under the current setup. dict-wn - WordNet v1.6 dict-wn 1.5-2 -> 1.5-3 ...... Please carefully reviw your setup to see if this will affect you in any way. See README.Debian for additional info. (closes: #33780, #34056, #41731,

WinXP Home -- fried
If you reinstall the same version using the upgrade option, that should take care of the problem. -Derek At 01:38 AM 6/11/2006, Sean M. wrote: I just did my ...... 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.0/24 >> > ^ >> > Experience shows that the slightly-braindead Windows client needs a ``trigger address'' to negotiate successfully.

Four Years Later, Mac OS X Is Definitely Superior to Windows XP
The problem is compounded by the fact that in some braindead distributions there is no man page for printcap, and the fact that most printcaps are created For example, a physical printer may support both PostScript and HP Laserjet data formats, depending on some setup sequence being sent to the physical printer

freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 115, Issue 14
Since the package is architecture-all, the Sparc porters do not need to build the package under the current setup. dict-wn - WordNet v1.6 dict-wn 1.5-2 ..... I do suspect that the whole psgml || xemacs dependancy is still causing problems * task-sgml-dev: replace lib-xp-java with lib-xt-java (which depends on the

freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 138, Issue 1
Can you set up a network on 2 machines without a hub, router, or switch? You should have that knowledge after steps 1 & 2. (ANS for the braindead among you - connect the Are you willing to spend 10% of your income on maintaining your knowledge and upgrading you skill set? 10. Do you enjoy helping others? 11.

New Debian powerpc Packages
sau...@idx.com.au comp os linux advocacy comp os linux setup comp os ms-windows nt advocacy alt destroy microsoft In article <35FCBFD7.715C5...@c-me.com>, Joel Stone <bo...@c-me.com> wrote: Chris I, on the other hand, have had to live with the braindead assumptions made by OS installer designers (IRIX, anyone?

Upgrading to a Homebuilt. :)
I think this is similar to running portupgrade -urf icu, it will re-upgrade icu and all the the ports that depend on it. It's quite another to break a header or supply hacky 32-bit-only code in a library or some such just because Linux does the same brain-dead stuff and the Linux maintainers are too stubborn or

freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 201, Issue 22
The ranking ;; also takes into account the order in which hits were presented by ;; the search engines. ;; ;; The *watson* buffer is set up so that URLs are clickable On some braindead platforms without subprocess support ;; this is the only mode of operation which will work. ;; ;; watson.el was inspired by the

Linux compared to Windows
Didn'tI buy a copy of XP with this machine? Why should I now have to pay $200 for another copy of the OS just so I can repair the damage M$' braindead update In YHO, what are my chances if I just install XP Pro on top of XP Home? If I go as far as I can without actually starting the install, the setup on the XP

utlook xpress
How-to books/videos are a major industry and most users couldn't set up a static ip address, or file sharing, if their life depended on it. - Several applicatins are buggy and will irritate you Yes, like w95, win98, ME, w2k... don't even ask about xp. (DOS wasn't too bad :) - Too many applications of the same type

New Debian sparc Packages
Even braindead dos says 'this will delete all files are you sure y/n?' or something like it. Hey. -r is recursive, and -f is force. The LAN setup for XP is pretty much fully wizard driven and actually works quite well. If the cards in the machine when you install windows it will automagically install and

Anyone got the prices of Vista on release in NZ?
My point though, was if things have to be manually fixed up before or after installing a port there is a way to automate that so on the next upgrade hopefully ..... I have a 100GB hard drive with XP installed onthe first 20 GB and my question is this: What file systems can I choose from to be able to create a

Bugbear
Unless the system is so braindead simple that it doesn't take advantage of anything advanced in hardware...but if that were your goal, I'm sure you'd be running a As I recall, the company planned to fix some problems by requiring an upgrade and I made it clear that an upgrade would not be acceptable to the

How to recover Zen Firmware 2.10.03?
Since the package is architecture-all, the Sparc porters do not need to build the package under the current setup. dict-wn - WordNet v1.6 dict-wn 1.5-2 -> 1.5-3 into dists/potato/main/binary-all/text dict-wn (1.5-3) unstable; urgency=low * Update to Standards version 3.0.1.1: Modified for FHS - /usr/share{doc,

Four Years Later, Mac OS X Is Definitely Superior to Windows XP
In the properties or setup of your Outlook program, it is specified to use MS Word as the email editor. For some reason it is not seeing this software! ..... ccmaker dijuno sleep printers portland visits access chest might wiredsafety bureau promise braindead stated intimate troubles collect possibility break thank