Lilux-info February 2005

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About the FFII demo tomorrow in Brussels

by Brent Frère

I'll go. Is there any shared transportation organised from Luxembourg ? Who wants to come with me (by car) ? -- Brent Frère Private e-mail: Brent(a)BFrere.net Postal address: 5, rue de Mamer L-8280 Kehlen Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg European Union Mobile: +352-021/29.05.98 Fax: +352-26.30.05.96 Home: +352-307.341 URL: http://BFrere.net This e-mail signature can be checked if you have the CaCERT certificate installed. Check http://www.CaCERT.org for details.

20 years, 10 months

Plan-Net & Storage -> LuxBox IT News

by Eric Dondelinger

Hi, a while back we got to see an email from Brent about a storage offering. Well, that offering is described in a LuxBox IT News article (February 2005 p.20), with lots of references to and praise of Free Software, showing that using FOSS you can divide certain costs by a huge factor. Thanks to Plan-Net for this public, PHB-compatible FOSS praise! Greetings, Eric P.S. For those who don't know / read Dilbert - PHB = Pointy-Haired Boss, the archetype of the clueless manager.

20 years, 10 months

Phunny!

by Alex

http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2005/7820.html describing the new MS Searchengine :-) -- <°)))=< Thanks for the fish! Al

20 years, 10 months

EU Commission Regrets... No SW Patents on the Agenda

by Georges Toth

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7605005&type=technologyNews -- regards, Georges Toth

20 years, 10 months

Silicon Insider: R.I.P. Microsoft?

by Georges Toth

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/SiliconInsider/story?id=88655&page=1 <snip> "Great, healthy companies not only dominate the market, but share of mind. Look at Apple these days. But when was the last time you thought about Microsoft, except in frustration or anger? The company just announced a powerful new search engine, designed to take on Google - but did anybody notice? Meanwhile, open systems world - created largely in response to Microsoft's heavy-handed hegemony - is slowly carving away market share from Gates & Co.: Linux and Firefox hold the world's imagination these days, not Windows and Explorer. The only thing Microsoft seems busy at these days is patching and plugging holes. "Speaking of Gates: if you remember, he was supposed to be going back into the lab to recreate the old MS alchemy. But lately it seems - statesmanship being the final refuge of the successful entrepreneur - that he's been devoting more time to philanthropy than capitalism. And though Steve Ballmer is legendary for his sound and fury, these days his leadership seems to be signifying nothing. "Longhorn's Delayed Release "There are other clues as well. Microsoft has always had trouble with stand-alone applications, but in its core business it has been as relentless as the Borg. Now the company seems to have trouble executing even the one task that should take precedence over everything else: getting 'Longhorn,' its Windows replacement, to market. Longhorn is now two years late. That would be disastrous for a beloved product like the Macintosh, but for a product that is universally reviled as a necessary, but foul-tasting, medicine, this verges on criminal insanity. Or, more likely, organizational paralysis. "Does anyone out there love MSN? I doubt it; it seems to share AOL's fate of being disliked but not hated enough to change your e-mail account. And do college kids still dream of going to work at MS? Five years ago it was a source of pride to go to work for the Evil Empire - now, who cares? . . . "For now, though, none of that is obvious. Microsoft is still the dominant company in high-tech, the cynosure of all those things people love and hate about computing, the defining company of our time. It is huge, powerful and confident. "But if you sniff the air, you can just make out the first hints of rot." </snip> -- regards, Georges Toth

20 years, 10 months

Microsoft se met au contrôle d'identité...

by Michel Maria-Sube

http://www.latribune.fr/Tribune/Articles.nsf/ArticlesWeb/ID880C9C9651E69BCF… ca c'est moins drole... M. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

20 years, 10 months

Re: Re: [Lilux-info] Fwd: RE: Probl�mes-http://www.utopolis.lu/

by Patrick Useldinger

> Yes, so? It also works perfectly when I'm using MSIE, which doesn't help > fixing the problem. In general, when someone says he has a problem, > telling him you don't doesn't help much. I was trying to help by saying in which cases it works, thus narrowing the scope. I'll know better next time. > The mail I sent to the list wasn't to get help from the list (this is > lilux-info, not help) but to let people know how uncooperative the > person hosting the website was and how it doesn't seem to work well with > Firefox. You might have specified that.

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Assemble Generale

by Thierry Coutelier

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This year our 'Assemblé Générale' will take place in the LGL (Lycée de Garçon Luxembourg) on the 24th of February at 20:00. Everyone is highly encouraged to come. All person interested to actively play a role in the group should send their candidatures for the following positions (even those already in charge): President Vice-President Secretaire Tresorier Press relation Web master Event Manager Marketing Manager LLL Project Leader GNU/Linux Courses Other comity members Please sent your application to contact(a)linux.lu. - -- Thierry Coutelier Président LiLux asbl 7, Rue Jacques Sturm L-2556 Luxembourg Office:+352 710725 608 Home:+352 406776 http://www.lilux.lu/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCCxVQPOfrcNNQX7oRAkgeAJ9ZzgHkrEnOskwRMJRRvH1XpKh+UQCgqoNj wLVw6NjRMuBJKcLh+qlYnfE= =t/mq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

20 years, 10 months

Nouveau distributeur de SuSE Linux

by Brent Frère

Je me rappelle d'un message il y a quelques mois, demandant où l'on pouvait trouver des boites SuSE Linux au Luxembourg. J'avais renseigné Promoculture (Luxembourg-ville) et Ernster (Belle-Etoile). La personne concernée m'avait informé que Promoculture lui avait dit ne plus en rentrer avant la sortie de la SuSE 9.3 ou 10.0... Pour info, je viens d'apprendre qu'un nouveau distributeur a fait l'effort de se lancer dans la vente de Linux: il a fait rentrer des dizaines de boites SuSE Linux 9.2, en Français et en Anglais. C'est Exell, au CityConcorde (Bertrange). Si quelqu'un cherche une boite SuSE Linux 9.2, peut-être est-il judicieux d'aller là dans un premier temps, afin qu'ils ne renoncent pas à distribuer ce produit. Je n'ai évidemment _AUCUN_ intérêt là dedans autre qu'à tenter d'augmenter le nombre des points de vente Linux au Luxembourg... Bien à vous, -- Brent Frère Private e-mail: Brent(a)BFrere.net Postal address: 5, rue de Mamer L-8280 Kehlen Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg European Union Mobile: +352-021/29.05.98 Fax: +352-26.30.05.96 Home: +352-307.341 URL: http://BFrere.net This e-mail signature can be checked if you have the CaCERT certificate installed. Check http://www.CaCERT.org for details.

20 years, 10 months

Some time to kill

by Patrick Useldinger

In the last few months, I have chosen Slackware to be my favorite Linux distro, and I have installed and tweaked it to what I wanted to have. Workstation and server are working fine. Now I start being annoyed again. Therefore, I am looking for a nice project to work on during my spare time. It should be technical, Linux-related, possibly involving some (even some major) programming (Python is my language of choice). Nothing political, and nothing with a fixed deadline, but technically challenging. No fancy GUI stuff, rather some bloddy useful command-line utility. Or maybe something completely different I have not yet thought of. If you have a specific need or a good idea, please let me know!

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Lilux-info February 2005