If only the Wintrolls had done something useful with their time

It looks like Linux developers have it made in the current job market. http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Careers/Linux-Developers-in-High-Demand-628605/?kc=BLBLBEMNL02242012INDEPTH Ian

Message posted on the February 26th, 2012 - 12:24 PM ET

Study says: cola newsgroup is a practice session for lying Linux "advocates"

"Researchers found that with a little training, people can learn to tell a lie more automatically and efficiently. It gets easier for folks to repeat the lies and becomes harder for them to differentiate deception from telling the truth." ...

Message posted on the January 27th, 2013 - 12:27 PM ET

Win8 Sales Slower than Vista

Gee, what a surprise. Who would have ever thunked it? -- well, besides every WinTroll that infests COLA. ~~ Windows 8 adoption rate may be slower than Vista's In the roughly two months since the release of Windows 8, the adoption rate of ...

Message posted on the December 31st, 2012 - 2:21 PM ET

FAQ and Primer for comp.os.linux.advocacy (COLA), Ed III Part 2

Following are excerpts from the official FAQ, entire text is found at: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/linux/advocacy/faq-and-primer/ and is also posted at: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/os/linux/advocacy/% ...

Message posted on the February 14th, 2012 - 12:45 PM ET

Splitting MP3's via the command-line

Years ago, a family friend gave me over 50 CDs, each holding a number of full vinyl albums (or reel-to-reel tapes) in MP3 format. Lots of classic stuff, mostly rock. Not all of it perfectly recorded, as I am finding. Good quality sound, but some ...

Message posted on the July 4th, 2012 - 10:57 AM ET

Linux to the rescue (again)

We needed to do some logging that needed to be taken away for processing. I calculated that the log file for 24h would be somewhere from 15 to 20GB, so we went to a local electronics store and bought a 32GB USB stick. Not surprisingly, the USB ...

Message posted on the November 10th, 2012 - 9:39 AM ET

Microsoft getting surrounded on all sides - the opposition mounts, and organizes.

On Jul 5, 12:52 pm, Megabyte <Megabyte.NoS...@sent.com> wrote: Rex Ballard <rex.ball...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 4, 10:58 pm, Sinister Midget III <fardblos...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is the thrill gone in the Macintard ...

Message posted on the July 5th, 2010 - 4:32 PM ET

Chris Ahlstrom ROPE-A-DOPED (Yet again).

Watch the herd run from the facts in this post. They hate facts. Especially when the facts expose the idiocy and technical ineptness of one of their members. Look for Subject changes and the usual scurrying about by the herd in an attempt to circle ...

Message posted on the May 26th, 2012 - 5:39 PM ET

[comp.os.linux.advocacy] FAQ and Primer for COLA, Edition III, Part 2