I'll go. Is there any shared transportation organised from Luxembourg ?
Who wants to come with me (by car) ?
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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.
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>
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regards,
Georges Toth
> 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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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.
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7, Rue Jacques Sturm L-2556 Luxembourg
Office:+352 710725 608 Home:+352 406776
http://www.lilux.lu/
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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,
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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!