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*Really* bad week for SCO
by blsonne-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA＠public.gmane.org 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

> its stock price may jump to $50, and if you hold -100 of them, you'll > now have to pay $5000 to close out your position, and you're in the hole big > time. Does anyone have a link to a site or some docs that explain, to a putz like me, what all this various financial wizardry is? I've seen shorting briefly explained here, but what about kiting, selling on margin, etc, and various other techniques and scams? I'd like to know but I don't have the inclination to read entire books about this stuff, or become a CPA or something. Later, B -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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central mail
by aitken-BwLjziHGQLusTnJN9+BGXg＠public.gmane.org 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

I have been using Netscape Messenger for email for some time. It has served me well. I now need to move to a system by which I can see the same email from two different PCs. Sounds like a simple thing but I have a feeling this is going to entail a huge learning curve and maybe even moving to a different email system. I don't even know where to start. I know that helpless newbies are not to be coddled on this list - I just need the first concept to investigate and then I'm sure that will have me chasing the right ideas - unless you know of a site called "Setting up Netscape Messenger to store the mail database centrally to be accessed from any linux PC on the network" (please Creator, let there be such a site!). : ) Chris -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Reply To address messes with tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org
by aitken-BwLjziHGQLusTnJN9+BGXg＠public.gmane.org 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

I want the Reply To address on my outgoing email to be whatever-KpGSJ1HvxhMWgbWefVBuadBPR1lH4CV8 at public.gmane.org (doesn't matter what the 'whatever' is as labstudiofileld.com is just a parked domain which forwards any email ending with @labstudiofield.com to my subscription aitken-BwLjziHGQLusTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org) I tried this a while back and ran into problems sending/recieving email to/from tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org, if I recall correctly. Any ideas? I use Netscape email. Chris -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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*Really* bad week for SCO
by linux-cOjNTMaGA5U＠public.gmane.org 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:33:16PM -0500, David J Patrick wrote: > That begs the question; are there any investment wizards in the group > who know how to "short" a stock and, thus" reap the reward for > predicting SCOs (and soon enough M$s) swan dive ? Shorting a stock is trivially easy. Just go to your friendly online broker website, and sell some. [Note: not all stocks are allowed to be shorted, but I don't think SCOX is one of them.] Shorting is nothing more than owning a negative number of shares of a stock. [Technically, owing a number of shares of a stock to some unspecified person, but you don't care who that person is.] When you sell 100 shares of SCOX at $15, you end up with $1500 and -100 shares of SCOX. If SCOX drops to $5, you buy back 100 shares of it for $500, and you've made a $1000 profit (and now have 0 shares of SCOX). But if instead, unbeknownst to everyone, SCOX has been using the lawsuit as a smokescreen to hide its super-secret research efforts into real-time widget operating systems, and announces the Best Thing Ever (TM), its stock price may jump to $50, and if you hold -100 of them, you'll now have to pay $5000 to close out your position, and you're in the hole big time. - Ian -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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*Really* bad week for SCO
by blsonne-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA＠public.gmane.org 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

>> BTW, my ma was telling me she's already seen the IBM Linux ad, gave 'er chills > Yeah, it does have a spooky feel to it. Is this ad good or bad? Spooky can be a good feeling sometimes ;) -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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*Really* bad week for SCO
by blsonne-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA＠public.gmane.org 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

> I think it's a good time to start selling any SCO stock you own... I'd be more interested if there was something we could do that would drive the price down, so that SCO investors and lawyers get as little money as possible. What can one person (or a small group) do to screw SCO/lawyers out of as much cash as possible? -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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quiet PC
by aitken-BwLjziHGQLusTnJN9+BGXg＠public.gmane.org 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

I have a need for my PC to be quiet. This is for three reasons: I have tintinitus several times a day, and when I don't the PC reminds me what it's like - it's like tintinitus-on-demand. : / I am starting a business for which recording acoustic instruments will play a large part. My PC is exceptionally loud - so titinuitus or not, acoustic recording or not, it's damned loud. Has anyone had luck shutting their computer up? I have a lot of start up expenses - weighted 88-key keyboard, clarinet, etc. so I'll go to great lengths to quiet this one before I'll buy a new one. In the last home studio I had, I had the PC in a closet - but I'm tired of positioning my recording/PC station to the lowest common denominator (the short leash of mouse, keyboard, etc.) - it's just silly. I guess this is a rhetorical question: Is the fan the only thing that makes noise? I have three fans - CPU, chassis and removeable drive bay. I suspected it was the removeable drive bay, so I replaced it with another, identical bay. No improvement - of course that doesn't prove that the bay is not the culprit - this brand might just have a noisy fan assembly. And to be completely honest, the unwanted sounds were different (but not less) with the second bay than with the first. So, I guess my next step is to remove the bay and just install the hard drive the old-fashioned way (?). If that doesn't help it must be one of the other two fans (?). Or chip creep? What else is there? Also, I'll be in Toronto over Christmas and I could take the PC back to Honson - they built it for me. I hope they will work hard on it without soaking me as they built it. Chris Aitken -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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M$ to license FAT
by james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA＠public.gmane.org 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

William Park wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 01:02:17PM -0500, Robert Brockway wrote: > >>Maybe the manufacturers of these devices will change to another >>filesytem (they can take their pick from many choices available in >>Linux & BSD) in order to avoid paying the licencing fees. > > > Wishful thinking... If you're selling $500 digital camera, would you be > complaining that you have to pay $0.25 license fee (or whatever it is)? > My impression was that it applies to the removable devices, such as the memory "disks". Incidenally, my camera uses 8.3 file names. Does that mean I can get my $0.25 back from his Billyness? ;-) -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Speaker Tommorrow Night
by robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy＠public.gmane.org 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote: > Will there be any guest speaker tomorrow? > If yes, what will the speaker speak about? I've been unable to confirm the status of a guest speaker for tommorrow night. If we don't have a guest speaker, then come along with your juicy technical questions and we'll have a good Q/A session. If we get bored with this I'll do a quick impromptu talk on CIDR. I believe next month's spot is open - would anyone like to put their hand up to talk. If so, please email me privately. Even if you're a new user you can still do a talk, as sometimes the best person to explain something is someone who has just learnt it. Also, from now on talks will be limited to 90 minutes with a short 5 minute break half way through unless otherwise announced by the Talks Maintainer prior to the meeting. This is to give listeners a short break which is known to dramatically increase the listeners retention of the information. Talks which are known to be significantly longer than this should be broken up across 2 (or more) sessions. Rob -- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org, zzbrock at uqconnect.net Linux counter project ID #16440 (http://counter.li.org) "The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" -Baha'u'llah -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Question about the meeting
by lists-jiQtrEI3vUxWk0Htik3J/w＠public.gmane.org 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, David J Patrick wrote: >30 - 50 furry geeks (and, occasionally, a bright looking young lady) >gather in a lecture room. I thought geeks usually less furry. What do you mean by "bright looking"? :-) >If there's a guest speaker, Will there be any guest speaker tomorrow? If yes, what will the speaker speak about? >There will be jabs at SCO and Micro$oft, and countless inside jokes with >varying levels of hilarity. Problems will be solved, and new ones >uncovered, contacts will be made. Sounds like very normal gathering. :-) >You can park along Kings College circle, I think it'll be $10 - $12 Argh! Did I say 'reasonable'? Well, TTC it is, then. Thanks! -- Stephan Paul Arif Sahari Wibowo _____ _____ _____ _____ /____ /____/ /____/ /____ _____/ / / / _____/ http://www.arifsaha.com/ -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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