From:	"Johan Venter" <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
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Damian Yerrick <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com> wrote in message
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> > DOS and WINDOWS end with a similar sound: doze.
>
> Not in America, where DOS rhymes with BOSS.

In Australia too :-)

> > So DOZE is DOS (any variant) and WINDOZE is
> > WINDOWS (any variant)
>
> Including X-Windows environments such as
> GNOME and KDE?

I think he was talking more along the lines of Microsoft bloatware.

> > and *DOZE is all variants thereof.
>
> So Linux is a *DOZE?

See above.

> > Additionaly WINDOZE is really behaving like it's
> > dozing most of the time.
>
> That's because it is; install the RC5DES client to make
> it use its idle cycles for a good cause.
> http://www.distributed.net/

By how much can that speed up Windows? Percentage?

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