Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread benfoley
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:32, Marc Wilson wrote: [snip] p.s. you're paying way too much for that cheap shit you're smoking. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Some odd comments and questions for all

2003-09-02 Thread benfoley
On Monday 01 September 2003 11:24, Russell Shaw wrote: > Joris Lambrecht wrote: [snip] > > Is there any safe way to run unstable with woody ? (Given unstable is > > still sid) > sid is always unstable, reliably unpredictable, so a safe way to run sid is kind of an oxymoron. ben -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-01 Thread benfoley
On Monday 01 September 2003 22:46, Michael Heironimus wrote: [snip] > If you want to run X on an older machine you should pick out a basic > window manager you like and use that. If you're really stuck on the idea > of a desktop environment you could also try XFce. Decide what it is that > you thin

sylpheed

2002-05-24 Thread benfoley
yes, questions. what's up with sylpheed-doc? or, in other words, where can i get it? also the mailer whines that it can't start the spell-checker, but it doesn't care for ispell. what's the cure for that? though i configured the line wrap at 72, it doesn't wrap by default. has anyone else had th

Re: Netscape4, Mozilla - Now what is X? - How to stop X?

2002-01-31 Thread benfoley
On Thursday 31 January 2002 12:33 am, Alan Shrimpton wrote: > Okay now X starts atomatically but I rather it not. I know it was my fault > because I said yes to have it as default.. Now, how can I change back. > Also once running how do I stop it? > [snip] depending on whether it starts from xdm

Re: Installing Debian

2002-01-31 Thread benfoley
On Thursday 31 January 2002 10:10 am, Liam Black wrote: > Did I neglect to mention that I also tried "rescue root="? Well, that's my > problem that I didn't mention it, I guess. > > I tried linux root= because I noted that "linux" was specified as the > default argument, and thought that might wor

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread benfoley
On Thursday 31 January 2002 08:00 am, Geoff Beaumont wrote: > At 16:01 31/01/2002 +0100, you wrote: > >Chris Mueller wrote: > >>Hi, > >>7 mails with virus W32/Myparty got into my inbox - > >>all of them from linux-mailinglists. > > > >How many harmed your debian system ? 0 ? Ahh, the wonders of

Re: is testing broken?

2002-01-31 Thread benfoley
On Thursday 31 January 2002 05:03 am, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. > > I'd like to upgrade a box to testing, but I'm wondering if testing is > broken. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=base-passwd > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=130

Re: nfs mount of remote system includes vfat

2002-01-31 Thread benfoley
On Thursday 31 January 2002 05:13 am, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > I've just discovered this by accident. If I nfs mount another linux PC > running woody, and that PC has a native windows 98 file system mounted > under /98, then it is automatically seen and browseable as the nfs mounted > file system. Th

Re: C Integrated Development Environment

2002-01-31 Thread benfoley
On Wednesday 30 January 2002 11:01 pm, Scott Henson wrote: > On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 01:35, Scott Henson wrote: > > Im setting up a machine for a friend and he needs an IDE for developing > > C and C++. Anyone have a recomendation on a good one he could use. > > Thankyou. > > Sorry all. I guess i s

lpstat -- connection refused

2002-01-30 Thread benfoley
i had a functioning cups system going up to two days ago. all of a sudden, i get "connection refused" when i run lpstat, run in response to a can't connect from the browser. essentially, localhost:631 is refusing connections. has anybody had that or have any clue as to why that port would reject

Re: BUSINESS PROPOSAL

2001-11-14 Thread benfoley
just send me a bag of whatever you're smoking. On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 06:49:40 Joseph Katirimah wrote: > SOLICITING FOR A BUSINESS VENTURE AND PARTNERSHIP > > Dear Sir, > > I am a close confidant to the family of the late > President of the Federal Republic of Zaire, Late > President Mobutu > Ses