RE: [newbie] Recruitment Notice
Civilme, I guess this just came to the newbie list or maybe it was meant for me because I didn't receive that message, but if you need an alternate e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] you can use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. Wilson Waguespack -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 8:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Recruitment Notice On Friday 05 January 2001 20:28, you wrote: Civilme, I would love to test the new distro,I have a dsl connection.Let me know what else you might require from me I got a bounce when trying to send you the newsletter--here it is again
Re: [newbie] Recruitment Notice
Hi Susan (and guys/gals) May well give it a burl next time round. Only a newbie myself and going thru a steep learning curve hear. Used linux for approx 3 weeks so far, and windows for 9 years. Gettin hold of the full 7.1 ver of mandrake complete with manuals tomorrow (mainly for the manuals to help my learning cuve) from a friend at work. This is something I'd like to help further when I learn just a little more :) James I am interested in testing mandrake softwares. I have DSL connection, I have 20gig secondary drive all devoted to mandrake7.2 right now on one of my boxen and I could put experimental distro on it too. I have enjoyed the 7.2 mandrake and have only had a few problems with samba config, supermount, and some other minor glitches that the gurus have gotten me through. Right now the mandrake boxen is running steady and no problems. Let me know if I can help by trying new distro. Susan - Original Message - From: civileme To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 2:31 AM Subject: [newbie] Recruitment Notice Well, folks, it is that time of the development cycle where we traditionally (actually this is a brand new tradition) seek a few brave souls to act as testers for our next distro. This time, all you need is bravery and a computer system to try this out on. We are finishing testing protocols which will lead you through the testing steps; we have software that phones home with your tester number and your hardware configuration, and we are building a web site to post results and opinions. For the first time, we are looking for more than bugs to fix. We are looking for ratings of functionality that we can share with the community, and with the developers and maintainers of the packages, even those we do not do ourselves. To enroll, just email me. Tell me whether you have a fast connection and if not, send a postal address. Oh, and make sure you are able to dedicate a little time the month of Valentine's Day. Well the pay isn't great ($0) but you do get my personal assistance via email to configure your computer to the next release. Civileme -- QA/Software testing
Re: [newbie] Recruitment Notice
I am interested in testing mandrake softwares. I have DSL connection, I have 20gig secondary drive all devoted to mandrake7.2 right now on one of my boxen and I could put experimental distro on it too. I have enjoyed the 7.2 mandrake and have only had a few problems with samba config, supermount, and some other minor glitches that the gurus have gotten me through. Right now the mandrake boxen is running steady and no problems. Let me know if I can help by trying new distro. Susan - Original Message - From: civileme To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 2:31 AM Subject: [newbie] Recruitment Notice Well, folks, it is that time of the development cycle where we traditionally (actually this is a brand new tradition) seek a few brave souls to act as testers for our next distro. This time, all you need is bravery and a computer system to try this out on. We are finishing testing protocols which will lead you through the testing steps; we have software that phones home with your tester number and your hardware configuration, and we are building a web site to post results and opinions. For the first time, we are looking for more than bugs to fix. We are looking for ratings of functionality that we can share with the community, and with the developers and maintainers of the packages, even those we do not do ourselves. To enroll, just email me. Tell me whether you have a fast connection and if not, send a postal address. Oh, and make sure you are able to dedicate a little time the month of Valentine's Day. Well the pay isn't great ($0) but you do get my personal assistance via email to configure your computer to the next release. Civileme -- QA/Software testing
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Yes, I would especially like to test new distro, for fixing problems with CDRW stuff. I have 7.2 and went through the little fiasco with the CDburner right after install. Susan - Original Message - From: civileme To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 3:19 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Recruitment Notice On Sunday 07 January 2001 02:05, you wrote: Hey civilme, any idea if IDE CD-RWs like mine (LG CD-RW CED-8042B) will work in 8.0? peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, civileme wrote: On Friday 05 January 2001 22:51, you wrote: Unusual is what we want--It does no good to make a distro that runs on only "usual" machines. I will send you some software to analyse your system--I think I probably know what doesn't work CDRW, LS120 Civileme Well I would say I have an unusual machine. Its a compaq 433 LS-120 / Floppy that came stock Cd-rom stock Both of the above are on the Secondary IDE device. after market Hewlett Packard CD-RW after market US Robotics/3Com modem Parallel Port Zip Drive Plus Agfa Snap Scan USB Scanner that Mandrake 7.2 recognizes but no software does. I still haven't gotten everything to run on this though, can't imagine trying out beta...lol. Well, the way to assure they do is to be a tester. Actually they sometimes work, if set on the master position of the IDE bus, enabled for DMA with hdparm, and do not share the ide channel with a standard CDROM. By opening this form of testing we hope to achieve far broader compatibility with hardware. We cannot configure anything special for the LG if all we have here is Plextor. Civileme
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On Sunday 07 January 2001 00:17, you wrote: I'm in charge of the computer sciences dept. at a university in Veracruz, Mexico. We're in the process of migrating all our servers and development workstations from Windows NT 4 to Linux and we are evaluating both Red Hat and Mandrake. I would certainly like te oportinity to try Mandrake's latest sw. We have two dedicated lines to the internet, one 512k and one 128k. If it's still time, count me in. my e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK you are in. I will be in touch weekly til the ISOs are available in Feb. I will also be setting up a mailing list. Civileme
Re: [newbie] Recruitment Notice
On Sunday 07 January 2001 02:05, you wrote: Hey civilme, any idea if IDE CD-RWs like mine (LG CD-RW CED-8042B) will work in 8.0? peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, civileme wrote: On Friday 05 January 2001 22:51, you wrote: Unusual is what we want--It does no good to make a distro that runs on only "usual" machines. I will send you some software to analyse your system--I think I probably know what doesn't work CDRW, LS120 Civileme Well I would say I have an unusual machine. Its a compaq 433 LS-120 / Floppy that came stock Cd-rom stock Both of the above are on the Secondary IDE device. after market Hewlett Packard CD-RW after market US Robotics/3Com modem Parallel Port Zip Drive Plus Agfa Snap Scan USB Scanner that Mandrake 7.2 recognizes but no software does. I still haven't gotten everything to run on this though, can't imagine trying out beta...lol. Well, the way to assure they do is to be a tester. Actually they sometimes work, if set on the master position of the IDE bus, enabled for DMA with hdparm, and do not share the ide channel with a standard CDROM. By opening this form of testing we hope to achieve far broader compatibility with hardware. We cannot configure anything special for the LG if all we have here is Plextor. Civileme
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I would like to get in on this, if it is still open. Tim Parker 44 Reason Lane Coatesville, PA 19320 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 3:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Recruitment Notice Well, folks, it is that time of the development cycle where we traditionally (actually this is a brand new tradition) seek a few brave souls to act as testers for our next distro. This time, all you need is bravery and a computer system to try this out on. We are finishing testing protocols which will lead you through the testing steps; we have software that phones home with your tester number and your hardware configuration, and we are building a web site to post results and opinions. For the first time, we are looking for more than bugs to fix. We are looking for ratings of functionality that we can share with the community, and with the developers and maintainers of the packages, even those we do not do ourselves. To enroll, just email me. Tell me whether you have a fast connection and if not, send a postal address. Oh, and make sure you are able to dedicate a little time the month of Valentine's Day. Well the pay isn't great ($0) but you do get my personal assistance via email to configure your computer to the next release. Civileme -- QA/Software testing
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Dear Civileme, I would like to try it too. After I get my new machine running this weekend, I will have the old 7.1 machine available to play with. My linux experience is limited, but I've been programming since the 70's on many platforms and basically live and breathe computers a byte at a time. I have a pretty fast connect, and hopefully my cd burner will work. I bought the deluxe ver of the 7.1 distro, but ended up downloading the 7.2 a week later when it came out. My email is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks, BobC
Re: [newbie] Recruitment Notice
On Friday 05 January 2001 22:51, you wrote: Unusual is what we want--It does no good to make a distro that runs on only "usual" machines. I will send you some software to analyse your system--I think I probably know what doesn't work CDRW, LS120 Civileme Well I would say I have an unusual machine. Its a compaq 433 LS-120 / Floppy that came stock Cd-rom stock Both of the above are on the Secondary IDE device. after market Hewlett Packard CD-RW after market US Robotics/3Com modem Parallel Port Zip Drive Plus Agfa Snap Scan USB Scanner that Mandrake 7.2 recognizes but no software does. I still haven't gotten everything to run on this though, can't imagine trying out beta...lol.
Re: [newbie] Recruitment Notice
Folks, my email [EMAIL PROTECTED] is real and I do receive mail there. There is no need for testers to send me mail on the newbie list. ASAP, I will be setting up a testers list. Civileme
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On Sat, 06 Jan 2001, you wrote: On Friday 05 January 2001 22:51, you wrote: Unusual is what we want--It does no good to make a distro that runs on only "usual" machines. I will send you some software to analyse your system--I think I probably know what doesn't work CDRW, LS120 Civileme Actually I can get the LS-120 to work but I have to unload the scsi module to do it, I think thats what it was, but then the cd rw won't even view cds. I had to go back to 7.1 so I could burn cds though...lol. -- ICQ# 27396393 Registered Linux User 181996
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If there is better support for the things that I am trying to do, I would be quite interested. Also, I have one machine set up as a Windows ME / Linux test system that I could also do testing on. (I have an Linux experiment in flight on the system, but I have options.) I have cable modem access. On another note I put together a little script to build ide device nodes. I am attaching it if you are interested in looking it over and telling me if I properly understand how to go about building ide devices. Well, folks, it is that time of the development cycle where we traditionally (actually this is a brand new tradition) seek a few brave souls to act as testers for our next distro. This time, all you need is bravery and a computer system to try this out on. We are finishing testing protocols which will lead you through the testing steps; we have software that phones home with your tester number and your hardware configuration, and we are building a web site to post results and opinions. For the first time, we are looking for more than bugs to fix. We are looking for ratings of functionality that we can share with the community, and with the developers and maintainers of the packages, even those we do not do ourselves. To enroll, just email me. Tell me whether you have a fast connection and if not, send a postal address. Oh, and make sure you are able to dedicate a little time the month of Valentine's Day. Well the pay isn't great ($0) but you do get my personal assistance via email to configure your computer to the next release. Civileme -- QA/Software testing #!/bin/bash # By: Jason Snyder # Name: hdbuild # Purpose: Build a master / slave set of device nodes. # Tested Environments: mdk 7.2. # Usage: hdbuild [arg1:(root device name of master i.e. hda)] #Declare Local Variables MINORRANGE=0 DEVICERANGE=0 MAJORNO=0 MAJORFOUND=0 MASTER=$1 SLAVE=0 if [ "$#" -eq "1" ]; then #Examine root master to deturmin which major device to use case $1 in hda) MAJORNO="3" SLAVE="hdb" MAJORFOUND="1" ;; hdc) MAJORNO="22" SLAVE="hdd" MAJORFOUND="1" ;; hde) MAJORRNO="33" SLAVE="hdf" MAJORFOUND="1" ;; hdg) MAJORNO="34" SLAVE="hdh" MAJORFOUND="1" ;; hdi) MAJORNO="56" SLAVE="hdj" MAJORFOUND="1" ;; hdk) MAJORNO="57" SLAVE="hdl" MAJORFOUND="1" ;; hdm) MAJORNO="88" SLAVE="hdn" MAJORFOUND="1" ;; hdo) MAJORNO="89" SLAVE="hdp" MAJORFOUND="1" ;; hdq) MAJORNO="90" SLAVE="hdr" MAJORFOUND="1" ;; hds) MAJORNO="91" SLAVE="hdt" MAJORFOUND="1" ;; esac if [ "$MAJORFOUND" -eq "1" ]; then #Set variables for master MINORRANGE=0 DEVICERANGE=1 #Create root hd device for master mknod -m 660 /dev/$MASTER b $MAJORNO $MINORRANGE chown root /dev/$MASTER chgrp disk /dev/$MASTER let MINORRANGE=$MINORRANGE+1 #Create partition devices for master while [ "$DEVICERANGE" -le "16" ]; do #Create partition devices on hd device mknod -m 660 /dev/$MASTER$DEVICERANGE b $MAJORNO $MINORRANGE chown root /dev/$MASTER$DEVICERANGE chgrp disk /dev/$MASTER$DEVICERANGE let MINORRANGE=$MINORRANGE+1 let DEVICERANGE=$DEVICERANGE+1 done #Set variables for slave MINORRANGE=64 DEVICERANGE=1 #Create root hd device for slave mknod -m 660 /dev/$SLAVE b $MAJORNO $MINORRANGE chown root /dev/$SLAVE chgrp disk /dev/$SLAVE let MINORRANGE=$MINORRANGE+1 #Create partition devices for slave while [ "$DEVICERANGE" -le "16" ]; do #Create partition devices on hd device mknod -m 660 /dev/$SLAVE$DEVICERANGE b $MAJORNO $MINORRANGE chown
Re: [newbie] Recruitment Notice
I'm in charge of the computer sciences dept. at a university in Veracruz, Mexico. We're in the process of migrating all our servers and development workstations from Windows NT 4 to Linux and we are evaluating both Red Hat and Mandrake. I would certainly like te oportinity to try Mandrake's latest sw. We have two dedicated lines to the internet, one 512k and one 128k. If it's still time, count me in. my e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Recruitment Notice
Hey civilme, any idea if IDE CD-RWs like mine (LG CD-RW CED-8042B) will work in 8.0? peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, civileme wrote: On Friday 05 January 2001 22:51, you wrote: Unusual is what we want--It does no good to make a distro that runs on only "usual" machines. I will send you some software to analyse your system--I think I probably know what doesn't work CDRW, LS120 Civileme Well I would say I have an unusual machine. Its a compaq 433 LS-120 / Floppy that came stock Cd-rom stock Both of the above are on the Secondary IDE device. after market Hewlett Packard CD-RW after market US Robotics/3Com modem Parallel Port Zip Drive Plus Agfa Snap Scan USB Scanner that Mandrake 7.2 recognizes but no software does. I still haven't gotten everything to run on this though, can't imagine trying out beta...lol.
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hey, I've got one of those CDRW's and it works just fine in 7.2, 7.1 and 7.0. What problems are you having? What have you tried? Abe Roger Sherman wrote: Hey civilme, any idea if IDE CD-RWs like mine (LG CD-RW CED-8042B) will work in 8.0? peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, civileme wrote: On Friday 05 January 2001 22:51, you wrote: Unusual is what we want--It does no good to make a distro that runs on only "usual" machines. I will send you some software to analyse your system--I think I probably know what doesn't work CDRW, LS120 Civileme Well I would say I have an unusual machine. Its a compaq 433 LS-120 / Floppy that came stock Cd-rom stock Both of the above are on the Secondary IDE device. after market Hewlett Packard CD-RW after market US Robotics/3Com modem Parallel Port Zip Drive Plus Agfa Snap Scan USB Scanner that Mandrake 7.2 recognizes but no software does. I still haven't gotten everything to run on this though, can't imagine trying out beta...lol.
[newbie] Re (newbie) Recruitment notice
Hi, I'm interested. I have DSL connection. Thanks, Bill Jacobs
[newbie] Recruitment Notice
Well, folks, it is that time of the development cycle where we traditionally (actually this is a brand new tradition) seek a few brave souls to act as testers for our next distro. This time, all you need is bravery and a computer system to try this out on. We are finishing testing protocols which will lead you through the testing steps; we have software that phones home with your tester number and your hardware configuration, and we are building a web site to post results and opinions. For the first time, we are looking for more than bugs to fix. We are looking for ratings of functionality that we can share with the community, and with the developers and maintainers of the packages, even those we do not do ourselves. To enroll, just email me. Tell me whether you have a fast connection and if not, send a postal address. Oh, and make sure you are able to dedicate a little time the month of Valentine's Day. Well the pay isn't great ($0) but you do get my personal assistance via email to configure your computer to the next release. Civileme -- QA/Software testing
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I am definitely interested. Since I have a dialup connection, here is my mailing address: Carl Kehley 605 Luceno Blvd. McAdoo, PA 18237 As an eternal newbie, with about a year and a half experience with Mandrake, RedHat, Caldera, and occasional tries with Debian, I may be of some help with the project. civileme wrote: Well, folks, it is that time of the development cycle where we traditionally (actually this is a brand new tradition) seek a few brave souls to act as testers for our next distro. This time, all you need is bravery and a computer system to try this out on. We are finishing testing protocols which will lead you through the testing steps; we have software that phones home with your tester number and your hardware configuration, and we are building a web site to post results and opinions. For the first time, we are looking for more than bugs to fix. We are looking for ratings of functionality that we can share with the community, and with the developers and maintainers of the packages, even those we do not do ourselves. To enroll, just email me. Tell me whether you have a fast connection and if not, send a postal address. Oh, and make sure you are able to dedicate a little time the month of Valentine's Day. Well the pay isn't great ($0) but you do get my personal assistance via email to configure your computer to the next release. Civileme -- QA/Software testing
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Hello, I'm interested, our address is 11 Quarry Park The Murray East Kilbride Glasgow United Kingdom G75 0EE. We have a 56k modem connection, (still wondering whether to get ADSL.depends how our finances go this year). Cheers. David and Alicia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: 05 January 2001 08:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Recruitment Notice Well, folks, it is that time of the development cycle where we traditionally (actually this is a brand new tradition) seek a few brave souls to act as testers for our next distro. This time, all you need is bravery and a computer system to try this out on. We are finishing testing protocols which will lead you through the testing steps; we have software that phones home with your tester number and your hardware configuration, and we are building a web site to post results and opinions. For the first time, we are looking for more than bugs to fix. We are looking for ratings of functionality that we can share with the community, and with the developers and maintainers of the packages, even those we do not do ourselves. To enroll, just email me. Tell me whether you have a fast connection and if not, send a postal address. Oh, and make sure you are able to dedicate a little time the month of Valentine's Day. Well the pay isn't great ($0) but you do get my personal assistance via email to configure your computer to the next release. Civileme -- QA/Software testing
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I would be pleased if I could be of some help. However, my knowledge is rather limited. I have a ISDN 128K connection and could run your new software on a PIII/600 Desktop and on a P/200 Notebook. My mail adress follows as well: Hektor Meyer No12., Alley 9, Lane 172, San Ming Road Yangmei 32600 TAIWAN Hektor On Friday 05 January 2001 16:31, you wrote: Well, folks, it is that time of the development cycle where we traditionally (actually this is a brand new tradition) seek a few brave souls to act as testers for our next distro. This time, all you need is bravery and a computer system to try this out on. We are finishing testing protocols which will lead you through the testing steps; we have software that phones home with your tester number and your hardware configuration, and we are building a web site to post results and opinions. For the first time, we are looking for more than bugs to fix. We are looking for ratings of functionality that we can share with the community, and with the developers and maintainers of the packages, even those we do not do ourselves. To enroll, just email me. Tell me whether you have a fast connection and if not, send a postal address. Oh, and make sure you are able to dedicate a little time the month of Valentine's Day. Well the pay isn't great ($0) but you do get my personal assistance via email to configure your computer to the next release. Civileme -- QA/Software testing
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You may write me on the list I have a cable connection my adress is below Luk Op vrijdag 05 januari 2001 09:31, schreef u: Well, folks, it is that time of the development cycle where we traditionally (actually this is a brand new tradition) seek a few brave souls to act as testers for our next distro. This time, all you need is bravery and a computer system to try this out on. We are finishing testing protocols which will lead you through the testing steps; we have software that phones home with your tester number and your hardware configuration, and we are building a web site to post results and opinions. For the first time, we are looking for more than bugs to fix. We are looking for ratings of functionality that we can share with the community, and with the developers and maintainers of the packages, even those we do not do ourselves. To enroll, just email me. Tell me whether you have a fast connection and if not, send a postal address. Oh, and make sure you are able to dedicate a little time the month of Valentine's Day. Well the pay isn't great ($0) but you do get my personal assistance via email to configure your computer to the next release. Civileme -- QA/Software testing -- Luk Vermeylen Putse Baan 84 2040 Antwerpen 4 03/295.00.12 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi Civileme, I have a low speed conection (10 k average), my email is [EMAIL PROTECTED], my home adress is Guipuzcoa 332, 11300 Montevideo Uruguay Hardware info: INTEL Celeron (Covigton) 267.279 MHz 96 M RAM /dev/hda1 ext2 2015M for / /dev/hdb1 ext2 1961M for /home CDrom x 36 ZIP (Iomega) Sound CMI (not working yet) Scanner Genius Colorpage SCSI (also not instaled yet) modem (external V90 56 k) Just let me know if I can help in any way Have a nice weekend Otto
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Interesting, What intelligence and what hardware needed. Best Regards from Republic of Singapore. At 05-01-2001 +0100, you wrote: Well, folks, it is that time of the development cycle where we traditionally (actually this is a brand new tradition) seek a few brave souls to act as testers for our next distro. This time, all you need is bravery and a computer system to try this out on. We are finishing testing protocols which will lead you through the testing steps; we have software that phones home with your tester number and your hardware configuration, and we are building a web site to post results and opinions. For the first time, we are looking for more than bugs to fix. We are looking for ratings of functionality that we can share with the community, and with the developers and maintainers of the packages, even those we do not do ourselves. To enroll, just email me. Tell me whether you have a fast connection and if not, send a postal address. Oh, and make sure you are able to dedicate a little time the month of Valentine's Day. Well the pay isn't great ($0) but you do get my personal assistance via email to configure your computer to the next release. Civileme -- QA/Software testing
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On Friday 05 January 2001 14:52, you wrote: That is my question. How much do we need to know? I've only been usinf Linux for about 4 months... And the fact that you are willing to test makes you very valuable. We need the impressions of people new to linux if ever we are to understand how o make it better for them. Civileme P. S. Welcome aboard if you are willing Chris Kelly Linux user #185775 -Original Message- From: L. H. LOO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 7:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Recruitment Notice Interesting, What intelligence and what hardware needed. Best Regards from Republic of Singapore. At 05-01-2001 +0100, you wrote: Well, folks, it is that time of the development cycle where we traditionally (actually this is a brand new tradition) seek a few brave souls to act as testers for our next distro. This time, all you need is bravery and a computer system to try this out on. We are finishing testing protocols which will lead you through the testing steps; we have software that phones home with your tester number and your hardware configuration, and we are building a web site to post results and opinions. For the first time, we are looking for more than bugs to fix. We are looking for ratings of functionality that we can share with the community, and with the developers and maintainers of the packages, even those we do not do ourselves. To enroll, just email me. Tell me whether you have a fast connection and if not, send a postal address. Oh, and make sure you are able to dedicate a little time the month of Valentine's Day. Well the pay isn't great ($0) but you do get my personal assistance via email to configure your computer to the next release. Civileme -- QA/Software testing
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On Friday 05 January 2001 15:03, you wrote: Many thanks for your e-mail. I would be more than willing to participate as a tester for next distro. However , I feel I should point out that I am a genuine newbie. If this does not matter to you , please send more information. This is a task willingly undertaken in view of your assistance to others on newsgroups I have read in the past. I have a cable access. My home address is as follows:- Steve Maytum 17 Florence Road Maidstone Kent ME16 8EN U.K. Thanks in advance. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you. Yes, first impressions are very important. We need to know what sounds condescending and what sounds like magic. Obviously, you have the status of a true newbie tester only once because you are likely to learn enough in this testing session to be helping people on the newbie list. I will be checking into seting up a mailing list server just for testing, because we will likely need it. Also, of course, I am pledging my personal and direct help via email in configuring your system to the final product--a product your contribution will help create. The teste? Well you load a little extra software that phones home with your tester number and your complete hardware configuration--nothing else will be read. You will conduct tests according to a standard protocol which we are finishing up as I write to you, and you can file reports using our assistant program (still in coding but largely complete) or a special website (https type) The source of the test protocols and the destination of data are the same in either case. Here is a sample test: This test is not to make a go/nogo decision on the software or to correct all the bugs since it doesn't belong exclusively to us, but rather to assist the makers in making better software and to assist the users in deciding how to use it. This postscript file should be viewable in linux. Civileme KWord.ps
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civileme wrote: Well, folks, it is that time of the development cycle where we traditionally (actually this is a brand new tradition) seek a few brave souls to act as testers for our next distro. This time, all you need is bravery and a computer system to try this out on. We are finishing testing protocols which will lead you through the testing steps; we have software that phones home with your tester number and your hardware configuration, and we are building a web site to post results and opinions. For the first time, we are looking for more than bugs to fix. We are looking for ratings of functionality that we can share with the community, and with the developers and maintainers of the packages, even those we do not do ourselves. To enroll, just email me. Tell me whether you have a fast connection and if not, send a postal address. Oh, and make sure you are able to dedicate a little time the month of Valentine's Day. Well the pay isn't great ($0) but you do get my personal assistance via email to configure your computer to the next release. Civileme -- QA/Software testing Sign me up, I'm surely interested! I've got 2 hard drives, an internal Zip drive, a TV tuner/Radio card, digital camera, and soon...SCSI powered Astra scanner. ;-) AMD K6-III@475mhz 192 megs ram Voodoo 3000 video card SB Live (Xgamer) sound card 56k Diamond Supra internal ISA modem and best of all, I've got a Linux "Cool" keyboard...that should overqualify me right there! grin Ronald J. Hall 1938 Spurlock Road Prestonsburg, KY 41653 USA Phone 1-606-886-9024 Thanks! -- /\ DarkLord \/
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Okay, here we go. Count me in!!! I have a cable modem connection. I am currently running MDK 7.2(love it) nothing special hardware wise. 20 Gig HD(5 Gigs for Windows 98se and 5 Gigs for 7.2) 4 Gig HD(mp3's) Celeron 400 processor 192 Megs of RAM Sound Blaster Live! Sound card generic Video card(soon to change) MS Optical Intellimouse(usb) My address: Chris Kelly 742 Carter Ave. Bellmawr, NJ 08031 -Original Message- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 10:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Recruitment Notice On Friday 05 January 2001 14:52, you wrote: That is my question. How much do we need to know? I've only been usinf Linux for about 4 months... And the fact that you are willing to test makes you very valuable. We need the impressions of people new to linux if ever we are to understand how o make it better for them. Civileme P. S. Welcome aboard if you are willing Chris Kelly Linux user #185775 -Original Message- From: L. H. LOO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 7:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Recruitment Notice Interesting, What intelligence and what hardware needed. Best Regards from Republic of Singapore. At 05-01-2001 +0100, you wrote: Well, folks, it is that time of the development cycle where we traditionally (actually this is a brand new tradition) seek a few brave souls to act as testers for our next distro. This time, all you need is bravery and a computer system to try this out on. We are finishing testing protocols which will lead you through the testing steps; we have software that phones home with your tester number and your hardware configuration, and we are building a web site to post results and opinions. For the first time, we are looking for more than bugs to fix. We are looking for ratings of functionality that we can share with the community, and with the developers and maintainers of the packages, even those we do not do ourselves. To enroll, just email me. Tell me whether you have a fast connection and if not, send a postal address. Oh, and make sure you are able to dedicate a little time the month of Valentine's Day. Well the pay isn't great ($0) but you do get my personal assistance via email to configure your computer to the next release. Civileme -- QA/Software testing
Re: [newbie] Recruitment Notice
Hi Civileme, I would love to be one of the testers. It would be a great learning experience. I have a slow connection, so here is postal address. Harvey Janson 3892 S. Vernal Ave. Vernal, UT 84078 USA Thanks a lot. Harvey On Friday 05 January 2001 01:31, civileme wrote: Well, folks, it is that time of the development cycle where we traditionally (actually this is a brand new tradition) seek a few brave souls to act as testers for our next distro. This time, all you need is bravery and a computer system to try this out on. We are finishing testing protocols which will lead you through the testing steps; we have software that phones home with your tester number and your hardware configuration, and we are building a web site to post results and opinions. For the first time, we are looking for more than bugs to fix. We are looking for ratings of functionality that we can share with the community, and with the developers and maintainers of the packages, even those we do not do ourselves. To enroll, just email me. Tell me whether you have a fast connection and if not, send a postal address. Oh, and make sure you are able to dedicate a little time the month of Valentine's Day. Well the pay isn't great ($0) but you do get my personal assistance via email to configure your computer to the next release. Civileme -- QA/Software testing
RE: [newbie] Recruitment Notice
Hi Civilme, I'd be interested in your beta testing program. I have a high speed (cable) connection, so I wouldn't mind downloading a CD or two off the 'net. My e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I'm not sure if you need to know my background in Linux, but if you do... I've used Linux remotely on web servers since 1997, I used RedHat for about a year from 1998-1999, and have used SuSE for just under two years. I just started attempting to install Mandrake yesterday. Thanks, Tim Merry Christmas to you from Universal Networks! - Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks Information Tech. ConsultantChristian Web Services Since 1996 ICQ #12495932 AIM: Uninettm An Authorized IPSwitch Reseller [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.uninetsolutions.com = "Solutions that Work" = -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 2:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Recruitment Notice Well, folks, it is that time of the development cycle where we traditionally (actually this is a brand new tradition) seek a few brave souls to act as testers for our next distro. This time, all you need is bravery and a computer system to try this out on. We are finishing testing protocols which will lead you through the testing steps; we have software that phones home with your tester number and your hardware configuration, and we are building a web site to post results and opinions. For the first time, we are looking for more than bugs to fix. We are looking for ratings of functionality that we can share with the community, and with the developers and maintainers of the packages, even those we do not do ourselves. To enroll, just email me. Tell me whether you have a fast connection and if not, send a postal address. Oh, and make sure you are able to dedicate a little time the month of Valentine's Day. Well the pay isn't great ($0) but you do get my personal assistance via email to configure your computer to the next release. Civileme -- QA/Software testing
Re: [newbie] Recruitment Notice
Civilme, I would love to test the new distro,I have a dsl connection.Let me know what else you might require from me Dale Kosan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Recruitment Notice
Well I would say I have an unusual machine. Its a compaq 433 LS-120 / Floppy that came stock Cd-rom stock Both of the above are on the Secondary IDE device. after market Hewlett Packard CD-RW after market US Robotics/3Com modem Parallel Port Zip Drive Plus Agfa Snap Scan USB Scanner that Mandrake 7.2 recognizes but no software does. I still haven't gotten everything to run on this though, can't imagine trying out beta...lol.
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Thank you, please sign me UP. My home address ( postal address) : APT. BLOCK 3, #09-68, UPPER ALJUNIED LANE, POST CODE 360003, REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE. Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best Regards and Salemat Tahun Bahru - Happy New Year - as in Malay - my National Language. At 05-01-2001 +0100, you wrote: On Friday 05 January 2001 13:23, you wrote: Interesting, What intelligence and what hardware needed. Best Regards from Republic of Singapore. Intelligence --all you have Hardware--whatever you have if it will run Mandrake 7.0 or later The more combinations of unusual devices, the better. Best regards from Paris. And I would say "selamat siam" but I think that language is a bit frther south. Civileme
Re: [newbie] Recruitment Notice
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 09:31:31 +0100, civileme said: Well, folks, it is that time of the development cycle where we traditionally (actually this is a brand new tradition) seek a few brave souls to act as testers for our next distro. Add me to your list: John Rye 285 Upper Newall Road R.D. 37 Okato Taranaki 4652 NEW ZEALAND === Two identical machines #1 has 56k Dialup Pentium 133, 64mb/32mb 2 x 4.1 gb Seagates SB 64AWE Virge DX Realtek 8029 (- if we can hold off the US Navy with Rubber Duckies for 20 years -) (- we should be good for testing -) (- Mind you - the French approched the tests in a different manner -) Cheers -- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmers' Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)
