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Might tick off those of us without a broadband connection... Please don't post binaries. If you want to share a file, post it on the web. Tony wrote: Might amuse those who have not heard it yet! "Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, And drunk the milk of paradise." (The linux user) - Original Message - From: "Jeremy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake Newbie List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 12:42 AM Subject: [newbie] check this site out www.kmfms.com Microsoft bashing, linux, all to a KMFDM-ish (a cool band) theme. Gotta love that graphic! I know this isn't really Mandrake related, but I'm willing to bet some of you will like. Ok, to keep this on topic, I'm thinking about adding a graphic to my LILO prompt. Mandrake 7.0 boot disk does it. Is it possible for me to do this as well? I'm going to be playing around with this, if anyone has some hints please post. If I figure it out I will post how here. Or, better yet, is it possible to make my console login prompt a graphic? (no, not PC ASCII characters) I'm thinking the above graphic would be cool until I get sick of it. ~Jeremy Name: win95sux.mp3 win95sux.mp3Type: Winamp media file (audio/mpeg) Encoding: base64
Re: [newbie] check this site out
Your comment is certainly one I listen too carefully particularly since it is polite and not offensive in its approach, those who are offensive are like barking dogs unworthy of attention, in the words of one reply - You Know Who You Are. Just for information why isn't it possible to simply decline to open large attachments (not that I make a habit of sending them) , I open very few attachments of any kind on security principle unless I know where they come from. The only reason for posting this attachment was to provide some amusement. For the benefit of those who could (would) not open it the file is an mp3 skit on the original Stones music for the 95 release with appropriate updated words! (named win95sux) Placing on the web, I wouldn't know where and have forgotten how I obtained it in the first place except I think it was one of the anti-microsoft sites. Of course I am utterly spoilt using a 2mb bandwidth and can well remember the frustrations of slow downloads however in this kind of scenario there is, like sex violence on TV, an easy solution, its called the off switch or in computerese the mouse click - lo and behold the problem is gone. Please feel free to enlighten me further if there is some aspect of this I have misunderstood since my one object was to lighten up peoples lives a little ( not stir up the hornets nest--- well one hornet anyway,again that's not directed at you of course) "Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, And drunk the milk of paradise." (The linux user) - Original Message - From: "Jon Hunter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 11:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] check this site out Might tick off those of us without a broadband connection... Please don't post binaries. If you want to share a file, post it on the web. Tony wrote: Might amuse those who have not heard it yet! "Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, And drunk the milk of paradise." (The linux user) - Original Message - From: "Jeremy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake Newbie List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 12:42 AM Subject: [newbie] check this site out www.kmfms.com Microsoft bashing, linux, all to a KMFDM-ish (a cool band) theme. Gotta love that graphic! I know this isn't really Mandrake related, but I'm willing to bet some of you will like. Ok, to keep this on topic, I'm thinking about adding a graphic to my LILO prompt. Mandrake 7.0 boot disk does it. Is it possible for me to do this as well? I'm going to be playing around with this, if anyone has some hints please post. If I figure it out I will post how here. Or, better yet, is it possible to make my console login prompt a graphic? (no, not PC ASCII characters) I'm thinking the above graphic would be cool until I get sick of it. ~Jeremy Name: win95sux.mp3 win95sux.mp3Type: Winamp media file (audio/mpeg) Encoding: base64
Re: [newbie] check this site out
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, you wrote: Of course I am utterly spoilt using a 2mb bandwidth and can well remember the frustrations of slow downloads however in this kind of scenario there is, like sex violence on TV, an easy solution, its called the off switch or in computerese the mouse click - lo and behold the problem is gone. Please feel free to enlighten me further if there is some aspect of this I have misunderstood since my one object was to lighten up peoples lives a little ( not stir up the hornets nest--- well one hornet anyway,again that's not directed at you of course) I'm not against humour on the Internet, as my own web sites will prove. Equally I'm not against a joke in email form. I am against large, unwanted, attachments to email. Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, it it not possible to tell what you are downloading as an attachment - I use kmail. A great many of us do have to pay for our connection on a time basis - I'm fortunate that I have a freephone connection in the evenings and at the weekend so it didn't cost me any extra money to download and dump this attachment. The argument about the on/off switch is not valid as your email was on my ISP server and I spent over 9 minutes wondering who had sent me this large file. Please consider people who are less fortunate than you are - I seem to recall that you have a radio connection to your maritime location, -- Regards John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
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On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, you wrote: Just for information why isn't it possible to simply decline to open large attachments (not that I make a habit of sending them) , I open very few attachments of any kind on security principle unless I know where they come from. Opening the attachment is different from downloading it. I have a cron job set to kickoff fetchmail every so often and download all messages in all accounts. Since this email account is only used for a few mailing lists, I did not set a size limit in the .fetchmailrc file. Placing on the web, I wouldn't know where and have forgotten how I obtained it in the first place except I think it was one of the anti-microsoft sites. If I read the above correctly, you did not post it to a web site, since you did not know who to give credit to. If you did not know what restrictions were placed on copying and distribution by the original author/artist/performer, why would you think that email was any different from a website posting? Of course I am utterly spoilt using a 2mb bandwidth and can well remember Some of us live in internet hell no cable modems, no dsl, just a plain old modem over crappy telephone lines, which get a 26400 connection at best. (Although the telco says dsl is coming soon). the frustrations of slow downloads however in this kind of scenario there is, like sex violence on TV, an easy solution, its called the off switch or in computerese the mouse click - lo and behold the problem is gone. Not quite the same. Content is not the same as size. I often choose what to download based upon the size of the file. This was forced upon me. While I could have set my configuration file to block the download, I chose not to, based on the fact that this email address is mostly used for a few mailing lists where folks are usually well behaved. Sometimes size does matter... Please feel free to enlighten me further if there is some aspect of this I have misunderstood since my one object was to lighten up peoples lives a little (not stir up the hornets nest--- well one hornet anyway,again that's not directed at you of course) Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed the clip. I even downloaded an updated mp3 player so my wife could listen to it on her windows machine. I would have just prefered to choose to download it, rather than having it sent to me without warning. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
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Yeah, it's possible. I just use ASCII-art at the boot-prompt (the linux logo you get when you type linux_logo at the prompt if you have the package installed). somehow, a "real" graphic must be possible too, since the install does it, but I have no idea how. You can get the ascii-stuff however, by downloading and installing "lilo-colors" or something like that. If you're interrested, and can't find it on freshmeat, I'll forward the RPM to you, just drop me a mail. On Mar 17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: www.kmfms.com Microsoft bashing, linux, all to a KMFDM-ish (a cool band) theme. Gotta love that graphic! I know this isn't really Mandrake related, but I'm willing to bet some of you will like. Ok, to keep this on topic, I'm thinking about adding a graphic to my LILO prompt. Mandrake 7.0 boot disk does it. Is it possible for me to do this as well? I'm going to be playing around with this, if anyone has some hints please post. If I figure it out I will post how here. Or, better yet, is it possible to make my console login prompt a graphic? (no, not PC ASCII characters) I'm thinking the above graphic would be cool until I get sick of it. ~Jeremy -- Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
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I thought that e mail listers were configured to not post anything larger than like 200K or so lest it be truncated. On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, bluebottle mewed: On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote: - Original Message - From: "Jeremy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake Newbie List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 12:42 AM Subject: [newbie] check this site out www.kmfms.com Microsoft bashing, linux, all to a KMFDM-ish (a cool band) theme. Gotta love that graphic! I know this isn't really Mandrake related, but I'm willing to bet some of you will like. Ok, to keep this on topic, I'm thinking about adding a graphic to my LILO prompt. Mandrake 7.0 boot disk does it. Is it possible for me to do this as well? I'm going to be playing around with this, if anyone has some hints please post. If I figure it out I will post how here. Or, better yet, is it possible to make my console login prompt a graphic? (no, not PC ASCII characters) I'm thinking the above graphic would be cool until I get sick of it. ~Jeremy This is one of the worst examples of email bad manners I've ever seen. What gives any person the right to post a 2mb file to a mailing list. I hope that the majordomo will immediately remove this person, permanently, from this list. -- Regards John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net http://www.nadger.uklinux.net -- My new linux web servers with Apache http://kittypuss.dnydns.org http://kittypuss.penguinpowered.com
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*** Before I read the complete thread. Oh God, there we go again. Someone makes _one_ mistake on the list, and the flaming starts all over again. Ok, it's not so nice of him to not consider the poor modem-users when posting to the list by sending huge files, and it is quite like you put it: "email bad manners". But aren't you exagerrating a little? Remove him from the list permanently for one mistake? After all, as I remember from the 2 flaming wars waged against me, you people from this list claimed to be "newbie friendly" and "tolerant" and all that crap, which I, according to you guys, wasn't when I told ppl to RTFM before asking questions. So where's your so called tolerance for this fellow now? Who knows, he might be just a newbie who doesn't realise other people need half an hour to download a 2MB file because he has a high-bandwidth connection. *** After I read the complete thread. Ok, by now I've read the whole thread before pressing the "send mail" button, so I know you didn't actually mean it this way and already kind of took back those words you said. Next time try to be more careful with the harsh words though. I for one don't give a rat's ass if you all flame me because I try to get a point accross, but I heard rumours that there's actually a sub-branch of the "homo geekus" whose brain hasn't completely developped into its binary form yet, and who still have some fuzzy-logic algorithms they seem to interpret as feelings. These underdevelopped sub-species of our race should be treated with care since they can still get "hurt" in a non-physical way, leading to decreased efficiency at work due to a state of "depression". Ok, think you got my point ;) On Mar 19 bluebottle wrote: On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote: - Original Message - From: "Jeremy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake Newbie List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 12:42 AM Subject: [newbie] check this site out www.kmfms.com Microsoft bashing, linux, all to a KMFDM-ish (a cool band) theme. Gotta love that graphic! I know this isn't really Mandrake related, but I'm willing to bet some of you will like. Ok, to keep this on topic, I'm thinking about adding a graphic to my LILO prompt. Mandrake 7.0 boot disk does it. Is it possible for me to do this as well? I'm going to be playing around with this, if anyone has some hints please post. If I figure it out I will post how here. Or, better yet, is it possible to make my console login prompt a graphic? (no, not PC ASCII characters) I'm thinking the above graphic would be cool until I get sick of it. ~Jeremy This is one of the worst examples of email bad manners I've ever seen. What gives any person the right to post a 2mb file to a mailing list. I hope that the majordomo will immediately remove this person, permanently, from this list. -- Regards John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net http://www.nadger.uklinux.net -- Rial Juanhttp://nighty.ulyssis.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Belgiumtel:(++32) 89/856533 ulyssis system admininstrator http://www.ulyssis.org The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly. That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee... Sign the petition at http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Help bring us more Linux Drivers
Re: [newbie] check this site out
Might amuse those who have not heard it yet! "Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, And drunk the milk of paradise." (The linux user) - Original Message - From: "Jeremy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake Newbie List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 12:42 AM Subject: [newbie] check this site out www.kmfms.com Microsoft bashing, linux, all to a KMFDM-ish (a cool band) theme. Gotta love that graphic! I know this isn't really Mandrake related, but I'm willing to bet some of you will like. Ok, to keep this on topic, I'm thinking about adding a graphic to my LILO prompt. Mandrake 7.0 boot disk does it. Is it possible for me to do this as well? I'm going to be playing around with this, if anyone has some hints please post. If I figure it out I will post how here. Or, better yet, is it possible to make my console login prompt a graphic? (no, not PC ASCII characters) I'm thinking the above graphic would be cool until I get sick of it. ~Jeremy win95sux.mp3
[newbie] check this site out
www.kmfms.com Microsoft bashing, linux, all to a KMFDM-ish (a cool band) theme. Gotta love that graphic! I know this isn't really Mandrake related, but I'm willing to bet some of you will like. Ok, to keep this on topic, I'm thinking about adding a graphic to my LILO prompt. Mandrake 7.0 boot disk does it. Is it possible for me to do this as well? I'm going to be playing around with this, if anyone has some hints please post. If I figure it out I will post how here. Or, better yet, is it possible to make my console login prompt a graphic? (no, not PC ASCII characters) I'm thinking the above graphic would be cool until I get sick of it. ~Jeremy
