Re: top posting (Re: [SLUG] WAS FC5 Kernel headers)
James Purser wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 12:40 +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote: I would dearly love to move to palimpsest-posting, but given the Yep, Peter, you've nailed it. | I want to see side posting implemented | I think this would be a good thing as well as My thinking is tending towards top-posting, though I also tend | driving sales of wide screen monitors. fundamentalist HTMLphobic fanatics that populate so many mailing lists these days, I am forced to mostly to do as the natives do. | format my responses in horizontal text just like | What other ways of posting do you suggest ? With lots of snipping. | | | everyone else. Jim -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Sydney Open Solaris User Group
I checked from wikipedia what's meant by 'ad hominem' and I found this definition. *ad hominem* appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect ad hominem literally means to the man (sorry girls) and is a rhetorical method that attacks the person rather than their argument. It is often described as a logical fallacy, and is so when used in a formal argument. It may be an emotional appeal, but it must be directed at the interlocutor. ad misericordiam is probably the closest of the classical fallacies to appealing to emotion. This is just an attempt to avoid the ad popularum fallacy that attempts to conclude something on the basis that many people believe it or the ad nauseam fallacy that if something is seen many times it must be true. If a plausible mistake is widely circulated, it is often believed to be true. Jim -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] no sound
Murray E Storm wrote: Can you run the lsmod and lspci commands and post the output to give us a bit more info? I have much the same problem, except that the sound actually worked during FC2 install, but has never worked since. Once in a while I would get a message during login about the sound device being busy. Thanks for any suggestions. Jim ~ /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used by ppp_deflate 4096 0 zlib_deflate 19480 1 ppp_deflate ppp_async 8064 1 ppp_generic20500 6 ppp_deflate,ppp_async slhc5632 1 ppp_generic snd_intel8x0 26280 0 snd_ac97_codec 50436 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm68872 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_timer 17156 1 snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 7940 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm gameport3328 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_mpu401_uart 4864 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_rawmidi17184 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 6152 1 snd_rawmidi snd38372 7 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device soundcore 6112 1 snd parport_pc 19392 1 lp 8236 0 parport29640 2 parport_pc,lp autofs410624 0 sunrpc101064 1 sis900 14596 0 ipt_REJECT 4736 1 ipt_state 1536 5 ip_conntrack 24968 1 ipt_state iptable_filter 2048 1 ip_tables 13440 3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter floppy 47440 0 sg 27552 0 microcode 4768 0 dm_mod 33184 0 ohci_hcd 14748 0 ehci_hcd 21896 0 button 4504 0 battery 6924 0 asus_acpi 8472 0 ac 3340 0 ipv6 184288 8 ext3 102376 2 jbd40216 1 ext3 sata_sis3456 0 libata 29312 1 sata_sis,[permanent] sd_mod 16384 0 scsi_mod 91344 3 sg,libata,sd_mod ~ /sbin/lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661FX/M661FX/M661MX Host (rev 11) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0003 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 36) 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01) 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0) 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f) 00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) 00:05.0 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0180 (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661FX/M661FX/M661MX/741/M741/760/M760 PCI/AGP -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Aptitude command to TOTALLY remove KDE
This is another of those interesting discussions that sometimes veers close to a Creationism vs Intelligent Design slanging match. 1) Why do Apple and Microsoft spend more than the GNP of some countries in legal fees fighting over user interfaces? Once you've got your user on autopilot, change is disruptive. Consider this charming phrase from a 1928 animal learning experiment in which the experimenter changed the maze but didn't tell the rats. Every one of the animals banged his nose into the block with considerable violence. 2) The I Hate Anything That Even Looks Like [insert the object of your personal enmity] approach is just the mirror image of the attitude that will abide nothing but [insert object of enmity again]. I like the definition that quality is what gets the job done. These things are tools, not deities. Jim -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] learning gnucash
Hi, I recently set up gnucash for a friend as an accounting system for his small business, but I am unable to provide enough guidance for him to use it. (Perhaps it's because I'm such a lousy bookkeeper.) I wonder if anyone knows of a gnucash user who would be willing to provide tutoring for money. Who knows, I might take advantage of it, too. Jim -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Seeking advice on RedHat
Hi, I have run into a problem in upgrading my Linux systems. I bought a copy of RedHat Enterprise 3 WS in the USA a couple of months ago, thinking that it was about time to retire my v7.2 system. Unfortunately, when I installed it on a Dell Dimension that has been working perfectly with v7.2 for a long time, it was a disaster. Many applications didn't work properly or at all, my USB ports disappeared and in the end I had to reinstall v7.2 to get anything useful done. I didn't dare try upgrading my Web server. I wonder if anyone has any idea why this should happen. Is it RedHat moving away from supporting KDE? (a completely speculative hypothesis) I'm thinking of moving to SUSE, as I tried it and RedHat when I last upgraded (RedHat was slightly better). I'd appreciate advice from anyone who is a RedHat and/or SUSE guru. Thanks in advance. Please CC me as I'm not subscribed (I'm already getting too much mail from other lists). Jim -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] sendmail request
Hi, I, like many others, am stuck with a sendmail problem. I realise that this is probably OT, but can anyone suggest where I could ask what is probably a risibly simple question about sendmail? Please email answer to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] because, of course, my sendmail isn't quite working here... Thanks. Jim -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
