Re: Dang list

2003-09-16 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good day for our company -- I met Sun's CEO, Scott McNealy, for the > first time and got a good impression. I guess it was at least somewhat > reciprocal, since he quickly asked us for some advice (which *almost* > surprised me enough to be speechle

Re: Girls more confident of success

2003-09-16 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "William T Goodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 7:23 AM > Subject: Girls more confident of success > > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/311

Re: Girls more confident of success

2003-09-16 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "William T Goodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 7:23 AM Subject: Girls more confident of success > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3110594.stm > > "Women have overtaken men at every level of educa

Dang list

2003-09-16 Thread Nick Arnett
Sorry about the list glitches lately. There's something funky about the server and I can't put my finger on it. I'm afraid it'll be Friday before I can really sink my teeth into, though. I'm in San Francisco each day until then, as I was today, for the SunNetwork Conference. They have good c

Re: Girls more confident of success

2003-09-16 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Russell Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William T Goodall wrote: > > > "Women have overtaken men at every level of education in developed > > countries around the world. > > It is a big problem here - the school where I work used to be clearly #1 > in the state, with daylight second,

Faulty list again?

2003-09-16 Thread Dan Minette
I've stopped receiving messages on brin-l, as has yahoo groups. Dan M. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Irregulars Question: Linux over Windows XP

2003-09-16 Thread David Hobby
Erik Reuter wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:47:35AM -0400, David Hobby wrote: > > It can probably be solved by configuring boot loaders > > the right way. Putting Linux on first, and then making XP > > install second would probably work. But I bet there's a better > > way... > > The

Re: Relativity, FTL and causality

2003-09-16 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Richard Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 4:32 PM Subject: Relativity, FTL and causality > A while ago, Rob was puzzled by FTL leading to causality violations in > special relativity. I'

Re: Irregulars Question: Linux over Windows XP

2003-09-16 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Erik Reuter wrote: > >On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:41:13PM -0400, Bryon Daly wrote: > [curiously, I did get Erik's reply to Bryon, but not Bryon's message... this has happened for some time] >> It didn't recognize the hard disk at all? Or just not the type of >> partition on the hard disk? (

Re: Irregulars Question: Linux over Windows XP

2003-09-16 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Erik Reuter wrote: > >If you need to keep the current Windows XP data, then you COULD try >resizing the partition, by first defragging your Windows partition and >then running something like FIPS to do the resizing. > I tried that, but FIPS aborts :-/ >But this process >is fraught with peril and

Re: Irregulars Question: Linux over Windows XP

2003-09-16 Thread Erik Reuter
Alberto, You really need to give a better description of the problem if you want relevant suggestions. Please explain exactly what you did and what error messages you got. My best guess from your sketchy description is that you have a computer (possibly a notebook computer? otherwise how are you

Re: Girls more confident of success

2003-09-16 Thread Russell Chapman
William T Goodall wrote: "Women have overtaken men at every level of education in developed countries around the world. It is a big problem here - the school where I work used to be clearly #1 in the state, with daylight second, and it had been that way for about 135 years, but it is now #3 in

Re: Girls more confident of success...in an empathicaly focused world

2003-09-16 Thread Jan Coffey
--- William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3110594.stm > > "Women have overtaken men at every level of education in developed > countries around the world. > > And girls are now more confident of getting better-paid, professional > jobs than their f

Re: Irregulars Question: Linux over Windows XP

2003-09-16 Thread Bryon Daly
From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:41:13PM -0400, Bryon Daly wrote: > It didn't recognize the hard disk at all? Or just not the type of > partition on the hard disk? (I assume the latter...) What Linux > distro are you using - is it a recent one? Red Hat and SuSe ar

Link - Silliness

2003-09-16 Thread Julia Thompson
This page has sound. It's probably reasonably work-safe, as long as you keep the volume down, unless your boss has had a traumatic experience with badgers. :) http://www.ebaumsworld.com/badgers.html Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/li

Re: Irregulars Question: Linux over Windows XP

2003-09-16 Thread Jean-Marc Chaton
* Erik Reuter [Tue, 16/09/2003 at 12:54 -0400] > For ease of install, most people like Mandrake better than Red Hat, but > the difference is slight. I second that, I advice Mandrake for a beginner > > I use Debian, but that is by no means easy to install for a beginner. > I use Debian too, I'v

Re: Scouted: reconstruction then and now

2003-09-16 Thread David Hobby
Alberto Monteiro wrote: > > David Hobby wrote: > > > > Nice find! Germany did have long democratic traditions to > > work with, though. It had just momentarily forgotten them. : ) > > Not that that could happen any place else. > > > Uh? Long democratic traditions??? Germany was a democracy > fr

Re: Irregulars Question: Linux over Windows XP

2003-09-16 Thread Alberto Monteiro
David Hobby wrote: > > It can probably be solved by configuring boot loaders >the right way. Putting Linux on first, and then making XP >install second would probably work. > The classical Format & Reinstall solution :-/ Alberto Monteiro ___ http:/

Maybe not going anywhere for awhile; discomfort & weirdness

2003-09-16 Thread Julia Thompson
Just got back from the doctor. If I don't go into labor by Friday of next week (10 days from now) she's going to induce. I would much, much, much rather go into labor naturally; I had labor induced once, and that's more than enough for one lifetime. :P But, then again, after my mom heard the ex

Re: Irregulars Question: Linux over Windows XP

2003-09-16 Thread Erik Reuter
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:41:13PM -0400, Bryon Daly wrote: > It didn't recognize the hard disk at all? Or just not the type of > partition on the hard disk? (I assume the latter...) What Linux > distro are you using - is it a recent one? Red Hat and SuSe are > probably the easi

Re: Irregulars Question: Linux over Windows XP

2003-09-16 Thread Erik Reuter
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:47:35AM -0400, David Hobby wrote: > It can probably be solved by configuring boot loaders > the right way. Putting Linux on first, and then making XP > install second would probably work. But I bet there's a better > way... The problem with that is that Windows

Re: Irregulars Question: Linux over Windows XP

2003-09-16 Thread Bryon Daly
From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> How can I install Linux if my computer is infected by a virus called "Windows XP"? THe procedure aborted when the partition thing didn't recognize the HD It didn't recognize the hard disk at all? Or just not the type of partition on the hard disk? (I

Re: Irregulars Question: Linux over Windows XP

2003-09-16 Thread Jean-Marc Chaton
* Alberto Monteiro [Tue, 16/09/2003 at 13:59 -] > How can I install Linux if my computer is infected by > a virus called "Windows XP"? > > THe procedure aborted when the partition thing > didn't recognize the HD It may be that you don't have free room on your HD. Make sure you have free room

Re: Irregulars Question: Linux over Windows XP

2003-09-16 Thread The Fool
> From: Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > How can I install Linux if my computer is infected by > a virus called "Windows XP"? > > THe procedure aborted when the partition thing > didn't recognize the HD http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm ___ h

Re: Irregulars Question: Linux over Windows XP

2003-09-16 Thread David Hobby
Alberto Monteiro wrote: > > How can I install Linux if my computer is infected by > a virus called "Windows XP"? > > THe procedure aborted when the partition thing > didn't recognize the HD It can probably be solved by configuring boot loaders the right way. Putting Linux on first, and

Irregulars Question: Linux over Windows XP

2003-09-16 Thread Alberto Monteiro
How can I install Linux if my computer is infected by a virus called "Windows XP"? THe procedure aborted when the partition thing didn't recognize the HD Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Girls more confident of success

2003-09-16 Thread William T Goodall
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3110594.stm "Women have overtaken men at every level of education in developed countries around the world. And girls are now more confident of getting better-paid, professional jobs than their flagging male counterparts. International education figures, pub