Re: [Cooker] Re: War

2003-03-12 Thread N Smethurst
Le Mercredi 12 Mars 2003 18:27, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : > Same for what we call "english cream" in France: it's called > "french cream" in England :). It's called "custard" in England!

Re: [Cooker] Re: War

2003-03-12 Thread N Smethurst
Le Mercredi 12 Mars 2003 13:54, Pascal Terjan a écrit : > When I read things like the following URL, I can't see what they expect > from us (except making us laugh). > > http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/news/0311french.html I guess this sums up America's biggest problem: *everything* is about

Re: [Cooker] Fonts in cooker: wonderfull

2003-03-11 Thread N Smethurst
Well I just tried the fonts.conf thing and got a complete mess! Le Mardi 11 Mars 2003 12:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > Thank you Giuseppe, > > I will try this this night at home > > Francisco Alcaraz > > - Mensaje Original - > Remitente: Giuseppe Ghibò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fecha: Mart

Re: [Cooker] Am now experiencing random lockups...

2003-03-09 Thread N Smethurst
Out of interest, what kind of 3D performance difference are you guys getting between the XFree and the Nvidia drivers? Since installing rc2 I have been using the Xfree drivers and it's like someone has taken my geforce 4 out and replaced it with an old S3 or something. Le Dimanche 9 Mars 2003 2

[Cooker] Anyone know if there will be a RC3?

2003-03-09 Thread N Smethurst

Re: [Cooker] Am now experiencing random lockups...

2003-03-09 Thread N Smethurst
You say random lockups.. Ok, it may sound bizzare, but I was experiencing pretty much exactly the same thing with RC1 after I had installed the 4191 nvidia drivers and UT2003. Everything would freeze occasionally apart from the mouse pointer. I started noting that the lock ups were happening ma

Re: [Cooker] bug-reporting FAQs (was: 9.1...Delayed)

2003-03-07 Thread N Smethurst
Le Vendredi 7 Mars 2003 12:56, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : > I'm personally skeptical about FAQ's and such documentation, > because so many people plain ignore documentation in favor of > asking questions (many different projects of mine show). You know > that I've even written the cooker-FAQ an

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-06 Thread N Smethurst
Le Jeudi 6 Mars 2003 17:33, Austin a écrit : > It just seems to me that people are really stuck in the idea of ISO's > because they've never known otherwise. This is so true.

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-06 Thread N Smethurst
Le Jeudi 6 Mars 2003 16:47, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit : > Well that depends. Most non-kernel and non-install bugs are > looked at even in unconfirmed state - most of them are real and > fixable. > I know this is frustrating for reporters to "get ignored", but as > for the aim of bugzilla, e.g.

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-06 Thread N Smethurst
Le Jeudi 6 Mars 2003 16:22, Austin a écrit : > It's because 90% of the bug reporters ONLY install linux from ISO's. > We should teach them about urpmi and/or network installs. A HOWTO-be-mandrake-bug-tester-without-annoying-everyone would be good. There is a lot of information available to learn

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-06 Thread N Smethurst
Le Jeudi 6 Mars 2003 03:19, Greg Meyer a écrit : > I think the distro would be much better served all of use that are > testers, to test the hell out of this thing, not just by saying something > does not work, but by really going the extra mile and trying to figure > out why something does not wor

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 9.1 Should be Delayed

2003-03-05 Thread N Smethurst
I realise that I am a relative minnow here, but I nevertheless wish to express my agreement with Tim. I'm glad someone has expressed what I hesitated to say. Le Mercredi 5 Mars 2003 22:07, Timothy R. Butler a écrit : > Is it worth risking Mandrake's future as a whole to get this > distribution

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread N Smethurst
I guess I should have worded that more clearly. I should have said that the options for geforce 4 (and perhaps geforce 3, although the sucess rate seems to be a little higher with geforce 3 cards) should only include the vesa driver, and perhaps a note discussing installing the nvidia drivers t

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread N Smethurst
Le Mercredi 5 Mars 2003 01:26, jokerman64 a écrit : > > > Something to fix or to add to the errata? > > > > Well, nothing positive unfortunately except use the Nvidia drivers. The > > XFree geforce 3 & 4 ones shouldn't really be shipped IMO. It's just > > going to look bad for Mandrake when loads o

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression

2003-03-04 Thread N Smethurst
> Yep, it's a geoforce 3 Ti200. Will try the tip by Francisco Alcaraz > Ariza. > > Something to fix or to add to the errata? Well, nothing positive unfortunately except use the Nvidia drivers. The XFree geforce 3 & 4 ones shouldn't really be shipped IMO. It's just going to look bad for Mandrake

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression

2003-03-04 Thread N Smethurst
Do you have a geforce 3 / 4 by any chance? Le Mardi 4 Mars 2003 22:48, Oden Eriksson a écrit : > Hi. > > First I must say I'm impressed by the work done on the installer, cool! > > But..., why does my desktop look like this: > > http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/snapshot1.png > > ?

Re: [Cooker] Konqueror locks up X

2003-03-04 Thread N Smethurst
I've been having the same probmlem on rc1 but have not poasted a bug report because I cannot give any hints on what is going on. This generaly happens when I am draging/droping files from one konqueror window to another, but it's very intermittant. Le Mardi 4 Mars 2003 06:26, Élie Charest a écr

Re: [Cooker] 9.1 release - libpng

2003-03-02 Thread N Smethurst
Le Dimanche 2 Mars 2003 22:14, Oden Eriksson a écrit : > rrdtool-1.0.4x won't build on Cooker because of some strangeness in the > latest libpng package, it builds fine on ML9.0 though. This seems to have cropped up a few times. Is there an issue with libpng?

Re: Religious software (wasRe: [Cooker] what's the mess with the club ?)

2003-03-02 Thread N Smethurst
Le Dimanche 2 Mars 2003 20:19, Trevor Rhodes a écrit : > Want a laugh? Read back through this thread and apply the arguments to > something like music software and you'll see how inane some of the > comments are. It might open some eyes as well. You'd be correct there. Music is not something tha

Re: Religious software (wasRe: [Cooker] what's the mess with the club ?)

2003-03-02 Thread N Smethurst
Le Dimanche 2 Mars 2003 15:00, Jesper Noer Pedersen a écrit : > And 'bible' does not mean 'christian book' but AFAIK it means 'a collection > of books'. what a convenient point of view to have at a time like this. Maybe it would be better to hold this discussion somewhere other than the cooker m

Re: [Cooker] Re: Religious software (respondents, religion, modules, TMiaHM)

2003-03-02 Thread N Smethurst
Le Dimanche 2 Mars 2003 03:01, Leon Brooks a écrit : > The software is also very useful as a study framework for non-religious > material. Try it and see. I would specifically include it for that reason. Fine, this sounds like a good idea. Now all we have to do in order to ensure a non-biased nat

Re: Religious software (wasRe: [Cooker] what's the mess with the club ?)

2003-03-02 Thread N Smethurst
Le Dimanche 2 Mars 2003 02:24, Leon Brooks a écrit : > So before anyone leaps on that bandwagon, let me emphasise that this > software would be just as much at home presenting Origin of Species, any of > Dawkin's fairytales, The Q'ran or a stack of Vedas. I'm sorry, but these comments implying tha

Re: Religious software (wasRe: [Cooker] what's the mess with the club ?)

2003-03-01 Thread N Smethurst
> > Ahh put an "Aye" here too, IMHO it is far better to include than to > > exclude. > > Depends on what. This is very partial reasoning. > I am going to be the bad guy who says that in my eyes, religious > material is much more perverted than sexually explicit stuff. > I would prefer religious tex

[Cooker] Lyx 1.3 (with QT frontend)?

2003-02-28 Thread N Smethurst
Does anyone know if Lyx will be upgraded for the 9.1 release? Version 1.3 includes the much anticipated QT frontend.

Re: [Cooker] Am I the only emacs user running cooker?

2003-02-28 Thread N Smethurst
I have the same directory structure here with 9.1rc1 but emacs works fine, both console and X. Maybe there was a specific installation problem that only occurs with your set-up? Le Vendredi 28 Février 2003 16:19, Denis Pelletier a écrit : > Hi, > > Like I said, am I the only emacs user running c