Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: True. But my personal experience includes quite a bit of work with word, OOo *and* LaTeX. Happy for you. Let me know when you turn into me so your personal experience matches mine. I'll be happy to let you write the book for me. :P LaTeX, especially without

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: It does not retain the formatting in the sense that it retains page and line breaks. But it does retain the structure and italics, etc. ie. all that appears to be important in your case. Or margins. That is not inconsiderable. I didn't want to do hair

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: OOo - Save As .doc LaTex - Export to HTML, find an HTML to .doc converter, hope all the formatting goes through (which it won't). No: LaTeX - Export to HTML; open html in OOo - Save as .doc. One additional

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
explained in detail for me. That means that outside some serious wrangling LaTeX is out of the picture. Yet others (not you) have continued on to get more and more unreasonable in their assertions that not only is LaTeX a /possible/ answer that it is /the best answer *for Steve Lamb*/. I don't

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: You're saying that only stringent proponents get to define the usage parameters of a system. No. But their usage parameters are the only one that change significantly from what I'm working with now. It's a matter of drop the WYSIWYG and do the work in LaTeX vs. Save in

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: If there is a problem than this: you don't just take the advice, you claim that the advice is *unsuitable* to your problem, which it is not. Johannes, who are you to judge the suitability of any particular tool to *my problem*. Part of that problem is me, my work

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Ken Irving wrote: That's a good point. Someone posts a question, and a lot of views and ideas may be presented, whether relevant to the OP's question or not. The OP doesn't own the thread that results, and attempts to keep the discussion focused may degenerate into what's perceived of as

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: Since I don't think we will change each other's mind regarding this, I think it should be dropped. This is D-U, you can't do that! -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | And dream I do...

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
David Brodbeck wrote: Maybe I'm confusing threads. I thought one of his requirements was searchability and version control. Version control tools don't work well with OOo because, by design, it produces opaque binary files. You're not confusing the two. Yes, it was listed as a

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Jochen Schulz wrote: What does Subversion have to do with Perl? Huh... For some reason I was under the impression it was written in Perl. It is not, it is written in C. So, uhm... that changes it to Eww, C! :) Mea culpa. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what

OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Neil Watson wrote: With TeX and LaTeX and its ilk the templates actually work. I can use the same template for all of my reports and they always look the same. There are no annoying format inconsistencies that are so common with Word and OpenOffice. To be fair I am operating out a large

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: Do you happen to have a bug number? I do not. I found several references on the OOo forums when searching for methods of setting my documents to uncompressed for use with Subversion. On the bright side Mercurial does have a FAQ about using Mercurial with OOo

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: PDF? Haven't seen it as an acceptable format for submission, no. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | And dream I do... ---+-

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Kumar Appaiah wrote: I am actually a bit surprised. Numerous scientific books are written in TeX. In fact, Dr. Knuth's own books are typeset in TeX, which is what eh created TeX for. Besides, I am really surprised publishers won't want TeX, since a lot of books I've read have acklowledged that

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Miles Fidelman wrote: It was sort of disappointing to see a discussion that has focused primarily on version control tools, and a little on TeX vs. Word vs. Open Office issues. This is D-U where the relative geek level is high. We're going to tend towards the technical solutions over the

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Manoj Srivastava wrote: These people do not accept PDF? wow. I surmise it is because they have word processors for document modification during the editing process. PDF is mainly a display format, not an editable format. Seems incongruous with accepting printed submissions but

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
have KUbuntu because I do want the niceties. I don't want to have to dig into it. I just want to read my mail, write my stories, browse the web and play my games. I'm guessing that is the level your GF is at. So have her give a distribution that is geared for that level a try. -- Steve Lamb

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
. Exactly. I have not heard of LaTeX outputting to Word. I have heard of an ODT to Word converter OOo. ;) -- Steve Lamb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
to their tasks, especially creative tasks. Creative tasks are personal. Processes and tools which work for one person do not work for someone else. And that is OK! -- Steve Lamb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Rob Mahurin wrote: I know you've settled on OOo, but it's worth pointing out that TeX is a simple language if you're writing a simple document. In particular you are already writing valid plain TeX in your email. Copy the above (without the 's) into file.txt; change /'thinking'/ to {\it

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: It's too bad that OOo doesn't let you specify uncompressed as a document attribute. Or even have a directory-as-document mode. That would be the best of both worlds. KOffice does allow such a thing for OASIS documents. However from what I've read it is not as adept at

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Miles Bader wrote: I object to having python and tcl on my machine. I can understand TCL but Python, c'mon, that's just crazy talk! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/24/07 11:02, Osamu Aoki wrote: Ron, why you are so negative on OOo? Negative? Hardly. I'm just wishing for new features, that's all. Like text to columns in Calc without resorting to a plugin? Seems like a no-brainer. :/ But it is long 1 line XML file w/o

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Russell L. Harris wrote: As a writer and programmer, it appears to me that it is OpenOffice -- rather than SVN -- which is unsuited for the application which is the basis for this thread. While I do agree that OOo seems to be the culprit here I do not follow you down the same path of

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Osamu Aoki wrote: I hear hg (Mercurial at http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/ ) is better on Windows as modern distributed VCS than git. Both of these are good if you want to record revision off-line and sync with server occasionally. But these are new... Just for the record for those who

Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Hello, I am looking for a tool to help me maintain a backup of a writing project. Being a programmer my first instinct is to use something along the lines of rcs/cvs. I was thinking of svn since I have a project on Google Code and have the tools installed on one of the machines on which I

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: How big (in bytes) is this writing project? Right now, tiny. So why couldn't you tar up your directory into proj_timestamp.tar and rcp it to a couple of other computers? (Since you use odt, no need to compress the tarball.) o sync across multiple machines.

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: Tarballs don't sync across machines, they overwrite. Also it's a matter I don't mean sync, I mean copy. I know what you meant. But you are flatly ignoring my requirement for syncing. I make an edit on Machine A and toss-a-tarball onto whatever machine(s) I decide.

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: Asking questions and making comments are *not* arguing. Ron, we've been over this. Every time I ask a simple question on the list someone, not always you granted, but someone takes me to task about exactly what it is I want or why I am doing something this way and not

Re: Please comment on a debian-offtopic list

2007-09-18 Thread Steve Lamb
Andrei Popescu wrote: If you are interested or totally against a debian-offtopic mailing list please send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you just want to read other comments see bugs.debian.org/427218 ( Also posted to the bug database for posterity. ) No, check the archives on this

Re: websites incompatible with iceweasel

2007-09-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Is there any financial institution who offer credit cards and also help free software? Even if they do not help free software, I would be happy if they have a website which is browser independent. I use WAMU here without problems at all with Firefox. They

Re: Real problem with debian user is NOT spam, but that posts don' t get posted.

2007-09-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Richard Lyons wrote: I've never heard of it before either, even though I've been here on and off for years. On the other hand, I've never seen a problem posting, or been aware that there was a problem. Never had a problem posting either and my setup is far from typical. I've gone from a

Re: Python init

2007-08-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Noah Dain wrote: particularly relevant: http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/projeler/comar/SpeedingUpLinuxWithPardus.html Awesome read. Kinda neat to see a concept I was kicking around in my head realized independently elsewhere. Thank you very much for the link. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Python init

2007-08-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Vincent Lefevre wrote: Nothing was dropped from Perl. It seems that the main problem concerning FreeBSD is that Perl was growing quite fast (e.g. more and more features, not needed in the FreeBSD base), and of course, installing an incomplete version of Perl would lead to problems. See

Re: Python init

2007-08-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Rick Thomas wrote: Hmmm... Now, that's a problem! During the early part of the boot process the root filesystem is read-only until it's been fsck'ed. There's no safe place to put the compiled modules. Not really. It cannot be compiled during the initial run if the filesystem is RO.

Python init (was: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?)

2007-08-20 Thread Steve Lamb
David Brodbeck wrote: The other is that the load time for bash is shorter. Everyone complains that their system boots too slowly as it is. ;) Microscopically. On the other hand it has been my experience that it isn't the load time of bash that is the problem, it is the constant

Re: Python init

2007-08-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Lamb wrote: When it comes to Python in a role of system initialization there are some very simple things one can do that would dramatically increase load times. Decrease load times, increase efficiency. Meh, my mind combined the two rather poorly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Source of Debian wisdom

2007-08-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Mark Neidorff wrote: So now I'm wondering according to Debian Wisdom (no disrespect intended to anyonne) which is the preferred way of installing software? The one your comfortable with. aptitude is recommended mainly because it is a best of breed of the CLI package tools. The key

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-19 Thread Steve Lamb
David Brodbeck wrote: In particular, Bash's test (aka [) operator has pitfalls. Testing for an empty variable, for example, is awkward. If you do: if [ $foo == ] Yeah, prefer: if not foo: do something -- there are few languages where it's quite so easy to test conditions

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-18 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: I've written enough cryptic Python and lucid C bash to know that Python does *not* enforce clean coding. I don't think anyone has ever claimed that. What a waste. bash is *great* for looping thru lists. (Perfect? No. But still great.) So is Python with the

Re: vim kde questions SOLVED

2007-08-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Mark Neidorff wrote: Thanks. That solved 2 annoyances. Its too bad about the vim install. Another of those things about Etch that doesn't make sense to me. I think it is because of the minimal install. I may be wrong but I think at some point in the past they replace nvi with

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2007-08-11 11:34:48 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Really? Tell that to the Perl 4 programmers. Perl 4 is obsolete and no longer used, and has complete disappeared from Debian a long time ago. I'm not the one who used Never. Concerning python, one still has 5

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Vincent Lefevre wrote: Imagine a filename contains: ' `some command` Yes, because you get: echo '' `ls -l`' I get? *I* get? Pst, look up above. *YOU* decided say Imagine a filename contains: ' `some command` Quoted right there. which is not valid. Try with: So now you're

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Vincent Lefevre wrote: A part of the language is a bit obsolete. Some features are deprecated (but can be useful for some one-liners). Unlike Python, nothing is removed from Perl, so that old Perl scripts can still run and there is no need for N versions on the disk. Really? Tell that to

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Vincent Lefevre wrote: Braces are not a problem: they are kept in a copy-paste, and if for some reason a brace is missing (because you did a mistake), then you'll get a syntax error Unless, of course, you are programming in C with that pesky... if foo; bar; ...problem. In

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2007-08-09 09:48:54 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: The same in Python but with far greater functionality: and a security hole! And the one liner stopped this how, exactly? I mean it was globbing the file fer pete's sake! result = os.system(lame -h -b 160

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Nate Duehr wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Quick, take your one liner, have it traverse an entire directory tree converting all the wavs (regardless of capitalization) to mp3s, oggs and flac, sorting all 4 into their own directory trees. To make your point, you'd need to do all of the above

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Nate Duehr wrote: And when you venture past yours, you'll find that ALL programming languages have SERIOUS flaws in them... and that most can get this particular relatively simple job done, just fine, with fairly similar amounts of effort by someone who is sufficiently skilled in that

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Vincent Lefevre wrote: Why not zsh (more powerful than bash) or perl? Because to some Perl is horrible compared to Python. for FILE in *.wav; do lame -h -b 160 $FILE $FILE.mp3; done Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't I just end up with with a bunch of files named blahblah.wav.mp3?

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Manon Metten wrote: - Which one is easiest to learn? Between Bash and Python, Python. - Which one is more powerful? Python. - Can I execute /bin commands from within a python script (something like mkdir or ls)? Yes, though for those examples you don't need to. The os

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Jeff D wrote: It has nothing to do with shell, python, perl or what ever. You would still have rename the file extention: Yes, you would. And therein lies the point. One liners often aren't. Quite often something comes up and whoops, need to do this and then d'oh, need to do that and

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Manon Metten wrote: Well, I find Perl easier to understand. The problem may be with some programmers who don't know how to write readable code... Now, the thing I really hate concerning python is that it is sensitive to indentation; this means that some operations like

Python intention (Was: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?)

2007-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Manon Metten wrote: Than, probably I didn't understand it correct. I thought of it as some prefixed indentation. I like eg. to indent with two spaces and not four or six. But then I consequently stick to it. If that's what you mean, then it ain't no problem for me. It is but it isn't.

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Stefan Monnier wrote: Just remember to tell you editor to inserts spaces as tab and set the tab width to something reasonable like 4. Please don't. TABs are 8 spaces apart. Always have been, always will be. People playing silly tricks with tab-width is the main reason why using TABs in

Re: searching for graphical torrent client

2007-07-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: I tried google but can't seem to find something that both looks decent *and* is available for debian (testing) as a binary. For example I tried qtorrent, but it is so minimal that I don't like it... Or to put it in another way: Which client resembles most the windows

Re: [OT] Interview with Con Kolivas on Linux failures

2007-07-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Mike McCarty wrote: Just my $0.02. YMMV [*] $ uname -a Linux Presario-1 2.6.10-1.771_FC2 #1 Mon Mar 28 00:50:14 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux It took my machine 3 seconds to do a copy after selecting that text on my screen, because the disc ran that long after I clicked on the Edit

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Lamb
William Pursell wrote: If a cyclist is riding against the flow of traffic, Am I the only one who grew up where the law was cyclists were to ride against the flow of traffic? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

2007-07-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Its a problem and I don't deny it. There needs to be a solution. dedicated bike lanes are probably the best. Unless you're a dedicated bicyclist in which case you'll really dislike dedicated bike lanes. AKA, the refuse lane since all of the nice debris from

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-04-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..I have seen web stuff pointing to Ariel Sharon being unhappy joining W's war on terror on NATO's side because of the full 4 Geneva Conventions, instead lobbying these Wannsee language games, this is why it took them so long (November 2001) to join in. You really

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-04-04 Thread Steve Lamb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Show me one instance where I defended the actions of terrorists. This thread, pretty much every message you post to it. or non-existent. Show me one case where this has happened, since you state that is what's going on. Well, that's a lovely standard.

Re: [OT] a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-04-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Daniel B. wrote: That's an unrealistic case that distracts from the rest of the cases. It's rare the you _really_ know. (Remember that 24 is fiction.) Oh, I am quite aware it is fiction. The problem isn't that I have forgotten that 24 is fiction the problem is that you, and others, do not

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-04-03 Thread Steve Lamb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find the actions of these terrorists just as abhorrent as you do. I doubt that since as far as I have seen until just now you have done nothing but defend them. Not to mention that such actions are counterproductive. If someone is tortured into

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-04-02 Thread Steve Lamb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since some of the al-Qaeda and taliban prisoner's were in fact denied their GC protections, by being tortured, mistreated, etc., it's pretty obvious that the QCs don't apply provision was the operational part of this order, and not taken out of context quite badly.

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-29 Thread Steve Lamb
anoop aryal wrote: i'll take etch when it's good and ready and not a day before. i'd rather have a working OS, free of bugs, late than a half baked, bug-ridden POS, on time. Then you'll be waiting forever because even Debian does not ship stable releases free of bugs. -- Steve

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: It raises the question. And the answer is yes. Everybody behaving in a certain way does not make it right. Just as everybody thinking something does not make it true. Except, of course, when it comes to language, especially idioms, where a large enough

Re: OT: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:53:50 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paul Johnson wrote: Cloudless sky with negligable wind is an absence of weather. Just as white is the absence of color? ..white is the absence of color? Yup. People say

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-22 Thread Steve Lamb
mc3393 wrote: so if Arnt had reason (as he has) Uhm, how does he have reason when he is attributing actions to an entity prior to its existence? That would be like me claiming that Brazil, in league with Australia, were directly responsible for the fall of Rome and you saying I had reason.

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Michael Pobega wrote: a point). And if you don't want to believe me then don't, /I/ don't care what you think, /I'm/ just trying to get /my/ point across in what /I've/ seen in /my/ experience. That's find. And in my opinion and my experience you're biased and full of crap. --

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Michael Pobega wrote: I don't see how I'm biased. I personally dislike Ubuntu, Yeah, and you can't figure out where the bias comes from? There's no need for you to be so hostile, I'm not being hostile. I'm not being hostile, just getting tired of your arrogance. You claim for all

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Joe Hart wrote: If Ubuntu = Debian, then one could install Ubuntu packages on one's Debian system. They could install Debian packages on their Ubuntu. While some might work, the majority of them will not. Why not? Because Ubuntu is not Debian. They are similar, I'll give you that. Er

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Joe Hart wrote: If you Run Sid, you don't have to worry about that *ever* happening. Yes, you do. If you think otherwise I'll ask where the updated packages for Bo are. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | And dream I

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Nik wrote: I would be interested how you reach a figure of 75% How many Ubuntu users have you polled? Well, my upgrade from Edgy to Feisty broke. Of course it was my own stupid fault for having a 200Mb boot partition and the initrd coming out to 0 length leaving the machine in an

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Joe Hart wrote: Exactly. So, if you want to keep your software current and run Ubuntu, then you need to reinstall the operating system every six months. Er, no. I just upgraded from Edgy to Feisty, no problems other than the one *I* created for myself that would have hit Debian just as

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Freddy Freeloader wrote: To tell the truth the Debian way of doing things, and I'll admit I'm biased because I'm far more familiar with Debian, is more straightforward and seems more logical to me. It doesn't hide anything like the Ubuntu way of doing things does. There's hiding and

Re: OT: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: Cloudless sky with negligable wind is an absence of weather. Just as white is the absence of color? -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | And dream I do...

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: I think it speaks volumes about how indefensible your position is that you resort to ad hominems. You know, I never understood this rational. It seems to me that it provides a simple way for the idiotic and crazy to win an argument. They can keep spewing their

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Michael Pobega wrote: Anything you can do on Ubuntu you can do on Debian, but the truth is that Debian provides much more functionality, stability, and ease of use than Ubuntu Er, wha? You just had several people tell you that things are easier on Ubuntu out of the box and you've the gall

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Michael Pobega wrote: Months of hanging out on the Ubuntu forums, both lurking as a guest and being a registered member for a while: Yes, because the forums are a fair representation of the Ubuntu community at large. Steve, Debian user, KUbuntu user and not a Ubuntu forum user. :P

-Claws question (Was: GUI replacement for mutt)

2007-03-17 Thread Steve Lamb
Lemme preface this with the fact this was originally posted on Ubuntu-User. However as I'm running Debian as well and know a few people here are Sylpheed-Claws gurus sending it here (*NOT* crossposting) simply so as not to have to retype the question. On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:15:37 -0700 Steve

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Clive Menzies wrote: Sorry I just can't let this pass Justifications for the Iraq war: Weapons of Mass Destruction er no! Er, yes. As I posted the justification was not that they were present but that Hussein was seeking to obtain them. Given that in the past he has had them and

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Celejar wrote: claimed that: UNO resources telling me that there are currently 27% of jobless peoples in the USA, 8% in France and arround 5% in Germany. Anyone have an explanation or source for these figures? I am under the impression that the US has among the lowest unemployment figures in

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: Why not just go bioethanol in a larger percentage year round? Portland is, and it might go statewide by the end of the session. Gasoline sales are banned here for the better. Probably because to produce 1 gallon of bio you need to use 1 gallon of gasoline. It's

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Mike McCarty wrote: This whole thread strikes me as unusually rancorous. ISTM that MS is providing a Good Thing, and STILL one complains about being stuck with it. Here is a place where MS is better than Linux, yet that still does not get acknowledged. Er, when wasn't it ackowledged? You

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Greg Folkert wrote: * $3/gal Fuel Which is still lower than Europe. * Air travel just isn't what it used to be Like them attacking us didn't have an impact, eh? * DHS (this one really sucks) Er, wha? * Over-reactions from Boston's Police Department

Re: Graphical bittorrent clients in etch

2007-03-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Liam O'Toole wrote: What's more, in Debian the bittorrent core is stuck in the year 2004. Apparently there are licence issues with more recent versions. Yeah. :/ A similar discussion went on the Ubuntu lists recently which is why I knew pretty much what you want wasn't there. Never

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: If she really needs VR, then she's stuck with MS Windows. Er, well, maybe not. Is there a chance that OSX would give her what she needs? I know it isn't free (speech/beer) but IMHO it is a step closer. I mean it isn't Microsoft and it is based on FreeBSD. --

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: We had 1% unemployment in the clinton years. It's several times that now. Nice lie, Paul. 1%? Where? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Us_unemployment_rates_1950_2005.png The lowest Clinton had was 4%. In fact Bush is getting beat up over unemployment figures

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Steve Lamb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8 Mar, Steve Lamb wrote: It is according to the US constitution. How well we are doing it is another question. I'm sorry, but have you even read it? I doubt it, most people haven't. Amendment X The powers not delegated to the United States

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Steve Lamb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that the medicare numbers may be too optimistic, but I don't see anyone claiming that private plans are the more efficient. Kinda need to know the sources and methodology before one can make a decent argument against it. -- Steve C. Lamb | But

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: Very probably. Better question: Would we be paying trillions of dollars to make it happen and get blamed for destabilizing the region when Saddam died left to his own devices? Even better question, how many more trillions of dollars would we have spent to clean it up

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: Oregon. Bully for you. And Oregon is the only indicator in the US for unemployment or might there just be 49 other data points to consider? I'm pretty sure if we decided to go state-by-state or county-by-county during the Clinton years we could find places that have

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Steve Lamb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Resorting to ad hominem attacks already? Of course I've read it. You really need to bone up on your terminology. See, if I had stopped there it would be ad hominem. However I didn't stop there. That wasn't an argument, that was an expression of disbelief.

Re: Graphical bittorrent clients in etch

2007-03-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Liam O'Toole wrote: I am looking for a graphical bittorrent client for etch. My requirements are that it supports encryption and integrates nicely with the GNOME desktop. Here are the ones I have evaluated so far. Given your constraints, none. Linux BT clients are sorely lacking which is

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: $0. US responsibility ends at the border. Yeah, we saw how well that went in WWI and WWII. You do realize that if the lid isn't kept on we'd be facing the same situation? -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6E99C5

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Steve Lamb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Providing for the welfare of the citizens? That is, after all, a function of government. Not around here it's not. At least not to the extent you and Paul believe it is. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key:

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The entire world save Britian apparently had better intelligence on the Iraq situation than we did. Er, so how does this translate into Bush lied? It's amazing how when a lie is repeated often enough it becomes truth. The lie isn't

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Steve Lamb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allowing the inspectors to continue, as most of the world wanted to do. Possibly augmenting them with CIA or FBI agents (IRAQ said that they would allow this). Tell me, how many chances does a dictator and thug like Saddam get before and this time, we mean

Re: Thoughts on zsh? (was Re: vim like completion in bash?)

2007-03-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Chris Bannister wrote: I *too* would like to know how bash can do that. Is zsh worth changing to just for that? Yeah, I know apt-get install zsh-doc :-) Just for that? Who knows. I however switched to zsh quite a while ago because bash just befuddled me. It seemed like simple things that

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:02:26AM +0100, Mitja Podreka wrote: The terms socialism and communism were vandalised by the authoritarian governments and individuals, in order to legitimate their authorities

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Please explain how in the world you have a true market economy when the private interests don't even control the means of production? Uh... magic faerie dust? -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 |

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