Re: Some odd comments and questions for all

2003-09-02 Thread benfoley
On Monday 01 September 2003 11:24, Russell Shaw wrote: Joris Lambrecht wrote: [snip] Is there any safe way to run unstable with woody ? (Given unstable is still sid) sid is always unstable, reliably unpredictable, so a safe way to run sid is kind of an oxymoron. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread benfoley
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:32, Marc Wilson wrote: [snip] p.s. you're paying way too much for that cheap shit you're smoking. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread benfoley
On Monday 01 September 2003 22:46, Michael Heironimus wrote: [snip] If you want to run X on an older machine you should pick out a basic window manager you like and use that. If you're really stuck on the idea of a desktop environment you could also try XFce. Decide what it is that you think

sylpheed

2002-05-24 Thread benfoley
yes, questions. what's up with sylpheed-doc? or, in other words, where can i get it? also the mailer whines that it can't start the spell-checker, but it doesn't care for ispell. what's the cure for that? though i configured the line wrap at 72, it doesn't wrap by default. has anyone else had

Re: C Integrated Development Environment

2002-01-31 Thread benfoley
On Wednesday 30 January 2002 11:01 pm, Scott Henson wrote: On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 01:35, Scott Henson wrote: Im setting up a machine for a friend and he needs an IDE for developing C and C++. Anyone have a recomendation on a good one he could use. Thankyou. Sorry all. I guess i should

Re: nfs mount of remote system includes vfat

2002-01-31 Thread benfoley
On Thursday 31 January 2002 05:13 am, Dougie Nisbet wrote: I've just discovered this by accident. If I nfs mount another linux PC running woody, and that PC has a native windows 98 file system mounted under /98, then it is automatically seen and browseable as the nfs mounted file system. This

Re: is testing broken?

2002-01-31 Thread benfoley
On Thursday 31 January 2002 05:03 am, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hey people. I'd like to upgrade a box to testing, but I'm wondering if testing is broken. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=base-passwd

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread benfoley
On Thursday 31 January 2002 08:00 am, Geoff Beaumont wrote: At 16:01 31/01/2002 +0100, you wrote: Chris Mueller wrote: Hi, 7 mails with virus W32/Myparty got into my inbox - all of them from linux-mailinglists. How many harmed your debian system ? 0 ? Ahh, the wonders of not being a

Re: Installing Debian

2002-01-31 Thread benfoley
On Thursday 31 January 2002 10:10 am, Liam Black wrote: Did I neglect to mention that I also tried rescue root=? Well, that's my problem that I didn't mention it, I guess. I tried linux root= because I noted that linux was specified as the default argument, and thought that might work. I've

Re: Netscape4, Mozilla - Now what is X? - How to stop X?

2002-01-31 Thread benfoley
On Thursday 31 January 2002 12:33 am, Alan Shrimpton wrote: Okay now X starts atomatically but I rather it not. I know it was my fault because I said yes to have it as default.. Now, how can I change back. Also once running how do I stop it? [snip] depending on whether it starts from xdm,

lpstat -- connection refused

2002-01-30 Thread benfoley
i had a functioning cups system going up to two days ago. all of a sudden, i get connection refused when i run lpstat, run in response to a can't connect from the browser. essentially, localhost:631 is refusing connections. has anybody had that or have any clue as to why that port would reject

Re: BUSINESS PROPOSAL

2001-11-14 Thread benfoley
just send me a bag of whatever you're smoking. On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 06:49:40 Joseph Katirimah wrote: SOLICITING FOR A BUSINESS VENTURE AND PARTNERSHIP Dear Sir, I am a close confidant to the family of the late President of the Federal Republic of Zaire, Late President Mobutu Sese