Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-27 Thread s. keeling
Vikki Roemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Klein Moebius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >[?] > > >> > > >> Touche. But if I told my wife I married her for her cookies... > > > > > >Of course. Only at his peril does a man tell

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-27 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Klein Moebius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> Touche. But if I told my wife I married her for her cookies... > >> > >Of course. Only at his peril does a man tells his wife the real > >reason he married her. > > Shhh!

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 03:27:20PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: ... > Perhaps that should be > > s/If women are so weak they can't/If women have better things to do > than/ very likely... > > But I don't really know, just having noticed this subthread right > abotu now, and not sufficiently

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/08 16:27, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2008-03-18, Ron Johnson penned: >> On 03/18/08 15:05, Paul Johnson wrote: >>> What outcry? Ron's got a point. Seems like all the ladies went to >>> debian-women or something. >> Serena Cantor & Michell

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-18 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2008-03-18, Ron Johnson penned: > On 03/18/08 15:05, Paul Johnson wrote: >> What outcry? Ron's got a point. Seems like all the ladies went to >> debian-women or something. > > Serena Cantor & Michelle Konzack are the only two that I can think > of on this list. And debian-women doesn't seem v

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-18 Thread Klein Moebius
* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-18 13:05:00 -0700]: > What outcry? Ron's got a point. Seems like all the ladies went to > debian-women or something. Hmm. Maybe so. -- Regards, Klein When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/08 15:05, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 18 March 2008 10:02:48 am Klein Moebius wrote: >> * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-18 11:56:47 -0500]: >>> Don't worry. You can count on one hand the number of women on this >>> list, and s

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 10:02:48 am Klein Moebius wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-18 11:56:47 -0500]: > > Don't worry. You can count on one hand the number of women on this > > list, and still have 3 left over. > > Uh,oh - Let the outcry begin! What outcry? Ron's got a point

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-18 Thread Klein Moebius
* Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-18 10:36:19 -0700]: > /me ducks You may have to move to another planet, not just duck! -- Regards, Klein It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. -- Harry S. Truman signatur

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:56:47AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/18/08 11:27, Klein Moebius wrote: > > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >>> Touche. But if I told my wife I married her for her cookies... > >>> > >> Of course. Only at his peril does a man tells his wife the real > >>

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-18 Thread Klein Moebius
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-18 11:56:47 -0500]: > Don't worry. You can count on one hand the number of women on this > list, and still have 3 left over. Uh,oh - Let the outcry begin! -- Regards, Klein The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/08 11:27, Klein Moebius wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> Touche. But if I told my wife I married her for her cookies... >>> >> Of course. Only at his peril does a man tells his wife the real >> reason he married her. > >

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-18 Thread Klein Moebius
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Touche. But if I told my wife I married her for her cookies... >> >Of course. Only at his peril does a man tells his wife the real >reason he married her. Shhh! -- Regards, Klein Ever wonder if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-18 Thread Klein Moebius
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-17 20:07:02 -0500]: > > *MY* mother was ever so glad to see BOTH Wordstar and WordPerfect > > go. And she bakes better cookies than yours does. > > But probably not better than my wife. > Touche. But if I told my wife I married her for her cookies.

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 22:24, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 17 March 2008 06:33:37 pm Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/17/08 20:14, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> [snip] >> >>> My dad would be quite at home in front of my VT520; he hasn't been here >>> since I bought it

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 17 March 2008 06:33:37 pm Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/17/08 20:14, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > [snip] > > > My dad would be quite at home in front of my VT520; he hasn't been here > > since I bought it. I remember going to his work (insurance > > underwriter) when I was a kid; I remember al

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Munra wrote: On Mar 15, 8:00 pm, Jonathan Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: GNOME and KDE are the ones that I have. But, is there one out there that looks like XP. I am going to install Debian on my mothers computer and she is running...slowly...XP. Every other comment out of my mom, about th

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-17 Thread Munra
On Mar 15, 8:00 pm, Jonathan Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GNOME and KDE are the ones that I have.  But, is there one out there > that looks like XP.  I am going to install Debian on my mothers > computer and she is running...slowly...XP.  Every other comment out > of my mom, about the comput

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 20:14, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] > > My dad would be quite at home in front of my VT520; he hasn't been here > since I bought it. I remember going to his work (insurance > underwriter) when I was a kid; I remember all the green-scree

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 07:05:30PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/17/08 12:38, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 03:20:36PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:48:13PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote: > >>> I will also tell her that I will install D

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 19:46, Klein Moebius wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-17 19:05:30 -0500]: > > >> e3 and joe emulate WordStar, if she's *really* old-school. >> > *MY* mother was ever so glad to see BOTH Wordstar and WordPerfect > go.

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-17 Thread Klein Moebius
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-17 19:05:30 -0500]: > e3 and joe emulate WordStar, if she's *really* old-school. > *MY* mother was ever so glad to see BOTH Wordstar and WordPerfect go. And she bakes better cookies than yours does. -- Regards, Klein If built in great numbers, mote

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 12:38, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 03:20:36PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:48:13PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote: >>> I will also tell her that I will install Debian and migrate her

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 03:20:36PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:48:13PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote: > > I will also tell her that I will install Debian and migrate her email > > and word documents over for her. > > Enjoy teaching her LaTex while she's at it. May a

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 05:50:47PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 16 March 2008 12:20:36 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:48:13PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote: > > > I will also tell her that I will install Debian and migrate her email > > > and word documents over

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 08:29:21PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 07:34:04PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote: > > GNOME and KDE are the ones that I have. But, is there one out there > > that looks like XP. I am going to install Debian on my mothers computer > > and she is runn

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-16 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:57:27AM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: > >> Second enlightenment! >> >> It's worth noting that enlightenment is not a DE, (they call it a >> desktop shell), but really it's so much more, because it is w

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 16 March 2008 12:20:36 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:48:13PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote: > > I will also tell her that I will install Debian and migrate her email > > and word documents over for her. > > Enjoy teaching her LaTex while she's at it. May as well

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-16 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:48:13PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote: >> I will also tell her that I will install Debian and migrate her email >> and word documents over for her. > > Enjoy teaching her LaTex while she's at it. May as well get her away > from "word" into a re

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:48:13PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote: > I will also tell her that I will install Debian and migrate her email > and word documents over for her. Enjoy teaching her LaTex while she's at it. May as well get her away from "word" into a real system. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-16 Thread Jonathan Jacobs
Thanks to everyone out there who gave me suggestions on how to approach this problem. I have decided to test some of your ideas on my Debian machine first [ ie. themes] and then ask her if she wants the problem of having a slow machine to go away...I will also tell her that I will install Debi

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 07:34:04PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote: > GNOME and KDE are the ones that I have. But, is there one out there > that looks like XP. I am going to install Debian on my mothers > computer and she is running...slowly...XP. Every other comment out > of my mom, about the c

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/15/08 21:06, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Jonathan Jacobs wrote: >> GNOME and KDE are the ones that I have. But, is there one out there >> that looks like XP. I am going to install Debian on my mothers >> computer and she is running...slowly...XP

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/15/08 20:02, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:34:04 -0500 > Jonathan Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> GNOME and KDE are the ones that I have. But, is there one out there >> that looks like XP. I am going to install Deb

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 15 March 2008 05:34:04 pm Jonathan Jacobs wrote: > GNOME and KDE are the ones that I have. But, is there one out there > that looks like XP. I am going to install Debian on my mothers > computer and she is running...slowly...XP. Every other comment out > of my mom, about the computer

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-15 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Jonathan Jacobs wrote: GNOME and KDE are the ones that I have. But, is there one out there that looks like XP. I am going to install Debian on my mothers computer and she is running...slowly...XP. Every other comment out of my mom, about the computer, is that it is running slowly. I have al

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:34:04 -0500 Jonathan Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GNOME and KDE are the ones that I have. But, is there one out there > that looks like XP. I am going to install Debian on my mothers > computer and she is running...slowly...XP. Every other comment out > of my mo

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 07:34:04PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote: > GNOME and KDE are the ones that I have. But, is there one out there > that looks like XP. I am going to install Debian on my mothers computer > and she is running...slowly...XP. Every other comment out of my mom, > about the