Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
[fixed the top-posting] On Mon,03.Aug.09, 17:16:18, Neal Hogan wrote: > >> ok ,ok . . . I'll just be gender neutral from now on. I apologize for > >> offending anyone. I wasn't referring to Mr. Po . . . I mean . . . > >> Andrei as male under the stereotype that all computer nerds are guys. > >> I

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
I referred to you as "it." On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,03.Aug.09, 17:03:01, Neal Hogan wrote: >> >> ok ,ok . . . I'll just be gender neutral from now on. I apologize for >> offending anyone. I wasn't referring to Mr. Po . . . I mean . . . >> Andrei as male unde

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,03.Aug.09, 17:03:01, Neal Hogan wrote: > > ok ,ok . . . I'll just be gender neutral from now on. I apologize for > offending anyone. I wasn't referring to Mr. Po . . . I mean . . . > Andrei as male under the stereotype that all computer nerds are guys. > I figured (correctly, I might add) t

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,03.Aug.09, 23:57:06, Aioanei Rares wrote: >> > >> >Depending on country and/or language there can be rules to >> >determine if a name is female or male. For example in my language >> >I don't know of any male name that ends in "a". > >>

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,03.Aug.09, 23:57:06, Aioanei Rares wrote: > > > >Depending on country and/or language there can be rules to > >determine if a name is female or male. For example in my language > >I don't know of any male name that ends in "a". > Zaharia Stancu ;) You got me! :) Regards, Andrei -- If you

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Aioanei Rares
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,03.Aug.09, 12:28:41, Neal Hogan wrote: (Yet another reason I dislike gmail is that people no longer need addresses with ccTLD to know where they are from...) How would this have helped identify gender? Depending on country and/or language there can

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,03.Aug.09, 12:28:41, Neal Hogan wrote: > > > > (Yet another reason I dislike gmail is that people no longer need addresses > > with ccTLD to know where they are from...) > > How would this have helped identify gender? Depending on country and/or language there can be rules to determine if

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,03.Aug.09, 12:25:10, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >You're kidding, right? :) > > Unless Andrei is a female name, At least not in my country, but funny enough, the female version, Andrea, is a male name in Italy :) > or you're a child... In some way all of u

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-03 11:59, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >> On Mon,03.Aug.09, 06:05:46, Neal Hogan wrote: >>  [...] >> >>> Mr. Popescu >> >> You're kidding, right? :) > > Unless Andrei is a female name, or you're a child... if this is the case, then it wa

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-03 11:59, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,03.Aug.09, 06:05:46, Neal Hogan wrote: [...] Mr. Popescu You're kidding, right? :) Unless Andrei is a female name, or you're a child... (Yet another reason I dislike gmail is that people no longer need addresses with ccTLD to know where

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,03.Aug.09, 06:05:46, Neal Hogan wrote: > > [...] > >> Mr. Popescu > > You're kidding, right? :) nah . . . you deserve respect! what do you want to be called? > > Regards, > Andrei > -- > If you can't explain it simply, you don't und

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,03.Aug.09, 06:05:46, Neal Hogan wrote: [...] > Mr. Popescu You're kidding, right? :) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 06:05 -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > Oh ya . . . good morning :-) I hope you can calm down a bit after the coffee, in general it's said to bring you up to speed for a while :) leaving-for-cooking-3rd-1l-coffee-pot-for-today-ly yours Siggy -- Please don't Cc: me when reply

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-03 06:05, Neal Hogan wrote: > [snip] >> >> Mr. Popescu has kindly pointed out basic point-drag, drop, GUI-click >> help, which should have been found and "played with" upon install. >> There is definitely no reason to bother the WHOLE

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-03 06:05, Neal Hogan wrote: [snip] Mr. Popescu has kindly pointed out basic point-drag, drop, GUI-click help, which should have been found and "played with" upon install. There is definitely no reason to bother the WHOLE LIST with more XFCE config stuff . . . ya? The Xfce-equivalent

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-02 12:21, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 2009-08-02 05:59, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> >>> On Sun,02.Aug.09, 03:45:58, Ron Johnson wrote: > > My Xfce setup would be very familiar for a Windows 2k user ;) Can you send me (