Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Ron Johnson
run Linux. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA As the night fall does not come at once, neither does oppression. It is in such twilight that we must all be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we

Re: Mozilla Mail Microsoft Outlook

2003-10-15 Thread Ron Johnson
to drop them in the correct directory on the Linux box. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA What other evidence do you have that they are terrorists, other than that they trained in these camps? 17-Sep-2002 Katie

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 03:11, Clive Menzies wrote: On (15/10/03 21:41), Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 19:01, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 at 22:33 GMT, Clive Menzies penned: It is worth reviewing the archive for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Speaking of which, http

Re: Mozilla Mail Microsoft Outlook

2003-10-16 Thread Ron Johnson
for the O'Reilly book. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Spit in one hand, and wish for peace in the other. Guess which is more effective... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Can't install kernel compiled on sid machine on a woody system

2003-10-16 Thread Ron Johnson
) compiling the .22 kernel-source package with 3.2. On another box, I successfully built the kernel.org .22 using 3.3.2, so I'm going to try that now. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA A C program is like a fast

Re: Mozilla Mail Microsoft Outlook

2003-10-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 16:51, Alan Chandler wrote: On Thursday 16 October 2003 22:19, Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:51, Alan Chandler wrote: On Thursday 16 October 2003 02:45, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: Hi. Has anyone tried/succeeded in importing

Re: wont install

2003-10-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-- root/root42 2003-10-16 22:25:47 dbg_log/fstab -rw-r--r-- root/root 378 2003-10-16 22:25:47 dbg_log/hda.fdisk-dump -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA The UN couldn't break up a cookie fight in a Brownie

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-17 Thread Ron Johnson
instead of if? Bad idea. Why? Imagine trying to compile existing code that uses pour and si as variable/function names. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA What's your genius, perfect 20 years too late Monday

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-17 Thread Ron Johnson
? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. Brian W. Kernighan

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-17 Thread Ron Johnson
? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 16:15, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 19:01 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 12:29, Monique Y. Herman wrote: You're right; the anglo-centric nature of most programming languages is distressing. It would be fun to code in a language based

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-18 Thread Ron Johnson
not a perfect correlation, and it looks more like COBOL than stack-oriented languages like C/Pascal (not RPN stacks!), but the same control flow is still there -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Our computers

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 09:05, David Jardine wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 06:56:13PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: IF (I LIKE BEER) AND (THERE IS BEER IN THE FRIDGE) THEN GO GET A BUD END IF IF (THE FOOTBALL GAME IS ON TV) THEN TURN ON TV TO ESPN IF (BEER IN HAND

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-19 Thread Ron Johnson
, uneducated, and occasionally conquered, and thus landlord X substituted for landlord Y. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA 484,246 sq mi (1,254,197 sq km) are needed for 6 billion people to live, 4 persons per lot

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 19:25, Tim Connors wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Sat, 18 Oct 2003 18:56:13 -0500: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 19:54, Chris Roddy wrote: really, the syntax of most programming languages is not very much like english -- english would have us putting the block

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 08:19, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 05:51:16 -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 00:03, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:12:15 -0500, John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 12:42, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 at 17:03 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 08:19, Arnt Karlsen wrote: enough as Herrmensch to convince me Adolf would have laughted his ass off. Ummm Herr is like Sir, and mensch is plural

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 21:48, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:03:06 -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 08:19, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 05:51:16 -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:05, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:35:22 -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 21:48, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:03:06 -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message

Re: Help with VIA EPIA-CL mini-ITX with two onboard ethernet ports

2003-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
advertised, Linux- incompatibility was mentioned. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Vegetarian - an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
/publications/factbook/fields/2128.html Iceland constitutional republic Switzerland federal republic -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA I went home with a waitress the way I always do. How was I to know

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
the PRC ratified the Moon treaty? http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/SpaceLaw/moontxt.htm -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA As the night fall does not come at once, neither does oppression. It is in such twilight

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
is a form of binary digital signal) or high/low volume signals. That would be a great beacon. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA After listening to many White House, Pentagon CENTCOM briefings in both Gulf

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time. Bertrand Meyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: snip])

2003-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Causation does NOT equal correlation -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-fetchmail script that deletes any emails larger than 13 bytes while still sitting on the pop server. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA ...always eager to extend a friendly claw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 13:11, David Jardine wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 08:49:09AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: I've got a simple pre-fetchmail script that deletes any emails larger than 13 bytes while still sitting on the pop server. Once in a while something happens that makes

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
? Is ls -l too geeky looking for PHBs, or are you nervous/unsure at the command line? Or, heaven forbid, will Untrained Users have to do it, and Linux is too difficult? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: snip])

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 19:58, Cam Ellison wrote: * Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: ... - Why English doesn't have gender, since it's predecessor, German, does have gender? looks like a lot of unneccessary stuff was removed from english language

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: snip])

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 19:58, Cam Ellison wrote: * Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: ... - Why English doesn't have gender, since it's predecessor, German, does have gender? looks like a lot of unneccessary stuff was removed from english language

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: snip])

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 05:24, Tom wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 05:08:11AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Here's another one: http://www.nature.com/nsu/030616/030616-15.html 'But the Y chromosomes of the regions tell a different story. The Celts weren't pushed to the fringes of Scotland

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
- Documentation for the Python Imaging Library. python-imaging-doc-pdf - Documentation for the Python Imaging Library. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Vegetarian - an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
improved since then. Surely some file browsers do have a print option? In Moz 1.4, at least, if you pull up a directory using file:///, Print works fine, since the directory listing is just html. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: indent for html?

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
) will set autoindent not do it? I think he's looking to indent existing messy code. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Peace Thru Superior Firepower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: snip])

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA ...always eager to extend a friendly claw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
). -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
decomposition. It fundamental to being able to comprehend complex sentences. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA YODA: Code! Yes. A programmer's strength flows from code maintainability. But beware of Perl. Terse

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 17:15, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 22:02 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: I didn't learn that exact method, but did learn what I guess you'd call sentence decomposition. It fundamental to being able to comprehend complex sentences. I don't know

Re: indent for html?

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 16:46, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 21:37 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 15:11, Clive Menzies wrote: On (24/10/03 11:41), Monique Y. Herman wrote: Anyone know of an indent program for html? I'd accept a vim script too

Re: indent for html?

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 18:41, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 23:22 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 16:46, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 21:37 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 15:11, Clive Menzies wrote: On (24/10/03 11:41

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
, regarding swen, is that mailfilter only loots at the header, and the swen signature is in the body of the mail, where mailfilter can't see it. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA When Swedes start committing

Re: remote backup from Windows PCs

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
). -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA All machines, no matter how complex, are considered to be based on 6 simple elements: the lever, the pulley, the wheel and axle, the screw, the wedge and the inclined plane

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
. floppy embedded) systems, are these utils ever *not* installed? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Whatever may be the moral ambiguities of the so-called demoratic nations and however serious may

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Why should we not accept all in favor of woman suffrage to our platform and association even though they be rabid pro-slavery Democrats. Susan B. Anthony, _History_of_Woman_Suffrage_ http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/essays

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 09:48, Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 04:52:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson insinuated: On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 14:37, Tom wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:11:49PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: english is like lego, yes there are some pieces that change shape

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 09:52, Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 06:09:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson insinuated: On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 17:15, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 22:02 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: I didn't learn that exact method, but did learn what I guess

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 15:09, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 at 18:59 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty: power

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

2003-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
that in *? Why would anybody want to use UPnP? Wonderfully insecure... For the same reason they want to use Lookout and Internet Exploder: because they don't *care* about computers and security like we do. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
: # cd /etc/rc2.d # mv S99xdm __S99xdm You get a beep when you try to rename the file? If so, are you sure the file /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm exists? Of course, you could always deinstall xdm : # apt-get --purge remove xdm -- - Ron Johnson

Re: spam settings (5mb nei-group email every few minutes!)

2003-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
or any other spamassassin fingerprints on it. odd!) Maybe SA doesn't think it's spam? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Vanity, my favorite sin. Larry/John/Satan, The Devil's Advocate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 04:26, David Jardine wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 09:08:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Of course, you could always deinstall xdm : # apt-get --purge remove xdm apt-get remove --purge xdm Doesn't matter which way it's ordered. # apt-get -s remove --purge mc

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
*so* tedious. fetchmail, exim|postfix, SpamAssassin, and any one of the automated swen zappers is much more efficient. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Causation does NOT equal correlation

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
for non-root users of the same system, all they'd have to do is do 'cat ~foo/.muttrc', unless .muttrc is only owner- readable (like .fetchmailrc). -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Why is cyber-crime not being

[OT] Internet time (Biel Mean Time)

2003-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
that a metric system based on GMT is a good idea, since 1/100th of a beat is 0.864 seconds, which gives just as good a granularity as the second. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Debugging is twice as hard

Re: [OT] Internet time (Biel Mean Time)

2003-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 20:21, Paul E Condon wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:39:21PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, What's the point of it? According to http://www.luvit.se/stefanp/lec_35_manual/swatch.html , As a result Internet Time is the same all over the world. Well, gee

Re: Pathetic Writer (or siagoffice)

2003-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson
a 'Segmentation fault' by running it from the command line. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson
files glob- ally readable or not. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA YODA: Code! Yes. A programmer's strength flows from code maintainability. But beware of Perl. Terse syntax... more than one way to do

Re: Mailboxes, etc.

2003-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson
mailbox directory from, say, Mail to Mail-old. Tag all messages in a mailbox and move 'em to the new mailbox -- it'll be created automatically. Newer versions of Evo let you store each sub-folder in mbox, mh or maildir. -- - Ron

Re: NFS server setup - 'nfs-kernel-server' or 'nfs-user-server' !

2003-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson
: file-server -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Fair is where you take your cows to be judged. Unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Video/grabber devices

2003-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson
if the proper drivers are loaded. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Great Inventors of our time: Al Gore - Internet Sun Microsystems - Clusters -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Fw: Plattenfehler

2003-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl) -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA (Women are) like compilers

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson
? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Fear the Penguin!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mailboxes, etc.

2003-10-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:19, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:53:08AM -0600, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 01:36, Karsten M. Self wrote: maildir. Much better performance, more flexible, you can access messages as individual files

Re: distutils lacking from my Python installation

2003-10-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Knowledge should be free for all. Harcourt Fenton Mudd, Star Trek:TOS, I, Mudd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: All pdf attachments defanged by spamassassin

2003-10-28 Thread Ron Johnson
or mailfilter? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough

Re: Mailboxes, etc.

2003-10-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 04:39, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 02:20, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:19, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:53:08AM -0600, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 01:36, Karsten M. Self wrote

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 21:01, John Hasler wrote: What is the gender of Unix? What is the gender of geek? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA After seeing all the viruses, trojan horses, worms and Reply mails

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 22:17, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:53:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 21:01, John Hasler wrote: What is the gender of Unix? What is the gender of geek? I don't know what it is off the top of my head. It's always a tough

Re: Network unreachable

2003-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Note to LSU and Valdosta State students: India is not an Arab country! http://www.talonnews.com/news/2003/october/1009_college_dems_jind al.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Network unreachable

2003-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA LUKE: Is Perl better than Python? YODA: No... no... no. Quicker, easier, more seductive. LUKE: But how will I know why Python is better than Perl? YODA: You will know. When your code you

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
:) Oh God... Mon dieu! -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted

Re: tasksel on testing - unmet dependencies for Desktop

2003-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
2.2.2-4 0 500 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org testing/main Packages -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Fair is where you take your cows to be judged. Unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Great Inventors of our time: Al Gore - Internet Sun Microsystems - Clusters -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network unreachable

2003-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 05:03, Marshal Wong wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 01:41, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 03:28, Marshal Wong wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 20:21, Jeffrey Barish wrote: When I use the kernel that I built from the source for 2.4.18-686, I get the message

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
puts packages in /var/cache/apt/archive and maybe put that is a partition. my 2 yen. -Kev Hard disks are so big nowadays, is a separate partition for apt really necessary? If it ever gets too big, 'apt-get clean'. -- - Ron Johnson

Re: Slow linux.bin

2003-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
. Have you looked in /var/log/syslog? Did you hear the FDD clicking and whining like it there's a bad sector on the disk? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 20:13, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:03:07AM -0600, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 07:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Alvin Oga wrote: [snip] lots of various reasons for doing lots of various

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
, this would be a good solution. Have you tried fetchmail? The messages in /var/log/mail.log seem to indicate that it deletes each mail after a successful fetch. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA After

Re: linking to a DVD-drive

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
easily this type of links?. Links? I think you are referring to /etc/fstab instead, since that is where such mount points are defined, enabling you to say: # mount /media/floppy -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson

Re: XFree86 4.3 in stable sarge - how likely

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
500 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main Packages *** 4.2.1-12.1 0 500 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org testing/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA An ad

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
is SCSI based. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Adventure is a sign of incompetence Stephanson, great polar explorer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Mainframe thin-client (was Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn)

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
on your desk, or down the hall with a TC/FS network-based system as it is when you have stand-alone or fat-client/thin-server system. And you're still running all the same apps, no matter what. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
night, so that if last night's disk dies, he can go to the previous night's tape, and recover most of the data). -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA The difference between drunken sailors and Congressmen

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
that with modern, high-speed drives, you'll be able to do full backups every night, to one tape/night. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Why is cyber-crime not being effectively controlled? What is fuelling

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 15:52, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2003-11-03 05:38:44 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Have you tried fetchmail? It is easy to lose mail with fetchmail (and I did lose mail in the past with it). Really? Do you know how? The messages in /var/log/mail.log seem to indicate

Re: XFree86 4.3 in stable sarge - how likely

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
: They are in experimental. Ah, ok. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA (Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and make them into big productions. Pitr Dubovitch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 19:06, Pigeon wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:38:44AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 16:36, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Is there a POP3 mail fetcher that wouldn't download messages twice when the POP3 connection may sometimes stall (so that the messages

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
purposes. Thus, if office goes up in flames on the same day the building where the off-site PC gets burglarized, there would still be a 3rd copy out there. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Some former UNSCOM

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 19:02, David Purton wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 06:29:39AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 06:00, Haines Brown wrote: You say you want a new backup system, and did not specify it should be tape. I recommend that you consider an external USB

Re: Mainframe thin-client (was Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn)

2003-11-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 00:06, cr wrote: On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 01:15, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 01:14, cr wrote: On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 23:37, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 05:13:01PM +, Pigeon wrote: Nah, that was EDIT.COM - before that appeared I used

Re: file system check, and defrag

2003-11-04 Thread Ron Johnson
answer #2. Thanks in advance! Kordula -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Spit in one hand, and wish for peace in the other. Guess which is more effective... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: df and du results on / strange

2003-11-04 Thread Ron Johnson
release them after a kill -9. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Man, I'm pretty. Hoo Hah! Johnny Bravo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Debian menu empty in gnome-panel

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
, though, is to log in (*not* su!) as root, and go into X. Make sure that package menu is installed, then 'man update-menus'. # update-menus --stdout /tmp/menu-stdin # /etc/menu-methods/gnome-panel -v /tmp/menu-stdin -- - Ron Johnson

Re: Hyper Threading

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
boot), the date gets set to december - god knows why! :-O Debian knows that you are having an affair with Windows, and wants to make your life *miserable*? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA ...always eager

RE: Backup Package names currently installed

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals package.versions.txt.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Bug in packaging of dictd (or in aptitude 0.2.13-2) ?

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
not try to remove Recommends: and Suggests: packages. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA LUKE: Is Perl better than Python? YODA: No... no... no. Quicker, easier, more seductive. LUKE: But how will I know why Python

Re: Who is eating my IDE subsystem bandwidth?

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
change - I don't think there is much activity about swap. There's a lot of free memory anyway. What? If you're in an over-committed state, the kernel will, figur- atively, burn up the disk paging back and forth. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr

Re: how to extract attachments from an email?

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA 296,443 sq mi (767,787 sq km) are needed for 6 billion people to live at the same population density as Manhattan, New York. That is ~ Arizona or Nevada. Alternatively, that ~ double the size

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
in the US last 10 years have carburetors? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA (Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and make them into big productions. Pitr Dubovitch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

The Unix Philosophy (was Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?)

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
/unix.html -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA You ask us the same question every day, and we give you the same answer every day. Someday, we hope that you will believe us... U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald

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