It spreads by casual contact... (fwd)

2000-08-11 Thread Seth Cohn
Sent this to a few debian lists: To: debian-curiosa@ lists.debian.org Cc: debian-project@ lists.debian.org Subject: It spreads by casual contact... At our local Linux user group (http://www.euglug.org) , I've been recommending our more 'power user' members switch to Debian, extolling the joy and

Re: what to do when rpm -i --nodeps don't do

2000-08-11 Thread Harald Sundt
Thanx :> -- Come visit the Trailer Park of the Apocalypse... we survived the Millennium or maybe we were LEFT BEHIND! [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://www.users.uswest.net/~hsundt3/

Re: what to do when rpm -i --nodeps don't do

2000-08-11 Thread Seth Cohn
At 09:42 AM 08/11/2000 -0700, you wrote: >[root@localhost /root]# rpm -i --nodeps >netscape-128-common-4.73-7mdk.i586.rpm file >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Netscape from install of >netscape-128-common-4.73-7mdk conflicts with file from package >netscape-common-4.73-3mdk file /usr/bin/netscape

Re: Headhunting at euglug

2000-08-11 Thread James S. Kaplan
At 02:41 PM 8/11/00, Rob Shirey wrote: > > >[ "If headhunters who *did* abuse their "terms of agreement" with LUG >mailing lists got a serious taste of D.O.S.- Um, like I said, forward the crap offers to me and I'll filter them. Save the rage and anarchy for E13th and Washington Park. '

what to do when rpm -i --nodeps don't do

2000-08-11 Thread Harald Sundt
[root@localhost /root]# rpm -i --nodeps netscape-128-common-4.73-7mdk.i586.rpm file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Netscape from install of netscape-128-common-4.73-7mdk conflicts with file from package netscape-common-4.73-3mdk file /usr/bin/netscape from install of netscape-128-common-4.73-7mdk

Re: Headhunting at euglug

2000-08-11 Thread Rob Shirey
[ "If headhunters who *did* abuse their "terms of agreement" with LUG mailing lists got a serious taste of D.O.S.- reverse-spam-bombing, for one FULL week after *EACH* infraction, they might be smartened up by such lessons ... then, of course, they could be IP-blocked (as a 1st step in the mutin

Re: Unusually high rate of connectivity today? Eschalon...

2000-08-11 Thread Harald Sundt
Eschalon is shut down for repairs and expansion until monday. Michael Smith wrote: > All of my connections are hitting land-speed records for data downloads > today. Just curious if anybody else has noticed this too? Maybe the > Napster-heads are figuring out that Napster will be around for aw

Re: Unusually high rate of connectivity today?

2000-08-11 Thread Garl R. Grigsby
Reply ala BOFH. [root@big_nasty_linux_box /root]# echo "What's your ip address?" [root@big_nasty_linux_box /root]# read ADDR [root@big_nasty_linux_box /root]# ping -f $ADDR [root@big_nasty_linux_box /root]# echo "bwaaahahahahahahahaa" Michael Smith wrote: > All of my connections are hittin

Unusually high rate of connectivity today?

2000-08-11 Thread Michael Smith
All of my connections are hitting land-speed records for data downloads today. Just curious if anybody else has noticed this too? Maybe the Napster-heads are figuring out that Napster will be around for awhile so there's no need to rush out and download everything. my house: 344K/sec @home: 9