RE: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations -time drifts-

1999-09-16 Thread Max Klohn
Le jeu, 16 sep 1999, Ken Wilson a écrit : Time drift is not necessarily a bug but a normal fact of life in computing. It may be the product of numerous interrupts. The more processes you have running over a period of time the more opportunities for interrupts to occur, the greater the time

RE: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations -time drifts-

1999-09-16 Thread Ken Wilson
: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Max Klohn Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 12:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] 6.1 Helios

Re: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations

1999-09-16 Thread Tom Berger
Ken Archer wrote: Seems like 90% of the time when I find the source of a problem it has it's hands on my keyboard. You experience this, too? sigh tom -- "Never trust a Shoggoth!" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] LSTB - "advancing the community", [EMAIL PROTECTED] UMS:

Re: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations

1999-09-16 Thread Ken Archer
I think it is a Linux virus. On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, you wrote: Ken Archer wrote: Seems like 90% of the time when I find the source of a problem it has it's hands on my keyboard. You experience this, too? sigh tom -- "Never trust a Shoggoth!" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL

Re: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations

1999-09-16 Thread Bob Jackson
Tom Berger wrote: Ken Archer wrote: Seems like 90% of the time when I find the source of a problem it has it's hands on my keyboard. You experience this, too? sigh I believe it's known as 'The Linux install virus', anytime one onstalls Linux (or any other OS for that matter), it

RE: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations

1999-09-15 Thread Marc . MOURIER
in enterprise? Obviously, priorities are not the same for them. We are back to the bug fixing priority again... Just some thoughts... -Message d'origine- De: Harald Schreiber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mardi 14 septembre 1999 15:36 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: Re: [expert] 6.1

Re: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations

1999-09-15 Thread Max Klohn
Le mar, 14 sep 1999, Gael Duval a écrit : Al Smith wrote: Funny talking about 6.2 and 6.1 isn't even out of the gates yet and 6.0 is full of bugs... full of bugs? really? I don't see so much excepted the famous "can't unmount /" at shutdown, which has been fixed. Aw Come on Gael, don't

RE: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations

1999-09-15 Thread Ken Wilson
: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Max Klohn Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 7:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] 6.1

RE: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations

1999-09-15 Thread Ken Archer
Seems like 90% of the time when I find the source of a problem it has it's hands on my keyboard. We are getting into way too much bashing. This thread should really be named '6.1 Helios observations (Bug reports the sequel)'. In deference to Gael I think we should be 100%, or as close as

RE: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations

1999-09-15 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
Well shucks, seems that bugs more wide spread then i thought. I thought it was my latitude/longitude that was causeing that. On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Ken Archer wrote: Seems like 90% of the time when I find the source of a problem it has it's hands on my keyboard. We are getting into way too

Re: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations

1999-09-14 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Gael Duval wrote: My question is how accurate is the upgrade logging facilities? I printed /tmp/upgrade.log and went thru it and compared it to a directory output of the RPMS in Mandrake/RPMS on the Cassini install. According to that list, there were 658 RPMS

Re: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations

1999-09-14 Thread Vincent Danen
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Gael Duval wrote: We have already told the users that it was really better to reinstall everything instead of upgrading. For a clean, complete upgrade, you'll have to wait for Panoramix, in Mandrake 6.2 or more. [...] Every serious Linux Distribution like

Re: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations

1999-09-14 Thread Gael Duval
Vincent Danen wrote: Sorry.. maybe this should be in Cassini mailing list? Not subscribed to that, so I'll post here... Just upgraded to 6.1... thanx for your help, Axalon, with the hdd install... it worked after much mucking around... =) My question is how accurate is the upgrade

Re: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations

1999-09-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, you wrote: Every serious Linux Distribution like Debian or RedHat can be upgraded from its predecessor without any problems since many years. Yep. But Mandrake is just one year old... And even RedHat 6.0 was NOT a suitable upgrade to 5.2! :-) John

Re: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations

1999-09-14 Thread Al Smith
Funny talking about 6.2 and 6.1 isn't even out of the gates yet and 6.0 is full of bugs... -Al Harald Schreiber wrote: Gael Duval [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [] We have already told the users that it was really better to reinstall everything instead of upgrading. For a

Re: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations

1999-09-14 Thread Gael Duval
Al Smith wrote: Funny talking about 6.2 and 6.1 isn't even out of the gates yet and 6.0 is full of bugs... full of bugs? really? I don't see so much excepted the famous "can't unmount /" at shutdown, which has been fixed. I'd like you guys not to keep on bashing us like that: it's totally

Re: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations

1999-09-14 Thread Harald Schreiber
Gael Duval [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [] We have already told the users that it was really better to reinstall everything instead of upgrading. For a clean, complete upgrade, you'll have to wait for Panoramix, in Mandrake 6.2 or more. [...] Every serious Linux Distribution like Debian

RE: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations

1999-09-14 Thread Ken Wilson
, September 14, 1999 1:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations Al Smith wrote: Funny talking about 6.2 and 6.1 isn't even out of the gates yet and 6.0 is full of bugs... full of bugs? really? I don't see so much excepted the famous "can't un