In a message dated: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 20:17:19 EST
Benjamin Scott said:
>> Locale? I'll let Derek answer that one, though in general, the default
>> is usually C, which is fine ...
>
> Easy for you to say. You speak English.
No, easy to for me to say because that's what the default *is*, and
In a message dated: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:34:29 EST
Bayard Coolidge USG said:
>And, at the risk of a slight digression, web sites that assume that
>users have Shock and/or Flash plug-ins, etc. The parents of one of
>my kids' friends had their own Web site - they were so proud of it,
>and gave me t
Ben said :
>>> I am reminded of websites who use graphics instead of text.
>>> Most people think there is nothing wrong with that.
>>> Because they can see.
>>> Blind people regard the situation rather differently.
And, at the risk of a slight digression, web sites that assume that
users have S
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Which brings up another really good point. Why is it that RH *ALWAYS*
> leaves /sbin out of the /etc/profile?
I think Red Hat was thinking (I use the term loosely) that the 'sbin'
directories were for system commands, and thus "regular users" would no
In a message dated: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 19:24:10 EST
Benjamin Scott said:
>On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
>> How about at a blank .bashrc/.profile ...
>
> Most of this stuff is actually set in /etc/profile and friends. But even
>if you include those, you run into other problems. What a
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
> How about at a blank .bashrc/.profile ...
Most of this stuff is actually set in /etc/profile and friends. But even
if you include those, you run into other problems. What about PATH? MAIL?
What about locale settings? The occasional program that req
In a message dated: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 18:32:26 EST
Benjamin Scott said:
>...and for any given option, there has to be a default.
> Where do we draw the line?
How about at a blank .bashrc/.profile and leaving commands acting the
way they were meant to "out of the box"? Is that really too much
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Ken Ambrose wrote:
> When one uses "ls" in RH, it has the --color alias set, something that I
> normally love. However, the --color feature has one *REALLY* annoying
> thing. For example, files with +x set show up in green. Handy for
> executables. Well, so do files that e
