Re: How to update JRE?

2003-07-24 Thread David Jones
bly be your best choice, > > unless the program you want to run specifically says it > > will only work with an older version. > > > > Just my 2 cents worth, > > Conway S. Smith > > > > --- "James Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: How to update JRE?

2003-07-24 Thread David Jones
On 21 Jul 03, at 15:31, James Turnbull wrote: > David Jones wrote: > > I have a *very recently updated* (like installed and > > completely apt-getted and updated and such like 10 days > > ago) Debian. It came with a JRE identifying itself as > > 1.4.1, build Blackdown-1

Re: How to update JRE?

2003-07-24 Thread David Jones
On 21 Jul 03, at 19:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Before installing Sun's version of JRE, you might want to > look into the differences between Sun's and Blackdown's > JRE. As far as I understand it, if you use the latest > version of Sun's JRE (1.4.2), it is the best choice, but > if you want to

How to update JRE?

2003-07-20 Thread David Jones
I have a *very recently updated* (like installed and completely apt-getted and updated and such like 10 days ago) Debian. It came with a JRE identifying itself as 1.4.1, build Blackdown-1.4.1-01. I've been informed by the author of a certain Java program that I like (at the moment, not the aut

Linux support for two scanners?

2003-01-30 Thread David Jones
First scanner is an HP Photosmart negative scanner, connects via SCSI-2 interface. Second scanner is CanoScan D1250U2F flatbed scanner, connects via either USB 2.0 or 1.1. I have an assortment of Linux distros here, including Mandrake 9.something, but mostly use CorelLinux or Knoppix. David

RPM version of Alien around?

2002-11-07 Thread David Jones
A friend has the newest release of Mandrake installed on his Fujitsu Lifebook. He has a need to install a closed- source app that's available only in DEB form. Apparently the GUI Mandrake app installer doesn't understand DEB form. I suggested he use Alien to convert it to RPM. Unfortunately, Al

Re: (X and other) basics (was: A few more things...)

2002-10-23 Thread David Jones
On 23 Oct 02, at 8:27, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Windows is a special case. With windows there's no good > way to use anything. The code efficiency on windows would > gagg any of the CP/M programmers that might audit it. Very true, very true! ;-) David [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from thi

Re: (X and other) basics (was: A few more things...)

2002-10-23 Thread David Jones
On 22 Oct 02, at 11:34, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:02:33PM -1000, David Jones > wrote: > No, it has 100% to do with the way you code. You > can > > This is the criterion from the user/programmer > perspective. It is well known that you can us

Re: (X and other) basics (was: A few more things...)

2002-10-21 Thread David Jones
On 22 Oct 02, at 1:12, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:04:30PM +, Heimo Claasen > wrote: > Sorry, I should have made this a bit more > explicit: as the sub-thread > started from some exchange > on XBasic v-a-v Quickbasic, I referred to the > lack of a > Basic _compiler

Re: CD-ROM Hell

2002-10-01 Thread David Jones
Sounds to me like a marginal CD drive. On 1 Oct 02, at 20:26, Bryan Simmons wrote: > The damn CD-ROM is still going. I was able to > successfully run umount /mnt/cdrom. But, of course, I > can't remount it because "the device is busy". I'd really > like to find out why this happens and how to r

Re: Large FTP transfers

2002-09-28 Thread David Jones
On 28 Sep 02, at 8:01, Ray Olszewski wrote: > I'd imagine it could also turn up problems with the NIC or > with the filesystem partition, but I haven't actually > experienced either. I used to have hard crashes during long network transfers (not simply FTP transfers) that disappeared after I u

Re: seeking advice on network troubleshooting strategy

2002-09-26 Thread David Jones
One way to check it under Windows is to run the freeware ZoneAlarm personal firewall. It not only monitors incoming connections, it monitors outgoing connections. The first time the rendering client tries to go outside the box, ZoneAlarm will let you know. ZoneAlarm is already (or can be) set

RE: Where do I look up scripts for konqueror?

2002-09-24 Thread David Jones
BTW, DynamicDrive is known for offering JS that only supports proprietary DOMs like that of NS4 and IE. It would be worth checking at some other script sites, perhaps. On 25 Sep 02, at 1:18, Mojo Jojo wrote: > if i'm not mistaken., most things that support ns6+ should > work? > > > Hi... > >

Re: is emacs considered a gui WP or cli?

2002-06-07 Thread David Jones
On 25 May 2002, at 18:03, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:31:33PM -0700, Matthew Stapleton wrote: > > I was wondering if Emacs was considered to be gui based WP or cli-based? > > Noone of it. Emacs is an OS which pretends to be an editor. :-) No, Emacs is a religion. ;

(Fwd) Re: Wired News Daily [NSA Takes the Open Source Route -

2001-04-11 Thread David Jones
I thought this was interesting ... David --- Forwarded Message Follows --- On 11 Apr 01 at 16:19, TipWorld wrote: > NSA Takes the Open Source Route (Business 2:00 a.m. PDT) > > http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,42972,00.html?tw=wn20010411 > > An unlikely partnership between th

Re: Windows/Linux virus

2001-03-29 Thread David Jones
On 29 Mar 01 at 6:00, Richard Adams wrote: > If i understand correctly they are saying when the > program is installed it starts to work, as i see it > that will only happen if 'root' does it, Hmm, my reading was that if it's run under Windows on a Linux/Windows dual boot machine, the virus coul

Windows/Linux virus

2001-03-28 Thread David Jones
How accurate? What can we do about it? > http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/reuters20010327_3831.html David [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.or

test: list still alive?

2001-03-03 Thread David Jones
David [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs