Gentoo 1.0

2002-04-01 Thread Cidadão Dorense
Hi All. I've downloaded (at work) the 100 MB iso for Gentoo 1.0 to avoid downloading it from home (dial-up). Reading the install instructions from their site, I still have a doubt. I want to buid everything from scratch. So, I understand that I will never use the Stage 3 stuff. But, it is not

Re: spam filter

2002-04-01 Thread Douglas J Hunley
toylet.linux[¤pª±·N] spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: btw, does the spam filter posted in linux-sxs work with chinese messages? :) I'm not sure which filter you're referring to, but the anti-spam that is protecting the list itself seems to be catching most of them --

Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Net Llama
Fellow Pengiuns, The SxS editors are in the process of reworking the layout design of the SxS site to make it more usable for everyone. Here's out latest proof of concept: http://hunley.homeip.net/sxs/parent.html Please provide feedback, whether negative or positive. If you don't like any of

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Andrew Mathews
Net Llama wrote: Fellow Pengiuns, The SxS editors are in the process of reworking the layout design of the SxS site to make it more usable for everyone. Here's out latest proof of concept: http://hunley.homeip.net/sxs/parent.html Please provide feedback, whether negative or positive.

RE: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
I must echo Aaron's comment about resizing. In IE it resizes to taller than my display (and narrower), but thinks it is at full size. So it won't scroll the data up and down. I have to shrink it and then click on full screen in order to get it to behave correctly. Other than that, the look

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Net Llama spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: Its not you. This is what is causing it to happen: function resize_view() { window.resizeTo(880,980) } I'm not entirely sure why we need this, so we'll look into removing and/or fixing that. I put it there to

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Douglas J Hunley wrote: Net Llama spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: Its not you. This is what is causing it to happen: function resize_view() { window.resizeTo(880,980) } I'm not entirely sure why we need this, so we'll look into

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Net Llama! spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: OK, but why would you want a minimum of 880x980? If our target is someone with 640x480 or 800x600, we're already missing that mark with your settings. I know. :( Because the 880 is the minimum I found to hold the new top

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Condon Thomas A KPWA spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: Other than that, the look and feel is good, if it weren't for all the 404's! ;-} obviously, I was gonna copy all the content over until we had a design down. hence the 404s... the main impetus was redesigning the look

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Finally, have you considered using PHP (or any other script language)?? YES. We *cant*. Think of our mirrors. We've been down this road *many* times (on the editors list, so you didn't know). Some of our mirrors are nothing more than their user

Kernel rewrite for 3.0

2002-04-01 Thread David A. Bandel
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-13/0132.html David A. Bandel -- Focus on the dream, not the competition. -- Nemesis Racing Team motto ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Bill Davidson
I don't care for that middle frame. What's it for? And it's resizable in case it's not supposed to be. You can shrink it upward. I think the mirror and the editor tables might look better with a white background. But that's minor. The big thing for me is that middle frame. Bill On Monday 01

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread David A. Bandel
On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 19:19:03 -0300 begin Federico Voges [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: [snip] I know I might be getting a bit off topic with this, but I think it's worth giving it a thought. You can't use scripting because of the mirrors. BUT, you can still use scripting to generate

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Net Llama
The middle frame is supposed to be for each mirror to include any unique content branding stuff. Just curious, which browser did you use (or do you prefer)? thanks for your feedback! -Net LLama! --- Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't care for that middle frame. What's it for?

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Not exactly. With the script approach, you can add common HTML code to the article: header, footer, etc. With CSS you can't. Likewise, you can even create a WAP page, or an HTML page tuned for AvantGo. Again, with CSS you can't. Another

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Rick Sivernell
Mr. David Bandel He he, I have I puffed you up some? David I like your css idea, but some of us just do not know how. I for one would like a little instruction here. Currently I am doing some html javascript for a college class, and learning something new at the same time would be great.

Re: will not start

2002-04-01 Thread Joel Hammer
Make sure there is not some hung instance of the program with ps ax. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.

Re: Linus Quitting

2002-04-01 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on April 01, David A. Bandel managed to emit: On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:10:02 -0500 begin Eyore [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-13/0063.html I almost split my side laughing -- truly ROFLMAO. Happy April Fool. I'm

Re: Kernel rewrite for 3.0

2002-04-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 17:54:33 -0500 (EST) Gerry Doris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-13/0132.html David A. Bandel ...because microsoft is involved... it'll be a best seller. --

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Bill Davidson
I use galeon. Not the latest. I should upgrade galeon and mozilla. Although I've been told that if I try the latest mozilla milestone, I wouldn't use galeon. I mainly prefer galeon because of it's ability to disable pop-ups. Bill On Monday 01 April 2002 05:56 pm, Net Llama wrote: The middle

Re: Kernel rewrite for 3.0

2002-04-01 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on April 01, David A. Bandel managed to emit: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-13/0132.html The first one was much better. K -- Are you a turtle? ___ Linux-users mailing list -

Fwd: Your message to Editors awaits moderator approval

2002-04-01 Thread Bill Davidson
Why would receive this now. I'm a member. Just got my monthly reminder today. I never had trouble posting before. Or is this an april fools joke? Bill -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Your message to Editors awaits moderator approval Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 18:50:01 -0500

Re: Fwd: Your message to Editors awaits moderator approval

2002-04-01 Thread Net Llama
Its referring to the Editors mailing list, of which only SxS editors are members. --- Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would receive this now. I'm a member. Just got my monthly reminder today. I never had trouble posting before. Or is this an april fools joke? Bill

Re: Linus Quitting

2002-04-01 Thread dep
begin Kurt Wall's quote: | Scribbling feverishly on April 01, David A. Bandel managed to emit: | On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:10:02 -0500 | | begin Eyore [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: | http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-13/0063.html | | I almost split my side laughing --

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Bill Davidson
On Monday 01 April 2002 06:57 pm, Net Llama wrote: --- Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use galeon. Not the latest. I should upgrade galeon and mozilla. Although I've been told that if I try the latest mozilla milestone, I wouldn't use galeon. I mainly prefer galeon because of it's

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread David Aikema
On April 1, 2002 01:53 pm, David A. Bandel wrote: Do you know of a good site that does a CSS for dummies type tutorial. Actually it doesn't even have to be watered down, just something for people who know HTML, but know nothing about CSS, and want to learn the basics quickly.

Gentoo 1.0 install instructions confusing

2002-04-01 Thread Cidadão Dorense
Hi all. For those also on the Gentoo list, sorry for the cross post... I felt the 1.0 install instructions a bit confusing when trying to do an Stage 2 Install. It looks to me that the step #10, the emerge rsync is not required for people doing this kind of installation, as well as step #11

Re: Linus Quitting

2002-04-01 Thread burns
On April 1, 2002 06:40 pm, David A. Bandel wrote: Actually, I don't remember a year since at least 1996 (if not earlier) that Linux _hasn't_ posted a good April Fool joke. His last year of college when he was recruited by Transmeta but couldn't yet say anything was one of the best, but

Re: Fwd: Your message to Editors awaits moderator approval

2002-04-01 Thread burns
On April 1, 2002 07:12 pm, Bill Davidson wrote: Why would receive this now. I'm a member. Just got my monthly reminder today. I never had trouble posting before. Or is this an april fools joke? Bill -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Your message to Editors awaits

Re: Linus Quitting

2002-04-01 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on April 01, dep managed to emit: [Linus' April Fool message] problem is, linus didn't post any of 'em. they're posted by people spoofing his address, and not very well, either. for instance, this year's was from an isp in russia.

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Douglas J Hunley
David A. Bandel spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: Wrong answer. The beauty of CSS is that CSS is all about markup/content separation. In Lynx all you see is the content, not any markup. And for whatever reason, content displays _much_ better under Lynx with CSS. it does?

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Bill Davidson spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: I don't care for that middle frame. What's it for? And it's resizable in case it's not supposed to be. You can shrink it upward. I think the mirror and the editor tables might look better with a white background. But that's

Re: Fwd: Your message to Editors awaits moderator approval

2002-04-01 Thread Bill Davidson
On Monday 01 April 2002 08:22 pm, burns wrote: On April 1, 2002 07:12 pm, Bill Davidson wrote: Why would receive this now. I'm a member. Just got my monthly reminder today. I never had trouble posting before. Or is this an april fools joke? Bill -- Forwarded Message

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread David A. Bandel
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 20:30:24 -0500 begin Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: David A. Bandel spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: Wrong answer. The beauty of CSS is that CSS is all about markup/content separation. In Lynx all you see is the content, not any

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Net Llama
--- Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Davidson spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: I don't care for that middle frame. What's it for? And it's resizable in case it's not supposed to be. You can shrink it upward. I think the mirror and the editor tables might

Re: Linus Quitting

2002-04-01 Thread dep
begin Kurt Wall's quote: | http://www.linuxandmain.com/news/topstory.html | | Well, then, I'd be the April Fool. *That's* a big surprise. ;-) yeah -- but what do you think of the screenshots of the new text-mode kde? (actually, i just now put up a story that is of some *actual*

Re: Linus Quitting

2002-04-01 Thread dep
begin burns's quote: | If you have further info on this dep, please let me know... that's | the line of work I'm in right now and I would like to make sure | that the right people get 'ground truth' info instead of just | Microsoft's propaganda. well, look at this and the links therein:

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 17:31:44 -0300 Federico Voges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BIG SNIP I second Frederico's post... Best Peck ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and

Asta La Vista Outlook!

2002-04-01 Thread Tyler Regas
Well folks, I've gone and done it now :) I've stopped using Outlook for mail and am back to using Becky! 2. Fantastic standards compliant Windows mail client (www.rimarts.co.jp). Worth every penny. Tyler PS: This is not an April Fools joke. The joke was on me :)

Re: Asta La Vista Outlook!

2002-04-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 20:59:45 -0700, you wrote: Well folks, I've gone and done it now :) I've stopped using Outlook for mail and am back to using Becky! 2. Fantastic standards compliant Windows mail client (www.rimarts.co.jp). Worth every penny. What's the shock there? I'm back to re-evaluating

Re: Asta La Vista Outlook!

2002-04-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 21:24:25 -0700, you wrote: You mean like Free Agent? In Linux I like KMail, but that's about it. It has killer filters. Even better than Eudora, which used to be the king of Windows and Mac mail handling. Not any more :P I'll get flamed for this, but kmail isn't all that

Re: Linus Quitting

2002-04-01 Thread burns
On April 1, 2002 10:24 pm, Kurt Wall wrote: Just saw them -- one hopes Qt-console is faster than the Qt-X. ;-) You could always VC to Qt-Pa2T mode. It's not fast, but it is supposed to be amusing. -- burns ___ Linux-users mailing list -