Re: [ot] pronoun for countries

2002-11-21 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:42:05 -0700 bof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Black Eagle wrote: > > >Now you want confusion, try to explain how and where to use "the" in > >English. If you say you live int THE Paris, you mean you live in > >Paris, France and not, let us say, Paris, Texas. Howev

Re: [ot] pronoun for countries

2002-11-21 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:07:01 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFAIK, only ships are referred to as women. Everything else is gender > neutral. Not my wife! -- ++===+ | Roger Oberholtzer | E-mail:[EM

Re: New Step

2002-11-21 Thread David Aikema
On November 20, 2002 05:13 am, Tim Wunder wrote: > On 11/20/2002 12:31 AM, someone claiming to be David Aikema wrote: > > On November 19, 2002 06:38 am, Net Llama! wrote: > >>And yea, it costs nothing. I'd be really really pissed if i had paid for > >>Crossover only to find out that it didn't work

HDD

2002-11-21 Thread zohar
Respected Sir/Madam, My HDD which is ST320413A of seagate of 20 GB which is having NTFS file system and W2K OS. Now my HDD is not recognised by any other system. Even if there main HDD and all other HDD are removed and on connecting my HDD as Primary master, but the same works correctly on my syst

Re: [ot] Re: car securityext2fs and security settings

2002-11-21 Thread m.w.chang
and a disarmed linux is the car. > > don't we enjoy fooling around without worrying about parking and > retrieving your car? > > > -- Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. .~. In Linux we trust. / v \ news://news.hkpcug.org /( _ )\ http://www.linux-sxs.org

[ot] Re: car securityext2fs and security settings

2002-11-21 Thread m.w.chang
I think it could happen if 1. all cars cannot go beyond 50 km/hr 2. all cars were cloned agianst the same look and design 3. no av or luxurious equipments don't we enjoy fooling around without worrying about parking and retrieving your car? > Congrats. You *did* disable all the built in security

Re: [ot] Re: ext2fs and security settings

2002-11-21 Thread m.w.chang
sorry. many typo in the messages: "save you from" > note that system crashes may have nothing to do with securiyt, but lousy > coding and programming. security won't safe you a endless loop or a > deadlock. -- Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. .~. In Linux we trust.

Re: MS again

2002-11-21 Thread m.w.chang
we all know that programs can create bugs, and bugs can bring about more programs which feed back into the start of the problem. this is business... :) > Although many people bemoan MS's dominance, there is much to learn from this > state of affairs. And, I think that this situation opens up busin

Re: sco linux 4.0 released today

2002-11-21 Thread m.w.chang
On the trip back to my office from my lunch today, in one big bookstore (http://www.jointpublishing.com), I saw a blue Taiwan chinese book called "Redhat 8 Installation". It's just HK$ 78, with 3 FedHat 8 Binaries CD. It's possibly not very different from SCO Linux 4. (SCO didn't even want anyone

Re: [ot] dirty words exist?

2002-11-21 Thread m.w.chang
Speaking as a biology student, fuck is just a different way of saying "place a penx into the vagxna". It's just a voice of difference. The main point is *NOT* whether the word is dirty. NO voice or word is dirty. The problem the *FREQUENCY* of using those words. Do you always talk about screwing

Re: [ot] pronoun for countries

2002-11-21 Thread m.w.chang
I only knew Latin is an IMPORTANT language in biology and medicine (and I was a Biology student). I believe any further study into the field of western medicine requires a good command of Latin. And be a real good drug makers, you need to learn chinese as well. > Latin is one language I read flue

Re: [ot] pronoun for countries

2002-11-21 Thread m.w.chang
she's merelly boasting her ability to create jokes out of languages and reality. :) > As my wife, who is not a native English-speaker says, "English is sure a > f**ked up language. You say you are "going to the store," but you are > also "going to church." You go shopping, but you don't go eatin

Re: [OT]Seriously OT. Was Re: ext2fs and security settings

2002-11-21 Thread m.w.chang
read october issue of linux journal. the column by Mr. David Bandel. :) I wonder whether there one such steaming relay server for TV signal. >>You wouldn't know a site where I can download a linux radio station >>automation program? Would you? > Now that's a segue. -- Swiftly. Silently. Invisi

(NT) DMCRA and Submission was Re: write your congressperson tosupportthe DMCRA

2002-11-21 Thread Ben Duncan
Ok ... I followed all the links and got to the official submission .. Damn Government To Wit - Here is my submission and the response Dear Commenter, The comment attachment that you submitted to the Copyright Office's 1201 rulemaking via the Office's web-based form does not comply wi

Solstice DiskSuite docs?

2002-11-21 Thread Douglas J Hunley
anyone got decent pointers on setting up and configuring raid using disksuite on solaris? thanks! -- Doug Hunley ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: [ot] pronoun for countries

2002-11-21 Thread David A. Bandel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:25:18 -0600 begin Robert Black Eagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth: [snip] > > This is sort of like thinking fsck is a dirty word. Excuse me, but in the English I speak, fsck is very definitely a dirty word. Thankfully,

Re: List

2002-11-21 Thread Collins
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 22:47:40 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 06:37:57AM -0700, Collins wrote: > > > > I suppose it all depends on the meaning of "is," to quote Bill > > Clinton. > > > > Separately compiled components that have no interaction can be > > compiled with eit

Re: [OT]Seriously OT. Was Re: ext2fs and security settings

2002-11-21 Thread Keith Morse
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Lee wrote: > You wouldn't know a site where I can download a linux radio station > automation program? Would you? > > Lee Now that's a segue. > Keith Morse wrote: > > >On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > >>On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:23:11PM -0800

Re: [ot] pronoun for countries

2002-11-21 Thread Robert Black Eagle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 21 November 2002 12:11 pm, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:07:01AM -0500, Net Llama! wrote: > >AFAIK, only ships are referred to as women. Everything else is > > gender neutral. > > Back when I was taking French and Latin

Re: [ot] pronoun for countries

2002-11-21 Thread bof
Robert Black Eagle wrote: Now you want confusion, try to explain how and where to use "the" in English. If you say you live int THE Paris, you mean you live in Paris, France and not, let us say, Paris, Texas. However, how would you make that reference to The Hague (where "The" is part of the

Re: MS again

2002-11-21 Thread Joel Hammer
It is truly amazing how bad this software is. The fact that it dominantes the planet is instructive. Although many people bemoan MS's dominance, there is much to learn from this state of affairs. And, I think that this situation opens up business avenues for the strong of heart. After all, MS is

Re: [ot] pronoun for countries

2002-11-21 Thread Lee
Robert Black Eagle wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jane's Ships (a UK source) now uses "it" instead of "she" for ships, but everyone else still uses "she". Dogs of unknown gender are normally "he" and cats of unknown gender are "she" for most people. I can't reca

Re: [ot] Re: ext2fs and security settings

2002-11-21 Thread Robert Black Eagle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 21 November 2002 2:50 am, m.w.chang wrote: > that's exactly what security is about, on a need-to-know basis. sir. > :) > > I repeat: I am not rejecting or ignoring security, but under > circumstance, like learning something un-related secur

Re: [ot] pronoun for countries

2002-11-21 Thread Robert Black Eagle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jane's Ships (a UK source) now uses "it" instead of "she" for ships, but everyone else still uses "she". Dogs of unknown gender are normally "he" and cats of unknown gender are "she" for most people. I can't recall any other exceptions. Individua

MS again

2002-11-21 Thread ronnie gauthier
MS announces another security flaw. Guess there have been so many that MS is now giving flaws a ranking; critical>important>moderate>low. I'm surprised there is not a ranking of "ignore", oh, wait, that must be what "low" really means. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/bixtech/11/21/microsoft.security.

Re: ext2fs and security settings

2002-11-21 Thread rels
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: " It reminded me of the one thing about growing up in Alabama that still yanks my chain: aggressive ignorance: "I know all I want to know and don't want to know anything else." ..." Must be that some of those transplanted Alabamans relocated to West GA, as I seem to

Re: [ot] pronoun for countries

2002-11-21 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:07:01AM -0500, Net Llama! wrote: >AFAIK, only ships are referred to as women. Everything else is gender >neutral. Back when I was taking French and Latin, it seemed to me that most nouns naming unpleasant things were feminine. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bil

Re: SCO linux RPM List

2002-11-21 Thread Jim Bonnet
Net Llama! wrote: Jim, I appreciate your effort, but the original question remains. Why isn't this documented at sco.com? I would hope that individual employees of SCO are not repsonsible for providing this information to potential customers. -Lonni On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Jim Bonnet wrote:

Re: ext2fs and security settings

2002-11-21 Thread Andrew Mathews
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:23:11PM -0800, Net Llama! wrote: Wow. Rough day in the 'burgh? ;) ;-) Nope, quite the contrary -- I had a *great* day. I bought my first car ('93 Mercury Sable with all the trimmings and only 65,000 miles) and spent the afternoon program

Re: SCO linux RPM List

2002-11-21 Thread Net Llama!
Jim, I appreciate your effort, but the original question remains. Why isn't this documented at sco.com? I would hope that individual employees of SCO are not repsonsible for providing this information to potential customers. -Lonni On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Jim Bonnet wrote: -- ~

SCO linux RPM List

2002-11-21 Thread Jim Bonnet
This is the list of RPM's I have on my desktop here.. It's not complete because I didn't install all the RPMS, but I got about 99% of them.. The actual _VERSION_ numbers may have changed on the gold-cut. I'm running an earlier beta system, but atleast the names of packages are the same.. Jim B

Re: [OT]Seriously OT. Was Re: ext2fs and security settings

2002-11-21 Thread Lee
You wouldn't know a site where I can download a linux radio station automation program? Would you? Lee Keith Morse wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:23:11PM -0800, Net Llama! wrote: Wow. Rough day in the 'burgh? ;)

Re: sco linux 4.0 released today

2002-11-21 Thread Tim Wunder
I agree with you Lonnie (although not quite as militantly). UL doesn't appear to be very forthright on what's included in the distro (not just SCO). What's the big secret? Are they worried that people will find out that they're not offering anything drastically different from what you can get from

Re: [ot] pronoun for countries

2002-11-21 Thread Net Llama!
AFAIK, only ships are referred to as women. Everything else is gender neutral. On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, m.w.chang wrote: > I learnt my english while Hongkong was still a british colony (ok, she's > called United Kingdoms now). You sure that it's "its" not "her"? Is that > how United Nations descri

Re: sco linux 4.0 released today

2002-11-21 Thread Net Llama!
Well, i finally saw the update last night. MW, you're not missing much. There was a ton of marketing fluff, and just about nothing of interest to me. There's this odd link to "The Source", which points to a directory on the SCO ftp server that has (get this), 4 SRPMs in it. So, are we to believe

Re: [OT]Seriously OT. Was Re: ext2fs and security settings

2002-11-21 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Keith Morse wrote: > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:23:11PM -0800, Net Llama! wrote: > > > Wow. Rough day in the 'burgh? ;) > > > > ;-) Nope, quite the contrary -- I had a *great* day. I bought my > > first car ('93 Mercury Sable

[ot] Re: ext2fs and security settings

2002-11-21 Thread m.w.chang
comrade, root is a user, too. while they have differences, a baby don't learn martial arts until he/she could balance, walk, jump, and run. sxs -> step-by-step. and that sex should starts with the origin, ie zero. But he objects to the distinction between user and root (that's a security featu

[ot] pronoun for countries

2002-11-21 Thread m.w.chang
I learnt my english while Hongkong was still a british colony (ok, she's called United Kingdoms now). You sure that it's "its" not "her"? Is that how United Nations described other nations? And, finally, while I'm ranting, the proper pronoun is "its," not "her." As in, "Then every government ca

Re: sco linux 4.0 released today

2002-11-21 Thread m.w.chang
hmm.. this can be a national security issue for US expatriates in Asia. :P m.w.chang wrote: some caches are not under our control. you can do nothing about them except waiting. Same here. I see the same exact page that i saw 24 hours ago. Did you guys refresh / reload the page? because there i

Re: [OT]Seriously OT. Was Re: ext2fs and security settings

2002-11-21 Thread m.w.chang
hmm.. wonder if the weapon control system is using a disarmed linux for speed and size ... m.w.chang wrote: you meant the one that's just released by the US Military, that farts nails onto the road and coughs with shock grenades, and lined with electrical skins? -- .~.Swiftly. Silently. In

[ot] Re: ext2fs and security settings

2002-11-21 Thread m.w.chang
strangely, I never got enough crash at my DOS PC back then. I write foxpro programs back then. note that system crashes may have nothing to do with securiyt, but lousy coding and programming. security won't safe you a endless loop or a deadlock. This reminds me of beginning cryptology classes

Re: [OT]Seriously OT. Was Re: ext2fs and security settings

2002-11-21 Thread m.w.chang
you meant the one that's just released by the US Military, that farts nails onto the road and coughs with shock grenades, and lined with electrical skins? ronnie gauthier wrote: > I've never owned a car either. But ask me about the trucks I've owned. Wow. Rough day in the 'burgh? ;) -- S

[ot] Re: ext2fs and security settings

2002-11-21 Thread m.w.chang
besies, what is security without a disarmed linux? you need a control to know what's secured and what's not. Robert Black Eagle wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > For something like that, you can still obtain CP/M. >>fine. yes. agree, but I still want a demilitarized l

Re: sco linux 4.0 released today

2002-11-21 Thread m.w.chang
some caches are not under our control. you can do nothing about them except waiting. Jim Bonnet wrote: > Net Llama! wrote: > >> Same here. I see the same exact page that i saw 24 hours ago. >> > > Did you guys refresh / reload the page? because there is information > there.. It says SCO Linux

samba-2.2.7 released

2002-11-21 Thread m.w.chang
just saw it in http://www.lwn.net -- Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. .~. In Linux we trust. / v \ news://news.hkpcug.org /( _ )\ http://www.linux-sxs.org ^ ^ http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ___

[ot] Re: ext2fs and security settings

2002-11-21 Thread m.w.chang
that's exactly what security is about, on a need-to-know basis. sir. :) I repeat: I am not rejecting or ignoring security, but under circumstance, like learning something un-related security in linux, I want all weapons and defense off. that's all. > in Alabama that still yanks my chain: aggress

[ot] Re: ext2fs and security settings

2002-11-21 Thread m.w.chang
don't worry. that un-secured linux would not reacheable from the outside world. you woulnd't even knowa bout its existence. > Please mail me when you've finished learning security without > implementing it so I can flush the iptables rule concerning your IP > address range. :-p -- Swiftly. S

[ot] Re: ext2fs and security settings

2002-11-21 Thread m.w.chang
do I need to learn how to secure security? :) > This gets weirder by the day. A better analogy would be that learning > linux with security is like having a key to the lock on your house. -- Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. .~. In Linux we trust. / v \ news://

Re: sco linux 4.0 released today

2002-11-21 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 22:05:11 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Predestination was doomed from the start. ^^ Finally, something that made me smile this morning. > ___ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > http: