Re: Re: Big problems in Oz

2002-12-05 Thread stayler
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 06:19:17 +1000, Keith Antoine wrote: > >Armageddon ?? Naw. Christmas shopping season. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: Was Mail

2002-12-05 Thread m.w.chang
what's wrong with mozilla (other than habbits :)? Lee wrote: > Thanks a lot guys turned on HTML in Kmail and problem solved. I guess using > Netscape made me kind of lazy in that communator did most of the work and I > uused Kmail as only a back up. Now without netscape I have to learn to set >

Exim, Anyone

2002-12-05 Thread kwall
ANyone here used Exim? What are your opinions of it, if so? It seems easier to configure thatn Sendmail. thanks, Kurt ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: Mail Program

2002-12-05 Thread Tim Wunder
On Thursday 05 December 2002 09:20 pm, someone claiming to be Lee wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > Lee wrote: > > > Anybody know of a mail program that does both text and html? Have been > > > using netscape mail on SuSE 7.2. Upgraded to SuSE 8.0 and no netscape > > > only the retarded version of net

Re: Mail Program

2002-12-05 Thread Ralph Sanford
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 19:20, Lee wrote: snipped > > It doesn't have a built in mail program like messenger, it won't allow > me to access netscape the e-mail account that I run to misdirect the > spammers in addition to my normal e-mail and it's cannibalistic. I > prefer Netscape 7.0 (personnel

Re: Re: Big problems in Oz

2002-12-05 Thread Collins
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:04:09 -0600 ronnie gauthier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If 200 naked dancing fillies doesn't do it then towing an iceburg is > a last resort. Does AU have any desalination plants? > > On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:59:12 -0500 - "Leon A. Goldstein" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the fo

Re: CD burner write speed and cdrecord

2002-12-05 Thread Collins
On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 22:04:56 -0500 "Leon A. Goldstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ronnie Gauthier wrote: > > > I know lots of the problems with IDE burning is the CD and HD > > being on the same ribbon, as well as in direct CD2CD with the > > CDburner and CDreader on the same ribbon. > > > > Th

Re: CD burner write speed and cdrecord

2002-12-05 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Ronnie Gauthier wrote: > I know lots of the problems with IDE burning is the CD and HD being on > the same ribbon, as well as in direct CD2CD with the CDburner and > CDreader on the same ribbon. > That is the problem with IDE burners. For on-the-fly burning at high speed the CDROM and CD-RW must

Re: Mail Program

2002-12-05 Thread David A. Bandel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:13:57 -0500 begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:12:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:53:06PM -0500, Lee wrote: > > > Anybody know of a mail program that does both

Re: Mail Program

2002-12-05 Thread Lee
Ken Moffat wrote: > > Lee wrote: > > Anybody know of a mail program that does both text and html? Have been > > using netscape mail on SuSE 7.2. Upgraded to SuSE 8.0 and no netscape > > only the retarded version of netscape -mozilla. Trief using evolution, > > kmail, ans sypheed but all I get for

Re: gentoo again

2002-12-05 Thread kwall
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 06:58:12PM -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Doesn't X use a standard set of mode lines if it can't find any. And I > believe it selects the highest res that is allowed. Correct. -- The trouble with a kitten is that When it grows up, it's always a cat -- O

Re: Mail Program

2002-12-05 Thread Net Llama!
On 12/05/02 18:20, Lee wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: Lee wrote: > Anybody know of a mail program that does both text and html? Have been > using netscape mail on SuSE 7.2. Upgraded to SuSE 8.0 and no netscape > only the retarded version of netscape -mozilla. Trief using evolution, > kmail, ans syphee

Was Mail

2002-12-05 Thread Lee
Thanks a lot guys turned on HTML in Kmail and problem solved. I guess using Netscape made me kind of lazy in that communator did most of the work and I uused Kmail as only a back up. Now without netscape I have to learn to set Kmail up right. Lee ___

Re: Mail Program

2002-12-05 Thread Tim Wunder
On Thursday 05 December 2002 08:13 pm, someone claiming to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:12:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:53:06PM -0500, Lee wrote: > > > Anybody know of a mail program that does both text and html? Have been > > > us

Re: Mail Program

2002-12-05 Thread kwall
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:12:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:53:06PM -0500, Lee wrote: > > Anybody know of a mail program that does both text and html? Have been > > using netscape mail on SuSE 7.2. Upgraded to SuSE 8.0 and no netscape > > only the retarded versio

Re: Mail Program

2002-12-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
KMail 1.3.1 (KDE 2.2.x) works with HTML, too. I agree with Tim - check out Mozilla. I've seen several reviews of Moz vs Netscape 7.0 and Moz is selected each time. > On Thursday 05 December 2002 02:53 pm, someone claiming to be Lee wrote: >> Anybody know of a mail program that does both text

Re: CD burner write speed and cdrecord

2002-12-05 Thread ronnie gauthier
I know lots of the problems with IDE burning is the CD and HD being on the same ribbon, as well as in direct CD2CD with the CDburner and CDreader on the same ribbon. On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 18:56:05 -0500 - "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the following Re: Re: CD burner write speed and cd

Re: Mail Program

2002-12-05 Thread Tim Wunder
On Thursday 05 December 2002 02:53 pm, someone claiming to be Lee wrote: > Anybody know of a mail program that does both text and html? Have been > using netscape mail on SuSE 7.2. Upgraded to SuSE 8.0 and no netscape > only the retarded version of netscape -mozilla. Trief using evolution, > kmail,

Re: gentoo again

2002-12-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Doesn't X use a standard set of mode lines if it can't find any. And I believe it selects the highest res that is allowed. > Hate to reply to my own post, but no one else has... > > The odd thing was that the X config file created by X did not have any > resolution lines. Not even one. I would

Re: CD burner write speed and cdrecord

2002-12-05 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Ease of use as in install and administer the devices - put it in, connect to a SCSI adapter and you're done. No messing with IRQs, etc., you can have more than four devices on the SCSI bus. As for performance the SCSI ones probably (but I haven't bench marked it so won't argure this one .) run

Re: Mail Program

2002-12-05 Thread kwall
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 02:53:06PM -0500, Lee wrote: > Anybody know of a mail program that does both text and html? Have been > using netscape mail on SuSE 7.2. Upgraded to SuSE 8.0 and no netscape > only the retarded version of netscape -mozilla. Trief using evolution, > kmail, ans sypheed but all

Re: Mail Program

2002-12-05 Thread Ken Moffat
Lee wrote: Anybody know of a mail program that does both text and html? Have been using netscape mail on SuSE 7.2. Upgraded to SuSE 8.0 and no netscape only the retarded version of netscape -mozilla. Trief using evolution, kmail, ans sypheed but all I get for html mail is either a message hidden i

Re: Mail Program

2002-12-05 Thread Ken Moffat
Lee wrote: Anybody know of a mail program that does both text and html? Have been using netscape mail on SuSE 7.2. Upgraded to SuSE 8.0 and no netscape only the retarded version of netscape -mozilla. Trief using evolution, kmail, ans sypheed but all I get for html mail is either a message hidden i

Re: Re: Big problems in Oz

2002-12-05 Thread Keith Antoine
On Friday 06 December 2002 01:26 am, Jerry McBride espoused: > On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 09:38:20 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Keith, > > I feel for your plight down under. Out in the American West, its been > > quite bad over the past few years as well... > > If my memory

Re: Big problems in Oz

2002-12-05 Thread Keith Antoine
On Friday 06 December 2002 12:14 am, Tony Alfrey espoused: > I had no idea things were this bad. I don't watch TV very much and > depend mostly on the New York Times for my news, but I haven't seen > much mention of the situation. > I wish there was something we could do to help out, but it doesn

Re: Re: Big problems in Oz

2002-12-05 Thread Keith Antoine
On Friday 06 December 2002 12:38 am, Net Llama! espoused: > Keith, > I feel for your plight down under. Out in the American West, its been > quite bad over the past few years as well, although not nearly as bad as > you described below. Here in the SF Bay area we've had only one rainfall > since l

Re: OT-Skippy

2002-12-05 Thread Keith Antoine
On Friday 06 December 2002 12:32 am, Net Llama! espoused: > Nope. Then again, he's always quite for periods of time. > > On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, stayler wrote: > > Has anyone heard from Keith lately? Yeah that it 'periods'. -- Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4

Re: Re: Big problems in Oz

2002-12-05 Thread ronnie gauthier
If 200 naked dancing fillies doesn't do it then towing an iceburg is a last resort. Does AU have any desalination plants? On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:59:12 -0500 - "Leon A. Goldstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the following Re: Re: Re: Big problems in Oz >Jerry McBride wrote: > >> If my memory serves

Mail Program

2002-12-05 Thread Lee
Anybody know of a mail program that does both text and html? Have been using netscape mail on SuSE 7.2. Upgraded to SuSE 8.0 and no netscape only the retarded version of netscape -mozilla. Trief using evolution, kmail, ans sypheed but all I get for html mail is either a message hidden in formating

Re: CD burner write speed and cdrecord

2002-12-05 Thread Jerry McBride
> Joel Hammer wrote: > > The men in the computer store (BestBuy, CompuUSA), smile and shake their > > heads each time I ask about scsi cdrom's. Do they exist? > > They ain't men... they are weenies... MicroSoft slugs that never ventured any farther than dos, windows, IDE and USB. And they ONLY se

Re: ext3 Bug in 2.4.20

2002-12-05 Thread Andrew Mathews
Bill Campbell wrote: I think that ext3 offers something that XFS doesn't, journalling of the data as well as the directory metadata. I found this from the postfix mailing list: http://www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/postfix/ext3.shtml Bill -- Which leads to the question of why ext3, if it is

Re: Re: Big problems in Oz

2002-12-05 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Jerry McBride wrote: > If my memory serves me... Here in the states, for year 2002... the 48 > continental states reported some measure of drought effects, of that 48, 63% > declared drought conditions. World wide, the over all trend has been, "dryer > than normal"... > > Although we "in the state

Re: CD burner write speed and cdrecord

2002-12-05 Thread Andrew Mathews
Joel Hammer wrote: The men in the computer store (BestBuy, CompuUSA), smile and shake their heads each time I ask about scsi cdrom's. Do they exist? http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.asp?EDC=192934 It's an HP 8X Write, 4X ReWrite, 32X Read Internal SCSI-2 CD-RW drive for PCs for $54.8

[linux-elitists] 5:00 pm EST Friday 6 December 2002 is the Deadlinefor Comments to the FCC Regarding the Digital Flag Mandate

2002-12-05 Thread Jay Sulzberger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Coders! Designers! Artists! Businessfolk! Computer Owners! User-Builders of the Net! Citizens! And All the Tribes! Right now, the Federal Communications Commission of the United States of America is preparing to hand down a regulation, the so-c

Re: Re: Big problems in Oz

2002-12-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 09:38:20 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keith, > I feel for your plight down under. Out in the American West, its been > quite bad over the past few years as well... If my memory serves me... Here in the states, for year 2002... the 48 continental states

Re: gentoo again

2002-12-05 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Thursday 05 December 2002 00:21, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > The X stuff was installed as a dependency of kde and kde runs fine, > > except fonts are too small. I tried running gnome, but it complained that > > some needed fonts were not found. Very odd as the font directories all > > seem to

Re: Big problems in Oz

2002-12-05 Thread Net Llama!
Keith, I feel for your plight down under. Out in the American West, its been quite bad over the past few years as well, although not nearly as bad as you described below. Here in the SF Bay area we've had only one rainfall since late April. While it is usually dry here between May & November (sum

Re: OT-Skippy

2002-12-05 Thread Net Llama!
Nope. Then again, he's always quite for periods of time. On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, stayler wrote: > Has anyone heard from Keith lately? > > Stayler > > ___ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/m

Re: Big problems in Oz

2002-12-05 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Thursday 05 December 2002 01:28 am, Keith Antoine wrote: > I have been busy and away for a while, nothing to do with computers. > One of the reasons was to try help out in the country, but its a > losing battle. > > We have not had any decent rain for 12 months and now there are towns > that are

Re: Big problems in Oz

2002-12-05 Thread R. Quenett
I have some closeness to this kind of thing and the feelings like helplessness that go along with it. There are no words. My thoughts are with all of you. from Keith Antoine: " I have been busy and away for a while, nothing to do with computers. " One of the reasons was to try help out in the

Re: Allow all access to database files (dumb newbie question)

2002-12-05 Thread David A. Bandel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 17:01:51 -0500 begin Harry G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth: > I am running ACT! software via Crossovers Wine package rather > successfully. I have another user on the same computer I want to give > access to the database file,

Big problems in Oz

2002-12-05 Thread Keith Antoine
I have been busy and away for a while, nothing to do with computers. One of the reasons was to try help out in the country, but its a losing battle. We have not had any decent rain for 12 months and now there are towns that are going to run dry before xmas. The drought is the worst in 100 years

Re: CD burner write speed and cdrecord

2002-12-05 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thursday 05 December 2002 06:09 pm, Roger Oberholtzer espoused: > On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 21:57:24 -0500 > > Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You are right. On the package it says: 1X to 32X. > > > > I guess that explains my top speed of 32. > > It also depends on where the CD will be read.

Re: OT-Skippy

2002-12-05 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thursday 05 December 2002 03:42 pm, stayler espoused: > Has anyone heard from Keith lately? Yeah I have! -- Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage __

Re: CD burner write speed and cdrecord

2002-12-05 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thursday 05 December 2002 01:06 pm, Brett I. Holcomb espoused: > > Just for the record, > > > > > > Ahh.. The pain has stopped. It only took two short evenings to get this > > working under linux. The scsi stuff is a pain. Knowing how to use modules > > is a must. If I hadn't had to install a z

Re: CD burner write speed and cdrecord

2002-12-05 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thursday 05 December 2002 01:53 pm, Brett I. Holcomb espoused: > I got so I used SCSI for my workstations. It was worth the extra cost to > get the performance and ease of use. I have never had any better performance from scsi burners than from ide, as for ease of use they are no different. -

Re: gentoo again

2002-12-05 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
Hate to reply to my own post, but no one else has... I have sorted out the problem. I configured the X server with X -configure. It seemed to work. My display is a PnP one so it could read the model number. Oddly, it choose a very high resolution (1920x1024 - or something like that). It then decid

Re: CD burner write speed and cdrecord

2002-12-05 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 21:57:24 -0500 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are right. On the package it says: 1X to 32X. > > I guess that explains my top speed of 32. It also depends on where the CD will be read. A CD written at a fast speed on one burner may be read ok there, but not on ano