Re: idiocy

2003-03-15 Thread Kurt Wall
An unnamed Administration source, Matthew Carpenter, wrote: % While I am very upset with this move, I would not be inclined to dismiss the % teeth of these allegations. % SCO owns code which was licensed to IBM for use in AIX. % IBM has been sinking HUGE assets and time and mind-share into Linux,

Re: News Flash! Rambus and SCO to merge!

2003-03-15 Thread Kurt Wall
An unnamed Administration source, Gerry Doris, wrote: % http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/212241 % % % News Flash! Rambus and SCO to merge! (Score:5, Funny) % by Newer Guy (520108) on Monday March 10, @06:03PM (#5481084) % % % In a surprise news announcement, the Chairman of rambus

Re: idiocy

2003-03-15 Thread dep
begin Kurt Wall's quote: | It's up to | SCO to prove beyond reasonable doubt that what they allege _did_ | happen; it's not up to IBM to prove that SCO's allegations are | false. right, with one proviso: the standard in a civil case is preponderence of the evidence, bot reasonable doubt. --

Re: Question

2003-03-15 Thread ronnie gauthier
This might help. http://linux.nixcraft.com/h2crh7xis/ On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:16:40 -0800 - Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: Re: Question On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:11:30PM -0600, Rick Sivernell wrote: Lonnie Thanks, actually I was playing with gimp. It has an acquire

Re: First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

2003-03-15 Thread Joel Hammer
Oh boy. What will they do next. I wondered why my .vimrc from my old machine wouldn't work with the new lindows box. man vi showed the answer. They were using elvis as a replacement for vi. I downloaded vim with synaptic (this debian stuff seems awfully convenient) and now all is fine. rantIt

Re: idiocy

2003-03-15 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:47:47AM -0500, dep wrote: begin Kurt Wall's quote: | It's up to | SCO to prove beyond reasonable doubt that what they allege _did_ | happen; it's not up to IBM to prove that SCO's allegations are | false. right, with one proviso: the standard in a civil case is

Re: First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

2003-03-15 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:43:51PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: Oh boy. What will they do next. I wondered why my .vimrc from my old machine wouldn't work with the new lindows box. man vi showed the answer. They were using elvis as a replacement for vi. I downloaded vim with synaptic (this debian

Re: Question

2003-03-15 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 07:47:35AM -0600, ronnie gauthier wrote: This might help. http://linux.nixcraft.com/h2crh7xis/ Interesting approach, but it may well be RH specific. I got reasonable results using the digital camera on a tripod. It's still not perfect, but workable. The draft I'm

Re: idiocy

2003-03-15 Thread Harry G
On Saturday 15 March 2003 01:52 pm, Bill Campbell wrote: I would modify the ``loser pays'' used in some places in Europe to require the lawyers of the loser to pay, not the people they're representing. The only problem I see is that unless the lawyer feels the loser will have a lot of

Re: Question

2003-03-15 Thread ronnie gauthier
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 11:22:13 -0800 - Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: Re: Question On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 07:47:35AM -0600, ronnie gauthier wrote: This might help. http://linux.nixcraft.com/h2crh7xis/ Interesting approach, but it may well be RH specific. I dont know if

Re: First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

2003-03-15 Thread Joel Hammer
Whew. Close call on this one. The man page says that rm comes configured to require a y response to erase anything. I tried this out and this was not true. So, I made an alias: alias rm=rm -i I tried it out and this time I was asked to respond to each file being erased. Image my chagrin,

Re: First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

2003-03-15 Thread Kurt Wall
An unnamed Administration source, Joel Hammer, wrote: % Oh boy. What will they do next. % % I wondered why my .vimrc from my old machine wouldn't work with the new % lindows box. man vi showed the answer. They were using elvis as a replacement % for vi. I downloaded vim with synaptic (this

Re: First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

2003-03-15 Thread Kurt Wall
An unnamed Administration source, Bill Campbell, wrote: [clippety clip] % I doubt that the target audience for the Wal-Mart Lindows box would know % the difference between vi, elvis, and vim. But they might appreciate vigor. ;-) Kurt -- Keep grandma off the streets -- legalize bingo.

Re: Question

2003-03-15 Thread Kurt Wall
An unnamed Administration source, Bill Campbell, wrote: % On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 07:47:35AM -0600, ronnie gauthier wrote: % This might help. % http://linux.nixcraft.com/h2crh7xis/ % % Interesting approach, but it may well be RH specific. Indeed. Using OpenLinux from The Company Whose Name I

Re: First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

2003-03-15 Thread Leon Goldstein
Joel Hammer wrote inter alia: Image my chagrin, however, when I saw what I had typed. Instead of: rm junk* I had typed: rm junk * What a difference a single space makes! I suspect that rm sould not have removed directories, but, I am not going to experiment to find out now. That is why we

Re: What's after OpenLinux?

2003-03-15 Thread Jerry McBride
On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:49:52 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it looks like I'll be spending some effort to swap out some OpenLinux boxes pretty soon. Principles you know... Can someone tell me, which of the various distributions are closest to OpenLinux in as far as

Re: First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

2003-03-15 Thread Joel Hammer
Yes, but at least they give them different names! I heard some guru's complaining that the menus in lindows were labelled generically, eg. web browser instead of netscape. Calling elvis,vi, and vim all vi is really confusing. Joel The same reason we have multiple word processors, databases,

Re: First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

2003-03-15 Thread Kurt Wall
An unnamed Administration source, Joel Hammer, wrote: % Yes, but at least they give them different names! I heard some guru's % complaining that the menus in lindows were labelled generically, eg. web % browser instead of netscape. Calling elvis,vi, and vim all vi is really % confusing. Agreed.

Re: What's after OpenLinux?

2003-03-15 Thread Collins Richey
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 21:04:00 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:49:52 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it looks like I'll be spending some effort to swap out some OpenLinux boxes pretty soon. Principles you know... Can someone tell

Phoenix and Realplayer

2003-03-15 Thread Collins Richey
Does anyone now how to get realplayer to work with phoenix? I've got RealPlayer8 installed, and it works fine with konqueror (realplay is launched and plays the recording). Phoenix about:plugins shows that it recognizes the realplay plugin - everything looks correct. Everytime I select a

Re: Question

2003-03-15 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:51:09PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote: An unnamed Administration source, Bill Campbell, wrote: % On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 07:47:35AM -0600, ronnie gauthier wrote: % This might help. % http://linux.nixcraft.com/h2crh7xis/ % % Interesting approach, but it may well be RH specific.

Re: Question

2003-03-15 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 07:35:02PM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote: .. Well, maybe I've been siffing too much glue here, but if you just want screenshots of what you're doing, why don't you just do the install in a vmware box and use xv to grab the shots you want? That's a reasonable approach unless

Sound Servers on Linux - What the?

2003-03-15 Thread James McDonald
Folks I have mandrake 9.0 on a Via main board /etc/modules.conf has alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio in it and I can play mp3 using the default xmms install fine My problem is I can't put a music cd in and play it. I have tried playing cd's in xine, grip, kscd, xmms etc. and they all

CONSIDER IT

2003-03-15 Thread uka kalu
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Re: Question

2003-03-15 Thread Kurt Wall
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 08:14:00PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:51:09PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote: Indeed. Using OpenLinux from The Company Whose Name I Shall Not Mention, you could press Ctrl+d to dump PNG screenshots from the installer into the RAM disk's /tmp

A gentoo nugget...

2003-03-15 Thread Jerry McBride
I was just getting ready to go to bed and I remembered that I forgot... :') I stumbled onto two really, really nice compiler tools today. One is named CCACHE and the other is DISTCC. The first one (ccache) caches object files of previous compiler runs and feeds them back if the current