Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-05 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 10:16:09 +0800 Chong Yu Meng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's amazing ! I thought most of the people on this list were in their 30's, because you guys sound so young ! I'm probably the youngest here, I expect (I'm 34). But I am also very aware of time being in short

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-05 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 20:00:39 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have come to the conclusion that my time is worth something. I am now 57, and have only about 5 to 10 years before I get too old to bother much with computers. So, saving time is becoming more important than politics. I

Re: AutoUpdate

2003-11-05 Thread James McDonald
Collins Richey wrote: Just found on freshmeat an interesting download and update package for RPM based systems that does dependency checking. http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~gerald/ftp/autoupdate/index.html umm typical darn site is down when I try to have a sticky beak. -- James McDonald

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-05 Thread Joel Hammer
Of course, one problem seems to be powerpoint 2002. I have a macro laden powerpoint file I reuse over and over. This file is now 80 megs, without any slides in it. I have tried all the tricks on the Powerpoint FAQ page to reduce the size of the file. Nothing works so far. So, give MS credit for

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-05 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 21:28 pm, Bill Campbell wrote: My first computer had its only memory on a drum Sounds like either a Bendix G-15 or something from Univac. IBM 850 (IIRC) Drum was run by a drive belt and if there was a power hit, sometimes the belt would snap. One

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-05 Thread Tom Wilson
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 21:16, Chong Yu Meng wrote: Bruce Marshall wrote: Well gee... I guess at 65 and having bought from Sun, I feel 2. times better than you do... :-) That's amazing ! I thought most of the people on this list were in their 30's, because you guys

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-05 Thread Rick Sivernell
I still remember back in the early 70's when in college, we got a new computer. I forget the name, but you programmed it with puncg tape. A demo program asked 10 questions and you could give simple answers, it would then grade you. Everyone including the PhD's wanted to be on the machine. Other

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-05 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 10:19 am, Rick Sivernell wrote: My new linux user is fighting his new Suse system. Can not comprehind the use of multiple screens, thinks that is a waste of space, says Winders does this winders do that. I just grin and tell in a couple of weeks he will refuse to

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-05 Thread Robert E. Raymond
Tom Wilson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 21:16, Chong Yu Meng wrote: Bruce Marshall wrote: Well gee... I guess at 65 and having bought from Sun, I feel 2. times better than you do... :-) That's amazing ! I thought most of the people on this list were in their 30's, because you

Re: AutoUpdate

2003-11-05 Thread Aaron Grewell
This is good software. I use it to keep all the Linux servers on our campus up to date. It's pretty smart, especially as regards skipping kernel updates so they can be done by hand (though this is configurable if you're the 'run it and hope' type). Collins Richey wrote: Just found on

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-05 Thread Myles Green
Robert E. Raymond wrote: Tom Wilson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 21:16, Chong Yu Meng wrote: Bruce Marshall wrote: Well gee... I guess at 65 and having bought from Sun, I feel 2. times better than you do... :-) That's amazing ! I thought most of the people on this list were in

RE: Star Office 7

2003-11-05 Thread Jack Berger
Indeed so... -jhb- -Original Message- From: Rick Sivernell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 9:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Star Office 7 Oh, I just turned 57 here in Sept. Hope to die doing two things, ... Sex Computers

Background question

2003-11-05 Thread Tim Wunder
I guess this is a bash question, and probly FAQ-ish, but... Say I set a make job to execute in the background with 'make make.log 21 ' and the job then stops to ask for user input, like asking, mv: overwrite `.deps/alarmdaemoniface_stub.Plo', overriding mode 0644? How do I give the user input

LFS-5.0 release announcement

2003-11-05 Thread Gerard Beekmans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS-5.0. This major milestone features a new method with strong emphasis on building a correct compilation environment and base libraries independent from the host system. Release

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-05 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 11:31:26 -0600 Jack Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed so... -jhb- -Original Message- From: Rick Sivernell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 9:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Star Office 7 Oh, I just turned 57

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-05 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Roger Oberholtzer: On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 10:16:09 +0800 Chong Yu Meng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's amazing ! I thought most of the people on this list were in their 30's, because you guys sound so young ! I'm probably the youngest here, I expect (I'm 34). But I am also very

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-05 Thread dep
quoth Kurt Wall: | 43 passed by here a few days ago... | | It does go whizzing by lately... it gets worse. -- dep Writing takes no time. It's finding something to say that takes forever. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RBL list

2003-11-05 Thread Gary Wilson
Does anyone have a current RBL list that is working? Gary __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

a thought

2003-11-05 Thread dep
something just occurred to me in re. sco and suse and all. seems to me there's one big honking breach of contract lawsuit available to, say, suse and turbo and conectiva against sco. i mean a *whopping* big breach of contract suit available to them. after all, when your partner in an

Re: Background question

2003-11-05 Thread Brad De Vries
--- Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess this is a bash question, and probly FAQ-ish, but... Say I set a make job to execute in the background with 'make make.log 21 ' and the job then stops to ask for user input, like asking, mv: overwrite `.deps/alarmdaemoniface_stub.Plo',

Re: a thought

2003-11-05 Thread Michael Hipp
dep wrote: something just occurred to me in re. sco and suse and all. seems to me there's one big honking breach of contract lawsuit available to, say, suse and turbo and conectiva against sco. i mean a *whopping* big breach of contract suit available to them. after all, when your partner in

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-05 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth dep: quoth Kurt Wall: | 43 passed by here a few days ago... | | It does go whizzing by lately... it gets worse. So I hear. Barely. Kurt -- Why do we have two eyes? To watch 3-D movies with. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL

Re: a thought

2003-11-05 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth dep: something just occurred to me in re. sco and suse and all. seems to me there's one big honking breach of contract lawsuit available to, say, suse and turbo and conectiva against sco. i mean a *whopping* big breach of contract suit available to them. after all, when your

Re: aic7xxx (new)

2003-11-05 Thread Shawn Tayler
What controller are you using Ted? I've been using this driver on my 2930's, 2940's 7870's etc even with the 2.4.20 and .22 kernels with no problems Shawn On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 20:32:00 -0800 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] professed: During bood I recieve: kernel panic: HOST_MSG_LOOP

(OT) HADRWARE NOTE...

2003-11-05 Thread Jerry McBride
All COMPAQ 1200 series (that I've upgraded) that sport AMD K6-2 processors may be upgraded with the latest BIOS off the Compaq website and K6-III+ processors. After the BIOS update, the K6-III+ is correctly recognized and totally supported. Cheers... --