Re: Attempts to connect to port 80

2002-07-19 Thread dep
begin Joel Hammer's quote: | I do not know how they look. I am blocking all port 80 activity at | this time on my firewall. betcha it's code red. but you *have* patched your apache anyway, right? -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelo

Re: Attempts to connect to port 80

2002-07-19 Thread dep
ality | credible attempts being made to exploit this weakness? what does the request look like? this is the one-year anniversary of code red, and there are still lots of infected boxen, which devote two weeks of each month to trying to connect on port 80. -- dep http://www.linuxandmai

maxtor drive issue

2002-07-19 Thread dep
or whether the drive needs to go back? -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/

Re: and then there were three?

2002-07-18 Thread dep
begin Bob Raymond's quote: | Gentoo is non-commercial, and shows no indication of changing. | There's Xandros (remade Corel Linux), Lindows is sort of a | half-distro, so maybe it can be counted on the list? lindows will be a company that no longer exists a year from now. --

Re: and then there were three?

2002-07-18 Thread dep
d from the start, imho, because of its "screw you" attitude toward the existing base of desktop users and developers, something that is, unfortunately, epidemic in linuxland.) the real question is, when the smoke clears it will be red hat, its sidekick mandrake, and who else among commer

and then there were three?

2002-07-18 Thread dep
http://www.linuxgram.com/article.pl?sid=02/07/18/0626223§ion=newsflash -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman

Re: Thinkpad petition

2002-07-17 Thread dep
is prove to ibm the company's worst prejudices. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users S

Re: article on upcoming events?

2002-07-16 Thread dep
. not only do they intend to get it adopted through their usual monopolistic techniques, they intend to make it legally required: http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7 -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, an

Re: I,m off for a while.

2002-07-15 Thread dep
riday, | sheesh, I guess lonnie has cast one of his spells on me. sorry to hear it. feel better, get some sun, and painful though it is, don't get dehydrated. this, too, shall -- no pun intended -- pass. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and n

where's les?

2002-07-14 Thread dep
where's les? i've seen no posts from him for a long time, and he's one of maybe a half-dozen people on the planet who know just about everything worth knowing. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated pap

Re: kde 3.02

2002-07-14 Thread dep
begin Brett I. Holcomb's quote: | Thanks. At one time I thought it was hard to get Mosfet Liquid | themes. at one time it was. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip any

Re: solitaire?

2002-07-14 Thread dep
mate with your computer? -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archi

Re: some really basic networking questions

2002-07-14 Thread dep
never took the approach that users are idiots. but suse and the others, who hold the apparent view that the only users worth having are the ones they don't yet have, and to hell with existing users, aren't doing anyone any favors, least of all themselves. the thinking is way too sho

Re: some really basic networking questions -- solved

2002-07-13 Thread dep
the back, where the tension on the connection doesn't come into play. it's a frigging loose connection that coincided with the several times i tried different things. unbelievable. thanks, everyone, because i've learned from all of you, even though the problem was, well . .

some really basic networking questions

2002-07-13 Thread dep
about networking could be put on a postcard, with room for a pretty big picture. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/

Re: QT3 question...

2002-07-05 Thread dep
b-src sub-tools -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archive

Re: Caldera.com

2002-07-03 Thread dep
begin ronnie gauthier's quote: | I've been having some periods of DNS nothingness off and on since | late last night. No idea what is going on. It's been good since | bout 3pm cst so i guess its back to normal(whatever that is?!?). http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/2600

Re: Caldera.com

2002-07-02 Thread dep
this is so, because the apache worm is mostly making zombies and shutting down to await firther instructions. (ugh.) but there was backbone trouble over the weekend, and there has been some flakiness here and there ever since. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely

Re: More on genttoo + fhs

2002-07-02 Thread dep
wing the fhs is infinitely more complex and frustrating | than dep would have you believe. it's not even vaguely complex. | 6) gentoo would love to have someone with greater understanding of | the fhs make concrete suggestions for improvements in this respect. well, good. now you have greate

Re: beat the rush!

2002-07-02 Thread dep
ot; is that we expected it would show up on /. and elsewhere, as it has. if anyone is or was offended, i apologize. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users ma

Re: beat the rush!

2002-07-02 Thread dep
begin Ken Moffat's quote: | dep wrote: | >visit http://www.linuxdailynews.net now! | > | >it has been online for 44 minutes just now. bookmark it. tell your | >friends. bring the kids. | | WAP support? people of all nationalities are invited. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.c

beat the rush!

2002-07-01 Thread dep
visit http://www.linuxdailynews.net now! it has been online for 44 minutes just now. bookmark it. tell your friends. bring the kids. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere

Re: dep, FHS, Slackware

2002-06-30 Thread dep
d for CDE | (not-so-Common Desktop Environment). Openwin, the only desktop | worse than M$'. well, there were topview and, on linux, looking glass. i don't guess a lot of either is being sold anymore . . . . . -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the

Re: gentoo - wow!! - progress

2002-06-30 Thread dep
AM hog. I'd suggest downgrading to KDE 1.x | or adding RAM. first, this particular machine maxes out at 64. second, that's beside the point -- linux *ought* to work on a p-133 with 64 megs, and it doesn't satisfactorily. third, various epoch bugs in kde-1.x have rendered it obsole

Re: dep, FHS, Slackware

2002-06-30 Thread dep
out in the fever swamp someplace howling "gentoo" over and over. and that would be, pretty much, it. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailin

Re: gentoo - wow!! - progress

2002-06-30 Thread dep
| the little train that said: "I knew I could ..." over and over as | it climbed the hill. You seem to be stuck at "Whatever it is, I'm | against it." okay. a novelty distribution based on a children's cartoon book. that ha

Re: gentoo - wow!! - progress

2002-06-30 Thread dep
red hat succeeds in blowing everyone else out of the water in the linux world (which they have largely already done) because otherwise linux will die a suicide. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. __

Re: Kill KDE

2002-06-30 Thread dep
thing more than editing ~/.xinitrc. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubsc

Re: gentoo - wow!! - progress

2002-06-30 Thread dep
to have a quick and efficient and reliable operating system but instead to sell hardware. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linu

Re: gentoo - wow!! - progress

2002-06-30 Thread dep
nto oblivion. a zillion motivated linux users can be a powerful force, but not if they're told they're superfluous. i don't care what happens to unitedlinux, but i do weep over the missed opportunity to really establish standards-based linux. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.

Re: gentoo - wow!! - progress

2002-06-30 Thread dep
distributions for years now. | 7) Not mentioned before, but prompt response from the distro for | security patches is also important. That would be more essential | for server users. this has been a huge strength of all mainstream linux distros i know of for years and years now. | 8) Did I m

Re: gentoo - wow!! - progress

2002-06-30 Thread dep
begin Ken Moffat's quote: | dep wrote | | >redhat is not fhs-compliant. if it were, i'd be using it. | | What do you use? right now -- and by this i really *do* mean for the moment -- a severely hacked SuSE 7.2 on my production machine, and a collection of various other dis

Re: gentoo - wow!! - progress

2002-06-29 Thread dep
begin Collins's quote: | I can only thank my lucky stars that I have stumbled on a distro | that is not slavishly complient to the FHS, read: the Redhat | approach. redhat is not fhs-compliant. if it were, i'd be using it. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the b

Re: gentoo - wow!! - progress

2002-06-29 Thread dep
n /opt/[dirname], as god intended. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe

Re: gentoo - wow!! - progress

2002-06-29 Thread dep
begin Peter Ruskin's quote: | Good point about gentoo noticed so far: | It had KDE *exactly* where I have always wanted it: | /usr/kde/3/ | /usr/qt/3/ | ...and nothing of it in /usr/lib or /usr/share. I imagine dep may | be pleased with that. dep is most assuredly *not* pl

Re: xfce with taskbar

2002-06-29 Thread dep
ot;'s motto: "standing athwart history and shouting, 'stop!'" -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs

Re: gentoo list sucks?

2002-06-27 Thread dep
ginal sender's | address. | | I hope this crap doesn't become wide spread! the suse list is like that as well. very annoying. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere.

Re: ransom love leaves as caldera ceo

2002-06-27 Thread dep
n one goes to a company's home page, as in franklincovey.com, and cannot from that home page figure out what the company is or does. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___

ransom love leaves as caldera ceo

2002-06-27 Thread dep
http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=117 -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org

Re: gnome2 ramblings

2002-06-26 Thread dep
could say "too bad elvis is dead," and within a cycle or two you would would inform us, "well, i'm not dead, but i run gentoo." -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___

Re: Motif-which version for caldera 2.4

2002-06-23 Thread dep
begin Joel Hammer's quote: | I would like to install motif since opera 6.01 seems to need it. i think that if you have qt aboard, you should be fine. is this something you've encountered with the 6.01 upgrade, while 6.0 worked okay? -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outsi

Re: slack 8.1

2002-06-23 Thread dep
ue, but I'm not sure | how to proceed. Anyone ... ? you need a line, the syntax of which is, if i remember correctly, "virtual XXX YYY" specifying your screen resolution. this should be in the subsection display, right before the "end subsection" line. ie.: Virtual 800

Re: Overriding SuSe Defaults.

2002-06-21 Thread dep
. which is unconscionable, imho. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info

Re: IBM's ThinkPad-Linux support project being dropped

2002-06-21 Thread dep
it all out. nothing even remotely close to this is possible with kde splattered all over /usr or /usr/local. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mail

Re: IBM's ThinkPad-Linux support project being dropped

2002-06-21 Thread dep
compile fails though "make install" was done on the first one, a broken desktop is the result. which is to say that putting desktops in /usr was done for the convenience of red hat software, and for no other reason. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within

Re: IBM's ThinkPad-Linux support project being dropped

2002-06-21 Thread dep
d as opposed to a serious issue, it's not likely to be resolved. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/

Fwd: [suse-security-announce] the SuSE security team

2002-06-18 Thread dep
e, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere.

Re: lindows comes to walmart

2002-06-15 Thread dep
begin Ken Moffat's quote: | jeez! Windows based security model. or, to put in another way: http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=102 -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paper

Re: lindows comes to walmart

2002-06-15 Thread dep
begin Ken Moffat's quote: | Any opinions on Lindows? it reportedly has the user run constantly as root. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users ma

Re: {SPAM?} Reading Windoze CD's on Linux/Unix

2002-06-10 Thread dep
ng filenames on Unix? burn a kernel with support for the joliet extentions or load the module for it -- the name of which i do not know. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. __

Re: We're burning

2002-06-10 Thread dep
begin Collins's quote: | It must be a rough day for those with respiratory problems. especially if they don't have gentoo. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated papercli

a startling online puzzle

2002-06-07 Thread dep
it takes a little while to figure out, but when you do, it's electrifying. http://home.camelot.de/danielt/whatswrong.html -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip any

Re: More on UnitedLinux and licensing

2002-06-06 Thread dep
begin Net Llama!'s quote: | On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, dep wrote: | > begin Shawn L Johnston's quote: | > | New article on The Register | > | | > | http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/25587.html | > | > "SuSE powered by OpenLinux"? | | That has to be a typo

Re: More on UnitedLinux and licensing

2002-06-06 Thread dep
begin Shawn L Johnston's quote: | New article on The Register | | http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/25587.html "SuSE powered by OpenLinux"? -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated pap

how i spent last weekend

2002-06-05 Thread dep
for those to whom wild animals are interesting, this, which has nothing to do with computers: http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=89 -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip

Re: Linuxandmain

2002-06-04 Thread dep
about any other. this is a *good* thing -- a maoist fealty to purity of thought along a specific set of ideological rules invariably leads to the fate that maoism has suffered. | I do not think it has anything to do with liberty of choice but | with principals and having a clear agenda. and, insofar as l

Re: compiling qt3

2002-06-03 Thread dep
ables in some goofball nutty nonstandard file out in the back 40 someplace. things you put in .profile are of no consideration there. which makes me want to visit a weedeater on their manly parts. such as they are. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the env

Re: please kindly get back to me

2002-06-03 Thread dep
begin JOSEPH EDWARD.'s quote: | ATTN: no, no, no. you picked the wrong address. you're looking for [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___

Re: unitedlinux: it gets weirder

2002-05-31 Thread dep
ry back in a little bit. sorry. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe

Re: more on unitedlinux

2002-05-31 Thread dep
s.php?name=News&file=article&sid=83 he sounds just a tad cranky about it all. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sx

Re: lycoris

2002-05-30 Thread dep
begin Kurt Wall's quote: | Still optimistic, dep? I, for one, am glad *that's* over. Nothing | like having my hope clubbed to death like a baby seal to start my | day off right. I should have known better. Once again, Caldera has | snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Fscki

Re: Rolling Our Own (was: unitedlinux: it gets weirder)

2002-05-30 Thread dep
begin Condon Thomas A KPWA's quote: | So, like, what you are saying is that the linux-users should turn | out UserLinux? yup. except that it will be called "skippy standard linux" and ought to be slavish in its adherence to the lsb and fhs. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com

Re: unitedlinux: it gets weirder

2002-05-30 Thread dep
inux in the first place, right? -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe

Re: unitedlinux: it gets weirder

2002-05-30 Thread dep
idual | distros in the manner in which they see fit. So, Skippy Linux could | be "Powered by UnitedLinux" and contain all the desktop goodies | that he'd want for his distro. Regards, no, in fact they went out of their way to say that a desktop distro *may not* carry the unitedlinux

unitedlinux: it gets weirder

2002-05-30 Thread dep
turns out, it's another way to get rich off of linux without having any actual users. the desktop crowd was told to go pound sand, in about that many words. full story is top item on lnm. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no ani

Re: more on unitedlinux

2002-05-30 Thread dep
one. well, i suspect that there are going to be some pink slips, whose recipients will consider it less of a non-event. also, there's no mention of gnome -- they're gonna standardize on kde-3.0. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no ani

more on unitedlinux

2002-05-30 Thread dep
http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=81 -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org

Re: anybody care to guess?

2002-05-30 Thread dep
begin Collins's quote: | I'm presuming that dep knows exactly what he is doing; he certainly | has in the past. I just find the (somewhat varying each time) | banners at the top of the "you may already be a winner" type to be | abominably poor taste. as do i; however, i f

Re: lycoris

2002-05-30 Thread dep
his presupposes that they announce the right stuff and further presupposes that they pull it off, but i awakened this morning more optimistic about the future of distributional linux than i have been in a couple of years. the opening exists for them now to do it right. fingers crossed, everybody

Re: Suspicious mail

2002-05-30 Thread dep
mentary on this | addressing the fact that the documents mailed out could well be | private, proprietary data, or anything else that one wouldn't | want broadcast all over the Internet. you mean a commentary like this one? http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=arti

Re: Suspicious mail

2002-05-29 Thread dep
begin Kevin O'Gorman's quote: | > From: donnagrove23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > Subject: Cellspacing | > | > Content-Type: application/octet-stream; | > name=Reso Certification Form.doc | > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 sircam. -- dep http://www.l

Re: anybody care to guess?

2002-05-28 Thread dep
thanks to many persons who must for obvious reasons must remain nameless, we have a little more: http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=77 -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip

Re: anybody care to guess?

2002-05-28 Thread dep
begin Tony Alfrey's quote: | SuBoDeraTiva | (sorry!) turdera is available, though. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://

Re: anybody care to guess?

2002-05-28 Thread dep
begin Tony Alfrey's quote: | SuBoDeraTiva | (sorry!) nah. already trademarked. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://

anybody care to guess?

2002-05-28 Thread dep
joint announcement thursday from suse, turbo, caldera, and conectiva: http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=77 *everybody* is being *really* tight-lipped. guesses? -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no

Re: Linuxandmain

2002-05-28 Thread dep
d for two software patents we wait until we know what they're up to before attacking them. there's a certain segment of the linux community that seems to love nothing more than a good lynching, to its and linux's detriment. best, -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside

Re: Strange Port hits

2002-05-27 Thread dep
he sqlserver installation has actually hiven the admin account an actual password, sqlsnake, a/k/a spida, can't do anything. i wrote a little about it last week: http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=66 -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside t

Re: Charter Cable Internet

2002-05-25 Thread dep
fter i set it up. it's at: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/2374/1 let it be noted that charter is pretty clueless about a lot of things -- they were nimda heaven -- so you're pretty much on your own. also, they have never heard of linux. but once it's set up, it&#

Re: KDE 3.0.1 is out

2002-05-24 Thread dep
hat purport to allow kde-1.x, kde-2.x, and kde-3.x stuff to run at once. these are imho highly questionable. also, i doubt that they work reliably. my brute-force method works every time. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no an

Re: KDE 3.0.1 is out

2002-05-24 Thread dep
have *never* had it blow up on me. i do compile it myself, and i do pay attention to my hardware, and i suppose both of these might enter into it. but of the various complaints against it -- and there certainly are some -- instability has never been one around here. -- dep http://www.lin

Re: sherwin-williams drops sco for turbolinux

2002-05-23 Thread dep
begin Kurt Wall's quote: | Scribbling feverishly on May 23, dep managed to emit: | > http://computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,71 | >411,00.html?nlid=AM | | Bummer. 2,500 seats is a lot of lost revenue... try 9,700 seats: http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.ph

sherwin-williams drops sco for turbolinux

2002-05-23 Thread dep
http://computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,71411,00.html?nlid=AM -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux

Re: a crackpot idea i had

2002-05-23 Thread dep
chips and won't run on earlier ones; the lowest common denominator is i386. and suse rpms might or might not work, depending on where suse puts stuff compared to where ed 2.4 did. among the leading differences is /etc/. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the

Re: a crackpot idea i had

2002-05-22 Thread dep
sh to put it on every machine here. also, 2.4 had both lilo and grub, though the latter was the default, i believe. i remember distinctly not liking the change, but being satisfied that lilo was also provided. and i believe that the version they provided actually worked. -- dep http://www.l

Re: a crackpot idea i had

2002-05-22 Thread dep
ra didn't ship glibc at all, sticking to libc5, until col 2.2. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listi

Re: ASCII editor clarification

2002-05-19 Thread dep
ause there are people who don't know about it. i only wish there were a console version of it.) -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list

Re: News, Mail, Web Forum Software

2002-05-19 Thread dep
thing like | that? php-nuke phorom ez-publish all on freshmeat, i think. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/ma

Re: Amazing rebuttal to MS open-source FUD

2002-05-16 Thread dep
begin Harry G's quote: | Bill Gates is a die hard Democrat. and his father bought full-page anti-bush ads in major newspapers. and it was algore who met privately with msft execs and employees during the 2000 campaign -- press not allowed. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outsid

Re: ASCII editor

2002-05-16 Thread dep
plain-text editing, including configuration files. which if edited properly will prevent such things as the same message being sent four times. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. _

Re: I'm a dad!!

2002-05-16 Thread dep
congratulations! though i was surprised that you did not provide an sxs on his acquisition . . . -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http:

Re: ASCII editor

2002-05-16 Thread dep
tting stuff being added? it would help if you could give a little bit better description of what you're talking about here. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ L

Re: a crackpot idea i had

2002-05-14 Thread dep
id=62 i really do think that distributions are too much interested in the next quarter, and not interested enough in what brung 'em to the dance in the first place. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no anim

Re: a crackpot idea i had

2002-05-13 Thread dep
s not to use red hat), mandrake doesn't. debian is findamentally at about the same place 2.4 was, though they'll be sending along a new distribution soon -- is is leap year yet? -- which pretty much leaves slackware. there is no linux qua linux, in the sense that 2.4 was. i think ther

Re: a crackpot idea i had

2002-05-13 Thread dep
begin Tony Alfrey's quote: | On Sunday 12 May 2002 08:01 pm,dep wrote: | | | > a modern distribution based on 2.4, with | > everything simply updated to newer stuff. | | | | Isn't that what 3.1 was supposed to be? yes. i believe the crucial word here is "supposed."

a crackpot idea i had

2002-05-12 Thread dep
well, suse; debian is debian and slack is slack; mandrake tends to be rh only broken. and so on. and fact is, the distro i want to be running is caldera 2.4 upgraded to the current century. suppose a recipe for this could be cooked up? -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, ba

Re: news

2002-05-11 Thread dep
begin [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s quote: | *** Thanks Gerry & Dep for the crash course! I got the context | wrong by not understanding what the share value drop really ment. actuallythe drop in share value isn't *directly* tied to what the company is doing. it's based instead on w

Re: news

2002-05-10 Thread dep
t, they'll turn a profit. all the rest is simply speculation as to how they might better/sooner/more to our liking bring or have brought this about. which to me would mean an up-to-date equivalent of caldera openlinux 2.4, which i think was probably the best linux distribution ever. -

Re: news

2002-05-09 Thread dep
uxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=57 -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: news

2002-05-09 Thread dep
r us, we're trying to stop the bleeding, | so please buy from us". | | I wonder if Caldera will exist a year from now. fyi, i've got a piece on it up now: http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=56 layoffs were today. also, the revenues r

news

2002-05-09 Thread dep
http://computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0%2C10801%2C71003%2C00.html?nlid=AM -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http

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