Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-28 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Well I guess it could be worse... After the Fellowship movie came out, someone started calling me Elrond... apparently there is some similarity in looks... I've been brushing up on my immitations of the guy... How's this: What good is a phone call... if you are unable to speak? Mr.

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-28 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Actually, KDE used Kandalf... On Fri, 24 May 2002 10:55:16 -0400 Leon A. Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Scottaline wrote inter alia: Sounds like a great idea. BTW- Your nickname is skippy, so where does Gandalf come into this sig? Remember I used to use Merlin and my

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-26 Thread Bob Hemus
Keith Antoine wrote: sniP Thank the losrd someonelse is like me and forgets things, must be aging. -- Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage Keith, I

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-25 Thread Keith Antoine
On Saturday 25 May 2002 11:54, David A. Bandel wrote: On Fri, 24 May 2002 21:16:04 -0400 begin Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Scribbling feverishly on May 24, Jim Conner managed to emit: Gandalf is also from Lord of the Rings. He was the wizard that befriended the hobbits

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-25 Thread Keith Antoine
On Saturday 25 May 2002 13:30, Jim Conner wrote: Dang, and I read the books earlier this year, and saw the movie. I must be getting forgetful. :) Thank the losrd someonelse is like me and forgets things, must be aging. -- Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap,

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-24 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Fri, 24 May 2002 14:15:02 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: On Friday 24 May 2002 11:13, Matthew Carpenter wrote: wwwWRROOOuuuwuwSCREECHhhh Sorry. You asked for feedback Sounds like a great idea. BTW- Your nickname is

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-24 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Michael Scottaline wrote inter alia: Sounds like a great idea. BTW- Your nickname is skippy, so where does Gandalf come into this sig? Remember I used to use Merlin and my magic 'wand'. A short while ago someone called me gandalf. == Yes,

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-24 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Leon A. Goldstein wrote: Michael Scottaline wrote inter alia: Sounds like a great idea. BTW- Your nickname is skippy, so where does Gandalf come into this sig? Remember I used to use Merlin and my magic 'wand'. A short while ago someone called me gandalf.

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-24 Thread Jim Conner
Gandalf is also from Lord of the Rings. He was the wizard that befriended the hobbits and gave Bilbo the one ring to rule them all. Jim On Friday, May 24, 2002 9:55, Leon A. Goldstein wrote: Michael Scottaline wrote inter alia: Sounds like a great idea. BTW- Your nickname is skippy, so

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-24 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on May 24, Jim Conner managed to emit: Gandalf is also from Lord of the Rings. He was the wizard that befriended the hobbits and gave Bilbo the one ring to rule them all. Nope. Bilbo found the ring in Gollum's cave. Kurt -- Fifth Law of Procrastination:

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-24 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Or the ring found Bilbo G. Kurt Wall wrote: Scribbling feverishly on May 24, Jim Conner managed to emit: Gandalf is also from Lord of the Rings. He was the wizard that befriended the hobbits and gave Bilbo the one ring to rule them all. Nope. Bilbo found the ring in Gollum's cave.

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-24 Thread David A. Bandel
On Fri, 24 May 2002 21:16:04 -0400 begin Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Scribbling feverishly on May 24, Jim Conner managed to emit: Gandalf is also from Lord of the Rings. He was the wizard that befriended the hobbits and gave Bilbo the one ring to rule them all. Sauron

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-24 Thread Jim Conner
Dang, and I read the books earlier this year, and saw the movie. I must be getting forgetful. :) Jim On Friday, May 24, 2002 8:16, Kurt Wall wrote: Scribbling feverishly on May 24, Jim Conner managed to emit: Gandalf is also from Lord of the Rings. He was the wizard that befriended the

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-23 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Skippy (Keith Antoine) observed: Its latest stunt: I installed XCDRoast alpha 10 and the necessary updated libs. When I later installed a different app, YAST decided it did not like the updated XCDRoast and its libs and reinstalled the old versions. Thats not the only thing it does,

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-23 Thread Matthew Carpenter
On Wed, 22 May 2002 16:37:21 -0700 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My one beef (other than the price!) right now is the inability to install the yahoo messenger rpm; dependency problems. I went with gaim instead. works well. I still don't understand this one. I suppose I did a --nodeps

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-23 Thread Matthew Carpenter
On Wed, 22 May 2002 18:31:42 -0600 Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Skippy is just trying to tell me what we all learned along the way. Caldera was never especially good at providing updates (except for security), and the Caldera file setup was sufficiently different, that most RPMS

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-23 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 07:34 pm,Keith Antoine wrote: On Thursday 23 May 2002 11:47, Leon A. Goldstein wrote: Tony Alfrey wrote: H. Are you on the SuSE list? I follow it and there seems to be a moderate amount of angst with various things about 8.0. So I've been reluctant to

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-23 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 05:31 pm,Collins wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2002 14:50:14 -0700 Tony Alfrey snip Geeze Looeeze Skipmeister, whadda ya tryin' t do t me?? Everybody's got me enthused about 3.1.1 and now you tell me it is bad news??? What do you mean that it won't update?? Inquiring

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-23 Thread Collins
On Thu, 23 May 2002 10:17:15 -0400 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2002 18:31:42 -0600 Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Skippy is just trying to tell me what we all learned along the way. Caldera was never especially good at providing updates (except

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-23 Thread Keith Antoine
On Friday 24 May 2002 02:02, Tony Alfrey wrote: On Wednesday 22 May 2002 07:34 pm,Keith Antoine wrote: On Thursday 23 May 2002 11:47, Leon A. Goldstein wrote: Tony Alfrey wrote: H. Are you on the SuSE list? I follow it and there seems to be a moderate amount of angst with

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-23 Thread Matthew Carpenter
begin Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu, 23 May 2002 15:33:18 -0600) snip While I support the concept of developing your own distro (it's good clean fun and educational and who could resist a Skippy distro grin), I question the long term viability. Either you choose an RPM binary distro, in

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-23 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Thursday 23 May 2002 04:17 pm,Keith Antoine wrote: snip Feed back please. I think we're looking forward to what you cook up. From my view, I'm almost more interested in the process than in the end result.. -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd rather be sailing

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-23 Thread Keith Antoine
On Friday 24 May 2002 11:13, Matthew Carpenter wrote: wwwWRROOOuuuwuwSCREECHhhh Sorry. You asked for feedback Sounds like a great idea. BTW- Your nickname is skippy, so where does Gandalf come into this sig? Remember I used to use Merlin and my

Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-22 Thread Tony Alfrey
Hi gang! Anybody had any experience installing 3.1.1? In other words, does it seem like a well-assembled distro? Thanks -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd rather be sailing ___ Linux-users mailing list -

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-22 Thread stayler
On Wed, 22 May 2002 06:18:54 -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote: Anybody had any experience installing 3.1.1? In other words, does it seem like a well-assembled distro? Thanks Not really... I had better luck with Slackware 8.0 YMMV Stayler ___ Linux-users

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-22 Thread Keith Antoine
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 23:18, Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi gang! Anybody had any experience installing 3.1.1? In other words, does it seem like a well-assembled distro? Thanks Geez, Tony where yer bin mate. Both of us over the years have 'talked' and I guess i know a few things that you

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-22 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wed, 22 May 2002 14:50:14 -0700 Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 22 May 2002 01:43 pm,Keith Antoine wrote: On Wednesday 22 May 2002 23:18, Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi gang! Anybody had any experience installing 3.1.1? In other words, does it seem like a

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-22 Thread Ken Moffat
time and mouse finger consuming. My one beef (other than the price!) right now is the inability to install the yahoo messenger rpm; dependency problems. I went with gaim instead. works well. Caldera 3.1.1 is stable and works well so far. Netscape 4.7, pretty dated but stable. Old Mozilla

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-22 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 03:30 pm,Jerry McBride wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2002 14:50:14 -0700 Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 22 May 2002 01:43 pm,Keith Antoine wrote: On Wednesday 22 May 2002 23:18, Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi gang! Anybody had any experience

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-22 Thread Collins
On Wed, 22 May 2002 14:50:14 -0700 Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 22 May 2002 01:43 pm,Keith Antoine wrote: On Wednesday 22 May 2002 23:18, Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi gang! Anybody had any experience installing 3.1.1? In other words, does it seem like a well-assembled

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-22 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Tony Alfrey wrote: H. Are you on the SuSE list? I follow it and there seems to be a moderate amount of angst with various things about 8.0. So I've been reluctant to spend my time on it. I have SuSE 8 on my lab rat where I too reluctantly spend time with it. Its latest stunt: I

Re: Caldera 3.1.1

2002-05-22 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thursday 23 May 2002 11:47, Leon A. Goldstein wrote: Tony Alfrey wrote: H. Are you on the SuSE list? I follow it and there seems to be a moderate amount of angst with various things about 8.0. So I've been reluctant to spend my time on it. I have SuSE 8 on my lab rat where I

Re: caldera 3.1.1

2002-02-25 Thread Keith Antoine
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 05:41, Jerry McBride observed: On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 11:11:37 -0800 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IO tried a product a little while ago called turboprint that worked great under libranet. It's a commercial product with a fully functional free version that only lacks

Re: caldera 3.1.1

2002-02-24 Thread Ken Moffat
cleared up some problems I had with those in 3.1. Ken Moffat wrote: Anyone using Caldera 3.1.1 care to comment on gotcha's or general impressions? I just downloaded and will soon install. -- Michael R. Hipp Microsoft Windows XP: Just say

Re: caldera 3.1.1

2002-02-24 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
CD's. I have Caldera 3.1 and the supplemental CD for it installed Gnome, IceWM and all manner of stuff. I am watching the reports on Caldera 3.1.1 I have the beta installed. I have noticed that the KDE 2.2.1 on the beta is a bit unstable - after working fine for a while, the part on the task

Re: caldera 3.1.1

2002-02-24 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:59:09 -0500 Leon A. Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Printer set up with CUPS is a bit tricky - I'm fine tuning that part of the how-to now. Tricky???Hmmm... I may catch some heat from this, but cups sucks. Plain and simple. I really, wish Caldera would go back to

Re: caldera 3.1.1

2002-02-24 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 11:11:37 -0800 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IO tried a product a little while ago called turboprint that worked great under libranet. It's a commercial product with a fully functional free version that only lacks some higher resolution features. Might search that

Re: caldera 3.1.1

2002-02-24 Thread Ken Moffat
I used tp on libranet, which I am not using right now, but it seems the sharing was working. Can't be too sure. I may have had to change the print command in swat to tp0 or something like that. Sorry not to be more specific. On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:41:16 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: caldera 3.1.1

2002-02-24 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:41:16 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken, you mentioned turboprint once before. I'm curious to see if you've been able to setup a printer share under samba with it. I haven't actually used TP, but it could be a possibility in my near future. Ah, i just

Re: caldera 3.1.1

2002-02-24 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
I have one on a Dell Inspiron laptop and another on an ASUS 850 chipset mother board system. Both seem to be working fine. The AUSU is my work computer. After zillions of years of running UnixWare, last week I switched to Caldera 3.1.1. My old computer literally blew up. So I took the opportunity