Re: YOU READ MY MIND (was building a new distro)

2001-07-02 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 02 July 2001 16:57, Chris Kassopulo babbled: I would be very interested in what you come up with and am willing to beta test and work on documentation or provide any other support I can. On a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being braindead and

Re: building a new distro

2001-07-02 Thread David A. Bandel
dep wrote: On Monday 02 July 2001 03:11 pm, Douglas J. Hunley wrote: | SuSE comes really close.. they even have /etc/lsb-release so you | know what version they are matching not on my suse 7.1 and 7.2 machines, they don't. It's not part of the Office install. Look for

Re: Antialiasing

2001-07-02 Thread Mike Andrew
On Tuesday 03 July 2001 05:11, Shawn Church wrote: antialiased fonts in eD2.4. I remember at the time someone (maybe Les?) mentioning a way to enable this, but I haven't been able to find it [snip] Damn, you're right, the only reference I have is Dep's original article on the subject, you

Re: OT

2001-07-02 Thread Les Bell
burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, a lot of folks just feel safer in an SUV. The impression is that there is more vehicle around you, compared to the plastic and tin crumple zone wonders. It's just an *impression* of safety, Burns. SUV's are not subject to the same crash test

Re: YOU READ MY MIND (was Re: building a new distro)

2001-07-02 Thread Mike Andrew
On Tuesday 03 July 2001 05:12, Douglas J. Hunley wrote: I'm acutally working on setting up another system for this very purpose. I was going to start with a Linux From Scratch base, then make it available on linux.nf and allow others to help drive the development of the distro.. As someone

Re: Kicq won't ./configure

2001-07-02 Thread Mike Andrew
On Tuesday 03 July 2001 05:19, Douglas J. Hunley wrote: major weird.. you want the suse rpms to install? I took your very own cvs snapshot of kicq as a thirteenth attempt at this. It didn't have a configure script so i ran autoconf and got even worser results. In startling contrast to (say)

Re: Alternative for dialup users - xisp

2001-07-02 Thread Alan Jackson
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001 20:25:32 -0500 Bill Day wrote: On Sunday 01 July 2001 18:33, you wrote: On Tuesday 26 June 2001 11:29 pm, Collins Richey wrote: | My employer is touting this for linux users that dial in to our | company sites. it's dandy. I had no luck with XISP, ksaferppp and

Re: Fwd: [SLE] True Type Fonts Under Linux

2001-07-02 Thread Mike Andrew
On Tuesday 03 July 2001 05:45, Douglas J. Hunley wrote: The direct link follows: [snip] actual link is http://portal.suse.de/en/content.php?SEARCHcontent/desktop/aafonts.html (it is being snaffled to the SxS site as we speak) -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

More Steps July 3 Antialiasing

2001-07-02 Thread Mike Andrew
Fonts-Antialising (SuSe specific) unashamedly stolen material -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ___

Re: Win4Lin 3.0 Kernels

2001-07-02 Thread Mike Andrew
On Tuesday 03 July 2001 06:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those of you on the list who use Win4Lin and particularly the latest, Win4Lin 3.0; they have placed updated kernels on their site and include a pre-patched and win4lin-enabled for COL 3.1. nice info, thank you. -- http://linux.nf

Re: Alternative for dialup users - xisp

2001-07-02 Thread Mike Andrew
On Tuesday 03 July 2001 06:33, Alan Jackson wrote: both in Expect. One runs batch, so I can do dialup on a cron job, and the other has a Tk Gui on it. If you know a bit of Tcl/Tk and are interested, I'll send you a copy... yes please, leaving ICQ running as a psuedo ping is a bit much. If

Re: Kicq won't ./configure

2001-07-02 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 02 July 2001 19:04, Mike Andrew babbled: On Tuesday 03 July 2001 05:19, Douglas J. Hunley wrote: major weird.. you want the suse rpms to install? I took your very own cvs snapshot of kicq as a thirteenth attempt at this. It didn't

Re: OT

2001-07-02 Thread Philip J. Koenig
On 2 Jul 2001, at 14:38, burns boldly uttered: Lee wrote: Not to worry there. At the rate we're sucking the next generation's energy reserves and consuming them in our SUVs I'm sure the sky will be quite visible in the future's darkened cities Errr, what about semis? Pickup

Re: Security Announcements?

2001-07-02 Thread Auyeung at Technet Systems
Yes, please. Auyeung - Original Message - From: Douglas J. Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 12:33 AM Subject: Security Announcements? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Would the list be interested in my forwarding

Re: Workstation 3.1

2001-07-02 Thread Ian Marchak
Ken Moffat wrote: Caldera just announced their intention to provide a free iso image for download next week. Free for developers who must be a company that is a retail partner? Or free. I was really looking forward to this release, but not to the tune of $150-170 Canadian. -- Ian Marchak

Re: OT

2001-07-02 Thread Ian Marchak
burns wrote: Rick Sivernell wrote: Yet they have become a status symbol for the dead brain rich. And the latest trendy target for those who aren't. ;o) Seriously though. Having an SUV in Canada in the winter is extremely handy (and comforting). You can get that same warm fuzzy

Re: Kicq won't ./configure

2001-07-02 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 02 July 2001 23:12, Eddie Arteaga babbled: Yes I did try kicq 1.0, I'll give the new version a shot. Does it require the icqlibs installed as well? yes. latest cvs (well, not quite). you can snarf them off my machine if you like. use

vectorlinux 2.0 - a real pro

2001-07-02 Thread Collins Richey
Well I spent about 3-4 hours the last couple of days installing vectorlinux, probably the smallest really usable Linux distro. Blurb from the website - The Vector Linux team is proud to announce that Vector Linux 2.0 has just been unleashed on the unsuspecting computer world. Hold on to your

Re: Workstation 3.1

2001-07-02 Thread burns
Shawn Tayler wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 20:38:30 -0700, Ken Moffat wrote: You must join the free developer's group. Still sounds free, and I have heard the company requirement, but not sure about that yet., I am curious as I am not a developer (at least not yet). Would I be able

Re: Fwd: Downloadable ISO images of OpenLinux 3.1 will be available for single user non-commercial use

2001-07-02 Thread Jim Conner
My apologies for forwarding it here. I'll be more careful of this in the future. Jim On Monday July 02, 2001 10:57 pm, Les Bell wrote: snip If I want to know what Caldera is up to, I can find out - and did find out - on the Caldera users list. Same goes for Red Hat, SuSE, etc. all of which