Tyler wrote:
They're all there, its just that Mandrake has practically eliminated the
need for the CLI tools.
Oh swell... like filling your car floor to ceiling with cotton candy, then
trying to drive down the street.
Now, we all know, regardless of how much we hate M$, that
the thing does
Michael spake:
Let's just make sure we don't take anyone who dares offer constructive
criticism of Linux or reports to have found a security problem and
immediately fry them as a mole, troll, plant or whatever. Tarring
and
feathering needs to be reserved for the real thing; not some innocent
to think that all my previous (Microsoft) accomplishments were, in
the end, bad decisions on my part.
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Michael wrote:
Perhaps they'll urge Americans to switch to a safer OS ;-)
Not likely during the current administration.
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David spake:
That would be fine if you stuck to inches all the time but:
12 inches = 1 foot
3 feet = 1 yard
yards = 1 mile
From my Navy years:
1760 yards to a nautical mile. A nautical mile is 1 minute of latitude at
the equator.
a 'cable' is 200 yards
a shackle is about 90 feet
a
David wrote:
And you got this information where?
Ooops. My memory is not as good as I thunk. The last ship I drove was a
destroyer in 1977.
As I now recall, we used 2000 yards as a rough measure of miles. I got
myself confused with statute miles. The rest were used as rounded off units.
We
Joel spake:
Thanks for this wonderful link. It will provide much interesting reading.
About the Brave New World of uniform measurements based on units of 10.
They tried hard to switch American medicine over to the European units for
chemistry values (out with mg/dl, in ng/l or meq/l etc.
Keith wrote:
On Saturday 17 November 2001 01:20, Douglas J Hunley enunciated:
I had resubbed to Caldera lists as well and I can say that there is a
definite drop in posts to both lists over the past 4 weeks or so.
we're only about half of the pre-crash membership. does anyone know how
Mike mused:
On Wednesday 14 November 2001 14:34, Burns MacDonald wrote:
There were some very knowledgable people lost to this list.
They'll be back.
Yoiks! I sayeth not that.
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Is it my imagination, or is the volume on this list
way down over what it was just a month or two ago?
Did we lose a bunch or people that never re-subbed
during the hardware failure crisis?
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Ken spoke:
There was a lot of that Caldera bashing going on at first. too bad.
There were some very knowledgable people lost to this list.
And to the Caldera list for other reasons. But we won't go there... again.
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Doug proclaimed:
Burns MacDonald babbled on about:
I'd check the archives to confirm
that, but linux.nf is down here (again)
shouldn't be. details?
404. Back up now though.
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Tom titillated:
Les was here for a little bit. Then some flame war erupted about
something, I can't remember, but a bunch of other members attacked Les
and away he went. Decided the nonsense wasn't worth his time. A shame
really because I miss his and others like David Bandels
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