[newbie] Governments like open-source software, but Microsoft does not

From the Economist: Microsoft and its allies have sought to discredit open-source software, likening its challenge of proprietary ownership to communism and suggesting that its openness makes it insecure and therefore vulnerable to terrorism. Link:

Re: [newbie] For anyone in Toronto

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 23:16:09 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: their er, there... -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [newbie] old mandrake 9.1 drive in new machine

Is there a way to configure x from the command line? Or verify that I can get out? Am I on the right track? I think you want XFdrake Run it as root. Arrows move up and down, tab to get to the buttons, enter to click -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to

Re: [newbie] For anyone in Toronto

On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 20:32, HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 23:16:09 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: their er, there... Electric Bong problems again yeh? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT - 3rd Annual Nigerian E-Mail Conference

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:25:14 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: actually I collect them as they are so obvious that I wonder if anyone has ever been taken in by a Nigerian letter I've seen some pretty funny bits where people have actually taken them up on the offer but just kept them

Re: [newbie] Re: This SMS message thing is pissing me off

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:42:52 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: What - you don't like using procmail? (you can use one for system wide, and one for personal - like wearing two condoms...) actually, I was going to add that simple procmail recipe that Ralph posted...that should take

Re: [newbie] Re: This SMS message thing is pissing me off

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:26:49 +0200 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Worked it out: :0 * ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] then how do you send it to /dev/null? -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org

[newbie] Updating URPMI itself.

Hi, The HOWTOs I read show me how to use urpmi to update programs. I need to update urpmi itself. Will it be safe to update urpmi the way I update other programs; using urpmi itself? If that is not safe then how do I update urpmi? The HOWTOs do not give me an answer to these questions. Thanx,

Re: [newbie] Updating URPMI itself.

i have no direct answer to your question, but i seem to recall mandrake once released an updated rpm for urpmi, and it was installed properly using urpmi. so the answer is: probably safe. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [newbie] Installing BibleTime from source - upgrading to MD 9.1

Hi All, Thanks for the help so far. I finally got KDE working again (picky little bugger). Anyway, I am either going to upgrade to MD9.1 or do a complete reinstall before I try installing BibleTime again. I downloaded the iso's (md9.1) but each one said it stalled instead of finished (I used

Re: [newbie] Updating URPMI itself.

Thanks Stormjumper. My system is in a big mess already (see [newbie] Installation problem) and I need my urpmi to continue to work. I cannot take the risk of messing up my system even more. Especially with the tool that is supposed to help me out of the mess. Can somebody please give me a more

[newbie] 9.2 Features

I can't seem to find a list of the features coming with 9.2, ie. will it include GTK+2.2, etc. Is there somewhere I can find such a list on the Mandrake site? -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's

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