Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-19 Thread Mark
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 08:49:12 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: without allowing proper blood flow shouldn't that be Beer flow Charles guess that depends upon what the majority of your bodily fluids are comprised of. :P

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-17 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 08:49:12 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: without allowing proper blood flow shouldn't that be Beer flow Charles -- perfect guest: One who makes his host feel at home. - Mandrake Linux 9.1 Kernel- 2.4.21pre4-6mdk

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-17 Thread Mark Weaver
robin wrote: Or more specifically, you build a package and upload it to the contribs folder that actually works and everyone else can use. for me, prolly a long way off. I'm still in the break it and fix it area. Funnily enough I came within a whisker of doing that with lyx-qt-1.3, but

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-16 Thread magnet
On Friday 14 Feb 2003 9:09 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? What's a newbie? grin -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all

RE: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-16 Thread Robert Wideman
Civileme = expert everyone else(self included) = newbie As always, the = operator flows to the left. SOO true. Thanks civilme for all the help you give. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-16 Thread Mark Weaver
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 04:42 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: Oh come one. I like 12 hour shifts. They are easier than 16 hour shifts. HEHE Rob You know, I used to work this weekend shift thing - where I pulled 2 sixteen hour shifts, Sat and Sun, then was off 5 days a

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-16 Thread Mark Weaver
mycal62 wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? All this humility is very nice. ;-) that aside, it's interesting how the responses have been. with anything and especially with opinion it's really a

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-16 Thread Mark Weaver
et wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 09:31 pm, mycal62 wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? All this humility is very nice. ;-) that aside, it's interesting how the responses have been. with anything

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-16 Thread Mark Weaver
et wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 08:17 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: If you're lucky, you never stop being a newbie. No joke. I am personally going to be taking a newbie learning course (not a course, just a self taught action) in Apache/Perl/Python/SQL programming here soon. So i totally

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 2:51 am, et wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 08:05 pm, robin wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? If you're lucky, you never stop being a newbie. Sir Robin Notme

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-15 Thread robin
Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 04:09 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? How about: When you get up enough guts to post on the Cooker list. Then you're just a newbie in a bigger pond! Maybe

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-15 Thread Daniel Anderson
On Friday 14 February 2003 08:05 pm, robin wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? When you know enough to realize that you don't know very much. MtnMan -- 9:01am up 3 days, 22:56, 2 users, load

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-15 Thread mycal62
Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? All this humility is very nice. ;-) that aside, it's interesting how the responses have been. with anything and especially with opinion it's really a matter of

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-15 Thread et
On Friday 14 February 2003 09:31 pm, mycal62 wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? All this humility is very nice. ;-) that aside, it's interesting how the responses have been. with anything and

[newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-14 Thread Greg Meyer
I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-14 Thread Chuck Burns
On Friday 14 February 2003 3:09 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? When you stop asking questions like this on the mandrake-newbie list. :) -- Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 14 February 2003 04:09 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? When you are answering more questions than you ask? :-) BTW, I was a newbie 5 years ago, I'm a newbie today, and 5 years from now I will

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-14 Thread et
On Thursday 13 February 2003 04:18 am, Chuck Burns wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 3:09 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? When you stop asking questions like this on the mandrake-newbie list. :) when

RE: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-14 Thread Robert Wideman
When you are answering more questions than you ask? :-) I could argue that one. But its got truth to it. BTW, I was a newbie 5 years ago, I'm a newbie today, and 5 years from now I will still be a Linux newbie... Totally true. Tell you the truth, i see some of the more expertise people (i

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-14 Thread mycal62
How can you tell when you are not a newbie anymore? Hmmm.. when you can fix the things you break , and you at least have a clue how or why you broke it. big grin -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA ~~ Currently triple

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 08:09, Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? When you start to do more work from a console than from a GUI - or when you get rid of GDM/KDM/XDM so that you can boot faster...or when you start X

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-14 Thread robin
Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? If you're lucky, you never stop being a newbie. Sir Robin -- Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke quarrells. - G. Pettie Robin Turner

RE: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-14 Thread Robert Wideman
If you're lucky, you never stop being a newbie. No joke. I am personally going to be taking a newbie learning course (not a course, just a self taught action) in Apache/Perl/Python/SQL programming here soon. So i totally understand that statement. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 14 February 2003 04:23 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: He's a newbie, she's a newbie, wouldn't you like to be a newbie too? Great answer -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 14 February 2003 04:09 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? How about: When you get up enough guts to post on the Cooker list. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-14 Thread et
On Friday 14 February 2003 08:17 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: If you're lucky, you never stop being a newbie. No joke. I am personally going to be taking a newbie learning course (not a course, just a self taught action) in Apache/Perl/Python/SQL programming here soon. So i totally understand

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-14 Thread et
On Friday 14 February 2003 08:05 pm, robin wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? If you're lucky, you never stop being a newbie. Sir Robin Notme I sware that after the all the critters die, and the

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-14 Thread _nasturtium
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 08:09 am, Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? You become an expert, and no longer a newbie when you start flaming people for OT posts like these :-). Or when you get hired by MandrakeSoft...

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 14 February 2003 04:42 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: Oh come one. I like 12 hour shifts. They are easier than 16 hour shifts. HEHE Rob You know, I used to work this weekend shift thing - where I pulled 2 sixteen hour shifts, Sat and Sun, then was off 5 days a week. They gave me 8 hrs

RE: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-14 Thread Robert Wideman
You know, I used to work this weekend shift thing - where I pulled 2 sixteen hour shifts, Sat and Sun, then was off 5 days a week. They gave me 8 hrs for doing it , to make my 40 hrs a week. I loved being off 5 days in a row. Just hated working -every- weekend... HAHA, you totally