Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-26 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 25 March 2004 13:22, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:12, Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: If it wasn't for IBM you wouldn't be talking to us. If it wasn't for Babbage, none of us would be doing much of anything. 'cept maybe drinking more. stephen kuhn - owner

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-26 Thread Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf
On Thursday 25 March 2004 17:27, John Richard Smith wrote: Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: On Thursday 25 March 2004 12:39, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 21:41, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: ...getting too close time for tea - wonder if

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: ...getting too close time for tea - wonder if I can grab some cornbread from the Woolies (along with the damn kernel sources for 9.2) MD9.2 on CD3 John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread franki
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 24 March 2004 07:25 pm, frankieh wrote: As the subject says: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115365,00.asp HP, IBM Sign Up for SuSE Linux Two more problems skipped. I am not sure what you mean here... as a infamous aussie pollition would say...

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 21:41, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: ...getting too close time for tea - wonder if I can grab some cornbread from the Woolies (along with the damn kernel sources for 9.2) MD9.2 on CD3 John Reckon I didn't look hard enough. Too much

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf
On Thursday 25 March 2004 14:24, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:18, Graham Watkins wrote: Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: Hey! I'm Irish! I don't drink beer or lager anyway. I like Cognac...That's about it for booze. Nowt wrong with Bushmills 12 Yr Old. C'mon - I can

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread Graham Watkins
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:18, Graham Watkins wrote: Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: Hey! I'm Irish! I don't drink beer or lager anyway. I like Cognac...That's about it for booze. Nowt wrong with Bushmills 12 Yr Old. C'mon - I can think of a few better than Bushies.

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread Graham Watkins
Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: If it wasn't for IBM you wouldn't be talking to us. Weren't they the first people to nail a typewriter to a television? Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:36, Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: Nowt wrong with Bushmills 12 Yr Old. C'mon - I can think of a few better than Bushies. Like my own urine for example? ;) ...that's almost the same as Budweiser, mate...yech (and to think that I used to LOVE Budweiser - musta

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:39, Graham Watkins wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:18, Graham Watkins wrote: Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: Hey! I'm Irish! I don't drink beer or lager anyway. I like Cognac...That's about it for booze. Nowt wrong with Bushmills 12

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 06:22:20 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:12, Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: If it wasn't for IBM you wouldn't be talking to us. If it wasn't for Babbage, none of us would be doing much of anything.'cept maybe drinking more.

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread Graham Watkins
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:39, Graham Watkins wrote: There may be some as good ... but better? You'd better tell me in case I'm missing something. Glenfiddich, Glenmorangie, Balvenie, Bowmore... stephen kuhn - owner If we're looking at scotch, I'd have to disagree regarding

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 25 March 2004 11:18 am, Graham Watkins wrote: Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: Hey! I'm Irish! I don't drink beer or lager anyway. I like Cognac...That's about it for booze. Nowt wrong with Bushmills 12 Yr Old. Bushmills has an Irish cream Liquer that is great in coffee. beats

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 25 March 2004 11:22 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:12, Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: If it wasn't for IBM you wouldn't be talking to us. If it wasn't for Babbage, none of us would be doing much of anything. 'cept maybe drinking more. Don't forget Adia Agusta

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 25 March 2004 11:24 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:18, Graham Watkins wrote: Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: Hey! I'm Irish! I don't drink beer or lager anyway. I like Cognac...That's about it for booze. Nowt wrong with Bushmills 12 Yr Old. C'mon - I

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 25 March 2004 11:50 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:36, Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: Nowt wrong with Bushmills 12 Yr Old. C'mon - I can think of a few better than Bushies. Like my own urine for example? ;) ...that's almost the same as Budweiser,

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 25 March 2004 11:57 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:39, Graham Watkins wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:18, Graham Watkins wrote: Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: Hey! I'm Irish! I don't drink beer or lager anyway. I like Cognac...That's

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: On Thursday 25 March 2004 12:39, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 21:41, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: ...getting too close time for tea - wonder if I can grab some cornbread from the

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 25 March 2004 11:22 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:12, Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: If it wasn't for IBM you wouldn't be talking to us. If it wasn't for Babbage, none of us would be doing much of anything. 'cept maybe drinking

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 25 March 2004 02:41 pm, Graham Watkins wrote: Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: If it wasn't for IBM you wouldn't be talking to us. Weren't they the first people to nail a typewriter to a television? Only for prototypes. The production versions used duct tape, because it was felt

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread Richard Urwin
On Thursday 25 Mar 2004 7:12 pm, Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: If it wasn't for IBM you wouldn't be talking to us. If it wasn't for IBM Manchester Uni would be MIT and my surname would be Stallman. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 25 March 2004 05:36 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Thursday 25 March 2004 02:41 pm, Graham Watkins wrote: Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: If it wasn't for IBM you wouldn't be talking to us. Weren't they the first people to nail a typewriter to a television? Only for

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread Hasta Purnama
Like my own urine for example? ;) In my homeland we have a treatment for various deseases and proofed to be exceptionally good.That is drinking your first urine after you wake up in the morning. -- http://www.hastapurnama.or.id/ Want to buy

[newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-24 Thread frankieh
As the subject says: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115365,00.asp HP, IBM Sign Up for SuSE Linux Novell's distribution will appear on HP desktops, more IBM servers soon. Gillian Law, IDG News Service Wednesday, March 24, 2004 Novell has signed agreements with Hewlett-Packard and IBM

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 12:25, frankieh wrote: Generous Whack It's a slow road to toe, but the tech world is changing. Don't need all that fancy-dancy marketing if you've got an OS that's solid as a rock... It would be rather nice if someone somewhere WOULD do some more marketing of linux - even

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-24 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 05:51 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 12:25, frankieh wrote: Generous Whack It's a slow road to toe, but the tech world is changing. Don't need all that fancy-dancy marketing if you've got an OS that's solid as a rock... It would be rather nice if

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 13:19, Aron Smith wrote: Dammit Stephen show a little enthusiasm. If I can make a stencil (as I did with the linux paint-job) I'm going to splay I fix computers not cars on my bumper (1983 Toyota Corona that looks like it's been shot at and missed, shit at and hit). BTW,

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-24 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 06:34 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 13:19, Aron Smith wrote: Dammit Stephen show a little enthusiasm. If I can make a stencil (as I did with the linux paint-job) I'm going to splay I fix computers not cars on my bumper (1983 Toyota Corona that

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 13:32, Aron Smith wrote: BTW, if there were bumperstickers available that had something about Mandrake on 'em I'd get a few... Use GIMP ,a laser printer and full sheet label paper Make your own Ain't you supposed to be eating dinner about now? Like beans, cabbage,

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-24 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 06:50 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 13:32, Aron Smith wrote: BTW, if there were bumperstickers available that had something about Mandrake on 'em I'd get a few... Use GIMP ,a laser printer and full sheet label paper Make your own Ain't you

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 14:16, Aron Smith wrote: Ain't you supposed to be eating dinner about now? Like beans, cabbage, cornbread and chitlins? Nope Steak Potatos Green Beans sourdogh Bread Like chitlins ..just can't stand the smell of them cooking (that smell could be classified as a WMD)

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-24 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 02:32 am, many eyes viewed Aron Smith's words:- On Wednesday 24 March 2004 06:34 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 13:19, Aron Smith wrote: Dammit Stephen show a little enthusiasm. If I can make a stencil (as I did with the linux paint-job) I'm going to

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-24 Thread Marc
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 07:51 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 12:25, frankieh wrote: Generous Whack It's a slow road to toe, but the tech world is changing. Don't need all that fancy-dancy marketing if you've got an OS that's solid as a rock... It would be rather nice if

[newbie] Good news for UK gamers!

2004-03-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
TuxGames Partners with Game 23 Retail Shop - posted by Alkini - Wednesday Mar 17 09:50:04 2004 TuxGames has announced a partnership with the UK-based game retailer Game 23. The nub of the press release follows: Tux Games will provide Game 23 with access to its mature e-commerce solution,

Re: [newbie] Good News

2004-02-14 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:26:38 -0500 Greg Meyer disseminated the following: The nice reviews are still coming in. Mandrake on the Shuttle XPC. http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=491 Ok, I think there should be a rule added to the etiquette page about posting links to

Re: [newbie] Good News

2004-02-14 Thread lanman
On February 14, 2004 08:23 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:26:38 -0500 Greg Meyer disseminated the following: The nice reviews are still coming in. Mandrake on the Shuttle XPC. http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=491 Ok, I think there should be a rule added to the

Re: [newbie] Good News

2004-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 February 2004 13:23, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:26:38 -0500 Greg Meyer disseminated the following: The nice reviews are still coming in. Mandrake on the Shuttle XPC. http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=491 Ok, I think there should be a rule added to the

Re: [newbie] Good News

2004-02-14 Thread robin
JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:26:38 -0500 Greg Meyer disseminated the following: The nice reviews are still coming in. Mandrake on the Shuttle XPC. http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=491 Ok, I think there should be a rule added to the etiquette page about posting links to

Re: [newbie] Good News

2004-02-14 Thread lanman
On February 14, 2004 09:15 am, robin wrote: JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:26:38 -0500 Greg Meyer disseminated the following: The nice reviews are still coming in. Mandrake on the Shuttle XPC. http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=491 Ok, I think there should be a rule

[newbie] Good News

2004-02-13 Thread Greg Meyer
The nice reviews are still coming in. Mandrake on the Shuttle XPC. http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=491 -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Good News

2004-02-13 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 13 February 2004 04:26 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: The nice reviews are still coming in. Mandrake on the Shuttle XPC. http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=491 that is one sweet review :-D Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Good news .. and a question

2003-10-14 Thread Sharrea Day
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyhow, a couple of issues I'm having. First and foremost the user account I'm running under is having some permission issues. For one, the FAT32 partitions I created (/mp3s) gives me access denied errors every time I drag and drop mp3

Re: [newbie] Good news .. and a question

2003-10-14 Thread Russ
I can understand why Aaron would want this. If he has other users on his computer then they would also have access to that wallpaper if it was placed in /usr/share/wallpapers. I ran into the same problem when I started but ended up just creating a folder for them in my home directory as you

Re: [newbie] Good news .. and a question

2003-10-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 13 Oct 2003 11:54 pm, Russ wrote: John Wilson wrote: As a second example, I downloaded a really nice wallpaper and when attempting to copy the wallpaper to the /usr/share/wallpapers directory I get another access denied message. As someone else has pointed out it's bad form to

Re: [newbie] Good news .. and a question

2003-10-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you all for replying and suggesting changes to my line of thinking. That is exactly what I was looking for since at this point it's hard to trust anything I think up on my own. I've taken everyone's advice (which thinking about it now, makes perfect sense) and have created a directory

Re: [newbie] Good news

2003-05-31 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 06:42, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Hello frinds, cheers : http://www.suse.co.uk/uk/company/press/press_releases/archive03/munich.html Kaj Haulrich. I get a publication called government computer news (gcn.com) and noticed http://gcn.com/22_12/defense-technology/22195-1.html;

[newbie] Good news

2003-05-29 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Hello frinds, cheers : http://www.suse.co.uk/uk/company/press/press_releases/archive03/munich.html Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.1 - kernel 2.4.21 Brought to you from my 100 % Micro$oft-free computer. Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Good News and BAD News - '/home' less - FIXED

2002-04-13 Thread Terry Smith
Thanks for the tip. I nosed around for several hours on the HOWTO's mini-HOWTOs, the Red Hat site, a couple of ext3 sites, etc. and got nowhere. Recovering deleted files is a possibility (there's a program 'recover' but its pretty tedious...uses debugfs...and only works on ext2 fs's). The EXT3

Re: [newbie] Good News and BAD News - '/home' less

2002-04-12 Thread Michael
Reply in text below Terry Smith wrote: Short ver.: Any way to recover a deleted directory on a ext3 partition? Details: Although I've remained subscribed to this list, over the last 6 weeks I've been running a RH 7.2 distro off of my hdb drive. BOO! Last night, after downloading the

Re: [newbie] Good News and BAD News - '/home' less

2002-04-12 Thread Frans Ketelaars
file:/usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/ref.html/ts-deleted-files-recovery.html It's about ext2, but since ext3 is build upon ext2 IIUC _maybe_ it's of some use. Good luck! On 11 Apr 2002 21:11:54 -0400 Terry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Short ver.: Any way to recover a deleted directory on a ext3

[newbie] Good News and BAD News - '/home' less

2002-04-11 Thread Terry Smith
Short ver.: Any way to recover a deleted directory on a ext3 partition? Details: Although I've remained subscribed to this list, over the last 6 weeks I've been running a RH 7.2 distro off of my hdb drive. BOO! Last night, after downloading the new Mandrake 8.2 and burning 3 cds I installed 8.2