RE: [uug][why am I responding to a troll?] TuxGirl for President!

2005-04-06 Thread Brian Phillips
> Generally those notifications are open just long enough to be marked read > and then filed away. I agree. In other cases, just long enough to get the temporary password to activate your account, or click on the link that says "to activate your account click here." Using that to our advantage,

Re: [uug][why am I responding to a troll?] TuxGirl for President!

2005-04-06 Thread Drew A. Withers
>ME TOO! But seriously, I know that with some mailing lists you are sent >a confirmation email telling you have you have joined a list blah blah >blah. Perhaps something about the way to post could be placed inside >that generic email? > I think that some sort of information page or email would

Re: [uug][why am I responding to a troll?] TuxGirl for President!

2005-04-06 Thread tuxgirl
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 10:09:51PM -0600, Brian Phillips wrote: > > I would have to say that as a semi-newbie, I have been at fault both > > ways in the past. I have since (hopefully) learned my lesson and I > > try to trim and I usually bottom-post unless it seems totally > > unhelpful or for som

RE: [uug][why am I responding to a troll?] TuxGirl for President!

2005-04-06 Thread Brian Phillips
> I would have to say that as a semi-newbie, I have been at fault both > ways in the past. I have since (hopefully) learned my lesson and I > try to trim and I usually bottom-post unless it seems totally > unhelpful or for some other reason. ME TOO! But seriously, I know that with some mailing

Re: [uug][why am I responding to a troll?] TuxGirl for President!

2005-04-06 Thread Alex Esplin
> Many people top post because they're too lazy to trim, so they just put > their one-line response at the top of a gigantic conglomeration of past > posts. This is sick and wrong[tm]. But I hate it when people entirely miss > the boat, and instead of attacking the person (*cough*, er, I mean, kind

Re: [uug] script for selecting wireless essid?

2005-04-06 Thread Alex Esplin
> netapplet's hard coded to SuSE currently, probably won't with a debian > based distro. It is dang cool though. > I would have to say that is the first thing I have missed about SuSE so far. I used it a lot. I think this is going to end up being a project for after finals, but thanks for the he

Re: [uug][why am I responding to a troll?] TuxGirl for President!

2005-04-06 Thread Ross Werner
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Clinton Jones wrote: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 09:00:28PM -0600, Scott K employed an infinite > amount of monkeys with typewriters to say: > > The standard convention for the English language is top to bottom by > > chronology. Just to spell it out for you, since chronology is a

Re: [uug][why am I responding to a troll?] TuxGirl for President!

2005-04-06 Thread Clinton Jones
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 09:00:28PM -0600, Scott K employed an infinite amount of monkeys with typewriters to say: > > The standard convention for the English language is top to bottom by > chronology. Just to spell it out for you, since chronology is a big > word, that means that you put your co

Re: [uug] script for selecting wireless essid?

2005-04-06 Thread Scott Paul Robertson
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 07:10:40PM -0600, Byron Clark wrote: > You may also want to take a look at netapplet.[1] I haven't used it, > but it may be just what you need. > > [1] http://primates.ximian.com/~rml/netapplet/ > netapplet's hard coded to SuSE currently, probably won't with a debian bas

Re: [uug][why am I responding to a troll?] TuxGirl for President!

2005-04-06 Thread Scott K
DNA3e8 wrote: I use gmail (and it is smart and trims what i see ha ha ha (sorry I don't even think about triming) Are you really that dense? Did you fail to comprehend every single message here? The standard convention for the English language is top to bottom by chronology. Just to spell it

Re: [uug] TuxGirl (Erin Sharmahd) for President!

2005-04-06 Thread tuxgirl
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:02:03PM -0600, DNA3e8 wrote: > I use gmail (and it is smart and trims what i see ha ha ha > (sorry I don't even think about triming) I use gmail and it doesn't prevent me from being a courteous member of the various online communities that i'm a member of... and as for

Re: [uug] TuxGirl (Erin Sharmahd) for President!

2005-04-06 Thread DNA3e8
I use gmail (and it is smart and trims what i see ha ha ha (sorry I don't even think about triming) On Apr 4, 2005 1:12 PM, Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If you are elected webmaster, Adam, you will probably be working with > me. We're not going to get along so well if you do

Re: [uug] script for selecting wireless essid?

2005-04-06 Thread Phillip Hellewell
> First, is there a tool to define what your preffered essid's are? > Something that would allow me to specify to look for my essid, then > byu's, and then any others? I wrote a script to do exactly that about a year ago. You specify a list of schemes to use from your wireless.opts file, and the

Re: [uug] script for selecting wireless essid?

2005-04-06 Thread Byron Clark
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 07:01:53PM -0600, Alex Esplin wrote: > First, is there a tool to define what your preffered essid's are? > Something that would allow me to specify to look for my essid, then > byu's, and then any others? The settings for your network connection live in /etc/network/interf

[uug] script for selecting wireless essid?

2005-04-06 Thread Alex Esplin
Hello all, I have a question. At my apartment, there are several wireless networks available (courtesy of the neighboors), but they aren't all that reliable. The problem is, I never know which essid I'm going to be using when when I boot into Ubuntu. I have never really done any scripting before

Re: [uug] [Diverted] data manipulation for less technical people

2005-04-06 Thread Jacob Albretsen
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 11:50 pm, Scott Kraz wrote: > I just talked to a friend with similar concerns, but considerably less > programming experience. He is a physics major who would like to be able > to manipulate data and in general be more familiar with tools that would > help him with his res

Re: [uug] [OT] Trial Forum Idea

2005-04-06 Thread Mark Gardner
Either FudForum or the mail2forum look like great solutions Those that want to keep in the mailing list environment can... and those that would prefer a forum type enviroment can also be happy. Sounds like a win-win situation to me. The only one that loses is the poor person that gets to set

Re: [uug] Re: Forums

2005-04-06 Thread Scott Kraz
Convience is only a matter of thought. With a forum there is a place for on topic and off topic discussions. You don't have to set up any special filters in your email client to make it work right. It's cleaner, easier to read, and with specific ones you get threading, ala slashdot. Adam FIndle