Re: [expert] Re: Any monospaced sans serif fonts?

2002-04-23 Thread Alastair Scott
On Tuesday 23 Apr 2002 9:22 am, Mark Williamson wrote: I guess you need Andale Mono (TrueType) font - it's available from Win98 of from MS Typography site. What's the Web address of the MS Typography site. http://www.eu.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm Alastair -- Alastair

Re: [expert] Changing msec level via command line?

2002-05-02 Thread Alastair Scott
on /tmp have got messed up. After fiddling around with Bastille and various other things I couldn't start X, then found that the permissions were wrong; a quick msec 2 reset them, allowed various temporary files to be written, and everything started OK. Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London

[expert] KDE 3 disk thrashing

2002-05-04 Thread Alastair Scott
translation of that would be good ;) The problem is particularly strange given I have 0.5GB of memory ... Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] KDE 3 disk thrashing

2002-05-05 Thread Alastair Scott
On Sunday 05 May 2002 3:33 am, John Haywood wrote: On Saturday 04 May 2002 21:10, Alastair Scott wrote: There seems to be a pretty nasty problem with KDE 3 which I can define quite precisely. not just KDE3 if I'm right. If I press the right mouse button on a downloadable file (say

[expert] Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set

2002-05-06 Thread Alastair Scott
-- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] BUG - X4.2 or X3.3.6 and I128 Video

2002-05-06 Thread Alastair Scott
cards by now for the (notional) cost of the time expended! Alastair PS I use an 'cheap but good' ATI Radeon VE (with DVI output) which worked first time without any problems. -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set

2002-05-09 Thread Alastair Scott
, the faster we count the spoons. Regarding Linux: All life is an experiment, and the more experiments you make the better. (disclaimer - from memory) Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] This thread went OT, and thank God! (was Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set)

2002-05-09 Thread Alastair Scott
Hume, not a 'limey' :P (Follow-up set to [mandrake-offtopic]) Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] 8.2 Install second ide cdrom bug

2002-05-10 Thread Alastair Scott
) and eventually found: https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ It uses Bugzilla - probably the most impenetrable Web application known to mortal Man ... Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Any problems with NEC LCD 1550V monitor?

2002-05-11 Thread Alastair Scott
); - - no more degaussing or playing with geometry controls to try to get an (almost) rectangular picture ;) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: [expert] Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set

2002-05-13 Thread Alastair Scott
). Alastair PS Never mind the Wal-Mart flap; www.novatech.co.uk build machines without an OS, and there's a pretty impressive choice of components. - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-15 Thread Alastair Scott
it soon :) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE84hwnCv59vFiSU4YRAggKAJ9KCSNZMRkeNP41s8FsrQD9FxCYdgCgyb1a 38JrsuJSK0/a7lAap+36TzU= =7Khw

Re: [expert] OK I give up.

2002-05-16 Thread Alastair Scott
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Re: [expert] Edditing the 8.2 KDE Aplication Menu?

2002-05-18 Thread Alastair Scott
still there but hidden. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE85hd7Cv59vFiSU4YRAqKJAJ9qIlRfFnHd4c2lIKhSNfBXqqgU+wCgtP4L

Re: [expert] newbie vs expert (was Tasks startup time with ps)

2002-05-18 Thread Alastair Scott
patronising air, could well be in an influential position 'in real life'; flaming _anyone_ is potentially a lost sale, or a lot of lost sales ... Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: [expert] newbie vs expert (was Tasks startup time with ps)

2002-05-18 Thread Alastair Scott
quantity of 'arrogant and supercilious' people seem to frequent Usenet; I'm surprised you were attacked on a mailing list as, in my experience, they're much less problematic. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread Alastair Scott
after I switched to Linux ;) I now have an ATA100 7200rpm 40GB IBM which is working wonderfully well. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: [expert] WipeInfo - comporable for Linux?

2002-05-22 Thread Alastair Scott
manager (like the old Norton Commander) and has a 'Shred' option which, from the noise the hard disk makes, does overwrite a file multiply :) http://krusader.sourceforge.net/ Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: [expert] WipeInfo - comporable for Linux?

2002-05-23 Thread Alastair Scott
and wiping works in different ways. It looks as though http://wipe.sourceforge.net/ is the closest you'll get. I used to use BCWipe on Windows, which was good, and there are Linux flavours of it: http://www.jetico.com/linux Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http

Re: [expert] Mozilla/Kmail

2002-05-24 Thread Alastair Scott
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Re: [expert] lots of freezes in LM 8.1

2002-05-26 Thread Alastair Scott
ends of the 'bathtub curve' (imagine age of component along X axis and probability of failure along Y axis ;) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: [expert] CUPS and installing USB printer

2002-05-26 Thread Alastair Scott
connected to. Alastair * mouse not re-awakening when leaving power-saving mode ** some momentary connectivity outages - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

[expert] Building _sound_ Mandrake RPMs

2002-05-26 Thread Alastair Scott
found anything so far); - - retrieve my second PC from behind the sofa, install Mandrake 8.2 from the CDs and not a byte extra, then build away. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: [expert] xcdroast: does not recognize Mandrake CD

2002-05-26 Thread Alastair Scott
are various (Yamaha, Teac, Lite-On) and lilo.conf is OK in all instances. On the theme of decadence, here's a new KDE 3-compatible CD burning frontend which IMO is the best yet: http://k3b.sourceforge.net/ Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP

Re: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread Alastair Scott
Windows and Linux HOWTO' ... ? (If anyone else thinks it should exist I might have a shot at writing it; there's nothing like a difficult challenge ... !) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 28 May 2002 8:38 pm, kwan wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2002, Alastair Scott wrote: As for the second, you have to know it exists: it's remarkable _how different_ the approach to learning how to use Linux is to someone who has come from

Re: [expert] A Linux Virus on the loose.

2002-06-02 Thread Alastair Scott
and they were first-rate. http://www.f-prot.com/f-prot/products/fplin.html (It costs businesses $300 per server per annum but is free for personal use!) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux

[expert] Control Centre compiled applets not appearing

2002-06-03 Thread Alastair Scott
the application works OK as far as I can see, but even restarting KDE doesn't put the icon in the Control Centre. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http

Re: [expert] Here they come again...

2002-06-05 Thread Alastair Scott
obvious_ mould; this is a bad American habit which needs to be watched :/ - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8/l

Re: [expert] X Freezes

2002-06-07 Thread Alastair Scott
Andrew wrote: My computer seems to randomly freeze up. It stops responding to everything (mouse, keyboard, CTRL+ALT+BKSPC). This only happens when I am running X11. I haven't found a pattern that shows a specific app causing the freeze. I have had combinations of IceWM, KDE2.2 and 3, having

Re: [expert] Kstars crashes in latest mandrake kde RPMs

2002-06-09 Thread Alastair Scott
the installation package http://prdownloads.sf.net/kstars/kstars-0.9.kde3.tar.gz and build it the problem is solved. (And it's worth it - kstars is excellent :) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU

Re: [expert] kde3.01 won't start

2002-06-11 Thread Alastair Scott
I've put my copies in: http://www.unmetered.org.uk/misc/libqt3-3.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm http://www.unmetered.org.uk/misc/libqt3-devel-3.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: [expert] Here they come again...

2002-06-25 Thread Alastair Scott
much useful life in it, for example. I suspect that, to the proposers, £600 or £700 for a new machine is nothing, and that they would be surprised to hear that theirs was the financial situation of a _small minority_ of people. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http

Re: [expert] I made it -- 1 year uptime

2002-06-25 Thread Alastair Scott
when memory was being given away in cornflakes packets), 180GB of RAID storage (hard disks now being given away ditto) etc. etc. Alastair * because of bizarre 'policies' where it's physically hosted ... - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP

Re: [expert] How to request packages?

2002-06-27 Thread Alastair Scott
will have to go to some special repository which isn't mirrored in USA. The catch is that you'll have to be a Club member to propose and benefit (there is a thread of responses under that article on the Club pages). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http

Re: [expert] I need facts to prove UNIX's superiority for mainfraim purposes over M$ MF Servers

2002-06-27 Thread Alastair Scott
providing related information, and ends with some conclusions. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: [expert] I need facts to prove UNIX's superiority for mainfraim purposes over M$ MF Servers

2002-06-27 Thread Alastair Scott
be able to extract much from it. Its value is that it's an MSc thesis (so it's not just a random journalistic effort; it'll have been reviewed and defended). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU

Re: [expert] Apache worm?

2002-06-29 Thread Alastair Scott
/apache-worm/ At the moment (see bugtraq mailing list)* it's being taken apart to see what it does. Alastair * http://online.securityfocus.com/archive - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: [expert] Deleting printers

2002-07-23 Thread Alastair Scott
button)? This gives you a rather nice Web interface and allows CUPS printers to be deleted from there. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: [expert] Dell LCD monitors with LM

2002-07-24 Thread Alastair Scott
on because my hardware is slightly older (3C905 Ethernet card, integrated, and Teac 24xCD-ROM). Generally what's inside the box is more important than who the OEM is. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [expert] lyx, libforms, and other frontends

2002-08-02 Thread Alastair Scott
) ... Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9SuU5XzGCRjP1DsMRAo9KAKCCrEgw8iBU1QOqhDQtsLfGaR81GgCdGmf+ G2m9gzAQfnd//lAmjPALd+w= =xE6n -END

Re: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: PostPo sitive)

2002-08-13 Thread Alastair Scott
to Web sites to remove inconvenient facts from history, I know that if this page changes http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/bsa/faq2 you start counting the spoons :) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [expert] P2P Application

2002-08-22 Thread Alastair Scott
to Linux completely in turn making my life better. Any suggestions or reccomendations? Try http://qtella.sourceforge.net/ (KDE) http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/ (Gnome) http://news.com.com/2100-1023-954651.html (for amusement) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http

Re: [expert]

2002-08-25 Thread Alastair Scott
On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 19:41, James Sparenberg wrote: PLEASE put slocate back in the default install, and on a disk in every version of the release (Download PowerPack etc etc) Oh and if you do make sure to put the cron job back in slocate. slocate is there. Apparently there was a big

Re: [expert] alcatel speedtouch usb adsl modem

2002-09-04 Thread Alastair Scott
On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 14:17, Azrael wrote: Gave 9.0 beta 3 a spin last week.. and couldn't get my alcatel speedtouch usb adsl modem to work. I downloaded the mgmt.o from alcatel and put it where it was supposed to go.. but couldn't get it to work properly. Wondered if beta4 had

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Alastair Scott
Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (09/05/2002 11:55) James Sparenberg wrote: Over 10 years on computers not always nix (I miss my Amiga *grin*) James I've been hearing a lot about Amigas and invariably the people always say they miss them. What was so special about them that they're

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Alastair Scott
Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (09/05/2002 15:24) My GOD! where do I find one of these marvelous machines? I WANT ONE!! they sound perfectly awesome. I can't help but wonder why in the world they're not still produced. What caused their downfall? I'm pretty sure there'll be a fair

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Alastair Scott
dh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (09/06/2002 15:29) Excellent description, you neglected to mention that except for the very (very!) earliest of versions it was/is also a fully pre-emptive, multitasking OS. The first computer I owned that could draw me away from it as far as usability was a

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-06 Thread Alastair Scott
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 18:29, Mark Weaver wrote: Thats it! I'm going to have to grab one of these things. I haven't been this jazzed about a machine for a long time. Well, I put my money where my mouth is and will soon be the owner of an Amiga 1200 with 16MB RAM, 340MB hard drive, CD-ROM and

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question -(getting offtopic)

2002-09-06 Thread Alastair Scott
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 16:34, Ken Hawkins wrote: It sure is interesting to read some of these old war (or is that whore) stories. I didn't get into computers until about '91. the best i can claim is writing DOS batch files to give a color menu display (rather than just c:), and automating

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-07 Thread Alastair Scott
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 22:45, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 13:40 -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: Bummmer, Guess this means I don't spend the $10 US on a new copy...Unless I can find DOS 6 somewhere. I guess I need to start looking... Hmm, is it against the laws if I

Re: [expert] I don't get it. You want bug reports or not!?!?!?!

2002-09-07 Thread Alastair Scott
On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 16:38, Lorne wrote: Thanks for the informative reply. I hope they get the word and put a little effort into setting up a mechanism to get input from their users. Even if they don't read every report. Just let us poor smucks think they are. :) What is really needed is

Re: [expert] Mandrake Linux 9.0 beta

2002-09-23 Thread Alastair Scott
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 06:50, Gerard wrote: hi I was wondering if maybe you can support vendor specific external hardwares for Mandrake Linux 9, paritularly those products of Logitec. I have an external HD and a CD-R/DVD ROM. You might be surprised as big advances have been made between 8.2

Re: [expert] No key repeating in GNOME2 ?

2002-09-26 Thread Alastair Scott
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:29:59 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Installed Dolphin and GNOME2. Everything works wonderful except one annoyance: No matter how long I keep my finger on a key, it does not repeat. This makes scrolling through a text very annoying! I went to

Re: [expert] Myster of my own.

2002-09-27 Thread Alastair Scott
On 26 Sep 2002 20:30:26 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone else been receiving blank e-mails from people they don't know. I get 2 or 3 a week always blank no attachment just the header.. never from the same address... I think this is the outpourings of a very old

Re: [expert] reboot into specified os

2002-09-27 Thread Alastair Scott
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:54:42 +0100 bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i like being able to choose what os to reboot into from the shutdown dialogue, prompts a question though, is there a win utilty that will tell lilo what to reboot into? being a dual booter i sometimes need to reboot winxp

Re: [expert] Installing Apps in 9.0

2002-09-29 Thread Alastair Scott
On 29 Sep 2002 17:20:26 +0100 Andy Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I have just installed 9.0 and am in the process of installing all other apps that I need for my work. Unfortunately, I have the following problems trying to install some image processing software that I use. In

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.0 Remember Windows Positions?

2002-09-30 Thread Alastair Scott
On 29 Sep 2002 17:57:02 -0500 Chuck Stuettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I give up... I've installed 9.0 and overall I'm satisfied, however there is one thing that is driving me crazy. In Gnome, every application opens in the same location, the upper left corner, no matter where I

Re: [expert] USB CD Writer

2002-10-01 Thread Alastair Scott
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:06:31 -0400 PlugHead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, if anyone has an external USB CD-RW working, I'd love to see what's in your modules.conf... As someone with such a device (iomega zipCD 650) which just worked here it is: it looks remarkably similar to yours in the

Re: [expert] Configuring Panels in 9.0

2002-10-01 Thread Alastair Scott
On 01 Oct 2002 13:58:25 +0100 Andy Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am concerned though that I will lose the 'Applications' Menu, 'Actions' Menu and that task switcher thingy and not be able to get them back!?! Will they reappear on my menu at the bottom? A new panel will appear blank, but

Re: [expert] mdk9 + alcatel speedtouch

2002-10-01 Thread Alastair Scott
On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 17:34:05 +0100 Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: topic: alcatel speedtouch usb adsl modem on Mandrake 9.0 I decided to start all over again. Installed Mdk9.0 from scratch, totally formatting over the old one. The installation recognised my USB mouse and it worked fine.

Re: [expert] Openoffice in release 9.0

2002-10-01 Thread Alastair Scott
On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 19:42:08 +0100 J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you very much! This solved the ugly menu part of the problem! But my main document rendering is still unusable... No matter which font I choose the characters still clutter on top of each other... There is

Re: [expert] Western Digital Hard Drives in Linux

2002-10-02 Thread Alastair Scott
J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (10/02/2002 13:43) Is there any infomation on drives/manufactors that work well with linux then? If WD are that bad I'm stuffed, i just bought a new drive from them. To be more accurate ... you're stuffed, statistically speaking ;) HDs will 'just work' with

Re: [expert] OpenOffice.org vs StarOffice

2002-10-03 Thread Alastair Scott
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:29:45 -0500 Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Redhat is right in this issue. A user, particularly a new user, should get a consistent look and feel from ALL their apps by default. That is a basic UI design DO. Different look, feel, behavior for each app is a

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread Alastair Scott
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:03:04 -0500 Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an important point to consider, however. If one is intending to be a commercial vendor of software, one of the MAIN considerations has to be useability/ease-of-use. Ease of code maintenance or code

Re: [expert] Bluecurve (RedHat's KDE and GNOME unified themes)

2002-10-09 Thread Alastair Scott
On 09 Oct 2002 12:40:59 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that bluecurve is much more than a theme. It's an actual way to break kde and gnome at the same time. As for the look well if people ever get over the anger at RH then it might be doable as a theme.

Re: [expert] Bluecurve (RedHat's KDE and GNOME unified themes)

2002-10-10 Thread alastair . scott
On 10 Oct 2002 at 11:29, hans privat wrote: hi, are all the files there needed ? Someone else will have to answer that ... I note that the RPM has, as dependencies, large chunks of KDE*. This is a bit surprising given that it's only artwork (the 'real' bluecurve is a lot more than artwork;

RE: [expert] a lot of kernel-bugs ? ... (setiathome)

2002-10-10 Thread alastair . scott
On 10 Oct 2002 at 17:01, Franki wrote: Hi guys, Just thought I'd ask, just how much bandwidth does Seti at home use??? I have 4 boxes here that could be working on it, but I pay for bandwidth over a certain limit.. so I don't want to chew up my bandwidth (obviously :-) Well ...

Re: [expert] CLI

2002-10-17 Thread Alastair Scott
J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (10/16/2002 22:49) using a shell is expert is it? heh, give me lots of money for expert services and I will cut and paste you the bash manual pages. Yes. With the command line being de-emphasised by Microsoft*, more and more people over time will be coming

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9....Control Center problem

2002-10-19 Thread Alastair Scott
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:56:25 -0400 Sandeep Khanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, If I start Mandrake 9 Control center once as a normal user and enter the root password. Noe, Close it. After this it never asks me for the root password Freaky security Also, If you start any