[tslug] Re: SuSE 9.0

2004-02-02 Thread Ross Day
I would like to ask if anybody has the CD iso images of the SuSE 9.0 distribution or has already downloaded the distribution from the ftp-s. I can install it online but the ftp-s are very very slow, they hardly reach 10k/s. It will take me a whole day to install it. If somebody can help please

[tslug] Re: SuSE 9.0

2004-02-02 Thread Ross Day
That's very nice but when is that installfest due. And if I will not be able to be present at the meeting will I still be able to use this mirror. As for the CDs I think it is the best option but it is up to you. Thank you very much again. I forget when Installfest is...a couple of

[tslug] Re: SuSE 9.0

2004-02-03 Thread Ross Day
Incidently, when will your ftp be up? I've been collecting the files for SuSe 9.0...as we all know, this is not easy from Truman... :-( It is going slower than when I retrieved 8.x back in the day. I'll have them up as soon as I can... Ross D.

[tslug] Re: Debian

2004-02-03 Thread Ross Day
Woo TSLUG. Yes yes...go go nocturnal computer people! Mixing them seemed like the right thing to do, to maintain the ability to get security updates - Debian only maintains security patches for the stable version. The right thing to do...is not to use Debian... It seems that you want the

[tslug] Re: IM poll

2004-02-19 Thread Ross Day
Anyway, I use gaim with aol and msn accounts. What are your favorite flavors? ICQ is still the best ever! All others are cheap rip-offs! On that note, bring back Pow-Wow I use Trillian Pro 2.01 under Windows...on AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, and Jabber all day every day...all use Trillian to

[tslug] Re: Post-Installfest Meeting this Wednesday

2004-02-22 Thread Ross Day
Here's some good humor... One of the installs from InstallFest is a friend of mine from the Computer Gaming Association here at TSU. He was discussing some of the stuff on his in the CGA IRC channel...talking about Mozilla and stuff. Here's the great statement from another person in the

[tslug] Re: Gentoo is b0rken

2004-02-28 Thread Ross Day
... And this brings me to my big issue: when I say something like emerge sync or emerge gnome or emerge [anything] I get a Segmentation Fault. This is a problem. One of my Gentoos would do this when there was a problem with the filesystem. Silly ReiserFS had screwed up. :-( Do file system

[tslug] Re: Good Distros...

2004-09-01 Thread Ross Day
Justin West wrote: Its time for me to switch to a different flavor of linux. Im wanting to use a stable 2.6 kernel that also comes with the newest versions of GIMP and OpenOffice. Im not opposed to Gentoo, if there is an install that comes with GIMP and OpenOffice. If not, what other distros

[tslug] Re: the LUG's new name

2004-09-02 Thread Ross Day
| \___/ -- --- Ross Day ITS Web Integration VP, Truman ACM/IEEE 660.785.5218 660.785.4414 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] - To get off

[tslug] Re: the LUG's new name

2004-09-02 Thread Ross Day
Peter Snoblin wrote: Mike Goodspeed wrote (Thursday 02 September 2004 9:46 pm): While FSCK obviously means something to us who understand Linux, and it makes a great joke and probably an even better t-shirt, I think the name is a HORRIBLE idea for our group. snip a lot of good reasoning I'm going

[tslug] Re: the LUG's new name

2004-09-02 Thread Ross Day
had a bad day. Welcome to a new semester. :-/ -- --- Ross Day ITS Web Integration VP, Truman ACM/IEEE 660.785.5218 660.785.4414 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED

[tslug] Re: the LUG's new name

2004-09-02 Thread Ross Day
iosif wrote: the eff-sock pronunciation brings it back down to 2 for the syllabically ephemerous, on par with the efficiency of a spoken TSLUG. Not to mention how beautiful it would be once we all started to eff-sock as a verb. :p Tired of Windows crashing? Want to know more about Linux?

[tslug] Re: the LUG's new name

2004-09-02 Thread Ross Day
. It's late, I'm tired. And I'm trying hard to not react to what seems to me, at least, to be a fairly confrontational tone... Tired at 11:59pm...it's prime-time for the TSLUG list! -- --- Ross Day ITS Web Integration VP, Truman ACM/IEEE

[tslug] Re: the LUG's new name

2004-09-03 Thread Ross Day
, not just because other people think they are. -- --- Ross Day ITS Web Integration VP, Truman ACM/IEEE 660.785.5218 660.785.4414 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED

[tslug] Re: the LUG's new name

2004-09-03 Thread Ross Day
Jay Belanger wrote: I don't believe for a second that the third meaning didn't play a role in it's suggestion. Definitely true...but it was also definitely the third meaning to come to mind...behind the acronym and it being a *nix command. My seven year old daughter is beyond the Tee-hee, I

[tslug] Re: (no subject)

2004-09-11 Thread Ross Day
iosif wrote: public relations or propaganda minister? ...or Webmaster of Don's VI Evangelism? -- --- Ross Day ITS Web Integration VP, Truman ACM/IEEE 660.785.5218 660.785.4414 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED