Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 07:42:03PM -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote: (I have a theory, but I don't want to influence what you say). But, now I'm curious... what is your theory? Funny timing, I just said it in my previous email a couple of minutes ago. My (rather facile) theory is that it's

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread John Hasler
What is the gender of Unix? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems building Gaim

2003-11-01 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 15:20:46 -0800 Ralph Alvy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Peter wrote: I would like to install gaim from unstablle.I am on testing. I edited my sources.list to reflect unstable sources( also added stable ), main, contrib and non-free Then I did : apt-get update

Re: restarting a debootstrap install ...

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:33:33PM -0500, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Undortunatly one of the things we've found when working on the Debian Installer project is that debootstrap is not particularly idempotent. If it fails it's best to delete every file it wrote to the disk, with the

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
Greg, Your information of great help, but only leads to more questions. 1. Where does one read about such specifics as the need to have a security source to do an upgrade? What I've seen on apt says relatively little. 3. The address didn't work, and I also tried a couple others. When I

Re: Problems building Gaim

2003-11-01 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003, at 19:17 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: ... I am also very new to Debian, but I'm not sure I understand why you didn't do it this way: apt-get update apt-get install gaim One reason. The debian maintainer has a weird numbering scheme. Gaim is at 0.7.1, not

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003, at 14:12 +, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? Masculine, of course. Men developed Linux, men primarily use Linux, playing around with powerful operating systems built on top of Linux is a man's thing, et

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003, at 21:01 -0600, John Hasler wrote: What is the gender of Unix? L'unix sounds pretty cool. Would that make it feminine? -- scott c. linnenbringer[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.panix.com/~sl [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 21:01, John Hasler wrote: What is the gender of Unix? What is the gender of geek? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA After seeing all the viruses, trojan horses, worms and Reply mails

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:01:38PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: What is the gender of Unix? Also masculine I believe. I think Debian is feminine though. Un Unix proprietaire. Une Debian Sid. La Debian, la distribution la plus libre. I think people might pronounce Debian as though it was written

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:50:08PM -0600, Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2003, at 21:01 -0600, John Hasler wrote: What is the gender of Unix? L'unix sounds pretty cool. Would that make it feminine? l' can be either masculine or feminine. You see in french you can't have

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:53:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 21:01, John Hasler wrote: What is the gender of Unix? What is the gender of geek? I don't know what it is off the top of my head. It's always a tough call with foreign words. But I think the tendency nowadays

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:47:30PM -0600, Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2003, at 14:12 +, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? Masculine, of course. Men developed Linux, men primarily use Linux, playing around

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 22:17, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:53:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 21:01, John Hasler wrote: What is the gender of Unix? What is the gender of geek? I don't know what it is off the top of my head. It's always a tough

Network unreachable

2003-11-01 Thread Jeffrey Barish
When I use the kernel that I built from the source for 2.4.18-686, I get the message: sendto: Network is unreachable when I try to ping another machine on my network. Using ifconfig, I noticed that eth0 had no IP address assigned. So I did ifconfig eth0 down and then ifconfig eth0

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 12:06:21 -0800 (PST), Mark Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 17:53:27 +, Pigeon wrote: Go ahead and install Debian, without worrying about getting the NIC working yet. Use the machine that you're posting from to go to

Re: Converting a chroot install into a real one

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 06:30:26PM +, David Goodenough ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Apart from setting up lilo and using /sbin/start-stop-daemon.REAL instead of /sbin/start-stop-daemon what else needs to be changed when converting a chroot install into a real one? David: Configuring lilo

Re: Network unreachable

2003-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 22:21, Jeffrey Barish wrote: When I use the kernel that I built from the source for 2.4.18-686, I get the message: sendto: Network is unreachable when I try to ping another machine on my network. Using ifconfig, I noticed that eth0 had no IP address assigned. So

Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start

2003-11-01 Thread Kent West
Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 21:43 Subject: Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start Hoyt Bailey wrote: Ok Sold. I'm game but I need to get stable stable enough to get

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Kent West
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 12:06:21 -0800 (PST), Mark Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 17:53:27 +, Pigeon wrote: Go ahead and install Debian, without worrying about getting the NIC working yet. Use the machine that you're

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 19:24:13 +, Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:08:46PM +0100, Christophe Courtois wrote: Le Samedi 1 Novembre 2003 17:48, Wesley J Landaker a d?clam? : Le Linux is typically used as masculine, but I've seen it,

Re: Problem with exporting an X session

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:29:19PM -0800, Tim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greetings, I have been having problems on my debian box regarding exporting a display from an HPOV server. WTF is an HPOV server? I keep getting the Error: Can't open display: message. I am using ssh and have

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:01:38PM -0600, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What is the gender of Unix? Or eunuchs? Is neuter a masculine or feminine in French? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand?

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:13:02PM -0500, David P James wrote: On November 01, 2003 09:12, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? I'd say it's masculine for a couple of reasons. First, it just sounds better as le Linux compared to

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:26:35AM +, Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:13:02PM -0500, David P James wrote: On November 01, 2003 09:12, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? I'd say it's masculine for a couple of

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