Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/08 13:23, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:21 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/12/08 13:09, Paul Johnson wrote: About a year ago, though I had the misfortune

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-11 Thread Paul Johnson
in the past. http://www.budcom.com/ They should be able to shave a few hundred to a thousand off those prices if you're willing to settle for two-years-ago's model. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 15:50 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 12:25 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 08:58 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: The college is offering packages starting at $1,399 (Dell Latitude D630) and $1,499 (Lenoveo ThinkPad T61) all

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-11 Thread Paul Johnson
to get your paws on a ThinkPad via NewEgg with no OS or Debian preinstalled. As another poster asked, is Windows a _requirement_? With some schools it is. Heh, I'd rather fight for a tuition refund than pay for non-free software to attend a class I'm already paying for. Fuck that. -- Paul

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 12:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: But does the modem work? What modem? Winmodems aren't modems, they're sound boards with the wrong audio connector. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-11 Thread Paul Johnson
and won after they let a family member not authorized on my court-blocked account withdraw all my money without permission, after they lost a bunch of records (such as court orders blocking accounts) throwing them in a dumpster when they bought out the original First Interstate Bank. -- Paul Johnson

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 10:03 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Your grandson will resist this method, I suspect. He will want to play games, have cool things, etc etc. Never mind that game programmers have to go out of their way to break Wine these days. http://appdb.winehq.org/ -- Paul

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-11 Thread Paul Johnson
price with student discount is the only reason I'm not eliminating it entirely from my consideration. What would be a dealbreaker, though, is if I could only get it with OS X. How much cheaper is it if it ships with no operating system? I'd rather keep my familiar Debian. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL

Re: Google

2008-06-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 16:38 -0300, Alan wrote: Não sei como funciona o site de vocês, mas ao entrar no google e digitar ALAN BRUNO CARVALHO, aparece meu nome em um arquivo .doc. Este arquivo era um currículo meu e meu amigo copiou o mesmo e fez o currículo em cima do meu, aliás, exatamente

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.

2008-06-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 06:12 -0700, Frank McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:45:47 +0100 Brad Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:41:08 +0200 Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jochen, $ gpg

Re: ath5k anyone?

2008-06-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-a update # m-a a-i madwifi Then I just made # iwconfig ath0 essid ESSID; dhclient ath0 and it was done, I was surfing with wireless. I believe the same can be accomplished with more time to get coffee in a one-liner. # apt-get install module-assistant m-a a-i madwifi -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL

Re: OT: laptop keyboard broken

2008-06-05 Thread Paul Johnson
, tending towards hard. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: text file from Linux to windows.

2008-05-29 Thread Paul Johnson
windows line break? Windows happens to end lines in a way that's gratuitously different from the rest of the world. Check out the tofrodos package. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html signature.asc Description

Re: [OT] FOSS Marketplace

2008-05-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 05:21:41 pm Samuel Bächler wrote: You mean guru.com? Thanks for the input Steve. Guru.com is interesting to see if it works and how it works. But of course I would like to see it implemented in a FOSS way. Ooooh. You mean, like this mailing list? -- Paul Johnson

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-27 Thread Paul Johnson
anyone's homophobia. oh don't worry. We'll uncover someone's homophobia quite nicely. So long as the topic doesn't drift to religion, we'll be okay. Though we're treading damn close right now. Homophobia is sometimes the result of religous doctrine. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-27 Thread Paul Johnson
. huge ball of garbage heading straight for New New York, Bah. We can always launch another ball of garbage at it to deflect it. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: debian-offtopic list [Was: Re: obscenely OT Re: apt-get joke]

2008-05-27 Thread Paul Johnson
for a debian-offtopic list: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=427218 Never mind debian-user's topic statement is Help and discussion among users of Debian, which seems to suggest that there's no off-topic /threads/, just off-topic /people/ (ie, ubuntu users). -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 24 May 2008 04:19:20 pm Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:47:05AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: I see no advantage to host-based firewalls that couldn't be better served by a router doing filtering at the edge of the network. There's no reason to expose machines

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 24 May 2008 03:49:53 pm Richard Hector wrote: On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 11:47 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: I see no advantage to host-based firewalls that couldn't be better served by a router doing filtering at the edge of the network. There's no reason to expose machines directly

Re: gpg not working with kmail

2008-05-25 Thread Paul Johnson
as one could have possibly come up with. Ron is suggesting you have damaged your gnupg installation by compiling your own gpg over it. Remove your self-compiled gpg and use gnupg as designed. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 25 May 2008 12:14:44 pm Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/25/08 14:04, Paul Johnson wrote: On Saturday 24 May 2008 03:49:53 pm Richard Hector wrote: On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 11:47 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: I see no advantage to host-based firewalls that couldn't be better served

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 25 May 2008 12:13:55 pm Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/25/08 14:03, Paul Johnson wrote: On Saturday 24 May 2008 04:19:20 pm Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:47:05AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: I see no advantage to host-based firewalls that couldn't be better served

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-24 Thread Paul Johnson
firewalls are *not* useless, but they may also not be necessary for a given configuration. I see no advantage to host-based firewalls that couldn't be better served by a router doing filtering at the edge of the network. There's no reason to expose machines directly to the internet. -- Paul

Re: gpg not working with kmail

2008-05-23 Thread Paul Johnson
... Done E: Couldn't find package gpg It's gnupg, not gpg. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: gpg not working with kmail

2008-05-23 Thread Paul Johnson
to dike out the Debian one. Or use the reinstall option instead of trying to purge and install again. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: blogging - alternative packages

2008-05-20 Thread Paul Johnson
and backups. I've found Wordpress Automatic Updater reduces a lot of the fiddling required. Does livejournal have it's own pacakge? -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?

2008-05-20 Thread Paul Johnson
approximately that point, I just can't remember what I had to change to get it to work from there. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [OT] FOSS Marketplace

2008-05-19 Thread Paul Johnson
such an idea actually work? If the proprietary software world is any indication, you'll have a hard time paying people to do this for very long, or quickly run out of money trying to keep quality people who can help on board. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http

Re: Mail not getting to DU

2008-05-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 19 May 2008 09:56:35 am linuxone wrote: My mail is not getting to DU from my home box. Yeah, it is. Normally, that's really more of something to take up with the listmaster, not posting to the list you're not able to send to. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-17 Thread Paul Johnson
bundle. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 16 May 2008 07:39:27 pm lostson wrote: On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 19:09 -0700, Lee Glidewell wrote: On Friday 16 May 2008 07:02:59 pm Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 16 May 2008 07:01:38 pm lostson wrote: My 2 cents a default firewall would be nice You mean like Windows has

Re: Something stopping Gimp loading

2008-05-17 Thread Paul Johnson
to remove a number of programs to no avail. Those logs only handle system process output, not user processes. You'll need to run gimp in a terminal or check your ~/.xsession-errors for gimp's output. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant

Re: usb dial up modem?

2008-05-16 Thread Paul Johnson
of output, maybe even a new device entry in /dev/ that acts like a serial port. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-16 Thread Paul Johnson
. My 2 cents a default firewall would be nice You mean like Windows has? How about not. Here's why: http://samspade.org/d/firewalls.html -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-15 Thread Paul Johnson
. The initial list of servers to block came from http://www.ssmedia.com/utilities/hosts/ then I've added the following to that: Abusing /etc/hosts can occasionally cause unexpected behavior. Both Konq and Iceweasel support Filterset.G; that's a tad more ideal and regularly updated. -- Paul

Re: Recommendations on forced disk check

2008-05-14 Thread Paul Johnson
number of days, or Y number of reboots to force a check. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Recommendations on forced disk check

2008-05-14 Thread Paul Johnson
are low (and over longer periods of time, it probably should be done anyway, and hey, since the machine's already down...). -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

ASMTP with PAM: Easiest route?

2008-05-14 Thread Paul Johnson
Going from a completely fresh prospective, what MTA makes it easiest to set up ASMTP, checking against PAM for passwords? -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-13 Thread Paul Johnson
you can't use spambayes or other tools to keep things usable... -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: hostname question

2008-05-11 Thread Paul Johnson
://www.dd-wrt.com/ -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: making a fileserver

2008-05-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 05:11:38 am Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2008-05-04 12:36:10, schrieb Paul Johnson: On Saturday 03 May 2008 11:38:59 pm NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:14:53AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Saturday 03 May 2008 02:17:30 am LÉVAI Dániel wrote

Re: Phone lines network [is it possible ? ]

2008-05-09 Thread Paul Johnson
some time. Speaking from experience, it's not the ideal solution even in that case, to be sure. You pay way more for less bandwidth given available alternatives. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html signature.asc

Re: Phone lines network [is it possible ? ]

2008-05-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 09 May 2008 10:57:08 am Christopher Judd wrote: On Friday 09 May 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: What's wrong with USB? USB performs as good as 100Mbit Ethernet, generally. 1.1MBit thinnet more like it. Anyway, people have been using DSL technologies on phone wires for quite

Re: making a fileserver

2008-05-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 03 May 2008 11:38:59 pm NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:14:53AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Saturday 03 May 2008 02:17:30 am LÉVAI Dániel wrote: Currently, I'm thinking of Samba, because the win clients can only use that; is this correct? Why

Re: making a fileserver

2008-05-03 Thread Paul Johnson
the fileserver part. Currently, I'm thinking of Samba, because the win clients can only use that; is this correct? Why not use something real on the clients? That gives you more and better options than Samba... -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq

wine: Problem running some programs

2008-04-29 Thread Paul Johnson
purposes and not because you didn't search for filezilla in Debian, right? :o) -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Pinning ?

2008-04-28 Thread Paul Johnson
and be happy with it. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] anti-spam stopping removal request

2008-04-28 Thread Paul Johnson
removed from Debian. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: How about LVM?

2008-04-26 Thread Paul Johnson
some drives into a single filesystem. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Phone lines network [is it possible ? ]

2008-04-26 Thread Paul Johnson
if you have to buy everybody an ethernet card and some ceiling hooks... -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Backing up an entire hard drive

2008-04-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Disk Upgrade HOWTO covers this for the most part, although regular backups should be part of your game plan. Faubackup is a great package for that. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: listening to BBC

2008-04-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-ass web design. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: merry prank for paypal?

2008-04-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 17 April 2008 12:23:44 pm tom arnall wrote: paypal seems to be getting quite arrogant. perhaps a merry prank would teach them some humility. Why not just take your business to Google Checkout instead? -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description

Re: bug tracking, especially openoffice

2008-04-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 13 April 2008 05:16:37 am Adam Hardy wrote: How do I do that - where do I look? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Bochs? Anybody {using,used,know anything about} it?

2008-04-12 Thread Paul Johnson
is because there's usually reasonable alternatives in Linux for everything else, not because of developer focus. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Is there away to hide the incoming mail when sending mails to this maling list ?

2008-04-12 Thread Paul Johnson
in a week). Spambayes is your friend. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
, and with those taxes they get college and healthcare at no extra charge. We coulda done that ourselves over the last 8 years if the conservatives didn't think it to be more productive to flush it down the war... -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 11 April 2008 08:17:56 am Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/11/08 10:03, Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 11 April 2008 06:16:21 am Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/11/08 07:40, Christopher Judd wrote: On Thursday 10 April 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/10/08 13:51, Andrei Popescu wrote: [snip

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 11 April 2008 08:23:19 am Damon L. Chesser wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 11 April 2008 06:16:21 am Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/11/08 07:40, Christopher Judd wrote: On Thursday 10 April 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/10/08 13:51, Andrei Popescu wrote: [snip

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
death living in a cave attached to a dialysis machine. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
in Iraq. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 11 April 2008 02:01:43 pm Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/11/08 15:19, Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 11 April 2008 08:17:56 am Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/11/08 10:03, Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] Depends on the country. In France, they pay less taxes, and with those taxes they get

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
in American history on Ronald Reagan, you should attribute it to him as Host of General Electric Theater, not to him as President of the USA. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Bochs? Anybody {using,used,know anything about} it?

2008-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
and is fairly simple to use. Note that virtualization isn't suitable for gaming, and odds are high you can probably get it done easier in wine instead of wasting space on a whole windows install. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 11 April 2008 05:19:08 pm Mark Allums wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: Health care would be a big one. And taxes are much lower here, and the torte system so different, and people so much more eager to sue. Depends on the country. In France, they pay less taxes

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 11 April 2008 07:17:19 pm Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/11/08 21:01, Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 11 April 2008 01:33:00 pm Damon L. Chesser wrote: It does? News to me. Again, study your history, longest un-interrupted economic growth in the history of the US. Reagan was still

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
be in the interest of their shareholders to do so. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
for the power plant in The Simpsons... Engineering incompetence really doomed that plant before it opened. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-10 Thread Paul Johnson
147HP on the State of Oregon DEQ dynos at Hillsboro. It once pulled a Ford Explorer out of a drainage ditch, and with the help of another jeep, got a bus moving again on an icy day. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-10 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 10 April 2008 11:51:24 am Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 04:04:30PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/06/08 15:51, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday 06 April 2008 05:03:13 am Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/06/08 02:20, Nate Duehr wrote: [snip] What a deal! I

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-09 Thread Paul Johnson
, Canada's got the better entertainment... -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-09 Thread Paul Johnson
per Canadian law (I kinda want the daytime running light module out of that van to put in mine, since you have to have headlights on in the rain in the states, and it rains a lot in Cascadia and I sometimes forget if it's not nighttime). -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc

Re: face headers on mail to the list

2008-04-07 Thread Paul Johnson
/face/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face Face: versus X-Face:, Ron; I believe this thread is about the former. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
.) Yes, I'm sure we will. With gas at .gt. US$3/gal and milk at .gt. US$4/gal Wow, sucks to be you... I can't remember a time where milk has been more than $3/gal even during a shortage... -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
laserdisc are pretty slim these days. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 06 April 2008 02:18:18 pm John C. Ellingboe wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday 06 April 2008 09:02:41 am Ron Johnson wrote: And the 1933 /King Kong/, the BW /Secret Garden/ (which my 8yo daughter likes), and the live action Disney movies from the late 50s thru mid 70s like

Re: face headers on mail to the list

2008-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
, then. The headers Mutt shows are configurable. Just as there's a netiquette rule about the number of lines in a .sig, what is netiquette re sending to a list where many people use a text-only email client, as opposed to if d-u were a web-forum. It's no biggie. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-05 Thread Paul Johnson
. Free: As in freedom. This should apply whether a person wants to use pure open source software, closed source software, or a mix of both. This is freedom. You can't choose for the Bill of Rights to not apply to you: You can't choose not to be free. The GNU ideal works the same way. -- Paul

Re: bits/news from the users of Debian?

2008-04-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 05 April 2008 12:07:12 pm Goupil wrote: I don't use popularity-contest package, i don't like the idea that my PC is sending personal info. Sorry. I question whether or not you've looked at popularity-contest, since there's no personal info involved. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-05 Thread Paul Johnson
and slavery before?...) Freedom is Slavery : Slogan in 1984 by George Orwell Also: War is Peace Ignorance is Strength So what is it when your mailer fails to include proper References:, thus breaking threads, Mark? :o) -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-05 Thread Paul Johnson
on this already overpopulated rock, plopping out another before you can afford to raise it through age 18 in this day and age ought to be considered child abuse. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-05 Thread Paul Johnson
. The Debian lists are the exception, not the rule. This list has been through this before. There's a perfectly good reason any quality mailer has reply to list already. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: How do I get aptitude to unhold???

2008-04-05 Thread Paul Johnson
way I can just go delete the list/file? This is what I do: aptitude unhold sysvinit etc. and aptitude -f unhold sysvinit etc. Mark it as install or upgrade instead. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-05 Thread Paul Johnson
, I'd say worth $3-5 million), you've just qualified yourself as an unfit Father. Actually, my abilities as a potential father aren't the issue and will never be the issue. I'm childfree. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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2008-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
epsilon gains. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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2008-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
into this category that don't already have subarch packages? -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: AMD Athlon XP3200

2008-03-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 31 March 2008 12:24:05 pm Phil Wiley wrote: My computer uses an AMD XP3200 processor. Which set of instructions should I use? The ones that apply to your system's architecture. If you used to run Windows, odds are you're on i386, less likely ia64 or amd64. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL

Re: [OT] Paste board on the Internet

2008-03-30 Thread Paul Johnson
and/or suggest? I tend to use pastebunny (http://paste.leonerd.org.uk/), though this is probably a channel-specific version of pastebin (http://pastebin.org/). -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Just testing.

2008-03-29 Thread Paul Johnson
, l.d.o was clearly down and not responding to http requests for most of last night and today. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-28 Thread Paul Johnson
daemon is so gratuitously different that most FTP clients can't deal with it properly, for example. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-27 Thread Paul Johnson
are searching for Debian. Big whoop: Debian.org isn't that hard to remember, even if you're making a wild stab in the dark at where Debian can be found! :o) -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-27 Thread Paul Johnson
/trends?q=recessionctab=0geo=alldate=allsort=0 Thank God the Bush Depression is almost over. Remember December 2000 when Wall Street went Holy shit, you mean that scumbag might actually become president? The market hasn't been the same since... -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-27 Thread Paul Johnson
from sarge to etch (still ongoing by the way, reference a couple of recent d-u posts about folks still holding out on etch...) was so largely painless, that there is no real need for all that traffic. Shit, Yahoo is still holding out on Woody. http://messenger.yahoo.com/unix.php -- Paul

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-27 Thread Paul Johnson
of time you cited, and Apple's just about doubled their market share over the same span. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 27 March 2008 10:15:48 am Jeff Goodman wrote: I'd love to see a project, within Debian or not, that works on user enhancement packages. [EMAIL PROTECTED] anybody? -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-26 Thread Paul Johnson
help anyway? -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: When will Security updates to Sarge stop?

2008-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
less whether or not they're running Debian well (though I suspect if you have servers, Debian runs on it well)... -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
is the same as the documentation found in a far friendlier format on exim.org or in exim4-doc, etc; I've seen exim documentation in a wide variety of formats. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Using Exim

2008-03-23 Thread Paul Johnson
something that can deliver email to hand off to. It doesn't deliver mail by itself, it only fetches it. It needs a mail transport agent to do the delivery. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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