Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-22 Thread Richard Taylor
From: Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:26:11PM -0800, Richard Taylor wrote: And... then, you got the Gnome Office stuff... www.gnome.org The most recently is at Ximian, www.ximian.com. Abiword is maturing but it's got a ways to go yet. Staroffice 5.2

RE: [OT] Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor

2001-02-21 Thread Richard Taylor
From: Joris Lambrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry for the ignorance but how does this template system work ? I can't imagine the benefits from this kind of approach. I thought you knew Dreamweaver. It's just copy and paste... you build a basic form for the page. When you want a new page you

Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-20 Thread Richard Taylor
From: Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:47:08AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: Would that be the Latext system? Considered professionally acceptable? LaTeX is nice, but it is *not* a desktop publishing programming like Quark. There's Adobe's port of Framemaker or the

Re: [OT] Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor

2001-02-20 Thread Richard Taylor
From: Keith G. Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve wrote: It's like the argument that b4 good page layout apps like Quark were as good as they are that the pros used to write their own postcript. Now most pros use a professional page layout app like Quark because it truly is WYSIWYG and almost

Re: QuarkExpress equivalent on Linux?

2001-02-20 Thread Richard Taylor
From: Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:24:04PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: Richard Taylor wrote: There's Adobe's port of Framemaker or the Corel stuff... WordPerfect and so forth. On Linux? I didn't know. Same name? WordPerfect, yes, but Adobe has

WYSIWYG HTML Editor was Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-19 Thread Richard Taylor
From: Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, William Leese wrote: mmm, i'll give it a try. Just hope someone will come along with a good WYSIWYS-editor for linux (GPL-ed.. ofcourse, unlike Bluefish) some time. Give Amaya a tryout, done by the w3 folks. Amaya's really good... it's got

Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editor was Re: Rebooting is foolish ....

2001-02-19 Thread Richard Taylor
From: Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Richard Taylor wrote: Nothing in opensource is going to be close to DreamWeaver of course -yet anyways. That depends on whether you hand write your code or let a wysiwyg editor approximate it for you. Most pros will tell you

Re: Debian or Redhat 7???

2001-02-19 Thread Richard Taylor
This may help you as well. http://www.securityportal.com/lasg/ http://www.cert.org/ Steve here, Well first, I repent of calling Linux 7: Redhat 7. Yes I am new. I have been maintaining my own box from a su level for about 3 months. That is why I was calling in an expert to install Debian

Re: Hardware question - motherboards

2001-02-15 Thread Richard Taylor
From: Bud Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] The s1834 is a little faster and uses the via apollo pro133a chipset. The s1832 uses the intel 440bx chipset. I just ordered an 1834 for a box at work. I looked around for a while and it seemed the best choice for what I wanted to do. I'm using one

re: Re: debian and win2k

2001-01-15 Thread Richard Taylor
-- Original Email -- Bye Romain PS in case you encounter a problem here is a patch: format c: :-) Wouldn't that be d:? ... Ok... where did I put my damnable cigarettes!

Re: debian on a red hat system

2001-01-04 Thread Richard Taylor
[EMAIL PROTECTED], If you can't be helpful, be silent. On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Veit Waltemath wrote: On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 07:49:06PM -, Pat Woolley wrote: I use mandrake 7 and I am very happy with it. However I } would like to be able to install debian packages on my system } As I see it

Re: Woody Progress

2000-12-03 Thread Richard Taylor
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 11:31:30AM -0700, Rando Christensen wrote: On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Richard Taylor wrote: ObDisclaimer: IANADD First off, I would like to apologize if this is not the right list to ask this question, and secondly, I would like to apologize

Re: Woody Progress

2000-12-03 Thread Richard Taylor
Sorry folks, my brain must have suffered a power-outage, I have posted the preceding message to the wrong list. Sorry.

3dfx kernel module

2000-12-02 Thread Richard Taylor
for that matter? I mean, being stuck to 2.2.17 is not going to be satisfactory for much longer. Thanks in advance for any assistance. Richard Taylor

RE: Perl compatibility question

2000-11-09 Thread Richard Taylor
- Richard Taylor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16952744 -

Re: How to install woody

2000-11-07 Thread Richard Taylor
Pardon me for being dense, folks, but due to some advice that I received from this list I decided to try Woody out. Now: where are the install floppy images. I tried ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/disks-i386 and a couple of the mirror sites just to check, and well, came up dry. So

Re: How stable are the XFree86 4 packages?

2000-11-07 Thread Richard Taylor
before, so all this setting up the internet, and apt-get is very new to me... - Richard Taylor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16952744 -

Email questions

2000-11-07 Thread Richard Taylor
. - Richard Taylor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16952744 -

How to install woody

2000-11-06 Thread Richard Taylor
. So back to my original point: Am I being dense, or how do you install woody? Do ya have to do an upgrade from potato? - Richard Taylor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16952744 -

Re: staroffice

2000-07-19 Thread Richard Taylor
Nick Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: staroffice: On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, David Teague wrote: On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: StarOffice is a bloated stuck pig. It handles MS file formats fairly well though. It may be the only use for SO, take a Word .doc and

Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software

2000-05-12 Thread Richard Taylor
Jonathan Markevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I think the best comment over the emacs thing was; someone said it's not an editor, it's a virtual machine Now that makes great sense! Now someone needs to come up with something as clever to explain vi... :) It's just an editor?

Re: finding which packages installed

2000-05-06 Thread Richard Taylor
Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding finding which packages installed: What package can I use to determine which packages I have installed and a description of what they do? How would I use this package? Use dselect. {Which reminds me... How does one patent copyrighted

Re: Emacs - was Re: Mail/news software

2000-05-05 Thread Richard Taylor
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Emacs - was Re: Mail/news software: Richard == Richard Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Win hasn't required an autoexec.bat since '95. -- My Richard other computer's running Debian. {www.debian.org} I think you need

Re: Emacs - was Re: Mail/news software

2000-05-04 Thread Richard Taylor
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Pat == Pat Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pat For me, Linux makes me think. For others, windows may make Pat them think. For still others, something else (not computer Pat related) may make them think. If linux makes you think, Pat good.

Re: Re[2]: Emacs - was Re: Mail/news software

2000-05-02 Thread Richard Taylor
Graeme Mathieson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Re[2]: Emacs Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ snipped ... ] Simply stated, anything which requires Emacs to run is instantly lower than something that requires Windows to run because at least it /IS/ an OS and not an editor

Re: Emacs - was Re: Mail/news software

2000-05-02 Thread Richard Taylor
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Monday, May 01, 2000, 11:59:24 AM, Richard wrote: Emacs is far more useful than that... It's still the best mailer/newsreader/text based office program in existence. That is highly debated, esp. for people who prefer not to have huge I've had

Re: Emacs - was Re: Mail/news software

2000-05-02 Thread Richard Taylor

Re: Emacs - was Re: Mail/news software

2000-05-01 Thread Richard Taylor
Kovacs Istvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (snip) Emacs, vi, development tools are fine for developers (I also decided to learn Emacs and vi -- not at the wizard level, but to be able to use them when needed), and it's reasonable not to expect the masses to use them, but it's not the same case

Re: Win98 and Linux can't keep apart on /dev/hda!

2000-04-30 Thread Richard Taylor
tristan misseri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote You told about mounting different fs on both systems : linux and win98. How can U mount ext2 partitions on win98? http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ -- My other computer's running Debian. {www.debian.org}

Re: are there any good free 3d modeling tools?

2000-04-30 Thread Richard Taylor
Felix Natter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: are there any good free 3d modeling tools?: Chris Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Blender (www.blender.nl) is a very good tool for 3D-modelling/animation. It is free (as in beer) and not open-source, but version 2.0 will probably be.

Re: are there any good free 3d modeling tools?

2000-04-30 Thread Richard Taylor
Felix Natter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: are there any good free 3d modeling tools?: Chris Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Blender (www.blender.nl) is a very good tool for 3D-modelling/animation. It is free (as in beer) and not open-source, but version 2.0 will probably be.

Re: Package Info

2000-04-22 Thread Richard Taylor
On 4/21/2000, 1:27:40 PM, Irish, Jon D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Is there a comprehensive list somewhere, of all of the available Debian packages, that describes them in detail? Being new, sometimes I am not too sure what exactly I need to install to acomplish what I want to do (vague, I

Re: no wonder...

2000-04-08 Thread Richard Taylor
On 4/7/2000, 10:56:59 PM, loki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: no wonder...: On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 08:48:18AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Richard Taylor wrote: My mileage varies. I find that the program simplifies what can be a vastly more difficult process

Re: no wonder...

2000-04-08 Thread Richard Taylor
On 4/7/2000, 10:00:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: no wonder...: What could be more intuitive? Something that works. Your statement highlights the reason that when I ask for directions on how to drive somewhere, I will NOT ask someone that has lived there all their life but a

Re: no wonder...

2000-04-07 Thread Richard Taylor
On 4/6/2000, 9:03:41 PM, Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: no On 5 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No wonder people say that Debian is the most difficult Unix-clone distro to install and use... ... Another thing, is the dselect program: it is quite difficult to use... As

Re: Mutt questions (Was: Looking for a good mail program)

2000-04-07 Thread Richard Taylor
On 4/6/2000, 7:31:18 PM, Chanop Silpa-Anan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Once upon a time, I heard Viktor Rosenfeld say I recently switched my working environment from Windows to Debian only and I've been using Netscape Mail so far. And I *hate* it! Me too, it's too slow! :} Tried 6?

Re: Mutt questions (Was: Looking for a good mail program)

2000-04-07 Thread Richard Taylor
On 4/7/2000, 5:26:43 AM, Chanop Silpa-Anan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Mutt questions Once upon a time, I heard Richard Taylor say On 4/6/2000, 7:31:18 PM, Chanop Silpa-Anan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Once upon a time, I heard Viktor Rosenfeld say I recently switched my working

Re: no wonder...

2000-04-07 Thread Richard Taylor
On 4/7/2000, 1:41:56 PM, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: no wonder...: Richard Taylor wrote: On 4/6/2000, 9:03:41 PM, Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: On 5 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No wonder people say that Debian is the most difficult Unix

Re: X on MS?

2000-04-05 Thread Richard Taylor
On 4/4/2000, 8:55:45 PM, Eric G . Miller egm2@jps.net wrote On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 06:41:30PM -0700, Bart Friederichs wrote: Hi, While reading a page on X, I was wondering, should it be possible to kick out Microsoft's window system and run Windows (??) 98 with X? It says it is