Re: xhost

1999-02-02 Thread Sourcerer
that xhost uses to control access to my X server? You write it and put it in /etc (__)Sourcerer /(<>)\ O|O|O|O||O||O The world hadn't ever had so many \../ |OO|||O|||O|O moving parts or so few labels. || OO|||OO||O||O -- mlo

Re: installation frustration

1998-12-31 Thread Sourcerer
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:53:49 -0500 (EST), Sourcerer wrote: > > >Afaik, none of the commercial os's allow for it in their installs. > > Untrue. Afaik it was true. Thanks for th

Re: Thanks/Switching X managers

1998-12-31 Thread Sourcerer
enu? If it's not there, you haven't installed it (or it's incorrectly installed). (__)Sourcerer /(<>)\ O|O|O|O||O||O The world hadn't ever had so many \../ |OO|||O|||O|O moving parts or so few labels. || OO|||OO||O||O -- mlo

Re: X font "fixed" missing (was: Re: Hey girls and boys)

1998-12-31 Thread Sourcerer
font packages? I am not sure the dependencies > are ok in frozen at the moment. They weren't a few days ago. You can install X w/o fonts or xterm. (__)Sourcerer /(<>)\ O|O|O|O||O||O The world hadn't ever had so many \../ |OO|||O|||O|O moving parts or so few labels. || OO|||OO||O||O -- mlo

Re: Install wierdness or newbie goes doh!

1998-12-30 Thread Sourcerer
o pass them. Later you would make a symbolic link of /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc (__)Sourcerer /(<>)\ O|O|O|O||O||O The world hadn't ever had so many \../ |OO|||O|||O|O moving parts or so few labels. || OO|||OO||O||O -- mlo

Re: installation frustration

1998-12-29 Thread Sourcerer
why ought the distribution assume you'll dual boot? Afaik, none of the commercial os's allow for it in their installs. I think you have a legitimate complaint about the boot/ install/ error, which is annoying but not too annoying (an install dir seems a good place to poke about during

Re: installation frustration

1998-12-29 Thread Sourcerer
transparent and sometimes flaky sysadmin tools, and with > their weird sysadmin philosophies (one GID per UID?). Some overall > system reliability problems didn't help, either. I'd heard that Debian > was cleaner, so I was enthusiastic about trying it. But now, unless > someone can reassure me that slink is a whole lot more solid than > hamm, or someone can point me to some other distribution which really > is more solid than RedHat, I'm ready to decide that I didn't > appreciate RedHat nearly enough, and set about using RedHat 5.2 to > repair my poor comatose laptop. Hamm is as solid as they come. Sorry. (__)Sourcerer /(<>)\ O|O|O|O||O||O The world hadn't ever had so many \../ |OO|||O|||O|O moving parts or so few labels. || OO|||OO||O||O -- mlo

Re: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Sourcerer
the way I work, because that's how I designed it. And because ascii rulz, okay? -- (__)Sourcerer /(<>)\ O|O|O|O||O||O The world hadn't ever had so many \../ |OO|||O|||O|O moving parts or so few labels. || OO|||OO||O||O -- mlo

Re: system instablity

1998-12-14 Thread Sourcerer
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Ed C. writes: > I realize this is a rare problem, because few if anyone is seeing it, > but its clear to me that its not a hardware problem, even though I > understand that you don't believe me, and you are not th

Re: Can't start windowmaker

1998-11-15 Thread Sourcerer
vior in some versions. In others it crashes only the first time it's called. Do you have a GNUstep dir in your home dir? (__)Sourcerer /(<>)\ O|O|O|O||O||O Bred out of cheap elective surgery \../ |OO|||O|||O|O and the relentless Darwinism of || OO|||OO||O||O fashion.-- C0