Re: Segcheck HP 600 Deskjet Open Linus open Printer

2022-07-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Jul 2022 at 14:27:31 (+), Schwibinger Michael wrote: > Von: David Wright Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. Juli 2022 19:04 > > On Wed 27 Jul 2022 at 16:51:19 (+), Schwibinger Michael wrote: > > > HP printers have a self check. > > > > Yes, and sometimes several (printing, wireless, fax, et

Segcheck HP 600 Deskjet Open Linus open Printer

2022-07-28 Thread Schwibinger Michael
then click self check same in win before and the HP 600 ist producing a check page. Now=no. Sophie Thank You Von: David Wright Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. Juli 2022 19:04 An: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Three unsolvable Problems PRINTER SELFCHE

AW: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linus...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot

2022-04-25 Thread Schwibinger Michael
. Regards Sophie Von: Hans Gesendet: Montag, 25. April 2022 07:07 An: Debian-user List Debian Cc: Schwibinger Michael Betreff: Re: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linus...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot Am Sonntag, 24. April 2022, 18:53:44 CEST schrieb

Re: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linus...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot

2022-04-25 Thread Hans
Am Sonntag, 24. April 2022, 18:53:44 CEST schrieb Schwibinger Michael: Hello, first of all, I believe, your hardddrive is corrupt. You should do a filesystem check, maybe withj a livefile system like Knoppix or similar. >From the log: Apr 24 17:02:52 ah kernel: [40646.269

Re: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linus...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot

2022-04-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
reen? does the keyboard work? --- If you can split down to the simplest steps and tell me as if I am 3 years old, it will help :) With every good wish, Andy Cater > > ____ > Von: Hans > Gesendet: Sonntag, 24. April 2022 12:03 > An: debian-user@

AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linus...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot

2022-04-24 Thread Schwibinger Michael
Betreff: Re: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linus...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot Am Sonntag, 24. April 2022, 09:47:59 CEST schrieb Schwibinger Michael: Hi Sophie, maybe you could specify, what is crashing. Is it the kernel itself (kernel panic) ? Or does X not start and you are finished with the

Re: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linus...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot

2022-04-24 Thread Hans
Am Sonntag, 24. April 2022, 09:47:59 CEST schrieb Schwibinger Michael: Hi Sophie, maybe you could specify, what is crashing. Is it the kernel itself (kernel panic) ? Or does X not start and you are finished with the prompt? If X is not starting, then you get a problem with the graphics driver.

Here Newbie---Amateur in Linus...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot

2022-04-24 Thread Schwibinger Michael
Good morning What did we do: Update Debian 9 to 10, boot: Crash. What did we do wrong. Where does Linux create a logfile to send it to You find the bug. What we can do: We do boot with the recovery mode. Regards Sophie

TODAY April 4 -Global Linux Voice Meeting BerkeleyTIP -Linus,Guido,Shuttleworth...

2009-04-04 Thread john_re
unities for collaboration and development. 3) Debian Derivers Roundtable discussion - prominent developers of Debian-derived works, including Martin (Debian Edu). 1hr Linus Torvalds on Git - Git is a rewrite from scratch concurrent versioning system that Linus wrote to replace cvs, subversion

Linus' backup strategy...

2005-10-19 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On torsdag 20 oktober 2005, 00:59, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:44:06AM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > Linus' backup strategy, > > Is that the one wher you posting it all on usenet and find it later > in the archives? Almost: "Backups are for

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-12-03 Thread Mauro Darida
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 at 10:09:45 +, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > In general I would run WITH the patches, since powers greater than I > have decided they would be a good idea. Debian certainly is something > greater than I ;-) > What I don't understand is how you apply debian patches to a kern

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-12-03 Thread Mauro Darida
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 at 08:59:14 +, Alex Malinovich wrote: > You're free to continue using the stock kernels and you'll have no > problems with it. The Debian kernels are just there for convenience. On Ah, that is good to know. > You should put your signature after "-- ", not "--". That's two "

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-12-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
y would be a good idea. Debian certainly is something greater than I ;-) I'm going to look at what these patches are. Back in the Herb Xu era, I disliked the volume of backports and somewhat untested stuff that was put in the debian kernel. Debian Kernel 2.6.8 could burn CD's. Linus' K

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread David
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:09:45AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Mauro Darida wrote: > >hello debianers, > >I have always been wondering what is the difference between a fresh > >kernel from linus and a debian kernel; I have always been using the > >first one, maybe I

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:14:53 -0800, Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Debian Kernel 2.6.8 could burn CD's. > Linus' Kernel 2.6.8 couldn't. I'm not sold on 2.6 yet. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 17:14, Ken Bloom wrote: > > Debian Kernel 2.6.8 could burn CD's. > Linus' Kernel 2.6.8 couldn't. Except for me. I can't burn CDs on either. I now understand why though (afre a massive debugging effert), its a timing issue with my dr

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
than I >>> have decided they would be a good idea. Debian certainly is something >>> greater than I ;-) >> >> I'm going to look at what these patches are. Back in the Herb Xu era, I >> disliked the volume of backports and somewhat untested stuff that was

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Ken Bloom
nly is something >> greater than I ;-) > > I'm going to look at what these patches are. Back in the Herb Xu era, I > disliked the volume of backports and somewhat untested stuff that was put > in the debian kernel. Debian Kernel 2.6.8 could burn CD's. Linus' Kernel

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:09:45 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In general I would run WITH the patches, since powers greater than I > have decided they would be a good idea. Debian certainly is something > greater than I ;-) I'm going to look at what these patches are. Back in t

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mauro Darida wrote: hello debianers, I have always been wondering what is the difference between a fresh kernel from linus and a debian kernel; I have always been using the first one, maybe I have always been wrong?? No visible side effects here, though... Saluti, Mauro. -- On this laptop no

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:47 +0100, Mauro Darida wrote: > hello debianers, > I have always been wondering what is the difference between a fresh > kernel from linus and a debian kernel; I have always been using the > first one, maybe I have always been wrong?? No visible side effects &g

debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Mauro Darida
hello debianers, I have always been wondering what is the difference between a fresh kernel from linus and a debian kernel; I have always been using the first one, maybe I have always been wrong?? No visible side effects here, though... Saluti, Mauro. -- On this laptop no Windows system survives

NYT article on Linus

2003-12-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi World! http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/23/technology/23linux.html Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel 2.4.10 and linus vs ac VM?

2001-10-01 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
in the ac line of code) and a new one (in the > > main line of code). > > > > Before this became clear, I was planning to move up to 2.4.10 from 2.4.4 > > as it seemed that things were converging to a stable core. > > Things are getting much more stable. Drivers

Re: kernel 2.4.10 and linus vs ac VM?

2001-10-01 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Randolph S. Kahle wrote: >Can someone help me understand if I should move to the new VM or just >wait for this to all get sorted out? What is being done for the next >release of Debian? (I'm running 2.2r3 with Adrian Bunk's 2.4 packages). If you're running a production server running 2.4.x kerne

Re: kernel 2.4.10 and linus vs ac VM?

2001-10-01 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
. > > Before this became clear, I was planning to move up to 2.4.10 from 2.4.4 > as it seemed that things were converging to a stable core. Things are getting much more stable. Drivers especially. Linus seems to be willing to work on core stuff still... > > Can someone help me unde

kernel 2.4.10 and linus vs ac VM?

2001-09-30 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I am confused about the state of the 2.4.10 kernel. It seems that there are two VMs that are going to "fight it out" moving forward: the original one (in the ac line of code) and a new one (in the main line of code). Before this became clear, I was planning to move up to 2.4.10 from 2.4.4 as it s

linus distribution

2000-01-24 Thread Emilio Gerardo Milian
Hello: My name is Emilio Milian, I teach computer classes at South San Francisco Adult Education Center, at 825 Southwood Dr, South San Francisco. I plan/intend to teach a quick 4 week/basic course to my Windows students about Linux. This will be schedule for about April of this year. Can you he

FWD: [svlug] Linus Torvalds at BALUG Debian Benefit on 6/15, RSVP ASAP.

1999-06-07 Thread Joey Hess
ux 2.3.4 i586) To: svlug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [svlug] Linus Torvalds at BALUG Debian Benefit on 6/15, RSVP ASAP. Linus Torvalds to Headline Benefit Dinner for Debian Project Linuxcare, VA Linux Systems to Sponsor Event at Upcoming BALUG Meeting June 7, 1999 Linus Torvalds, creat

Re: Linus Torvalds at the Pearly Gates

1999-04-02 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 07:48:27PM -0600, Jonathan Hayward wrote: > 1: XFree86 was downgraded from 3.3.3 to 3.3.2.1. 3.3.3 supports my video > card; 3.3.2.1 does not. This means that my X display is now > (mal)functioning at 320x200 -- I can see the lower right quadrant of an > xterm. The machin

Re: Linus Torvalds at the Pearly Gates

1999-04-02 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Jonathan Hayward wrote: > > 1: XFree86 was downgraded from 3.3.3 to 3.3.2.1. 3.3.3 supports my > video Apt will not downgrade any package, I don't believe. You mean that the X package overwrote your manually installed copy. (Not to nitpick, just trying to clarify so we are a

Re: Linus Torvalds at the Pearly Gates

1999-04-02 Thread John Hasler
Jonathan Hayward writes: > The machine was also set to start xdm on boot; coming in with a rescue > floppy was the only way I could figure out to get it to boot and give a > text terminal (I did not have the boot scripts start xdm before). I agree that this a serious bug. The authorities don't ag

Linus Torvalds at the Pearly Gates

1999-04-02 Thread Jonathan Hayward
Linus Torvalds is standing at the Pearly Gates as people are coming in. He asks the first person, "What's your IQ?" "150." "I'd like your opinion on some things I've been thinking about in termsof tools to partially automate the process of porting a ke

Re: Linus Torvalds: Linux-2.2.4..

1999-03-25 Thread Johnie Ingram
"shaleh" == shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: shaleh> acct.c: In function `sys_acct': acct.c:197: too few arguments shaleh> to function `filp_close' acct.c:203: too few arguments to shaleh> function `filp_close' Add ", NULL" to the invocations of filp_close. netgod

Re: Linus Torvalds: Linux-2.2.4..

1999-03-25 Thread shaleh
> > > I've put the source, patch, and debs of this at the usual place > (http://netgod.net/). ISDN is compiled in now (I think). > Has anyone compiled this successfully in potato? I get the following acct.c: In function `sys_acct': acct.c:197: too few arguments to function `filp_close' acct.

Linus Torvalds: Linux-2.2.4..

1999-03-24 Thread Johnie Ingram
I've put the source, patch, and debs of this at the usual place (http://netgod.net/). ISDN is compiled in now (I think). netgod --- Forwarded Message Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:46:33 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kernel Mailing L

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-12 Thread Ali Graham
George Bonser wrote: > Don't even think Linus should BE the person of the century. That honor > probably goes to Thomas Edison. We owe our current culture and style of > living to that guy. His experiments with his lightbulb led to the > discovery of the "Edison effect&quo

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-08 Thread Roberto Rosario
I sense another inminent Holy war comming :( Richard Harran wrote: > Oh, goodie! A religious discussion! > > Kent West wrote: > > > > At 04:13 PM 3/5/1999 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Kevin Traas schrieb: > > >> > > >> Hey, Linus

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-08 Thread mike shupp
On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Frankie wrote: > True. I agree with you about electricity. It has made a HUGE impact on > our lives. So, I nominate gallileo, because (if I'm wrong, subsitute > some ridiculously ancient bod that experimented with electricity) he > messed about with electricity and frogs legs. T

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-08 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Nope I don't think I will vote for any person on the basis of > > scientific or technical merit. A more global view is required. > > I was thinking of RMS, too. LOL - Spoken like a true Debian-ite. I'd put RMS #2, right after Mr. T. > "There is no gravity in space

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-08 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Frankie wrote: > > George Bonser wrote: > > > > On Fri, 5 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > just did, but is this list not moderated, Jesus Christ is so far I now, > > > from a different century and he is on top? > > > > > >

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-07 Thread Mike Horansky
Richard Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Oh, goodie! A religious discussion! > > > > OK I'm voting for Adam. Without him we all would be dust. Or a bunch of cheeky monkeys... -- -Mike Horansky, Unix Systems Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Conformity is everything--isn't it?" OPINIONS EXP

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-07 Thread Frankie
George Bonser wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > just did, but is this list not moderated, Jesus Christ is so far I now, > > from a different century and he is on top? > > > > Matth > > Don't even think Linus should BE the

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 09:50:30AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > Don't even think Linus should BE the person of the century. That honor > probably goes to Thomas Edison. We owe our current culture and style of > living to that guy. His experiments with his lightbulb led to the >

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century- re: Edison

1999-03-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
> I can think of no single individual that had as great an impact on the daily life of the entire world. Whatever we were to become in the 20th century, we would get there in the company of Edison. --- Although we may owe a lot to Edison, most of us choose to ignore

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-06 Thread Richard Harran
on this century than Linus - we've had two World Wars this century, and survived. I suspect that most people who are involved in this vote aren't going to remember anything much before Elvis! Rich George Bonser wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Richard Lyon wrote: > > > &g

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-06 Thread Britton
> Don't even think Linus should BE the person of the century. That honor > probably goes to Thomas Edison. We owe our current culture and style of If you want to go with the guy who had the biggest slam-bang effect on everything, it's either Oppenheimer or Truman. > livi

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-06 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Mar 06, 1999 at 10:19:57PM +1100, Richard Lyon wrote: > Nope I don't think I will vote for any person on the basis of scientific or > technical merit. A more global view is required. I was thinking of RMS, too. -- G. Branden Robinson | "There is no gravity in space." Debi

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-06 Thread Richard Lyon
> Oh, goodie! A religious discussion! > OK I'm voting for Adam. Without him we all would be dust.

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-06 Thread Richard Lyon
> Don't even think Linus should BE the person of the century. That honor > probably goes to Thomas Edison. We owe our current culture and style of > living to that guy. His experiments with his lightbulb led to the > discovery of the "Edison effect" which led DeForest to

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century - EXTREMELY OFF TOPIC

1999-03-05 Thread Michael Stenner
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: >On Fri, 5 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> just did, but is this list not moderated, Jesus Christ is so far I now, >> from a different century and he is on top? >> >> Matth > >Don't even think Linus should

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-05 Thread Richard Harran
Oh, goodie! A religious discussion! Kent West wrote: > > At 04:13 PM 3/5/1999 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Kevin Traas schrieb: > >> > >> Hey, Linus Torvalds isn't even in the top 20! Let's change that! ;-) > >> > >> >Time Ma

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-05 Thread Kent West
At 04:13 PM 3/5/1999 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Kevin Traas schrieb: >> >> Hey, Linus Torvalds isn't even in the top 20! Let's change that! ;-) >> >> >Time Magazine is allowing us to vote for Time Magazines >> >Person of the Century, wh

Re: Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-05 Thread matthschulz
Kevin Traas schrieb: > > Hey, Linus Torvalds isn't even in the top 20! Let's change that! ;-) > > >Time Magazine is allowing us to vote for Time Magazines > >Person of the Century, which will be in their December 1999 issue. > > To vote go to: >

Vote Linus for Person of the Century

1999-03-05 Thread Kevin Traas
Hey, Linus Torvalds isn't even in the top 20! Let's change that! ;-) >Time Magazine is allowing us to vote for Time Magazines >Person of the Century, which will be in their December 1999 issue. > To vote go to: >http://www.pathfinder.com/time/time100/toppersonmain.html

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-03 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 08:25:30AM -0400, Mike Barton wrote: > >Just to add my experiences of win95 into the frey, i have also done the > MB > >swap thing and while after a lot of rebooting in managed to recover, on > the > >other hand my bro's machine is almost identical to mine (only minor > >dif

RE: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-03 Thread Mike Barton
>Just to add my experiences of win95 into the frey, i have also done the MB >swap thing and while after a lot of rebooting in managed to recover, on the >other hand my bro's machine is almost identical to mine (only minor >differences lijke graphics card, HD make) failed miserable to survive the >s

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-02 Thread Ted Harding
On 02-Aug-98 Steve Lamb wrote: > My secret is that I do not run Microsoft applications. I find that the > applications are shoddy, poorly written, thought out, implimented and are > often incompatible with themselves in their own versions. > > I run Win95 for games written by other soft

RE: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-02 Thread Rick
Just to add my experiences of win95 into the frey, i have also done the MB swap thing and while after a lot of rebooting in managed to recover, on the other hand my bro's machine is almost identical to mine (only minor differences lijke graphics card, HD make) failed miserable to survive the same s

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-02 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998 01:37:43 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Why? I didn't have to update the drivers of Linux. It came up and running. >Win95 on the other hand kept on insisting on rebooting the system for each >"updated driver". Sure you do. It is just called recompiling the kernel.

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-02 Thread sjc
On Sun, Aug 02, 1998 at 01:37:43AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ok, let's talk a concrete example: I loaded "Barney on the farm" for my > daughter (Official MS Win95 game for children). The setup routine got to the > "Parent's Room" segment of the installation. I was not given a choice as t

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, let's talk a concrete example: I loaded "Barney on the farm" for my > daughter (Official MS Win95 game for children). The setup routine got to the > "Parent's Room" segment of the installation. I was not given a choice as to > whether or not I wan

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-02 Thread tko
Steve Lamb writes: > > On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 12:03:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ever try replacing a Motherboard on a "win95" system? > > Yes. In fact, I swapped machines around the HDs to test a theory of > mine. > > > That "fabulous, great, decent OS" loses it's mind! You se

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-01 Thread George R
On 07/31/98 at 10:36 AM, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Apparently you're doing something wrong. Because this *LINUX* >advocate has a Win95/WinNT machine at home that rivals the uptimes of >my Linux box. I have yet to lose data on that machine because of the >OS, same as my Linux box

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-31 Thread Christopher Barry
My experience also with Windows 95 has been pretty solid. I've had months of uptime with Windows 95 with the only problems being occasional GPF errors that close all open Netscape windows. But other than that it's been pretty rock solid for me as long as I haven't installed library type software or

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-31 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 12:03:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ever try replacing a Motherboard on a "win95" system? Yes. In fact, I swapped machines around the HDs to test a theory of mine. > That "fabulous, great, decent OS" loses it's mind! You see, all > information about the hardw

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-31 Thread tko
Please allow me my two cents of experience with Lost95 (if they don't 'Win', they 'lost') C.J.LAWSON writes: > > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: > > Well, Windows is a decent OS if you know how to use and configure it right > > (and work around its many bugs). If you can't deal with bugs i

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-31 Thread C.J.LAWSON
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: > Well, Windows is a decent OS if you know how to use and configure it right > (and work around its many bugs). If you can't deal with bugs in an OS you > don't deserve to be allowed to use a computer, or even own one. Windows I wonder if you would have the sam

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 08:06:40AM -0700, Alexander wrote: > Hi... > > Well, Windows is a decent OS if you know how to use and configure it right > (and work around its many bugs). If you can't deal with bugs in an OS you > don't deserve to be allowed to use a computer, or even own one. Windows >

User interface (was Re: Linus Torvalds interview)

1998-07-29 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: > Hi... Hello! > Do you think MS took only 5 minutes to design and implement the UI? Or > FAT32? I don't think so. Speaking of UI check this out. http://www.insanely-great.com/Interface maybe this will convince you that MS took 5 minutes or less to imple

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-29 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: > Hi... > > Well, Windows is a decent OS if you know how to use and configure it right > (and work around its many bugs). If you can't deal with bugs in an OS you > don't deserve to be allowed to use a computer, or even own one. Windows > took many years to d

Re: more linus!

1998-07-29 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, David Parmet wrote: > > > Linus on the cover of this weeks Forbes! Do you slashdot? I do and I had the slashdot effect when I tried to connect to Forbes.com HTTP/1.0 Server too busy hhrrmpp. /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support /vvv

more linus!

1998-07-29 Thread David Parmet
Linus on the cover of this weeks Forbes! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-29 Thread Alexander
Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user > Subject: Re: Linus Torvalds interview > Resent-Date: 22 Jul 1998 18:01:52 - > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; > > On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: &

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-29 Thread Alexander
f them...) Alex On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 18:43:20 +0100 > From: Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user > Subject: Re: Linus Torvalds interview > Resent-Date: 22 Jul 1998 17:47:40 - > Resent-From: debian-user@

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-23 Thread Adrian Bridgett
nifesto.html > > > > If that's the one I've seen it is well worth reading. Linux has his head > > Linux the OS or Linus the person? Do you mean that what LT says goes for > the linux community as well? Oops :-) No - but he generally behaves responsibly by avoiding

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-22 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:19:17PM -0700, Keith Beattie wrote: > > fyi, > > > > http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html > > If that's the one I've seen it is well worth reading. Linux ha

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-22 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:19:17PM -0700, Keith Beattie wrote: > fyi, > > http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html If that's the one I've seen it is well worth reading. Linux has his head screwed on right (apart from the "I don't think Microsoft is an evil company" bit which

Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-21 Thread Keith Beattie
fyi, http://www.bootnet.com/youaskedforit/lip_linux_manifesto.html ksb -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Off Topic, Linus Torvalds.

1998-05-02 Thread Jim Pick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) writes: > I have recently read a magazine about linux, and it mentioned the world's > first "knowing" of linux; A 1991 post to comp.os.minix from Linus > Torvalds. Would anyone have any idea if this is available, or even if it >

Re: Off Topic, Linus Torvalds.

1998-05-01 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 11:29:43PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > > I have recently read a magazine about linux, and it mentioned the world's > > first "knowing" of linux; A 1991 post to comp.os.minix from Linus > &

Re: Off Topic, Linus Torvalds.

1998-04-30 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > I have recently read a magazine about linux, and it mentioned the world's > first "knowing" of linux; A 1991 post to comp.os.minix from Linus > Torvalds. Would anyone have any idea if this is available, or even if it > was s

Re: Off Topic, Linus Torvalds.

1998-04-30 Thread Lorens Kockum
In debian-user Michael Beattie wrote: >I have recently read a magazine about linux, and it mentioned the world's >first "knowing" of linux; A 1991 post to comp.os.minix from Linus >Torvalds. Do you yearn for the days when men were men, and wrote their own device driver

Re: Off Topic, Linus Torvalds.

1998-04-30 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 11:29:43PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > I have recently read a magazine about linux, and it mentioned the world's > first "knowing" of linux; A 1991 post to comp.os.minix from Linus > Torvalds. A number of early Linux posts from Linus are availa

Off Topic, Linus Torvalds.

1998-04-30 Thread Michael Beattie
I have recently read a magazine about linux, and it mentioned the world's first "knowing" of linux; A 1991 post to comp.os.minix from Linus Torvalds. Would anyone have any idea if this is available, or even if it was saved? Or even where I could start to look for it? Sheesh..

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
> Please drop personal attacks, especially vapid ones, from the lists. Supported!! -J. === In any war, the first casualty is the truth.

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-17 Thread C.J.LAWSON
ected ..' -LJKS at least extend the man the curtsey of getting his name right > Voting for Linus Tolrvalds is not a good idea. The man is not a Titan, Linus Torvalds -J. === In any war, the first ca

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Tamas Papp wrote: > > I don't think 'debian-flame' would be quite appropriate. How about > > debian-discussion, or debian-advocacy or something? > It's a good idea, "flame" was just a thought (after the Hungarian list > linux-flame). The name debian-discussion would be quite

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-14 Thread Tamas Papp
> I don't think 'debian-flame' would be quite appropriate. How about > debian-discussion, or debian-advocacy or something? It's a good idea, "flame" was just a thought (after the Hungarian list linux-flame). The name debian-discussion would be quite appropriate for the topics that I mentioned. So

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-14 Thread Britton
I don't think 'debian-flame' would be quite appropriate. How about debian-discussion, or debian-advocacy or something? Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Tamas Papp wrote: > This is getting to be a bit offtopic. Some linux lists have a "fl

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-14 Thread Britton
> > Voting for Linus Tolrvalds is not a good idea. The man is not a Titan, > > in any sense of the word... even less than Bill Gates. > > > > Making such silly votes, is sure to disrubt the balance and help put > > Bill Gates up on the list, or is *t

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-14 Thread Tamas Papp
This is getting to be a bit offtopic. Some linux lists have a "flame" counterpart specifically for these issues, i.e. the ones that are not technical. Couldn't we start a debian-flame list for these debates? The people who are interested in these could sign up for that. jabberwock ###By lack

Re: Linus Torvalds - Man of the century

1998-04-14 Thread Jens Lisner
David Densmore wrote: > > When it was suggested that we all go to the Pathfinder web site and > vote for Linus as man of the century, it struck me as a very good > idea and I did so immediately. > > Personally, I think the idea of picking one person to stand out above > a

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-14 Thread Jens Lisner
this poor rating! > >howard hughes 351237 4.09 > >vehbi koc 350473 4.08 > >steve jobs 336439 3.92 > >murat arslan 205791 2.40 > > > Voting for Linus Tolrvalds is not a good idea. The man is not a Titan, > in any sense of the word... even less th

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Orn" == Orn E Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Orn> Þann 12-Apr-98 skrifar Manoj Srivastava: >> Frankly, most of us have sense enough not to tell people how their >> vbotes are wrong. It is one thing to campaign for a candidate, and >> urge and suggest where to cast ones vote, and it is

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-14 Thread Ossama Othman
Manoj wrote: > Hmm. Those terms are generally used by the intellectually > challenged. I shall make a note your affliction, and I offer you my > sympathies. I shall also attempt to down grade any communication to > you to words of one syllable, so that you may actually understand the > s

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Orn" == Orn E Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Orn> Well, like it or not... your votes are silly. And that's Orn> probably why Linux people are so often described as geeks. If Orn> you don't like it, then you should try be non-geek like... but Orn> since you do like, accept being called

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Orn" == Orn E Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Orn> Look whose talking... the King of Geek world, as the magazines so Orn> well describe it :-) Orn> You want to continue to be a geek, be my guest :-) Hmm. Those terms are generally used by the intellectually challenged. I shall

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-13 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 10:03:53PM +0200, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > > Þann 12-Apr-98 skrifar Marcus Brinkmann: > >> Yes, he is. I don't think that many of the voters take seriously what > >> they're doing. :-) > > > > If the would, Bill Gates wouldn't get so many votes... > > > You'd be surprised

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Orn E. Hansen wrote: : : Þann 12-Apr-98 skrifar Manoj Srivastava: : > : > anal jokes? "hots"? What kind of deranged reality is this : > coming from? : > : Look whose talking... the King of Geek world, as the magazines so : well describe it :-) : : You want to co

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