On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 10:31:32PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> How does your trailer cope with the bike leaning over on corners?
Hitch is on a swivel joint and clamps to the bicycle. Trailer doesn't
torque.
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On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 23:31, Pigeon wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 07:52:21PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > [1] Bicycle with cargo trailers can move anything. I've moved a sofa
> > and a fridge with them myself, though had to rent larger trailers.
>
> I've moved a fridge by strapping it on the
>
> I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar
careers and that is
> why you are so proficient with compiling and testing
and tweaking
> all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has
gone on for so
> long that you have advanced your knowledge of
Linux/Debian to these
> levels that all of
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 07:52:21PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> [1] Bicycle with cargo trailers can move anything. I've moved a sofa
> and a fridge with them myself, though had to rent larger trailers.
I've moved a fridge by strapping it on the carrier. This made the bike
possible to ride, but im
>
>Actually, I know several journos who use Debian. It makes testing and
>evaluating SW packages trivial.
>
Further to that, in the non-tech press I know many political journo's with a
love affair with abiword under windows.
mostly because it doesn't play silly games with them.
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on Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:32:23PM -0600, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 15:30, Sam Varghese wrote:
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> > On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 09:53:02AM -0800, Osamu Aoki spake thus:
> [snip]
> > I work as a journalist for
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 11:40, Cam Ellison wrote:
> * Lloyd Zusman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > "Scott --sidewalking--" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > [ ... ]
> > >
> > > I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is
> > > why you are so proficient with compiling and
In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>
> I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is
> why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking
> all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so
> long that you have advanced your knowledge of Linux/Deb
Scott --sidewalking-- wrote:
>
> I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is
> why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking
> all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so
> long that you have advanced your knowledge of Linux/Debian
I've been mucking about with computers for over 20 years, starting
with the Commodore Pet. I refuse to categorise it as a hobby or a
career. I have been paid for doing it, though not very often at the
moment. I do it because I enjoy it - same reason for most things I do,
like electronics design a
Thus spake Scott --sidewalking-- ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> All,
>
> I am new to the Linux world and have settled on Debian as my
> winning horse for learning Linux, to the best of my abilities.
> The talk on this list is a little out of my comprehension now,
> as I am so new, but I am still taking
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 07:12:34AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> environment full time, I finally decided to put RedHat 5.1 on my PC. After
> ignoring the moron at Future Shop who told me that you couldn't dual boot a
> PC, I dual booted it just fine between Linux and '95. It didn't take long
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 08:50:09AM +, Glyn Millington wrote:
> To some extent it goes with the OS. Maybe a liking for the
> Under-the-bonnet approach goes with a certain kind of personality?
> Certainly in the bad onld days of Winders 95, it was _easier_ to use
> Linux than to be constantly fa
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 14:09, Jeff wrote:
> Scott --sidewalking--, 2003-Jan-16 16:30 -0700:
[snip]
> You'll find that the biggest commonality among Linux users is their
> love for Linux. Reasons and backgrounds vary widely. This should
Or the desire to have a real workstation/server-class OS for
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 15:30, Sam Varghese wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 09:53:02AM -0800, Osamu Aoki spake thus:
[snip]
> I work as a journalist for the Tech sub-sections of the Web sites of two
> Australian broadsheet newspapers - The Age (Me
| That doesn't sound at all like the Brooks Robinson I'm familiar with
| ...
Well the story goes like this
Circa 1968/1969 my (then 10 year old) brother was watching a marvelous third
baseman. He turns to my mother and asks that if she has another child,
could they name it Brooks. My mother
Scott --sidewalking-- wrote:
All,
I am new to the Linux world and have settled on Debian as my winning
horse for learning Linux, to the best of my abilities. The talk on
this list is a little out of my comprehension now, as I am so new,
but I am still taking general ed classes in college, and
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 09:53:02AM -0800, Osamu Aoki spake thus:
>
> If you want instant-Linux with passive attitudes and expectations that
> evrything is configured by GUI, Debian may not be ready to address needs
> of you yet. Debian does not requi
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
> Well, yes and no. I have sort of a round about computer history. I got my
> first computer when I was 10, a TI-99/4A -- that should date me properly,
I spent many hours of playing Tunnels of Doom a few months ago under MESS.
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Scott --sidewalking--, 2003-Jan-16 16:30 -0700:
> All,
>
> I am new to the Linux world and have settled on Debian as my winning
> horse for learning Linux, to the best of my abilities. The talk on
> this list is a little out of my comprehension now, as I am so new,
> but I am still taking genera
"Brooks R. Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> | I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is
> | why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking
> | all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so
> | long that you have advanced your
Hi,
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Scott --sidewalking-- wrote:
> I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is
> why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking
> all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so
> long that you
Thus spake Lloyd Zusman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
...
> Linux is a version of Unix that first came out in the mid-1990's.
> So by now, it's part of the nearly 30-year evolution of the original
> Unix.
I think it's worth pointing out that the "original" unix was very
seriously based on (concepts of) the
| I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is
| why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking
| all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so
| long that you have advanced your knowledge of Linux/Debian to these
| levels that all of yo
* Lloyd Zusman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> "Scott --sidewalking--" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > [ ... ]
> >
> > I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is
> > why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking
> > all of this stuff. Or is it just a h
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Scott --sidewalking-- wrote:
> I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is
> why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking
> all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so
> long that you have
* Scott --sidewalking-- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030117 02:00]:
> All,
>
> I am new to the Linux world and have settled on Debian as my winning
> horse for learning Linux, to the best of my abilities. The talk on
Good choice, the packaging system is amazing.
> this list is a little out of my compr
Scott --sidewalking-- wrote:
All,
I am new to the Linux world and have settled on Debian as my winning
horse for learning Linux, to the best of my abilities. The talk on
this list is a little out of my comprehension now, as I am so new...
I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar career
way. Many of us intuitively know that: Who hasn't been shaken
after reading "Les miserables"?
- Original Message -
From: "John Hasler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: Curious...Are most of
On 16/01/03 Lloyd Zusman did speaketh:
> So to me, the differences between Windows and Linux fall into three
> categories:
>
> 1. Quality -- Unix and its descendants such as Linux are robust,
> 2. Religion -- Many people in the Linux world (me included) are
> 3. Fun -- For a programmer,
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 04:14, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 08:50:09AM +, Glyn Millington wrote:
> > "Scott --sidewalking--" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers
> >
> > Doubt it - I'm a Presbyterian minister!
>
> And
andrej
hocevar To: [EMAIL PROTECTED
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Scott --sidewalking-- wrote:
> I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is
> why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking
> all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so
> long that you have
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 08:50:09AM +, Glyn Millington wrote:
> "Scott --sidewalking--" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers
>
> Doubt it - I'm a Presbyterian minister!
And I was a Dutch Reformed minister for 22 years using Linux on my
de
"Scott --sidewalking--" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers
Doubt it - I'm a Presbyterian minister!
> why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking
> all of this stuff.
To some extent it goes with the OS. Maybe a liking
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:46:34PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote:
> But anyways, started out on Slackware in... Hmm. I remember 1.2.x kernels
> more than the actual version. Something like version 3.0, which puts
> it in 1996?
I started getting interested in Linux when my buddy Tabor was going on
a
Okay, I'll weigh in.
I'm finishing up my master's degree in electrical engineering. My lab
is solely Linux and Solaris machines, but used Linux exclusively for a
couple of years during my undergrad, too. Everybody used to wonder why
my reports looked so much better than everybody else and I w
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 10:23:45PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> Linux is a version of Unix that first came out in the mid-1990's.
> So by now, it's part of the nearly 30-year evolution of the original
> Unix.
Since when is 1991 the mid-90's? 8:o)
> In other words, MS Windows is a Johnny-come-late
> I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is
> why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking
> all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so
> long that you have advanced your knowledge of Linux/Debian to these
> levels that all of y
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 08:08:56PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> I board and train horses and grow hay for a living.
Security officer workin the third watch at a research hospital
gaurding an enterance.
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On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Scott --sidewalking-- wrote:
> I am new to the Linux world and have settled on Debian as my winning
> horse for learning Linux, to the best of my abilities. The talk on
> this list is a little out of my comprehension now, as I am so new,
> but I am still
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Scott --sidewalking-- wrote:
> All,
>
> I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is
> why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking
> all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so
> long that you have advanced yo
This one time, at band camp, Scott --sidewalking-- said:
> All,
>
> I am new to the Linux world and have settled on Debian as my winning
> horse for learning Linux, to the best of my abilities. The talk on
> this list is a little out of my comprehension now, as I am so new,
> but I am still taki
Scott --sidewalking-- wrote:
All,
I am new to the Linux world and have settled on Debian as my winning
horse for learning Linux, to the best of my abilities. The talk on
this list is a little out of my comprehension now, as I am so new,
but I am still taking general ed classes in college, and a
"Scott --sidewalking--" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [ ... ]
>
> I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is
> why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking
> all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so
> long that you have advanc
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Scott --sidewalking-- wrote:
> I am new to the Linux world and have settled on Debian as my winning
> horse for learning Linux, to the best of my abilities. The talk on
> this list is a little out of my comprehension now, as I am so new,
> but I am still
Scott writes:
> I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is why
> you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking all of this
> stuff.
I board and train horses and grow hay for a living.
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At 2003-01-16T23:30:54Z, "Scott --sidewalking--" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers...
I am. I got a degree in Comp. Sci., but was working in system
administration before that (I went to school as a "non-traditional
student").
> ...and that i
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Scott --sidewalking-- wrote:
> I am new to the Linux world and have settled on Debian as my winning
> horse for learning Linux, to the best of my abilities. The talk on
> this list is a little out of my comprehension now, as I am so new,
> but I am still
Im still in my junior year of highschool
- Original Message -
From: "Scott --sidewalking--" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 6:30 PM
Subject: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?
> All,
>
> I am new to the Linux world and
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Scott --sidewalking-- wrote:
[snip]
> I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is
> why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking
> all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so
> long that yo
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