Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doofus wrote: > > > > > That was four questions. > > > > > > > But Passover was last week :-) No! It was yesterday ;) Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
Doofus wrote: That was four questions. But Passover was last week :-) -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To U

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 11:18:48AM +1000, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: > It is much, much better to use native programs, then if you can't find > native programs for linux, you may give wine a go. Some people must use > emulators (ie, VMWare), and some (like me) are forever doomed to >

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 06:29:08PM -0700, Xplicit Language wrote: > thank you roberto and i did not know that i was being > rude, i will try to remember to bottom post. I think it's a bit extreme to say top posting is ``rude,'' but I would certainly agree that it makes reading posts a bit more di

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Xplicit Language
--- "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xplicit Language wrote: > > i was wondering, if i remove or completely remove > > something from synaptic is that uninstalling the > > program or just deleteing the package, and if it > does > > only remove the package, how do i uninstall thi

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Xplicit Language wrote: i was wondering, if i remove or completely remove something from synaptic is that uninstalling the program or just deleteing the package, and if it does only remove the package, how do i uninstall things like a older version of wine? this help page says that it is best to

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Miles Bader wrote: Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: How mature is wine these days? The last time I looked at it (admittedly a long time ago) it was still a windows 3.1 emulator (when 32 bit windows had long been released). It wasn't particularly stable eithe

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Miles Bader
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Out of curiousity, does it still choke on those braindead 16-bit > installers? I recall a couple of years ago trying to install programs > that used a 16-bit installer and having the install utterly fail. No idea, sorry. I've never had problems

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Xplicit Language wrote: > i was wondering, if i remove or completely remove > something from synaptic is that uninstalling the > program or just deleteing the package, and if it does > only remove the package, how do i uninstall things > like a older version of wine? this help page says that > it i

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Xplicit Language
i was wondering, if i remove or completely remove something from synaptic is that uninstalling the program or just deleteing the package, and if it does only remove the package, how do i uninstall things like a older version of wine? this help page says that it is best to uninstall it, lol i'm star

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Miles Bader wrote: > Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>How mature is wine these days? The last time I looked at it >>(admittedly a long time ago) it was still a windows 3.1 emulator (when >>32 bit windows had long been released). It wasn't particularly stable >>either. > > > 5 years ago win

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Xplicit Language
thats the same reason i want to use wine Christopher Nelson, but to play medal of honor with or without gamespy, i am a little addicted to the game, but to answer, i chose to switch to linux, after years of hating constantly unstable windows os, winxp has had the same error twice in a month after g

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Miles Bader
Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How mature is wine these days? The last time I looked at it > (admittedly a long time ago) it was still a windows 3.1 emulator (when > 32 bit windows had long been released). It wasn't particularly stable > either. 5 years ago wine was pretty flaky. These days

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 00:56:27 +0100, Doofus wrote: [...] > How mature is wine these days? The last time I looked at it (admittedly > a long time ago) it was still a windows 3.1 emulator (when 32 bit > windows had long been released). It wasn't particularly stable either. > I've never really

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 4/22/06, Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Nelson wrote: > > >On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:00:54PM -0700, Xplicit Language wrote: > > > > > > > >>also is > >>anyone familiar with wine? > >> > >> > > > >As a user. What's your question? If it's generally how to use it, 'wine > >'. N

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 12:56:27AM +0100, Doofus wrote: > Christopher Nelson wrote: > > >On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:00:54PM -0700, Xplicit Language wrote: > > > >>also is > >>anyone familiar with wine? > > > >As a user. What's your question? If it's generally how to use it, 'wine > >'. Not all

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Doofus
Christopher Nelson wrote: On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:00:54PM -0700, Xplicit Language wrote: also is anyone familiar with wine? As a user. What's your question? If it's generally how to use it, 'wine '. Not all windows programs work under wine, and some require tinkering. How m

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:00:54PM -0700, Xplicit Language wrote: > which program is used to compile Several. gcc for C code. There are others for C and other languages. > and how do you > compile a program, Depends on how it was set up and where you got it. Often as simple as 'make' 'make in

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Doofus
Xplicit Language wrote: which program is used to compile gcc and how do you compile a program, According to the helpful instructions always provided with the source code (/usr/share/doc/{package_name}). and how do i run apt get, apt-get {package_name} But since you're asking these

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Xplicit Language wrote: > which program is used to compile and how do you > compile a program, and how do i run apt get, also is > anyone familiar with wine? To compile you use a compiler. The most common one is gcc, though there are others distributed with Debian. Of course, it depends on what

Re: three questions about modules

2001-04-24 Thread Kevin Easton
From: "Benjamin Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 1:50 AM Subject: three questions about modules >1.) the default behavior for debian seems to be to run modprobe on all >modules listed in /etc/modules at boot time, without -k (autoclean). is >there a way to change this

Re: three questions about modules

2001-04-24 Thread Iwan Mouwen
* Benjamin Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010422 21:35]: > 1.) the default behavior for debian seems to be to run modprobe on all > modules listed in /etc/modules at boot time, without -k (autoclean). is > there a way to change this behavior? edit /etc/init.d/modutils > 2.) i've looked through some

RE: Three questions

1999-10-11 Thread aphro
if linux had more documentation that would take more of the fun outta it!@ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett

RE: Three questions

1999-10-11 Thread Andrew Hately
> > The poor quality of documentation, such as these "how tos" > is one of the > > reasons why I recommend when ever I am asked whether a site > should move > > to linux to recommend that they don't. > > Although I didn't agree with the tone of this message, I > definitely think something > needs t

RE: Three questions

1999-10-08 Thread B. Szyszka
> The poor quality of documentation, such as these "how tos" is one of the > reasons why I recommend when ever I am asked whether a site should move > to linux to recommend that they don't. Although I didn't agree with the tone of this message, I definitely think something needs to be done abou

Re: Three questions

1999-10-08 Thread Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 01:53:30AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was under the _impression_ that people in the Linux community > were supposed to be helpful. Obviously I was mistaken. You have probably heard that Linux (and other Unices) are much more flexible and powerful than WinXX. One

Re: Three questions

1999-10-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I was under the _impression_ that people in the Linux community were : supposed to be helpful. Obviously I was mistaken. [ snip more of the same ] : I don't want a long, indepth, very indirect discussion of how to manage : a network or ethernet

Re: Three questions

1999-10-08 Thread Matthew Dalton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I was under the _impression_ that people in the Linux community were > supposed to be helpful. Obviously I was mistaken. Sorry to be blunt, but you're acting like the Linux community owes you something. Everyone here is a volunteer in one way or another. Occasionall

Re: Three questions

1999-10-08 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 8 Oct, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: Three questions" > I was under the _impression_ that people in the Linux community were > supposed to be helpful. Obviously I was mistaken. > > I asked some very specific questions, I hoped to get some helpful > answers.

Re: Three questions

1999-10-08 Thread Herbert Ho
I'm sorry that your experience with linux has thus far been so bad. I understand how frustrating dealing with linux and all these problems might be. The linux community as a whole is very willing to help, but there are lots of questions that are commonly asked that are answered in howto and maili

Re: Three questions

1999-10-08 Thread brian . ross
I was under the _impression_ that people in the Linux community were supposed to be helpful. Obviously I was mistaken. I asked some very specific questions, I hoped to get some helpful answers. Obviously I was mistaken to even bother if I was to simply be directed to a Howto file. The poor qual

Re: Three questions

1999-10-08 Thread shaul
Take a look at the Ethernet and NETWORK HOWTOs. > I have a system on which I've just installed debian. It has two network > cards but during setup only one was recognised. I need to know how to: > > 1) Make the system recognise the other network card. Is there a utility > which probes the card

Re: Three questions regarding new install (Win95 sharing and FTP and kernel)

1998-03-19 Thread aqy6633
> 2. After installation is complete, if I want to remove an item from the > install (I added IPX and don't want it), how do I accomplish this? (I > only have the basic installation right now... see #3. Edit /etc/modules and remove the line with ipx > 3. Due to "factors beyond my control", this L