Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 08:30, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:19:10 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wouldn't be surprised if most Python programmers prefer BSD style. > > I find it the worst of the three I presented. Color me surp

Re: FW: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 11:54, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:08:13AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > And what I've seen of the larger stuff in Java, it's horrably slow and > > > unreliable

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 11:32, Anders Arnholm wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:33:40AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 14:07, Pigeon wrote: > > set tabstop=4 > > So thats why all code form other Python programers look like shit and > dont line up, no

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 11:27, Anders Arnholm wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:35:25AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 03:35, Anders Arnholm wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:32:07PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2003-08-

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 14:38, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:47:34 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 08:30, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:19:10 -0500 > > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?

2003-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 10:41, Pigeon wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:48:04PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:54:47AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > You could just sit tight and be patient during the slow times, or you > > > > co

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 16:28, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 08:03:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 18:23, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:30:57PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2003-08-26

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 11:03, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:05:31AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 00:59, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 17:13, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 04:35:04PM -0800, Britton wrote: > > > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:25:55AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Some time

Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?

2003-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 18:44, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:41:46 +0100, > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:48:04PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 19:37, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 05:46:01PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 16:28, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > Well then you do it differently: > > > open(INPUT,"records.txt"); > >

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
hat are nothing but wrappers around C library calls, and thus have roughly the same parameter lists and calling sequences. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA 4 degrees from Vladimir Putin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: open office spell checking

2003-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
ideas? What version of OOo are you running, and where did you get it? I.e., from www.openoffice.org, or Debian, etc? -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Thanks to the good people in Microsoft, a great deal of the

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 02:38, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 00:28:24 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Python is written in C (no surprise there!), but what is surprising > > to some is that so many C-isms are in Python. For exampl

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 05:12, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 05:51:50PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >CPU0 > > 0: 563586560 XT-PIC timer > > 1:3329762 XT-PIC

Re: FW: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
web-sites that have Flash-based advertising. -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Millions of Chinese speak Chinese, and it's not hereditary..." Dr. Dean Edell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: open office spell checking

2003-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
e baby with the bath water, especially if he doesn't use KDE? -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "they love our milk and honey, but preach about another way of living" Merle Haggard, "The Fighting Side Of Me&q

Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?

2003-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 09:59, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 02:39:28 -0700, > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Fri, Aug

Re: VIA CPU's - cooling with ICE - shuttle - heat

2003-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
if they are severely > crippled like an early celeron was. What kind of advertisements have you seen? -- ------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "As the night fall does not come at once, neither does oppres

Re: open office spell checking

2003-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
aries-common 0.10.3 gnome-spell 1.0.4-2 libaspell15 0.50.3-12 libgtkspell02.0.4-6 -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "As the night fall does not come at once, neither does oppression. It is in such twilight that we must all be aware

Re: sed question

2003-08-31 Thread Ron Johnson
uld be able to use grep and sed to do the job for me and I can use grep > to filter them in separate log files but I now need to delete that first virtual > host entry so I can use webalizer to analyse the seperate log files. I have read the > info page for sed and looked at tutorials and

Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?

2003-08-31 Thread Ron Johnson
n trundling past my house create very little exhaust. Steam engines create a *lot*, and need to be regularly replenished with consumables. DEs just look to be more fuel efficient, and less offensive to the neighborhood. -- - Ron John

Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?

2003-08-31 Thread Ron Johnson
hrottle to accellerate > reasonably well) would make the lights slightly dimmer. I bet the electronics in your school really loved that... -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA An ad run by the NEA (the US'

Re: open office spell checking

2003-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 19:04, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:50:41 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is interesting. Spelling works for me, but I don't have any > > myspell* installed : > > Does it really? > >

Re: re wet blue

2003-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
ugh various other > chemical processes in order to produce the large variety of leather > products available to the consumer. Then for that to be sent to D-U, it must be spam. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA

Re: unfortunate dummy gets good advise

2003-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
/ KDE. The previous version (v2.7) is available for free download. -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA I can't make you have an abortion, but you can *make* me pay child support for 18 years? However, if I want the child (and all the expenses

Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?

2003-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
won't normally cause a huge death > toll. Trains are remarkably crash-resistant things. If you want to kill > heaps of people, an airliner's a *much* better bet. Besides, it *looks* sooo much more dramatic. -- ---

Re: remove Debian

2003-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
ould be more geek-like, but I sense that Yu Sun is *not* a geek... -- ------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA After seeing all the viruses, trojan horses, worms and Reply mails from stupidly-configured anti-virus software that's been hurled upon

Re: Memory

2003-09-03 Thread Ron Johnson
e portable. > > If you need an application to have access to more than 2GB of RAM then > you need to get a 64-bit system like an Alpha, Sparc or Itanium. I get the impression, though, that these are existing apps, that only broke after upgrade to .21. -- ---

Re: Memory

2003-09-03 Thread Ron Johnson
> > > would be that you'd need to compile the kernel with Itanium support, > > > which I don't see as an option in my 2.4.21 kernel configuration, and > > > install 64-bit Itanium versions of the applications you're trying to > > > use. > > > &g

Re: Memory

2003-09-03 Thread Ron Johnson
64bit Itanic??? (I only know it > from the row raised by the Serious Con Operation lawsuit on IBM.) What's the purpose of a 32 bit Itanium? They already have the P4 & Xeon, which runs rings around the Big I in everything except floating point ops. -- --------

Re: webbroadcast trouble, plese help

2003-09-03 Thread Ron Johnson
mware if not totally > > looking advancer sharing your physics of linux "physics"? Presumably a mistranslation? -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "they love our milk and honey, but p

Re: ..trundling OT; Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-04 Thread Ron Johnson
ml > > Wait, wait, wait...is that a bobby with a Kalishnikov in that picture? An AK-x H&K, probably. -- ------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious enc

Re: OT: RAID Controllers

2003-09-04 Thread Ron Johnson
inux, since it's behind the RAID controller) that has upwards of 512MB cache and on-line changeable cache batteries. (It's the storage controller that is what the drives plug into. The DEC/Compaq/HP HSZ80 is my favorite. -- ---------

Re: ..trundling OT; Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 01:26, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:29:21PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Wait, wait, wait...is that a bobby with a Kalishnikov in that picture? > > > > An AK-x

Re: AOL!=USA - was (no subject)

2003-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
AOL-subscribers also have > @aol.com e-mail. Why is AOL "AOL" in Europe? Why not EOL? Heck, GBOL, DOL, FOL (or OLF; they do things backwards)? Espana might be ESOL... -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferso

Re: How stable is SiD ?

2003-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
; afford any bad press. Oh, please! MS products are chock full of bugs, and is wide open to worms and viruses... I'm reluctant enough that we don't use any MS products at home, and laugh while watching sobig and msblaster bounce off our machines. -- --------

Re: Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
convenient fuel rather than hydrogen. Heck, in the UK, seems like ethanol would be better. Pull up to a pub, have yourself a pint, give your bike a couple of shots of whisky, and your on your way... ;-) -- ------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [

Re: AOL!=USA - was (no subject)

2003-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 14:02, Kent West wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 04:18, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote: > > > > > >>Paul Johnson wrote: > >> > >> > >>>[...] > >>>First, since you'r

Re: AOL!=USA - was (no subject)

2003-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 17:10, Katipo wrote: > On Saturday 06 September 2003 02:26, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 04:18, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote: > > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > First, since you're on AOL, I'm goin

Re: How stable is SiD ?

2003-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 18:58, Nicolas Galler wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 11:30, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 12:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > >

Re: Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-06 Thread Ron Johnson
ge-sapping high-pressure tanks, that turn into missiles when the valves break off in rear-end col- lisions. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "All machines, no matter how complex, are considered to be bas

Re: ..trundling OT; Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 02:40, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:42:55AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > The angle of the photo is really bad for identifying the weapon, but > > > it looks like an AK

Re: Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 11:36, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 03:24:38AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 04:44:56AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > I think Ron's point was, though, that the people in the Hindenburg may > not necessarily have ag

Re: Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 05:24, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 04:44:56AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > H, I wonder where diesel oil comes from? Ooo, ooo, I know! > > Diesel oil comes from the Diesel Oil

Re: AOL!=USA - was (no subject)

2003-09-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 15:46, Katipo wrote: > On Saturday 06 September 2003 11:14, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 17:10, Katipo wrote: > > > On Saturday 06 September 2003 02:26, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 04:18, Stefan Waidele jun.

Re: leaving computer on 24/7

2003-03-30 Thread Ron Johnson
x27;ll spin up again immediately after. Gak! That could get a bit time-consuming if your SAN has a dozen TB. (With 75GB disks, that would be 160 spindles...) -- +--------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Designing a Website

2003-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
dvice in this regard. > > The project is to design and make a personal website. We aren't given any Building personal web pages as Computer Science?? Gak! I think I'd flee, at the 1st possible moment, to a different school. -- +-------

Re: [OT] Designing a Website

2003-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 05:48, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 04:48:33AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 09:33, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > > I am a freshman student, in Computer Studies. A project has recently been > > > assigned to us in o

Re: Speeding up debian ... ?

2003-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
the computer is doing nothing at night anyway, where is the waste in having it compile source code like XFree, glibc, SSL, ssh, and image manipulation s/w? -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PRO

aptitude and multiple distros

2003-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi. With apt-get, I can do: # apt-get -u -t testing install foobar # apt-get -u -t unstable install snafu How do I do the same in aptitude from the command line? TIA -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: aptitude and multiple distros

2003-05-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 06:30, Steve Lamb wrote: > On 28 May 2003 06:07:40 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With apt-get, I can do: > > # apt-get -u -t testing install foobar > > # apt-get -u -t unstable install snafu > > > How do I d

Re: horse at the gate

2003-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
uired library libtw-dev - a Text mode WINdow environment library, development twin - a Text mode WINdow environment. twutils - Utilities for twin Something like DESQview, if you remember that. -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.

Re: horse at the gate

2003-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
ow", but the VMS HELP system *really* rocks. Great for general learning or specific options. IMHO, it's what "info" wants to be. -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.

Re: DVDs reproduction a little "slow"

2003-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
> » player does use a low porcentage of the total system memory. I've tried to > » run the players as root and happens the same. > » > » Any ideas? :) > » > » Regards, > » > » Sara > » > » > » > > -- > Have a nice day on the planet earth... >

Re: Address book sharing

2003-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
ould set up OpenLDAP running on it as your Address Book server... -- +-------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ro

Re: nvidia video cards

2003-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
ee 4.2.1 with the binary driver and tuxracer runs great in non-FB mode. -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | |

Re: Balky Netgear FA311 ethernet card

2003-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
Have you grepped dmesg for eth0 or "[Nn]atsemi"? What about /var/log/*log? (Maybe that's what you mean by "does come up in the kernel messages", but the specifics would be useful.) And what's the output of lspci and "modprobe -v natsemi"? -- +

Re: move from old HD to new hd...

2003-06-02 Thread Ron Johnson
oot sector > of the Windows partition, with the same bs=448. > > Then I swapped the drives and rebooted. It worked. Of course, if you have broadband, you could always re-install Debian, then restore /home and config files... That has the side benefit of eliminating cruft. -- +-

Re: Graphics card, PCI modem recognition probs in Woody

2003-06-02 Thread Ron Johnson
4 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. Are you telling XFree which PCI device to use? $ lspci|grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15) $ grep

Re: Constant sync between two nodes?

2003-06-02 Thread Ron Johnson
t run plain rsync. They won't be "continuous", though. You could make them sync hourly, though. The only way to have continuous mirroring is with expensive fiber controllers mirroring to disparate (up to 10KM apart) drive packs. *WAY* expensive, though. -- +--

Re: nvidia video cards

2003-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
ifferent areas, or is it just confusing to switch between them? -- +-----------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | Regarding war zones: "There&

Re: How to reconfigure network settings easily?

2003-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
a catch > 22. It's a dual boot machine, so I guess I could try and track down > the necessary debs through windows if not. If you can mount any of the FAT drives on Linux (should be able to), you can grab the deb and the copy from there to the linux partition. There are 2 dhc

Re: About to format the hard drive for the 3rd Debianinstallation-helpppp

2003-06-05 Thread Ron Johnson
> >So, what worked? I'm now curious to see who nailed it. 8:o) > > > 1- Removed the libqt-mt.3.2 (links and .so files). > 2- apt-get remove kdebase kdelibs4 > 3- apt-get install kdebase kdelibs4 Ah, the joys of apt/dpkg. You probably couldn't

Re: make menuconfig says I don't have ncurses

2003-06-05 Thread Ron Johnson
x27;make menuconfig' > > [...] > > > You need to install libncurses5-dev. > > > > Does that not make the error message a bit misleading? Shoudn't it say > "You must have Ncurses _development_files_ installed in order"? But that would take away the

Suddenly, spell checking is gone from evo 1.2.4

2003-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
0.50.3-12 ii aspell-bin 0.50.3-12 ii aspell-en0.51-0-3 Has anyone else heard of this? Also, isn't there a utility that lists all of the libraries called by a program? Thanks, Ron -- +-----------+ | Ron Johnson, J

Re: Suddenly, spell checking is gone from evo 1.2.4

2003-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 02:21, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > Am Sam, 2003-06-07 um 23.35 schrieb Ron Johnson: > > Here's my list of relevant packages: > > ii evolution1.2.4-1.1 > > ii gnome-spell 1.0.4-1 > > ii libaspell15

Re: Suddenly, spell checking is gone from evo 1.2.4

2003-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 08:03, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > Am Son, 2003-06-08 um 10.36 schrieb Ron Johnson: > > On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 02:21, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > > Am Sam, 2003-06-07 um 23.35 schrieb Ron Johnson: > > > > Here's my list of relev

Re: Converting OE6 .dbx folders -dbx2mbox

2003-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
mport the OE boxes. > It uses mailbox as native format. You can use these mbox files in linux. That's the technique I used to convert my wife's OE?? (came with Win98) to mbox. Then FTP'ed the resulting mox files over to her new box and imported them into Evo. -- +---

Re: Florida! (was Re: Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burnit ?)

2003-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
ne republic America's created. Japan, Germany, The Philipines. -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | |

Re: Florida! (was Re: Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burnit ?)

2003-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
e one republic America's created. > > > > the Phillipines, Panama, Haiti, Japan, West Germany... You mean post-Noriega Panama and post-Cedras-intervention Haiti? -- +---+ | Ron

Re: Florida! (was Re: Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burnit ?)

2003-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
ermany... > > I think others had hands in setting up Japan and (W) Germany at the > end of WWII. West Germany, yes, partially England and France. Who else helped with Japan? -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.n

Re: Florida! (was Re: Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burnit ?)

2003-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
ge- ment of the US. The souther rebels are making it hard in the Phlipines, though. Haiti is a basket case and is probably hopeless. -- +-----------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jeff

Re: debian 3.0 and XFree 3.x

2003-06-10 Thread Ron Johnson
et down to a bare console system, and then re-install everything. As long as you do not "--purge" when removing packages, they will remain on your hard disk, and you'll re-install from them. -- +-----------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.

Question about command-line aptitude 0.2.11.1

2003-06-11 Thread Ron Johnson
? For example, pan (which I installed from sid) is installed correctly. # dpkg -l |grep ' pan ' ii pan 0.14.0-3 A Newsreader based on GTK2, which looks like TIA, Ron -- +-------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL

Re: Question about command-line aptitude 0.2.11.1

2003-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 20:36, Joey Hess wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > This is on a mixed sarge/sid system. > > > > ~# aptitude install base-config > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree > > Reading extended state information... Don

Re: Firewire card suported by Linux?

2003-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
; recommendations on which cards to get and which ones to avoid. Linux should support most all 1394 chipsets. -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: large disk suppport

2003-06-13 Thread Ron Johnson
saying. -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Oh, great altar of passive entertainment, bestow upon me | | thy

Re: Starting Mozilla NOT maximized? (SOLVED)

2003-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
> > problem for me a little while ago. i don't know what caused it to > > change though. > > That fixed it, thanks a lot. I have the same problem as Nicos, but sizemode was "normal" to begin with. In .mozilla/default/igov8kj8.slt/localstore.rdf : Anyone ha

Re: Starting Mozilla NOT maximized? (SOLVED)

2003-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 15:28, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Saturday 14 June 2003 21:37, Ron Johnson wrote: > > I have the same problem as Nicos, but sizemode was "normal" to begin > > with. > > > > In .mozilla/default/igov8kj8.slt/localstore.rdf : >

Re: Audio CD questions

2003-06-19 Thread Ron Johnson
*do* want wav files (or maybe mp3 at 320 bits would suffice). Likewise, cheap PC speakers don't need anything more than mp3 at 128. -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.c

Re: time screwed up

2003-06-19 Thread Ron Johnson
's not the zone that's wrong, it's what it thinks UTC is. how > do i change this? Have you tried running ntpdate? -- +-----------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA US

Re: Do DVD-drives support booting?

2003-06-21 Thread Ron Johnson
t be that the DVD drive is old enough that it is *not* a combination DVD/CD drive, but strictly DVD? -- +-----------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | |

Re: Mail from M$ Outlook Express -> something

2003-06-22 Thread Ron Johnson
The most trusted method for versions of OE/Outlook later than 1997 is to install Windows Mozilla and have it import the email. Since Mozilla stores it's email in mbox format, then all you have to do is ftp (or copy) the relevant directories over to your Linux partition. -- +

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Ron Johnson
have to get rid of all AT&T code. Well, if the "free license" was written to be revokable, then they could revoke it. Remember, as much as some people would like to think it, RMS didn't carve the GPL in stone with his finger, so that Moses could carry it down the Mountai

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 19:37, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 18:02, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-23 Thread Ron Johnson
r > > game. It's not that surprising that the US army releases a binary > > only copy of their game for linux. > > I don't know why everybody is flaming Bijan. I think his argument is > valid. > > Call me a zealot, or anything you want, but I

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 10:43, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 05:42, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > > I don't know why everybody is flaming Bijan. I think his argument is > > > valid. > > > &

Re: What's going on with Gnome in "testing"?

2003-06-23 Thread Ron Johnson
ker System monitor Volume control Weather report Wireless -- +-----------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "

Re: What's going on with Gnome in "testing"?

2003-06-24 Thread Ron Johnson
a GHz CPU and a GB of RAM should respond well to *anything* except extreme numerical calculations, and N2 doesn't. Besides, I don't like GUI file managers. -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EM

RE: Is it possible to switch these processors?

2002-12-11 Thread Ron Johnson
ng the processors? > > > > thanks in advance. > > mw > > Most likely, is the fact the p100 is a socket 7 processor, and the p450 is > a slot1 processor. > > Totally different connectors, different motherboards, different ram > types, etc etc. > > Not goi

Re: [OT] Remember when hard disk sizes were in MiB?

2002-12-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 16:09, dave mallery wrote: [snip] > i remember installing my first 11/70 in december 1975. it had an rp-04 Ya know, you *are* old... But you worked on DEC stuff, and that's a Good Thing. -- +-------+ | Ron

RE: [OT] Remember when hard disk sizes were in MiB?

2002-12-17 Thread Ron Johnson
t; his old gang and I >we all >we all think he bought it > we all think he bought it, hot. > > > > -hsoj sniran > > > -Original Message- > From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: W

Re: Promise PDC20265 lockups...Please help

2002-12-24 Thread Ron Johnson
e, but the system freezes, and has to be cold > booted. I have verified the kernel configs as well as packages (I built > from the prior package lists, though there are a few differences due to > the last rebuild being Jun, 1998). > > Can anyone help me out on getting this drive

Re: SmartMedia: buy what card reader?

2002-12-25 Thread Ron Johnson
rd readers, which didn't work. even 2.5 > > kernel. USB is the best bet, no doubt. > > I'm using a 7-in-1 reader/writer, with no extra memory, and have also > used dedicated smartmedia-only readers, both with no problems, in 2.4.19 > and .20. What brand and model?

Re: USB MagicOk

2002-12-26 Thread Ron Johnson
P3 player is always sda, one fob is > > always sdb and one is always c? It would make managing multiple devices > > at once alot easier, especially when sync'ing the fobs. -- +---

RE: Booting without a monitor: No Go

2002-12-26 Thread Ron Johnson
t; look on the first page of the cmos setup for an option that > says: stop on > > it probably says "any error" for sure if it says that, it will stop > with no keyboard attached and never boot. -- +

Re: Desktop Performance Issue

2002-12-28 Thread Ron Johnson
hardware Wow, that's what? A 486/20 w/ all ISA slots and a 100MB HDD??? -- +------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | |

Re: 20GB on an old P75

2003-01-01 Thread Ron Johnson
f you want to be careful, keep all boot partitions contained within the first 1024 cylinders of the disk. -- ++ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | ||

Re: The kernel (file system) in Debian supports replacing fileseven while they're being used.

2003-01-01 Thread Ron Johnson
; > ^-- works Shaul knows that *that* works. He wants to know how dpkg can update active/open files, while he can't... -- +--------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA US

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