Re: Nautilus

2000-08-18 Thread Michael Smith
I haven't had it crash yet, but it sometimes has slower refresh rates, and I've had error messages like "widget X is missing because you are a loser. This may be nothing, but if it keeps happening, turn me off". (OK, I changed the verbage around, but that's the gist. Seth Cohn wrote: > Yeah, it

Re: Nautilus

2000-08-18 Thread Seth Cohn
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Bob Miller wrote: > I was sold on Nautilus at LWE Wednesday. I just finished installing > Helix Gnome on my laptop, and am about to start on Nautilus. > > Has Nautilus crashed on you yet? Yeah, it's really not complete yet. Crashes on exit every time for me. > BTW, Helix

Re: Nautilus

2000-08-18 Thread Bob Miller
RonL wrote: > Is this some sort of DNA decoder? Why do I need it??? Gnome is a desktop environment. File browser, editor, spreadsheet, word processor, all that crap. Helix Gnome is to Gnome as Red Hat is to Linux. They package it up and make it accessible. --

Re: Nautilus

2000-08-18 Thread RonL
Is this some sort of DNA decoder? Why do I need it??? Ron - Original Message - From: "Bob Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 5:45 PM Subject: Re: Nautilus > Seth Cohn wrote: > > > It's very very beta stuff, but I was still impressed with t

Re: Nautilus

2000-08-18 Thread Bob Miller
Seth Cohn wrote: > It's very very beta stuff, but I was still impressed with the work done so > far. I was sold on Nautilus at LWE Wednesday. I just finished installing Helix Gnome on my laptop, and am about to start on Nautilus. Has Nautilus crashed on you yet? BTW, Helix Gnome is trivially

Nautilus

2000-08-18 Thread Seth Cohn
Just a quick note, that if you haven't seen screenshots of the Nautilus stuff, it's pretty nifty. I installed a 0.1.0 package (ah the wonders of Debian), to check it out, and it rocks. Imagine a file manager that: 1) uses the contents of the file to display a thumbnail, not just of pix, but als

Re: Line length

2000-08-18 Thread Staley W. Mims, III
Bob -- You messages wrap just fine in Netscapade. Woody Bob Crandell wrote: > > The GroupWise client wraps lines to the window. I can't tell what the line wrap is >on any mail from anybody. I checked Outlook Express. Same thing. GroupWise >messages don't wrap in Opera. > > I guess it's

Re: K-mail bug

2000-08-18 Thread Seth Cohn
> I switched from kmail to mutt earlier this year. If you select > kmail's File->Compact All Folders, it turns the folders into regular > Berkeley mailboxes, which many Unix mail readers can use. regular mailboxes are supported by almost everything so upgrading from kmail is easy. > I perso

Re: K-mail bug

2000-08-18 Thread Bob Miller
Lindsay Crawford wrote: > I plan to use K-mail until I'm ready for something better, > and I don't know when that will be. All my mail is saved in K-mail > folders so if I change to something else I'd want to know how to > access this mail from the new reader. I switched from kmail to mutt earl

Re: Line length

2000-08-18 Thread Michael Smith
I don't know. Check the list archive and see. Bob Crandell wrote: > The GroupWise client wraps lines to the window. I can't tell what the line wrap is >on any mail from anybody. I checked Outlook Express. Same thing. GroupWise >messages don't wrap in Opera. > > I guess it's time to spend

Re: Line length

2000-08-18 Thread Bob Crandell
The GroupWise client wraps lines to the window. I can't tell what the line wrap is on any mail from anybody. I checked Outlook Express. Same thing. GroupWise messages don't wrap in Opera. I guess it's time to spend some time with tech support. Sigh. So, one more question. Has my messages

Meeting tomorrow.

2000-08-18 Thread Michael Smith
Hi all. There is the monthly meeting tomorrow. Se the webpage for more info.

Re: Team EUGLUG?

2000-08-18 Thread Michael Smith
Well, I'm throwing my one work unit (so far) into the pool. At least I beat 32% of the other users.

Re: Line length

2000-08-18 Thread Michael Smith
Um..no. Can you send yourself a test message? Bob Crandell wrote: > Ok. I checked our mail server. The line wrap was set to 70. I changed it to 65. >Are the lines wrapping now? > > Bob Crandell > ComSource Associates, Inc. > Your IT Department > 747 Willamette St. > Eugene, Oregon 97401 >

Re: Line length

2000-08-18 Thread Bob Crandell
Ok. I checked our mail server. The line wrap was set to 70. I changed it to 65. Are the lines wrapping now? Bob Crandell ComSource Associates, Inc. Your IT Department 747 Willamette St. Eugene, Oregon 97401 www.comsourceinc.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 541-345-0408 FAX: 541-345-0876 >>>

K-mail bug

2000-08-18 Thread Lindsay Crawford
Hi all, A BIG Thanks for the help last night, fixing the bug in Mandrake 7.0 which kept me from opening programs while online. Works fine now! I bought this machine last November (thanks Stan) and my wife set it up and she left in March and I didn't ask about this before, but now I wonder. In

Line length

2000-08-18 Thread Lindsay Crawford
I know this is a little thing, however, it made me wonder. I use K-mail and I have my line length set to 70 characters (width) for the convenience of those who read my mail. In reading the most recent digest I found mail from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> consists of lines which don't wrap, but run all th

2 Gig limit

2000-08-18 Thread Bob Crandell
I thought you might like to know my client's response. "Yes, I've meanwhile confirmed from numerous sources that 2 Gbytes is a Unix file size limit. I guess it's the same as the 2^31 nanosecond limit since 1970 in the Unix world, or whatever it is that will make all computers die around the ye

Re: Juno tech support guru--NOT!

2000-08-18 Thread Bob Crandell
Sure, they that's the way they keep NT running so flawlessly. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/18/2000 10:02:21 AM >>> Is that why it leaks data all over the place? We just set up a cron job to restart the server every 6 hours, and that seems to do the trick. RonL wrote: > Can't possibly make ronsbrain

Re: Juno tech support guru--NOT!

2000-08-18 Thread Seth Cohn
At 09:16 AM 08/18/2000 -0700, you wrote: >No, it has to be apt-get install sethsbrain > >However, there are strange conotations with: >apt-get remove sethsbrain >dpkg --purge sethsbrain Alternative answer I thought of just as I hit send: Mike, what are you doing? Mike, that would be a mistake.

Re: Juno tech support guru--NOT!

2000-08-18 Thread Seth Cohn
At 09:16 AM 08/18/2000 -0700, you wrote: >No, it has to be apt-get install sethsbrain > >However, there are strange conotations with: >apt-get remove sethsbrain >dpkg --purge sethsbrain Please don't do th.. [system offline]

eug-lug@efn.org

2000-08-18 Thread Michael Smith
This is just a stab in the dark, but does anybody know XML and SMGL and is interested in a contract job as a project manager? Details unknown (length, ostype, pay, blah...blah...), just forwarding it for a friend. --Mike begin:vcard n:Smith;Michael tel;cell:(541) 520-9603 tel;home:(541) 346

Re: Juno tech support guru--NOT!

2000-08-18 Thread Michael Smith
Is that why it leaks data all over the place? We just set up a cron job to restart the server every 6 hours, and that seems to do the trick. RonL wrote: > Can't possibly make ronsbrain a server... Not secure enough. full of > holes... >

Re: Juno tech support guru--NOT!

2000-08-18 Thread RonL
Can't possibly make ronsbrain a server... Not secure enough. full of holes... - Original Message - From: "Michael Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 9:30 AM Subject: Re: Juno tech support guru--NOT! > You're going at it all wrong-- ronsbrai

Re: Juno tech support guru--NOT!

2000-08-18 Thread Michael Smith
You're going at it all wrong-- ronsbrain is a system device, and so it resides at /dev/ronsbrain. Now, you can enter things into ronsbrain with a simple shell redirect: cat someinfofile >> /dev/ronsbrain. Retreiving information is done through: cat /proc/ronsbrainstatus (| less if needed). Wha

Re: Juno tech support guru--NOT!

2000-08-18 Thread RonL
Is this anything like: pico ronsbrain file not found... hehe Ron - Original Message - From: "rocksolidnetworks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 8:42 AM Subject: Re: Juno tech support guru--NOT! > app-get sethsbrain > >

Re: Juno tech support guru--NOT!

2000-08-18 Thread Michael Smith
No, it has to be apt-get install sethsbrain However, there are strange conotations with: apt-get remove sethsbrain dpkg --purge sethsbrain rocksolidnetworks wrote: > app-get sethsbrain > > You wrote: > > >I thought you had a beowulf cluster of Seth's brains instead of a > > >"PC-compatible". D

Re: Juno tech support guru--NOT!

2000-08-18 Thread rocksolidnetworks
app-get sethsbrain You wrote: > >I thought you had a beowulf cluster of Seth's brains instead of a > >"PC-compatible". Doesn't everybody > > My brains aren't GPLed though. I license them out on as needed basis > under a highly restrictive license. If I did GPL them, I'd package them > fo