Re: Linux, Windows(tm), taxes - and privacy. A personal narrative(long)

2002-04-15 Thread Ken Ambrose
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Benjamin Scott wrote: > This year, I used an online service, http://www.taxactonline.com, to do my > personal taxes. It worked just fine under Linux, and was quite cheap, too. > (The tax calculations are actually "free"; they just charge to submit them > electronically.)

Re: total newbie question

2002-04-15 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, at 6:29pm, Michael Bovee wrote: > (I'm a born and raised Macintosh user so please bear with me) I bought a > SAMS Teach Yourself book on Unix, but it says nothing about WHY this PATH > thing is even necessary. A typical Unix system might have a few hundred directories (fold

Re: Hoss Traders

2002-04-15 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, at 10:34pm, Jon 'maddog' Hall, Executive Director,...: > Last fall we bought four tables worth of space ... We had too much room, > so this year I would recommend two tables of space ... I concur. We could, in fact, probably get away with just one, but it would be a bit co

Re: Linux, Windows(tm), taxes - and privacy. A personal narrative(long)

2002-04-15 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, at 5:59pm, Bill Sconce wrote: > Unfortunately, whenever you use proprietary software you accept a set of > risks. Here, here! Free Software is about Freedom! > Win4Lin creates a DOS environment which is sufficiently authentic to > convince Microsoft Windows(tm) 9x that it

Re: total newbie question

2002-04-15 Thread Dan Coutu
Michael Bovee wrote: > Okay, apologies in advance, but something I _just dont get_ is the PATH > variable. > (I'm a born and raised Macintosh user so please bear with me) > I bought a SAMS Teach Yourself book on Unix, but it says nothing about > WHY this PATH thing is even necessary. (Under

Re: total newbie question

2002-04-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Michael Bovee hath spake thusly: > Okay, apologies in advance, but something I _just dont get_ is the > PATH variable. > (I'm a born and raised Macintosh user so please bear with me) > I bought a SAMS Teach Yourself book on Un

total newbie question

2002-04-15 Thread Michael Bovee
Okay, apologies in advance, but something I _just dont get_ is the PATH variable. (I'm a born and raised Macintosh user so please bear with me) I bought a SAMS Teach Yourself book on Unix, but it says nothing about WHY this PATH thing is even necessary. (Under MacOS... if I invoke the 'FIND' c

Linux, Windows(tm), taxes - and privacy. A personal narrative (long)

2002-04-15 Thread Bill Sconce
Introductory comment: I realize that April 15th is a special day for many of us, and that a lot of folks may be spending time working for an employer who doesn't pay them (the IRS). I apologize for the timing, although perhaps a little diversion might be welcome for some.

Re: Emacs questions

2002-04-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > The first thing I'd like to do is have it append new entries to file > as opposed to inserting them at the top. Any idea how to do this? None whatsoever, but I'd like to offer a perspec

Emacs questions

2002-04-15 Thread pll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Does anyone here regularly use Emacs' changelog-mode? I'm playing around with it a little, and I'd like to customize it some, but not sure how or where to begin. The first thing I'd like to do is have i

Re: Debian Question

2002-04-15 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 09:43, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know if there is any harm in deleteing > /var/cache/apt/archives/* ? All of the pachages that I have ever > installed are in there, and it's currently taking up about 1GB of > space.. A cleaner option would be: apt

Re: Debian Question

2002-04-15 Thread pll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In a message dated: 15 Apr 2002 09:43:13 EDT "Kenneth E. Lussier" said: >Does anyone know if there is any harm in deleteing >/var/cache/apt/archives/* ? All of the pachages that I have ever >installed are

Debian Question

2002-04-15 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
Hi all, Does anyone know if there is any harm in deleteing /var/cache/apt/archives/* ? All of the pachages that I have ever installed are in there, and it's currently taking up about 1GB of space.. TIA, Kenny -- "Tact

Re: outlook headers (References and In-Reply-To)

2002-04-15 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Right, but if I don't have any of that thread in my mailbox, then > regardless of whether my client can handle threading, there's nothing > there for it to relate the new message to. Yes. Of course, people don't have to save every message in order for these header

Re: outlook headers (References and In-Reply-To)

2002-04-15 Thread pll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In a message dated: 15 Apr 2002 08:31:06 EDT Kevin D. Clark said: >> Errr, would you have to have that original e-mail still floating >> around in your mailbox somewhere for it to detect this? > >Yes. > >

Re: outlook headers (References and In-Reply-To)

2002-04-15 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > In a message dated: 12 Apr 2002 15:03:31 EDT > Kevin D. Clark said: > > >OBTW, if you are looking at this email and your email program doesn't > >easily let you determine that this message is somehow (vaguely) > >related to Tom Rauschenbach's message on 25 Mar 2002 w