Re: Braindead Windows

2003-11-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 10:36 am, Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:02:05 -0800 Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 10 November 2003 08:11 pm, Joel Hammer wrote: Yes, I have also found another use for windows. Politics. I have gotten, by default, the job of

Re: Love on board

2003-11-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 01:33 pm, Ken Moffat wrote: Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:48:30 -0500 Chris Kassopulo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Former Caldera CEO Ransom Love joins Progeny board http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/11/11/0333248 I haven't kept track of

Re: Love on board

2003-11-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 04:02 pm, Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:01:57 -0600 Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So yes, he had a hand in many of today's circumstances; however, I choose to disassociate today's SCO from Ransom Love's Caldera that created eDesktop

irc.openprojects.net?

2003-11-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I was browsing the Forums section of the Linux-SxS website and noticed the IRC link to irc.openprojects.net. Is this still active? I was unable to connect to it using xchat. Andrew Gould ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Love on board

2003-11-11 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 04:46 pm, burns wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:25, Andrew L. Gould wrote: snip I tried to clue the management in on the product's status; but the manager I spoke to has never heard the term sunk cost. More likely he has and that's why he's still trying

SUSE Linux 9.0 Professional Update - night 1

2003-11-12 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I received the Update version SUSE 9.0 Professional yesterday and installed it last night. The first things I noted were: 1. No cool graphical representation of a math formula on the box or cover. (Aha! Already we see the corporate smothering of creativity!) 2. The DVD was bad. (Or do

Re: SUSE Linux 9.0 Professional Update - night 1

2003-11-12 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 03:03 pm, Terence McCarthy wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 12:42:39 -0600 Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. No cool graphical representation of a math formula on the box or cover. (Aha! Already we see the corporate smothering of creativity!) Do we? I

Re: another warm fuzzy from M$

2003-11-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:23 pm, Collins Richey wrote: Slashdot: Experiences w/ Drive Imaging Software? Microsoft supplies no method of backing up and restoring fully operational copies of Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Microsoft's advice is to reinstall the operating system and all

Re: SUSE Linux 9.0 Professional Update - night 1

2003-11-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 02:56 pm, Bruce Marshall wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 15:34 pm, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: Has anyone done an update to an existing 8.2 system? Or will I be in a bad mood tomorrow evening? I don't do updates anymore... just new installs but no one over

Re: SUSE Linux 9.0 Professional Update - night 1

2003-11-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 13 November 2003 02:27 pm, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: How do the existing distros compare regarding upgrades of 1. the core system? 2. applications external to the core system? SuSE has an online update utility (through YAST) that will check for updates to any program you

Re: gentoo news

2003-11-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 14 November 2003 07:03 am, Collins Richey wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 07:06:32 -0500 Bruce Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 22:58 pm, Collins Richey wrote: Gentoo for PowerPC G5 now available Posted on 11 November 2003 by pvdabeel We're proud

Re: way ot

2003-11-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 14 November 2003 08:19 am, Collins Richey wrote: I'm too much of an email/etc youngster to understand shortcuts like :-) and ;-) My google searches have produced no results. Where are these defined? Here's a list I found by searching for email and smiley on google:

Re: way ot

2003-11-14 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 14 November 2003 08:54 am, Tim Wunder wrote: On 11/14/2003 9:19 AM, I believe that Collins Richey wrote: I'm too much of an email/etc youngster to understand shortcuts like :-) and ;-) My google searches have produced no results. Where are these defined? A google on

Re: TextMaker

2003-11-15 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Saturday 15 November 2003 12:16 am, Kurt Wall wrote: Has anyone received their TextMaker $11.11 download instructions yet? I've not seen mine... Kurt I received mine about 44 hours after I received the Thank You email. The website said it usually takes a day; but at $11.11, I'm sure

Re: Do you Rekall?

2003-11-19 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 03:26 pm, David A. Bandel wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:47:51 -0600 Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2003 10:39 am, Matthew Carpenter wrote: What is the key piece of MSOffice which is not readily available as Open Source

Re: One reason why I should have a Linux laptop

2003-11-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 20 November 2003 08:39 am, Shawn Tayler wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:36:20 -0800 (PST) Keith Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] professed: Because the F'ing vendors of those devices only make their config/management tools able to run under windows and the bulk of your staff are

Re: HD question

2003-11-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 20 November 2003 04:21 pm, Rick Sivernell wrote: Lonnie You do have a point here, I did try a 2nd hd on the laptop, it worked as it should, it was a small drive. The original will not boot, but fdisk can read the partition. grub will start then hang. Can not put this drive in

Re: HD question

2003-11-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Thursday 20 November 2003 09:22 pm, Rick Sivernell wrote: Lonnie I do not know if it is under warrenty. I will check that, should have already thunk it, just getting like skippy hereg, just wish I was just as pretty. no reply required. David Andrew will also check that out, I do