On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 16:51:05 -0700
Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted:
snippage
Speaking of roasts, how 'bout the ``I can eat hotter food than you''
contest between Evan, Calamity, et al.
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hehehe I joined the list just about that time and I remember
Tina M Berendt wrote:
So, what *specifically* made eD so great?
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned this ...
Mike Andrew
He helped me alot. Wherever he is, God bless him.
Michael
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On 08/02/03 06:20, Michael Hipp wrote:
Tina M Berendt wrote:
So, what *specifically* made eD so great?
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned this ...
Mike Andrew
He helped me alot. Wherever he is, God bless him.
Last I heard he's still on Norfolk Island, in self-imposed exile.
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On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 08:20:35 -0500
Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tina M Berendt wrote:
So, what *specifically* made eD so great?
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned this ...
Mike Andrew
He helped me alot. Wherever he is, God bless him.
Amen, brother.
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Mike Andrew
Last I heard he's still on Norfolk Island, in self-imposed exile.
Maybe we should organize a Skippy-esque manhunt.
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Quoth Michael Hipp:
Net Llama! wrote:
Mike Andrew
Last I heard he's still on Norfolk Island, in self-imposed exile.
Maybe we should organize a Skippy-esque manhunt.
No, I don't think so. Mikey left the list for reasons he alone
can explain. He's alive and well and gainfully
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 11:20 pm, Michael Hipp wrote:
Tina M Berendt wrote:
So, what *specifically* made eD so great?
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned this ...
Mike Andrew
He helped me alot. Wherever he is, God bless him.
Michael
Being a Norfolk islander, thats where he will
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 11:54 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
On 08/02/03 06:20, Michael Hipp wrote:
Tina M Berendt wrote:
So, what *specifically* made eD so great?
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned this ...
Mike Andrew
He helped me alot. Wherever he is, God bless him.
Last I heard
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 12:34 am, Michael Hipp wrote:
Net Llama! wrote:
Mike Andrew
Last I heard he's still on Norfolk Island, in self-imposed exile.
Maybe we should organize a Skippy-esque manhunt.
As I said he is isolated and frankly all the islanders want it that way. They
Quoth dep:
quoth Keith Antoine:
| As I said he is isolated and frankly all the islanders want it that
| way. They govern themselves although they are still uner Oz Govt
| umbrella. Its a beautiful place very small and its popular here as a
| short holiday destination. However they restrict
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 18:47:36 -0400
dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted:
quoth Keith Antoine:
| As I said he is isolated and frankly all the islanders want it that
| way. They govern themselves although they are still uner Oz Govt
| umbrella. Its a beautiful place very small and its popular
:)
Oh, I can imagine that I got a well-deserved roasting...
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Andrew Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can tell you've been talking to my ex-wives.
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I think it was Doug, too, that fixed the script I needed fixed... I think it
was DHCP screwing with the hosts file or somethingorother :)
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Rick Sivernell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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All have said a lot about ed, but when I was fairly new then I
What about his email address? [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something like that?
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Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Being a Norfolk islander, thats where he will still be. His address will be
hard to get though.
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chkconfig smb on
chkconfig nmb on
They separated the file service from the name service so they both need to be
started... The chkconfig utility is quite nice.
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:33:43 -0500
Alma J Wetzker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am testing out
SuSE and I still can't get samba to
Caldera made a nice cake, but D.B. and friends put on the 'fine' icing!
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Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 08:29 am, Leon A. Goldstein wrote:
Lots of people wrote too much to quote.
Between reminiscing about eDesk 2.4 and favorite brews, this is
becoming another eDesk 2.4 wake.
Not that that is a bad
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Net Llama! shocked and awed us all by speaking:
No offense, but what's with the critique of answers? I didn't realize that
this had do be an essay with well thought out replies.
just trying to get to the 'meat-and-potatos' part of it all. hard to
That's ok. Let's just say that between you and Kurt, I learned a lot of
showing respect and being humble, especially on an email list.
On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 08:43:23 -0600
Andrew Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Matthew Carpenter wrote:
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Quoth Matthew Carpenter:
That's ok. Let's just say that between you and Kurt, I learned a lot of
showing respect and being humble, especially on an email list.
Hmm. I think this is a compliment, but I'm not sure. I've certainly
been know to enter a fray with a double-barreled flamethrower, but
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Kurt Wall wrote:
Quoth Matthew Carpenter:
That's ok. Let's just say that between you and Kurt, I learned a lot of
showing respect and being humble, especially on an email list.
Hmm. I think this is a compliment, but I'm not sure. I've certainly
been know to enter a
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 16:01:35 -0700 (PDT)
Keith Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Kurt Wall wrote:
Quoth Matthew Carpenter:
That's ok. Let's just say that between you and Kurt, I learned a
lot of showing respect and being humble, especially on an email
list.
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 05:59:10PM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote:
Quoth Matthew Carpenter:
That's ok. Let's just say that between you and Kurt, I learned a lot of
showing respect and being humble, especially on an email list.
Hmm. I think this is a compliment, but I'm not sure. I've certainly
been
Quoth Bill Campbell:
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 05:59:10PM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote:
Quoth Matthew Carpenter:
That's ok. Let's just say that between you and Kurt, I learned a lot of
showing respect and being humble, especially on an email list.
Hmm. I think this is a compliment, but I'm not
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Matthew Carpenter wrote:
| That's ok. Let's just say that between you and Kurt, I learned a lot of
| showing respect and being humble, especially on an email list.
|
snip
Mine came from David Bandel back in '98 or '99 when I posted to the
Caldera list
Actually, Kurt, you were the one loaning me some asbestos undergarments, protecting me
from the (so I thought at that time) evil Andrew Mathews... Still, watching you still
humbled me. It reminded me of the Mudding days of old, when I was a newbie and some
uberMudder allowed me to join him on
List
All have said a lot about ed, but when I was fairly new then I tried 4 or 5
distros, they all had some problem to get them up and going. ED, put in the cd
make a few slections in about 45 minutes to an hour you were syrfing the net.
No muss, no fuss. Easy to learn, easier to maintain. and
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| Actually, Kurt, you were the one loaning me some asbestos
undergarments, protecting me from the
(so I thought at that time) evil Andrew Mathews...
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I can tell you've been talking to my ex-wives.
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Given the recent interest in resurrecting and maintaining the old
Caldera distro, I thought I'd take a minute to ask everyone to quantify
what it was about eD (or eS) that was so great. Was it the file layout?
The installer? The GUI tools? What? I used and loved eD, but find it
hard to say why
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Tina M Berendt wrote:
So, what *specifically* made eD so great?
0) Nearly everything worked out of the box (hardware, software)
1) The packages included were well chosen. There was a little of
everything for everyone, and not too much of anything irrelevant
2) It was very
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On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 12:49, Tina M Berendt wrote:
So, what *specifically* made eD so great?
It was elegant, from installation to end use.
whilst I agree, that's not very specific is it? In
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Tina M Berendt wrote:
So, what *specifically* made eD so great?
0) Nearly everything worked out of the box (hardware, software)
nod. much like Knoppix's hardware detection
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whilst I agree, that's not very specific is it? In fact, it's rather
objectively non-specific. got any details Shawn?
damn! s/objectively/subjectively/
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1) The packages included were well chosen. There was a little of
everything for everyone, and not too much of anything irrelevant
that's subjective Llama (I'm not disagreeing). But how does one define 'well
chosen' and 'relevant'?
It seemed to me that they picked a set of categories
At 01:49 PM 7/31/03 -0400, you wrote:
Given the recent interest in resurrecting and maintaining the old Caldera
distro, I thought I'd take a minute to ask everyone to quantify what it
was about eD (or eS) that was so great. Was it the file layout? The
installer? The GUI tools? What? I used and
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Tina M Berendt wrote:
| Given the recent interest in resurrecting and maintaining the old
| Caldera distro, I thought I'd take a minute to ask everyone to quantify
| what it was about eD (or eS) that was so great. Was it the file layout?
| The
Tina M Berendt wrote:
So, what *specifically* made eD so great?
- It was solid. It worked. It was stable. Gave the impression that some
real QA had gone into it.
- Webmin and Caldera's extensions to the KDE control center were great.
- They focused on 1 GUI and made that one work really well.
* Things generally worked.
* Install was beautiful and intelligent (found my network settings and
installed while I finished supplying config info)
* Packages were used AS IS. Any config or comealong tools worked with the
original config files (which allowed you to manually edit the conf files
Speak for yourself, jerk-wad :)
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:30:39 -0600
Andrew Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We may bicker, roll our
eyes, scoff or call each other names, but that dynamic is also what makes a
list worth listening to.
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On Thursday 31 July 2003 05:49 pm, Tina M Berendt wrote:
Given the recent interest in resurrecting and maintaining the old
Caldera distro, I thought I'd take a minute to ask everyone to quantify
what it was about eD (or eS) that was so great. Was it the file layout?
The installer? The GUI
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 04:40 am, Shawn L Johnston wrote:
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 12:49, Tina M Berendt wrote:
So, what *specifically* made eD so great?
It was elegant, from installation to end use.
Shawn
Yes, that describes it souciently. Plus maintenance was so easy it did not
matter, rpm or
Lots of people wrote too much to quote.
Between reminiscing about eDesk 2.4 and favorite brews, this is becoming
another eDesk 2.4 wake.
Not that that is a bad thing. How many other distro's of the
past command such fond loyalty?
I still keep eDesk 2.4 on an old P 233 box. It is a word
On Thursday 31 July 2003 01:49 pm, Tina M Berendt wrote:
Given the recent interest in resurrecting and maintaining the old
Caldera distro, I thought I'd take a minute to ask everyone to quantify
what it was about eD (or eS) that was so great.
--snip--
- It cleanly installed on just about
No offense, but what's with the critique of answers? I didn't realize that
this had do be an essay with well thought out replies.
On 07/31/03 12:01, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Tina M
Quoth James Conner:
On Thursday 31 July 2003 05:49 pm, Tina M Berendt wrote:
[clip]
So, what *specifically* made eD so great?
[snip]
Sometimes I wonder if the 'warm fuzzies' from eD2.4 are just nostalgia, kinda
like that car you had, or that favorite chair, or is it genuine admiration
Tina M Berendt wrote:
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So, what *specifically* made eD so great?
I'm not linux learned. I got POed at M$ and not knowing much stumbled
upon Indiot's Guide to Linux and started with 1.3. I migrated to 2.2,
2.3 and finally to eD2.4. Everything worked on my box. When it didn't
I called
liked the comercial apps that shipped with the product.
And I still need a novell client. (That disappeared after eD 2.4)
FWIW
-- Alma
What was it about eD 2.4?
Tina M Berendt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:49:11 -0400
Given the recent interest in resurrecting and maintaining
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| Speak for yourself, jerk-wad :)
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| On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:30:39 -0600
| Andrew Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
|
|We may bicker, roll our
|eyes, scoff or call each other names, but that dynamic is also what
makes a
|list
Quoth Tina M Berendt:
Given the recent interest in resurrecting and maintaining the old
Caldera distro, I thought I'd take a minute to ask everyone to quantify
what it was about eD (or eS) that was so great. Was it the file layout?
The installer? The GUI tools? What? I used and loved eD,
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 08:05:05 +1000
Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted:
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 04:40 am, Shawn L Johnston wrote:
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 12:49, Tina M Berendt wrote:
So, what *specifically* made eD so great?
It was elegant, from installation to end use.
Shawn
Yes,
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 08:29 am, Leon A. Goldstein wrote:
Lots of people wrote too much to quote.
Between reminiscing about eDesk 2.4 and favorite brews, this is becoming
another eDesk 2.4 wake.
Not that that is a bad thing. How many other distro's of the past
command such fond loyalty?
I
Keith Antoine wrote:
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 08:29 am, Leon A. Goldstein wrote:
> Lots of people wrote too much to quote.
>
> Between reminiscing about eDesk 2.4 and favorite brews, this is becoming
> another eDesk 2.4 wake.
> Not that that is a bad thing. How many other distro's of the past
>
:) Glad to know we can still joke around. I still remember the first time you and I
spoke... it was not necessarily pleasant, in fact I believe Kurt had to step in :)
Great to still be seeing you, mate! Time does odd things.
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