Re: Evangelism (dep style)

2001-09-07 Thread Tim Wunder
Glenn Williams wrote: Hi, Tim: What is a mozilla nightly? Thanks. Regards, Glenn Mozilla - the open source development project for Netscape 6 (and some other, lesser known, companies) - builds versions of the browser package every day with the latest changes and calls them

Updating gcc, et all

2001-09-07 Thread Tim Wunder
Hi folks, It seems, at least from a response on the kde-linux list I'm on, that gcc 2.95, which eW31 has, does not contain optimization code for athlon. This is claimed to be the cause of my system architecture being i686 despite checking Athlon in the kernel make xconfig (a post on the

Re: Evangelism (dep style)

2001-09-07 Thread Glenn Williams
Hi, Tim: Very informative reply. Mucho gracias. Regards, Glenn On Friday 07 September 2001 06:22, you wrote: Glenn Williams wrote: Hi, Tim: What is a mozilla nightly? Thanks. Regards, Glenn Mozilla - the open source development project for Netscape 6 (and some other,

hey skippy

2001-09-07 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
another application that might be of use to you... [057] - PyEXIF 0.9   by Martin Blais (http://freshmeat.net/users/blais/)   Thursday, September 6th 2001 14:07 Categories: Multimedia :: Graphics :: Capture, Multimedia :: Graphics :: Capture :: Digital Camera About: PyEXIF is a Python module

Re: M$ gets a free 'get out of jail card' Re: New SxS ?

2001-09-07 Thread Lee
dep wrote: On Thursday 06 September 2001 15:53, Zoki (News) wrote: | Today Net Llama was heard saying: | | snip | | -Wonderful how my tax dollars were used on a case that just got | thrown -away. | | | *** It's ridiculous! Not only are they making a fool of them selves | but also of

Re: tar troubles

2001-09-07 Thread Net Llama
--- Tom Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 06 September 2001 11:05 pm, Net Llama dropped these nuggets of information: --- Tom Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snips] Hi Lonni tar cvf mail.tar mail Ummm...is 'mail' a file or a directory? If its a standard UNIX mail

Re: Updating gcc, et all

2001-09-07 Thread Net Llama
I'd be a bit hesitant to upgrade to gcc-3.x, as i've heard it still has some issues compiling certain types of binaries. Do you know if a slightly higher or slightly lower 2.9x version has athlon support? --- Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, It seems, at least from a response on

Re: Updating gcc, et all

2001-09-07 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
On Friday 07 September 2001 09:01, Tim Wunder babbled: Hi folks, It seems, at least from a response on the kde-linux list I'm on, that gcc 2.95, which eW31 has, does not contain optimization code for athlon. This is claimed to be the cause of my system architecture being i686 despite

Re: M$ gets a free 'get out of jail card' Re: New SxS ?

2001-09-07 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Friday 07 September 2001 08:34 am, you wrote: dep wrote: On Thursday 06 September 2001 15:53, Zoki (News) wrote: | Today Net Llama was heard saying: | | snip | | -Wonderful how my tax dollars were used on a case that just got | thrown -away. | | | *** It's ridiculous! Not

Re: M$ gets a free 'get out of jail card' Re: New SxS ?

2001-09-07 Thread dep
On Friday 07 September 2001 10:46, Rick Sivernell wrote: | This is not Bush's doing, this was started in Clinton's time and we | all know that he screwed everything up includeing himself. you're right, of course, though i think that the most important thing to remember is that clinton's

Re: Updating gcc, et all

2001-09-07 Thread Tim Wunder
Douglas J. Hunley wrote: On Friday 07 September 2001 09:01, Tim Wunder babbled: Hi folks, It seems, at least from a response on the kde-linux list I'm on, that gcc 2.95, which eW31 has, does not contain optimization code for athlon. This is claimed to be the cause of my system architecture

Re: Updating gcc, et all

2001-09-07 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 07 Sep 2001 12:00:37 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On the KDE list, I asked: Why 2.96? Current version seems to be 3.01. Why not | that? For kde2.2beta1, there was a note that gcc3 needed to be used. Have the KDE folk changed this in the kde2.2 release? --

SuSE Automatic Updates

2001-09-07 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Folks, Douglas Hunley wrote an update script for Caldera that worked rather well to keep the security updates installed as soon as they were released. Has anyone written an equivalent for SuSE? In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, Tom :-})

Re: Updating gcc, et all

2001-09-07 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
On Friday 07 September 2001 12:02, Roger Oberholtzer babbled: For kde2.2beta1, there was a note that gcc3 needed to be used. Have the KDE folk changed this in the kde2.2 release? are you sure you parsed that right? the release notes and the lists say NOT to use 3.x for 2.2 final.. --

Best Linux CD burners?

2001-09-07 Thread Susan Macchia
Hi all, I am in the market for a RW CD for my pc and was wondering what burners are most compatible with Linux. My current distro (most often used) is RH 7.0. But within the next few months I plan to add the latest Suse or RH on another partition. Any advice is greatly appreciated. TIA

Re: Best Linux CD burners?

2001-09-07 Thread Tim Wunder
Susan Macchia wrote: Hi all, I am in the market for a RW CD for my pc and was wondering what burners are most compatible with Linux. My current distro (most often used) is RH 7.0. But within the next few months I plan to add the latest Suse or RH on another partition. Any advice is

Re: Best Linux CD burners?

2001-09-07 Thread Tim Wunder
Douglas J. Hunley wrote: On Friday 07 September 2001 13:13, Tim Wunder babbled: Look for burnproof technology as well. have you actually gotten Linux software to use the BurnProof technology? I never could... but I didn't need it either, so it never really mattered No. My drive

OT MS Error message Haikus

2001-09-07 Thread Tim Wunder
Subject: FW: Microsloth Error Message Haikus In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft Error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction rules. Each poem has only three lines, 17 syllables: five syllables in the first line, seven in the

RE: SuSE Automatic Updates

2001-09-07 Thread Alan Bryant
SuSE 7.1 also had this... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Douglas J. Hunley Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SuSE Automatic Updates On Friday 07 September 2001 12:16, Condon Thomas A KPWA

Re: Linux friendly ISP's in the UK

2001-09-07 Thread Pam R
On Friday 07 September 2001 3:38 pm, Gordon McCrae wrote: Anyone out there got details of Linux Friendly ISP's in the UK? I'm returning from my brief (2 year) sojourn in the US and need some details. Take a look at the 'from' address above and you will see that I am using uklinux.net ,take

Re: Linux friendly ISP's in the UK

2001-09-07 Thread Gordon McCrae
Thanks, I'll have a look. Gordon Pam R wrote: On Friday 07 September 2001 3:38 pm, Gordon McCrae wrote: Anyone out there got details of Linux Friendly ISP's in the UK? I'm returning from my brief (2 year) sojourn in the US and need some details. Take a look at the 'from' address

Re: OT MS Error message Haikus

2001-09-07 Thread Ron White
I love it! Ron - Original Message - From: Bruce Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 1:36 PM Subject: Re: OT MS Error message Haikus On Friday 07 September 2001 13:52 pm, Tim Wunder wrote: Subject: FW: Microsloth Error Message Haikus

Re: OT MS Error message Haikus

2001-09-07 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Friday 07 September 2001 16:28 pm, Ron White wrote: Subject: Re: OT MS Error message Haikus Then all the cat lovers should love this: CAT HAIKU Negotiating No-man's land: carpet alive, Flea season again I need a new toy. tail of black dog keeps good time. pounce! good dog! good dog! The

Re: OT MS Error message Haikus

2001-09-07 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Friday 07 September 2001 16:28 pm, Ron White wrote: Subject: Re: OT MS Error message Haikus And for Dog lovers Dog Haiku I love my master; Thus I perfume myself with This long-rotten squirrel. I lie belly-up In the sunshine, happier than You ever will be Today I sniffed Many dog

Re: tar troubles

2001-09-07 Thread Tom Wilson
On Thursday 06 September 2001 11:58 pm, Kurt Wall dropped these nuggets of information: Tom Wilson wrote: I asked: What is the output of: $ file mail.tar mail.tar: ASCII text, with no line terminators It's not a tar file, then. Here's the output for a tarball: $ file test.tar

Re: Updating gcc, et all

2001-09-07 Thread Shawn Tayler
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:38:46 -0400, Douglas J. Hunley wrote: you really should make the move to 2.95.3... it has some fixes that will be necessary should you later choose to use later versions of other things (glibc 2.2.4 comes to mind from a discussion on LFS lists...) How tough is the move?