Re: kde

2002-01-01 Thread Declan Moriarty
Was it Collins Richey who wrote on Tuesday 01 January 2002 00:18: On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:04:23 -0800 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 31 December 2001 03:48 pm, you wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 15:40:55 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Ted Ozolins

Re:Standardization (was kde)

2002-01-01 Thread Declan Moriarty
Was it Ted Ozolins who wrote on Tuesday 01 January 2002 00:00: On Monday 31 December 2001 03:40 pm, you wrote: --- Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are mandrake and elx the only distros that do not place kde in /opt ??? Redhat I wonder what happened to all the standardization

Re: Will they recommend LINUX????

2002-01-01 Thread Burns MacDonald
Michael wrote: Perhaps they'll urge Americans to switch to a safer OS ;-) Not likely during the current administration. -- burns ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: otchristmas and its HOT!

2002-01-01 Thread Burns MacDonald
David spake: That would be fine if you stuck to inches all the time but: 12 inches = 1 foot 3 feet = 1 yard yards = 1 mile From my Navy years: 1760 yards to a nautical mile. A nautical mile is 1 minute of latitude at the equator. a 'cable' is 200 yards a shackle is about 90 feet a

Re: Will they recommend LINUX????

2002-01-01 Thread Joel Hammer
Perhaps they'll urge Americans to switch to a safer OS ;-) Not likely during the current administration. Or any other. As I recall, the previous administration used Apples in the White House. You did note that Enron shifted its corporate donations to the Democratic party in the last 6

Re: otchristmas and its HOT!

2002-01-01 Thread David A. Bandel
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 09:41:19 -0500 Burns MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream: David spake: That would be fine if you stuck to inches all the time but: 12 inches = 1 foot 3 feet = 1 yard yards = 1 mile From my Navy years: 1760 yards to a nautical mile. A

Re: otchristmas and its HOT!

2002-01-01 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks for this wonderful link. It will provide much interesting reading. About the Brave New World of uniform measurements based on units of 10. They tried hard to switch American medicine over to the European units for chemistry values (out with mg/dl, in ng/l or meq/l etc. They stopped when

Re: otchristmas and its HOT!

2002-01-01 Thread David A. Bandel
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 10:27:48 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream: Another good temperature link: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jup/metric/fahrenheit.html discusses Fahreneit and Roemer David A. Bandel -- Focus on the dream, not the competition. --

Fw: Re: typo in installer

2002-01-01 Thread Collins Richey
FYI Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 13:40:04 +0530 From: root root@elx161 To: Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: typo in installer Thanks collins, We will be replacing the same in pre release 2 ELX team On Monday 31 December 2001 17:59, you wrote: A few people on

Re: otchristmas and its HOT!

2002-01-01 Thread Lee
Burns MacDonald wrote: David spake: That would be fine if you stuck to inches all the time but: 12 inches = 1 foot 3 feet = 1 yard yards = 1 mile From my Navy years: 1760 yards to a nautical mile. A nautical mile is 1 minute of latitude at the equator. a 'cable' is 200 yards

Re: kde

2002-01-01 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 11:48:37 + Declan Moriarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was it Collins Richey who wrote on Tuesday 01 January 2002 00:18: On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 16:04:23 -0800 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 31 December 2001 03:48 pm, you wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2001

Re: otchristmas and its HOT!

2002-01-01 Thread Collins Richey
Skippy, eat your heart out! While you're sweating in 30 deg + swelter and NSW is burning, I'm freezing in Denver. On the coldest day thus far, my central heating furnace has failed. I've got all the lights on and my computers and the oven for a little residual warmth. Up from 60 deg F.

Re: otchristmas and its HOT!

2002-01-01 Thread Joel Hammer
There seem to be different versions of how Dr. Fahrenheit made up his scale. Here is one the supports the idea of using the climate for the zero point. http://www.weathernotebook.com/transcripts/1999/01/11.html But, it sounds like, from a brief search of the internet, there are multiple

Re: otchristmas and its HOT!

2002-01-01 Thread Burns MacDonald
David wrote: And you got this information where? Ooops. My memory is not as good as I thunk. The last ship I drove was a destroyer in 1977. As I now recall, we used 2000 yards as a rough measure of miles. I got myself confused with statute miles. The rest were used as rounded off units. We

Re: otchristmas and its HOT!

2002-01-01 Thread Burns MacDonald
Joel spake: Thanks for this wonderful link. It will provide much interesting reading. About the Brave New World of uniform measurements based on units of 10. They tried hard to switch American medicine over to the European units for chemistry values (out with mg/dl, in ng/l or meq/l etc.

Re: otchristmas and its HOT!

2002-01-01 Thread Bill Campbell
One of the first things I did with a computer was to calculate the speed of light in furlongs per fortnight. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island,

Re: otchristmas and its HOT!

2002-01-01 Thread Net Llama
--- Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Skippy, eat your heart out! While you're sweating in 30 deg + swelter and NSW is burning, I'm freezing in Denver. On the coldest day thus far, my central heating furnace has failed. I've got all the lights on and my computers and the oven

Re:Standardization (was kde)

2002-01-01 Thread Net Llama
--- Declan Moriarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was it Ted Ozolins who wrote on Tuesday 01 January 2002 00:00: On Monday 31 December 2001 03:40 pm, you wrote: --- Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are mandrake and elx the only distros that do not place kde in /opt ??? Redhat

vi question: mapping a key to esc in insert mode

2002-01-01 Thread Joel Hammer
I use vi. The biggest nuisance I have with it is constantly having to hit the esc button to exit the insert mode. I have remapped my ; key to do this. But, now I have to type cntrl-v59 to insert a semicolon into my document. I have tried to map F2 to insert a ; but that is not possible. Hitting

More SxS Steps 01-Jan-02

2002-01-01 Thread Net Llama
Bedtime Reading - BASH Startup Process Scripts (Chris Kassopulo) = Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com

Re:Standardization (was kde)

2002-01-01 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Tuesday 01 January 2002 09:09 am, you wrote: We can't do all of that this release, but we're moving in that direction That gets them out of it for a few years. AFAIK only SuSe boasts a fully LSB compliant distro. Did they write the standard? ;-) Not likely. See linuxbase.org .

Re: otchristmas and its HOT!

2002-01-01 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 01 Jan 2002 15:20, David A. Bandel wrote: On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 09:41:19 -0500 Burns MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream: David spake: [...] a 'cable' is 200 yards a shackle is about 90 feet a fathom is 6 feet And you got this information where?

RE: elx and kylix (not)

2002-01-01 Thread kbb0927
Collins, Got the same with Desktop Pro Version. I just clicked on the X to close the window and Kylix will start and run just fine. BTW, this is with SuSE 7.3 Pro. Bye, Keith B. Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: elx does offer a trial version of kylix, but I haven't gotten this to

IT jobs Florida

2002-01-01 Thread Randy
Any Floridians on the list? What does the IT sector look like down there? This is my last northern winter. Thanks, Randy Donohoe ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: IT jobs Florida ot

2002-01-01 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 17:42:47 -0500 Randy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any Floridians on the list? What does the IT sector look like down there? This is my last northern winter. When I lived in Phoenix about 30 years ago, one of my co-workers at the bank was originally from Bangor, Maine. What

Re: IT jobs Florida ot

2002-01-01 Thread Randy
On Tuesday 01 January 2002 05:53 pm, you wrote: On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 17:42:47 -0500 Randy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any Floridians on the list? What does the IT sector look like down there? This is my last northern winter. When I lived in Phoenix about 30 years ago, one of my co-workers at

Re: Will they recommend LINUX????

2002-01-01 Thread R. Quenett
Perhaps they'll urge Americans to switch to a safer OS ;-) Not likely during the current administration. Or any other. Government doesn't _do_ 'open'. It's poisonous to the culture. R Ps.. a healthy and prosperous new year to all, and congrats and thanks to all involved in producing

Kwintv won't save channels anymore

2002-01-01 Thread Joel Hammer
I have been using kwintv without trouble. Suddenly it won't let me save my channels after I scan them. The program reports they are saved, but then seg faults and crashes. The sound keeps playing. I tried upgrading to .84 but no change. 0.85 won't compile on my machine. Any insight appreciated.

Re: Kwintv won't save channels anymore

2002-01-01 Thread Joel Hammer
Not as far as I can recall. This is the only program acting funny. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: IT jobs Florida ot

2002-01-01 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 18:08:28 -0500 Randy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 January 2002 05:53 pm, you wrote: On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 17:42:47 -0500 Randy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any Floridians on the list? What does the IT sector look like down there? This is my last northern winter.

Re: Will they recommend LINUX????

2002-01-01 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 17:06:48 -0600 R. Quenett[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps they'll urge Americans to switch to a safer OS ;-) Not likely during the current administration. Or any other. Government doesn't _do_ 'open'. It's poisonous to the culture. Fortunately, more and

More Steps Jan 2

2002-01-01 Thread Mike Andrew
Fokks apologies for anything repeated here, I think New Year's Eve contributed to my confuzion. 2nd KDE - Getting Rid of KDE1 (Bill's way) Bill Day FTP-Server (ammended) Linuxism PALMPILOT-(susan/alan) Bedtime Reading-Print Filters (Joel Hammer) usb-general- change of url to linux-usb.org

Re: otchristmas and its HOT!

2002-01-01 Thread Mike Andrew
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 02:50, David A. Bandel wrote: a 'cable' is 200 yards a shackle is about 90 feet a fathom is 6 feet the speed of light is 123 million furlongs per fortnight. -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You

Re: A Happy New Year to all

2002-01-01 Thread Mike Andrew
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 11:19, Collins Richey wrote: Some of you, of course, are already at next year. Yep, I'm still catching up with what I did do tomorrow, that I'll have to postpone till yesterday. -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

More Steps #2 Jan 2

2002-01-01 Thread Mike Andrew
USB - Epson Scanner Howto (Jeff/Eugene) -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives,

Re: otchristmas and its HOT!

2002-01-01 Thread Keith Antoine
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 02:20 am, Collins Richey observed: Skippy, eat your heart out! While you're sweating in 30 deg + swelter and NSW is burning, I'm freezing in Denver. Its humid and and 34C inside the house, the way I feel at the moment I would love to cool down. Primarily because

Re: otchristmas and its HOT!

2002-01-01 Thread Keith Antoine
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 02:47 am, Burns MacDonald observed: Like many, I was reluctant to change to metric. But I have to say that now having done so, I rarely even think about the old units of measurement at In Australia when we went over with the currecy to $AUD from the pound AUD, we

Re: otchristmas and its HOT!

2002-01-01 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:59:55 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 02 January 2002 02:20 am, Collins Richey observed: Skippy, eat your heart out! While you're sweating in 30 deg + swelter and NSW is burning, I'm freezing in Denver. Its humid and and 34C inside the