RE: Way off topic

2001-07-27 Thread Taplin, Simon S
Hrm... Sounds interesting Just how is beer Way Off Topic on a Linux list? considering Linux keeps talking about free beer. I woundn't say its that off topic Simon ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe,

OT: How Linux people learn their ABC's

2001-07-23 Thread Taplin, Simon S
LAN Administrator Damelin Hatfield Tel: 012 342-0755 Cel: 083 374 1161 A is for awk which runs like a snail, and B is for biff which reads all your mail. C is for cc, as hackers recall, and D is for dd, the command that does all. E is for emacs which rebinds your keys, and F is for fsck

Network Install

2001-07-19 Thread Taplin, Simon S
I want to install eDesktop 2.4 on one of our machines. The problem is that the machine I want to install on doesn't have a CD-Rom. Anyway that i can do a network install via a machine that does has a CD-Rom? Thanks simon LAN Administrator Damelin Hatfield Tel: 012 342-0755 Cel: 083 374 1161

OT: Windows 98 Questions

2001-07-06 Thread Taplin, Simon S
I know its off topic and I know I'm about to get shot for this but this seems like a list where I might actually get some help. 1. Our students have this nasty habbit of changing backgrounds, screensavers and installing themes on their machines. Is there any freeware software/registery hack that

RE: FW: Security Alert Consensus #104

2001-07-06 Thread Taplin, Simon S
, Taplin, Simon S [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I know the debate about posting security warnings is still ongoing, but how about I just post this when I get it, its only once a week. -- Glenn Williams - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User # 135678 Powered by SuSE 7.1 Linux

RE: Smart Tags and howto avoid them..

2001-07-03 Thread Taplin, Simon S
From what I understand and have read. Smart tags have been abandoned in Windows XP and IE6. However, they weren't removed in time for Win XP RC1 but should be out by RC2. Apparently Microsoft thought the technology wasn't mature enough. Anyway, IE still sets millions of people's start page to