Re: web browser alternatives...

2005-08-05 Thread David P James
isn't all that annoying. HTH, -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgpzWLbvEz1vv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Changing to British (or Canadian) English

2005-08-04 Thread David P James
is a difference). For KDE: apt-get install kde-i18n-engb Then it should be available to you in KDE's Control Centre. HTH, -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgpZSCCqU251q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: where do they go?

2005-07-24 Thread David P James
nto your album?" If I click on 'Import Photos' > where do they go? Do I need to have already created some special > directory for them? I've never seen this in Linux but it is reminiscent of Windows XP... At any rate do you have any idea what program is doing this? -- D

Re: Top posting

2005-06-12 Thread David P James
to. So what would result is miles and miles of quoted text with replies at the very bottom. Perhaps the cursor should be placed after the first paragraph of text to the left of the quote character. This would be an interesting area of usability study for new users who are not used to any partic

Re: DVORAK

2005-06-06 Thread David P James
member their new locations. This has helped to preserve some of the common bottom-left keyboard shortcuts (with "Cut" bound to 'K' which is in the QWERTY 'C' location in KDE) and characters like the forward slash. I humbly call the layout "Davidian" :). Reg

Re: Question about Thunderbird and headers

2005-01-04 Thread David P James
On Tue 4 January 2005 16:29, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:22:30PM -0500, David P James wrote: > > But, you can create a user.js file in the same directory as > > prefs.js and add the following line to it (without Thunderbird > > runnin

Re: Question about Thunderbird and headers

2005-01-04 Thread David P James
rue); I'll see if I can track down the extension but it may no longer work. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgpLhnLIw6Oet.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Obtain diploma degree

2005-01-04 Thread David P James
On Tue 4 January 2005 14:42, Alvin Smith wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2005 02:35 pm, David P James wrote: > > On Tue 4 January 2005 13:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I cant get into any of the university sites Steve > > > > I don't know whether to laugh

Re: Obtain diploma degree

2005-01-04 Thread David P James
ormation appended to the message? Is it perhaps a result of the message being sent in both plain text and HTML? -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgp54leN8xhBz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: different gecko-based browsers?

2005-01-03 Thread David P James
on a link or text area and the browser will take you there. In some cases, doing the same thing in the tab bar will open it in a new tab (Konqueror does this). -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgpuGych9HBdC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Java SDK on unstable

2005-01-02 Thread David P James
; > > How to get J2EE running on Debian unstable? > > > > apt-get install j2se-package I think he should have pointed you to java-package -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgpHyXfTcecW3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-29 Thread David P James
be confused with the religious big state variety of "conservatives", of whom GWB is one. Anyway, it is for that love of freedom that we use Linux and Debian in particular. Some of you may be using it because of a belief in the similarity of open source development and idealized ma

Re: Outlook more efficient in storing mails?

2004-12-18 Thread David P James
e to the fact the outlook can't cope with pst files > above 2 GB. > That sure is a lot of viruses to be keeping around... :) -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgpL7uA3AOVTz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT Translate a little german for me please

2004-12-18 Thread David P James
'Reply'. Luckily 'Reply to author' respects the "Reply-to:' header if set so you don't have to worry about your replies going to the wrong place (and somehow it ignores Reply-to: in the case of munged mailing lists and uses From: instead). So just replace the Rep

Re: art files

2004-12-05 Thread David P James
On Sun 5 December 2004 13:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > how do I get rid of them? I don't know but may I ask why you sent a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to ask this question? -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn&

Re: disappointment with linux icq clients

2004-11-30 Thread David P James
change the send behavior nor any decent font sets to choose from. > :( I assume you're referring to the fonts in the message history pane? Ya, they "weirded out" on me one day and I have no idea how to get the old ones back. To me, they're too large now. -- David P Ja

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread David P James
I did. You're far better off to burn a score of CDs than rely on MS Backup. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgpWwKCKzsG7P.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-24 Thread David P James
On Wed 24 November 2004 00:06, Brad Sims wrote: > On Tuesday 23 November 2004 9:14 pm, David P James wrote: > > just wish I could pass print jobs off to kprinter directly and not > > have to bother with Mozilla's annoying print system. Then again, I > > mainly use Konq n

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-23 Thread David P James
ng interest to him. I just wish I could pass print jobs off to kprinter directly and not have to bother with Mozilla's annoying print system. Then again, I mainly use Konq now and that's all I use to print. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgpn1KSotaa55.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-16 Thread David P James
paragraph preceding it is Curt's yet it's anyone's guess as to which is whose. Please reconfigure TB to some more appropriate settings for mailing list use. In fact my spam filter (Bogofilter) marked one of your previous messages as "Unsure" owing to the high html content

Re: Ctrl+U in Firefox location bar

2004-10-31 Thread David P James
hat Firefox now respects whatever behaviour you have set GNOME and all GNOME apps to use, which in the end makes more sense. HTH, -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgpvJjIoZVY0u.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Not happy with Woody's Kmail and Konqorer Web Browser

2004-10-22 Thread David P James
Mozilla based e-mail client) ? Come again? You absolutely cannot do what he wants to do with Thunderbird or MozMail. You can however do it with KMail from the 3.x line if not earlier. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn&#

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-09 Thread David P James
ildir in ~/Mail. FAT32 can't handle the ':' character used in the filenames of maildir messages. The suggestion of someone else to make a symlink from your Windows 'My Documents' folder to an equivalent in your /home partition (such as the more sensible 'Documents'

Re: Help with bogofilter and kmail

2004-09-17 Thread David P James
S' options since you are not using the '-u' option in the first filter. Second, try turning the 3rd and 4th filters into 'filter actions' by checking the "Add this filter to the Apply Filter menu". This will ensure that only that filter action runs (yo

Re: (no subject)

2004-08-28 Thread David P James
X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5000 Looks like an AOL mailer to me. He probably went to the wrong place for help... -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgpB9VMTzI5De.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: I don't care

2004-08-27 Thread David P James
-to header then this rather intriguing reply-to header that seems to come with your messages would be overwritten: Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgp3kTRriaSpy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox

2004-08-16 Thread David P James
doing this through gconf (a sort of Windows-like registry for GNOME but that doesn't require GNOME) but I've never been able to figure it out. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgpNj5e2CLPn9.pgp Description: signature

Re: 8139too eth mod problems

2004-08-09 Thread David P James
On Mon 9 August 2004 23:19, Leonardo Marques wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 09:20:38PM -0400, David P James wrote: > > Try using modconf instead to install the 8139too module. Don't know > > why it works and insmod and modprobe don't, but I had a similar > > li

Re: 8139too eth mod problems

2004-08-09 Thread David P James
too module. Don't know why it works and insmod and modprobe don't, but I had a similar list of errors when I tried using them. HTH, -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noone isn't no one pgprwc3k4iQIM.pgp Description: signature

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-08 Thread David P James
finance. GnuCash may well be useful for businesses (I wouldn't know) but for personal finance it's just plain annoying since the goal of each is different. For personal finance I use KMyMoney2, since conceptually it's far more like Quicken on Windows (and probably MS

Re: *****SPAM***** Re: urgent help

2004-08-07 Thread David P James
including smtp and pop access), which is in effect what Rogers has done for its subscribers. I would simply prefer to use sendmail, but since I'm on a machine behind a firewall on a residential dynamic IP address block, well, that's not well liked by many mail servers these days. -- Dav

Re: remove aol art for more room on hard drive

2004-08-06 Thread David P James
On Fri 6 August 2004 13:01, Wayne Topa wrote: > David P James([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Thu 5 August 2004 21:45, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > The AOL art file trick is a fairly common mailing list spam bait > > > tactic. Good thing you didn't

Re: remove aol art for more room on hard drive

2004-08-05 Thread David P James
On Thu 5 August 2004 21:45, Paul Johnson wrote: > > The AOL art file trick is a fairly common mailing list spam bait > tactic. Good thing you didn't reply directly... Do we actually know that for sure? url? I've only seen this on the debian-user mailing list and no other.

Re: you may be even more embarassed if you can't deliver

2004-08-05 Thread David P James
use the listserver's SA header to decide whether or not to subject the message to Bogofilter - if it's in negative territory there's probably no point but if it's in the 3+ range that's another story. Cheers, -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.

Re: Debian spam stats [subject change]

2004-08-04 Thread David P James
On Wed 4 August 2004 22:16, John Summerfield wrote: > David P James wrote: > >On Wed 4 August 2004 04:47, John Summerfield wrote: > >>Debian is quite friendly towards spammers. > > > >Not true - more than 95% of the mail received by Debian list servers > > i

Re: Debian spam stats [subject change]

2004-08-04 Thread David P James
am-counts.story Cheers, -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you've lost something, you had to lose it, not loose it. pgpU2eT9LIjgW.pgp Description: signature

Re: can't read my mail

2004-07-29 Thread David P James
X. Lololube is on LAO (Lost Americans Online) running Windows and is asking about something none of us is likely to know the answer to. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you've lost something, you had t

Re: How to set time

2004-07-28 Thread David P James
s that the above is much help... On a related note, what's with all these AOL users asking about removing AOL art files? -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you've lost something, you had to lose it, not loose it

Re: How to de-Grub?

2004-07-22 Thread David P James
grub\menu.lst, then rebooted and tell GRUB that that's where it wanted to look for a menu.lst. Of course it does help to have a GRUB boot floppy too... :) -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you've lost something,

Re: Ugly firefox icon

2004-07-07 Thread David P James
those in charge. I believe the maintainer tried to secure permission to use the icon but couldn't. He was lucky to be able to use the name "Firefox" from what I recall. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you

Re: Six GMail Invites, First come, First Served!

2004-06-25 Thread David P James
2, so I'm surprised that Konqueror doesn't work as well. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you've lost something, you had to lose it, not loose it. pgpsrhQdLrW0u.pgp Description: signature

Re: elm: possible bug: missing really basic functionality?

2004-06-03 Thread David P James
iler" in the Reply-to munging essay even though it doesn't have a true reply-list function - only reply ('R)' and reply-group ('G'), which is really reply-all. http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html The world is still waiting for Thunderbird an

Re: S/MIME support in Emai clients

2004-06-03 Thread David P James
On Thu 3 June 2004 16:43, Luis R. Rojas wrote: > > is thunderbir in the apt-get or aptitude tree? mine says it couldnt > find it? in case it isnt. can you install manually? # apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail -- David P James Ottawa, Ont

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-24 Thread David P James
On Mon 24 May 2004 08:50, Katipo wrote: > David P James wrote: > >On Sun 23 May 2004 18:56, Katipo wrote: > >>David P James wrote: > > >>>No system is ever going to be completely accessible to the > >>>destitute, > >> > >>So let

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-23 Thread David P James
uld have to be restricted to those who had signed up to prevent it from becoming a last outlet of spamming (this should probably be done anyway...). -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you've lost something, you had to lo

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-23 Thread David P James
On Sun 23 May 2004 18:56, Katipo wrote: > David P James wrote: > >On Sat 22 May 2004 14:07, John L Fjellstad wrote: > >>David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >>Not everybody has the same buying power. A few pennies might not > >> be m

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-23 Thread David P James
On Sat 22 May 2004 14:07, John L Fjellstad wrote: > David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Now suppose you could demand a payment whenever someone sent you an > > email. It would only need to be a few pennies in all probability. > > Not everybody has the same b

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread David P James
t involved as well as a system of including a payment with a message (a neat side effect would be that digital signing would simply have to become more common). But once spammers had to pay to access every inbox on the planet the problem would essentially disappear. -- David P James Ottawa, On

Re: mozilla 1.7 rc1

2004-05-01 Thread David P James
themes. > > Great. So when are they going to start improving the speed? > Well according to the release notes they have ("Under the hood") http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.7rc1/README.html Cheers, -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899,

Re: Reinstalling Debian -- how can I be useful?

2004-04-24 Thread David P James
I document a > Sarge install using the default installer? A Sid install? Some > experimental installer? > Maybe the debian-boot mailing list would be a better place to ask this since they're the ones who are actually behind it. Cheers, -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.

Re: Corel - which debian?

2004-04-19 Thread David P James
or about to be when 1.2 was released. I've got CDs for all three if you really want them (I bought 1.0 (my first Linux distribution), 1.1 came with WordPerfect Office and 1.2 was a burned CD). No one has yet come up with an apt tool quite like Corel-update, unless Xandros has it.

Problem with sed s command

2004-04-10 Thread David P James
happens if I replace it with 1 or g (g is not surprising, but 1 and nothing are). Other numbers are similarly ineffective on test cases with insane numbers of sig delimiters. Any hints? -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca ICQ: #42891899, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Java and Mozilla Firebird Help

2004-03-31 Thread David P James
major pain in Linux - it's all rather hit or miss to get it to work. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. -Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations -- To

Re: Java and Mozilla Firebird Help

2004-03-30 Thread David P James
e came the answer: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200402/msg04531.html Cheers, -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. -Adam Smith, The Wealth of Natio

Re: Printing from mozilla with cups

2004-03-23 Thread David P James
On March 23, 2004 07:52, Andy Firman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 06:36:11PM +1100, Glenn Meehan wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 04:31, David P James wrote: > > > > > I think you are right. I looked at an output file in ghostview and > > it looks the same as m

Re: Printing from mozilla with cups

2004-03-22 Thread David P James
;t sound like a driver problem to me but rather a problem with Mozilla itself in the quality of postscript it is spitting out (try printing to file and examining the resulting file with [k]ghostview or the like. Are you using a Debianized Mozilla or one straight from mozilla.org? Once you do get

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-16 Thread David P James
iver it. At least that's how it's supposed to work in Canada... -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. -Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread David P James
a good cycling team that keeps on winning the Tour de France :) I think everyone, everywhere, complains about the postal service since they're invariably worse than the private sector alternatives. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca There is no art which one governmen

Re: Thunderbird's addressbook and palm pilot

2004-03-07 Thread David P James
o korganizer for calendar and todos and to kaddressbook for the addressbook. There is some support for mail but I've never been able to get it working. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of dr

Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird

2004-02-27 Thread David P James
ased... http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.ca There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. -Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Java applet troubles on websites (Mozilla, Firefox, Konq)

2004-02-24 Thread David P James
s an executable. Still not sure why they worked but the others didn't however. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. -Adam Smith, The Wealth

Re: Java applet troubles on websites (Mozilla, Firefox, Konq)

2004-02-24 Thread David P James
On February 24, 2004 17:23, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * David P James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040224 10:53]: > > I can't view Java applets on websites anymore (I'm pretty sure I > > used to be able to > 1 year ago). Here's an example of where this > > is happenin

Java applet troubles on websites (Mozilla, Firefox, Konq)

2004-02-24 Thread David P James
sence of the Java plugin even though it gets all the rest of the plugins in the same directory. I've also set the correct path to the Java executable in the Java & JavaScript settings panel. I've tried 1.4.2_03 from Sun and 1.4.1 from Blackdown in both browser types (Moz and K

Re: Stolen debian logo?

2004-02-23 Thread David P James
with a logo and someone there lazily appropriated the Debian swirl, rotated it and recoloured it to the shade used by electrostore.se. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money fro

Re: Stolen debian logo?

2004-02-22 Thread David P James
site is awful in Konqueror as well - very clunky when scrolling. Haven't tried with a Gecko browser yet but it'll probably be worse still. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of d

Re: AW: Bonjour - WAY WAY OT!

2004-02-20 Thread David P James
d American entrepreneurialism, British Government and French culture" (apparently this was back when French culture was something people actually wanted, but I guess that would include cuisine). "Instead, it got British entrepreneurialism (this has to be a joke from th

Re: mailto in mozilla-firebird

2004-02-17 Thread David P James
lto" (no quotes, no : either). For the program, type in /usr/bin/kmail or whatever. Unfortunately I haven't figured out how to pass the subject to kmail; kmail -s works, but I don't know how to configure that in Gnome Control Centre. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://

Re: Phone dialer for Linux

2004-02-12 Thread David P James
On February 12, 2004 01:16, Mark wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:46:38PM -0500, David P James wrote: > > On February 11, 2004 12:41, John Hasler wrote: > > > > Right... but what I'm looking for is just a way to pass a phone > > number as a command line paramete

Re: Phone dialer for Linux

2004-02-11 Thread David P James
On February 11, 2004 12:41, John Hasler wrote: > David P James wrote: > > I've searched and searched and I just can't seem to find a simple, > > command-line phone dialer for use with pulse/rotarty (ie non-touch > > tone) phone lines. I find it amazing that I can sen

Re: Phone dialer for Linux

2004-02-07 Thread David P James
ATDP, pick up the telephone handset and talk (I talked to myself on a cell phone - such fun). But I'd still like to be able to pass it as a command line argument from within kaddressbook since that was the point of all this. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpja

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-07 Thread David P James
. I'd say it's about 3/4 of the way towards being a real mail client and if it were to get (1) list-reply and (2) more versatile filters (ability to pipe through or execute external commands and to rewrite headers for example) then it would pretty well be a real mail client. -- David P

Re: Phone dialer for Linux

2004-02-06 Thread David P James
e that config file should be or more importantly how it should be structured. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. -Adam Smith, The Wealth o

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-06 Thread David P James
On February 06, 2004 21:39, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 02:43:10PM -0500, David P James wrote: > > Really? Pressing the Reply button sends it to the sender and not > > the newsgroup? > > That'

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-06 Thread David P James
On February 06, 2004 13:36, Stephen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:42:39PM -0500 or thereabouts, David P > James wrote: > > [snip] > > > In newsgroup mode, TB (and MozMail) treat Reply to mean reply to > > group. You can't easily reply to just the sender in a

Phone dialer for Linux

2004-02-06 Thread David P James
d besides, the numbers are all there in kaddressbook. I'm looking for something that can be used in a way sort of like the following: ~$ somedialer -P{ulse} -D /dev/ttys0 -N <1 234 567 8910> If anyone knows of such a program or a way to do this, I'd love to hear about it. -- David P

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-06 Thread David P James
On February 06, 2004 12:42, David P James wrote: > > Anyway, from a TB user perspective the best way to deal with replying > to the list is the following: > > Do not press reply to reply to a message; instead right-click on the > To: field of the message (which of course is

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-06 Thread David P James
workaround, but it does work and you don't have to delete anything. That's what I did before I made the switch to kmail, which has all manner of wonderful features including reply-list. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ There is no art which one

Re: Mozilla & Mozilla Thunderbird

2004-02-01 Thread David P James
es Inbox, Sent, Drafts, Templates, etc and copy them over to the equivalent place in the Thunderbird (you'll have to replace the null files that will already be there). Delete the .snm files since it simplifies things when Thunderbird restarts. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://members.ro

Re: mozilla-firebird & passwords

2004-01-28 Thread David P James
On January 28, 2004 14:52, Matt Price wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:30:31PM -0500, David P James wrote: > > sounds great -- but what's the name of the password file? is it > cert8.db? I don't see an obvious 'psswords' file. duh - I should have mentionne

Re: mozilla-firebird & passwords

2004-01-28 Thread David P James
la Navigator password file, so theoretically it ought to be possible to copy it over to a mozilla profile and clean it up there. I think I also remember seeing a post in the mozillazine forums from someone who had managed to migrate a password file. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://membe

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-13 Thread David P James
more > right to special treatment at Stonehenge than does Bugs Bunny. > Actually rather less. > While I agree they're little more than idiots, referring to their garb as "KKK-style" is a bit much considering that their outfits probably pre-date the KKK by a century or two.

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread David P James
le > Freudian nine yards. Things that jut out vs. things that recede, > angular vs. spherical, &c. :-) Interesting theory... but I think not. 'Épée' (sword) for example is feminine, as is 'plume' (quill [feather/pen]), both of which have your masculin Freudian connot

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread David P James
s a consonant ending and such words are typically masculine (there are many exceptions, but there's more like it than not). -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from

Re: Spam filter recommendation

2003-10-27 Thread David P James
illa-spamassassin-HOWDID.html -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. -Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Spam filter recommendation

2003-10-27 Thread David P James
on all incoming mail (including mailing list mail) and I have not had any false positives since the first week of use. There are others on this list who employ spam filters before the mail ever gets to your MUA, but since I was used to Mozilla that's how I configured kmail as well. -- David

Who unsubscribed me from this list?

2003-10-24 Thread David P James
emails since neither is subscribed to this list. I'm not pleased that legit emails were probably being bounced but there is a degree of irony in being dropped from the very list that must have been the source of the address harvesting that led to the virus spamming in the first place.

Re: [~OT] tax program for linux

2003-04-03 Thread David P James
has a very good webpage about this sort of thing: http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2002/browser-detection/ There is also the possibility of filing an evangelism bug on bugzilla.mozilla.org as well. -- David P. James 4th Year Economics Student Queen's University Kingston, Ontario h

Re: [~OT] tax program for linux

2003-04-03 Thread David P James
e strange things that its US counterpart. My father installed it on his comp and I could find no trace of the rumored nasty stuff (moreover, Intuit denies that it exists in the Canadian version). -- David P. James 4th Year Economics Student Queen's University Kingston, Ontario http://memb

Mozilla Spam Filter [was: Re: ignore the spam. don't reply to it.]

2003-03-20 Thread David P James
es with a single (usually pornographic) image that can't really be filtered at present. I trust you have got it enabled under Tools? -- David P. James 4th Year Economics Student Queen's University Kingston, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ The bureaucratic mentality is the

Re: Two ISA NICs

2003-03-02 Thread David P James
LAGS: Device or resource busy SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy The same goes for eth0 if eth1 have been raised first. Any clues appreciated. Try looking at my reply to a similar question and if that doesn't help... http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200207/msg01502.html -

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-03-01 Thread David P James
rd" - it's more work to BCC than not, at least it is in any MUA I've ever used, mutt included. -- David P. James 4th Year Economics Student Queen's University Kingston, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe.

Re: Not understanding pdflatex

2003-02-11 Thread David P James
above, the second one step less and the third still one less step, using texi2pdf. The original assignment, btw, was also generated on the professor's Debian box and I suspect she used texi2pdf as well: http://www.econ.queensu.ca/pub/faculty/lapham/426/hw/hw142603.pdf -- David P. James 4th Year

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-10 Thread David P James
g.revised---V-1-9.gif http://www.state.de.us/research/register/september2000/signing%20and%20marking.revised---V-1-4.gif -- David P. James 4th Year Economics Student Queen's University Kingston, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread David P James
Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:18:14PM -0500, David P James wrote: I'll give you a difference: liquidity. There are also differing degrees of transferability and risk associated with all the forms of assets that you've listed. I can't just use the tokens anywhere; th

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread David P James
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 15:12, David P James wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 12:18, David P James wrote: David, You're missing the point, which is that "money", when it has no intrinsic value (or backed by that which has intrinsic val

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread David P James
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 12:18, David P James wrote: Travis Crump wrote: People and corporations produce their own money every day as well; have you ever written a check? Try coming up with a difference between checks, iou's, deeds, stock certificates, bonds, etc

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread David P James
tinental Europe. But they did not save Britain. Arguably Canada did, but not the United States. -- David P. James 4th Year Economics Student Queen's University Kingston, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe. -Dr. Le

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread David P James
e: liquidity. There are also differing degrees of transferability and risk associated with all the forms of assets that you've listed. I can't just use the tokens anywhere; they are probably only redeemable at that particular arcade, though I might be able to sell them to another arcade-goer at

Re: columbia -- what really happened

2003-02-04 Thread David P James
ls come from? All ignored, because it can't work. Randomly ranting, All too apparent -- David P. James 4th Year Economics Student Queen's University Kingston, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe. -Dr. Leonard McCo

Re: Trying to build Phoenix

2003-01-29 Thread David P James
Matthew Weier O'Phinney was roused into action on 2003-01-29 09:22 and wrote: -- David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 28 January 2003, 11:00 PM -0500): [snip] I have installed? I had to install libqt-dev for it to pass the moc check, so I would have hoped that would

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