Re: Email client programs

2004-02-01 Thread Day Brown
Thorsten Haude wrote: > > Hi, > > * Day Brown wrote (2004-01-31 06:00): > >Well, now thatcha mention it, I am somewhat bemused by the loss of email > >functionality since I quit using QWKMAIL and the BBS nets, and went on > >the internet. > > I had similar

Re: Mobo with fan controls

2004-02-01 Thread Day Brown
They usta use slabs of foam rubber to filter the air for copier machines. Furnace filter material would work too. You can also remove a motherboard and wash it in the sink. should be dry after 8 hours. In most cases, removing the power supply and remounting it outside on the back of the case work

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-31 Thread Day Brown
Well, now thatcha mention it, I am somewhat bemused by the loss of email functionality since I quit using QWKMAIL and the BBS nets, and went on the internet. The BBS posts were 8 bit. You had the entire 256 IBM CMOS bitmaps. The BBS posts offered ANSI color. It's not just mono like this. HTML giv

Re: Isolationism is history.

2004-01-31 Thread Day Brown
Colin Watson wrote: > > You can probably read the Windows code by looking at the Windows CE.NET > > source which is freely available. It's a fork. You can get a flavor of > > it. If you try real hard, you can probably via a University take a look > > at the source -- Microsoft is handing out r

Re: Mobo with fan controls

2004-01-31 Thread Day Brown
One other reminder that PCs were designed for the corporate environment. People at home open the windows. And after being a home a few years, the fans have clogged the heat sinks with dust, and the system fries. I run with the hood off. Also take off the cover on the power supply, and threw away th

Re: kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (after upgrade to2.4.23/24)

2004-01-30 Thread Day Brown
Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > Hi, > > I seem to have a recurring problem after upgrading to 2.4.23. I also > tried moving to 2.4.24 with no luck. > > I have system with 256mb ram and 1gb swapdisk. During certain nights > (seemingly random), the kernel spews forth a number of messages like th > one i

Isolationism is history.

2004-01-30 Thread Day Brown
Get over it. Just as we here hope for the improvement of a global system and the global tools like debian to use it, so the entire government and economy is wrapped up in it. Whether we like it or not, capitalism demonstrates that it's lots cheaper that way, and the market rules. What worries me,

Re: Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-26 Thread Day Brown
> >>From my own experiences at leadership of various things, all I can say is > >>I have total sympathy for politicians. Put aside the concept of "sides" > >>(as in "my side is winning") and ask yourself if you truly could do a > >>better job. > > > > > > Wrong question. Ask yourself "should this

Re: Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-26 Thread Day Brown
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > We may be facing a future where evidence of thinking thoughts that have been > patented by others will be a crime. Can you imaging what the world would > be if Pythagoras (or some group) had patented his theorem? If these > forces that want to convert the thought world

Re: How to upgrade to 2.4.23 (or .18) kernel

2004-01-26 Thread Day Brown
Kent West wrote: > apt-get update > will update your list of available packages > > apt-cache search kernel-image-2.4 > will show you what available flavors of the 2.4 kernel you have > available in your list > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.22-1-k7 > will install the 2.4 kernel

Re: Derivative effects.

2004-01-26 Thread Day Brown
"Monique Y. Herman" wrote: > > On 2004-01-24, Day Brown typed a lot of stuff. > You're very clearly aware of the fact that most of the community, > particularly most of the developer community, *wants* all of the > safeguards and complexities that you find so inco

Re: Derivative effects.

2004-01-26 Thread Day Brown
Al Davis wrote: > At the time, I believed like the majority, that Henderson was just > jealous of his competition, because he couldn't keep up. In hindsight, > now I see it Henderson's way. > > How is this case different from GPL violations today? > > http://www.esva.net/~thom/philkatz.html >

Re: Derivative effects.

2004-01-26 Thread Day Brown
Micha Feigin wrote: > Dos people haven't figured out how to get more then one program running > at a time and windows haven't figured out how to get a program running > for more then five minutes without going into the infamous blue screen > of death. I dont do windoz, never have. But you are not

Re: graphic system setup

2004-01-26 Thread Day Brown
Marius Amado Alves wrote: > My card is a S3 TrioV64+, but I don't know the memory size. I've tried > from 256k to 2M. You mite try 4096 and 8192k as well. I have one of these cards. I have also read other problem posts about it. It is commonly buggy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Derivative effects.

2004-01-24 Thread Day Brown
Linux comes from Unix, which was designed for mainframes. windows comes from dos, which was designed for personal desktops. One of the reasons I like to run the Corel version of debian, is that because they wrote software for the single user desktop for a decade or more, they intuitively understoo

What's the best browser for deb 2.2.18?

2004-01-22 Thread Day Brown
I dont think I wanna try to upgrade the kernel so I can get the latest Moz or Opera. I got a flakey motherboard. It runs MS-DOS & FREEDOS, but not ROM-DOS or DR-DOS. Seems to be a CPU cache problem, but it dont matter whether I use an INTEL, AMD, or VIA cpu. Whatever. But, as you see, it runs the

Internet Religion

2004-01-21 Thread Day Brown
Not only in India, but the Islamic world even more, is being affected by the model of the internet. The Greeks said, that if horses ruled, the gods would be horses. As it is, we have horse's asses. But even that is changing. All of these steep pyramidal power structures are being challenged by mov

apt-get upgrade.... dont.

2004-01-21 Thread Day Brown
I'm running Corel 1.2 (the debian 2.2.18 kernel) apt-get upgrade tries to hit on corel.com for the upgrade list. So, I go into /etc/apt/sources.list and change that from corel to ftp://debian.org but all I get is another error message telling me that line is wrong. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email