Postilion and uuencoded attachments

1999-11-12 Thread Joseph Chung
Does anyone have postilion set up to handle uuencoded attachments? Mutt decodes them properly, but postilion cannot.

Re: reboot question

1999-09-06 Thread Joseph Chung
My parents have no password sudo access to the shutdown command on the Debian box I set up for them. This way they can shut down the machine from an icewm menu selection. On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 10:59:42PM +1000, Mark Bathie wrote: > I am trying to set up my home system for friends to use, what is

How to minimize need for manual fsck after unclean unmount

1999-08-13 Thread Joseph Chung
I've set up a more or less fool-proof Debian box for my parents for their word processing (WP8) and internet access needs. As I predicted when I first insisted that they use Linux, they hardly need to call me at all to fix mysterious crashes and OS flakiness, something I would expect regularly if t

How to minimize need for manual fsck after unclean unmount

1999-08-10 Thread Joseph Chung
I've set up a more or less fool-proof Debian box for my parents for their word processing (WP8) and internet access needs. As I predicted when I first insisted that they use Linux, they hardly need to call me at all to fix mysterious crashes and OS flakiness, something I would expect regularly if t

Re: Why is Windows faster ?

1999-07-08 Thread Joseph Chung
I need to chime in on this. I, with my untrained eye, can't tell the difference in video performance b/w my Linux box at home and my Win95 box at work. However, when my Win95 box which has 64 MB RAM starts to swap under load, which it inevitably does, everything slows down, including the popups, di

Re: Can I get the .deb files that I currently have installed.

1999-06-16 Thread Joseph Chung
Be careful when using dpkg-repack to "clone" a system onto another pc. I did this with a hamm system, and though I did get a more-or-less working clone system, permissions on this system were broken all over the place. Maybe, things have improved with the newest version of dpkg-repack. On Mon, Jun

tetex weirdness

1999-06-06 Thread Joseph Chung
I use TeX primarily for lilypond music typesetting. Ever since the upgrade from hamm to slink, I've been frustrated with tetex. Does creating the ls-R database really need to take 30 minutes on a K6-2/333? Does xdvi really need to take 15 minutes to pop up? Anytime I try to do anything with tetex,