windowmaker

1999-05-01 Thread Luis Villa
What exactly is the difference between the three types of windowmakers in the unstable tree? (i.e., WM, WM-Debian, WM-Gnome?) I have switched between the three of them without noticing any susbstantial differences, and am curious. I'm not running Gnome, so that may contribute, but I did try it

remote login configuration/TERM question

1999-04-24 Thread Luis Villa
Before I go further, I'd just like to note that I'm only subscribed to the compressed version of the list, so please cc: copies to me, otherwise I might not get them for a while. Thanks. Two separate and basically unrelated questions: 1) I am logging in remotely to my machine (using xdm) from m

Re: NT vs Linux as web server

1999-04-14 Thread Luis Villa
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > My IT manager just EMailed me this article (CC'ed to a bunch of > Directors, of course): > > http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html > > Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 is 2.5 times faster than Linux as > a File Server and 3.7 ti

Re: APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

1999-04-14 Thread Luis Villa
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > > > > > Try http://non-us.debian.org/debian as the URL. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, Mitch. It works, and I happily have ssh. I'm still

Re: APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

1999-04-14 Thread Luis Villa
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > Try http://non-us.debian.org/debian as the URL. > Thanks, Mitch. It works, and I happily have ssh. I'm still curious, though: why is non-US called a distribution in apt, when it is in fact a component? Is this historical or what? Thanks again- Lui

APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

1999-04-14 Thread Luis Villa
So I looked at the master lists suggested earlier in this thread and tried to restore the non-US settings that got fubared earlier in my setup. I couldn't get it to work. Here's what I've tried: 1) using dselect, I choose apt as my access method. 2) After retyping the sites that work (note to a

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-13 Thread Luis Villa
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: > In reply to:Anthony Campbell > > Quoting Anthony Campbell([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On 13 Apr 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > Thanks to all who replied about this. A lot of you suggested WP8 but I was > > unable to get this to install, possibly beca

Re: Newbie X problem

1999-04-12 Thread Luis Villa
You don't actually even need to boot to single-user mode- hitting ctl-alt-f2 will get you a text-mode login prompt. If you are scarce for cycles once you've logged in, as root you can run ps to find xdm's PID and kill it. NOTE: killing your X server is not enough- xdm will merely bring up anoth