John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Richard Hoskins writes:
>> But you're setting up the machine, right? A send/receive clone is a four
>> line bash script started by clicking a purty icon on the desktop.
>
> What does the "Send/Receive" button
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can cope :-), by connecting/disconnecting manually. But for the
> Windoze convertee, the requirement is for a clone of OE's
> "Send/Receive" button.
But you're setting up the machine, right? A send/receive clone is a
four line bash script started by clickin
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> No. They use pppd's 'demand' option, which is easily enabled via
>> pppconfig. Add fetchmail with its simple graphical configurator
>> and the trivially simple to configure exim and you have arranged
>> for y
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1) It has to be said that OE is "dialup-friendly". It only takes one
> click to dial up, send outgoing mail, receive incoming mail, and
> hang up again, all automatically, thus reducing time spent online,
> and the associated costs, to the absolute minimum. Las
"s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Incoming from Roland Dunn:
>>
>> Having typed: "update-alternatives --config x-session-manager" and
>> choosen GNOME, GNOME now starts up on reboot. I'd like it not to so that
>> I can type "startx" when I want it to go into GNOME. How can I force it
>>
Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What I want to know is when dpkg/apt will support grub. I roll my
> own kernels, and (naturally) use dpkg to install them. I like how
> dpkg automatically updates the symlinks and runs lilo. One of the
> reasons I have resisted installing grub is th
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> | Further more, why am I penalized with a higher postage rate for not
>> | spamming?
>>
>> I don't understand this statement.
>
> Why should I have to pay a higher rate just because I don't spew for
David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The Turing test (Alan Turing) is, simply put, a test to see if one
> can pick the the machine from among several human conversationalists
> in a blind encounter (Conversing via IM or a chat room).
Was Turing on AIM or ICQ?
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John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Slaanesh writes:
>> In the Microsoft Windows world, one has to use the shift key to
>> disable the caps lock mode...
>
> ?? That's _bizarre_.
That's the way typewriters work.
Also IIRC, (at least on Selectrics), it was called "Shift Lock", and
did the
Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've observed on my machine over the last several months that it
> takes an inordinately long time after I log off of one of my
> machine's virtual consoles before the getty restarts, prints
> /etc/issue and is ready to accept logins again. Occasionally, I g
Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I thought that GMT was "the same" as UTC? (At least within an
> accuracy of 1 second).
For all intents and purposes, it is. In this case, though, WfW
helpfully set my hardware clock forward an hour in March, which I
wasn't expecting. When I chose GMT
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 03:13:57PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
>> BTW, it's "fun" to set the hardware clock to UTC on a dual-boot
>> Debian-Windows system. Windows doesn't "get it" and thus displays UTC
>> as if it was EST. Just remember never t
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There was a good rebuttal of this recently, observing "well, who
> would hang out on this newbie list to help them?". I know I wouldn't
> - I can barely cope with debian-user as it is.
All we would need is a auto-responder that would randomly choose some
Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Also, emacs-x11 is no longer respecting the font specified in
> ~/.Xdefaults. Any suggestions would be gratefully appreciated!
Did you try running "xrdb .Xdefaults" from an xterm? Perhaps
.Xdefaults in not getting evaluated.
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David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Copyright is roughly "the right to make a copy." If you are given
> permission to make a copy of a work by the copyright holder, you may
> do so. Most works are distributed too widely to go around granting
> permission to everyone who wants a copy, so lic
David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So, if software or a logo is taken and used without permission (only
> granted if the license is adhered to) it is effectivly stolen.
What part of what license has been violated in this case?
There are no provisos for asking permission or giving attrib
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:05:57PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
>
>> It doesn't seem to have seamless calendar sharing either; looks
>> like you can mail calendar info to other people, and looks like you
>> can open other people's static calendar files manuall
Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Personally, I think the time and money would be better spent
> improving OpenOffice.org so it bridges that last 10% gap between it
> and MS Office.
I think it is probably more than 10% if you include Outlook. Outlook
is a must-have for organizations that a
Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Have been trying to use Gnus.
>
> When trying to F (follow up quoting message), I get:
>
> run-hooks: Symbol's function definition is void: turn-on-mime-edit
>
> Checked my .emacs.el etc, but I really have no id
Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't like Microsoft because they make proprietary software, not
> because their proprietary software isn't good enough. For most
> people in most situations it's good enough. If you don't believe me
> look around.
I don't have to look further than
Bob Freemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My mouse wheel works, but is not as fast as I prefer. I would like
> it to universally do page up and page down instead of scolling by
> lines. It seems this would have the proper effect in all
> applications, since pageup and pagedown are relatively uni
Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:32:53PM -0500, Richard Hoskins wrote:
>> Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > RPM == DEB are of nearly equal capacity. It is the Packaging that
>> > Debian Us
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 2004-01-29, Richard Hoskins penned:
>> Stephen Rueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> Conclusion: Stop using low level tools if you can't handle them and
>>> don't complain a
"Rosenstrauch, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In any case, you probably should take this issue with a grain of
> salt anyway. You are running "unstable", after all. :-)
Absolutely. I'm still learning package management on Debian. The
only box I'm running it on is my personal (as in home
Stephen Rueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Conclusion: Stop using low level tools if you can't handle them and
> don't complain about them if you don't understand them. Get yourself
> a proper package management frontend like dselect or aptitude.
I wasn't complaining.
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"Rosenstrauch, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There's rarely (if ever) a circular dependency like that. What
> you'll normally see is that package A needs package B, and package C
> needs package B. Thus package B is usually a shared
> component/library that is used by many other apps.
It
Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 10:56, Richard Hoskins wrote:
>> On unstable, i386.
>>
>> Kind of reminds me of RPM:
[...]
>
> No... you forget the package management has never been the issue.
Are you asserting that it doesn&#
On unstable, i386.
Kind of reminds me of RPM:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dpkg -r libgphoto2-2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libgphoto2-2:
libgphoto2-port0 depends on libgphoto2-2.
dpkg: error processing libgphoto2-2 (--remove):
dependency problems - not removing
Is there a utility to take an AppleSingle file and strip out the
cruft?
Failing that, can anyone give me a pointer to a good description of
Apple file formats so I can write one myself?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J. Tetlie) writes:
> *-Richard Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> |
> | The 20.3 Mule is better behaved than the 20.2 Mule. You might want to
> | consider using it.
> |
> | AFAIK, there is no Emacs 20.3 Debian package yet.
>
> Perhaps someone sh
Jan Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Oops. I thing that there is xmeacs20-no-mule debian package but I
> prefer to use emacs20-no-mule.
There is no such thing as Emacs 20.* no mule. Mule isn't a compile
option with Emacs.
With Emacs 20.3, however, you can set an enviornmental variable
`EMACS
John Larkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This will create a file called TAGS which contains lots of
> information about your code. In emacs, you can use M-x, and look for
> all commands starting with "tags-". There are also a few keymappings
> to the tag functions: play with "M-." and "M-,".
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> LaTex, etc, may be far superior to wordprocessors, but again,
> there's the psychological issue of leaving one world (Windows) and
> trying to find similarities (WordPerfect, Word, Excel, etc) in the
> new world (Linux).
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