Re: accounting software for linux

1999-06-01 Thread Tyson Dowd
Cash. Also, check the Freshmeat Appindex (http://appindex.freshmeat.net). xacc is packaged for slink. gnucash is packaged for potato (but will install on slink, it has been built on a slink system so far). You'll need to also grab `xmhtml1'. -- The quantum sort: while (!sorte

Re: vi in Debian (slink)

1999-04-04 Thread Tyson Dowd
n converted after being shown a few major vim conveniences. -- The quantum sort: while (!sorted) { do_nothing(); } Tyson Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://tyse.net/

Re: Slink CDs available -> Australia

1999-03-13 Thread Tyson Dowd
ways next day shipping for people in Melbourne anyway. You can place a preorder now at http://tyse.net/linux-cds/ and it will probably be shipped by Monday. -- The quantum sort: while (!sorted) { do_nothing(); } Tyson Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://tyse.net/

Re: Official Debian

1999-02-22 Thread Tyson Dowd
uot; bit just means the vendor hasn't modified it. Many vendors allow you to make a donation alongside your payment for the CDs. You can also send donations directly to SPI who will keep the money on behalf of Debian. -- The quantum sort: while (!sorted) { do_nothing(); } Tyson Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://tyse.net/

Re: Slink CDs available -> Australia

1999-02-06 Thread Tyson Dowd
some excitement and want to beta test. -- The quantum sort: while (!sorted) { do_nothing(); } Tyson Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://tyse.net/

Re: Slink CDs available -> Australia

1999-02-03 Thread Tyson Dowd
ly updated a hamm box to slink with these images with a few tweaks (just installing a few packages by hand with "dpkg -i"). I expect to create new images in a day or two that should be even smoother. See http://tyse.net/linux-cds/ if you want to order them. -- The quantum sort:

Re: What I really like is the way FreeBSD has laid out there port making system.

1998-11-25 Thread Tyson Dowd
average this will double the size of the ftp archive. But it will reduce traffic. Except people will probably just upgrade more often (the same way that building freeways increases traffic). -- Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work. -- Terry Gilliam Tyson Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://tyse.net/

Australia: Debian CD Retail Re-sellers wanted.

1998-10-28 Thread Tyson Dowd
where you are and what kind of store you are running. -- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin Tyson Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://tyse.net

Re: CDs

1998-10-25 Thread Tyson Dowd
sh to even be competitive. This isn't meant to discourage you from doing it, but it just didn't sound like you had really thought it all through if you think you can sell for $1 each. -- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty

Re: CD Writer Recommendation

1998-10-10 Thread Tyson Dowd
d author. It was also the cheapest 4x write drive and kit available at the time, which certainly didn't harm its chances ;-) -- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin Tyson Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://tyse.net

Re: Unified Unix Driver Standard

1998-09-18 Thread Tyson Dowd
ry safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin Tyson Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://tyse.net

Re: Cheapbytes mess-up debian [FW: Debian 2.0 CD's]

1998-08-31 Thread Tyson Dowd
s in the debian-cd package. Using these and a debian mirror, you can generate an debian CD pretty easily. -- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin Tyson Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://tyse.net

Re: CVS 1.10 is out...hamm?

1998-08-26 Thread Tyson Dowd
se hamm system. -- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin Tyson Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://tyse.net

Re: cd image mirror - site owners attitudes

1998-08-08 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 07-Aug-1998, Thomas Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to inquire if other people out there had similar difficulties obtaining > the hamm images. > > First I tried the cdimage.debian.org server and learned people outside of the > ukaren't welcome there. Then I checked the mirror site in

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-05 Thread Tyson Dowd
eparate (but releated) project. The best way to get Debian as a commercial product is to make it one. This is the power of free software -- you can do that. Many of the developers are not interested in marketing or selling or -- Tyson Dowd # "Bill Gates is a white persian cat a

Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?

1998-08-03 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 03-Aug-1998, Robert Claeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I'm wrong or too phragmatic, but I just don't see much of a > problem with using free and non-free code in the same system. If > Informix was to create a Debian package of their database, would they > be prohibited from doing so? T

Re: Mutt, Exim, and the From: header

1998-07-30 Thread Tyson Dowd
tt will do this all the time. That's why its version number is less than 1. I love mutt, but I hate the fact that it isn't stable yet. -- Tyson Dowd # "Bill Gates is a white persian cat and a monocle # away from becoming anot

Re: I give UP

1998-07-29 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 28-Jul-1998, Paul Sellers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All I wanted was info on installilng Linus on a Win95 system. A search on > "Win95" got 18 hits, none of which (summary) mentioned Win95. > Most everything I clicked off the main page didn't load (quickly). > > I was perusing the bootDisk #

Re: 2.0 CD images and symlinks...

1998-07-29 Thread Tyson Dowd
nothing about -onojoliet (or > joliet at all), maybe I need a newer version of mount? (2.7l) > Or is this information stashed somewhere else? I think this might be a bug in kernel 2.0.33 -- it only happened with my 2.0.33 box (not my 2.0.32 and 2.0.34 boxes). I've also never seen docum

Re: DVD support for linux

1998-07-25 Thread Tyson Dowd
ld be a very useful feature to support for games. Of course for *real work* it's useless (in fact, probably harmful!). Then again, for real work, using the CD-Rom to play audio files is useless. -- Tyson Dowd # "Bill Gates is a white persian cat and a monocle

Re: Hamm in Australia? Yes!

1998-07-12 Thread Tyson Dowd
; > Perhaps I will give you a yell when hamm is out for real. I hope to be able to offer binary, source and contrib CDs for the final release too. -- Tyson Dowd # "Bill Gates is a white persian cat and a monocle # away from becoming another Ja

Re: Hamm in Australia? Yes!

1998-07-11 Thread Tyson Dowd
. Email me for ordering information if you are interested. -- Tyson Dowd # "Bill Gates is a white persian cat and a monocle # away from becoming another James Bond villan." [EMAIL PROTECTED]# "No Mr Bond, I expect you to upgrade.&

Re: Leafnode question

1998-05-12 Thread Tyson Dowd
be a problem (how would somebody find my machine?) Sometimes newsreaders automatically try to read new groups, or if they have run out of groups they will look through for more (sometimes trying them all). I've had undesirable behaviour from nn that means leafnode tries to grab extra groups. --

Re: keeping cvs servers synchronized

1998-02-27 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 26-Feb-1998, Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Tyson Dowd wrote: > > > There might be other things that can be done - I'm not sure what's > > causing load problems with the server on va, but these are some of > >

Re: keeping cvs servers synchronized

1998-02-27 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 26-Feb-1998, Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Tyson Dowd wrote: > > > A CVS server is a single entity. If you're looking for ways to reduce > > load on a CVS server, I have some ideas for that, but I believe multiple > &

Re: keeping cvs servers synchronized

1998-02-27 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 26-Feb-1998, Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > Anyone know of a nice way to keep different CVS servers synchronized with > each other? A CVS server is a single entity. If you're looking for ways to reduce load on a CVS server, I have some ideas for that, but I believe m

Re: Bullshit-->Fired for Linux?

1998-02-17 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 17-Feb-1998, David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just to raise a chuckle and let you see how much ignorance is out there, > this was posted by someone calling themselves, I believe, a unix sys > admin, in the "dos" Onenet conference (FirstClass conf system) last September > > : Linux

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Pentium II performance?

1998-02-17 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 16-Feb-1998, Marcelo E. Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I know this is off topic, but I don't have access to cola (and > newsgroups in general) and I feel more confortable asking here, because I > want Linux specific answers. > > Ten days ago a professor here bought a

Re: ssh vs. rsh

1998-01-28 Thread Tyson Dowd
n your xsession, and all your shells spawned from that xsession will inherit the connection to ssh-agent and be able to ssh without entering your password. -- Tyson Dowd # # Surreal humour isn't eveyone's cup of [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why is debian "more of a learning curve" than Redhat???

1998-01-25 Thread Tyson Dowd
would cause trouble with other packages, you could be certain the windows installer/uninstaller would have more complex dialogs as well. I'll agree things could be improved, but Mac/Windows is simply NOT the way to go. -- Tyson Dowd # # Sur

Re: Why is debian "more of a learning curve" than Redhat???

1998-01-20 Thread Tyson Dowd
l newbie system" and will get a usuable default. Once you're ready, you can go play with the alternatives. At the moment, Debian seems to be more popular as a "second system" -- once you've tried a different Linux first, or used o

Re: squake question

1998-01-19 Thread Tyson Dowd
r message. I've run a quake servers list for over a year, and it's *still* the number one question I get. -- Tyson Dowd # # Surreal humour isn't eveyone's cup of [EMAIL PROTECTED]# fur. http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~trd