Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?

1998-05-05 Thread wrl
Hi Sasha; As to #1, I am not sure that I am reading your question properly, but a large computer networked to many 'little' computers is superiour to just having a bunch of little computers as there are tasks that the 'big computer' can accomplish much faster and more efficiently than the 'little'

Re: Looking for good e-mail client

1998-05-04 Thread wrl
'From Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' AFAIK, none of the mail user agents that I have used will allow switching the display order except 'tkmail' (and it has behaviour that I simply can't stand). I suspect that email within emacs (or xemacs) will probably do about anything that you could possibl

Re: What's the storywith 2.0?

1998-05-04 Thread wrl
'From Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' I am one of those 'not a developer, hamm users'. I have been using 1PC type and three 68k type Debian hamm boxes since sometime around the middle of last year. I am a bit frustrated with hamm right now. As of just before hamm went from 'unstable' to 'froze

Re: mutt - new mail feature?

1998-05-03 Thread wrl
'From Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Thanks, both for the information that mutt does not operate the way that I inferred from the docs as well as the suggestion to use the 'set spoolfile=' command to set the inital mailbox for opening. -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xauthority question was: Diety / Apt Questions.

1998-05-03 Thread wrl
'From Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 07:35:36PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > > IF you are not running multiple X displays on your machine then a > > simple technique is to 'su' in an xterm, > > 'cp /home//.Xauthority /root' > > which will then let root open th

mutt - new mail feature?

1998-05-02 Thread wrl
'From Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' I don't know if I just plain don't understand what the docs are saying or ... I use procmail to sort & 'deliver' mail to mailbox folders in directories called ~/Mail & ~/Mail/Debian. This works 'just dandy', and with mutt I can read the mail (psudo-threaded