Mathias Brodala wrote:
Hello Michael.
You don’t need another client since Thunderbird/Icedove has an extension[0]
which enables you to reply to list only. I’m using it for a long time now. Don’t
worry about the patch mentioned on the site, it’s already in Debian’s
Thunderbird/Icedove package[1].
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:10:41 +0100
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've had bad experiences with Kubuntu myself. I convinced my
> > brother to try it, but it would freeze at loading KDE. He was
> > pretty disappointed and gave up. Now I want to give it another try
> > with etch as I am
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Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include
> * Andrei Popescu [Tue, Feb 06 2007, 10:43:32PM]:
>> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:06:11 -0500
>> Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Where is the graphical installer, anyway? I'd love to try it out
>>> myself, I
#include
* Andrei Popescu [Tue, Feb 06 2007, 10:43:32PM]:
> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:06:11 -0500
> Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Where is the graphical installer, anyway? I'd love to try it out
> > myself, I haven't got the chance (I just used NetInstall's default
> > curses insta
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:59:01PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote:
Many of the posts contain good ideas, and I changed some of the
ideas I
expressed in my post as a result. For example, I used "brain dead user"
(BDU) at first to refer to myself, but further in my tex
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:59:01PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote:
> Many of the posts contain good ideas, and I changed some of the ideas I
> expressed in my post as a result. For example, I used "brain dead user"
> (BDU) at first to refer to myself, but further in my text I used it to
> refer to
Michael,
Thank you for your positive response to my "Attracting newbies" post,
which really started the fork from "Booting Debian/testing fails". The
original post from Terrence Brannon generated 59 responses including
mine; whereas there have been so far 96 response
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:30:21AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
[..]
> I've been using Debian (Sid) exclusively for 4-5 years now. However, as
> I've posted elsewhere on this list, when I bought a new Thinkpad Z61M
> last week I had a lot of problems with getting Sid to work properly. The
> wirel
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:51:30AM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote:
> On Thu 2007-02-08 09:54:28 -0500, Stephen wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:28:33PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote:
> >
> > > Snipped from my config.py:
> > >
> > > # 1: Use SMTP_SERVER to send mail.
> > >
On Thu 2007-02-08 09:54:28 -0500, Stephen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:28:33PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote:
>
> > Snipped from my config.py:
> >
> > # 1: Use SMTP_SERVER to send mail.
> > # 0: Call /usr/sbin/sendmail to send mail.
> > SMTP_SEND = 1
> > SMTP_SERVER = "jyn
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:03:01PM -0500 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> >
> > News to me -- I've always used the package or application name. As an
> > aside, I thought that new applications for Linux were encouraged to use
> > Info for documentation ...
>
> Info is what the FSF is
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:54:28AM -0500, Stephen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:28:33PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote:
> > On Wed 2007-02-07 15:57:07 -0500, Stephen wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:22:01PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote:
>
> [ ...]
>
> > Snipped fr
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:28:33PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote:
> On Wed 2007-02-07 15:57:07 -0500, Stephen wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:22:01PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote:
[ ...]
> Snipped from my config.py:
>
> # 1: Use SMTP_SERVER to send mail.
> # 0: Cal
Michael Pobega wrote:
> As for the newbie documentation, we should definitely get something
> together. Everyone who is interested email me at my personal emailing
> just to say "Aie!". Drop me an AIM/MSN/Jabber contact so I can reach you
> beyond email if possible.
>
I'm in.
Ciao,
Dave
s
On Thursday 08 February 2007 01:59, Celejar shared this with us all:
>--} On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:32:02 -0500
>--} Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>--} [snip]
>--}
>--} > see how the turnout is; If anyone else is interested email me
>--} > personally, and email it to the list also (Se
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On 02/07/07 13:57, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:20:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 02/07/07 11:31, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>>
>>> If I were to transform my firewall machine in a mailserver then IMAP
>>> would be the best
On Wed 2007-02-07 15:57:07 -0500, Stephen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:22:01PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote:
> >
> > Ehh? For such a simple program I think it's well documented. 'man r2e'
> > and the self documented config file ~/.rss2email/config.py should
> > tell you all you
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:07:59PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:59:09AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 07:59:40PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> >
> > > The document is now licensed under GPL v2. Please let me know if there is
>
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:22:01PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote:
> On Wed 2007-02-07 13:57:42 -0500, Stephen wrote:
{ ...} using fetchmail/procmail to get RSS.
> That's what I do, into its own folder.
>
> > I just grabbed it, the documentation is non existent. :(
>
> Ehh? For such a
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:20:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 02/07/07 11:31, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
> > If I were to transform my firewall machine in a mailserver then IMAP
> > would be the best choice to access it.
>
> That's the *second worst* place to put it.
>
please enlighten. I am i
Celejar wrote:
A common problem with linux gui tools is that they are often really
just simple front ends to the cli tools, and they often aren't really
easier to use than them; if the user doesn't have a pretty good
understanding of the underlying cli tool he'll be stuck even in the
gui, and if
On Wed 2007-02-07 13:57:42 -0500, Stephen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 06:26:44PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote:
> > On Wed 2007-02-07 12:47:55 -0500, Stephen wrote:
>
> [ ...]
>
> > > Does it do mbox format and are URLs included ?
> >
> > It delivers either via smtp or /usr/sbin/se
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 13:51:02 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:50:23PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >
> > Or if you feel brave, mutt-ng from experimental. I you set up your
> > mail to use Maildir than you can switch mail clients with problems,
> > or even
>
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:50:23PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
> Or if you feel brave, mutt-ng from experimental. I you set up your mail
> to use Maildir than you can switch mail clients with problems, or even
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 06:26:44PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote:
> On Wed 2007-02-07 12:47:55 -0500, Stephen wrote:
[ ...]
> > Does it do mbox format and are URLs included ?
>
> It delivers either via smtp or /usr/sbin/sendmail, not directly to
> a mail store.
Hm OK Then I use say pro
On Wed 2007-02-07 12:47:55 -0500, Stephen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:01:00PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote:
> >
> > For the few RSS feeds that I need to read I use 'rss2email'.
>
> Looks great -- Without looking at the package, just a couple quick
> questions;
>
> Does it do mb
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On 02/07/07 11:31, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:05:14 -0600
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
Out of curiosity, why don't you implement IMAP?
>>> Because at the moment it's all on the same computer. I am thinking
>>> to
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:59:09AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 07:59:40PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
>
> > The document is now licensed under GPL v2. Please let me know if there is
> > anything else I can do.
>
> possibly the LGPL or the WxWindows leicence t
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:01:00PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote:
> On Wed 2007-02-07 11:33:24 -0500, Stephen wrote:
>
> > Of course since you're using T-Bird for e-mail, it would check the RSS
> > feeds at the same time it polls for e-mail. I really wish I could
> > use mutt though. ;)
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:05:14 -0600
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Out of curiosity, why don't you implement IMAP?
> >
> > Because at the moment it's all on the same computer. I am thinking
> > to go for IMAP as soon as I get my firewall back on line (hdd is
> > down),
>
> Ah, a secu
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> On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:56:14 -0600
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> On 02/07/07 02:39, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>>> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:11:5
On Wed 2007-02-07 11:33:24 -0500, Stephen wrote:
> Of course since you're using T-Bird for e-mail, it would check the RSS
> feeds at the same time it polls for e-mail. I really wish I could
> use mutt though. ;)
For the few RSS feeds that I need to read I use 'rss2email'.
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Hello Stephen.
Stephen, 07.02.2007 17:33:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:08:06PM +0100 or thereabouts, Mathias Brodala
> wrote:
>> Stephen, 07.02.2007 15:21:
>>> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:09:33PM +0100 or thereabouts, Mathias Brodala
>>> wrote:
Stephen, 07.02.2007 03:45:
>
>>> ? It require
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:56:14 -0600
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> On 02/07/07 02:39, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:11:54 -0500
> > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> > I am planing to write som
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:08:06PM +0100 or thereabouts, Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Hello Stephen.
>
> Stephen, 07.02.2007 15:21:
> > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:09:33PM +0100 or thereabouts, Mathias Brodala
> > wrote:
> >> Stephen, 07.02.2007 03:45:
> > ? It requires more than Enigmail.
>
> No,
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 07:59:40PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 February 2007 04:25, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 22:01:43 -0500
> > > I do not understand your comment about debian wiki. Do you want me to
> > > put a link in the debian wiki or do you want me to
Hello Stephen.
Stephen, 07.02.2007 15:21:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:09:33PM +0100 or thereabouts, Mathias Brodala
> wrote:
>> Stephen, 07.02.2007 03:45:
>>> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:43:32PM +0100 or thereabouts, Mathias Brodala
>>> wrote:
>
> Using icedove at the moment, can you suggest
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:13:07 +
Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> Now if only we had *more* GUI tools (that weren't crippled 'cos they're
> for "clueless newbies(tm)") not instead of, but as well as the command
> line tools (for those who prefer cryptic and opaque)... ;@)
A common
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:33:45 +0200
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 20:21:49 +1300
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Bannister) wrote:
[snip]
> > There are sites geared to helping newbies: linuxquestions.org,
> > tldp.org.
>
> Not Debian specific. It might even be worse t
On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:32:02 -0500
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> see how the turnout is; If anyone else is interested email me
> personally, and email it to the list also (Send two separate emails
> though, otherwise it won't pass my email filters.
I'm interested.
Celejar
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:09:33PM +0100 or thereabouts, Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Hello Stephen.
>
> Stephen, 07.02.2007 03:45:
> > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:43:32PM +0100 or thereabouts, Mathias Brodala
> > wrote:
> >>> Using icedove at the moment, can you suggest to me a better mail client
>
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On 02/07/07 02:39, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:11:54 -0500
> Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
[snip]
> I am planing to write something similar, but without the IMAP bit
> (which should be trivial to implement in my setup)
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 05:04:31PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
>
> Okay, let's get back on topic. So far I have five other people who are
> interested in working on this documentation, I'm hoping to get a few
> more writers than editors before we begin (So far I believe 4/5 people
> who signed up
Hello Stephen.
Stephen, 07.02.2007 03:45:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:43:32PM +0100 or thereabouts, Mathias Brodala
> wrote:
>> Michael Pobega, 06.02.2007 22:35:
>>> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>
>>> Using icedove at the moment, can you suggest to me a better mail client
>>> to use for mailing li
On 06 Feb 2007, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
>
[snip]
> I also sort of feel the same as some others have expressed on this
> thread about Ubuntu leaving them cold. It does me too. I've tried it a
> couple of times and I've always been left feeling that the OS was
> "dumbed down". Sort of like
On 06 Feb 2007, Michael Pobega wrote:
> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> >On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:28:44PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>I always thought you were supposed to respond to messages as "Reply
> >>All", but I'll get out of that habit. Sorry about that.
> >>
> >>
> >Most
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:11:54 -0500
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Do you mean that you have all of your mailboxes synced with one
> > > another? I'd love to be able to do that with Mutt and Icedove if
> > > possible. Any chance you have a URL to a walkthrough/HowTo on how
> > > to
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On 02/06/07 22:50, Michael Pobega wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>
> Hmm...Now all I need is a good (Free) host with IMAP. Any ideas?
Free? Do it yourself. Register with dyndns.org and install
courier-imap-ssl.
http://www.fastmail.fm/ mig
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:05:21PM -0500 or thereabouts, Michael Pobega wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
> >>>
> >> Unless you forged that mail header.
> >>
> >
> > LOL Trust me Ron, it's not forged. :-P
> >
> > I use Exim4 to send to SMARTHOST Google, and fetchmail/procmail to fetch
> > and pro
Ron Johnson wrote:
> [...]
>
>
Hmm...Now all I need is a good (Free) host with IMAP. Any ideas?
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On 02/06/07 22:30, Michael Pobega wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> Do you mean that you have all of your mailboxes synced with
> one another? I'd love to be able to do that with Mutt and
> Icedove if possible. Any chance you have a URL to a
>>
Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>> Do you mean that you have all of your mailboxes synced with
> >>> one another? I'd love to be able to do that with Mutt and
> >>> Icedove if possible. Any chance you have a URL to a
> >>> walkthrough/HowTo on how to do something like that?
> >> No, no, no.
> >>
> >> ONE mai
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On 02/06/07 22:11, Michael Pobega wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 02/06/07 21:54, Michael Pobega wrote:
>>> Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/06/07 21:05, Michael Pobega wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:44:38PM -0600 or
>
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 02/06/07 21:54, Michael Pobega wrote:
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> On 02/06/07 21:05, Michael Pobega wrote:
> >>> Stephen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:44:38PM -0600 or thereabouts, Ron
> >> Johnson wrote:
> > On 02/06/07 20:37, Stephen wrote:
> >> On Tue,
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> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 02/06/07 21:05, Michael Pobega wrote:
>>> Stephen wrote:
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:44:38PM -0600 or thereabouts, Ron
>> Johnson wrote:
> On 02/06/07 20:37, Stephen wrote:
>>>
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 02/06/07 21:05, Michael Pobega wrote:
> > Stephen wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:44:38PM -0600 or thereabouts, Ron
> Johnson wrote:
> >>> On 02/06/07 20:37, Stephen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:45:09PM -0500 or thereabouts, Michael
> Pobega wrote:
> >
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:54:54PM +, Chris Lale wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:08:53PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I agree with you, I'm not one of those people who are completely against
> >>Ubuntu; I think just anything you can accomplish in U
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On 02/06/07 21:05, Michael Pobega wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:44:38PM -0600 or thereabouts, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> On 02/06/07 20:37, Stephen wrote:
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:45:09PM -0500 or thereabouts, Michael Pobega
Michael Pobega wrote:
> I don't mind not getting geek creds.
>
C'mon, Mutt's fun!
Ciao,
Dave
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> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:44:38PM -0600 or thereabouts, Ron Johnson wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:45:09PM -0500 or thereabouts, Michael Pobega
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>
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> > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:45:09PM -0500 or thereabouts, Michael Pobega
> > wrote:
> >> John K Masters wrote:
> >
> >>> PS if yo
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:43:32PM +0100 or thereabouts, Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Hello Michael.
>
> Michael Pobega, 06.02.2007 22:35:
> > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > Using icedove at the moment, can you suggest to me a better mail client
> > to use for mailing list *and* personal email on the
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On 02/06/07 20:37, Stephen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:45:09PM -0500 or thereabouts, Michael Pobega wrote:
>> John K Masters wrote:
>
>>> PS if you have the time and patience try Mutt
>>>
>> As far as I know I've read that Mutt doesn't work
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:45:09PM -0500 or thereabouts, Michael Pobega wrote:
> John K Masters wrote:
> >PS if you have the time and patience try Mutt
> >
> As far as I know I've read that Mutt doesn't work well with Gmail; And
> seeing as my main/only e-mail account is gmail, I can't use Mutt
On 2007-02-06, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As far as I know I've read that Mutt doesn't work well with Gmail; And
> seeing as my main/only e-mail account is gmail, I can't use Mutt :-(
You can use Fetchmail to retrieve all of your mail using POP3 or IMAP. Once it
is delivered to y
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 01:13:07PM +, Wulfy wrote:
> Chris Bannister wrote:
> >For example, I prefer to set up my system the way I want to, I don't
> >want a GUI whereas a newbie doesn't understand a computer without one.
> >Already you have a conflict.
> I don't think it's quite that simple.
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:41:00PM +, Steve Kemp wrote:
> Real geeks know how to trim their mail, so they don't need to quote
> long messages in their entirety for a one line reply.
Lk 6-36
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On Tuesday 06 February 2007 04:25, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 22:01:43 -0500
> > I do not understand your comment about debian wiki. Do you want me to
> > put a link in the debian wiki or do you want me to put the whole
> > contents there?
>
> The former would be nice, the later wou
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:17:15PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
>
> The reason for having a graphical installer is that there currently is no way
> to support some languages with just an ncurses based installer. I believe
> this is the main reason why we have a graphical installer and why i
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:18:27PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>
> Real geeks use mailx.
>
Pfft. *Real* geeks telnet to port 25 on the destination mail server and
type the entire SMTP session manually :-)
Regards,
-Roberto
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http:
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:18:27PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> Real geeks use mailx.
Real geeks know how to trim their mail, so they don't need to quote
long messages in their entirety for a one line reply.
Steve
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:50:23PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 21:39:41 +
> John K Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:35:22 -0500
> > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:28:
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 14:43, Michael Pobega wrote:
> I would hate to see a graphical installer for Debian. I think the curses
> installer does just fine, a graphical installer would only bring in
> people thinking that Debian is Windows.
The reason for having a graphical installer is that th
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:06:11PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> Etch has a GUI installer, really? I never noticed it.
>
Read those syslinux.cfg pages. you can get gui, the default curses, or
even readline for use with really dumb terminals, like a teletype on
serial.
D
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 16:35, Michael Pobega wrote:
>
> Using icedove at the moment, can you suggest to me a better mail client
> to use for mailing list *and* personal email on the same account? (I
> have Icedove/Thunderbird set to filter out all mail with
> @lists.debian.org to my Debian mai
Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Hello Michael.
>
> Michael Pobega, 06.02.2007 22:35:
>
>> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:28:44PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
>>>
I always thought you were supposed to respond to messages as "Reply
All", but I'll get out
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 21:39:41 +
John K Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:35:22 -0500
> Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:28:44PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> I always thou
John K Masters wrote:
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:35:22 -0500
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:28:44PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
I always thought you were supposed to respond to messages as
"Reply All", but I'll g
Hello Michael.
Michael Pobega, 06.02.2007 22:35:
> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:28:44PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
>>> I always thought you were supposed to respond to messages as "Reply
>>> All", but I'll get out of that habit. Sorry about that.
>>>
>> Most decen
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:35:22PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
>
> Using icedove at the moment, can you suggest to me a better mail client
> to use for mailing list *and* personal email on the same account? (I
> have Icedove/Thunderbird set to filter out all mail with
> @lists.debian.org to my
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:35:22 -0500
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:28:44PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I always thought you were supposed to respond to messages as
> >> "Reply All", but I'll get out of that ha
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:28:44PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
I always thought you were supposed to respond to messages as "Reply
All", but I'll get out of that habit. Sorry about that.
Most decent mail programs have a "list reply" button or function that
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:28:44PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
>
> I always thought you were supposed to respond to messages as "Reply
> All", but I'll get out of that habit. Sorry about that.
>
Most decent mail programs have a "list reply" button or function that
correctly identifies the mail
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:58:10 -0500
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:06:11 -0500
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Where is the graphical installer, anyway? I'd love to try it out
myself, I h
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:58:10 -0500
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:06:11 -0500
> > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Where is the graphical installer, anyway? I'd love to try it out
> >> myself, I haven't got the
Freddy Freeloader wrote:
Michael Pobega wrote:
[...]
I've been reading the last 30 or so posts on this thread with some
interest. Tried going to newbiedoc site but it never responded when I
tried to connect.
Berlios can be a little temperamental - i suspect server maintenance.
"Try agai
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:06:11 -0500
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Where is the graphical installer, anyway? I'd love to try it out
myself, I haven't got the chance (I just used NetInstall's default
curses installer).
Just boot with 'installgui' or 'exp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:08:53PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
I agree with you, I'm not one of those people who are completely against
Ubuntu; I think just anything you can accomplish in Ubuntu you can
accomplish in Debian, and probably more effectively/easily.
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:06:11 -0500
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Where is the graphical installer, anyway? I'd love to try it out
> myself, I haven't got the chance (I just used NetInstall's default
> curses installer).
Just boot with 'installgui' or 'expertgui'.
I've had bad exper
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:06:11PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
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> My mail was mostly directed at LiveCD installers though, not graphical
> installers in general (Sorry if I didn't specify this). Where is the
> graphical installer, anyway? I'd love to try it out myself, I haven't
> got the cha
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:20:15 -0600
Dustin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
>
> Debian is a rock solid operating system that is best used for
> servers, or by experienced users that know how to shape it into a
> flexible desktop.
>
> I personally think this is an excellent image to have. The
Kevin Kempter wrote:
Hi;
I'm just now looking into installing debian on my laptop to test it
out. I'm not a newbie to Linux - I've run Redhat, Fedora, Mandrake and
SuSE over the past several years. However I am a newbie per debian
and/or debian based distros. I would be interested in adding
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:43:58 -0500
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Could the installer be made easier for someone who is not very
curious? I suppose so but I would absolutely hate seeing Debian go
the way of Ubuntu. I'd probably move to Slackware, a *BSD, o
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:43:58 -0500
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Could the installer be made easier for someone who is not very
> > curious? I suppose so but I would absolutely hate seeing Debian go
> > the way of Ubuntu. I'd probably move to Slackware, a *BSD, or
> > Gentoo if
Freddy Freeloader wrote:
Michael Pobega wrote:
Referring to it as Sid seems like a good idea to me, but really no
matter what it will be referred to as Unstable by the community;
Which will probably just scare users away. The way I see it, is that
the Debian mainsite shows that 3.1 Stable (Cur
Glenn Becker wrote:
To some of us, GUI tools are more intuitive than the opaque, cryptic
command line tools.
I appreciate your point(s) but to others of us the CLI is neither
opaque nor cryptic.
Choices is what it's all about - for me.
G
Which was the point of the bit you snipped... not
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:40:25 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:33:13PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 08:42:03 -0800
> > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:52:37AM +0200, Andre
Michael Pobega wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 02:07:39PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
The one thing I really don't understand, though, is why people use
Ubuntu.
bleh. responsing anyway...
I return to the example of my mom. Many people don't want to "update"
Kevin Kempter wrote:
Hi;
I'm just now looking into installing debian on my laptop to test it out. I'm
not a newbie to Linux - I've run Redhat, Fedora, Mandrake and SuSE over the
past several years. However I am a newbie per debian and/or debian based
distros. I would be interested in adding
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:33:13PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 08:42:03 -0800
> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:52:37AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > > On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:15:41 -0800
> > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL P
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