Re: In my defense! (was: Getting rid of MS XP)

2003-12-09 Thread Nate Duehr
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:32:15AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > What is a *good* sysadmin database that records all actions and reasons > of the admin, with roadmap? I use notebooks, files, html, (example attached) I think CVS is an excellent way to track server changes, surprisingly. Check i

Re: Getting rid of MS XP

2003-12-09 Thread p
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:03:49AM +0100, Peter Bartosch wrote: > Hi! > > > > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:08:01PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: > > > I was unaware that there were 7 flavours ;) > > > > If you're going cross architecture, yes. Or way back in time. > > > > well let's see: > > > r

In my defense! (was: Getting rid of MS XP)

2003-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [SNIP] Goodbye XP. Box is pure Debian now (7 partitions with various flavors of Debian, overdoing it really ;-) ) Hugo. Congrats. And yes, 7 flavours of Debian on one machine is overkill :-) -Roberto This brings up a favorite topic, that I frankly

Re: Getting rid of MS XP

2003-12-09 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:08:01PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: > > I was unaware that there were 7 flavours ;) > > If you're going cross architecture, yes. Or way back in time. > well let's see: rex, bo, hamm, potatoe, slink, sarge and sid Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Getting rid of MS XP

2003-12-09 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:08:01PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: > I was unaware that there were 7 flavours ;) If you're going cross architecture, yes. Or way back in time. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud

Re: Getting rid of MS XP

2003-12-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:38:55PM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: > Woo-hoo! I finally got rid of Win2K when-- get this-- I installed an MS > security patch, and it clobbered Explorer. I was faced with > reinstalling Windows, yet again. I couldn't

Re: Getting rid of MS XP

2003-12-08 Thread Johann Koenig
X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7claws30 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Monday December 8 at 09:02pm Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > [SNIP] > > Goodbye XP. Box i

Re: Getting rid of MS XP

2003-12-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [SNIP] Goodbye XP. Box is pure Debian now (7 partitions with various flavors of Debian, overdoing it really ;-) ) Hugo. Congrats. And yes, 7 flavours of Debian on one machine is overkill :-) -Roberto pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Getting rid of MS XP

2003-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Schulman wrote: Goodbye XP. Box is pure Debian now (7 partitions with various flavors of Debian, overdoing it really ;-) ) Woo-hoo! I finally got rid of Win2K when-- get this-- I installed an MS security patch, and it clobbered Explorer. I was faced with reinstalling Windows, yet agai

Re: Getting rid of MS XP

2003-12-08 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Goodbye XP. Box is pure Debian now (7 partitions with various flavors of > Debian, overdoing it really ;-) ) Woo-hoo! I finally got rid of Win2K when-- get this-- I installed an MS security patch, and it clobbered Explorer. I was faced with reinstalling Windows, yet again. I couldn't stom

Getting rid of MS XP

2003-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
I am gitting rid of the XP partition. 2 years ago I KazAa'd (when it was still on Linux) the XP Professional CD. I used it to run Adobe's PDF editor (also KazAa'd) to edit the IRS pdf docs. (and to test my Qt programs under Windows) But you can do equally as well with: pstoedit -f fig:-startdep