Re: More questions about T-bird (was Re: Problem with T-bird (was ...))

2006-06-08 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-05-25 18:45:04, schrieb Ron Johnson: > "Most GNOME documents assume that you are using a standard (for > UNIX) 3-button mouse. It is common to refer to mouse buttons by > numbers: MB1, MB2, MB3. If you are using a usual 3-button mouse, > then MB1 is left, MB2 is middle, an

Re: More questions about T-bird (was Re: Problem with T-bird (was ...))

2006-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > s. keeling wrote: >> You: * 3 * > > Uh, no. That's called industry standard. The buttons are numbered in the > order that they appeared. We had a one button mouse, then a 2 button mouse > and then a 3 button mouse.

Re: More questions about T-bird (was Re: Problem with T-bird (was ...))

2006-05-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Christopher Nelson wrote: > A smart mail client shouldn't hide parts of the message unless you tell > it to, it should show you everything it can, and tell you what it can't > (with an option to set up an external handler). And most clients these days have an option, normally by default, to hi

Re: More questions about T-bird (was Re: Problem with T-bird (was ...))

2006-05-25 Thread Steve Lamb
s. keeling wrote: > You: * 3 * Uh, no. That's called industry standard. The buttons are numbered in the order that they appeared. We had a one button mouse, then a 2 button mouse and then a 3 button mouse. The 2nd button went to the right of the first hence RMB vs LMB and it is a

Re: More questions about T-bird (was Re: Problem with T-bird (was ...))

2006-05-25 Thread s. keeling
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > s. keeling wrote: > > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > RMB on the folder, properties, click "check for new mail" or some > > > such. > > > > ..^^^ Maybe on your mouse. On mine, that would be MB3. > > Maybe on your mouse, MB3 here is "center". :P

Re: More questions about T-bird (was Re: Problem with T-bird (was ...))

2006-05-24 Thread Steve Lamb
s. keeling wrote: > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> RMB on the folder, properties, click "check for new mail" or some such. > ...^^^ Maybe on your mouse. On mine, that would be MB3. Maybe on your mouse, MB3 here is "center". :P -- Steve C. Lamb | But who dec

Re: More questions about T-bird (was Re: Problem with T-bird (was ...))

2006-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Nelson wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 08:19:05PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > >>> But now I've got to do this for *every* folder? Yech. >> Yeah, I wouldn't mind a way to do some settings en masse when

Re: More questions about T-bird (was Re: Problem with T-bird (was ...))

2006-05-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 08:19:05PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Write the script once, add pithy little sayings to the data file as > > you find/hear them. Doesn't take much time... > > Which means what I said should tell you exactly how much importance I > place on such

Re: More questions about T-bird (was Re: Problem with T-bird (was ...))

2006-05-21 Thread s. keeling
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > RMB on the folder, properties, click "check for new mail" or some such. ...^^^ Maybe on your mouse. On mine, that would be MB3. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeli

Re: More questions about T-bird (was Re: Problem with T-bird (was ...))

2006-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> Write the script once, add pithy little sayings to the data file as >> you find/hear them. Doesn't take much time... > > Which means what I said should tell you exactly how much importance I > place on su

Re: More questions about T-bird (was Re: Problem with T-bird (was ...))

2006-05-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > Write the script once, add pithy little sayings to the data file as > you find/hear them. Doesn't take much time... Which means what I said should tell you exactly how much importance I place on such a little thing. I mean, c'mon, most email clients in use on this list t

Re: More questions about T-bird (was Re: Problem with T-bird (was ...))

2006-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> Q1. How do you use a executable .signature (fortune, etc)? > > *shrug* Never saw the appeal myself. If ya need more than one or two > pithy little sayings at the end of your messages then ya have too muc

Re: More questions about T-bird (was Re: Problem with T-bird (was ...))

2006-05-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > Q1. How do you use a executable .signature (fortune, etc)? *shrug* Never saw the appeal myself. If ya need more than one or two pithy little sayings at the end of your messages then ya have too much time on your hands. :) > Q2. I get my mail from an IMAP store that use

Re: More questions about T-bird (was Re: Problem with T-bird (was ...))

2006-05-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > Q1. How do you use a executable .signature (fortune, etc)? *shrug* Never saw the appeal myself. If ya need more than one or two pithy little sayings at the end of your messages then ya have too much time on your hands. :) > Q2. I get my mail from an IMAP store that use

Re: Re: more questions on Hard-Disk Upgrade...

2001-12-16 Thread fallenlordx
--- wrote: >right now(old disk) im dual-booting LM and Debian. i'm using GRUB. >After i transferred debian in the new HD, should i `install-mbr`? >or reinstalling a bootloader would cause debian to _automatically_ >install the MBR for me? No need. Modify /boot/grub/menu.lst in your Mandrake parti

Re: more questions on Hard-Disk Upgrade...

2001-12-16 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 10:48:03PM +0800, Paolo Falcone wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > - --- wrote: > > >im going to transfer my debian to a new disk. > >i read the Hard-Disk Upgrade HOWTO and my situation is > >different from the HOWTO. right now im using > > >

Re: more questions on Hard-Disk Upgrade...

2001-12-16 Thread Paolo Falcone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --- wrote: >im going to transfer my debian to a new disk. >i read the Hard-Disk Upgrade HOWTO and my situation is >different from the HOWTO. right now im using > >devFS >ext3FS > >and here is how my disk is partitioned > > >/dev/discs/disc0/part1

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-21 Thread Emil Pedersen
Michael Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:41:08PM +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > Running "apt-get dist-upgrade"? Would that realy change/benefit much if > > there's only one application (the database engine) that needs lsf > > support? Since it's a server that preferably should be up

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:23:02PM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In his case it is find, which is listing the large files in the DB Spool. He > can eighter exclude the parent dir, or upgrade at least fileutils. or findutils even. :) -- Mike Stone

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:53:13PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > The reason I ask is that some program seems to have problem with > > directories containing large files (cron report bellow), but I really > > don't see why. > > The getdents syscall encountering data it can't represent in this

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:25:58PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Provided you compile with -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 And provided that the source code *always* uses off_t properly, and never tries to go from off_t to int. There's a *lot* of bad code out there, and it can

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:41:08PM +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > Running "apt-get dist-upgrade"? Would that realy change/benefit much if > there's only one application (the database engine) that needs lsf > support? Since it's a server that preferably should be up 24/7 I want > to stick to the mo

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Emil Pedersen
Michael Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:48:52PM +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > I'm still some things that confuses me when putting lsf support on a > > potato system. A accept that you have to (re)compile your program > > against the new libc in order to use files larger than 2GB. B

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Previously Emil Pedersen wrote: >> If program want to use lsf, do they need to use other syscall names >> (e.g. fseek64() instead of fseek(), ...)? I assume that's the case and >> necessary for compatibility. > >No, glib

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:48:52PM +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > I'm still some things that confuses me when putting lsf support on a > potato system. A accept that you have to (re)compile your program > against the new libc in order to use files larger than 2GB. But.. Trying to add lfs to potat

Re: more questions about LFS

2001-11-20 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Emil Pedersen wrote: > If program want to use lsf, do they need to use other syscall names > (e.g. fseek64() instead of fseek(), ...)? I assume that's the case and > necessary for compatibility. No, glibc does that for you. > If the program don't use large files they should work, with

Re: More questions about Postfix (Was Re: Postfix troubles)

2000-06-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 10:10:56PM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > and now mail to root/[EMAIL PROTECTED] is correctly forwarded to me. Thanks > for the suggestion. I am surprised this wasn't in the Postfix FAQ. I've got suspicion that mydomain was set to "phoenix". > Another thing I noticed in m

Re: More questions about APT and distribuitions... [Was: Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?]

2000-02-11 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 02:12:33PM -0200, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > > > > > Potato is newer. > > > You want to get potato. > > > edit your /etc/apt/sources.list > > > so that it contains only the line

Re: More questions about APT and distribuitions... [Was: Re: Xwindows in Sparc Station 5?]

2000-02-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 02:12:33PM -0200, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > > > Potato is newer. > > You want to get potato. > > edit your /etc/apt/sources.list > > so that it contains only the lines > > > > deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian potato

Re: More questions...

1999-07-13 Thread John Foster
Chris Concannon wrote: > my problem is this: Which Debian version to use? I can't decide whether to > install from my Slink CDs then upgrade everything (speaking of which, I If you are really into trying the bleeding edge, I suggest that you install only the base sy

Re: More questions...

1999-07-13 Thread Chris Concannon
> Chris, > > I would suggest getting slink up and running first. Then you can upgrade > away to your heart's content. I too tend to get into the upgrade habit. > Interesting that sometimes that becomes the end in itself really... :-) I agree with you there, I upgrade just to upgrade. I'd rather f

RE: More questions...

1999-07-13 Thread Carley, Jason \(Australia\)
Chris, I would suggest getting slink up and running first. Then you can upgrade away to your heart's content. I too tend to get into the upgrade habit. Interesting that sometimes that becomes the end in itself really... :-) On slink, I have had things work under debian that should have worked un

Re: More questions...

1999-07-12 Thread Bradley Bell
Definitely go with slink. I would say that to even the most experienced linux users, if they're new to debian. Once you're comfortable with that, consider going to potato. Keep in mind that potato is unstable which means it has not been officially released yet, and won't be for some time. -Brad

Re: more questions about time

1998-07-24 Thread Colin Telmer
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Keith wrote: > I finally have my time right on my Linux box. I ran tzconfig > and set the timezone to GMT+0. I don't understand why this is > the way I had to get it to work. My other Linux machine is set > to EST5EDT and the time is right. What is the deal? > EST5EDT is my t