Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-16 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 12:28, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > On 12 Oct 2002, 16:38:15, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 04:30:22PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > I am sure Baloo meant a "rogue" IT staff member. :-) And rogue is > > > probably the best way to learn the classic vi keystroke

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-16 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 18:28, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > On 12 Oct 2002, 16:38:15, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 04:30:22PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > I am sure Baloo meant a "rogue" IT staff member. :-) And rogue is > > > probably the best way to learn the classic vi keystroke

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-16 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On 12 Oct 2002, 16:38:15, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 04:30:22PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > I am sure Baloo meant a "rogue" IT staff member. :-) And rogue is > > probably the best way to learn the classic vi keystrokes. :-) > > Yes, I meant rogue. Also, if it weren't for ro

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-14 Thread John Hasler
Jens writes: > Free Software without the concept of "giving what you can, getting what > you need" is a rather strange thought. Your definition of Free Software differs markedly from mine. > So strange that I suspect what you really need is to look up "socialist" > in a dictionary. I am aware o

Re: [OT] The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-14 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 11:33, Jens Grivolla wrote: > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If I believed that there was anything "Socialist" about Free Software I > > would cease contributing to it. > > Free Software without the concept of "giving what you can, getting > what you need" is

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jens Grivolla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.14.1733 +0200]: > > If I believed that there was anything "Socialist" about Free Software I > > would cease contributing to it. > > Free Software without the concept of "giving what you can, getting > what you need" is a rather strange though

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-14 Thread Jens Grivolla
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I believed that there was anything "Socialist" about Free Software I > would cease contributing to it. Free Software without the concept of "giving what you can, getting what you need" is a rather strange thought. So strange that I suspect what you r

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.14.1655 +0200]: > If I believed that there was anything "Socialist" about Free Software I > would cease contributing to it. [taking this off-list. mail me if interested] -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debi

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-14 Thread John Hasler
martin f. krafft writes: > It's part of the reason why I use it, too. If I believed that there was anything "Socialist" about Free Software I would cease contributing to it. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-12 Thread Wendell Cochran
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 02:41:41 -0700 From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 07:32:27AM +1000, David Pastern wrote: >> what i'm talking about. My former bosses opinion of Linux was that it was a >> piece of *hit and you couldn't get any support for it, and device driver

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-11 Thread Issac Trotts
Barney Wrightson wrote > > PS. God I wish I could use linux on my workstation here, if not for > cygwin/vim/gimp I'd go (completely) mad. My solution was to quit the job where they forced me to use Windows, and take a job where I can use any operating system I like. Got lucky... -- To

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-11 Thread Issac Trotts
nate wrote: >ACK. I *HATED* when people did this. Taking a screenshot, a perfectly >normal graphics file and shoving it into a word document! Is it so >hard for people to paste it into Paint and save it as a BMP ? then >use IE to convert it to JPG? > I was keeping a detailed log that happened t

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-11 Thread Issac Trotts
Oooh, that's high quality! It sends the image to stdout for piping. :) ijt martin f krafft wrote: >also sprach Issac Trotts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.10.1919 +0200]: > > >>... is being able to capture the contents of a window with something >>like Ctrl+PrtScn and then paste it into a Wor

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread Jeff Maxson
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:19:45AM -0700, Issac Trotts happened to mention: > ... is being able to capture the contents of a window with something > like Ctrl+PrtScn and then paste it into a Word document. It was a > nice way to keep track of changes to some graphics software I was > working on.

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread Barney Wrightson
nate wrote: > Kirk Strauser said: > >>At 2002-10-10T17:58:56Z, "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>>ACK. I *HATED* when people did this. Taking a screenshot, a perfectly >>>normal graphics file and shoving it into a word document! >> >>What if the purpose of the screenshot was to illustrat

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread Bijan Soleymani
David Pastern wrote: > >If a .jpeg file image is what I want all is fine. If not i'll use a program >called xnview (freely available from www.xnview.com) to convert the image. > >Dave > > > The gimp also saves to many other formats. There are also free software programs available in Debian t

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
here's a way to do something like this in > X... > > Issac > > > > Hmmm - the only thing I miss about Windows is the time to catch up on household chores - like cleaning the Windows - during the numerous system crashes! -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, AC

RE: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread David Pastern
t: Thursday, 10 October 2002 3:19 AM To: Debian User; David Pastern Subject: The only thing I miss about Windows ... is being able to capture the contents of a window with something like Ctrl+PrtScn and then paste it into a Word document. It was a nice way to keep track of changes to some grap

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread nate
Kirk Strauser said: > > At 2002-10-10T17:58:56Z, "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> ACK. I *HATED* when people did this. Taking a screenshot, a perfectly >> normal graphics file and shoving it into a word document! > > What if the purpose of the screenshot was to illustrate a piece of text >

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-10-10T17:58:56Z, "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ACK. I *HATED* when people did this. Taking a screenshot, a perfectly > normal graphics file and shoving it into a word document! What if the purpose of the screenshot was to illustrate a piece of text that you're concurrently workin

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread nate
Issac Trotts said: > ... is being able to capture the contents of a window with something like > Ctrl+PrtScn and then paste it into a Word document. It was a nice way to > keep track of changes to some graphics software I was > working on. I wonder if there's a way to do something like this in X

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread Jean-marc Harang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le Jeudi 10 Octobre 2002 19:19, Issac Trotts a écrit : > ... is being able to capture the contents of a window with something > like Ctrl+PrtScn and then paste it into a Word document. It was a > nice way to keep track of changes to some graphics sof

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:19:45AM -0700, Issac Trotts wrote: > ... is being able to capture the contents of a window with something > like Ctrl+PrtScn and then paste it into a Word document. It was a > nice way to keep track of changes to some graphics software I was > working on. I wonder if t

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Issac Trotts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 10 October 2002, 10:19 AM -0700): > ... is being able to capture the contents of a window with something > like Ctrl+PrtScn and then paste it into a Word document. It was a > nice way to keep track of changes to some graphics software I was

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 01:19, Issac Trotts wrote: > ... is being able to capture the contents of a window with something > like Ctrl+PrtScn and then paste it into a Word document. It was a > nice way to keep track of changes to some graphics software I was > working on. I wonder if there's a way

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Issac Trotts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.10.1919 +0200]: > ... is being able to capture the contents of a window with something > like Ctrl+PrtScn and then paste it into a Word document. It was a > nice way to keep track of changes to some graphics software I was > working on. I won

The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread Issac Trotts
... is being able to capture the contents of a window with something like Ctrl+PrtScn and then paste it into a Word document. It was a nice way to keep track of changes to some graphics software I was working on. I wonder if there's a way to do something like this in X... Issac -- To UNSUB