Re: [Pan-users] OT: Youtube/minitube Was: Trying to use 'new' Pan

2013-04-19 Thread Rob
ions ago. I have no idea what it was called. Rob ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] How about Pan for Android?

2013-02-11 Thread Rob
es. Best we can do is hope for a halfway-decent, native, open-source Usenet client and port any missing functionality from Pan. Rob ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] What tells Pan where to save??

2012-11-27 Thread Rob
even competent Python or Perl code, which is why even Google uses native code for some of their Android apps -- but the situation is far better than it once was. Rob ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] VDQ Re: Policy discussion: GNKSA

2011-07-09 Thread Rob
On Saturday 09 July 2011 07:25, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > In other words: Microsoft is not behaving badly, for a corporation. Perhaps you were using dry humor here, but that's like saying Ted Bundy didn't behave badly for a serial killer. Rob _

Re: [Pan-users] Policy discussion: GNKSA

2011-07-04 Thread Rob
me up with is that Pan's attempts at GNKSA compliance are hamstringing its binary performance relative to more modern newsreaders, except for those of us who are comfortable tweaking XML files by hand. Rob ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.o

Re: [Pan-users] Policy discussion: GNKSA

2011-07-03 Thread Rob
lopment, with no sign of a replacement. Maybe the spec could be updated. Maybe it's time for it to just be retired. Either way, in my opinion, attempting to obtain or maintain GNKSA 2.0 is a bug, not a feature, in 2011. Rob ___ Pan-u

Re: [Pan-users] Re: OT: freedomware vs... Was: Building Pan on Windows?

2010-03-10 Thread Rob
uarded trade secrets of all time. I use Google products throughout every day, 8 years after getting rid of my last Microsoft product, but there's no pretending they're a free software company the way Red Hat is. Rob ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] Re: OT: freedomware vs... Was: Building Pan on Windows?

2010-03-10 Thread Rob
servers, are what generate the revenue that pay for the 80/20 program and research projects like Go. In other words, it's like a textbook example of what Joe was describing, not a Red Hat situation where the company was started purely to provide support and packaging

Re: [Pan-users] Re: OT: freedomware vs... Was: Building Pan on Windows?

2010-03-10 Thread Rob
. My clients have done the latter, though since they owned the code I wrote and never distributed it, its license was a moot point. Rob ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] Re: OT: freedomware vs... Was: Building Pan onWindows?

2010-03-06 Thread Rob
er Wine (maybe ZoneAlarm itself would run under Wine, but I'm not optimistic). Rob ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] Re: OT: calling all old-timers -- using * for attributions

2009-11-03 Thread Rob
to find time to make the occasional comment on a blog or technical forum. For me, Usenet is a place to find the TV show I missed last night nowadays. Rob ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] OT: calling all old-timers -- using * for attributions

2009-11-02 Thread Rob
k to indicate who was speaking, and maybe that's where the poster got confused. Rob ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Advice on other lists

2009-08-27 Thread Rob
t a copy of all their data to be with them at all times for about one car payment? Then again, maybe someone will have invented some new kind of file that fills terabyte drives more easily than video at that point. Rob ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Advice on other lists

2009-08-26 Thread Rob
he other room for recording my instruments for my own songs is a little pricier and better-sounding than what most people have. I don't *need* to write songs or record instruments in a way that you can actually hear them. But for me, it would suck not to. Rob __

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Advice on other lists

2009-08-26 Thread Rob
ering cocaine, market speculation, and Apple products. Rob ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Off-topic] Re: [Pan-users] Re: Advice on other lists

2009-08-26 Thread Rob
opulated areas of the world and live out the rest of our lives doing subsistence farming. But, much like not having your music collection with you wherever you go, that would suck. So you and I -- like most people -- do things we don't *need*

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Advice on other lists

2009-08-26 Thread Rob
g. For the last 13 years, though, all that excitement is gone. Well, I still do Linux installs, but now it's Ubuntu so a chimp could do it, and somewhere out there, one probably does. Rob ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [OT] Geezer Flame (was Re: [Pan-users] Re: Advice on other lists)

2009-08-24 Thread Rob
d then forget they ever heard of it. About the only use such a player would have for me would be as a disposable unit I brought to a party not caring if someone stole it, or as a podcast catcher if I still had time to listen to podcasts. Your view of how people use digital music isn't reflective of age, just a bit parochial and short-sighted. Rob ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Advice on other lists

2009-08-24 Thread Rob
de, I certainly could write my own interface on a netbook and make it really car-friendly. Maybe someone will come out with a 5" smartbook with a hard disk in it, but I guess I'm not holding my breath for that ;) Rob ___ Pan-users mailing

Re: [Pan-users] Re: OT: GNU/Linux Was: clearing headers?

2008-10-10 Thread Rob
On Friday 10 October 2008 08:33, Rob wrote: > we will sue you," and GNU is saying, "comply or we will continue to > irritate you." But the people who don't comply would be irritated by > GNU as a political entity whether or not they said anything, That should have

Re: [Pan-users] Re: OT: GNU/Linux Was: clearing headers?

2008-10-10 Thread Rob
hanges, which definitely have a legal component, to what's essentially a branding campaign in GNU's case. "Don't forget that what you call Linux is mostly GNU." I don't think it's accurate on most Linux users' machines anymore as it was back in

Re: [Pan-users] chimpanxi.com for real?

2007-07-28 Thread Rob Kudla
he title to game search engines. Personally, I would have preferred the name change anyway, just because it'd be a lot easier to google when I'm troubleshooting! Rob ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

[Pan-users] Increase simultaneous connections

2007-05-30 Thread Rob Robbins
I see that in Pan 0.129 you can have up to 4 simultaneous connections, however my news provider allows me up to 20. How do I go about raising the number of connections that Pan allows from 4 to 20? Thanks Rob ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users