Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-07 Thread Lists
Steven Demetrius wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: I'd like some confirmation, or refutation, of some reasoning: I have a USB external hard drive. It came with vfat fs, but I want to write an ext2/3 fs on it. All my internal HD are ext3, but should this one be ext3, also? Doesn't ext3 essentially wri

what may be the cause of error message "couldn't display [the_name_of_an_exe_file]"?

2009-03-07 Thread Star Liu
my platform is debian sid amd64, now i have an exe file, if i run it from command line, it runs successfully; but if i double click it to run, it disaplays error message "couldn't display [the_name_of_an_exe_file]", what may be the cause of this error? thanks. (the exe file is built by monodevelop)

Re: disabling GDM beep?

2009-03-07 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Chris Burkhardt wrote: > Yes, I think that should do it. For a GUI way, run (as root) > gdmsetup and see the "Accessibility" tab for sound options. Thanks Chris, gdmsetup did it. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To U

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:52:09AM -0600, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > Stable. The fact people joke and make fun of how stable Debian is a > testament to the devs who make certain that Debian stable _is_ stable! Stable as in unchanging. No new packages are added to the "stable" branch whereas new

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 12:40:25AM +0900, Bret Busby wrote: > > -- > Bret Busby > Armadale > West Australia > .. I noticed your sig did not render correctly in my mailer. The deliniter for a sig is -- not -- > "So once you do know what the question actually is, > you'll know what the

wget on dialup (was Re: iceweasel resume download fails after reboot)

2009-03-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:42:52AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 06:24:18AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > Anybody able to use download resume across reboots? > > I manually copy the URL to ~/uldl/wget.list > > > Then I run wget -c -i wget.list I find it handy

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-07 Thread Steven Demetrius
Paul E Condon wrote: I'd like some confirmation, or refutation, of some reasoning: I have a USB external hard drive. It came with vfat fs, but I want to write an ext2/3 fs on it. All my internal HD are ext3, but should this one be ext3, also? Doesn't ext3 essentially write everything twice, firs

Re: disabling GDM beep?

2009-03-07 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Daryl Styrk wrote: > Girish Kulkarni wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Daryl Styrk wrote: I use Lenny on my Dell Inspiron 640m laptop. The beep that GDM throws with the login screen has been a source of embarrasment in classrooms many times. How do I disable it? >>> Have a

Re: Bash - Readline in nested whiles?

2009-03-07 Thread Mike Bird
1) Please don't post HTML to the list. 2) Tell wget to retry (--tries=3) rather than using a loop. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

how to produce cross-platform exe file?

2009-03-07 Thread Star Liu
My target is to make cross-platform desktop application by gecko, now I have prepared a sample program, all the files are in a folder named myapp. In linux system, I can launch the app by this commmand: xulrunner-1.9 /root/MyLife/Mozilla/myapp/application.ini In windows system, I can launch the app

Re: disabling GDM beep?

2009-03-07 Thread Steven Demetrius
Girish Kulkarni wrote: Hi, I use Lenny on my Dell Inspiron 640m laptop. The beep that GDM throws with the login screen has been a source of embarrasment in classrooms many times. How do I disable it? Thanks, Girish. Simple ways to solve this: 1. Before you shutdown the desktop mute the s

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Dotan Cohen wrote: > Yes, there are those who over react. And no, I didn't killfile you! [ snippage ] > Just like I had seen only your post, and not Steve's. Know that that > is likely to happen before you decide to be violent or troll. The irony here is that the reason this is so is because

Re: disabling GDM beep?

2009-03-07 Thread Daryl Styrk
Girish Kulkarni wrote: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Daryl Styrk wrote: I use Lenny on my Dell Inspiron 640m laptop. The beep that GDM throws with the login screen has been a source of embarrasment in classrooms many times. How do I disable it? Have a look in System>Preferences>Sound Doe

Re: disabling GDM beep?

2009-03-07 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Daryl Styrk wrote: >> I use Lenny on my Dell Inspiron 640m laptop. The beep that GDM >> throws with the login screen has been a source of embarrasment in >> classrooms many times. How do I disable it? > > Have a look in System>Preferences>Sound Doesn't help. I d

Re: disabling GDM beep?

2009-03-07 Thread Daryl Styrk
Girish Kulkarni wrote: Hi, I use Lenny on my Dell Inspiron 640m laptop. The beep that GDM throws with the login screen has been a source of embarrasment in classrooms many times. How do I disable it? Thanks, Girish. Have a look in System>Preferences>Sound -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

disabling GDM beep?

2009-03-07 Thread Girish Kulkarni
Hi, I use Lenny on my Dell Inspiron 640m laptop. The beep that GDM throws with the login screen has been a source of embarrasment in classrooms many times. How do I disable it? Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Top-posting doesn't bother me and I actually find it easier to follow, > possibly because I used to work in support. Top-posting to unix geeks is the > equivalent of killing a small child's puppy. I never understood the rage > that top-posting produces, and seriously, "top posters should be shot

Re: Unison not syncing files under ~/.kde

2009-03-07 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:21 AM, A. F. Cano wrote: > ignorenot = Path afc/.kde/share/apps/kpilot #this is a directory > ignorenot = Path afc/.kde/share/apps/karm/karm.ics #individual file > ignorenot = Path afc/.wine/user_files > > But these do not propagate. > > ignore = Path afc/Desktop > i

Re: etch -> lenny, update-initramfs interrupts dpkg

2009-03-07 Thread Mark Copper
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 05:30:47PM -0600, Mark Copper wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Updating from etch to lenny following release notes. >> >> "aptitude upgrade" ends with >> >> Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... >> update-initramfs: Generating /b

Re: Bash - Readline in nested whiles?

2009-03-07 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat March 7 2009 19:48:30 Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta wrote: > cat list.txt > a > b > > while read r; do echo $r; done < list.txt; > a > b > > x=0; while read r; do while [ $x -lt 3 ]; do let x=$x+1; echo $r; done; > done < lista.txt ; > a > a > > Why not the output is? Can't be nested while whe

Unison not syncing files under ~/.kde

2009-03-07 Thread A. F. Cano
Hi, I've been using unison to keep home directories syncronized for quite a while now, but this little bit is starting to aggravate me. It appears that, unless I'm missing something in the configuration below, files under a .directory are ignored. Note that at the bottom there is a blanket "igno

Bash - Readline in nested whiles?

2009-03-07 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
cat list.txt a b while read r; do echo $r; done < list.txt; a b x=0; while read r; do while [ $x -lt 3 ]; do let x=$x+1; echo $r; done; done < lista.txt ; a a Why not the output is? Can't be nested while when reading line? a a a b b b Any comment will be preciated. --

Re: Window Borders, Title Bars, etc. Missing in Lenny w/ KDE

2009-03-07 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Hal Vaughan wrote: I installed Lenny on one system, then did "apt-get install kdebase kdm" and everything went fine. I had to take that system down (it was more for testing anyway) and just set up a new one and did the same thing, but now, in KDE, all the window borders, sliders, title bars,

Re: Mozilla suite missing from Debian 5

2009-03-07 Thread Mark Allums
Bret Busby wrote: > The Mozilla suite, whether you want to name it seamonkey or iceape, or whatever, has apparently been removed from Debian, the last version where it as present, being Debian 4. It is kind of like driving a car without a windscreen; it runs, but it is not nice. Install Ic

Re: Mozilla suite missing from Debian 5

2009-03-07 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 15:57, Bret Busby wrote: > > Well, after having been advised on the list, to upgrade to Debian 5, from > Debian 4, I have done it, on my laptop, to trial Debian 5. > > It appears that it is against my better judgement. > > The Mozilla suite, whether you want to name it seamo

Re: Mozilla suite missing from Debian 5

2009-03-07 Thread John Hasler
Bret writes: > The Mozilla suite, whether you want to name it seamonkey or iceape, or > whatever, has apparently been removed from Debian, the last version where > it as present, being Debian 4. That's no reason for you to remove it from your machine. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Lenny upgrade: Is there a way to reconfigure video card in lenny?

2009-03-07 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 02:56:20PM -0800, S D wrote: > > I'm trying to resolve "Desktop is not using full screen" problem that > appeared after upgrade from etch to lenny. More info about the issue > can be found at: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515840 > > http://groups.goog

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-03-07 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:22:08AM -0400, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: > Well, a fun time (one week), sweating it up to make my ATI and Wifi work > in Lenny AMD64 but nothing. With old fedora wifi works from the live cd > and ATI with the update. No need even to try it with my dell or my > Aspir

Re: problem with IPTABLEs

2009-03-07 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 07:28:35PM -0500, Long Wind wrote: > I want to specify a domain name in rules but the domain name often > changes IP Is there anything I can do about it? > Cronjob, every four hours or so gets the current IP of the domain. Then, in iptables, do something like iptables -ar

Re: Instaling Debian in netbooks

2009-03-07 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:29:26PM -0200, Luis M. A. Ruiz wrote: > Hi. I'm wondering about instaling Debian GNU/Linux in a LG X110 > netbook (no CD drive). What is the best way to perform this? The > netbook specs are: > > Intel Atom N270 @ 1.6 Ghz > 1 Gb RAM > 120 Gb HDD > 1 SD card RW > 3 USB

Re: need help on shell programming

2009-03-07 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 04:54:28PM -0500, Long Wind wrote: > I want a script. > The script run a command, wait one minute, > then run the command again, wait one minute again > ... again and again ... > > Thanks! > Just to bring this back up, you can use a mix of shell programming and Cronjobs.

Mozilla suite missing from Debian 5

2009-03-07 Thread Bret Busby
Well, after having been advised on the list, to upgrade to Debian 5, from Debian 4, I have done it, on my laptop, to trial Debian 5. It appears that it is against my better judgement. The Mozilla suite, whether you want to name it seamonkey or iceape, or whatever, has apparently been removed

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-07 Thread thveillon.debian
Received that personally, so forwarding to the list... Joe McDonagh wrote : > >>> Hi, I just read an interesting article about FAI [1] (Fully Automatic >>> Installer), which present itself as : >>> >>> "FAI - Fully Automatic Installation >>> >>> I've used FAI and didn't really like it, probab

Window Borders, Title Bars, etc. Missing in Lenny w/ KDE

2009-03-07 Thread Hal Vaughan
I installed Lenny on one system, then did "apt-get install kdebase kdm" and everything went fine. I had to take that system down (it was more for testing anyway) and just set up a new one and did the same thing, but now, in KDE, all the window borders, sliders, title bars, and such are miss

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Joe McDonagh
Do you know who it will inconvenience the most? Joe McDonagh. Because now that he gloats that he is a troll, when he needs help nobody will help him. This mailing list is a community effort, and those who don't want to be a part of the community, don't have to be. That's what killfiles are for.

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-03-07 21:30 +0100, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'd like some confirmation, or refutation, of some reasoning: > > I have a USB external hard drive. It came with vfat fs, but I want to > write an ext2/3 fs on it. All my internal HD are ext3, but should this > one be ext3, also? That would be oka

Re: Old PHP on new Debian

2009-03-07 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/3/8 Florian Weimer : > * Pet: > >> /etc/apt/sources.list > > This looks fine.  How did you figure out that you had installed PHP > 5.1.6? He doesn't have it installed, he wants it installed. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it

Re: Old PHP on new Debian

2009-03-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Pet: > /etc/apt/sources.list This looks fine. How did you figure out that you had installed PHP 5.1.6? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: logging writes to disk (keeping disk from spinning down)

2009-03-07 Thread green
Stefan Monnier wrote at 2009-03-04_10:36 -0700: > Micha Feigin wrote at 2009-03-03_06:01 -0700: > > You can abuse laptop mode and do > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump > > and then look in the syslog I think. > > It's no abuse at all: it's the just The Right Way to do it. > BEWARE, tho: make sur

Re: Old PHP on new Debian

2009-03-07 Thread Pet
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Pet: > >> I'd like to install newest version of Debian available, but with one >> of older releases of PHP (5.1.6). Is it possible? How can I accomplish >> this? > > For a while, PHP 5.1.6 hasn't been available in a released Debian > distri

Re: logging writes to disk (keeping disk from spinning down)

2009-03-07 Thread green
Ron Johnson wrote at 2009-03-02_00:41 -0700: > Having members of a RAID set go to sleep independently of control by md > seems kinda scary. Um, can mdadm spin down the drives? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: screen multidisplay with terminals resized

2009-03-07 Thread green
Kelly Clowers wrote at 2009-02-28_09:19 -0700: > As for the actual problem of resized terms (especially within screen), > I unfortunately don't know of a good solution. You could try on the > awesome mailing list or IRC. Yeah, I will have to try the awesome mailing list and perhaps the screen list

Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-07 Thread Paul E Condon
I'd like some confirmation, or refutation, of some reasoning: I have a USB external hard drive. It came with vfat fs, but I want to write an ext2/3 fs on it. All my internal HD are ext3, but should this one be ext3, also? Doesn't ext3 essentially write everything twice, first to the journal, and t

Re: ipV6

2009-03-07 Thread Øystein Dale
thanks for mentioning routing problem, started in the front and found a fw i had forgotten all about. lø., 07.03.2009 kl. 18.24 +0100, skrev Øystein Dale: > > > > Again - you should look into that routing problem, there's something > > wrong there. Anyway, this should work as a temporary hotfix

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-07 Thread Steven Demetrius
Joe McDonagh wrote: At the risk of starting a huge religious war: 1. Preseed vs. kickstart If you're only running at home or only a few machines at work, you're not going to run into this. Once you're done a RH install a .ks file is dropped under /root. You can now use this file to kickstart

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/3/7 Wendell Cochran : >> Date: Fri Mar  6 11:06:29 2009 >> From: Joe McDonagh >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >>> Hey Steve, I love that just by typing up here above e-mails I can >>> make smug users like you go postal. I feel powerful. > > > Top-posting inconveniences almost everyone --

Re: ipV6

2009-03-07 Thread Øystein Dale
thanks lø., 07.03.2009 kl. 18.20 +0100, skrev Sjors Gielen: > Øystein Dale schreef: > > Debian it self is very slow on downloading files, so i wish to stop the > > tcp/ip V6 support and just have the V4 in use as i have done for faster > > browsing in both iceweasel and epiphany, since V6 is not s

Re: ipV6

2009-03-07 Thread Sjors Gielen
Øystein Dale schreef: Debian it self is very slow on downloading files, so i wish to stop the tcp/ip V6 support and just have the V4 in use as i have done for faster browsing in both iceweasel and epiphany, since V6 is not supported all over the nett yet Ø.Dale There must be some kind of routi

Re: ipV6

2009-03-07 Thread Øystein Dale
Debian it self is very slow on downloading files, so i wish to stop the tcp/ip V6 support and just have the V4 in use as i have done for faster browsing in both iceweasel and epiphany, since V6 is not supported all over the nett yet Ø.Dale lø., 07.03.2009 kl. 18.07 +0100, skrev Sjors Gielen: > Øy

Re: ipV6

2009-03-07 Thread Sjors Gielen
Øystein Dale schreef: Can any one tell me how i can remove/disable ipV6 in Debian with Gnome Ø.Dale Remove IPv6? First of all, why? Second, from where? Sjors -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

ipV6

2009-03-07 Thread Øystein Dale
Can any one tell me how i can remove/disable ipV6 in Debian with Gnome Ø.Dale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Sjors Gielen
Stephan Seitz schreef: On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:24:05AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Outlook as an excuse for top-posting went out the window circa 2002. http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ If I understand this well enough, quotefix won’t work if you are using Word as an editor

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:24:05AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Outlook as an excuse for top-posting went out the window circa 2002. http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ If I understand this well enough, quotefix won’t work if you are using Word as an editor for mails. This is done

Re: Location of icons

2009-03-07 Thread Frank
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 21:27 -0800, Michael M. Moore wrote: > mond wrote: > > On Mar 6, 3:30 pm, Frank wrote: > >> On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 21:57 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > >>> On 6 March 2009 21:52:23 Frank McCormick wrote: > Looking at my transparent panel in Debian Squeeze I noticed ther

aptitude error on Lenny

2009-03-07 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 I have installed Debian GNU/Linux Lenny from the first Installation CD on a PC with K6 microprocessor. The locale is Hungarian. The kernel is: linux-image-2.6.26-1-486 After I edited the sources.list and add a debian mirror, I run 'aptitude up

Re: Old PHP on new Debian

2009-03-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* Pet: > I'd like to install newest version of Debian available, but with one > of older releases of PHP (5.1.6). Is it possible? How can I accomplish > this? For a while, PHP 5.1.6 hasn't been available in a released Debian distribution. Could you post your /etc/apt/sources.list file? -- To

Re: Old PHP on new Debian

2009-03-07 Thread Pet
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Stephan wrote: >> Install the version of Debian you'd like (Lenny I assume, unless you're >> looking for unstable or volatile versions) then >> >> aptitude remove php5 >> >> then install the version of php

Re: Configuring fallback font.

2009-03-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 07:03:18AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > How does one configure the fallback font for the OS to use when the > currently-selected font does not have a particular character glyph? #1 install required fonts #2 configure fontconfig selection order with using "~/.fonts.conf". ht

Re: Can one install "lenny" from live cd's ?

2009-03-07 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:03:46PM +0100, baldyeti wrote: > I must have been looking in the wrong places, but I can't figure out > whether this is possible and supported. Beta notes said the release > version would include the installer but it certainly isn't prominently > featured and easy to acti

Re: Old PHP on new Debian

2009-03-07 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Stephan wrote: > Install the version of Debian you'd like (Lenny I assume, unless you're > looking for unstable or volatile versions) then > > aptitude remove php5 > > then install the version of php you want. > > Pet wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to install

Re: Can one install "lenny" from live cd's ?

2009-03-07 Thread Bret Busby
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, baldyeti wrote: I must have been looking in the wrong places, but I can't figure out whether this is possible and supported. Beta notes said the release version would include the installer but it certainly isn't prominently featured and easy to activate in the KDE flavour I

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Top-posting works great in places where you have a common archive and > thus don't have to carry the full context in your message. Er, what? Top-posting requires you to carry the *full* context of the entire thread in every message! -- Steve C. Lamb |

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Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 02:18:47AM -0500, Daryl Styrk wrote: > I myself don't care for top posting. It just tosses a wrench in a > nicely flowing thread. I have started playing around with mutt the last > week or so, and I now appreciate how netiquette has come to be. > Specifically to mailing

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 06:01:34PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > There is a big world out there beyond the confines of the Debian > lists. There is a lot of top posting out there. It must be easy for > twits to come to believe that top posting is always, and everywhere, > OK. And that people who

Key appears to be held down

2009-03-07 Thread Vasiliy Faronov
Hello. Using lenny amd64 on a BenQ JoyBook S32B laptop. Roughly once per hour, the system starts to generate the '6' character repeatedly, as if it is pressed down, although it isn't, and this doesn't happen on Windows Vista x64 dual-booting on the same machine. Usually I can "release" the key b

Pakej pengiklanan monsun-biz.com (Sekiranya berminat, sila e-mail kepada saya)

2009-03-07 Thread shafrina.monsun

From mail to smtp.......

2009-03-07 Thread Charlie
My ISP moved from "mail" on the server for sending emails to "smtp" Since the change I can send emails to everyone except my own email address with Kmail and Thunderbird but have no problem sending emails to all others ***and*** my own email address with Claws-Mail? What am I missing? My ISP t

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Steve Lamb
karun wrote: > Top Posting is an unfortunate side effect, of Microsoft Outlook becoming > the standard for non Opensource computer software users. Outlook as an excuse for top-posting went out the window circa 2002. http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ Also the base Outlook c

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread CaT
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 08:32:27AM +0100, karun wrote: > Top Posting is an unfortunate side effect, of Microsoft Outlook becoming > the standard for non Opensource computer software users. Actually, I'd say it was a side-effect of pine in the unix world and any graphical client everywhere else. I

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Jan Ingvoldstad
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:32 AM, karun wrote: > Top Posting is an unfortunate side effect, of Microsoft Outlook becoming > the standard for non Opensource computer software users. Well, Google with Gmail certainly aren't helping. I also thoroughly loathe answers in the form "my response in green