Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-05-09 07:57:10, schrieb Joe Hart: > > Too true. I recommend Ubuntu to newbies, especially those who only > > know Windows. > > I recommend Kubuntu, only because of my disklike of the Gnome project. I recommend fvwm because I hate BLOARWARE's like KDE and GNOME. Thanks, Greetings and nic

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-09 Thread Joe
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/07 15:38, Joe Hart wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/08/07 14:17, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] Joe Hart is not worthy of being an ethicist. Although he does have strong opinions, that is exactly what they are. I mean come on

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-09 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 08 May 2007 15:50:47 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Heh. Everyone starts out as a newbie. My first Linux was > pre-installed Mandrake. I'd have never survived Debian back then > when Woody was still Testing. I started with BasLinux booted off floppies (I didn't

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:56:05PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 14:04 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > Joe said it was okay and he's the resident ethicist so stfu n00b!!! > > > > :) > > Damn, don't I wish. a recent "dvd problem", that would have come in > handy.

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/07 14:17, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] Joe Hart is not worthy of being an ethicist. Although he does have strong opinions, that is exactly what they are. I mean come on, the guy isn't really running Debian. He uses Sidux.

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:38:03PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > >> Tomorrow my Etch is going to turn into Sid. I let you know how it does. >> Worst case scenario I can reinstall Etch. > > Before reinstalling Etch you can try to

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: >> Considering that I am still a noob, I can feel proud that I can pluck >> things from experimental and still have no broken packages. I have even >> managed to edit a few files and written a couple of scripts, Oh boy. > > Heh.

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 14:04 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 02:28:52PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 05/08/07 14:17, Joe Hart wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > > > > Joe Hart is not worthy of being an ethicist. Although he does have > > > strong opinions, that is exa

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:38:03PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Tomorrow my Etch is going to turn into Sid. I let you know how it does. > Worst case scenario I can reinstall Etch. Before reinstalling Etch you can try to install directly to sid using either of those methods (though I prefer the busi

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:38:03PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > > But I would not recommend people new to GNU/Linux to run Sid. I still > only have less than a year's experience. It's only been a couple of > months since I formatted my ntfs partition. > > Tomorrow my Etch is going to turn into Sid.

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 02:28:52PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/08/07 14:17, Joe Hart wrote: > [snip] > > > > > > Joe Hart is not worthy of being an ethicist. Although he does have > > strong opinions, that is exactly what they are. I mean come on, the guy > > isn't really running Debian.

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/07 15:38, Joe Hart wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/08/07 14:17, Joe Hart wrote: >> [snip] >>> >>> Joe Hart is not worthy of being an ethicist. Although he does have >>> strong opinions, that is exactly what they are. I mean come on, th

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/08/07 14:17, Joe Hart wrote: > [snip] >> >> Joe Hart is not worthy of being an ethicist. Although he does have >> strong opinions, that is exactly what they are. I mean come on, the guy >> isn't really running Debian. He

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/07 14:17, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] > > > Joe Hart is not worthy of being an ethicist. Although he does have > strong opinions, that is exactly what they are. I mean come on, the guy > isn't really running Debian. He uses Sidux. What kind o

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:22:46AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Joe Hart wrote: >>> While we're at it, lets top paste and write it in HTML. >>> >>> Damn, my MUA won't let me to that. It also keeps the tread. >>> Prog

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/07 07:40, Joe Hart wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Joe Hart wrote: >>> While we're at it, lets top paste and write it in HTML. >>> >>> Damn, my MUA won't let me to that. It also keeps the tread. >>> Program too smart for its own good. >>>

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:22:46AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > >While we're at it, lets top paste and write it in HTML. > > > >Damn, my MUA won't let me to that. It also keeps the tread. > >Program too smart for its own good. > > > >The Dilbert cartoon was not funny, it was a

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: >> While we're at it, lets top paste and write it in HTML. >> >> Damn, my MUA won't let me to that. It also keeps the tread. >> Program too smart for its own good. >> >> The Dilbert cartoon was not funny, it wa

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joe Hart wrote: While we're at it, lets top paste and write it in HTML. Damn, my MUA won't let me to that. It also keeps the tread. Program too smart for its own good. The Dilbert cartoon was not funny, it was accurate. Joe Are you taking votes for the list ethicist? Hugo Andrew Sackvi

Really annoying.

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Hart
While we're at it, lets top paste and write it in HTML. Damn, my MUA won't let me to that. It also keeps the tread. Program too smart for its own good. The Dilbert cartoon was not funny, it was accurate. Joe Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Remember to always change the subject!! > > A -- To

Re: Really annoying! Volume % window that won't go away. After etch upgrade.

2007-04-16 Thread A. F. Cano
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:14:55PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 22:13 -0400, A. F. Cano wrote: > > Good call! After searching blindly for a while, it turned out that > > Kmilo, the KDE special key notifier was running. Unselecting the > > check box in the KDE control cente

Re: Really annoying! Volume % window that won't go away. After etch upgrade.

2007-04-16 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 22:13 -0400, A. F. Cano wrote: > Good call! After searching blindly for a while, it turned out that > Kmilo, the KDE special key notifier was running. Unselecting the > check box in the KDE control center->KDE components->Service Manager > got rid of the annoying window. No

Re: Really annoying! Volume % window that won't go away. After etch upgrade.

2007-04-15 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 02:11:32PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 21:05 -0400, A. F. Cano wrote: > > The most annoying and urgent is that on login with kdm, a window > > pops up right in the middle of the screen (quite large too) with > > "Volume" in extremely large letters an

Re: Really annoying! Volume % window that won't go away. After etch upgrade.

2007-04-14 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 21:05 -0400, A. F. Cano wrote: > The most annoying and urgent is that on login with kdm, a window > pops up right in the middle of the screen (quite large too) with > "Volume" in extremely large letters and a % status bar which > remains at 0 no matter what I do with the mixer

Really annoying! Volume % window that won't go away. After etch upgrade.

2007-04-13 Thread A. F. Cano
Greetings one and all, I had previously posted about my upgrade to etch on a thinkpad 600E that went extremely well. I'm now fixing up all kinds of issues manually after the same sarge -> etch upgrade on a Dell 8600. The most annoying and urgent is that on login with kdm, a window pops up right