Re: Best WWW browser..

2003-02-18 Thread Tom
ossibility. But did you (meaning the OP) mention the need of a light weight browser? If not, what's wrong with good old Mozilla itself? Greets, Tom -- "Was soll uns denn das ew'ge Schaffen! Geschaffenes zu nichts hinwegzuraffen!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Browser string of Mozilla?

2003-02-27 Thread Tom
essing the internet via a proxy, in the end someone over there will notice my usage of another browser... Is there anything I can edit to make Mozilla behave like it was Internet Explorer? Thanks in advance, Tom -- "Was soll uns denn das ew'ge Schaffen! Geschaffenes zu nichts hinweg

Re: Browser string of Mozilla?

2003-02-27 Thread Tom
have degrees or anything like it. I'm not willing to risk my job by starting some psychological war with the head of the IT-department... ;) To all others who responded with nice tips: thanks a lot, works like a charm (check my UserAgent ;-)! Tom -- "Was soll uns denn das ew&#

Monitor problems

2003-03-01 Thread Tom
tes get (too) high when I *leave* X? And more important: is there anyone who has an idea as to what I could do about this? Thanks a lot... Tom -- "Was soll uns denn das ew'ge Schaffen! Geschaffenes zu nichts hinwegzuraffen!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gnome 2.2 install for woody going wrong

2003-03-07 Thread tom
d Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.2.1) but it is not going to be installed Help! What am I doing wrong? Is there any more information that I could provide to help people further diagnose my problem? Thanks, tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome 2.2 install for woody going wrong

2003-03-07 Thread tom
;= 2.2.1) but it is not going to be > installed >Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.2.1) but it is not going to be > installed > gtk2-engines-spherecrystal: Depends: librsvg2-common but it is not going to be > installed > gtk2-engines-thinice: Depends: li

problems with xfree86 4.2 under woody

2003-03-08 Thread tom
I do? What further diagnostics could I usefully send to the list to help solve my problem? Thanks, Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sound, volume, music

2003-03-08 Thread Tom
;t meant to be funny; it's just the way it is. However, back when I used gnome, the volume control of gnome itself allowed me to crank up the volume... I don't use gnome anymore. So I wondered: what was underlying gnome's volume control panel? Greets, Tom -- "Was soll uns

Mozilla - snapshot

2003-03-14 Thread Tom
doesn't mention any possible conflicts, but I want to make sure before I do install it... A nice side effect would be the ability to install the Nautipolis theme :-) Thanks in advance, Tom -- "Was soll uns denn das ew'ge Schaffen! Geschaffenes zu nichts hinwegzuraffen!" -- T

Re: Mozilla - snapshot

2003-03-14 Thread Tom
s why the package is called mozilla-snapshot. :) Now that's exactly what I needed to know :-) Thanks! (also to the other reply-er!) Tom -- "Was soll uns denn das ew'ge Schaffen! Geschaffenes zu nichts hinwegzuraffen!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X ---> console switch puts monitor out of range...

2003-03-24 Thread Tom
I posted my question to the list once before, but can't quite seem to find it back in the archives. I use sid's XFree86, and installed the Nvidia-drivers for kernel 2.4.20, correctly, as it seems... Quite hopeless, Tom -- "Was soll uns denn das ew'ge Schaffen! Geschaffenes

Re: Fwd: Re: X ---> console switch puts monitor out of range...

2003-03-24 Thread Tom
ms to work so far. Huh? Surely it's not elegant, but you *do* manage to get to a properly functioning console, or what? Greets, Tom -- "Was soll uns denn das ew'ge Schaffen! Geschaffenes zu nichts hinwegzuraffen!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-15 Thread Tom
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:27:14AM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:47:50AM +0800, csj said > > At Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:33:09 +1000, > > Rob Weir wrote: [snip] > Yes, defoma aka "Debian Font Manager". When you install a new font, it > handles setting up symlinks and such so that

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-15 Thread Tom
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:39:29AM -0700, Tom wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:27:14AM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:47:50AM +0800, csj said > > > At Tue, 14 Oct 2003 18:33:09 +1000, > > > Rob Weir wrote: > [snip] > I've been pat

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-15 Thread Tom
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 04:06:44AM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:39:29AM -0700, Tom said > > I've been patching my /etc/X11/Xftconfig as well as XF86Config-4 > > to manually point to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera. > > Your sugg

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-15 Thread Tom
I just did a clean reinstall of SID (I keep a local mirror and have it scripted down to 30 minutes :-)). My /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/fonts.alias is an empty file. Here's the the contents of that directory: # ls /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/ fonts.alias

Re: [debian-user] International Characters

2003-10-15 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:40:09PM +0200, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: [snip] > 100 DM = 51 ? 13 ¢. My /etc/environment is now: LANG=en_US, and 'locale' says "en_US" for everthing except LC_ALL which is blank. So things like ½,é,¢ are working, but what I guess is the Euro symbol in Rüdige

Re: [debian-user] International Characters

2003-10-15 Thread Tom
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:05:38PM -0700, Tom wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:40:09PM +0200, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > [snip] > > 100 DM = 51 ? 13 ¢. > > My /etc/environment is now: LANG=en_US, and 'locale' says "en_US" for > everthing exce

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-16 Thread Tom
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:05:44PM -0700, Tom wrote: > I just did a clean reinstall of SID (I keep a local mirror and have it > scripted down to 30 minutes :-)). > > My /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/fonts.alias is > an empty file. > > Here's the the

Re: getting viruses/spam after posting to this list

2003-10-16 Thread Tom
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 10:56:13AM +0100, Eliot Stock wrote: > After my first post to this list last night, I woke up this morning to find 40 > helpful "MS security updates" in my inbox. > > How are other people dealing with this? Does the list consider this a problem, > or is it just up to me to

Re: wont install

2003-10-16 Thread Tom
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 11:01:51PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > stuart whittaker wrote: > >file will unzip with winzip. > > > > > > Since the message was HTML generated with some M$ tool I would > guess that the attachment contains a virus of some sort. > Maybe we are witnessing fledgling attem

OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-17 Thread Tom
[OT, sorry -- but question is obscure, will be hard to google] Are any non-english-speaking readers aware of High-level programming languages using non-English syntax? Like, could I find a French C compiler that uses "pour" instead of "for" and "si" instead of "if"? Actually, I'd be highly cur

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Tom
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:04:44PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On Friday 17 October 2003 12:53, Jeff Elkins wrote: ... > Unfortunately, using a good anti-spam system is a necessity today, and ... I read this book called "The Illusion of Technique" by William Barret which taught me about Witt

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-17 Thread Tom
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 05:28:47PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On Friday 17 October 2003 13:15, Tom wrote: > > Are any non-english-speaking readers aware of High-level programming > > languages using non-English syntax? > > Well, there is this really cool hack: > L

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-17 Thread Tom
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:01:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 12:29, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 11:15 GMT, Tom penned: > > > [OT, sorry -- but question is obscure, will be hard to google] > > > > > > Are any n

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-18 Thread Tom
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 10:34:52PM +0800, Dasn Cups wrote: > Hi, all. > I know little about License...:) > > If I use GNU's source code in my project but don't open my source, who will > punish me? > Nobody, as long as you don't give it to anyone. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-18 Thread Tom
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:35:06PM +0800, Dasn Cups wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:09:08AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > > If you use GPL'd code and distribute the results and refuse to hand out > > the source code, the copyright holder of the GPL'd code can sue you for > > copyright violation. >

Re: How to remove Penquin from Linux (boot screen that is)

2003-10-18 Thread Tom
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 05:58:30PM -0400, e-bone wrote: > What an aweful thing to want to do ... > hee hee ... > > but seriously. that penquin (the one you get if you boot into text mode) wrecks > havoc on less , and a couple of other console programs. > > I've recompiled my kernel several times

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-18 Thread Tom
> ..for samples, google "SCO Linux". SCO claims they have 350 and > Microsoft 25 000 "coders", and they are up against 20 million of us, > the GPL and US copyright law, and, face it, we and they too all knows > _who_ is on the right side. ;-) >From http://www.personaldelphiagents.com/delphi_s

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-19 Thread Tom
> ..as in; "Where _is_ Osama and Saddam?". And playing the > "west bank settler" games on the Iraqis, is _not_ gonna help. > I'm beginning to see this as an issue over which rational and reasonable people can disagree. For me, this all ties back into my "Illusion of Technique" philosophy.

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-19 Thread Tom
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:38:52AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (19/10/03 01:07), Tom wrote: > The war on terrorism has nothing to do with Iraq - it has provoked and > will continue to provoke more terrorism: Anyplace where there is a large group of young males who express a desir

Searching for an editor...

2003-10-19 Thread Tom
eed syntax highlighting and tabbing), but it's Qt, and I like GTK2 better, especially when I have to look at it for several hours. All in all, the built-in editor of Anjuta is exactly what I'm looking for. I guess the next Gedit (2.4) won't be long now, but until then, does anyone hav

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-19 Thread Tom
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:17:53PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 04:10:38AM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: > > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > >On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 22:37 GMT, Erik Steffl penned: Two things I love about German: (1) Those superlongwordsthatyoucanjustmakeupasyou

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-19 Thread Tom
ly) about being able to control things using the mouse etc. I understand the point about Emacs being as "graphical" as anything else in a certain way, but I can't believe *you* don't understand what I meant with "graphical". :-) Greets, Tom -- "Was soll uns denn

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread Tom
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 01:58:31PM -0400, Dave Harding wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:37:05AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > One addition to Karsten's questions/issues: > > It has been claimed that one person's spam is another person's ham. To > > what extent is this actually true? Or is thi

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-19 Thread Tom
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 04:59:08PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: [snip] I was aware of all your facts and reasonings before you spoke. We just part ways on our interpretation of the facts. I'll repeat: anyplace people want to kill us, we want to kill them. I defy anyone to say Iraq was not a pla

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-19 Thread Tom
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 06:08:33PM -0700, Tom wrote: > I'll repeat: anyplace people want to kill us, we want to kill them. And just so there's no confusion: We want to kill members of the group Bin Ladan is inciting only to the extent that they want to kill us. Other than that

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-19 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:01:07AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:08:33 -0700, > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 04:59:08PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > [snip] > &

Will a binary deb package ever not end in extension .deb?

2003-10-20 Thread Tom
I just read about udeb, google says they are coming in debian-installer. I have some scripts that assume every binary package downloaded to /var/cache/apt/archives will end in the extension ".deb". Is this valid? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:45:48PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:28:52 -0700 > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 06:08:33PM -0700, Tom wrote: > > > I'll repeat: anyplace people want to kill us, we want to kill th

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:48:07AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Could this thread please be taken to some other list or private mail? I > think it's clear that it's got hopelessly off-topic. > > Thanks, > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ok, I won't resp

ah shit mutt mistake

2003-10-20 Thread Tom
ah shit i was trying to take it offline my bad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-20 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:01:12PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > On Monday 20 October 2003 12:23 pm, John Hasler wrote: > > > Would it be too difficult to use fuzzy images of the mail addresses > > > instead of the text of the addresses itself to prevent programs from > > > massively collecting ad

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-20 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:41:38PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tom wrote: > > > For the blind, link to a CGI which generates the email as a WAV. > > And the blind and deaf? ... > > Mike > I'm stumped; they would *have* to have machine-enc

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:24:24PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..I said "check out". Sissy Boy George declared war on 9/11/2001. > Both Bush Presidents has violated Arts. 87 and 86 in Iraq and Israel > enough to earn a death sentence under US law. As has Castro on > his failure to free "the un

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-20 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:43:35AM +0200, Olav Lavell wrote: > Denbian still installs too much stuff I did not ask for. It's not a > "minimal" distribution :) > > I did my first Debian install "right" after like 25 times. The install > program has no more secrets for me :) I'm still a noob, but I

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-20 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:28:46PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Tom said on Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 03:49:11PM -0700: > > I know it's not the Unix way, but it takes me 30 minutes to blow away my > > HD and rebuild EVERYTHING (os, apps, user prefs). If my system gets the > &

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-20 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:55:16PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:09:19PM -0400, TR wrote: > > > >>I just did an upgrade in a machine running sid and after that can't star > >>a gnome terminal anymore. > > > > > >Yes, and certainly you're going to get L

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-21 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:17:13AM -0400, Aaron wrote: > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, > > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 10:34:52PM +0800, Dasn Cups wrote: > > > Hi, all. > > > I know little about License...:) > > > > > > If I use GNU's sour

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-21 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:08:41PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > How about using ASCII art instead (a la figlet or somesuch)? it's machine parsable, defeats the purpose -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-21 Thread Tom
God, y'all I promise I'll shut up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-21 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 01:26:38PM -0400, Thomas Pomber wrote: > But I suspect American feelings about their military might are over-rated. For > instance, if they gave a shit, China would kick your ass in a war. > > America has become a bully. And pride comes before a fall. You haven't seen

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-21 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:35:18PM -0200, Klaus Imgrund wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:56:34 -0700 > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > He was in PsOps -- told me some great stories. > > > Is there a point to this? Besides of believing any story some guy makes >

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-21 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:28:12PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 12:24, Nathan Eric Norman wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:12:38PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > > Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:19:15:19:21+0200] scribed: > > > > > > > > > > Red China Com

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-21 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:57:27PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: I like the way you think man! Highly consistent... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Waaaaaay OT] Grammer

2003-10-22 Thread Tom
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 03:55:19PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > It's "grammar". > > On Wednesday 22 October 2003 15:45, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Not trying to start a flame-fest here, but the correct plural form of > > virus is viruses. > > Last thing I heard was that the original word had no p

Re: More on spam

2003-10-22 Thread Tom
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:09:25AM -0500, Shane Hickey wrote: > Let's try to keep a little perspective here. SPAM sucks, but it's not > lethal (thank God!). > -Shane yet it's becoming a distinction without a difference -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-22 Thread Tom
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:47:41AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:26:53PM -0400, Thomas Pomber wrote: > > I was talking to this electrician who just relocated here to Canada > > from Russia, and I was blown away when he told me that they didn't > > brainwash their people

Re: More on spam

2003-10-22 Thread Tom
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:22:23PM -0200, klaus imgrund wrote: > On Wednesday 22 October 2003 12:39, Tom wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:09:25AM -0500, Shane Hickey wrote: > > > Let's try to keep a little perspective here. SPAM sucks, but it's not > > &

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-22 Thread Tom
This is the best thread ever. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More on spam

2003-10-22 Thread Tom
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 01:49:09PM -0500, Shane Hickey wrote: > it's becoming for Tom, sentances without purpose. Aw, you're just mad because in your circles everybody agrees with you about the war, and you met somebody who gave you good arguments. It bugs you, so you atta

Re: More on spam

2003-10-22 Thread Tom
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:11:37PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > I'm left wondering what kind of person could seriously claim that > there's no significant difference between the deliberate killing of > civilians and junk mail. Granted, it's a stretch. That's why I said "yet" -- not what's coming ou

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Tom
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:21:41AM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > Yup. Reason #23131 why CR is a poor solution. I'm quite amazed at how > well SA and simple checks like my Postfix body regexp work. I still get > spam, and oodles of it, but it's almost flawlessly classified. I check > out my spam fold

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-23 Thread Tom
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 07:50:58PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:38:18AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:07:05PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:28:29AM -0700, Tom wrote: > > > > &g

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-23 Thread Tom
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:38:33PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ... After Iraq and Palestine > etc is freed, and your traitors and war criminals has been hanged, > there may be a new _viable_ chance for peace. Without going into left field, and without saying anything negative, what's your visi

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread Tom
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 07:53:17PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Hey, Linux is Perfect!!! You must be an Evil Windows Troll!!! > > But seriously: > > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:08, James D. Freels wrote: > > Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in > > Windows) and print i

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: ])

2003-10-23 Thread Tom
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:58:39PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote: > If you want > to know what Anglo-Saxon was like, go to the islands off the coast of > Frysia. > There's an island called Ocrakoke on the NC Outer Banks with a highly unusual accent: (almost) Elizabethan english mixed with a redneck d

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: ])

2003-10-24 Thread Tom
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 05:08:11AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Here's another one: > http://www.nature.com/nsu/030616/030616-15.html > 'But the Y chromosomes of the regions tell a different story. "The > Celts weren't pushed to the fringes of Scotland and Wales; a lot of > them remained in England

Re: Who unsubscribed me from this list?

2003-10-24 Thread Tom
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:06:43AM -0400, David P James wrote: > from this list. I've got that plus viruses it seems. I was getting > upwards of 15MB of virus emails per day to a 10MB account. All it takes > is to have a broken connection for half day (or night) when you're not > arround to chec

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-24 Thread Tom
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 05:20:22AM -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 16:09 > Subject: Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS) >

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: ])

2003-10-24 Thread Tom
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:43:17AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > >Also, what do the advocates of "gender-neutral" language do in German? > >And what do they do in French? > > not sure about those countries but in slovakia (with 'genderic' > language) there is no such thing as gend

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-24 Thread Tom
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:11:49PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > english is like lego, yes there are some pieces that change shape > etc. but it consists mostly of bricks and brick like pieces. german (and > lot of other languages) is more like putty - you mold things together. > the lego-like s

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-24 Thread Tom
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:04:20PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 18:41:23 -0400 (EDT), > Thomas Pomber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > The return of Christ. > > ..you wanna profit from this, _earn_ it. Now, like it or not, the odds > _are_

Using BitchX safely

2003-10-24 Thread Tom
I used to use mIRC a lot, but I knew Windows expertly enough that things like DCC didn't scare me. I'm scared I'll open a security hole on my system if I use BitchX and install identd. (1) Is BitchX secure by default? (2) Is Linux identd secure by default? Does it work behind firewall? (3) Is

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-24 Thread Tom
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:54:26PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:11:49PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > english is like lego, yes there are some pieces that change shape > > etc. but it consists mostly of bricks and brick like pieces. german (and > > lot of other l

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-24 Thread Tom
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:50:40PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:21:45PM -0700, Tom wrote: > > I would say isRed(fork) contains an implied [it] and [a]: > > > > [it] | is | fork > > -||-- > > || \ \ > &

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-24 Thread Tom
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:23:13AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > Of course I know it's a fork. It's my paramater and I know what I'm > passing. I wouldn't have called it "fork" otherwise. For the purpose of the discussion, I'll grant you the point. But, clearly a (normal) fork is either red or

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-25 Thread Tom
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 02:03:56PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > But the "less formal process", i.e., intuitive mapping without know- > > > ing what adjectives, adverbs, participles, etc are is less efficient > > > than having formal knowledge (even if that formal knowledge does not > > > consist

Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

2003-10-25 Thread Tom
Two questions: (1) I have debian and XP for games multiboot. How do I keep both from changing the clock for Daylight Savings? [I'd like to set my HW clock to GMT but I don't think XP understands that]. (2) XP has this UPnP thing that I thing does sneaking things with my POS linksys FW open p

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

2003-10-25 Thread Tom
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 06:41:41PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > From what I understand, it's actually possible to have XP apply your > timezone to a clock that's set to GMT. I'm not really sure how you do it > though as I don't use XP. kewl > > (2) XP has this UPnP thing that I thing does snea

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

2003-10-25 Thread Tom
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:09:53PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Why would anybody want to use UPnP? Wonderfully insecure... I was hoping the open source community might have done it right. I didn't want to have to mess with Linksys shitty HTML management :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

2003-10-25 Thread Tom
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 07:43:32PM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:14:50 -0700 > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:09:53PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Why would anybody want to use UPnP? Wonderfully insecure...

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-26 Thread Tom
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 10:05:46PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..in our case, whenever you start by reporting that "PsysOp" > storyteller you met on that plane to, was it Cali? None of this is secret http://inquirer.philly.com/packages/somalia/nov16/rang16.asp : ...18 Americans were dead and 7

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-26 Thread Tom
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:38:33PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:18:03 -0700, > > > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > &g

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-26 Thread Tom
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:52:23PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 07:47:43 -0800, > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Basically in "X-vs.-Jew", anybody Jewish gets a pass from me for the > > nex

Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

2003-10-27 Thread Tom
three mails are displayed twice. Has anyone else experienced something like this? Greets, Tom -- "Mongolian drivers do not care much about pedestrians." -- np: Vromb - Emphase (flac) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-27 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 09:16:55AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > You're using a plaintext pop password on the wire and you're worried > about some file in your home directory? I use the SSL option in my .fetchmailrc, so I hope my pwd and more importantly email bodies come over the cable modem encr

Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

2003-10-27 Thread Tom
his takes, the more I'm beginning to feel a little nervous, since it undoubtedly has to do with some misconfiguration of mine. Diff for the two messages of the above example spits out this: 2c2 < ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost ident=tom) --- > ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost

Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

2003-10-27 Thread Tom
mailrc look like? Yes, fetchmail. Nothing special, really. set syslog set postmaster "root" set daemon 300 poll "server" with proto pop3 user "username", with password "password", is "user" here no keep; And some other entries like that.

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-27 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:36:20PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i'm arguing that _neither_ english _nor_ german is perfectly suited to > code, since one needs to do some translation to get the sentence into > the form in which a human would say it. > > on top of that, i'm arguing that _no_ langu

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-27 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:08:22PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > So they know where it came from and is going to. Whoop-de-doo... Actually that's my philosophy when it comes to all privacy: fuck it. Come look. If it creeps you out, that's on you. It's a remarkably effective stance to take. --

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-27 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:20:36PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > the distinction that's being missed here is that people don't code in > english, people use english words as symbols in their code. there's a > huge difference. Random webpage I have open... GtkTreeStore* gtk_tree_store_new

Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

2003-10-28 Thread Tom
rse doesn't matter. Headers are attached... > As you've noted, the problem isn't in mutt or procmail. The > duplication happens before either of those programs > becomes involved. I like logic. :-) > You have fetchmail running twice -- once as user 'fetchmail'

Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

2003-10-28 Thread Tom
ages from server (default) Anyway. It's the default, so I'll just remove that part. :-) Greets, Tom -- "Mongolian drivers do not care much about pedestrians." -- np: gar nix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reiserfs

2003-10-28 Thread Tom
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:44:34PM +0100, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > I have also had problems with the precompiled kernels, just happened > that he options I needed didn't fit the options made with the kernel, > so I quickly ended up compiling my own, and haven't looked back. I took a stab at googlin

Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

2003-10-28 Thread Tom
nit.d? Nope. Could it be so that the mere fact that specific polling lines were present in /etc/fetchmailrc made fetchmail run a second time concurrently? Anyway; I'm too lazy too find that out, as things are okay now. Thanks all, Tom -- "Mongolian drivers do not care much about pedes

Choosing custom kernel during CD boot [was Re: reiserfs]

2003-10-28 Thread Tom
Retrying... How do I point Woody CD to a custom kernel during CD boot process? Say it's too big to fit on a floppy, but it will be on the target hard drive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Straight to SID...

2003-10-29 Thread Tom
To install my system, I normally boot off Woody CD, install only the minimal/base packages, reboot, upgrade the kernel, reboot, and then install the rest of my SID debs I keep on my hard drive. (1) When booting from the Woody CD, what would happen if I said "don't get the base system from the C

Re: Games for 1-2 year old child. Recommendations wanted.

2003-10-29 Thread Tom
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:44:55AM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: > As for me, without TV I've had the bliss of missing Star Search, > Survival, and lord only knows what else. As far as I can tell, the only > thing I'm missing is the Daily Show. And I _think_ I'm getting the BBC's > best thanks to vi

xkbmap trouble... :-(

2003-10-30 Thread Tom
st moment of despair, I thought, let's just get XFree86 4.3, but the penguinpc sources are "not available at the moment". Could someone please tell me what might be the problem here? Why replacing the modified layout with the original one doesn't solve the problem? And what I

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