[techtalk] Re: Opinion needed on Mail Clients

2001-06-07 Thread Bek Oberin
Claudine Chionh wrote: > One of the problems changing from pine to mutt was that the keybindings > are quite different, especially the keys used to select/tag and apply > commands to tagged messages. It didn't take me long to get used to > mutt's keybindings, so when I'm stuck somewhere else w

Re: [techtalk] Opinion needed on Mail Clients

2001-06-07 Thread marisa mack
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:21:35AM +1200, penguina sed: > I'm a bit concerned about running fetchmail over an outside network, > though -- it doesn't encrypt, does it? Is there a way to set up > fetchmail (or other mail clients that have that functionality built > in) so that it *does* encrypt bo

Re: [techtalk] Opinion needed on Mail Clients

2001-06-07 Thread Claudine Chionh
On Friday, 08 June 2001, Penguina scripsit, > I use pine, and I can tell you a few things I really don't like > about it. ^X (send) and ^C (cancel) are right next to each other. I'll tell you what's silly - I was just fixing up my procmail recipes and sent a whole bunch of mail into a 'Linixc

Re: [techtalk] Installing Suse on new computer...need advice

2001-06-07 Thread Mandi
It will depend on the controller. You'll probably want to call them and ask if they can tell you for sure which card you would get with the machine, and then look on the net. SCSI in general is A-OK, but some adapters are more supported than others. --m On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Nancy Corbett wrot

[techtalk] sco unix...

2001-06-07 Thread Walt
I'm the new, proud owner of an unusual little beast: a sco unix box. Unfortunately, I have no information about the previous logins. (I bought this at a bankruptcy sale for $100) My question is what is the sco unix equiv of 'linux single' so I can get into this thing? Thanks! Walt -~ La

Re: [techtalk] Installing Suse on new computer...need advice

2001-06-07 Thread Penguina
If you have real trouble, you could always get an IDE drive, connect it to the PCI IDE interface, and use that for your boot & system stuff. 9 GB isn't much for multimedia applications, if that's what you want to use it for (one of the few justifications for SCSI Ultra160) and you'll want dedic

Re: [techtalk] Opinion needed on Mail Clients

2001-06-07 Thread Mandi
Encryption has to be supported on the server side, SPOP or something, doesn't it? Someone gave a talk at our LUG last year about itbuncha stuff about handing out the keys and keeping the keyserver and the pop server talking ?? I don't remember all the details, and I can't place the li

Re: [techtalk] Opinion needed on Mail Clients

2001-06-07 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:21:35AM +1200, Penguina wrote: > I use pine, and I can tell you a few things I really don't like > about it. ^X (send) and ^C (cancel) are right next to each other. > > If you let things build up in your inbox, pine takes ages to sort > it out on launch. It has gotten

[techtalk] Bettina Gille makes Sourceforge Top Ten

2001-06-07 Thread Penguina
Bettina Gille Makes SourceForge Top Ten Users http://sourceforge.net/ http://www.phpgroupware.org/developers.php If only it were in Zope/Python... ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] sco unix...

2001-06-07 Thread Raven Alder
Heya -- Quoth Walt: > I'm the new, proud owner of an unusual little beast: a sco unix box. > Unfortunately, I have no information about the previous logins. (I > bought this at a bankruptcy sale for $100). My question is what is > the sco unix equiv of 'linux single' so I can get into this thing

Re: [techtalk] Opinion needed on Mail Clients

2001-06-07 Thread Penguina
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Kelly McQuarrie wrote: > Hi Claudine: > > I've been using pine since I switch to unix so I can't compare it to > anything else. Why do you like mutt better? Maybe I should switch? > > -Kelly I use pine, and I can tell you a few things I really don't like about it. ^X (sen

Re: [techtalk] sco unix...

2001-06-07 Thread Michael Carson
Hmm... Not as elegant as "linux single" but if you pull out the drive and stick it in a Linux box, you should be able to mount it and change the root password... C. Walt wrote: > I'm the new, proud owner of an unusual > little beast: a sco unix box. > > Unfortunately, I have no information

[techtalk] Installing Suse on new computer...need advice

2001-06-07 Thread Nancy Corbett
I am looking at buying the computer described below, and one of the guys at work says that I will have all kinds of problems installing Linux on it because of the SCSI hard drive. Is this true? I'm not a hardware person at all and have never installed Linux on a computer from the ground up like

Re: [techtalk] damn Windows

2001-06-07 Thread Scott
At 02:28 PM 6/7/2001 -0400, you wrote: >I use realaudio quite a bit, and my Linux box runs it MUCH better. Not >only do I never lose my connections, but I get 3X the bandwidth. This >is vs. Win98, though, not Win2K. It makes a HUGE difference and I have tried it on Win 2K and 98. I also tried an

Re: [techtalk] system administration responsibilities question

2001-06-07 Thread Yvonne B
>web pages, cgi... I think these type of situations are subjective to >its >environment. Because typically a web master is responsible for >"nuts and >bolts"-server, services, development. Thanks for responding (and to everyone else who has responded too!) I've been wondering about this, too-

Re: [techtalk] system administration responsibilities question

2001-06-07 Thread Jill Cote
My experience:  Well I am a sys admin for a smaller company, the sole responsibilty of all, but we do have 6 servers, one of which is a web server running various sites.   We do little DB "stuff", but when we have I have only resposible that the OS and Web server is running and that the DB can ta

Re: [techtalk] Opinion needed on Mail Clients

2001-06-07 Thread Claudine Chionh
Hi Kelly and others, On Wednesday, 06 June 2001, Kelly McQuarrie scripsit, > I've been using pine since I switch to unix so I can't compare it to > anything else. Why do you like mutt better? Maybe I should switch? Hmm, I changed from pine to mutt over a year ago, so my comparisons are based

Re: [techtalk] system administration responsibilities question

2001-06-07 Thread Magni Onsoien
Yvonne: > Hi, all. I'm unlurking here... Here is a question for anyone who deals > with the web in some way in their system administration job... > actually, for any sysadmin... If you are the system administrator over > a (web) server, do you administer > all the services on that box? Including