Re: [techtalk] window manager preference?

2001-05-17 Thread Esther
> > i was just curious what the window manager of choice is on this list :) .. I come from a unix background, which made me so familiar with fvwm(2) and the solaris-desktop that it took me a while to get used to anything else. Gnome seemed to be a bit too heavy for my first system, so I started

Re: [techtalk] frightening, I know... :-)

2001-04-11 Thread Esther
Hi, > My question is simply this: What concepts/ > ideas would you all consider to be valuable > and important to newbie computer-users? > What aspects of computer use would > you aim to teach? When it comes down to hardware and OSs, the most valuable thing I learned is to get a sense of the dif

Re: [techtalk] Registering DNS servers(try .cx!)

2001-04-10 Thread Esther
Hi, This is the official registrar for the .cx Tld: http://www.nic.cx/ Their whois doesn't show any name or organisation for thedreamer.cx though. Good luck! gr, Es -- Calm down -- it's only ones and zeroes. On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 08:02:23AM -0700, Amber wrote: > I registe

Re: [techtalk] graphical charts

2001-01-08 Thread Esther \"Supergrl\" Kim
If you're wanting to do simple graphs stuff, you might look into gnu plot. Esther On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Nicki Handy wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone knows the best way to program charts. I'm used to > php and perl on linux, and I want to display data graphically. At one

Re: [techtalk] Changing the Console Video Mode

2000-02-06 Thread Esther Lumsdon
d me that in the years since my previous prescription, my eyes had > actually gotten _better_ and that this is apparently not uncommon for > heavy computer users. I was surprised! > - Esther -- Esther Lumsdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Speaking only for myself Tomorrow, we shall be older,

[techtalk] netscape and javascript problem

2000-01-27 Thread Esther Lumsdon
c (24 hours), and hangs forever. I tried letting it wait for that long under Solaris, and it kept hanging. Under solaris, the last thing is a call to poll() with a timeout of 86400 seconds. Is there a mailing list for linux programming problems? or netscape support? Thanks, Esther Lumsdon (w

Re: [techtalk] Newbie question

2000-01-24 Thread Esther Lumsdon
/etc/resolv.conf, because I like to use a different DNS server at each place. - Esther Mon, 24 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm a linux newbie and have been lurking on this list for a little while. > Hope I don't sound too ignorant. > I have installed and been runni

Re: [techtalk] thanks

2000-01-12 Thread Esther Lumsdon
eir t-shirt was an excellent example of technical writing. Useful info: A very handy ftp site is ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/ a usenet-by-hierarchy archive site is ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/ - Esther Lumsdon On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, K Kirby wrote: > I'm happy to say, that ph

Re: [techtalk] Bug tracking/Change orders

2000-01-11 Thread Esther Lumsdon
think it only tracks > bugs and not feature requests. Thanks! > > Jen > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org > Esther Lumsdon (aka [EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.yourvideoontheweb.com/ -- Esther [EMAIL PROTECTED]Speaking only for mysel