RE: [techtalk] mail format (was re: ftp for non users)

1999-11-29 Thread Cathy James
>I find it painful to go from two easily to follow rules: "Be >nice, and be polite...to a whole bunch of things, about 50% of >which sounds silly called nettiquette. This is going too far >in my opinion. Since this is a diverse group I try to keep things >to text only. All I have to do is look

Re: [techtalk] mail format (was re: ftp for non users)

1999-11-29 Thread Lindsay Walker
> Re: HTML mail: I think most people have the same > problem they I did. They would happily turn it off if > someone would just TELL THEM HOW. If you are using Outlook Express, here's how to turn off HTML: >From the Tools menu, choose Options. Click on the tab that says 'Send'. You will see tw

Re: [techtalk] mail format (was re: ftp for non users)

1999-11-29 Thread Steve Kudlak
Cathy James wrote: > >I find it painful to go from two easily to follow rules: "Be > >nice, and be polite...to a whole bunch of things, about 50% of > >which sounds silly called nettiquette. This is going too far > >in my opinion. Since this is a diverse group I try to keep things > >to text on

RE: [techtalk] mail format (was re: ftp for non users)

1999-11-29 Thread Cathy James
I'm using Outlook, not Outlook Express. I did find a switch somewhere that purported to turn off formatting, but it doesn't work correctly. What do you expect from an MS product? The solution I eventually came up with was to create a new user called "Techtalk" in my addr

[techtalk] Linux on a ThinkPad, and thx for help earlier

1999-11-29 Thread Julie Meloni
A few weeks ago I sent a "frustrated about installing packages" message, then had to fly off to Calfornia twice a two weeks and forgot to say THANKS to the people that reminded me to check simple things before pulling my hair out. :) My package install problem was the classic "looks like it's th

RE: [techtalk] mail format (was re: ftp for non users)

1999-11-29 Thread Ian Phillips
> I'm using Outlook, not Outlook Express. In Outlook: 1. Go to "Options..." in the tools menu. 2. Go to the "Mail Format" tab (3rd one along). 3. Message Format is the first section, you can set "Plain Text" there. Unfortunately, as you have pointed out, Outlook also has "per user" settings wh

RE: [techtalk] mail format (was re: ftp for non users)

1999-11-29 Thread Lindsay Walker
> I'm using Outlook, not Outlook Express. > > I did find a switch somewhere that purported > to turn off formatting, but it doesn't work correctly. > What do you expect from an MS product? In Outlook98, the option is under Tools: Options: Mail Format. There is a drop down list of 'Send in this

[techtalk] Using Crack 5.0

1999-11-29 Thread subb3
I have downloaded the latest Crack 5.0. When I run, $ Crack /etc/passwd or $ Crack /etc/shawdow I get lots of output, that seem to suggest, it is trying to do some "make". Here is the tail end of the output. === make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/too

Re: [techtalk] Using Crack 5.0

1999-11-29 Thread Robert Kiesling
Hi, What Crack is doing is creating word dictionaries the first time you try to run it. That way, on later executions, it will not need to re-hash all of the words or character combinations that it would have to create the first time, thus cutting down the time it takes to ``guess'' the passwor

RE: [techtalk] mail format (was re: ftp for non users)

1999-11-29 Thread Clare Smith
If you like, as I do, to send HTML messages, you can turn off HTML for specific contacts that can't handle them through your contact list. In Outlook 98, open the contact you want to limit to plain text and check the "Send using plain text" box. Then click "Save and Close". The down side to this m

Re: [techtalk] mail format (was re: ftp for non users)

1999-11-29 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:33:14 -, "Lindsay Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I was out of memory or system resources! This is on a machine with >132MB of RAM and 3GB free HD space and just after a reboot! Don't you >just love how compatible Microsoft's applications are with their own >OS?> T

[techtalk] KVM Switchen?

1999-11-29 Thread Ian Hall-Beyer
Do any of y'all have any recommendations for KVM matrix switches? I'm currently looking at products from NTI and Raritan, wondering if anyone has had good/bad experiences with them, or any other manufacturers you'd recommend. I'm primarily looking for the ability to control Sun boxes, as well as

re: Re: [techtalk] No HTML/RTF messages, please!

1999-11-29 Thread Marlene E. Morley
On 28 Nov 1999 Steve wrote: >Ask first!! Then if person accepts, then send HTML. I can read it and I >WANT IT!! This is especially important to friend invitations. I want >HTML. Plain Text is a pain. Just ask first, and if they say yes. Let's stop >trying to force nettiqueete down people's throat

Re: [techtalk] mail format (was re: ftp for non users)

1999-11-29 Thread Chris J/#6
> This is hardly technical...but...it borders on rule-boundedness to me. > But still not that close to be unbearable. So either I mistimed > majordomo or it didn't go thru. So I am still here. And I will probably > always be leftie anti-authoritarian me. Same as you will be you. I spent > too mu

Re: [techtalk] No HTML/RTF messages, please!

1999-11-29 Thread Steve Kudlak
"Marlene E. Morley" wrote: > On 28 Nov 1999 Steve wrote: > >Ask first!! Then if person accepts, then send HTML. I can read it and I > >WANT IT!! This is especially important to friend invitations. I want > >HTML. Plain Text is a pain. Just ask first, and if they say yes. Let's stop > >trying t

Re: [techtalk] No HTML/RTF messages, please!

1999-11-29 Thread Mike & Mary Anne Cox
Steve, Take a time out and come back when you're feeling better Mary Anne (who is sick and tired of your childish behavior) >i am sorry I don't want to argue about these things. A Nifty thing you >could tell >me is how to get NEtscape to turn plaintext into HTML, so I can respond to >friendsh

Re: [techtalk] HTML (and CDROM question)

1999-11-29 Thread Conrad Golightly
> and nothing. A pointer would be helpful. NO! I wouldn't send you orange messages > unless you said: "Yes Go ahead!!!" > > Have Fun, > Sends Steve Then do enlighten us as to why you insist on sending HTML email to a mailing list which will hit the mailboxes of potentially hundreds of people, per

Re: [techtalk] No HTML/RTF messages, please!

1999-11-29 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 05:55:06PM -0500 or thereabouts, Steve Kudlak wrote: > > On 28 Nov 1999 Steve wrote: > > >Ask first!! Then if person accepts, then send HTML. I can read it and > > >I WANT IT!! This is especially important to friend invitations. I want > > >HTML. Plain Text is a pain. St

Re: [techtalk] No HTML/RTF messages, please!

1999-11-29 Thread jenn
Steve Kudlak wrote: > > I am sorry I don't want to argue about these things. A Nifty thing you could tell > me is how to get NEtscape to turn plaintext into HTML, so I can respond to > friendship invitations. I thought it could and I double checked here and there > and nothing. A pointer would be

Re: [techtalk] No HTML/RTF messages, please!

1999-11-29 Thread Steve Kudlak
Mike & Mary Anne Cox wrote: > Steve, > > Take a time out and come back when you're feeling better > > Mary Anne > (who is sick and tired of your childish behavior) > > >i am sorry I don't want to argue about these things. A Nifty thing you > >could tell > >me is how to get NEtscape to turn plai

Re: [techtalk] No HTML/RTF messages, please!

1999-11-29 Thread Steve Kudlak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Steve Kudlak wrote: > > > > I am sorry I don't want to argue about these things. A Nifty thing you could tell > > me is how to get NEtscape to turn plaintext into HTML, so I can respond to > > friendship invitations. I thought it could and I double checked here and th

Re: [techtalk] No HTML/RTF messages, please!

1999-11-29 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 07:14:44PM -0500 or thereabouts, Steve Kudlak wrote: ^ > Mike & Mary Anne Cox wrote: > > > Steve, > > > > Take a time out and come back when you're feeling better > > > > Mary Anne > > (who is sick and tired of your childish behavior

[techtalk] Some meta-stuff (at least partly tech :))

1999-11-29 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 01:00:23AM + or thereabouts, Telsa Gwynne wrote: [blah] ...I did. And being an idiot, and about to go to bed, I hit the wrong thing, and the default of Reply-To being set to the list bit me. Luckily. it wasn't _too_ unfortunate. (And I am constantly singing the praise

Re: [techtalk] mail format (was re: ftp for non users)

1999-11-29 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
Hi, > > Excuse me but am I the only one having problems viewing the mails. I use > >Mutt and most emails I received are in HTML format. Can something be > >done (like we standardized on non-HTML emails) or is HTML emails the norm > >here? > > > > You are not the first to have complained of this

Re: [techtalk] mail format (was re: ftp for non users)

1999-11-29 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
Cathy James wrote: > I'm using Outlook, not Outlook Express. > > I did find a switch somewhere that purported > to turn off formatting, but it doesn't work correctly. > What do you expect from an MS product? > > The solution I eventually came up with was > to create a new

Re: [techtalk] Re: meta-stuff

1999-11-29 Thread coder
Deb Richardson wrote: > ... > I would like to know what people think about this. Sounds good to me. -- .oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo.oO()Oo. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://CubicMeterCrystal.com/ "You are the product of a mutational union of ~640Mbytes of gene

[techtalk] Re: CDROM question

1999-11-29 Thread Alain Toussaint
> On another subject, is there any reason why my Mitsumi FX240 should have any > problems ripping digital audio from the discs? I get all kinds of ioctl > errors reading from the device; I'm beginning to think that my cd-rom drive > hates me (or at least hates digital extraction.) umm...sometime

[techtalk] Re: FAQ creation

1999-11-29 Thread Deb Richardson
Another cross-posting since this is relevant to all three lists...again, apologies to folks who get this multiple times. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm volunteering to start a FAQ for the lists. I won't necessarily start > it right away, or post it right away. Understandable :) I'm hip-deep in

[techtalk] Re: meta-stuff

1999-11-29 Thread Deb Richardson
Note: I'm crossposting this to grrltalk, issues, and techtalk because telsa brings up some important points which could have an effect on all these lists. Apologies to everyone who gets this message more than once. Telsa Gwynne wrote: > But since this is techtalk, and since we seem to be discu