[techtalk] vm?!?

2000-02-22 Thread Tami Friedman
I miss vm terribly! It was installed at GNU (yes, I know rms doesn't support it) but it is *MUCH* better than rmail and I am dying in elm. Where can I get the sources? I want it on my home system! .Tami .signature: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: [techtalk] Differences between linux distributions

2000-02-22 Thread Beverly Guillermo
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey Beverly, > What I meant by that (paths) was the proposed FSSTND. RH even publishes > it in their manuals and then deviates from it. It is a matter of personal > choice and from that vantage point I can understand. However, what keeps > poeple f

Re: [techtalk] Differences between linux distributions

2000-02-22 Thread Beverly Guillermo
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Dan Nguyen wrote: > The "standard" way of doing it is to have the distribution install > everything in /usr, while leaving it up to the user to install stuff > in /usr/local I believe there is a way to change the installation directory using a RPM option, is there not? If n

Re: [techtalk] A good intro textbook for Linux

2000-02-22 Thread Emily Cartier
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 15:39:58 -0800 (PST) Raven Damask <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The O'Reilly intro series are too basic (I was > pretty disappointed in their book on learning Debian, > which is a first for me and O'Reilly), and "Running > Linux" is too in-depth for this class, and presumes

Re: [techtalk] vm?!?

2000-02-22 Thread Phil V Savoie
Here you Tami, ask and ye shall receive. http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/ Phil At 05:48 22/02/00 -0500, you wrote: >I miss vm terribly! It was installed at GNU (yes, I know rms doesn't >support it) but it is *MUCH* better than rmail and I am dying in elm. >Where can I get the sources? I want

Re: [techtalk] Lisp (was: X Mail client recommendations)

2000-02-22 Thread Steve Kudlak
Samantha Atkins wrote: > Kelly Lynn Martin wrote: > > > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 16:58:14 +1100, "Jenn V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > >Correct me if I'm wrong, but 'you don't know of any Lisp > > >documentation besides what's in the Emacs distribution'? Are those > > >the missing adjectives

[techtalk] Drag 'n Drop recommendations

2000-02-22 Thread Robert Kiesling
I'm implementing an app that uses drag 'n drop from the X window manager. Does anyone have a preferred (and hopefully non-window- manager-specific) method for this? Thanks. bob -- stop http://www.mainmatter.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] vm?!?

2000-02-22 Thread Robert Kiesling
> I miss vm terribly! It was installed at GNU (yes, I know rms doesn't > support it) but it is *MUCH* better than rmail and I am dying in elm. > Where can I get the sources? I want it on my home system! > > ..Tami > .signature: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected I'm not sure why RMS didn

Re: [techtalk] A good intro textbook for Linux

2000-02-22 Thread Chris Hargens
Well Raven, if you would like a students opinion. My college teaches it's Linux class with Mark G. Sobell's(www.sobell.com) "A Practical Guide to Linux". Our teacher who chose it was an Administrator for Sun, but decided to start teaching for a slightly slower paced job. Even though I h

Re: [techtalk] vm?!?

2000-02-22 Thread Rik Hemsley
Not surprised you want to switch clients. Yours seems to be stuck in the past... > Date: Tue, 22 Feb 100 05:48:06 -0500 (EST) BTW, not only is that wrong, it's also illegal :( According to RFC822, the year part of a dates must be 2 digits (clever people wrote that one, eh ?) - but these days

[techtalk] Mandrake NFS install

2000-02-22 Thread J B
Ok...a friend is doing her first install on a Pentium Pro 200. She had a CD of Mandrake 6.5, but the burn was not good, so she FTP'd 7.0. Any suggestions as to how to do the NFS install (this is on a big, fast network (fiber backbone, 3Com NIC), so bandwidth will not be a problemJust need

Re: [techtalk] Differences between linux distributions

2000-02-22 Thread Dan Nguyen
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 07:54:05AM -0500, Beverly Guillermo wrote: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Dan Nguyen wrote: > > > The "standard" way of doing it is to have the distribution install > > everything in /usr, while leaving it up to the user to install stuff > > in /usr/local > > I believe there is a

Re: [techtalk] Drag 'n Drop recommendations

2000-02-22 Thread Rik Hemsley
#if Robert Kiesling > > I'm implementing an app that uses drag 'n drop from the X window > manager. Does anyone have a preferred (and hopefully non-window- > manager-specific) method for this? Thanks. bob XDnD - everything else is obsolete. Rik -- Watch your critical gaze slide into iron

Re: [techtalk] Mandrake NFS install

2000-02-22 Thread Phil V Savoie
Hi, Off the CD in the images dir you could rawrite the network.img to floppy and do it that way -- real easy just follow the prompts or go to : ftp://ftp.linux.tucows.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake/7.0/images/ and reteive it that way. hth, Phil At 16:21 22/02/00 +, you wrote: >

Re: [techtalk] A good intro textbook for Linux

2000-02-22 Thread Raven Damask
Heya -- > So, since I appear to be confused, what exactly are > you looking for in a Linux book? "Running Linux" is what I keep by my desk. I have nothing against the book at all; it's tremendously helpful. What I'm looking for is something that I can teach from in a systematic fashion. "

Re: [techtalk] Drag 'n Drop recommendations

2000-02-22 Thread Robert Kiesling
> XDnD - everything else is obsolete. Thanks, that looks like a good place to start. -- stop http://www.mainmatter.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Mandrake NFS install

2000-02-22 Thread Jeff
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 04:21:28PM +, J B wrote: > Ok...a friend is doing her first install on a Pentium Pro 200. She had a CD > of Mandrake 6.5, but the burn was not good, so she FTP'd 7.0. > > Any suggestions as to how to do the NFS install (this is on a big, fast > network (fiber backbo

Re: [techtalk] Mandrake NFS install

2000-02-22 Thread Rik Hemsley
#if J B > Any suggestions as to how to do the NFS install [...] Add the path to the mounted cdrom to /etc/exports on the server. Remember what it's called. Go to client, boot from installation floppy, tell it to install via NFS. Fill in IP and directory name. Boom ! Rik -- Integrate globally

[techtalk] Hmmm...

2000-02-22 Thread lady crowe
I'm a little new to the whole concept of linux etc. and I was wondering if it's always this overwhelming when trying to learn more about it through online communities? I'd post this question on the grrltalk mailing list, but I can't handle all of the emails from both that mailing list and this

Re: [techtalk] Hmmm...

2000-02-22 Thread Jeramia Ory
> I'm a little new to the whole concept of linux etc. and I was wondering if > it's always this overwhelming when trying to learn more about it through > online communities? I'd say as a rule, yes. No matter how much a list is aimed at the new user, a "newbie" is going to read most posts and

Re: [techtalk] Hmmm...

2000-02-22 Thread moebius
Hey Ann, It's like anything that's new. It always seems overwhelming at first, then you get the hang of out and BAM! it's as easy as pie. Harry Hoffman Product Systems Specialist Restaurants Unlimited Inc. 206.634.3082 x. 270 On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, lady crowe wrote: > I'm a little new to the wh