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[OT] Usenet Idiots 6 23 (4/21/2010 7:56:42 PM) comp.os.linux.networking Why are there so many idiots on the Usenet who think everyone has to argue with them endlessly if they feel like it? I said what I have to say on the NTP subject. If anyone disagerees, I couldn't care less. ... Sidney

Bash Commandline Overwrites Itself 14 57 (3/13/2010 5:28:34 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I recently installed a new linux and this was driving me nuts, so I figured someone else might be having the same problem and would appreciate the solution. When I'd type or cut&paste a long command on the com... Sidney

The GDEs (Graphical Desktop Environments) 40 36 (9/27/2009 5:07:31 AM) comp.os.linux.misc The GDEs (Graphical Desktop Environments) are massive (about twice the size of a fully graphical Linux OS) suites of graphical applications and utilities and scripts that required hundreds of thousands of hour... Evergreen

Re: Improved Menu Script References: 6 32 (9/27/2009 1:22:27 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Sidney Lambe wrote: [delete] "TJ" is it? Why do all these names we have never seen before show up when I post something? The answer is simple: Most of them are the sockpuppets of a headsick troll who is ju... Sidney

Sed One-Liners 25 73 (9/26/2009 10:14:38 PM) comp.lang.awk An amazing number of nix experts are involved with sed, including the folks at GNU and sourceforge and OREILLY, who published "Sed & Awk". But Ed Morton doesn't like it and therefore no one can use it. Just a... Sidney

Improved Menu Script 89 44 (9/23/2009 1:22:52 PM) comp.os.linux.misc First off, I'd like to tell Chris F.A. Johnson, the technocratic bully who drops by here now and then to tell people who aren't experts like he is that they are idiots who shouldn't be shellscripting: If you d... Sidney

Tower of Babel II 13 59 (8/22/2009 7:43:36 PM) comp.os.linux.misc (The idiot trolls think they can bury my articles in their digital diarrhea. They are mistaken.) Not so very long ago (take a look at "Running Linux" from as recently as a few years ago) Linux was taught from ... Sidney

[OT] Thanks to Nathan 23 30 (8/21/2009 10:23:35 PM) comp.os.linux.misc [delete] I'd like to thank "Nathan Keel". He does a wonderful job of pointing out his fellow losers for me, so that I don't even have to read one of their articles. All I have to do is notice that someone ... Sidney

Tower of Babel 34 48 (8/20/2009 9:09:46 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Not so very long ago (take a look at "Running Linux" from as recently as a few years ago) Linux was taught from the command line. The only real difference between distros was their package managers and minor v... Sidney

Demystifying Package Managers I 17 43 (8/16/2009 9:53:00 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Get thee to a terminal. We want to install tree, a nifty utility that displays the contents of directories in a graphical, tree-like format. We've found it a debian.org starting here: http://www.debian.org/... Sidney

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Why is debian SO awkward ? 111 52 (9/28/2009 2:25:30 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Since it was my isp telling me that I'd have to buy W95, because Win3.1 couldn't do-it, that started me on linux, that shows how many years I've been using it. IIRC slak-3 was my first. Now rh6.2, Mandrk9, FC1... no.top.post (346)

Alpine email client and yahoo 3 91 (11/8/2009 1:02:09 PM) comp.os.linux.misc how am i to configure Alpine email client to use my yahoo mail account? i have configured one gmail account using 'CollectionLists' and 'Rules' in Alpine. ... bikram.barthakur (1)

zip files 3 43 (2/18/2010 12:02:13 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I have strange goings on. I have downloaded zip file containing several PDF files . If I click on the file it unzips in its own window (normal behaviour) and shows several PDF files of various length. If I ... faeychild1 (23)

Bash Commandline Overwrites Itself 14 57 (3/13/2010 5:28:34 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I recently installed a new linux and this was driving me nuts, so I figured someone else might be having the same problem and would appreciate the solution. When I'd type or cut&paste a long command on the com... sidneylambe (322)

who maintains the man pages? 40 57 (3/15/2010 4:02:19 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi All, Who maintains the "man" pages? The author of the program or somewhere/someone else? -T ... todd1749 (255)

Any open source console mode accounts packages available for Linux? 21 52 (3/19/2010 11:08:02 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Does anyone know if there are any open source console mode accounts packages available for Linux? Mark. -- Mark Hobley Linux User: #370818 http://markhobley.yi.org/ ... markhobley550 (897)

Downloading andLinux 8 15 (3/23/2010 12:48:58 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I wish to download andLinux from http://sourceforge.net/projects/andlinux/files/andlinux/Beta%202/andlinux-beta2-kde.exe/download. It is about 563MB in size and I only have an unreliable dial-up connection*... frederick.williams2 (82)

bonding with two switches 12 16 (3/25/2010 1:26:11 PM) comp.os.linux.networking Hello, is it possible to activate bonding with the two NICs of a server connected to two different switches ? Are there special protocols the switch must support to let me do this ? Is there documentation o... Andreas

ntp problems 47 23 (4/19/2010 3:24:19 PM) comp.os.linux.networking Hi, Using Debian Lenny, default install of ntp on several servers. The only change applied on most servers is to add a line to a nearby startum 2 server. Somehow is looks as if the ntp server is running ok but... bbloksma (10)

[OT] Usenet Idiots 6 23 (4/21/2010 7:56:42 PM) comp.os.linux.networking Why are there so many idiots on the Usenet who think everyone has to argue with them endlessly if they feel like it? I said what I have to say on the NTP subject. If anyone disagerees, I couldn't care less. ... sidneylambe (322)