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Download Timeout, INBOX->LocalFolder 0 49 (5/7/2008 10:59:49 AM) comp.mail.pine I'm on dialup, and on rare occasions, I have correspondents who insist on sending multi-MB attachments. With MUAs like Kmail, the download from the server to local folders takes a while, understandably, but wit... Harold

Tom Newton Troll (Was: KDE Killed This Newsgroup) 5 49 (3/15/2008 8:14:51 PM) comp.os.linux.misc In Michael Heiming: [Snip...] > but please stop whining here In Kees Theunissen: [Snip...] > You only said it has been killed FWIW, you're wasting your time trolled by a repackaged known netkook: ... Harold

(OT) Nokia Buys Trolltech 49 31 (1/28/2008 11:15:37 AM) comp.os.linux.misc [Please note: FU set to colm...] IMO, yet another subtle signal that GPL/FOSS/Linux is a primetime player: Nokia said on Monday it would offer 16 crowns for each share in Norway's software firm, compare... Harold

SCOX Delisted On NASDAQ (Yahoo Busted Link) 1 35 (12/27/2007 12:17:13 PM) comp.unix.sco.misc Phrickin' Yahoo yahoos couldn't find their butt with both hands. Here's the original PRNewswire link (watch linewrap): http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY= /www/story/... Harold

SCOX Delisted On NASDAQ 0 35 (12/27/2007 11:24:08 AM) comp.unix.sco.misc On December 21, 2007, the Company received a letter from the Panel, informing the Company that the Panel had determined to delist the Company's securities from The Nasdaq Stock Market and will suspend ... Harold

(OT) US Patent Trolls Target Linux 14 33 (10/12/2007 10:32:26 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Wotta coinkydink... Monkey Boy gets another lawsuit-by-proxy again, now that SCOx is dead: Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat & Novell - Just Like Ballmer Predicted .... So in July on... Harold

(OT) SCOX Files Chapter 11 (Reorg) 40 37 (9/14/2007 7:44:11 PM) comp.os.linux.misc You nest of vipers: just die already willya? http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070914/laf040.html?.v=101 -- Regards, Weird (Harold Stevens) * IMPORTANT EMAIL INFO FOLLOWS * Pardon any bogus email addresses... Harold

(OT) SCO Told "Take A Hike" 7 30 (8/11/2007 10:50:55 AM) comp.os.linux.misc For those of you just joining us here, this phrickin' shakedown racket by Utah horse thieves has been enriching lawyers nearly five years now: SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled on Friday ... Harold

Re: Browser security under Linux 0 37 (7/28/2007 11:52:31 AM) comp.os.linux.misc In notbob: [Snip...] > I use firefox on a w98 box My condolences. But I suppose any port in a storm... :) > with all java/javascript disabled. It's remained clean, so far. Seriously, that's pretty rema... Harold

OT: Intel's "Turbo Memory" (NAND Flash)--Vista Only? 0 31 (6/20/2007 8:23:18 PM) comp.os.linux.hardware I don't even know why the USDOJ even pretends M$ pays attention anymore: Some analysts believe that Turbo Memory will fare better next year, as Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system (which Turbo Mem... Harold

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Did Debian's text console font change recently? How to get the old one back? 15 66 (10/1/2009 7:42:13 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Hello. On 9/24/2009 night, I had to reboot (shutdown -r now) my old Debian box after over 150 days of uptime due to a hard X crash (found out it was from Compiz crashing in KDE v3.5.10; see http://forum.compiz... ANTant (1294)

chroot = out of memory ? 20 57 (10/2/2009 1:57:15 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I can't afford to free-up my main-box: with 130MB RAM, running Mandrk 9, knl: 2.4*, but I want a 2.6 kernel installation, for geda, which seems to need it. So, I've punished myself with trying to [first taste]... no.top.post (346)

low level linux productivety 31 4 (10/10/2009 1:58:45 AM) comp.software-eng IIRC I've been using linux for several decades. From the beginning I made use of the visual file-manager: mc, so I didn't have to grovel with the intricacies of mv ...etc. Because someone gave me the 2009 ... no

Fortran vs. Octave/Matlab 25 82 (11/2/2009 10:49:32 AM) comp.lang.fortran Hi! Beside the advantage of higher speed of the programs - what are the features of Fotran which aren't available in interpreters like Octave/Matlab? I am using Matlab at the moment. Please make a good case ... florian.xaver (1)

printing from XP to Linux printer server 19 54 (1/29/2010 3:10:47 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Greetings - For the first time in 10+ years of using Linux, I decided to take one of my Linux machines (running CentOS 5.4) and configure it to be a print server, so that I can print from the net to it (typi... cooch17 (356)

OT New News Reader Sort Problems 19 40 (2/21/2010 4:17:51 PM) comp.lang.fortran I broke down and bought a supernews account just for reading comp.lang.fortran (since AT&T dropped it) and am now using Thunderbird as the news reader. Thunderbird doesn't sort by date correctly, it uses a ... garylscott (1357)

Where is Bluetooth installation coming from and how can I remove it from my old Debian box? 18 82 (2/23/2010 2:29:33 PM) comp.os.linux.networking Hello. I noticed my old Debian box, with Kernel v2.6.30-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Dec 4 00:53:20 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux, has Bluetooth installed and running. Is that part of the kernel or somewhere else? Dmesg c... Ant

How do I make resize my /'s /boot partition for more free disk space? 19 18 (2/25/2010 10:50:04 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Hello. My very old Debian/Linux workstation/desktop box (first installed it on 9/24/2004 and kept it updated daily and only had one reinstall (accidently ran fsck without unmounting a few years ago) -- s... Ant

HP Pavilion w/Nvidia chipset and an AMD quad-core fails to install with both 5.0.7 and 6.0 14 31 (3/8/2010 9:18:02 PM) comp.unix.sco.misc Hi all. FYI USB floppy, mouse and keyboard in use, no legacy floppy controller and no PS2 sockets onboard. 1st 300 GB is Windows 7 64 bit (shrunk down from the original size hogging the entire 750 GB). I n... patubb (104)

Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking 25 98 (3/22/2010 3:10:01 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://www.slideshare.net/yang/oct2009-2337610 "the operating system would no longer resemble the kernel mode of today's OSes, but rather act more like a hypervisor. A concept from virtualization, a hyperv... Mike