Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fergus Wilde wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 June 2004 15:14, jfweber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > *** Reply to message from Örn Hansen <orn.hansen@xxxxxxxxxx> on Tue, 8
> > Jun 2004 14:14:31 +0200***
> >
> >    
> >
> > > > 2) 3)    No pbm here
> > > >        
> > >  Ditto
> > >      
> > okay, I am now officially and idiot and would put on me dunce cap if
> > that damned Gnome would bring it back and wear something else on 'is
> > travels...
> > WTflock is pbm? To me it means Polarbar mailer, and that is obviously
> > not what you are talking about.
> >    
>
> PBM = portable bug module, man or info pbm should get you started.  See also 
> man pbmd for running it as a daemon so that other machines can connect and be 
> supplied with bugs remotely (/usr/sbin/pbmd).  It listens on port 10877, but 
> is nearly deaf and machines attempting to connect need to 'shout' by sending 
> SYN in the biggest possible font.
> HTH
> Fergus
>
>  
Unfortunate that, I've always had pbm (Portable BitMap) installed on 
Linux since the mid-90's at least, it is a collection of graphical 
format convertors, so says man pbm and info pbm this minute, they could 
have used a different name. It's like the confusion caused when you 
click on a .rpm download file and it opens realplay, RedHat were aware 
of that or should have been and done .rhpm, .rhp or .rhm instead. 
Sometimes you wonder why they try to occupy another bird's nest, like 
issuing mozilla firebird, though firebird was well established as a 
database package, thankfully they changed the name to firefox. They 
wouldn't have called evolution outlook as that would have incurred the 
wrath of Redmond, far more severely than when they stamped on KDE for 
using "Where do you want to go tomorrow".
Regards
Sid.

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