At 05:26 AM 2/10/00 -0600, you wrote:
Agree wholeheartedly with Vic. Windows is "glitzier" than Linux, at least
for now, but
stability is the "driver" for me.
Unfortunately, there do seem to be ease-of-use issues with Linux, X, and
KDE. A few K apps have quirks/warts and a couple have actual
There are a lot of modems out there on the market that are not winmodems and
run less than $100. In fact, I just bought one, a Creative Blaster Flash
56K II, which is an ISA controller-based modem. All that was written in
bold letters on the box.essentially says to the user "this isn't a
I have burned two cd from two different downloads
using different programs to make sure it was dl'ed in binary.
both cd's error out in the same place I also
swapped out my key board.
I will try a different program to create the cd
tonight.
- Original Message -
From:
Dan
On Feb 08, Paul Derbyshire wrote:
C'mon, Paul, tell us what you *really* think -- don't sugar-coat it...
;-)
it's the fact that they're still using clunky DOS code in their operating
system that makes it suck.
Here are the problems.
major snippage
-Michael
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No, my friend, the way to
After a post saying, open /etc/hosts.deny, and comment out any unwanted
services, I did this and it worked fine. But I had to do a reinstall and I
again, I find my system open to services I don't want it to be :(
So, I opened /etc/hosts.deny but there are no services listed. Are there any
other
Hi
Please have someone VGA Rage Fury 128 32 MB. and
work thisVGA card with Linux Mandrake 6.1 or 7.0?
I install Mandrake 6.1 but Linux have problem with
this card no start X win.
" Cannot
start X server " " FATAL error "
Have someone instruction step by stepfor
configuration thisVGA card
Is there another html- or rich-text-capable email client for linux other
than netscape? I have a few pieces of mail I get that are fairly
graphical, like Infobeat news and Wired News, and would like to keep
getting them in that format. But netscape mail is increasingly
irritating and unstable.
I have installed it twice now, Once with out starting into x the other
with..either way i am not getting the kde going... at this point the kde
and gnome both installed, but I am new and not sure how to activate them
yet.
Chris
- Original Message -
From: Kit [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
Thank you to everyone who replied to my query.
It has been fixed using the -16bpp line entry in the XServers file.
Now my images are so clear and sharp. The quality is incredible!
thanks
regards
Gina
"Gina" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have got my graphics card setup now and Im using 1024x768.
Hi All,
I just bought and installed LM 7. I have played with several different
flavors of Linux and have had some sort of problems with them all. One
thing would work in one but not in another, but not all on the same
one, till now..It works (most of it, the important stuff
anyway).
my 1st q is: does anybody know what the default
password for logging into a linux svr running samba from win98, or where I could
write and what I would write as a script to have no password, or to change the
p/w to something I know?
alsodoes anybody know how to configure / use
WINE, I'm
I see that KMail can do C.C. to people...but is there a way for it to send
Blind C.C.
TIA
Jaguar
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I have a CD-R and running MDK 7.0. Please post what you did so I can try
setting my to work
Thank you
Foyah
-Original Message-
From: Richard Yevchak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 1:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Supermount for MDK
vi is probably more powerful than pico (as is emacs, my editor of choice),
you just have to know the right commands. Pico, in my experience is enough
for most, and best for newbies.
vi has two modes: command mode ("read only" mode), the function of which
is self explanatory and insert mode which
Yeah, I came to that same conclusion too. I downloaded the new libs and their
dependancies, but now kpackage refuses to uninstall my older version of cpp, so
I can install cpp-2.95.1-3. It's driving me crazy! I tried the uninstall
command, just to find out i don't have it. i've tried
G'day all
G'day all
I just attempted to install Mandrake 6.0 and keep getting General
Protection Fault and Kernel Panic messages. I'm using the CD to boot it on
a new AMD K6/2 450 MHz which I just had put together almost 2 weeks ago,
and it's been running Win98 with no problems.
Part way through the boot process
G'day all
Sorry about previous post, damn web-mailer.
Ok, I have installed Mandrake linux on a AMD K6-233 with a Ricoh CR-RW and a
Mitsubishi Diamond 24x CR-Rom.
The CDroms are master and slave on my second ide cable. These drives at the
moment can not be seen by Linux, yet the bios can see
Ok I have been trying to access the internet through linux-mandrake for the
last 2 days with no luck. I am using mandrake 7.0 and it refuses to
sense/find my nic. My nic is a 3com 3c509 ISA card. I disabled pnp and linux
still couldnt find it. I have messed with everything I can think of in linux
Daniel Boyd wrote:
hey,
ive just installed mandrake 6.5, and altho i set the resolution to 1280x 960
( i think).. i now have what seems to be 4 'screens' which i have to scroll
through... but its at what seems to be a paultry 640x480.. or mayb even
worse
can any1 tell me how to change
This is assuming you have an ide burner. It seems that during the install of LM
7.0 or the the first time I booted, the system recognized I had a CD-R. So it
must have set up the CD-R on "/dev/scd0". Try "cdrecord -scanbus" as root.
That should show that the systems sees your CD burner. If
Chris wrote:
I have installed it twice now, Once with out starting
into x the other
with..either way i am not getting the kde going... at this point
the kde
and gnome both installed, but I am new and not sure how to activate
them
yet.
After you login and are at the command prompt, if you type in
Following a recommendation I fired up Gnome in addition to KDE. Floppy and
CDROM won't mount under any user. Where do I change the authorizations for
root use and user level use of CDROM and Floppy? I hunted for GIMP, tried to
reinstall from CD, can't mount CD. Days later gave up and tried
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Will Trepanier wrote:
vi is one of those tools that you love to hate. The NGs are filled
with flames on the pros and cons.
It has a rather steep learning curve and is especially daunting
to newcomers, but if you are serious about learning *nix, it is a good
tool in
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, vishal bansal wrote:
Hi folks;
I am using linux mandrake 6.1. As a user I cannot write to files, but as a
root I can. How do I assign permissions for the users to do so?
As a general rule, users are only allowed to write to files within the
$HOME and subdirectories.
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel810/linuxsoftware.htm
I have the same chipset. Download either the rpm or the tar files. I used
the rpm files.
Follow the instructions in the readme file. Which basically has three steps
but it can be confusing.
If you get stuck let us know. I
A couple of days ago somebody posted an address to a page with
instructions on how to get out on the internet with Linux. I have lost that
link. Could you please post it again. Thank you. /Ian
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but vi is installed as default on nearly every *nix box, so if you learn
vi, your made. Its not that hard, I recommend The Vi Quick Reference from
O'Reilly.
Shouldn't be used by very new users though, as they will probably wreck
there machine :(
Fran
--
From: Paul Derbyshire
Rick N wrote:
I installed Linux without a problem and love it. But I have one
little problem with my ISA modem. I would like to run isapnp, but am
not too sure how to do it. I know I have to create a .conf file and
then edit it, but I am not sure of the command line I need, to create
the
use the chmod ??? [filename], or the chown [username] [filename], or chgrp
commands.
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From: vishal bansal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] FILE PERMISSIONS!
Date: 10 February 2000 22:43
Hi folks;
I am using linux mandrake 6.1. As a user I cannot write
WARNING
Extreme newbie present
WARNING
Greetings, just installed MDK on my machine and got everything working
except my soundcard (SB Awe 64 Gold). Tried running sndconfig and heard Linus
speaking and the MIDI song but after sndconfig was done i still didn't hear
What's happening is that X is using the SVGA driver and putting you in
640x480 or else using double scan. Try running XConfigurator to
re-detect your video and monitor. Sometimes even when a card is
supported it does this. Then you have to manually edit the
configuration file. What card
You
need to get XFree86 version 3.3.6 (it handles the new cards, including
Rage128)
www.XFree86.org
Kyle
-Original Message-From: George Houdek-Viskovska
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 1:26
PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Rage
Fury 128
On Wed, 19 Mar 2036, Jaguar wrote:
I see that KMail can do C.C. to people...but is there a way for it to send
Blind C.C.
TIA
Jaguar
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I don't believe it. I've been on this list for 4 hours and got the first piece
of Spam. Please tell me this isn't a regular occurance!
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/02/2000 05:52:38
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
"ChOPpY C. Chipper" wrote:
Hey, I JUST installed Liinux 7.0 - 2
FINALLY!
Been working on getting the damn thing to boot up w/o an LI error(argh!)
well, anyway, my problem is that I don't have any idea on how to do nearly
anything, manuals don't help much, because they don't explain how to
Have you gotten the OS to recognize your sound card? This is a possible
cause for the error you got (I had the same problem a while back).
Run 'sndconfig' (I think that's the correct command) to configure your
soundcard.
DvB
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Ingo Bauer wrote:
Good afternoon all
I
Hi I just got Linux Mandrake 7.0 and install it. Everything went fine,
but... It didn't auto configure my IDE Zip that used to work perfect under
Windows 95, Linux Red Hat 5.2 and Linux Red Hat 6.1.
When Mandrake is loading it recognizes de IDE ZIp it sees it at hdd, (as
Linux Red Hat 5.2 and
Ron Sinclair wrote:
I believe what is being refered to is a MacMillian version with extra pdf
versions of some linux books on a third cdrom. for some reason it has the
moniker 6.5 on the box but seems to be 6.1 in actuality.
This message is composed and delivered with an MSFreeCE (
I've install mandrake 7.0 a couple of times. The install seems to go smooth.
However, after boot up I get a generic graphical login box with a desktop
background(without icons blank light blue screen). When I log in two console
screens appear.
I can't seem to get the window manager desktop. I
Hi David ;
It worked well before I changed some settings on /dev/mixer* . I am using OSS. so
running sndconfig will not really help me thank you for your suggestion though.
Ingo
-Original Message-
From: David van Balen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000
There's a site you can go to set up SB Live! It's worth a shot.
http://www.whitem.demon.co.uk/sblive.html
Good Luck,
weirhere
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 6:14 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been playing with 6.1 for about 2 months now, and I'm enjoying myself
immensely. However, since building myself an SMP machine I've had to change my
soundcard from an Ensoniq to a Soundblaster Live! The Ensoniq was happily
supported under 6.1 and a call to
Welcome to the internet... no, it doesn't happen very often on this list
(at least not that I've noticed).
DvB
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't believe it. I've been on this list for 4 hours and got the first piece
of Spam. Please tell me this isn't a regular
Thanks for that - I had a bit of a search around and found a very helpful site
at http://www.linuxnewbie.org which has a section on how to get the SB Live!
working with Linux. I'm at work at the moment, but I've sent the necessary files
to myself back at home, where I'll no doubt be having fun
Typically, found a link about 20 minutes after posting the question. I've got my
EMU drivers now, and will be doing the install tonight. I only put the card in
on Wednesday, so I've not had much of a chance to experiment with it under
Linux.
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
I have mandrake 6.1 and during bootup, it appears to recognize my LS-120 as
a second floppie(even though it's an IDE interface), but I cazn't seem to
mount it or even find it. Does anyone out there know about this??
Troy Weir - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am also having the same problem. OSS is part of the package and
recognizes the card (ES1371). Still no sound. I tried sndconfig but to no
avail. Is there a way to edit the config done by OSS?
Troy Weir - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Original Message-
From: Ingo Bauer [mailto:[EMAIL
McMillan simply repackages Mandrake and gives it their own revision level.
They do not concider themselves a flavor of linux just a reseller.
From what I remeber they offer a bunch of Sam's Books on the CD Such as
the $22 KDE book I bought...
They also offer help through Linuxcare
What are some of the ways you can get back at this idiot?
Seve
-Original Message-
From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday, February 11, 2000 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Financial Freedom and Success
Welcome to the internet...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for that - I had a bit of a search around and found a very helpful site
at http://www.linuxnewbie.org which has a section on how to get the SB Live!
working with Linux. I'm at work at the moment, but I've sent the necessary files
to myself back at home, where
I have an old 486-100 Laptop that I would like t oload linux-mandrake
7.0 on.
Problem is that I don't have a cd-rom for it. Is there a easy way to do
this ?
Thanks
Jeff
I've been playing with 6.1 for about 2 months now,
and I'm enjoying myself
immensely. However, since building myself an SMP
machine I've had to change my
soundcard from an Ensoniq to a Soundblaster Live!
The Ensoniq was happily
supported under 6.1 and a call to 'sndconfig' sorted
McMillan simply repackages Mandrake and gives it
their own revision level.They do not concider themselves a flavor of
linux just a reseller.From what I remeber they offer a bunch
of Sam's Books on the CD Such asthe $22 KDE book I
bought...They also offer help through Linuxcare
Sevatio Octavio wrote:
What are some of the ways you can get back at this idiot?
Seve
snip
Welcome to the internet... no, it doesn't happen very often on this list
(at least not that I've noticed).
DvB
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't believe
jeff wrote:
I have an old 486-100 Laptop that I would like t oload linux-mandrake
7.0 on.
Problem is that I don't have a cd-rom for it. Is there a easy way to do
this ?
Thanks
Jeff
Mandrake does not run on a 486. hasn't since pre 6.0 I believe
--
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Senior Designer /
Steveit's actually supported under both. There's a
(included at the last minute) driver on your 6.1 cd in the
/mnt/cdrom/apps/X-Rage128/ directory. Version 7 should detect
and install your rage 128 based card pretty much automagically.
Alan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been playing
I've install mandrake 7.0 a couple of times. The install seems to go smooth.
However, after boot up I get a generic graphical login box with a desktop
background(without icons blank light blue screen). When I log in two console
screens appear.
I can't seem to get the window manager desktop. I
I have a feeling that someone who used to be on this list signed us
up to receive this spam. To bad we couldnt find out who that person is
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, you wrote:
What are some of the ways you can get back at this idiot?
Seve
-Original Message-
From: David van Balen
thanks for that help, but. when i tried it, it only came back to say that it
was already installed, but whenever i try and add some other packages who's
dependancies require cpp 2.95.1-3, it still shows it as unsatisfied.
On Fri,
11 Feb 2000, Family ZOMBIE wrote: Hi!
Try to update
I know there is a way to do this but I can't find it. I'd like to be
able to use the old text installer for the new MDK 7.0-2. Where the
heck is it?
Presumably there is an "install the whole doggone thing" option there
somewhere. I did a EXPERT / NORMAL install on the most recent machine
and
Well, if it were a real address you could mail bomb him. However, it looks
to me like he/she used a relay server (which anyone with an iq over 0
would do) so there probably isn't much you can do... it's probably the
same person(s) sending all the spam to this list for all I know.
DvB
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On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Well, if it were a real address you could mail bomb him. However, it looks
to me like he/she used a relay server (which anyone with an iq over 0
would do) so there probably isn't much you can do... it's probably the
same person(s) sending all the spam to this
Daniel Boyd wrote:
What's happening is that X is using the SVGA driver and putting you in
640x480 or else using double scan. Try running XConfigurator to
re-detect your video and monitor. Sometimes even when a card is
supported it does this. Then you have to manually edit the
Go to the linux-mandrake.com page for mailing lists, then unsubscribe
newbie with your old address and subscribe with your new address.
Brian E Popp wrote:
Hello -
I'm new at this, having worked on mainframes for years, but would like
to switch to Linux probably for the same reasons
I did a couple of re-boots and it worked ok, I noticed that too,m
after the sound is set up one needs to do a re-boot, I know,
shoulkd not have to do that in Linux, but after its all setup,
it should work.
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Ralf Andersson mewed:
WARNING
Extreme newbie present
Oh go eat your own boogers and sniff your stinky armpits you stupid spammer
On Wed, 31 Dec 1969, [EMAIL PROTECTED] vomited into thier own soup:
If you have reached the point in your life where you
are ready to have Financial Freedom and a Real
Opportunity to Retire in 2-3 years, we would like
- Original Message -
From:
ChOPpY C.
Chipper
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 10:03
AM
Subject: [newbie] WINE / Samba
Question!
my 1st q is: does anybody know what the default
password for logging into a linux svr running samba
Trace his headers, well mandrake might have to do that from
thier mail servers, then complain to his upstream isp.
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Sevatio Octavio mewed:
What are some of the ways you can get back at this idiot?
Seve
-Original Message-
From: David van Balen [EMAIL
I think another way to discoourtage spammers is to let them know
that we have no intention of giving them any money
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, hugh mewed:
I have a feeling that someone who used to be on this list signed us
up to receive this spam. To bad we couldnt find out who that person is
you cant run 7.0 well on a 486, it's made for pentiums, and I hear you need
at least a 233 for it to run somewhat ok!
^^
Jim Garner
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(running mandrake 6.1/win 98)
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Title: RE: [newbie] Laptop
You are correct that it will run bad on a 486 if at all. I however run it on Pentium Pro 200 with 96 MB of ram and it runs apps almost as fast as my 500 Mhz running Winblows 98 SE.
-Original Message-
From: Jim Garner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday,
Hello Ms Beck -
Thank you. It worked.
Regards, Brian
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Brian E Popp wrote:
Hello -
I'm
unsubscribenewbie
is there a mandrake version that will run decent on a 486?
or should I stick to redhat 5.x
I am running 7.0 on a p120 with 64 megs and it runs great. Only slightly
slower than my 500mhz/128meg Win98 machine. Granted I have a Adaptec 2940UW
card and 4 gig UW drive in the Linux machine. Wheee!
Cheers
Scott Petersen
Programmer/Analyst
Pangaea Systems
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250-360-0111
At 12:18 AM 2/11/00 +, you wrote:
After a post saying, open /etc/hosts.deny, and comment out any unwanted
services, I did this and it worked fine. But I had to do a reinstall and I
again, I find my system open to services I don't want it to be :(
So, I opened /etc/hosts.deny but there are no
At 04:02 PM 2/11/00 +, you wrote:
I don't believe it. I've been on this list for 4 hours and got the first
piece
of Spam. Please tell me this isn't a regular occurance!
As a matter of fact it is not.
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- Original Message -
From: Ingo Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 5:12 AM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Rage Fury 128 32Mb.
Good morning George;
Check out this site
You just enter this All : All to deny connections you wont find any
services in the file
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, you wrote:
At 12:18 AM 2/11/00 +, you wrote:
After a post saying, open /etc/hosts.deny, and comment out any unwanted
services, I did this and it worked fine. But I had to do a
"ChOPpY C. Chipper" wrote:
well, anyway, my problem is that I don't have any idea on how to do nearly
anything,
So my 1st task, is to try out the PPP dial-up, so I run KPPP from the KDE
desktop. when I hit connect it says "modem is busy". How do I go about
fixing this is my question,
I also have installed linux-mandrake twice and I can't get kde going
either. I have xterm and xconsole up but can't get kde to start. I
have re-read the installation guide and notice that at one point it
mentions selecting the components to install, when I have installed the
software I did not
Vic...I personally use www.dyndns.org...check it out...it's not bad
and it's free
Vic wrote:
Hi any one know of any decent re-router services for a guy on cablemodem
wanting to host a webserver?
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What could I have done to stop enlightenment not starting up on my Gnome
login?
And, how do I set it to start again? Or is it best just to create a new
login?
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subscribe newbie
I have been using Linux (Mandrake v7.0) only for about one week. I must
admit that it does have a steep learning curve and some difficulties in user
friendliness but I am more than happy with it than with Windows 98.
Whenever I use Windows, it crashes every couple of hours. I run memory
Signed New beleaver in MS windows
And your telling them to spell check their manual? How can you be so sure YOU
know how to spell. LOL.
Tom
O
Signed New beleaver in MS windows
Your telling them to spell check their manual? LOL.
Tom
Vincent Dickerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello;
First of all, When you ADVERTISE "free tech support" that means FREE.
not me having to pay for an internet connection.
Well how would you like to get support? An 800#? But why should you have to
pay for
1 year is USD24.95
2 years is USD39.95
Check out: www.tzo.com
Cheers
Scott Petersen
-Original Message-
From: Vic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 5:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Re-router
How much are their rates?
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000,
This is blatant flamebait and doesn't deserve any more of a response than
what I'm now giving it. Everyone please stop replying to it and let's get
back to answering people's real questions.
DvB
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Vincent Dickerson wrote:
Hello;
First of all, When you ADVERTISE "free
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Mama said not to feed the troll but...
First of all, When you ADVERTISE "free tech support" that means FREE.
not me having to pay for an internet connection. besides if i am in the
middle of patitioning my hard drive, How in the hell am i
surge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Signed New beleaver in MS windows
And your telling them to spell check their manual? How can you be so sure
YOU
know how to spell. LOL.
Tom
==
I think that's "YOU'RE" ;o)
Sorry, couldn't resist.8^)
Mike
Hello I am attempting to instal Linux mandrake onto a 486DX 100mghz. I
low level formatted both brains(c and D) and everything started out fine.
On little light number three, i got an error message that it can't open
/proc/bus/pci/devices. Now this computer had win3.1, win 95, and i even
had win
When the setup program is says it is resizing the
widows partion, is it just using the empty space for a new partion or does it
actual uninstall applications?
Thank you
evan
Dear friends:
Using Mandrake 6.1 and KDE.
I have a plain Micro Serial PS/2 mouse. It's relatively new. Bought it
a few months ago.
Here is what happens:
The mouse freezes or just plain disappears. I do a Cnt+Alt+Esc if the
mouse freezes (e.g. in Netscape). If it disappears, I do a
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