Re: [newbie] Switching from Postfix to Sendmail

2004-07-03 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 08:45:18PM +1000, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 20:34, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I just wanted to know the command line arguments that switched postfix as the default MTA to sendmail...and now I'm getting flamed... NUKE WA! The problem is that you are

Re: [newbie] Switching from Postfix to Sendmail

2004-07-03 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 04:38:26AM +1000, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 22:51, Todd Slater wrote: Need gmail? I wouldn't use that if it bit ya on the elbow. stephen kuhn - proprietor Starting from the premise that all webmail sucks, it's pretty good, the best I've seen. I'm

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed key bindings

2004-06-30 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:19:22AM +0100, RichardA wrote: I wanted a macro which would select a thread and then mark it read, but I don't see how to do that. In fact, although the manual explains how to change the key binding for a menu item, it doesn't seem to work. I right-click on a

Re: [newbie] ping Steven Kuhn: Gnome 2.6

2004-06-30 Thread Todd Slater
a long history of despising it; however, it's really come together nicely. Todd Todd Slater wrote: Just an FYI- I downloaded Slackware 10 to try since it comes with Gnome 2.6; after some head-scratching (I've only installed Mandrake) I got it installed and have Gnome as default environment

Re: [newbie] what is vcsa

2004-06-30 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 11:46:12PM -0400, Greg wrote: hi everyone i was going thru my list of users in the log in manager and found vcsa listed as a user i never made a user with that name any ideas on what it is and how it got there how do i get red of it thanks greg It's the

[newbie] firefox 0.9 moved my cheese

2004-06-27 Thread Todd Slater
The move to firefox 0.9 was a bad idea. I downloaded the .tar.gz from mozilla.org. Besides much of the UI and shortcuts being different, now my script to open links in a new tab if there's a running window is broken. In fact, I can't even get the -remote to work at all: it does not recognize that

Re: [newbie] Change Owner

2004-06-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 04:50:37PM +0300, EE wrote: How can I change an owner of drive, dir, or file chown user.group file man chown for more. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] firefox 0.9 moved my cheese

2004-06-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 10:53:41AM -0400, RickS wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 09:41:14 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The move to firefox 0.9 was a bad idea. I downloaded the .tar.gz from mozilla.org. Besides much of the UI

Re: [newbie] Mutt and Procmail...blah

2004-06-26 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 03:56:18PM -0500, Andrew Rice wrote: Hey guys, I am kind of new to this list but I was just curious who uses mutt and procmail because I cannot seem to get it to work the way I want it to with folders and such. I just want to have folders that all my newsletter and

[newbie] [OT] Tip: recovering data

2004-06-25 Thread Todd Slater
A coworker was upset because she thought she had transferred pictures from her digital camera (CF media) to a laptop and then formatted the CF card. Unfortunately, she did not transfer the pictures. I was sure there should be a way to retrieve the pictures using Linux, and after digging I found a

Re: [newbie] Uninstall

2004-06-20 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 06:52:59PM +0300, OOzy wrote: How to un-install a program using rpm or urpmi? http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=ISO-8859-1q=uninstall+program+rpm http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=ie=ISO-8859-1q=uninstall+program+urpmi Todd

Re: [newbie] clear and ls

2004-06-20 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 06:53:39PM +0300, OOzy wrote: How can I write two commands at the same time? For example, clear and ls. I would like to clear the screen before and I do ls? http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=ie=ISO-8859-1q=two+commands+one+line+bash

Re: [newbie] Font for Website

2004-06-19 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 06:40:35PM +0200, Cezary Morga wrote: Dnia sob 19. czerwca 2004 17:31, OOzy napisa?: The font in my websites is not as nice as it should. Is it because of my css? I use the following family: P { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:

Re: [newbie] Can't install/use WebDAV.

2004-06-18 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 03:30:27PM -0300, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi Todd, thank you for the answer... but look, On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 09:41:20AM -0300, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi guys. I trying to test Mozilla Calendar with WebDAV but I having some

Re: [newbie] Simple mail server

2004-06-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 03:40:45PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mark Annandale wrote: Hi Guys I recently moved from cable Internet to adsl and am about to lose the old cable suppliers smtp services. I have been pondering over setting myself up with a simple mail server, using my

[newbie] [OT] proxy for nntp?

2004-06-16 Thread Todd Slater
Is there any way to use a proxy, like one might for http, to get around the download limits imposed by a free news (nntp) server? Not that I would ever *do* anything like that, mind you, just curious if it was possible. Todd -- Name that tune #10: Now a very great man once said that some people

Re: [newbie] Can't install/use WebDAV.

2004-06-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 09:41:20AM -0300, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi guys. I trying to test Mozilla Calendar with WebDAV but I having some problems... I go to my Mandrake Control Center and I hit Mounted Points (I don't know exactly how to say it in english, because

[newbie] sound mixer for kde ISA card

2004-06-12 Thread Todd Slater
I'm trying to set up an old puter with MDK 10 Official (d/l) and in KDE I want to add the sound mixer. Since this is an older machine it's got an ISA soundblaster card; it works, but I can't find a mixer to use with it that I can access from, say, the KDE panel. I installed aumix but running it

Re: [newbie] Email Client

2004-06-10 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 11:42:42AM +0300, OOzy wrote: What is a good email client beside Evolution? Mutt is the best. Or as the author says, it sucks less. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw

2004-06-05 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 09:02:58AM +, Lee Wiggers wrote: I'm doing this but still wonder why anyone would want to watch a movie on a laptop. sigh It's for if you don't want to pay $7.95 for the lame hotel porn. Todd -- Zinn-Chomsky 2004

Re: [newbie] apes and flacs, I'm a dummy

2004-05-26 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:54:20AM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 25 May 2004 10:11 pm, Todd Slater wrote: ape is another lossless codec, and you can use it on Linux. From the homepage you have to visit the developers page I think and you can find the source or links to a binary

Re: [newbie] apes and flacs, I'm a dummy

2004-05-26 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 12:56:30PM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 26 May 2004 10:33 am, Todd Slater wrote: For ape what you want is mac, which will encode/decode apes. Todd I did the suggested edit to All.h, ie, enable #define BUILD_CROSS_PLATFORM but it still won't

Re: [newbie] apes and flacs, I'm a dummy

2004-05-26 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 12:58:54PM -0400, eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - On Tuesday 25 May 2004 10:11 pm, Todd Slater wrote: -- Name that tune #21: I live in the ghetto, you just come to visit me around election time. It's a Stevie Wonder tune. I think it's You

Re: [newbie] apes and flacs, I'm a dummy

2004-05-25 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 07:51:18PM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: in the dir the *.flac's are in. CD's produced from those (normalized wav's) files are impressive. So are the d/l size of flac files. Four or more times the size of correspondin mp3's. No wonder they sound better than store

Re: [newbie] MP3 Burning

2004-05-21 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 09:08:20PM +0100, Drew Martin wrote: Hello All, I have just got a CD/MP3 Disc player for the car.What I would like to know is if I burn a MP3 CD,using 3KB or some other burning tool,would it play on the car player? Yup. Todd -- Name that tune #1: Is

Re: [newbie] [Somewhat OT] Recursing in bash

2004-05-14 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:18:32PM +0300, robin wrote: I'm trying to write a bash script that will recurse through a directory, find Word files, then run antiword on them. Unfortunately, I'm stuck on the first stage, which is to get it to recognise a directory. I'd thought this would work

Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes

2004-05-14 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 02:01:46PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: On Sun, 9 May 2004 14:12:37 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 01:23 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: It's actually much easier to hear with earphones, which is the only way my wife will let me listen to

Re: [newbie] MS: It's the *users* fault

2004-05-10 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 09:32:51PM -0400, Carroll Grigsby wrote: If you had any guts, you'd post this to the expert list to see what Chris Fox has to say. Please avoid any political sigs; the right wingers seem to have taken control over there. -- cmg Wasn't it just a couple of people

[newbie] apache making me batty

2004-05-10 Thread Todd Slater
On a 9.1 box running highest level security with Apache 1.3. I'm trying to access the ~/username directory but keep getting 403 forbidden error. ~/public_html is readable by all ~/public_html/index.html is readable by all In /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf I have: Directory /home/*/public_html

Re: [newbie] apache making me batty

2004-05-10 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 03:27:10PM -0400, Todd Slater wrote: On a 9.1 box running highest level security with Apache 1.3. I'm trying to access the ~/username directory but keep getting 403 forbidden error. ~/public_html is readable by all ~/public_html/index.html is readable by all

Re: [newbie] More evidence of the superior intelligence of Canadians

2004-05-10 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 04:47:22PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: Microsoft Palladium: The world is a fearful place (because we allowed it to be by introducing vulnerable designs followed by clueless security initiatives) so let us fix it for you. --Cringely How bout this. Microsoft security: because

[newbie] Gnome 2.6?

2004-05-10 Thread Todd Slater
Anybody running Gnome 2.6? I tried it out on a livecd, gnoppix, and was greatly impressed by it--great ui, everything was where I expected it, great options for mime-types and such, the file manager was actually rather fast. The whole thing was fast, and that running off a cd. Todd -- Any

Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes

2004-05-09 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 10:12:50AM -0400, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 09:34 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 12:33:12PM -0400, Greg Meyer wrote: I have been playing around with various encoding techniques trying to hear what is removed from a wav file when

Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes

2004-05-09 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 08:44:25AM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 08 May 2004 03:03 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: -I'll give a prize to the first poster that can recognize the song I used by -listening to this.  I did compress it again to save bandwidth, but it won't -change your

Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes

2004-05-09 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 05:12:37PM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 04:01 pm, Todd Slater wrote: alt.binaries.sounds.ogg alt.binaries.sounds.lossless But shhh. Todd Damn. Masha Danki Todd!! Never occurred to me to search those terms (ogg, lossless

Re: [newbie] Change Ogg bitrate

2004-05-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 07:01:03PM -0400, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 05 May 2004 01:09 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: You can try the simple bash script I have attached. Just edit it to suite your needs. The way it is now is to produce a folder called converted with your re-encoded ogg's at

Re: [newbie] Xfce4-- running apps vanish

2004-05-04 Thread Todd Slater
Hi Marv, On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:06:53AM -0400, Marv Boyes wrote: I've been using Xfce4 near-exclusively for a couple of months now, and I've absolutely fallen in love with it-- coming from KDE, I feel like I've graduated, in a way. ;) Unfortunately, I've run into a serious problem in the

Re: [newbie] Happy May Day!

2004-05-01 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 02:15:23PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: Solidarnosc! (wife's Polish...) Thanks, to you and yours! And for my brainwashed compadres: http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/mayday.html http://www.powertech.no/anarchy/mayday.html

Re: [newbie] K3B

2004-04-30 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 07:02:06PM +0100, JRH wrote: Why oh why does K3B like to crash midway through burning an audio CD? It will burn data CD's all day long, with no problems. But, it will either crash at 50%, or just as it is beginnng to encode the final track. It has done this

Re: [newbie] Questions of XFce4

2004-04-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:58:58AM +0300, rhein wrote: Hello, I installed XFce4 last night... I don't know if I installed everithing because I downloaded packages untill the rpms installed without error message... :-[ It is a bit confusing the way rpms work! snip 2. My problem is the

Re: [newbie] For Opera lovers...

2004-04-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:47:11AM +0100, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 26 Apr 2004 23:40, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 11:25:18PM +0200, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Just discovered the new Opera 7.50 beta. Fastest browser this side of the universe. Completely new interface

Re: [newbie] For Opera lovers...

2004-04-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 11:59:51AM +0200, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 27 April 2004 00:40, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 11:25:18PM +0200, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Just discovered the new Opera 7.50 beta. Fastest browser this side of the universe. Completely new interface

Re: [newbie] For Opera lovers...

2004-04-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 09:04:34PM +0100, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 27 Apr 2004 20:13, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:47:11AM +0100, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 26 Apr 2004 23:40, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 11:25:18PM +0200, Kaj Haulrich wrote

Re: [newbie] Mozilla-firefox and its files

2004-04-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:47:00PM +0100, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi Finally decided to give firefox a try and am now totally stumpoed. I can't see anything in my home folder that suggests to me as being where firefox hids its fiules. I want basically to put a copy of my bookmarks

[newbie] using different kernel, moving files over network

2004-04-24 Thread Todd Slater
I'm trying to make my own livecd but I've got some embarassing gaps in my knowledge. I've never messed with my kernel, and Texstar recommends not using the default 9.2 kernel. So, I downloaded and installed the tmb kernel from contrib and installed via rpm -Uvh, edited lilo.conf to use the new

Re: [newbie] using different kernel, moving files over network

2004-04-24 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 04:56:42PM +0100, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 24 Apr 2004 14:26, Todd Slater wrote: I'm trying to make my own livecd but I've got some embarassing gaps in my knowledge. I've never messed with my kernel, and Texstar recommends not using the default 9.2 kernel

Re: [newbie] PHPGroupware

2004-04-24 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 09:06:25AM +1000, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 22:12, et wrote: I guess we could start at teh begining.. you are running Apache, aren't you? which version, since the setup is slighly different, and if apache 2, are you loading apache2-mod_php?

Re: [newbie] Copying FTP tree

2004-04-21 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 02:34:19PM +0800, Arys P. Deloso wrote: How do you get an exact copy of an FTP tree with ALL the permissions and time stamps preserved? I tried: 1. draksync BUT it gives up (does nothing) especially when the stuff gets big; AND 2. ncftp with recursive get but

Re: [newbie] Copying FTP tree

2004-04-21 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:10:27AM +0800, Arys P. Deloso wrote: Noong Thursday 22 April 2004 01:20, isinulat ni Todd Slater: On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 02:34:19PM +0800, Arys P. Deloso wrote: How do you get an exact copy of an FTP tree with ALL the permissions and time stamps preserved

Re: [newbie] XFCE4 - how do i find my system tray icon / minimized apps ?

2004-04-20 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:54:19PM -0500, mdk n00b wrote: how do i find my system tray icon / minimized apps ? i see the launcher at the bottom that starts with a terminal. no apps though. i discovered ctrl-tab would work but i was hoping for something more functional than that. also while

[newbie] cd burner all of a sudden stopped burning

2004-04-20 Thread Todd Slater
I tried to burn a cd using cdrecord and got the output below. Hints welcome, I've got to clean my HD! [EMAIL PROTECTED] beck]# cdrecord -v -audio -pad speed=4 dev=0,0,0 *.wav Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA scsidev: '0,0,0'

Re: [newbie] Damn Mozilla

2004-04-18 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 06:25:25PM +1000, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Ok - I forgot - can't remember - but it's really irking me; WHAT was the resolution for being able to get Mozilla to open up multiple instances - as per from Evo or whatever - and I used to know the damn resolution, but I reckon I'm

Re: [newbie] From KDE to Fluxbox

2004-04-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 08:44:28PM -0400, Marv Boyes wrote: [BTW, if you're suggesting menudrake as a means of getting command names to configure my xfce launchers, that's exactly what I'm doing. ;) ] The launchers in the panel are not intended to be an all encompassing menu system for

Re: [newbie] Weekly 'MS is evil' post

2004-04-14 Thread Todd Slater
Check out Mary Jo Foley's Microsoft Watch blog. It has RSS, too. http://www.microsoft-watch.com/ Todd On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 12:08:55AM -0400, JoeHill wrote: Okay, per'aps twice-weekly ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] From KDE to Fluxbox

2004-04-13 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 06:47:12PM -0400, Marc Resnick wrote: I'm in the process of switching from KDE to Fluxbox because frankly, KDE crashes on me way too much, and it really reminds me of Winblows. Anyway, I've got fluxbox up. I don't really want to use Mozilla-Thunderbird anymore, or

[newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

2004-04-10 Thread Todd Slater
Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Python Dependency Hell

2004-04-10 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 09:12:51PM +0100, J.I. Evers wrote: On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 07:15:17AM +, Job Evers wrote: I tried to build a package from source (since I could not find an rpms for pypanel) and it said I needed python-Xlib. Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Python Dependency Hell

2004-04-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 07:15:17AM +, Job Evers wrote: I tried to build a package from source (since I could not find an rpms for pypanel) and it said I needed python-Xlib. Mandrake doesn't have a python-Xlib package but I found one online. $ urpmi python-Xlib-0.12-2.noarch.rpm

Re: [newbie] rar compression software

2004-04-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 03:37:34AM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:29:28 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's probably just par or par2 (see http://parchive.sourceforge.net/) I don't know about guis cause I just use em on CL, too. I found par2, and I

Re: [newbie] IT/workplace Linux orientated books

2004-04-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 12:48:23AM -0500, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 05:34 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 11:17 am, Alexandre Dubois wrote: -Not sure what you are after, what is your current knowledge in IT in general -and Linux in particular.

Re: [newbie] Audio: Playing WMA (Windows Media Player) Files

2004-04-03 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 07:00:05PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: Content-Description: clearsigned data -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 03 April 2004 18:15, John Wilson wrote: On April 2, 2004 01:25 pm, Weiers Coetser wrote: Hi... Is there a way I can play the

Thread view in OE, was Re: [newbie] Audio: Playing WMA (Windows Media Player) Files

2004-04-03 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 11:49:19PM +0200, Weiers Coetser wrote: Apologies for Hi-jacking. I did not know. Now the question is how I set my computer to receive the e-mails in a threaded form. But I suppose nobody would be interested to explain how to do that in Outlook express, since I still

Re: [newbie] rar compression software

2004-03-29 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 10:57:40AM -0600, Tom Brinkman wrote: I could use a pointer to a rar tool that also uses pars to fill in missing parts. I use to have one, but foolishly forgot to save it during a Mandrake OS install. That's probably just par or par2 (see

[newbie] mod_dav has got me all discombobulated

2004-03-29 Thread Todd Slater
I'm trying to set up mod_dav so I can use and share calendars using Mozilla's calendar project. So far I have: * installed apache2-mod_dav * followed instructions in tutorials (http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/10825_2176771_1 and http://questier.com/howto.html#CAL) * tried to

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-28 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 06:22:33PM -0600, Chuck Mattsen wrote: I managed to get mine working, including the tagline/'fortune' ... I can still only use others' fortunes, however, as all attempts to compile my own via the strfile command have failed, yielding just one big file instead of

Re: [newbie] Okay, still on the subject of e-mail signatures... (random taglines)

2004-03-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 05:12:01AM +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: BTW, Todd, where the hell YOU been? Oh, I've been around, but I'm still running 9.2, and you know how it is when a new release comes out. That and my job sucks so I've been looking for a new one, and had to get ready for a

Re: [newbie] Okay, still on the subject of e-mail signatures... (random taglines)

2004-03-26 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:08:23AM -0600, Chuck Mattsen wrote: Any suggestions on random tagline generators? I see a number of them in a quick Google search (TaRT, gensig, and others), but any recommendations for one that is (A) simple to use (for a capital-N newbie) and maintain, while also

Re: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen

2004-03-24 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 04:57:15PM +, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Some windows are bigger than the screen, what causes problems with accessing the OK button. Is there any trick to overcome this difficulty? Thank you a lot in advance! It probably depends on your window manager, but try

Re: [newbie] xml and grep

2004-03-22 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:53:50PM +, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Help, I have my web limited by my company now, so I can't google till tomorrow. I need help with parsing an xml file. I need to cut out a fax number from the file. Easy enough I though just grep and cut the line, but the whole

Re: [newbie] .mpv + .mpa to .bin + .cue

2004-03-20 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:49:59PM -0500, JoeHill wrote: I used the mencvcd script to convert an animated movie that started out as a 700 MB DivX, but it ended up being over 1 GB when converted to .mpv and .mpa files. I believe it is mplex that the script uses to convert those two files

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-03-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 10:42:14AM -0500, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:20:02 -0500 JoeHill disseminated the following: I've never 'played' on the newsgroups before, I'd really have no idea what I was doing on there. ...for example, should I use my real e-mail address? Nope. As

[newbie] OT - iMP-350 price alert

2004-03-14 Thread Todd Slater
Related to the recent discussion of iRiver's cd-based players and ogg support, I was checking out ebay auctions and found the imp350 going for anywhere between $50 and $80. Then I checked amazon.com and found it for $99 with a $30 mail-in rebate, so a final price of $69 (shipping is free). Todd

Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver CD players

2004-03-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:50:50PM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 05 March 2004 07:31 pm, Todd Slater wrote: These do not support Ogg Vorbis yet. From tech support: Currently our CD based players do not support OGG file format. There is no ETA as to when this may be offered. I

Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver CD players

2004-03-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 10:37:38AM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:15 am, Todd Slater wrote: Proving once again that good help is hard to find! ;-) According to those pages, then, the cd-based players iMP250+ have the firmware upgrade, but it's beta and works

Re: [newbie] 2 Problems with my firefox navigator

2004-03-03 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 03:39:44AM -0500, Anand S Bisen wrote: IT has something to do with security too , two of my banking sites explicitly says that they dont support netscape/Mozilla and they only support IE as a matter of fact. I have installed IE using crossover just for my banking needs.

Re: [newbie] annoying administrator messages

2004-02-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:32:58PM -0800, John Wilson wrote: Content-Description: clearsigned data -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On February 25, 2004 01:01 pm, Todd Slater wrote: Is anybody else getting these messages from mmgc.com about Symantec finding suspicious

Re: [newbie] Fwd: [spam] Symantec Mail Security detected that you sent a message containing a suspicious attachment.

2004-02-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 03:24:58PM +0800, Anguo wrote: Hello, I just received a dozen messages like the one below. Using Kmail, and of course GNU/Linux exclusively, I don't know how my email could have been infected. Each message I received from Symantec/mmgc.com, deals with a

Re: [newbie] How to read windows CD?

2004-02-25 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 07:41:25PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: Content-Description: clearsigned data -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 February 2004 14:09, Mike Adolf wrote: Is there some trick to reading a CD written in Windose. I have a Liteon DVD+/-R CD+/-RW.

[newbie] annoying administrator messages

2004-02-25 Thread Todd Slater
Is anybody else getting these messages from mmgc.com about Symantec finding suspicious attachments to mail to the list? If the text footer is Symantec's idea of a suspicious attachment . . . Todd -- Reclaim the flag: http://www.pbs.org/now/commentary/moyers19.html Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Problem with firefox script execution...

2004-02-24 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:24:37PM -0500, Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, I created the firefox file to always opening my links in it. When I try from as root from a shell konsole to execute the script I get this [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# chmod 0755 /user/bin firefoxbugfix chmod: failed to

Re: [newbie] Problem with firefox script execution...

2004-02-24 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 06:50:05PM -0500, Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, Here is a snapshot of my directory with the folder... Do you have to put a space between 0755 and /user? Hop I can solve it because I can not open my links strait in firefox! Bye Christophe Argh, I gave you the answer

[newbie] OT - web host update

2004-02-22 Thread Todd Slater
A few weeks ago I wrote asking for recommendations for a web host because I have some special software needs that most hosts won't accommodate. (If I didn't say thanks for your response, here's a blanket thanks!) I just signed up with a company called RimuHosting (http://www.rimuhosting.com),

Re: [newbie] Problem with firefox

2004-02-22 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 07:18:50PM -0500, Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, I installed, with your help Firefox but now I have this problem: When I click on a link I have the Firefox profile manager that opens (I clicked on the Don't ask at startup) and since firefox is allready open... I

Re: [newbie] Problem with firefox script???

2004-02-22 Thread Todd Slater
paths as necessary. Save it and then make it executable by opening a terminal and giving the command chmod +x scriptname where scriptname is whatever name you gave the script when you saved it. Todd Le Dimanche 22 Février 2004 03:32 PM, Todd Slater a écrit : On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 07:18:50PM

Re: [newbie] Mailman

2004-02-19 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 07:48:58PM +1300, anton wrote: I've got some quick-start instructions here: http://clevername.homeip.net/howto/ Hey! This is not fair! Why do you get to post questions on this list about ... (omitted because my messages get intercepted!)? Do you have, by any

Re: [newbie] Mailman

2004-02-18 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 02:44:13AM +0100, Kasper Thunoe wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 02:14:56AM +0100, Kasper Thunoe wrote: Hey list. I'm playing around with mailman but I'm kinda stuck as to what I should do after I have it installed. How do I set it up so the list

Re: [newbie] Getting file size for bash backup script

2004-02-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:07:36AM +1300, Sharrea Day wrote: Hi Does anyone know how to get the size of a file in a bash script? I want to compress the file with tar when the file size exceeds 10 MB but can't figure out how to do it. Still googling... any help much appreciated. You can

Re: [newbie] Looking for a program similar to Hotmail Popper

2004-02-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:06:37PM +, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a program similar to Hotmail Popper to work under Linux and of easy installation. Thank you a lot in advance! I like hotwayd myself, and lots of folks here use gotmail I think. Todd Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Mailman

2004-02-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 02:14:56AM +0100, Kasper Thunoe wrote: Hey list. I'm playing around with mailman but I'm kinda stuck as to what I should do after I have it installed. How do I set it up so the list configuration is actually accessible through a web server? Any pointers as to where

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 on a 64MB RAM box

2004-02-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:14:42PM +, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: Hi all, I wonder if I can install and run Mandrake 9.1 on a machine with a Pentium 200 MMX, 64MB RAM and 10 GB HDD. I believe the processor and RAM will limit the usability of the machine. Can I install MDK without

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-02-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 07:58:12PM -0500, JoeHill wrote: CPU's maxed out recoding a DivX as SVCD, GCombust just burned Aliens to CD and it's playing without a blip or skip, I'm composing an e-mail, downloading more movies (see eth0), and it's all smooth as silk, and on a crappy ol' P3866

Re: [newbie] dev/null

2004-02-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:55:36PM -0500, Lee Wiggers wrote: Okay, here I am, ticked off enough at a list to dev/null the lot of 'em and I don't know how. Help? Do you have procmail set up? What client are you using? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] ldm_validate_partition failed

2004-02-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:28:46PM -0500, Guy Rouillier wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:50:11 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:56:20PM -0500, Guy Rouillier wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 19:39:05 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had

Re: [newbie] ldm_validate_partition failed

2004-02-10 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:05:57AM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 10 February 2004 05:50, Todd Slater wrote: Anyway, when I try to boot, I get endless ldm_validate_partition failed messages. I do a hard reset and boot into nonfb or secure and everything seems normal. Any

Re: [newbie] Microsoft: Research shows DRM won't work.

2004-02-10 Thread Todd Slater
Well, if there's a buck to be made, Bill will be there. I suppose that's why M$ and another top-10 MEC (most evil corporation), Disney, have teamed up to wreak havoc on the digital entertainment industry. I can't wait to see what these two powerhouses of consumer rights have planned for us next!

[newbie] ldm_validate_partition failed

2004-02-09 Thread Todd Slater
I had something funky happen, probably related to a cd-burning/cache-clearing mishap and/or a power failure. Anyway, when I try to boot, I get endless ldm_validate_partition failed messages. I do a hard reset and boot into nonfb or secure and everything seems normal. Any ideas on how to fix the

Re: [newbie] ldm_validate_partition failed

2004-02-09 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:56:20PM -0500, Guy Rouillier wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 19:39:05 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had something funky happen, probably related to a cd-burning/cache-clearing mishap and/or a power failure. Anyway, when I try to boot, I get endless

Re: [newbie] CD Burning CLI style

2004-02-08 Thread Todd Slater
to Todd Slater, who turned me on to Liferea, then sent me his RSS feed list, which included Lockergnome, which had an article on that app. Kewl, glad that's still there. The Lockergnome Linux Fanatics and Linux* feeds have been discontinued. On another note, I'm compiling a list of feeds of Linux

Re: [newbie] GIMP and gfx tablets

2004-02-03 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 06:38:03PM +, LtCdData wrote: do any of the Gimpers here using a gfx tablet for drawing in the GIMP? if so what ones work and is it easy .. or not.. to get working etc... LtCdData When I was looking at getting a wacom tablet I came across this:

Re: [newbie] signature script comes out weird

2004-01-30 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:24:01PM -0700, jason pearl wrote: whenever i try to use a script it puts my sig in one continuous line. is there a reason it does this? i have the same script as before, it is just copied. it comes out like this jason pearl [EMAIL

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