Re: Old Macs

2000-07-18 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
> card. I have an Intel 10/100 Pro card that I'd like to use. Anyone know if > I can get drivers for this? Should just work with the drivers in the kernel, I'd think -- PCI is PCI, after all. Good luck, john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Staroffice

2000-06-05 Thread john s jacobs anderson
$6 if you don't feel like downloading 70 MB. -- -------- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]-->http://genehack.org>

Re: Using gnuserv (Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software)

2000-05-29 Thread john s jacobs anderson
(. ~/.bashrc) at a shell prompt, and then gnue FILE will do the right thing. (Don't forget to put (gnuserv-start) in your .emacs file!) Thanks to Chris and the other people in the thread, john. -- --------

Re: Using gnuserv (Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software)

2000-05-29 Thread john s jacobs anderson
g pseudocode? if there's an XEmacs process running `gnuclient -q $1` else `xemacs -nw $1` Hmm -- I guess all I really need is the flag to test for a running process by name -- any help? thanks, john. -- -----

Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software

2000-05-26 Thread john s jacobs anderson
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Felix Natter wrote: >> john s jacobs anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Oh, I'm with you -- I'll often use vi for small edits, even

Re: Re[2]: Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
ditor (or words to that effect). Those two statements are _not_ equivalent. john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]-->http://genehack.org>

Re: Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
the 'simple'.) Have you perhaps never used emacs? Saying emacs isn't a text editor is like saying that a Leatherman isn't a pocket knife -- it may be literally true, but is extremely misleading in fact. john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Perl syntax highlighting in (X)Emacs (was Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
; it's a time/speed tradeoff. I _think_ the default may be less than completely stringent. If you're really interested, M-x customize RET cperl-mode should tell all, at least in XEmacs. john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]-->http://genehack.org>

Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
sugared bits on it not have this flame fest again? john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]-->http://genehack.org>

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
n which editor > has the *best* Perl syntax highlighting? (X)Emacs with CPerl mode. john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]-->http://genehack.org>

Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software

2000-05-10 Thread john s jacobs anderson
>>>>> "Oki" == Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Oki> On 5 May 2000, john s jacobs anderson wrote: >> The point is, emacsen are designed to be *modular*. If you don't >> want to load those things, then don't load them Oki> I&

Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software

2000-05-05 Thread john s jacobs anderson
27;ll both be wrong, as newbies come in all sizes, colors, and flavors. [2] Please don't try to make garage==shell and shop==emacsen, or vice versa -- it's an innocent little analogy, so please don't corrupt it by reading too much into it. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]-->http://genehack.org>

lm-sensors-source

2000-04-27 Thread john s jacobs anderson
7;m trying this. Thanks, john. -- ---- John S Jacobs Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] \* Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog */ \*http://genehack.org> */

Re: Semi-frequent lock-ups

2000-04-26 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
inux-abit) dedicated to hardware lock-ups with this mobo? It's been a fairly difficult bug to track down, but some people are reporting success with the most recent BIOS update released by Abit (version is QQ, I believe). I don't have any of the URLs handy, but Google should. Good luck,

Re: emacsen-common fails to set-up

2000-03-27 Thread john s jacobs anderson
kage to install, it broke critical parts of Gnus -- like reading mail with the nnml backend. I fell back to the version from frozen and slapped a hold on it. john. -- -------- John S Jacobs Ande

Re: glibc package

2000-02-24 Thread john s jacobs anderson
obably read his description of how to do it. good luck, john. -- -------- John S Jacobs Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] \* Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog */ \*http://genehack.org> */

Re: slink->frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-24 Thread john s jacobs anderson
up to report that Nathan's method did in fact allow me to successfully update a fresh slink to woody. Thanks again to Nathan. john. -- -------- John S Jacobs Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PPP dial-on-demand broken (was: dial-on-demand changed?)

2000-02-23 Thread john s jacobs anderson
bs in ~]-> dpkg --list | grep ppp ii ppp2.3.11-1.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon. Rest of reply below: John> john s jacobs anderson writes: >> However, about the time of the ppp/ppp-pam suidregister thing, >> this behavior changed; giving the demand op

Re: slink->frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-23 Thread john s jacobs anderson
Nathan, you're the man! I'll give this a try tomorrow; it sounds good. I had also seen the readlink thing, but hadn't investigated as to what it was doing. Hopefully I'll be able to get some work done on that box tomorrow. thanks, john. -- ------

Re: perl says the year is 0100

2000-02-21 Thread john s jacobs anderson
eading the documentation for the date commands in the perlfunc manpage. john. -- -------- John S Jacobs Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] \* Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog */ \*http://genehack.org> */

Re: dial-on-demand changed?

2000-02-18 Thread john s jacobs anderson
>>>>> "Brett" == Brett Carlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brett> john s jacobs anderson on Tue 15 Feb: Brett> Only just started using `demand' myself, so I can't speak for Brett> how it used to work, but my dialup currently behaves as

dial-on-demand changed?

2000-02-16 Thread john s jacobs anderson
john. -- John S Jacobs Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] \* Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog */ \*http://genehack.org> */

Re: Iomega drives

2000-02-13 Thread john s jacobs anderson
robably try http://linuxdoc.org>. HTH, john. -- ------------ John S Jacobs Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] \* Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog */ \*http://genehack.org> */

Re: help with sound config

2000-02-08 Thread john s jacobs anderson
>>>>> "S" == S Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> "jsja" == john s jacobs anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jsja> Following up for the list archives: The es1371 driver in the jsja> current kernel did not work

Re: help with sound config

2000-02-08 Thread john s jacobs anderson
codec, or the way the codec reports itself to the driver, and the card is thus not recognized correctly. ALSA 0.5.2, however, does work. It has also been reported to me that kernel 2.3.40 works; I have not confirmed that myself. john. --