[newbie] dual modems
http://www.cwareco.com/eqlplus.html (could you please not attach .bmp [or other image] files?) -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.17mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Apr 9 Passion Sunday Rabboni, ut videam
[newbie] Good Book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111111111
"Doug" == Potts, Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Doug This has probably been asked a million times but can anyone Doug recommend a good book for a newbie! Regards, Doug Potts _Running Linux_ from O'Reilly, by Matt Welsh (and another?), now in 3rd edition. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.17mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Apr 7 Feria of Lent "We hear much about new religions; many of them based on the very latest novelties of Buddha and Pythagoras." [G.K. Chesterton, in The Thing: Why I Am a Catholic]
[newbie] everthing's dead. - please help
"Kirk" == Kirk McElhearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Kirk computer won't boot off the install CD any more (I checked Kirk the BIOS, it's ok). Then, it won't boot at all, because I Kirk get the following message: Kirk hdc: lost interrupt Kirk over and over. (hdc is my Zip drive). This indicates (to me) a hardware problem with your Zip drive (or the Zip disk in the drive?). Could you disconnect the drive or keep the drive empty on boot up? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.17mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 27 St John Damascene "Here, adoration of intelligence meets obsession with image to create a fantasy world where talk is action and clever talk is solution ... " [Michael Kelly in the Washington Post 9/2/98]
[newbie] mounting disk shares of another linux box
"Chadley" == Chadley Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Chadley please could someone tellme howto get rpc working in Chadley mdk7.02 if i need it Unfortunately I dont think mdk7.02 Chadley has any howtos so I can only refer to the man pages and Chadley the are not telling me enough. thanks chadley 012 333 Chadley 2276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chadley [root@amd /root]# mount -t nfs cyrix:/root /cyrix mount: Chadley RPC: Program not registered [root@amd /root]# [snip] There's more to rpc than nfs, and you need a couple of things running to do nfs. You don't get rpc running, you get something running which does rpc. Is nfsd running on your machines? What does 'ps ax|grep nfs' return, on each machine? Read the NFS-Howto: http://howto.tucows.com/otherhowto/NFS-HOWTO and numerous other places on the net. The error message 'Program not registered' is specifically mentioned in the Howto. I learned that the error message appeared therein, by searching for 'RPC: Program not registered' at http://www.google.com/linux. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.17mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 26 St Margaret Clitherow "Mediaeval man endured frightful fasts; but none of them would have dreamed of seriously proposing that nobody anywhere should ever have wine anymore." [G.K. Chesterton, in The Well and the Shallows]
Re: [[newbie] IPCHAINS/MASQ/FORWARDING]
"Jaguar" == Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Jaguar yes there is a /proc/sys/net/ipv4 it has DIRS for /conf Jaguar /neigh /route, and a buncha other files no I didn't Jaguar compile a kernel There are many options for IP, and experimental support for IPv6. What specifically are you looking for with IPv4 Jaguar I want to share my cable modem with 3 other Win boxes and Jaguar use Linux as a firewall/proxy There ought to be a how-to on this, because so many people with high speed connections ask about it. You need to set up ip masquerading, as you already know. You need the MS Win boxes to be talking tcp/ip, as you know. For cable modem sharing: http://www.cablemodeminfo.com/cablesharing.html (I found that site from among the matches returned by http://www.google.com/linux , searching on "cable modem sharing". Take a look at http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/linux.html (the Preparing your linux box for the Internet site [security]) and the ipchains-howto, which ought to be on your box. I have some links to scripts and other things at http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/linux_security.htm. Unless the modules are already loaded, you'll need to modprobe them: echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_autofw /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_cuseeme /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_mfw /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_portfw /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_quake /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_user /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_vdolive (This is probably excessive.) Jaguar I have run the /proc/(something's??)/ip_chains, and got Jaguar PERMISSION DENIED and yes as ROOT. I don't understand this. What command did you run? Doing 'find /proc/ -name ip_chains' on my machine returns no matches. Were you doing 'echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward' ? Jaguar yes it gave a PERMISSION DENIED Bizarre. On my box /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward is owned by root in group root, and for ip masquerading, I have to do 'echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward' as root, and it works. If I do it as non-root, I get 'bash: /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward: Permission denied' -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.17mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 27 St John Damascene "Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophic conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor. I think his family will find him at the end of the day in a state of some exhaustion." [G.K. Chesterton, in Heretics]
Re: [newbie] root
"CMi1255179" == CMi1255179 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CMi1255179 In a message dated 03/26/2000 9:15:01 PM Central CMi1255179 Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Type in root and your password. Root requires a password. [snip] CMi1255179 I've tried this as well, and it didn't work...Back to CMi1255179 square one... Can you login as a user and do 'su' and get root after entering the root password? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.17mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 27 St John Damascene "The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Introduction to the Book of Job, 1907]
[newbie] Unnecessary services at startup, Was: Linux is so slow... Please help(numbers on usage)
"Charles" == Charles Ulwelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles I am in an ext2 and I have a large swap space set up. I Charles got it figured out. It was just a problem with Mandrake Charles loading up a bunch of useless crap(for a beginner like me Charles its useless). Plus there were 10-15 versions of apache Charles running at a time... that was like 35-40 megs of mem Charles right there. [snip] This points out something which Linux has carried over from its history primarily in a server style operation. Too much stuff gets started by default, if a user installs more packages than is truly needed. Example: I installed postgresql and mysql and apache to fool around with. I don't need a postgresql or mysql or apache server running all the time, only when I want it to. Yet, Linux does start them on bootup, and I have to manually remove them from the initialization. Now that more and more desktops are running Linux with the only networking being done being the internet, end users don't see the true performance of Linux, since too many processes are running, consuming too much memory. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.17mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 27 St John Damascene "My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday." - [G.K. Chesterton, in New York Times Magazine, 2/11/23]
Re: [newbie] slow Linux
"HAL" == HAL 9000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] HAL nope, not one instance of httpd seti@home is taking up HAL about 27% of my CPU... would that greatly affect the HAL performance?? Hello, HAL. Yes. (Why is _HAL_ running seti@home, anyway ? ;-) ) -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.17mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 27 St John Damascene "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Everlasting Man, 1925]
Re: [newbie] Mouse Scrolling?
"Michael" == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
(intellimouse, etc.) Working here with a Logitech mouse.
-- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75
Michael If you don't mind, could you give me the procedure you
Michael followed to use it? I'm using Mandrake 7.0-2 and the
Michael generic ps/2 driver was assigned to my mouse when I
Michael installed it. When I type 'imwheel' in eterm, I get a
[snip]
For my Logitech Mouseman _serial_I load imwheel in my .xinitrc:
#!/bin/sh
# Window Maker default X session startup script
# Added by Mike 11/23/99
xhost 192.168.0.1
xhost 127.0.0.1
PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin"
imwheel -k
# If you login from xdm, uncomment this to make error messages appear
# in the console window.
#
# tail -f /root/.xsession-errors /dev/console
kppp
gkrellm
/usr/bin/enlightenment
and in XF86Config, I have:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol"IntelliMouse"
Device "/dev/mouse"
BaudRate 1200
ZAxisMapping4 5
EndSection
--
Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA
X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el
Kernel 2.2.15-0.16mdk
http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm
Mar 25 Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin
"The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is
always the ally of some vice." - [G.K. Chesterton, in ILN, 6/11/10]
[newbie] IPCHAINS/MASQ/FORWARDING
"Jaguar" == Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jaguar I wrote to the list a few days ago, asking for some Jaguar help...the _ONLY_ reply I got was, RTFM...well I have Jaguar RTFM's till I am more confused. I wanted to know if in Jaguar MDK7.02, IPV4 is compiled in the default install kerenl, Jaguar or if I have to recompile with IPV4 enabled??? How [snip] Is there a directory /proc/sys/net/ipv4 on your box? If yes, what's in it? What are the files' contents? Have you checked what the defaults are when you try to compile a kernel? There are many options for IP, and experimental support for IPv6. What specifically are you looking for with IPv4 JaguarI have run the /proc/(something's??)/ip_chains, and got JaguarPERMISSION DENIED and yes as ROOT. I don't understand this. What command did you run? Doing 'find /proc/ -name ip_chains' on my machine returns no matches. Were you doing 'echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward' ? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.16mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 26 St Margaret Clitherow "It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." - [G.K. Chesterton, in The Cleveland Press, 3/1/21]
RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
"Charles" == Charles Ulwelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles Hum... Well when I open it it isn't just slow it gets to Charles the point where it just isn't responding, I assumed it Charles was a bug in linux as far as RAM utilization went. By Charles not responding I mean I'll move the mouse and it will Charles take about 3 seconds for it to *jump* to the location I [snip] What does doing 'top' show? What's taking up your cpu? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.16mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 26 St Margaret Clitherow "Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Orthodoxy, 1908]
Re: [newbie] Applixware
"Mike" == Mike Tracy Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mike If you don't mind downloading large files, try the demo of Mike Applixware (did you already say you did?) I tried it and Mike wasn't very impressed. However I have found that Corel Mike WordPerfect 8 is pretty decent, and the new Corel Office Mike 2000 that's going to be out mid-April seems to be quite [snip] It is shipping: http://linuxtoday.com/stories/18671.html -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.16mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 23 Feria of Lent "It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." - [G.K. Chesterton, in The Cleveland Press, 3/1/21]
[newbie] newbie books
"Philomena" == Philomena [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Philomena Hi all, Can anyone recommend a few good startup Linux Philomena books ? There are too many out there now to start Philomena sampling. Any help would be appreciated. _Running Linux_ by Matt Welsh (and another?) from O'Reilly. _Practical Unix and Internet Security_ -- Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford. The second is by no means limited to security issues, but it deals very clearly with issues such as users, groups, permissions, files, attributes, etc etc etc. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.16mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 20 St Joseph, Spouse of Mary "The human race, according to religion, fell once, and in falling gained knowledge of good and evil. Now we have fallen for a second time, and only the knowledge of evil remains to us." [G.K. Chesterton, in Heretics]
[newbie] Root does not exist
"hsantos78" == hsantos78 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hsantos78 I installed Mandrake 7 and used for several hours hsantos78 without a problem. The problem comes know that i used hsantos78 root to adduser and my machine got stuck. i rebooted hsantos78 the machine manually (reset). Know i did add the user hsantos78 but says that root does not exist. can any one help me? This reply contains some assumptions: that you were trying to create a new user when your machine froze and you had to reboot, and now if you try to login as or su to, root, you get "login incorrect" or "user root does not exist". This sounds as if pam is broken or damaged. This happened to me and there are ways to recover without a reinstall. It takes patience and some good fortune. Go to the Mandrake expert list. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-0.16mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 20 St Joseph, Spouse of Mary "The human race, according to religion, fell once, and in falling gained knowledge of good and evil. Now we have fallen for a second time, and only the knowledge of evil remains to us." [G.K. Chesterton, in Heretics]
[newbie] re router services question
"Vic" == Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Vic one or more sites that would enable me to setup a web server Vic and an ftp server with either my own domain name or if Vic necessary part theirs and part mine or something like that. [snip] Do you want basic help in setting up wu-ftpd and apache, or have you got them running? They aren't complicated, and pretty much work out of the box. Try 'ps ax|grep httpd' to see if apache is already running. If it is, point your browser at http://localhost. Many places will host your sites. Network Solutions and others maintain the registry of the domain names. Vic to have a service that tracks these IP's and route the domain Vic name ie 'ftp.kittypuss.org' or 'http://www.kittypuss.org' to Vic the correct IP so that I can have hits to the http or Vic downloads/uploads on the ftp. [snip] http://www.justlinux.com/dynamic_dns.html (I'm not connected with justlinux.com.) [snip] -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 10 Feria in Lent
[newbie] X
"Gary" == Gary K Stinnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gary My linux box is set up to start X when I boot my machine. I Gary normally run KDE. How do I go about shutting down X and Gary running at the command line. 'man init' and 'man inittab' You are going to runlevel 5 when the xdm / gdm / kdm graphical login runs. You are looking to go to runlevel 3. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 10 Feria in Lent
[newbie] Accessing Windows Drives
"Wayne" == Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Wayne access the network? I found a utility inder kde that was Wayne basically a network tool allowing you to map network Wayne drives, but cannot remember the name of it or where it is. Wayne Does anyone know how this can be done? Wayne Wayne knetmon ? Ksamba ? kldap ? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 10 Feria in Lent
[newbie] hdc: lost interrupt
"Merle" == Pittman, Merle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Merle During install, when it tries to scan packages for install Merle the CDROM hangs and this is the error I get: "hdc: lost Merle interrupt". What sort of a hard drive? The secondary master wouldn't be a DMA66, would it? It might be a hard drive hardware problem: loose cable, hard drive failing. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 10 Feria in Lent
[newbie] WordPerfect8 Problems
"Emilio" == Emilio Correa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Emilio Hi, I have installed recently WP8 in /usr/local/Wp like Emilio "root", but when I run it the first window showed looked Emilio blanck, or without any image, In addition, the icons of Emilio the application looks strange, and I guess it is some Emilio library problem or a video problem. Can somebody help me? Are you running X in 24 bpp? Try (while X is running), this: alt-F2. (You ought to get to a login prompt.) login (with your username and password, same as usual) at the $ prompt, type 'startx -- :1 -bpp 16' (no quotes) or 'startx -- :1 -bpp 32' (no quotes) try to run WordPerfect. Do the images and other parts of the display still appear odd? If when running under 16 or 32 bpp they appear ok, you need to switch to one of those modes. Use XF86Setup or Xconfigurator as root, from a prompt, without X running, to change the mode to 16bpp (or 32). The 'startx -- :1 -bpp 16' or 'startx -- :1 -bpp 32' commands start a second X server on your same machine. You are able to switch between the 2 or 3 or however many X server by doing ctrl-alt-F7 ctrl-alt-F8 ctrl-alt-F9 etc. Start as many X servers as you want by incrementing :1 to :2, etc. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 10 Feria in Lent
[newbie] /var/run/postmaster.pid
"John_root" == root [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John_root Everytime Bar once that i have ever installed Linux John_root Mandrake v7 i have had an error report when i try and John_root save any LinuxConf changes done in KDE. It says: John_root "invalid /var/run/postmaster,pid file" This is actually John_root really annoying and was wanting to know if anyoine John_root coiuld help. Idea's appreciated. Are you running postgresql on startup? # ps ax |grep postgresql If yes, do you need to? If you do not need to, disable postgresql by doing # /sbin/setup (as user 'root', going in to 'System services') Then to halt any existing postgresql process, do # /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql stop Then rm the .pid (If you're running postgreql and needn't, you may experience a system performance improvement after doing the 'stop'. Postgresql likes lots of memory.) BTW, sending mail as 'root' is a Bad Idea.
[newbie] Internet Access
"DLM4IDM" == DLM4IDM [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DLM4IDM Anyone know how to get FreeI, Homestead, or Yahoo's free DLM4IDM internet access to work? Are there any free internet DLM4IDM services for LINUX? A good place to learn of Linux news is http://www.geekboys.org/ A free ISP for Linux was recently announced http://www.teledyn.com/products/FreeWWW -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 6 Sts Perpetua and Felicity "We hear much about new religions; many of them based on the very latest novelties of Buddha and Pythagoras." [G.K. Chesterton, in The Thing: Why I Am a Catholic]
Re: [newbie] NIC support
"Charles" == Charles Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Charles board, they said it uses the Tulip driver. Now, I've Charles installed it, and have been able to use this card on the Charles windows side, how to I activate it and use it on the Charles Linux side? I'm running Linux Mandrake 7.0.2. Thanks in Charles advance. Do you have a file /lib/modules/[whatever-kernel-version-you-have]/net/tulip.o ? If yes, try 'modprobe tulip' to see if the card is recognized. You could also try doing 'linuxconf' as root, so set up the cards (since I assume you have only one ethernet card in your machine, the tulip card'll be eth0 (that's numeral zero, not letter 'oh'). In linuxconf, you get to assign eth0 its IP address, and everything else (netmask, net device module, are defaults, 'eth0' and 'tulip'). This Linksys needs no IRQ, etc., specified. You _must_ assign an IP address: one will _not_ be automagically assigned. You may use linuxconf to bring up the eth0 interface, or if you are used to MS Windows, reboot, and you ought to see eth0 initialization in the dmesg. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Mar 6 Sts Perpetua and Felicity "You have demonstrated at least in my adult lifetime a higher commitment to the kind of moral leadership that I value in public service and public policy than any person that I have ever met." [Democratic National Committee Chairman Steve Grossman to President Clinton 9/14/98]
Re: [[newbie] Can anyone recommend a good email program?]
"Ron" == Ron Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Ron Is there actually an email client that will display html Ron under Linux? XEmacs, of which I am using version 21.1.8, with VM 6.75. http://www.xemacs.org http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/xemacs.html It even does x-faces, which is that cool image of me all you folks can see in my From: header. Plus, inline image (gif, png, xpm, ...). Plus, randomly selecting a .sig quote. And, true threading, based on Message-Id: and References: headers. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Feb 17 Feria "And the weakness of all Utopias is this, that they take the greatest difficulty of man and assume it to be overcome, and then give an elaborate account of the overcoming of the smaller ones. They first assume that no man will want more than his share, and then are very ingenious in explaining whether his share will be delivered by motor-car or balloon." [G.K. Chesterton, in Heretics]
[newbie] what did i do?
"Erik" == Erik Nugent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Erik hi all my modem was working fine until... i set up my sound Erik card...now neather work. !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD Erik HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" HTMLHEAD DEFANGED_META Erik content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" Erik http-equiv=Content-Type DEFANGED_META content="MSHTML Erik 5.00.2919.3800" name=GENERATOR DEFANGED_STYLE/STYLE [snip] IRQ conflict? Check /etc/conf.modules -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Feb 14 St John Camillo
[newbie] Network in a window?
"Brent" == Brent Timmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brent Does anyone know how to open a 'network window' so that I Brent can graphically see people on my network(kind of like win9x Brent network neighborhood)? webmin http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/cooker/contrib/RPMS/webmin-0.77-1mdk.noarch.html -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Feb 13 Sixth Sunday after Epiphany "My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday." - [G.K. Chesterton, in New York Times Magazine, 2/11/23]
[newbie] e-mail clients rtf
"Ron" == Ron Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ron I just want to thank everyone who responded to my post on Ron shared files. Thanks! :) My next question is, is there an Ron e-mail client available that will read rtf? or html? The Ron reason that I am asking is that my wife refuses to use a Ron standard e-mail client under Linux and insists on Outlook Ron express. I would like to lose windows all together. I have Ron searched so far to no avail.. Any help would be appreciated I suppose many Linux mail readers do html. I use xemacs with VM, which does. But, Outlook Express can be setup so that email to particular addresses can be in text-only. I believe that the setting is in the address book details about the particular address. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Feb 13 Sixth Sunday after Epiphany "You have demonstrated at least in my adult lifetime a higher commitment to the kind of moral leadership that I value in public service and public policy than any person that I have ever met." [Democratic National Committee Chairman Steve Grossman to President Clinton 9/14/98]
[newbie] StarOffice
"HAL" == HAL 9000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] HAL untar is, i get the following error (using terminal HAL emulation): gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child HAL returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous HAL errors [snip] What options are you passing to tar? (tar -zxvf ? tar -xvf ?) -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Feb 7 St Romuald Rabboni, ut videam
[newbie] Email programs?
"Britt" == Britt Selvitelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Britt Just out of curiousity, what email programs are you all Britt using? Which do you think are the best and have the most X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 8) "Bryce Canyon" XEmacs Lucid http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/xemacs.html -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Feb 2 Purification of the Blessed Virgin (Candlemas) "Mediaeval man endured frightful fasts; but none of them would have dreamed of seriously proposing that nobody anywhere should ever have wine anymore." [G.K. Chesterton, in The Well and the Shallows]
[newbie] HERE IS A UTILITY THAT WILL HELP US ALL!
"Richard" == Richard Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard I am mailing this, (to newbies... in general), an ONLINE A great opportunity for me to test html-trap.procmail: tail .pmlog Defanging active HTML content in "[newbie] Fw: HERE IS A UTILITY THAT WILL HELP US ALL!" from "Richard Quirk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] to mike msgid=006701bf6d31$43c3e540$[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sanitizing MIME attachment headers in "[newbie] Fw: HERE IS A UTILITY THAT WILL HELP US ALL!" from "Richard Quirk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] to mike msgid=006701bf6d31$43c3e540$[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mangling executable filename "beeinstall.exe". Mangling executable filename "beeinstall.exe". It works. ftp://ftp.rubyriver.com/pub/jhardin/antispam/html-trap.procmail -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.15-5mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Feb 1 St Ignatius of Antioch or St St Brigid of Ireland "The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Introduction to the Book of Job, 1907]
[newbie] *XVGA* where is the XVGA package
"Zsolt" == Boda Zsolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Zsolt I wrote in RpmDrake to search for: *XVGA* it exited Zsolt How do I know if XVGA16 package is installed on myPC? rpm -qa | grep VGA Are you thinking of XFree86-SVGA or XFree86-VGA16? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 22 Sts Vincent of Saragossa and Anastasius
Re: [newbie] outrageous memory usage and still no MandrakeUpdate
"Morris" == Morris Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Morris Could this be the problem, since the swap partition spans Morris beyond the 1024 cylinder boundary. No. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 21 St Agnes "You have demonstrated at least in my adult lifetime a higher commitment to the kind of moral leadership that I value in public service and public policy than any person that I have ever met." [Democratic National Committee Chairman Steve Grossman to President Clinton 9/14/98]
[newbie] Printer Recommendations
"Benjamin" == Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Benjamin Dear friends: I think my Epson Stylus Color 600 is on Benjamin its last leg. Benjamin Could you recommend an affordable printer for my system? [snip] The Printing Support Database seems to be down. Try it later at http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 22 Sts Vincent of Saragossa and Anastasius "The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice." - [G.K. Chesterton, in ILN, 6/11/10]
[newbie] system freezes after 1 - 2 days
"Morris" == Morris Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Morris Hi, Is anybody else experiencing a complete system lock-up Morris after running ~36 hrs? My X window just freezes, not Morris responding to keyboard or mouse. Also, my network Morris connections drop. Are you able to telnet in from another box on the network? Morris I am running Mandrake 6.1 on a new system that I put Morris together. Morris Mandrake 6.1 Asus P3B-F M/B 128 M PC100 adaptec 2940-u2w Morris ibm 9.1 DDRS scsi drive [snip] How old is the hard drive? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 20 Sts Fabian and Sebastian "The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Introduction to the Book of Job, 1907]
[newbie] Mandrake 7.0
"Cyltic" == Cyltic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Cyltic but it wont find my 3com for my able modem, and no where Cyltic in the documentation does it tell you how to add hardware Cyltic support. Hell the documentation doesn't really tell you Cyltic anything except how to do the install and how to use a few Cyltic of the features. so this leads to my final question how do Cyltic you set up your network both internet and internal? 'linuxconf' at a command line or 'netcfg' inside X. Please turn off html in your Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200, and post only in text. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 20 Sts Fabian and Sebastian "The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice." - [G.K. Chesterton, in A Defense of Humilities, The Defendant, 1901]
[newbie] outrageous memory usage and still no MandrakeUpdate
"Morris" == Morris Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Morris attention to the xosview. According to the utility, I am Morris using 245M/256 M (I just added another 128 yesterday). Morris This includes USED+SHAR/BUFF/CACHE. I'm thinking that I Morris need to recompile the kernel, and remove some of the Morris excess, since I did a custom install and selected Morris everything. However, when I do the make zImage, I get This will not be the reason why your system locks up. Linux is much more efficient at using RAM than MS Windows. Linux will cache data and code, using as much RAM as is available. It is not that you are running low on RAM, but that Linux is putting the RAM you paid for, to good use. It does sound that you have either a lot of processes running, using the available memory, or something you are running isn't releasing memory when it is unneeded. What does 'top' display over time? Morris 3536 bytes. System is 642 kB System is too big. Try using Morris bzImage or modules. Morris Too big for what? Too big to boot. Instead of doing 'make zImage', do 'make bzImage', or use modules instead of compiling items into the kernel. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 21 St Agnes "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Everlasting Man, 1925]
[newbie] Email Server under Linux
"Paulus" == Paulus Hendarwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paulus Dear Linuxers, I was wondering what email server software qmail, Postfix, sendmail and probably others. http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapp4.html#mail Paulus that runs under Linux. What source I can use to learn Paulus setup email server under Linux ? The home pages off the above URL. Paulus Can I setup mailing list Paulus server without any email server at my Linux machine ? [snip] Probably no. You will need a Mail Transfer Agent, which is what qmail, Postfix, sendmail and probably others, are. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 19 Sts Marius and companions or St Canute "What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Sidelights on New London and Newer New York]
[newbie] need help !
"sHiMaN" == sHiMaN @t LiNuXdOtCoMdOtMy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sHiMaN Acctually i need some help about this mandrake linux Os. sHiMaN I had a problem here that i cant surf to the internet but sHiMaN i can log in to the internet. So what should i do ( to [snip] What is the content of your /etc/resolv.conf ? You must put your nameservers in it. E.g., my resolv.conf: search viconet.com viconet nameserver 207.17.227.2 nameserver 192.48.96.22 nameserver 207.17.227.7 -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 19 Sts Marius and companions or St Canute Adauge nobis fidem!
Re: [newbie] Printing Problems in 6.5
"Wendell" == Wendell E Gragg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wendell Actually, I did just purchase a print server. If this Wendell thing is on a network, is there a possibility that it Wendell would work? It is supposedly network compatible. [snip] Hang it off of an MS Windows box and use Samba to have the Linux box print jobs be printed on the BJC-6000? Please set your Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 to send mail only in text and not in html. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1.8 XEmacs and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 19 Sts Marius and companions or St Canute "What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Sidelights on New London and Newer New York]
[newbie] RPM ignorance
"Jeremy" == Jeremy Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Jeremy what Linux calls "hda1" I went online and found out SuSE Jeremy has a X-Server that is written for the Rage128 and I just Jeremy need to patch it into my Linux installation. I can Jeremy download what I need (Thanks to a list I received from [snip] Jeremy realized that I have no clue what to do with the RPM files Jeremy themselves. Now I know that KDE and Gnome have great Jeremy little programs for handling RPM's that are pretty Jeremy intuitive but I only have the basic Runlevel 3 command Jeremy line. Any HELP out there miningco.com has an introductory document on rpm from the command line: http://linux.about.com/compute/linux/library/weekly/aa080499q-a.htm?terms=rpmPM=113_300_T Jeremy One other question...Is there a way to upgrade my 6.0 to Jeremy the latest stable release (6.1?) I'm assuming there Jeremy probably is a easy way once I get the GUI up and running Jeremy but I thought I would ask... Don't know. Jeremy I also have a DirecPC dish that I want to find a way to Jeremy drive from Linux is there a simple way to do this or am I Jeremy dreaming too big??? Don't know. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 14 St Hilary or St Felix "Here, adoration of intelligence meets obsession with image to create a fantasy world where talk is action and clever talk is solution ... " [Michael Kelly in the Washington Post 9/2/98]
Re: [newbie] upgrading kernel
"Doug" == Doug Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Doug I'm a newbie and I found it rather painless. Once you
Doug install the package just open the /etc/lilo.conf file with
Doug your favorite word processor and look for a line that will
Doug contain "2.2.13-17mdk ". Change it to the new kernel
Doug number"2.2.13-22mdk". Save and exit the word processor
Doug and at the prompt issue the command: "/sbin/lilo.conf -v"
Doug (without the quotes). Now Lilo should be pointing to your
Doug new kernel...
[snip]
This will accomplish the boot into the new kernel, but if for some
reason the kernel is misconfigured, or there is a typo in lilo.conf,
or for probably other reasons, unless another entry exists in
lilo.conf by which to boot into Linux, may result in an unbootable
system.
Suggestion: _add_ the new kernel to lilo.conf, keeping the entry for
the old kernel, allowing a boot into the old kernel if the new kernel
entry fails.
My remarks assume that the new kernel is installed and the old kernel
remains.
So, the new lilo.conf will be (new kernel listed first, old kernel
second, then dos):
boot=/dev/[whatever your boot device is]
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-22mdk
label=linux
root=/dev/[whatever the root partition is]
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-17mdk
label=mandrake
root=/dev/[whatever the root partition is]
read-only
other=/dev/hda2
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
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Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA
X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el
Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk
http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm
Jan 14 St Hilary or St Felix
"The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is
always the ally of some vice." - [G.K. Chesterton, in ILN, 6/11/10]
[newbie] Cannot mount root device...
"Dave" == Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Hello, I'm using a UDMA/66 HD. After using the workaround, Dave I installed it (mostly) successfully. However, when Dave booting, I recieve this error message: Partition check: VFS: Dave Cannot open root device 3:05 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to Dave mount root fs on 03:05 [snip] You may have a typo or some other mistake in lilo.conf. Are you able to boot into any linux kernel (are there multiple linux entries in your lilo.conf)? What happens when you hit the tab key at the lilo prompt? Does more than one selection appear? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 14 St Hilary or St Felix "The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice." - [G.K. Chesterton, in ILN, 6/11/10]
[newbie] KPPP
"Abdoul" == Abdoul Da Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Abdoul When I open my Kppp I have the error: Abdoul This kernel has no PPP support, neither compiled in nor Abdoul via the kernel module loader. to solve this problem: * Abdoul contact your system administrator or * install a kernel Abdoul with PPP support As root, do modprobe ppp Sounds as if the ppp module(s) aren't loaded at boot time. If this problem persists, an easy workaround would be to add '/sbin/modprobe ppp' to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
[newbie] Need help configuring PPP on Linux 6.0
"John" == John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John I keep receiving a "script failed" messge. I am using a 56K John modem. Please Help! What script? What does the script attempt to do? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 14 St Hilary or St Felix "Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." - [G.K. Chesterton, in ILN, 4/19/30]
[newbie] Lilo
"John" == John and Veronica [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John How do I make windows 98 my default os with lilo
Put the lilo entry for MS Windows 98 first, before any linux or other
entries.
For example from my /etc/lilo.conf):
boot=/dev/hdb1
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
other=/dev/hda2
label=Win98
table=/dev/hda
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk
label=linux
root=/dev/hdb1
append="aha152x=0x340,11,7,1"
read-only
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Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA
X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el
Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk
http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm
Jan 14 St Hilary or St Felix
"Here, adoration of intelligence meets obsession with image to create
a fantasy world where talk is action and clever talk is solution ... "
[Michael Kelly in the Washington Post 9/2/98]
Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??
"Josh" == Josh McCaffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: snip I started Josh recompiling the kernel a couple of times, and each time it Josh failed (I forget why) after choosing to save the new kernel, Josh so in /usr/src there are "linux-2.2.13" and Josh "linux-2.2.13.old" folders, and the 2 files generated by Josh make menuconfig (one is .old) So should I delete these extra Josh files and start again from the beginning? Thanks! -Josh What kernel are you running now (output of 'uname -r')? Josh 2.2.13-7mdk -Josh Sounds top me that you may safely delete the directory "linux-2.2.13.old" and its contents. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 14 St Hilary or St Felix "Mediaeval man endured frightful fasts; but none of them would have dreamed of seriously proposing that nobody anywhere should ever have wine anymore." [G.K. Chesterton, in The Well and the Shallows]
Re: [newbie] is linux meant to be slow??
"Josh" == Josh McCaffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Josh Seth Gibson wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Josh McCaffrey wrote: desired results. There has never been any intention to make Linux perform well for everybody straight out of the box. Tho i think we are seeing that change more and more with Things like lizard and such. . .me personally, when i installed mdk the first time it worked great. . .of course alot of my hardware is so old, linux was probably very happy with my machine(:-D Josh Yeah, me, too! If I did have W98 on my box, I'm sure I Josh would see a real drag in performance. I have not built a Josh new kernel yet due to time constraints, and the fact that Josh L-M 6.1 has performed very nicely for me out of the box. Josh I'm sure that when I do trim down the stock kernel that I Josh could free up some memory. On that note, I started Josh recompiling the kernel a couple of times, and each time it Josh failed (I forget why) after choosing to save the new kernel, Josh so in /usr/src there are "linux-2.2.13" and Josh "linux-2.2.13.old" folders, and the 2 files generated by Josh make menuconfig (one is .old) So should I delete these extra Josh files and start again from the beginning? Thanks! -Josh What kernel are you running now (output of 'uname -r')? On tuneup generally, try http://www.portico.org/categories/ http://linuxperf.nl.linux.org/ http://www.linux.com/tuneup/ -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 13 Baptism of Our Lord "It is always simple to fall; there are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands." [G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy]
[newbie] any ideas how to read attached .doc files?please
"Dunc" == duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dunc Dear all Is there anyway that I can read attached word.doc Dunc files that are sent by the mad minority using a popular sic! Dunc alternative. Dunc I,m using mandrake 6.0,kde and staroffice. I find that WordPerfect does a very good job of opening MS Word files, perhaps because Corel's had a long time to work out the filters. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-14mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Jan 5 St Telesphorus or St John Neumann
[newbie] Getting rid of KDE
"Andy" == Andy Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Andy Hi, How do I switch out of KDE and into something like
Andy FVWM2? I tried to avoid installing any KDE but some app
[snip]
Is there a file in your /home/[username] directory named .xinitrc?
If yes, the last line ought to specify the default window manager.
Edit the file to comment out 'startkde' and insert the line
exec [command-to-start-the-WM-you-want]
I don't want to recommend blindly creating an .xinitrc. You could try
creating one with only the line exec
[command-to-start-the-WM-you-want], and see what happens. No
promises.
If there's no .xinitrc, then K might be starting because of the code
in /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients. Take a look below. There is no
/etc/sysconfig/desktop created in a Red Hat or Mandrake install,
AFAIK.
Because there's no /etc/sysconfig/desktop, and if gnome's not
installed, the default desktop is K (absent .xinitrc in /home).
[insert part of /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients here]
#!/bin/bash
# (c) 1999 Red Hat Software, Inc.
# check to see if the user has a preferred desktop
PREFERRED=
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then
if [ -n "`grep -i GNOME /etc/sysconfig/desktop`" ]; then
PREFERRED=gnome-session
elif [ -n "`grep -i KDE /etc/sysconfig/desktop`" ]; then
PREFERRED=startkde
elif [ -n "`grep -i AnotherLevel /etc/sysconfig/desktop`" ]; then
PREFERRED=AnotherLevel
else
PREFERRED=Default
fi
fi
if [ -n "$PREFERRED" -a "$PREFERRED" != "AnotherLevel" ] \
which $PREFERRED /dev/null 21; then
PREFERRED=`which $PREFERRED`
exec $PREFERRED
fi
# now if we can reach here, either they want AnotherLevel or there was
# no desktop file present and the PREFERRED variable is not set.
if [ -z "$PREFERRED" ]; then
GSESSION=gnome-session
STARTKDE=startkde
# by default, we run KDE
if which $STARTKDE /dev/null 21; then
exec `which $STARTKDE`
fi
# if KDE isn't installed, try GNOME
if which $GSESSION /dev/null 21; then
exec `which $GSESSION`
fi
fi
[end inserted part of /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients here]
--
Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA
X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el
Kernel 2.2.14-14mdk
http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm
Jan 5 St Telesphorus or St John Neumann
"What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence
of self-criticism." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Sidelights on New London
and Newer New York]
[newbie] SOHO System Administration
"Joseph" == Joseph S Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Joseph 1. Is there a method to centralize my user Joseph administration or am I doomed to have to add each Joseph potential user to each machine? This leads to question #2 Joseph where / how to mount /user/home Joseph 2. I would like to keep all /user/home directories Joseph on one machine. Is it possible to setup the login Joseph procedure to "mount" /user/home across the network or do I Joseph need to teach every one (including myself) how to use Joseph telnet or what? [snip] Telnet isn't necessary. Each user doesn't need an account on each machine. You need NFS. You could have all the /home directories on an NFS server, and add /home 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw) in /etc/exports on the server. (Let's call the server 'blue'.) Then enter the information about the /home into /etc/fstab blue:/home/ben /home/ben nfs rw 0 0 The directory /home/ben on his machine must, of course, be empty. A problem may arise in this scenario: User 'ben' on machine 'white' has UID 501 and GID 501 there and User 'amy' on machine 'green' has UID 501 and GID 501 there. The map_static option in /etc/exports is used to coordinate UIDs and GIDs. /home/ben white(map_static=/etc/nfs/white.map) /home/amy green(map_static=/etc/nfs/green.map) so /etc/nfs/white.map would include uid 5012001 and /etc/nfs/green.map would include uid 5013001 -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-14mdk
[newbie] SCSI card problem
"Brent" == Brent2one [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brent Hey guys, I dont know what the deal is with this SCSI Brent card. Its an AHA-152x and linux-mandrake 6.1 just wont pick Brent it up at all, not even in the install procedure. Which is [snip] What do 'dmesg | grep scsi' and 'dmesg | grep aha152x' return? What are the entries in /etc/conf.modules for the aha152x? What are the values for the card's address, scsi ID (I assume it's 7), and IRQ? If you 'modprobe aha152x', what is returned? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-13mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm
[newbie] Printer Remote
"Wilver" == Wilver Macdonald Gomez Barrios [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wilver She/he wanted them to help me in the following thing: Wilver I have two you pcs with linux mandrake (A and B), and I Wilver have connected two printers a printer to each it PC. Wilver And I need to print in anyone of the two printers. Wilver example: WilverTo B PC---Printer PC--Printer [snip] Assuming that A and B are connected over a network, do a su in X and run printtool, selecting "Add" -- "Remote Unix (lpd) Queue" and fill in the appropriate values. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-9mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Dec 23 Feria "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Everlasting Man, 1925]
[newbie] Is there a Linux program to read Mac Quark Xpress files?
A friend has a number, quite a large number, of files which he wishes to put on the net. He looks to convert them into .pdf format, or some other format more widely readable than the Quark Xpress format. Is there something which will convert them? If the program includes a spell-checker, that would be a wonderful added advantage. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-7mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Dec 21 St Thomas "Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back." - [G.K. Chesterton, in What's Wrong With The World, 1910]
Re: [newbie] Startup issues...revisited
"Sam" == Sam Roza [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Sam Another thing...how do I read readme's and such? what program Sam would I use from a console to look at them? [snip] $ less [whatever-the-name-of-the-file-is] or $ mc and cd to the directory where the file is, and hit F3 key while the file is highlighted. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-7mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Dec 18 Feria "My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday." - [G.K. Chesterton, in New York Times Magazine, 2/11/23]
Re: [newbie] Simple fdisk question?
"WH" == WH Bouterse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WH Thanks for the reply! Yes I did actually do the 'mount -t ext2 WH /dev/hdc1 /extralinux' I can get fdisk and cfdisk to see it WH and remove the bootable flag that keeps poping up. So I WH delete, repartition,write it , it gets recognized by fdisk and WH by the dmesg at bootup as /dev/hdc /dev/hdc1 but attempting to WH mount it gives a; "can't find an ext2 filesystem on [snip] Did you create an ext2 filesystem on the partition? man mke2fs -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-7mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Dec 18 Feria "My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday." - [G.K. Chesterton, in New York Times Magazine, 2/11/23]
[newbie] Modem Settings
"Ryan" == Ryan Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ryan I've used search and everything and looked all across my Ryan computer to configure my modem. As of now my computer Ryan doesn't know I have a modem. Where can I go to configure Ryan it? Thanks a lot. What make and model modem? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-7mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Dec 18 Feria "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Everlasting Man, 1925]
Re: [newbie] Modem Settings
"Jamey" == Jamey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jamey I have a Rockwell 56k HCF pci modem, I have downloaded the Jamey upgrade for www.56k.com that suppose to make it work with Jamey linux. I was wondering where i can config it. I have linux [snip] I have seen messages on this list stating that all but a very few PCI modems are MS-Windows only modems. I don't recall seeing any messages stating that Rockwell 56k HCF modems are real modems. What is the "upgrade for www.56k.com that suppose to make it work with linux"? Is there a README or an INSTALL which you could email me? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-7mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Dec 18 Feria "Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." - [G.K. Chesterton, in ILN, 4/19/30]
Re: [newbie] Virus Protection
"John" == John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, you wrote: Is there a virus protection software package for Linux? Where can I get it if there is??? John Don't surf the 'Net as Root and you have little to worry John about. :-) There is very little that can be done to your John Linux box unless you run a hostile app as root (or SU.) [snip] Question: if I have my checking account information accessed by cbb (Check Book Balancer http://cbb.sourceforge.net), all my data files live in ~/.cbb, and are owned by mike.mike, permissions 100600. If I received a virus, and I was running as "mike", and the virus was running as "mike", would not the virus be able to delete or change the cbb data files? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-7mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Dec 17 Feria "Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it." - [G.K. Chesterton, in ILN, 2/24/06]
[newbie] make?
"Jeremy" == Jeremy Kersenbrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Jeremy I've read the file's README and followed it's instructions Jeremy regarding compiling, but it doesn't work. I can run the Jeremy Makefile.PL, but "make" isn't a known command. [snip] "Makefile.PL"? Does this work? perl Makefile.PL -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-7mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Dec 17 Feria "What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Sidelights on New London and Newer New York]
Re: [newbie] Virus Protection
"Axalon" == Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] If I received a virus, and I was running as "mike", and the virus was running as "mike", would not the virus be able to delete or change the cbb data files? Axalon Right, but if you have a specific login you use for cbb Axalon and nothing else, and follow strict rules on when to root [snip] An _excellent_ idea, which I have just implemented. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-7mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Dec 17 Feria "We hear much about new religions; many of them based on the very latest novelties of Buddha and Pythagoras." [G.K. Chesterton, in The Thing: Why I Am a Catholic]
[newbie] Modem Install
"Dave" == Puentes,David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Can anyone recommend a source to refer to to install my Dave modem on my linux system? I just don't know where to start Dave and I am a fresh newbie. What manufacturer and model modem? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-7mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Dec 14 Feria "Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Orthodoxy, 1908]
[newbie] SMP question
"Robert" == Robert Weider [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert Does anyone know which kernal do I need to upgrade to via Robert rpm upgrade or compile to support a smp system? TIA This is a shot in the dark, but how about kernel-smp-2.2.13-7mdk.i586.rpm or kernel-smp-fb-2.2.13-7mdk.i586.rpm at rpmfind.net:/linux/Mandrake/6.1/Mandrake/RPMS you might want to grab the kernel-headers-2.2.13-7mdk.i586.rpm and kernel-source-2.2.13-7mdk.i586.rpm from the same site. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-1mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Dec 12 Third Sunday of Advent "Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Orthodoxy, 1908]
[newbie] Lexmark 5700
"James" == J Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James I have heard more than one way to get this little beastie James on a windows printer working in Linux, but haven't heard James anything that was KDE specific. Besides, the other methods [snip] I don't know of anything specific to KDE. Have you looked at http://www.ultranet.com/~setaylor/papers.htm -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.14-1mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Dec 7 St Ambrose "You have demonstrated at least in my adult lifetime a higher commitment to the kind of moral leadership that I value in public service and public policy than any person that I have ever met." [Democratic National Committee Chairman Steve Grossman to President Clinton 9/14/98]
[newbie] emacs foreground background
"Jas" == Jaswinder S Ahluwalia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jas How do i change the the color of the background or foreground Jas in emacs? Right now it is badge and it is hard for me to see Jas the characters. I would like to chagnge it to white. I'm not Jas sure if you are supposed to change the background, forground, Jas or both. In your ~/.emacs, put (set-face-foreground 'default "black") (set-face-background 'default "honeydew") I don't know of a list of available colors. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-29mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Nov 30 St Andrew Adauge nobis fidem!
[newbie] Good (Linux) Mailreaders for Mailing lists?
"Peter" == Peter Heckert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Peter I have problems with threading. Mails made with Netscape Peter and Kmail are threaded fine. Other Mails created by Emacs Peter or Outlook are not threaded correctly. [snip] This may be a result of how mails are created by emacs or Outlook, or a result of how Netscape determines the parent-child message relationship. or both. This is of interest to me because I use xemacs with VM as my mail reader. I specifically chose these two since it was the only combination I discovered which explicitly stated that the References: header was examined to thread messages. Other programs were silent on how threading was implemented or vague or used an unacceptable (to me) method. In what way are mails you receive from emacs users "not threaded correctly"? Are the emacs users also using VM, or do they use exmh or something else? Quoting from the VM User's Manual: "Message relationships are discovered by examining References, In-Reply-To, and Subject headers. The first two headers are more reliable sources of information but not all mailers provide them." (http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/user-manual/vm_12.html#SEC23) For a brief description of how VM threads, see http://www.gnac.com/~hogan/vm/files/rigorous-threads.patch where an email from Bob Glickstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] appears, with his rigorous threads patch to vm-folder.el. On what bases do Netscape and Kmail thread? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-29mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Nov 17 St Gregory Thaumaturgus "Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back." - [G.K. Chesterton, in What's Wrong With The World, 1910]
[newbie] Printing Envelopes NIGHTMARE
"Karen" == Karen Heiby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Karen I can't find a single application that will print envelopes Karen correctly. I have an Epson 660. Star Office feeds every [snip] I do not have an Epson 660, but I notice in Star Office's Printer Setup, that this model is not listed. What printer support did you install with Star Office? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-28mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Nov 16 St Gertrude "Veblen's conspicuous consumption is still around. But it generally has to share the stage with conspicuous compassion, another form of compulsive display." [Wilfred M. McClay in First Things, December 1998]
Re: [Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?]
"Jeanette" == Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeanette I looked at gnus, not really sure how it installs or Jeanette works? Jeanette [snip] I'm unsure how to answer this. Have you a more specific question? On installing: there are rpms for emacs and emacs-X11 from Mandrake, which will install gnus. You may then either start emacs, or xemacs, and then launch gnus from within a running emacs or xemacs, or you may launch gnus directly by doing 'emacs -f gnus' or 'xemacs -f gnus'. Before launching gnus for the first time, you ought to specify from where you get your news, and look at the many options available to customize how gnus behaves. There are many web pages explaining customization options, and a newsgroup gnu.emacs.gnus. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-28mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Nov 15 St Albert the Great
Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?
"Jeanette" == Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeanette the problem with most of the newsreaders is that one Jeanette they don't thread well and two if someone puts a Jeanette hypelink in their post you can't follow it [snip] I again suggest that you visit http://www.gnus.org as the Gnus news reader does thread and will open a browser by clicking on a URL inside an article. It is the news reader I use. I do not follow binary groups, so others' needs may be different. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-28mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Nov 13 St Didacus or St Francis Xavier Cabrini "The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Introduction to the Book of Job, 1907]
[newbie] Re: Compiling Kernel Black Box
"Jaguar" == Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jaguar I want to re-compile my Kernel on a default install of L-M Jaguar 6.0, to make it faster, and get rid of un-nessessary MOD's Jaguar and stuff. I will use the GUI Xconfig, but I would like Jaguar to know what I should do B4 I start... ie: kernel backup, Jaguar bootdisk, or ???. and then the correct procedure after Several things to do, but make sure you rm the symlinks in /boot and /lib/modules, so as not to overwrite the old kernel and associated files. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-28mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Nov 13 St Didacus or St Francis Xavier Cabrini "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Everlasting Man, 1925]
Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?
"Jeanette" == Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeanette Joe Marcom wrote: Hello, again. I've been using Free Agent as my NG reader in window$ for as long as I have been online. Now that I'm moving up to Linux, what do you recommend? Thanks. Joe Jeanette This newreader problem is almost as bad as the browser Jeanette problem. The best newsreader I have been able to use in Jeanette Linux is Netscape also. I have tried PINE, TRN, SLRN, Jeanette kexpress, Free Agent on Wine (runs but won't get news), Jeanette knews, krn, and Pan, and Star Office newsreader and Jeanette Netscape is still the best. If Linux can only get a [snip] Have you tried gnus? It is a mail and news reader which runs in emacs or xemacs. http://www.gnus.org Very configurable, so it might be a bit complicated to set up. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-28mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Nov 12 St Martin I
[newbie] .bashrc
"Karen" == Karen Heiby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Karen Can someone tell me if it would be appropriate to write the Karen export commands for my JAVA_HOME in the .bashrc? Because I Karen don't think Linux is remembering what I tell it. [snip] Karen If .bashrc is the place to do this, what is the syntax? Karen If not .bashrc, then where? Try this in your .bash_profile: # .bash_profile [snip] # User specific environment and startup programs [snip] JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk117_v3/bin export JAVA_HOME -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-28mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Nov 12 St Martin I
Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?
"Chip" == Chip Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Chip Linux has nothing that even remotely matches Agent/Free Chip Agent, or the other Windows newsreaders, *PARTICULARLY* in Chip regard to handling binary files (pics, mp3's). Agent just Chip downloads them and automatically and quickly opens the file Chip in Winamp or in an photo/image viewer like VuePro. In Linux Chip you've got to download the file and then start another Chip helper application to open the file separately - kind of [snip] I'm not sure you have to download and manually start a "helper application". Take a look at http://socha.net/Gnus/screenshots/mime.html Is this what you mean: in line MIME decoding: displaying the image in the body of the article? See also http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_4.html#SEC118 -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-28mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Nov 12 St Martin I
[newbie] as of last posting, i got ip-masquerading to work... but...
"Ronald" == Ronald Rand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Ronald Also, according to the IP-Masquerading FAQ, there's a file Ronald called /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall that I had to make for it to Ronald work. But after I made it, and upon rebooting, it didn't Ronald take effect. I had to type all the code at the command [snip] Please do not use html mail. Is rc.firewall executable? You might have to 'chmod 775 rc.firewall' -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-22mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Nov 2 All Souls "Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Daily News, 2/21/02]
[newbie] Networking - Home Lan -- HELP
"Alex" == Alex V Flinsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Alex All I want to do (for now) is get the 2 boxes to be able to Alex ping one another. This is the setup so far Alex Machine 1 - windows1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 Machine 2 - Alex linux1 ip address of 192.168.1.1 [snip] Is this a typo? You have two machines with identical IP numbers? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-22mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Oct 30 Feria
Re: [newbie] How to use ns-install that comes with v47 of Netscape for Linux 2.0
"Richard" == Richard Salts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Hello, Mike, Another question: How does one unpack and Richard install an *rpm program? I think I asked this question Richard before but I lost that message and so would appreciate a Richard refresher answer. [snip] man rpm or look in /usr/doc/rpm-xxx [version number] or http://linux.miningco.com/compute/os/linux/library/weekly/aa080499q-a.htm for an introductory article on rpm. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Oct 12 Our Lady of the Pillar "A man approaches, wearing sandals and simple raiment, a raw tomato held firmly in his right hand, and says, 'The affections of family and country alike are hindrances to the fuller development of human love'; but the plain thinker will only answer him, with a wonder not untinged with admiration, 'What a great deal of trouble you must have taken in order to feel like that.'" [G.K. Chesterton, in Heretics]
[newbie] Mandrake 6.5
"Hugh" == Hugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hugh Hi all, I just found out Comp USA is selling Mandrake 6.5. I Hugh thought Mandrake was up to 6.1? What is the difference Hugh between the two? This is called "Linux 6.5" by Macmillan, the outfit which packages / distributes this Mandrake stuff. I believe that it's Mandrake 6.1, but I've not bought it nor examined what's inside the box. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Oct 12 Our Lady of the Pillar
Re: [newbie] How to use ns-install that comes with v47 of Netscape for Linux 2.0
"Richard" == Richard Salts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Richard Have any idea where I can get a copy of Netscape for Richard Linux 2.2 or is there such a place? I looked in the [snip] http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/NByName.html Find "netscape". Or, ftp it from ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/updates/6.1/i386/ ls netsc* netscape-common-4.7-1.1.i386.rpm netscape-common-4.7-1.i386.rpm netscape-communicator-4.7-1.1.i386.rpm netscape-communicator-4.7-1.i386.rpm netscape-navigator-4.7-1.1.i386.rpm netscape-navigator-4.7-1.i386.rpm -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-15mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm
RE: [newbie] Is NFS really that bad (reality check)
"Aaron" == Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aaron Good morning Frank and Mike I don't appreciate being called Aaron a troll and I am actually offended by any suggestion that I Aaron might be a front for Microsoft. Aaron I put forward this question after reading the LAME guide. Aaron It specifically says: [snip] I apologize for implying that the questions you posed indicated you were trolling or otherwise insincere. The URL to the LAME page does show those authors' belief that running NFS might be a security risk. There are also references in the NFS-HOWTO to how slow NFS is. My grepping the files did not turn up these references. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-14mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm
Re: [newbie] Is NFS really that bad (reality check)
"Frank" == Frank Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Frank Is this really a legitimate question or one posed by a
Frank front for Microsoft? It's not the first time in the past
Frank few weeks I've seen someone trolling for horror stories in
Frank a Linux discussion group. Any thoughts on this folks?
Frank Frank Hilliard
Frank Aaron deRozario wrote:
Greetings all.
As I prepare (read find the time) to set up a Linux network at
home i have been reading up on NFS. This is apparently the
standard Unix file sharing/networking system. However whenever
I read something about it I read things like "its slow,
horrible, etc" (nfs-howto) or "has security problems so I
wouldn't recommend it" (the new Linux Administration Made Easy
guide - found it on freshmeat yesterday).
[snip]
Well, since grepping the NFS-HOWTO and the files in the LAME html for
those phrases ("horrible" and "problems") returns no relevant matches,
what ought you to conclude?
--
Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA
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Re: [newbie] loading imwheel at x startup?
"Jeanette" == Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Do I understand you correctly that you are running imwheel in your .xinitrc or .Xclients _and_ then opening an xterm and doing 'imwheel -k' again? Where does 'imwheel -k' appear? In one or more places? [snip] Jeanette locks up KDE if I play with it enough. If I don't run Jeanette imwheel -k I get nothing. Everyone told me to run Jeanette imwheel -k thats why I did this. Jeanette Please answer my questions: Do I understand you correctly that you are running imwheel in your .xinitrc or .Xclients _and_ then opening an xterm and doing 'imwheel -k' again? Where does 'imwheel -k' appear? In one or more places? Are you manually typing in 'imwheel -k' or are you doing 'imwheel -k' without manually typing in the command, or both? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-11mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Oct 5 St Placid and companions "My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday." - [G.K. Chesterton, in New York Times Magazine, 2/11/23]
Re: [newbie] loading imwheel at x startup?
"Jeanette" == Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Jeanette For some reason I can't paste maybe because three button Jeanette emulation is off but the pointer section looks like this Jeanette Section "Pointer" Protocol "IMPS/2" Device "/dev/mouse" Jeanette ZAxisMapping 4 5 Jeanette This is all I have added. Haven't done anything to Jeanette xinitric or anyother file but have tried different mouse [snip] Please post the section of your .xinitrc or .Xclients in $HOME which starts programs before your window manager. E.g., mine is the following: [insert portion of .xinitrc:] PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin" imwheel -k # Added by Mike to allow others to connect to this X server xhost +127.0.0.1 # If you login from xdm, uncomment this to make error messages appear # in the console window. # # tail -f /root/.xsession-errors /dev/console exec /usr/bin/enlightenment [end portion of inserted .xinitrc] -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-11mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Oct 5 St Placid and companions "I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds ... for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated." [G.K. Chesterton, Autobiography]
[newbie] My printer doesn't work...
"Bill" == Bill Munden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill I have installed Linux-Mandrake 6.1. When I initially setup Bill my printer, I was able to print some test pages just fine. Bill Afterward, I ran the sndconfig utility for my Sound Blaster Bill Awe 32. Sound works okay, but I am no longer able to print Looks as if sndconfig grabbed IRQ 7 for the sound card. Check /etc/conf.modules You may have to rerun sndconfig and give the sound card a different IRQ. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Oct 5 St Placid and companions "Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Autobiography, 1937]
Re: [newbie] loading imwheel at x startup?
"Jeanette" == Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeanette Alan, I set it up according to the Readme. Everything Jeanette is in the XF86 configuration file that supposed to be. Jeanette When I startx with KDE open xterm type imwheel -k it Jeanette says its running. I Open some windows in KFM and try to Jeanette scroll them and I get a menu like the right click menu. Jeanette If I keep going it will lock up KDE and I have a hard Jeanette time getting out. I have tried with 3 button emulation Jeanette and w/o 3 button. [snip] Do I understand you correctly that you are running imwheel in your .xinitrc or .Xclients _and_ then opening an xterm and doing 'imwheel -k' again? Where does 'imwheel -k' appear? In one or more places? What's in your .xinitrc or .Xclients? Please post the 'Section "Pointer"' from your XF86Config file. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-11mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Oct 3 St Therese of the Child Jesus "Mediaeval man endured frightful fasts; but none of them would have dreamed of seriously proposing that nobody anywhere should ever have wine anymore." [G.K. Chesterton, in The Well and the Shallows]
Re: [newbie] Man I HATE this.
"Phil" == Phil Thornley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Phil I had similar problems with my video card. It is an ancient Phil ATI VGA-Wonder in my little 486. I re-installed Mandrake Phil and the problem went away. I figure it was related to a bad Phil filecopy during the install process. You installed Mandrake on a 486? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-11mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Oct 1 St Remigius "I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds ... for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated." [G.K. Chesterton, Autobiography]
Re: [newbie] Mounting a Detected SCSI CD-ROM?
"Axalon" == Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Axalon On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, John Aldrich wrote: [snip] Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun:00 Vendor: Umax, etc, etc Type: Scanner Axalon i don't think it's got one but if so it's /dev/sr1 [snip] On my machine $ls -l /dev/scanner returns /dev/scanner - /dev/sga And $find-scanner returns find-scanner: found scanner "UMAX Astra 1200S V2.9" at device /dev/scanner find-scanner: found scanner "UMAX Astra 1200S V2.9" at device /dev/sg0 find-scanner: found scanner "UMAX Astra 1200S V2.9" at device /dev/sga -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-11mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Oct 1 St Remigius "For though today is always today and the moment is always modern, we are the only men in all history who fell back upon bragging about the mere fact that today is not yesterday." [G.K. Chesterton, in All I Survey]
[newbie] loading imwheel at x startup?
"pete" == pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pete what do i need to do to get imwheel to startup whenever i pete startx? :P One way is to put imwheel -k in your .xinitrc See http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll and http://solaris1.mysolution.com/~jcatki/imwheel/ -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-11mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Sep 28 St Wenceslaus "It is always simple to fall; there are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands." [G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy]
[newbie] linux-mandrake enlightenment trouble
"Static321" == Static321 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Static321 i just downloaded linux mandrake and installed it. I'm Static321 trying to install Enlightenment and i'm having Static321 problems. I'm trying to install the files necessary to Static321 run it and whenever i do a ./configure i get all these Static321 problems... i'm thinking i have to download something Static321 important so that when i ./configure i don't get Static321 problems...but i don't know... can someone help? Can't help unless you state what "all these problems" are. Have you tried the enlightenment rpm , rather than trying to install from a tarball (which is what it sounds as if you're trying if you're running ./configure). -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-9mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Sep 24 Our Lady of Ransom "It is always simple to fall; there are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands." [G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy]
[newbie] Signal 11
"Arend" == Arend teRaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Arend Hi all, I have a machine that has been running Mandrake 6.0 Arend for the last couple of months. Yesterday I tried to Arend upgrade it to 6.1 but I keep getting signal 11 errors. Arend Actually, I wasn't even doing an upgrade, I wiped the drive Arend clean and did a fresh installation. I seem to remember Arend that Signal 11 errors always mean a hardware problem of Arend some sort but I don't understand why it was working fine Arend under 6.0? The errors are happening during the Arend installation process - usually when it is installing Arend packages. I have tried having it check for bad blocks Arend during the format - that didn't help. Is there anything I Arend can do or should I just go back to 6.0? [snip] As a start, see http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ though this page isn't specific as to Sig 11's during an install. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-9mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Sep 24 Our Lady of Ransom "There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth." - [G.K. Chesterton, in ILN, 7/18/08]
[newbie] KDE CDROM
"Dan" == D L P [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Dan am having one problem. My CDROM will mount when I log on as Dan root but when I log on as user it will not allow me to mount Dan it. I am sure it just a matter of changing a file permission [snip] What's the entry in /etc/fstab for the cd? Mine is /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom autouser,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-9mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Sep 22 St Thomas of Villanova "Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice." - [G.K. Chesterton, in ILN 9/11/09]
Re: [newbie] Apache, PHP and mSQL
"James" == James Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] James Whereabouts is the src.rpm? I tried the uk sunsite ftp James site, but it wasn't in the SRPMS directory. James I have downloaded the source from php.net but can't get it James to compile as it can't find httpd.h James Can anyone point me to either of these things? http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/PByName.html for rpms -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-7mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Sep 21 St Matthew "I revert to the doctrinal methods of the thirteenth century, inspired by the general hope of getting something done." [G.K. Chesterton, in Heretics]
Re: [[newbie] message repeats]
"Chris" == Chris Smallhorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Chris The directory of kernel headers (version 2.2.9-19mdk) does Chris not match your running kernel (version Chris 2.2.9-27mdk). Consequently, even if the compilation of the Chris module was successful, the module would not load into the Chris running kernel." [snip] Chris messages during boot-up). Can someone tell me (in simple Chris terms) how I might be able to fix this error? If you [snip] Upgrade kernel-headers to 2.2.9-27mdk. But, you might want to check the VMware pages, since I believe vmware doesn't work with 2.2.9-27. It does work with other kernel versions. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-7mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Sep 21 St Matthew "Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it." - [G.K. Chesterton, in ILN, 2/24/06]
Re: [[newbie] message repeats]
"Chris" == Chris Smallhorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Chris Software requirements Chris 1.VMware host operating system Chris requirements glibc2 to glibc6 (glibc1 does not work) Linux Chris kernel 2.0.32 to 36 Linux kernel 2.2.0 and higher for SMP Chris systems ChrisVMware will not run on systems that do Chris not meet these requirements. Chris Does this mean that I need to find a copy of kernel version Chris 2.0.32 to 36, or should it work with 2.2.9-19mdk? If I It works with 2.2.9-19mdk. I've used it and I have only one CPU. (I've also used it with 2.2.13-7 from the 6.1 release.) Chris only need to go back to 2.2.9-19mdk, is it easier to do an Chris "upgrade" install to go back to this kernel version, or Chris won't this work and will I be stuck with doing an install Chris from scratch? I don't think I made a backup of the old Chris kernel - if I did, I don't know where I put it. Is there Chris any way to find out? Install or upgrade? from man rpm: rpm -U [install-options] package_file+ This upgrades or installs the package currently installed to the version in the new RPM. This is the same as install, except all other version of the package are removed from the system. Since upgrade removes other versions of the package, you want install. BUT: * watch out for symlinks in /boot and /lib/modules ** You ought to rm the symlinks, so when you install, the existing vmlinuz, module-info, and System.map in /boot and /lib/modules isn't overwritten. Where's your old kernel (was it -19?)? It ought to be in /boot, if it wasn't overwritten when you put in -27 What does ls /boot/ show? Here is mine: $ls /boot/ System.map@ bzImage os2_d.b System.map-2.2.13-5mdk chain.b vmlinuz@ System.map-2.2.13-5mdkBOOT core vmlinuz-2.2.13-5mdk System.map-2.2.13-7mdk initrd-2.2.9-19mdk.img vmlinuz-2.2.13-5mdkBOOT System.map-2.2.9-27mdk map vmlinuz-2.2.13-7mdk System.map-2.2.9-27mdkfbmodule-info@ vmlinuz-2.2.9-27mdk boot.0300 module-info-2.2.13-5mdk vmlinuz-2.2.9-27mdkfb boot.0341 module-info-2.2.13-7mdk boot.b module-info-2.2.9-27mdk $ The symlinks are to the 2.2.13-7 stuff. Chris BTW, what does the -19mdk mean? Probably that it's from a Mandrake distribution. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-7mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Sep 21 St Matthew "Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Daily News, 2/21/02]
[newbie] Fetchmail tosses my mail?
"Jeanette" == Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeanette I have used fetchmail on my other systems. Just tried Jeanette to set it up on Mandrake. Got fetchmail:SMTP error: 451 Jeanette owner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender domain must Jeanette resolve? Don't know where it went but the fetchmailrc Jeanette file is identical to the one on my other machine? Whats Jeanette up with this? Any Idea where the mail is? Jeanette This looks as if another machine is rejecting your mail because the name of your machine isn't resolvable to a numeric IP address. I.e., your machine is name localhost.localdomain, and there is no DNS entry at the other machine for that name. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 20.4, VM 6.43 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.9-19mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm
Re: [newbie] 6.1 Download/Install
"Bob" == Bob Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Bob I can't help your connection speed, but I can point you to Bob something that will help with big downloads. Get a package Bob called NetVampire. It only runs under W95, I don't know if Bob there's a Linux equivalent. It will let you get packages in Bob chunks, letting you get some each day. It runs in the Bob background so you can use your computer while downloading. [snip] Try ncftp, a character based ftp client. Download. Interrupt the download. Start to retrieve the same file, and ncftp asks if you want to overwrite, resume, append or skip. Choose resume. This is called "reget", and is very useful. Running ncftp on a virtual console and switching to another virtual console allows you to "use your computer while downloading." -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-7mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Sep 18 St Joseph of Cupertino "Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?" [M. Tulli Ciceronis Oratio In Catilinam Prima In Senatu Habita at http://ftp.sunet.se/ftp/pub/etext/gutenberg/etext95/ccero10.txt]
[newbie] addressbook program
"pol" == pol keem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
is there any good built in text based addressbook program? ===
The Insidious Big Brother Database ("bbdb"), which works with Emacs or
XEmacs.
http://pw2.netcom.com/~simmonmt/bbdb/index.html
--
Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA
X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el
X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html
Kernel 2.2.13-7mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm
Sep 17 Stigmata of St Francis
"Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing
faster than he can think and give thanks." - [G.K. Chesterton, in
Daily News, 2/21/02]
[newbie] email to ip address
"pol" == pol keem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pol this isn't really a linux question (directly at least) but is pol there any way to format an email address with the resolved ip pol address? like [EMAIL PROTECTED] without the dns server pol saying it can't be resolved...i'm wondering if there are any pol special escape characters so the dns server will just return pol the same ip address... === polkeem Maybe this is completely wrong, but have you tried polkeem@]129.144.26.11] ? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.71 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.13-5mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Sep 16 Sts Cornelius and Cyprian or Sts Euphemia, Lucy and Germinianus "We hear much about new religions; many of them based on the very latest novelties of Buddha and Pythagoras." [G.K. Chesterton, in The Thing: Why I Am a Catholic]
Re: [newbie] laptops
"Chris" == Chris D [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: toshiba tecra 740 cdt [snip] http://www.cck.uni-kl.de/misc/tecra710/ the following is from that site: "This page is designed to help you get Linux up and running on your Toshiba Tecra series notebook (... 740CDT)." -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 20.4, VM 6.72 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.9-19mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Sep 9 St Peter Claver or St Gorgonius "Darn it. You know, the Chinese were just about to tell us everything we wanted to know regarding this espionage thing. But since we accidentally bombed their embassy, now they aren't talking to us." [Jon E. Dougherty http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_excomm/19990511_xex_the_mother_a.shtml]
[newbie] laptops
"Chris" == Chris D [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i am new and planning an install of mandrake on my toshiba laptop, and i was wondering if there is anything to watch out for. What model? http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ is a Linux on laptops page. Just easy does it. -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 20.4, VM 6.72 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.9-19mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Sep 8 Nativity of the Blessed Virgin or St Hadrian "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." - [G.K. Chesterton, in Chapter 5, What's Wrong With The World, 1910]
[newbie] threads
"Manny" == Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is anyone else starting to get threaded messages out of order? I am now seeing replies before I see the original message. This have never happened to me with this list before, but it has started within the last two days. What is your mailer? Your X headers indicate you're using one of BG's products. X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 How does your mail reader thread (by Message-ID?)? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 20.4, VM 6.72 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.9-19mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Sep 2 St Stephen of Hungary "There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth." - [G.K. Chesterton, in ILN, 7/18/08]
[newbie] Opening Windows Files
"Ken" == Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ken Can someone please explain how to mount the fat partition Ken from Linux so that I can access all of those office files Ken while running Linux. Or do I just need to copy them to disk Ken and open them in SO? Thanks # mount -t umsdos /dev/[whatever-drive-and-partition-for-dos] /mnt/[whatever-directory-you-want-the-dos-partition-mounted-at] (all on one line). -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 20.4, VM 6.72 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.9-19mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Aug 30 St Rose of Lima "I was very tolerant of the idea of being behind the times, having had long opportunities of studying the perfectly ghastly people who were abreast of the times; or the still more pestilent people who were in advance of the times." [G.K. Chesterton, in The Catholic Church and Conversion]
[newbie] PPP/InterNet Connectivity
"Don" == Richards, Donald D [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Don successful connection with my ISP. I can log on and Don establish a PPP connection, and the connection lasts until it Don times out for lack of activity (generally about 15 minutes). Don However, I can't get anything to work! Netscape just [snip] What's in your /etc/hosts and in your /etc/resolv.conf files? (Have you got your nameserver specified?) -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 20.4, VM 6.72 and random-sig.el X-Face header is me! http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html Kernel 2.2.9-19mdk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Aug 27 St Joseph Calasanctius or The Seven Joys of the Blessed Virgin "I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds ... for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated." [G.K. Chesterton, Autobiography]
