Re: Kernel Options for Dummies... + Followup...

2003-07-08 Thread Gary Singleton
--- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, July 07 at 5:22 PM EDT Gary Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm compiling a kernel using the docs provided at http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html and it's all good but is there a doc somewhere that explains

Re: Kernel Options for Dummies... + Followup...

2003-07-08 Thread Gary Singleton
--- Kevin McKinley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:18:35 -0700 (PDT) Gary Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When asked: ...install a partition boot block on /dev/hda1? I answer: yes - I originally set up debian to have the mbr on /dev/hda You want to write the boot

Kernel Options for Dummies...

2003-07-07 Thread Gary Singleton
Hi, I'm compiling a kernel using the docs provided at http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html and it's all good but is there a doc somewhere that explains the options in the kernel configuration better? Especially helpful would be something that says 'don't say no to that one' or

Re: X-Windows.

2000-07-03 Thread Gary Singleton
Yep, I got that - I just restarted my box but found out later that it was something in the /tmp directory. Restarting apparently erased it but you can probably just go clear it out manually. HTH, G.S. - Original Message - From: voy1d [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-user

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-14 Thread Gary Singleton
FWIW I tried catdoc and in my opinion it's not very good. I just tried it to get some old docs readable plain text. It works OK and it gets the text out but for me it sometimes repeated paragraphs and things like that. G.S. --- Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Big programs like

Re: Symbolic links behaviour

1999-04-08 Thread Gary Singleton
--- Ruben Leote Mendes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Adam, On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 01:09:57PM -0700, Adam Klein wrote: Why don't you just mount the parition under /usr/local? The main reason is because I want to put several directories in the same partition. I create several

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-07 Thread Gary Singleton
--- John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Gary Singleton wrote: --- John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the accepted method of sending a file to a person that MUST not get into unfriendly hands, but needs to get between users that have no access

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-07 Thread Gary Singleton
Sure, sounds good to me; I'm tired anyway. Truth be known I've sent a more than a few files through the mail myself G. Anyways, I'm down in Boise, if you ever get down this way let me know. Best wishes, G.S. --- John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's just agree to disagree, shall we?

What advantage; gs-aladdin vs. gs?

1999-04-07 Thread Gary Singleton
_quality_ assistance. Best regards, Gary Singleton -- Dilbert's mom uses Linux! Dilbert's mom rules! _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: netscape plugins

1999-04-06 Thread Gary Singleton
http://home.netscape.com/plugins/by_platform.html#Linux HTH, G.S. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curious... There are alot of plugins available for netscape, but most don't specifically mention they are for linux - in fact, one of them I tried gave me an .exe. file to run to install.

Why no asWedit .deb package?

1999-04-06 Thread Gary Singleton
I only ask because they have one on their site @ http://www.advasoft.com/. I downloaded it but haven't installed. I'm afraid it will trash my dpkg database or something like that. Does anyone know of any problems with their .deb? Thanks, G.S.

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-05 Thread Gary Singleton
--- George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Gary Singleton wrote: --- John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the accepted method of sending a file to a person that MUST not get into unfriendly hands, but needs to get between users that have no access

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-05 Thread Gary Singleton
--- Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 02:45:33PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: Look at the Linux package sendfile and the preliminary draft of the RFC for the saft profocol. The way it works is this: I send a file to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Curious. The

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-05 Thread Gary Singleton
--- Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 08:46:04AM -0700, Gary Singleton wrote: No they don't! My wife routinely gets attachments in the 300-600K range from her friend back home. Yesterday, her friend sent a couple of files called something like

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-04 Thread Gary Singleton
--- Jiri Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Stefan Nobis: Do you get the point? To send emails bigger than about 40-80KB without being asked to do so and without asking the recipient is not very nice and i would call it an offence. Your point being? Everyone knows that you

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-04 Thread Gary Singleton
--- John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the accepted method of sending a file to a person that MUST not get into unfriendly hands, but needs to get between users that have no access to the other's machine, due to dynamic PPP and hostile ISPs, then? Dynamic IP addresses can be taken

Re: GNOME query

1999-04-03 Thread Gary Singleton
Does icewm-gnome offer anything that icewm doesn't? I like icewm primarily for it's simplicity and apparent low resource usage. Is the gnome version just built using the gnome libraries? Thanks, G.S. --- Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On

Re: Newbie Questions

1999-04-03 Thread Gary Singleton
--- Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snip-- .xinitrc is used if you start X with 'startx' and .xession if you run xdm. This can't be right, as I use startx and .xsession. Right, I use startx and I don't even have an .xinitrc. I did do a custom .xsession though. Regards, G.S.

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-01 Thread Gary Singleton
Well, I don't really want to get involved in the large e-mail attachment debate but I saw a news item about this the other day. It's supposed to give you like 20M of internet storage - mostly for transfering files. I have no use for it but it _might_ work for something like that. Otherwise I

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-01 Thread Gary Singleton
I always forget the URL - sorry. http://www.mydocsonline.com/ _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

ppp problems...

1999-03-30 Thread Gary Singleton
it be because I recently did a dist-upgrade to slink? Any assistance is most appreciated. Thanks in advance, Gary Singleton _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Mar 29 20:34:48 zorak pppd[14962]: sent [LCP

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-30 Thread Gary Singleton
--- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snippage-- No, you could even retrieve this kind of features with bsod, a linux application to emulate Win1895 BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). I've saw it a loong time ago either on sunsite or tsx-11 :-)) If anyone can find this please let

Red Hat, HP Linux...

1999-03-28 Thread Gary Singleton
over the whole Geoworks Ensemble thing ;-). Thanks for everything, Gary Singleton (sorry for the incoherency, need sleep) _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Gary Singleton
FWIW you might want to check out [EMAIL PROTECTED] (is that corny or what?). It's actually pretty neat you can do _everything_ through a browser. Download options are MS-Money, Quicken or comma delimited ASCII. Of course there are a lot of potential reasons not to like it including being used

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Gary Singleton
Sorry! - http://www.netbank.com/ G.S. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Coupla quick questions...

1999-03-25 Thread Gary Singleton
Hello Debian users! I usually just lurk and learn that way but I have a few quick questions that I would appreciate a little info on. 1.) I somehow managed to delete my /var/log/news directory and was getting boot errors. I apparently fixed it by recreating the directory as root but that made

Re: Help connecting with Earthlink

1999-03-18 Thread Gary Singleton
from Sprint (at least here in Boise, ID). HTH, Gary Singleton _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-09 Thread Gary Singleton
or Exploiter would also work. I also loaded an old (original) copy of '95 and it worked on it. There is a thumbnail image so you can kind of see what it looks like. LMK if this doesn't work this time. Regards, Gary Singleton ---Carey Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

Re:[Fwd: Installing debian with Win98][OT?]

1999-01-08 Thread Gary Singleton
Yep, or just shift+click on the link. I just did it real quick but it would be cool to modify as a shut-down screen with a phrase something like 'It is now safe to boot into your _real_ OS'. Or something. This may be getting off topic and since the list is already extremely busy... G.S.

Re: Re:[Fwd: Installing debian with Win98][OT?]

1999-01-08 Thread Gary Singleton
at the time and most don't use Lynx, Elm or Pine under '9x. Thanks for the reminder and my apologies to all. Regards, G.S. ---David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Gary Singleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Yep, or just shift+click on the link. I just did it real quick but it would be cool

Re: time daemon

1999-01-07 Thread Gary Singleton
I don't think it runs in daemon mode but I always use netdate - I have mine in a script for ip.up so it synchs every time I connect and also runs 'hwclock --systohc --utc'. HTH, G.S. ---Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've forgotten the name of the package that provides a daemon to

RE: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-07 Thread Gary Singleton
OK, so what I did is modify Rob @ slashdot's excellent 'Linux - Don't Fear the Penguins.' artwork (http://slashdot.org/linux/index.shtml) resized/converted it to a 400x320x256 bitmap named logo.bmp. I posted it at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/2361/logo.bmp if anybody wants to try

bash/sh scripting tutorial?

1998-12-31 Thread Gary Singleton
]' means. I have gathered that it checks for the existance of a command before trying to execute it but would like to be certain. Thanks in advance for any assistance. Gary Singleton _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address

xbase install problem solved - now another question

1998-12-23 Thread Gary Singleton
Hi Debian users, I solved my xbase installation problem by installing several packages before trying to install it. They weren't depends but they goofed it up somehow. Now I have a question about this dangling link I have in /usr/X11/lib/X11/XF86Config that is supposed to be going to

xbase-3.3.2.2-4 installation problems

1998-12-22 Thread Gary Singleton
' really is - I know it's three levels back but from what starting point? Thanks in advance for any assistance, Gary Singleton _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: Problems running Netscape

1998-12-18 Thread Gary Singleton
Hi, I got that error today when I loaded WP8 on my test system (new hamm load) solved it by loading xpm4.7 from /oldlibs on my hamm cd. HTH, G.S. --- On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Richard Holden wrote: The X system appears to working just fine. But, when I try to run Netscape I get an error message

Re: Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux ishere! (fwd)

1998-12-18 Thread Gary Singleton
For me somewhere between downloading the files on an NT system, burning them to CD over the network on a '95 system and then copying them to my Debian system the filenames became all caps. I had to rename all the files to lowercase i.e. GUI00 to gui00 (after they were gunzipped). Then I tar -xvf

Re: Network cards.

1998-12-11 Thread Gary Singleton
Just make sure you don't buy a WinNIC! - just kidding, couldn't resist, sorry. http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html will tell you what (not) to get. HTH, G.S. ---Brent McMillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll be setting up a network between my linux box and 2 other

Re: Just My 2 Cents

1998-12-08 Thread Gary Singleton
couldn't handle it but it's been viable as a server for quite some time. Regards, Gary Singleton _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: Unix book

1998-12-03 Thread Gary Singleton
My recommendations ( a lot of other peoples) all from O'Reilly all my opinion: Running Linux - now in it's second edition but I still have the first - not much changed. It's a really good overview of Linux and IMO the best book for a new user. Some people like Linux for Dummies but I can't

Re: 128 MB RAM

1998-12-02 Thread Gary Singleton
IIRC you have to type the full line 'append mem=128M' including the 'append' part. HTH, G.S. - ---Michael B. Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 07:48:15AM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: Dana G Haugli writes: Hi! I have 128 MB of RAM on my computer, but Linux only

Re: My binaries won't run

1998-12-02 Thread Gary Singleton
I'm kinda stupid so take what I say with a grain of salt but I think it is either the file is not set executable or it's not in the path. For the first do an ls -l on the file and make sure it is executable (duh). For the second type ./filename and see if it works then. HTH, G.S. ---[EMAIL