Re: [expert] kppp prevents other X apps from opening

2000-04-09 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
John Aldrich wrote: On Sat, 08 Apr 2000, you wrote: Possibly. If you are using a higher security level and you have ALL:ALL:DENY in your /etc/hosts.deny file then you may want to alter it to ALL:ALL except localhost:DENY. I'm 99.% sure it's the "autoconfigure hostname from this

Re: [expert] Network

2000-04-09 Thread Vic
I have been looking aorund for that packege, where can I find sniff it? On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, John Aldrich mewed: On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: Quick question to ask if anyone knows of any utilities that will watch your network activity. I have a full time connection through my

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Vic
Where can you get Framemaker? On Sat, 08 Apr 2000, Stephen F. Bosch mewed: Wolfgang Bornath wrote: So does Microsoft Word... have you ever tried to manage a document that's more than 18 pages in Word? With images and tables of contents? Ahem, I did. 291 pages, more than 80 images,

[expert] lilo problem with 7.0 air

2000-04-09 Thread Fabrice SERVANT
Hello, As my linux won't recognize my 128M RAM I'm trying to put append="mem=128M" in my lilo.conf. But when I type lilo to update the config I get the following message: Added li Added win Added floppy No images have been defined. HERE IS MY LILO.CONF boot=/dev/hde map=/boot/map

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Michael Holt
Well, in my dictionary 'WINE' stands for WINdows Emulator. Mike Fieschko wrote: "Michael" == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael What kind of problems? I've heard their OS version of Michael linux wasn't doing to hot, but I was hearing that WINE is Michael working

Re: [expert] Cable modem

2000-04-09 Thread jim
I use a cable modem connection and yes it comes up upon boot ( at least if you have your settings properly configured). It is basically setup just like a lan Jim On Sat, 08 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hi folks ! A friend of mine would use linux and he has cable modem connection with static IP. My

Re: [expert] Oversized Ethernet frame

2000-04-09 Thread Maxim
The eth-adaptors are realtek8139 (irq 9 and irq 10). After the error message appears the default gw is lost. Route simply hangs up and only ctrl-c can break its 'work'. After reboot everything is working well for some time. I'm trying to find any info in howto/faqs at the moment, but people

Re: [expert] lilo problem with 7.0 air

2000-04-09 Thread Civileme
Fabrice SERVANT wrote: Hello, As my linux won't recognize my 128M RAM I'm trying to put append="mem=128M" in my lilo.conf. But when I type lilo to update the config I get the following message: Added li Added win Added floppy No images have been defined. HERE IS MY LILO.CONF

Re: [expert] lilo problem with 7.0 air

2000-04-09 Thread Civileme
Fabrice SERVANT wrote: Hello, As my linux won't recognize my 128M RAM I'm trying to put append="mem=128M" in my lilo.conf. But when I type lilo to update the config I get the following message: Added li Added win Added floppy No images have been defined. HERE IS MY LILO.CONF

[expert] No Mouse Pointer in XFree86 Version 4

2000-04-09 Thread Dennis Robertson
Hello List, I am running L-M7.0 and have just installed XFree86 version4. All went well except for the mouse pointer. The mouse is an M$ serial IntelliMouse at com1. The first few times I started up I couldn't see the mouse pointer at all but if I clicked the left button I could see a small

Re: [expert] The ongoing tradition of weird wacky Ver 7.0-2 problems continues

2000-04-09 Thread Lane Lester
Trevor Farrell said: Been there, done that. You have, I'm guessing that both cd's are on the same cable, set the dip switches to the correct master or slave settings?? That too! Both devices work perfectly under win95 and BeOS 5, only Linux has problems. Just to let you

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Ron Stodden
Michael Holt wrote: Well, in my dictionary 'WINE' stands for WINdows Emulator. No. WINE is an acronym for: WINE Is Not an Emulator. This follows the GNU recursive model: GNU is Not Unix. Wine is not an emulator or a simulator - Windows programs directly execute on a Linux implementation

Re: [expert] lilo problem with 7.0 air

2000-04-09 Thread Fabrice SERVANT
win instead of windows That was my mistake Thanks Fabrice U allways need someone to look after you, so do I __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

[expert] Adaptec SCSI-Controller

2000-04-09 Thread Burkhard Zombronner
Hi there, does anybody know if Mandrake 7.02 supports the adaptec scsi controller 29160 with chipset 7892B or does anybody use it already? Thanks for any help! regards Burkhard Zombronner

Re: [expert] Oversized Ethernet frame

2000-04-09 Thread Rial Juan
On Apr 9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After reboot everything is working well for some time. I suppose network restart brings it back online as well? If so, no conclusion can be drawn, but if not it's most likely a hardware problem. To restart your network services type: /etc/rc.d/init.d/network

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Brook humphrey
Well I wouldn't say faster. I've had both word 97 and realplayer 7.0 working and they did work but not quite right and slow. Ron Stodden wrote: Michael Holt wrote: Well, in my dictionary 'WINE' stands for WINdows Emulator. No. WINE is an acronym for: WINE Is Not an Emulator.

Re: [expert] No Mouse Pointer in XFree86 Version 4

2000-04-09 Thread Tom Berkley
Reconfigure your mouse with mouseconfig Dennis Robertson wrote: Hello List, I am running L-M7.0 and have just installed XFree86 version4. All went well except for the mouse pointer. The mouse is an M$ serial IntelliMouse at com1. The first few times I started up I couldn't see the

Re: [expert] Multiple Kernels under LILO

2000-04-09 Thread Guillermo Belli
What you need to do is compile the new kernel and install it (that is, copy bzimage and System.map into the /boot directory) and add the newly compiled kernel in the /etc/lilo.conf file. After that, every time you boot, you can select which kernel to boot. It's that simple. Icebreaker, escribió:

Re: [expert] lilo problem with 7.0 air

2000-04-09 Thread Larry Sword
Fabrice SERVANT wrote: Hello, As my linux won't recognize my 128M RAM I'm trying to put append="mem=128M" in my lilo.conf. But when I type lilo to update the config I get the following message: Added li Added win Added floppy No images have been defined. HERE IS MY LILO.CONF

Re: [expert] How to quit getting mail

2000-04-09 Thread Monte Milanuk
go to the same place you did to get on Monte Lee Binkley wrote: How do you get off this mailing list.. please advise. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

[expert] GIMP and sane

2000-04-09 Thread Mandrake
Hello , I have Gimp installed. Scanner is a miroteckscanmaker IIsp scsi wich works well . I can scan by entering on a terminal screen xscanimage. Bu Cannt make it to be a plug in. when i run gimp from a terminal screen i get the following message: /usr/lib/gimp/1.0/plug-inx/xscanimage: GIMP

Re: [expert] NAT - proxy package

2000-04-09 Thread silkythreads
NetMAX Firewall cost $74.99 at eLinux.com - Original Message - From: "rooker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 8:18 PM Subject: [expert] NAT - proxy package I have been trying to setup Mandrake and ipchains on an old Pentium 100 with 32meg

Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-09 Thread Lane Lester
Brian T. Schellenberger said: A possible way to find out is to do a ps alwf /root/ps-output when you go to run-level 5; eg, put this: :5:respawn:ps alwf /root/ps-output in your /etc/inittab. Then we can at least see what's going on when this happens. I added the

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Vic
Sorry to butt in, is wine an "adaptor" or an "emulator"? I have heard both from different sources. On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, Michael Holt mewed: Well, in my dictionary 'WINE' stands for WINdows Emulator. Mike Fieschko wrote: "Michael" == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

[expert] WINE

2000-04-09 Thread Lane Lester
Ron Stodden said: Wine is not an emulator or a simulator - Windows programs directly execute on a Linux implementation of the Windows Application Program Interface (API), and should run just as fast (maybe faster?) as they do under an MS API implementation. Well, I'm sure that's true of

Re: [expert] Network

2000-04-09 Thread Pat Mc
http://sniffit.rug.ac.be/sniffit/sniffit.html Vic wrote: I have been looking aorund for that packege, where can I find sniff it? On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, John Aldrich mewed: On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: Quick question to ask if anyone knows of any utilities that will watch your

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
"Stephen", Yes, I have used word for large files and I've used it since msword version 6.0 I'm the author of an open content FRPG, http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican it's split into two word docs which combined total ~412 pages. I've never had msword choke on them. I've had msword for some

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
Interface (API), and should run just as fast (maybe faster?) as they do under an MS API implementation. I just installed a cvs snapshot of wine (last night) that was made into a stripped rpm. I must say that while it still isn't stable it is damn fast. It is at least as fast as running under

Re: [expert] How to quit getting mail

2000-04-09 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Lee Binkley wrote: How do you get off this mailing list.. please advise. How did you get on this mailing list? -Stephen-

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Vic wrote: Where can you get Framemaker? Try the Framemaker home page at Adobe Systems for more information: http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/main.html Framemaker is used by publishers and authors alike -- many book publishers request that document manuscripts be submitted in

[expert] J Serve or Jakarta

2000-04-09 Thread Pj
My ISP forwarded this cry for Mandrake server assistance. It offers a very nice reward for the solution... PJ From: "Russell \"Elik\" Rademacher" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: JServ or Jakarta Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 11:40:56 -0400 Okay guys. I been at the hair end and frankly, I would like to

[expert] Wine Help

2000-04-09 Thread Ivan Trail
Where can one go to get help configuring wine to work on my system? Are there any How to or mailing lists? Thanks. Ivan

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: "Stephen", Yes, I have used word for large files and I've used it since msword version 6.0 I'm the author of an open content FRPG, http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican it's split into two word docs which combined total ~412 pages. I've never had msword choke on

Re: [expert] WINE

2000-04-09 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Lane Lester wrote: Ron Stodden said: Wine is not an emulator or a simulator - Windows programs directly execute on a Linux implementation of the Windows Application Program Interface (API), and should run just as fast (maybe faster?) as they do under an MS API implementation.

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Pj
Sheldon I just read something on one of the securtiy sites that a virus can cause files to *grow.* Unfotunately I forgot where I saw the info or the name/type of the virus. .. Pj Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: Yes, I have used word for large files and I've used it since msword version 6.0

[expert] A few questions

2000-04-09 Thread lorne schachter
I've got a couple of problems with the 7.0 beta that I'm running (I should get the official release next week to install): 1) When I leave the machine running with my screen saver on (kscience - the bouncing ball), the system will occasionally log me out, back to the login screen w/o

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: Hmn... well, you might try Adobe Framemaker (as I mentioned earlier on the list). Apparently there is now a Linux beta available (and as a note to others: Framemaker was originally a Unix app, it was ported to Windows) and it already runs in Solaris. It's

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 14:57 -0500, Pj wrote: Sheldon I just read something on one of the securtiy sites that a virus can cause files to *grow.* Unfotunately I forgot where I saw the info or the name/type of the virus. .. Pj Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: Yes, I have used word for large

Re: [expert] kppp prevents other X apps from opening

2000-04-09 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Well, then just setenv DISPLAY localhost:0 or export DISPLAY=localhost:0 depending on your shell. On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: | John Aldrich wrote: | | On Sat, 08 Apr 2000, you wrote: | Possibly. | If you are using a higher security level and you have ALL:ALL:DENY in | your

Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-09 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: | Brian T. Schellenberger said: | A possible way to find out is to do a | | ps alwf /root/ps-output | | when you go to run-level 5; eg, put this: | | :5:respawn:ps alwf /root/ps-output | | in your /etc/inittab. Then we can at least see

Re: [expert] A few questions

2000-04-09 Thread Alex V Flinsch
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: 2) If my ISP hangs me up (it does occasionally) and I try to reconnect, I get the message modem not responding from kppp. I can't send an ATDT to the modem, because it's not responding. The only way to clear it up is to reboot. Is there any other way

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: It might have been a virus but there is a much more direct reason: During editing a Word doc Word doesn't erase parts you erase and replaces them with the new text. It just adds the new text and hides the old. If you look at a doc which has been edited several times

[expert] Growing file sizes

2000-04-09 Thread Wayne Petherick
OT but I may be able to explain why your file sizes grow using M$ word... If you are working on a document and click on SAVE instead of SAVE AS, this will only add the changes to the existing document. If you clikc on SAVE AS it will replace the existing document with the one on the screen.

Re: [expert] Adaptec SCSI-Controller

2000-04-09 Thread Tom Berkley
Go to www.redhat.com/support and check the intel hardware compatibility list for the adaptec controllers. Tom Burkhard Zombronner wrote: Hi there, does anybody know if Mandrake 7.02 supports the adaptec scsi controller 29160 with chipset 7892B or does anybody use it already? Thanks for

Re: [expert] IP MASQ

2000-04-09 Thread Tom Berkley
You could use netcfg to configure two interfaces with different names and the same nic just do not activate them both at the same time. Then if you want to change isp's then you can either run netcfg to deactivate the current interface and then activate the other. Or you can write a shell script

Re: [expert] lilo problem with 7.0 air

2000-04-09 Thread Tom Berkley
In append major items are separated with spaces and minor (within an option) items are separated with commas. Not sure if this is a convention for viewing or if lilo actually pays attention to this. But it works, notheless. Tom Larry Sword wrote: Fabrice SERVANT wrote: Hello, As my

Re: [expert] No Mouse Pointer in XFree86 Version 4

2000-04-09 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, you wrote: Hello List, I am running L-M7.0 and have just installed XFree86 version4. All went well except for the mouse pointer. The mouse is an M$ serial IntelliMouse at com1. The first few times I started up I couldn't see the mouse pointer at all but if I clicked

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: Well, in my dictionary 'WINE' stands for WINdows Emulator. Wrong. WINE stands for "Wine Is Not an Emulator." Go check it out. John

Re: [expert] kppp prevents other X apps from opening

2000-04-09 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: It solves the *symptom*, but there's a reason that function was put into kppp to begin with, namely to allow IP applications relying on reverse lookup to function properly. Such as? I don't use a modem for my internet, so I'm unaware of any problems with

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: Sorry to butt in, is wine an "adaptor" or an "emulator"? I have heard both from different sources. Neither. WINE stands for "WINE Is Not an Emulator." John

Re: [expert] lilo problem with 7.0 air

2000-04-09 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hello, As my linux won't recognize my 128M RAM I'm trying to put append="mem=128M" in my lilo.conf. But when I type lilo to update the config I get the following message: HmmFirst of all, does that first image (/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdk) exist in the

Re: [expert] booting if the linuxconf inetd service is disabled

2000-04-09 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hello, Is the linuxconf inetd service needed at boot time? For security's sake, I'd rather turn it off. Please do. You only need it, AFAIK, if you're going to try to remotely administer it. John

Re: [expert] Network

2000-04-09 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: I have been looking aorund for that packege, where can I find sniff it? Have you tried FreshMeat? I know my boss uses it occasionallybut that's about all I know about it. BTW, there's no space in the name... John

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux -??wine??

2000-04-09 Thread Tim Val Litwiller
It is really more of an engine than either an adapter or an emulator, it it what the programs use to call for the hardware to do something, I think of it as kind of the same thing as X. If a windows programs needs a windows opened it calls the api -{ either ms or wine }- and the the api engine

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Sheldon Lee Wen wrote: It's *excellent* for large documents. I've already got it installed. I've used it before when I worked at Nortel. However, it's VERY not-user-friendly. I think the UI sucks. Although, it does produce VERY nice output. Well, now that Adobe owns it, the UI might

Re: [Re: [expert] Solved! - was: Refuses to install... :-(]]

2000-04-09 Thread E T
Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Berkley wrote: Mode 4 is UDMA 66 Mode 2 is UDMA 33 What UDMA 66 controller is in your box? Not necessarily: UDMA 66 is _UDMA_ mode 4, but you also had _PIO_ modes 0,1,2,3 and 4 (before any UDMA was available). Is it absolutely sure

Re: [expert] J Serve or Jakarta

2000-04-09 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Pjsince there is no such Mandrake release designated 7.02 (it's 7.0-2), I'd certainly wonder if someone at that ISP is not very careful. :-) Alan Pj wrote: My ISP forwarded this cry for Mandrake server assistance. It offers a very nice reward for the solution... PJ From: "Russell

Re: [expert] Network

2000-04-09 Thread Thomas McLaughlin
Snifit might be a problem though, I know from personal experience that packet sniffers might be frowned upon on by your school's network administrator. You could try ippl which should be on linuxberg somewhere, probably freshmeat as well or try iplog which should also be on freshmeat. After

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Lane Lester
Sheldon Lee Wen said: it's split into two word docs which combined total ~412 pages. I've never had msword choke on them. I've had msword for some reason grow the file size without reason. Once the file size grew to 63MB. I had to cut and paste everything to a new file (and then spend

Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-09 Thread Lane Lester
Brian T. Schellenberger said: | Apr 9 12:38:36 localhost mandrake_everytime: Building Window Manager Sessions | succeeded | Apr 9 12:38:40 localhost init: Switching to runlevel: 5 Well, this is where you're switching to run-level 5. You didn't want to do that. It's happening

Re: [expert] GIMP and sane

2000-04-09 Thread Lane Lester
Mandrake said: Hello , I have Gimp installed. Scanner is a miroteckscanmaker IIsp scsi wich works well . I can scan by entering on a terminal screen xscanimage. Bu Cannt make it to be a plug in. when i run gimp from a terminal screen i get the following message:

Re: [expert] WINE

2000-04-09 Thread Lane Lester
Stephen F. Bosch said: Windows Tetris runs great in Wine! *LAUGHS* grin -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...

Re: [expert] A few questions

2000-04-09 Thread Tom Berkley
lorne Check out the setserial command. Here is a quick one to try but make certain that the serial port is correct (ttyS0 is the first serial port, ttyS1 is the second, ...). This should reset everything. If not, then check the man pages. /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 auto_irq skip_test autoconfig

Re: [expert] lilo problem with 7.0 air

2000-04-09 Thread Larry Sword
Tom Berkley wrote: In append major items are separated with spaces and minor (within an option) items are separated with commas. Not sure if this is a convention for viewing or if lilo actually pays attention to this. But it works, notheless. Tom Speaking of the append statement. I've run

Re: [expert] J Serve or Jakarta

2000-04-09 Thread Pj
Alan, I know the IP and I know where the question came from. Neither is bogus. If the question is a hoax, then a lot of good people have been duped. I don't know JServe from a bridge convention, personally, but I do take this list and its respondents seriously. I fess up to sending the wrong

Re: [expert] lilo problem with 7.0 air

2000-04-09 Thread Tom Berkley
Larry Suspect a lilo.conf line length limitation. Try using the \ character at the end of a line and continue the append command on the following line. Make absolute certain that no spaces follow the \ character or is will not escape the newline character. Tom Larry Sword wrote: Tom Berkley

[expert] lilo in general

2000-04-09 Thread Tom Berkley
For everyone who has questions about lilo, look in /usr/doc/lilo-0.22/doc for the User_Guide and Technical_Guide. Both are in postscript format and can be viewed with ghostview (gv). These are most informative documents and will answer most questions about lilo and lilo.conf. Also note that there

Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-09 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
I just realized that this mail of mine might confuse people a bit. Please notice that I had comments in the middle of the messages as well as in the middle of the original message. On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: | On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: | | Brian T. Schellenberger said: | | A

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
You know that realplayer 7 is out for Linux now, right? On Tue, 09 Dec 1980, you wrote: | Well I wouldn't say faster. I've had both word 97 and realplayer 7.0 | working and they did work but not quite right and slow. | | Ron Stodden wrote: | | Michael Holt wrote: | | Well, in my

Re: [expert] The ongoing tradition of weird wacky Ver 7.0-2 problems continues

2000-04-09 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Is the zip drive 0,0 or 0,1? Have you tried cdrecord -scanbus ? On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: | Trevor Farrell said: | Been there, done that. | ||You have, I'm guessing that both cd's are on the same cable, set the dip |switches to the correct master or slave settings?? |

Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-09 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Yes, but what rc.5 has is irrelavent; the question is: "why are we using rc.5 in the *first* place? -- what's putting us into run-level 5?" Do you have an init in the rc.local at all? (Possibly linked in for run-level 3.) I suspect not, and that 'init' is some "special" magical string that

RE: [expert] J Serve or Jakarta

2000-04-09 Thread Russell \Elik\ Rademacher
Hello all. It is I who wrote the original message. I apologies for the numbering of the distro version, since I was little tired when I wrote it. So it is 7.02 or 7.0-2 which seems to be pretty much the same to me. :) But it is important to have the JServ to work on Mandrake

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Michael Holt
AARGH! That's simply a play on words You stated the fact yourself - the program that's NORMALLY executed on a WINDOWS platform is allowed now to run on a LINUX platform. You EMULATE the Windows enviroment so that you can run that program in a Linux enviroment. ~Mike~ Ron Stodden wrote:

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Sergio P. Korlowsky
Brook humphrey wrote: Well I wouldn't say faster. I've had both word 97 and realplayer 7.0 working and they did work but not quite right and slow. Ron Stodden wrote: geee check the date in your message..   ;-)

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Michael Holt
I believe it's just semantics (IMHO). Now matter how you get there, it's a program that allows you to use software written for another program without changing the attributes of that software. You could call it emulator, adapter, translator, or even 'recursive acronym' - but it doesn't really

Re: [expert] kppp prevents other X apps from opening

2000-04-09 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: Such as? I don't use a modem for my internet, so I'm unaware of any problems with turning OFF the "autoconfigure hostname." Please enlighten me as to what problems you encounter after turning it off. John It's a feature, not a

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-09 Thread Michael Holt
I'm not quite sure why you want to blast me for simple semantics, but whatever name you want to give it, it still performs the same function. ~Mike~ John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: Well, in my dictionary 'WINE' stands for WINdows Emulator. Wrong. WINE stands for "Wine

RE: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-09 Thread Russ Johnson
"Normally", the init level is set by the first non-comment line in /etc/inittab. Mine says: id:3:initdefault: and my system does properly boot to runlevel 3. /etc/inittab is the file that controls how init works. You can override inittab by specifying a parameter at the lilo prompt. So, that

RE: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-09 Thread Russ Johnson
Of course, this all begs the question... Why spends days debugging this when a simple reinstall (an hour) would most likely fix it? That's one of the reasons I always design my systems so that I can reinstall the OS without destroying any of my data. One of the powers of Linux. I'm able to

Re: [expert] J Serve or Jakarta

2000-04-09 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
Okay, so it's my fault... I designed the Mandrake Apache package and some patches make Jserve incompatible. Problem is, I have been travelling over the past 2 months. This week it's the Linux-Expo in Montreal, but on Thursday, I plan 5 hours to solve the problem. Tell Russell I take care of

RE: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-09 Thread Russ Johnson
Play on words or not, that's what the Wine team says it stands for. To emulate, aren't you faking it? If they don't fake it, but actually have the APIs, then it's not emulation, it's real. Hence, not emulation. If it was hardware, then I'd say it had to be emulation. Since we're talking

[expert] IP MASQ

2000-04-09 Thread Richard Bonebrake
Thanks to everyone for your help with the ip masq. I now have it working and am back on line. I have a new problem though. I use 2 different isp's. 1. "asquith.net" works fine, 2. "sprint.ca" shows my 192.168.100.254 instead of there 207.107.whatever. I know that they only support win xx and IE