Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 22:39 -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > Don't forget the TI and the one I wrote my first piece of code on ... > the HP-45 RPM programmable Calculator. (more fun than the mainframe... > it took forever to write, debug and view output from a program it was > boring the

Re: [expert] Strange => Portsentry Security Violations home.english-quest.com.br 09/05/02:04.02 system check (fwd)

2002-09-05 Thread Martin Fahrendorf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 5. September 2002 20:46 schrieb Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas: > What could be happening in here? > I don't understand why "security violations"... > I use Postfix... > > Is it any misconfig (Postifix)? > > TIA > > Ricardo > > ---

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 22:36 -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 19:27, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > On Thursday 05 September 2002 09:55 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 16:40, Darren King wrote: > > > > Don't forget the Amiga did multitasking years before

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 22:12, Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: > On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Mark Weaver wrote: > > Then how about Commodore, Sinclair (was that the spelling?) and > others? Don't forget the TI and the one I wrote my first piece of code on ... the HP-45 RPM programmable Calculat

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 19:27, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Thursday 05 September 2002 09:55 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 16:40, Darren King wrote: > > > Don't forget the Amiga did multitasking years before any other home > > > computer did...remember PC people saying why wou

Re: [expert] User ID 8 character limit

2002-09-05 Thread James Sparenberg
Todd, Not to correct you but have you tried to login as thisisav ... It often works. It definitely is true of passwords. We had a tech who left a nice little message as the root password on some boxes cashoutandgotohellyoubastards (He was miffed) one of the guys hit return too fast after o

Re: [expert] Repost: autoconf and rpm

2002-09-05 Thread James Sparenberg
Todd This is something I was having a conversation with Guillame (I hope I spelled it right if not I apologize.) On dealing with Autoconf specifically. I've run into this wall a number of times trying to build or use applications across a number of distributions. It would seem to me that the

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Mark Weaver wrote: Then how about Commodore, Sinclair (was that the spelling?) and others? The good old past had interesting things on computing! I've started out with an Sinclair (?) based "computer", then MSX, then mainframes (IBM and Fujitsu), then PC until now!! So

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Mark Weaver
> Wobo, > A Univac computer for me.. and yes pitty the poor individual who > didn't get the cover seated correctly on the card reader. Cards > flying everywhere. (Pity them even more if thier cards weren't > numbered!!) The real treat was paper tape readers Do remember > watching someo

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Mark Weaver
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 13:16 -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > >>They still re-make and sell them in Europe. amiga.com .org and .net >>exist and can start you on your journey. What caused the downfall. >>They got bought by Commodore. The management of Commedore was t

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Mark Weaver
Darren King wrote: > Man this email made me feel old. I can't believe there are computer > users who don't remember the Amiga! > > Darren > ah...don't sweat it. I didn't get started till '96. I'm still kind of a baby. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Mark Weaver
Teemu Torma wrote: > On Friday 06 September 2002 01:38, Darren King wrote: > >>Man this email made me feel old. I can't believe there are computer >>users who don't remember the Amiga! > > > Me too. Even though I started with Apple IIe, and the manual included > schema of the motherboard

Re: [expert] OT: mysql problem

2002-09-05 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Ok, it's running. What I did: When I ran mysql_install_db, I did it as root. So it created the mysql database (the privliges database) owned by root. I changed the ownership to mysql, and all works now. So... It runs now. But I still don't know why all the sudden it died like it did. Ric On T

Re: [expert] OT: mysql problem

2002-09-05 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Update: I did some more digging, and found: ./bin/mysql_install_db The documentation indicated that it was safe to run if the mysql database was missing (as would be the case with a new installation). So I ran it, and it created the mysql database. So now the error I get is: 020905 21:05:04 my

[expert] Has RC1 been fixed ??? for Bad XFree Package --

2002-09-05 Thread Robert Barry
Does anybody know if this has been fixed in the RC1 release? When trying to install Beta4 I get an error message saying that XFree86 is a bad package. I've tried downloading the ISO for CD#1 from 2 different mirrors and I get the same error message. 8.2 installed fine on my machine. Shuttle FV

[expert] Blurred XFree fonts!

2002-09-05 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
Hi, there Please, I just installed mdk8.2 on a new machine and after installing Nvidia drivers, I got all fonts blurred! As I mainly use word processors, it's killing my not so good poor eyes! On mdk8.1, another machine, with a Voodoo 3, the fonts and every thing is perfect! The NVidia drivers

Re: [expert] Apache 2.x

2002-09-05 Thread D. R. Evans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5 Sep 2002 at 12:43, Udo Rader wrote: > well, contributed things may sometimes not meet the same > quality-expectations that you have for mandrake-native packages. > > but to be honest, I never had problems so far with any of the contrib > stuff,

[expert] OT: mysql problem

2002-09-05 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Ok, since I'm on a roll with the off topic dumb questions today. I have another one. I am just starting to work with mysql. It was going ok, until the daemon died. I have no idea what caused it, but it won't restart. The log file gives the error: 020905 20:03:48 mysqld started 020905 20:03:48

[expert] KDE 3.03 (cooker) No Sound?

2002-09-05 Thread PlugHead
Since I updated to the KDE 3.03 packages on cooker, I haven't had any sound. In fact, I get the following message, every time KDE starts up: --- Sound server fatal error: reference counting violation - you may not call delete manually - use _release() instead --- The sound driver (that worked w

Re: [expert] Set up a network from scratch

2002-09-05 Thread Todd Lyons
Paul Stear wrote on Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 04:08:11PM +0100 : > Hi, Thanks for your reply > > I can ping 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.3 from windows and all is well, i.e. no > loss. > On Mandrake ping 192.168.0.2 - no loss but 192.168.0.3 -100%loss It sounds like your two network cards are differen

Re: [expert] User ID 8 character limit

2002-09-05 Thread Todd Lyons
Albert E. Whale wrote on Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 09:15:24PM -0400 : > How do I eliminate the 8 character User ID on LM 8.2? There is no such limit: [root@fiji ~]# useradd thisisaverylongname [root@fiji ~]# vdir /home total 28 drwx--3 gc gc120 Aug 31 10:48 gc drwxr-xr-x

Re: [expert] Password Limit on 8.2

2002-09-05 Thread Todd Lyons
Mark Weaver wrote on Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:08:44AM -0400 : > > you can "use" as many as you want to, however, the system only > recognizes and uses the first 8 characters of the string, so you're > typing extra characters that aren't even being used. Edit the file /etc/pam.d/system-auth. Fi

Re: [expert] BSDI conversion

2002-09-05 Thread Todd Lyons
Scott wrote on Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:10:06PM -0400 : > #!/usr/bin/perl > # > # Simple FreeBSD-to-Linux password converter > # -- Linux must be using shadow passwords > # > # Nickolai Zeldovich, 1998 > # http://kolya.net/, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > # > # Config stuff: > # > # "/etc/passwd" on a FreeBS

Re: [expert] Terminus (game), a few others, and Mandrake 8.2

2002-09-05 Thread Todd Lyons
Praedor Tempus wrote on Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:24:38PM -0500 : > > > Anyone have any ideas? How about on ways to save potentially useful > > > debugging information? The problem as it is now is that upon hard > > > reboot, the logs are devoid of anything useful. > > Can you ssh or telnet into y

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 05 September 2002 09:55 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 16:40, Darren King wrote: > > Don't forget the Amiga did multitasking years before any other home > > computer did...remember PC people saying why would you need to do more > > than one thing at a time on a com

Re: [expert] Repost: autoconf and rpm

2002-09-05 Thread Todd Lyons
D. R. Evans wrote on Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 10:56:11AM -0600 : Content-Description: Mail message body > > On my LM 8.1 system I have to install a newer version of autoconf. Using > the rpm from rpmfind.net for autoconf 2.53-7, it says that it requires > perl >= 5.6.0. LM 8.1 rpm says that it has pe

[expert] lost kppp - corrupted?

2002-09-05 Thread ImSam
Hi, I used to have Suse pro 7.2 and now I have Mandrake 8.2. I have problems with the screen freezing in Mandrake, mostly in Gnucash and also while on the net. But today, while on the net, the screen froze and later on, after rebooting I couldn't get on the internet at all anymore. I got the

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 16:40, Darren King wrote: > Don't forget the Amiga did multitasking years before any other home > computer did...remember PC people saying why would you need to do more > than one thing at a time on a computer My answer was always... For those of us who can walk and chew

Re: [expert] help adding second hardrive to replace /usr partition

2002-09-05 Thread Vox
Brent Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Once the drive is formated with linux file system (journalized FS) > can i just copy the data on my current /usr partition to the new drive > then edit /etc/fstab ?? Yup Vox -- Pain is the gift of the gods, and I'm the one they chose as their me

Re: [expert] help adding second hardrive to replace /usr partition

2002-09-05 Thread Brian Parish
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 10:54, Brent Bailey wrote: > Hello, > > Im using mandrake 8.2 and currently i have one ide drive that the /usr > partition is almost full. I cant install any more packages on this box > untill i get the /usr partition moved to a bigger drive. Can anyone point > me at a howto

[expert] help adding second hardrive to replace /usr partition

2002-09-05 Thread Brent Bailey
Hello, Im using mandrake 8.2 and currently i have one ide drive that the /usr partition is almost full. I cant install any more packages on this box untill i get the /usr partition moved to a bigger drive. Can anyone point me at a howto to move the /usr partition over?? In Freebsd its just a matt

RE: [expert] using Highpoint RAID as regular IDE controller

2002-09-05 Thread ddc_prueba
I'm not 'guru' or 'core-unix/hardware' so I may be wrong... anyway, I also have a raid HPT372 motherboard so I did my searching and found out: 1) I think have seen HPT372 is 'reported' to be supported on kernel 2.4.19. Mandrake 8.2 comes with 2.4.18 by default, so you'll need to update or patch t

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Teemu Torma
On Friday 06 September 2002 01:38, Darren King wrote: > Man this email made me feel old. I can't believe there are computer > users who don't remember the Amiga! Me too. Even though I started with Apple IIe, and the manual included schema of the motherboard. I liked the open architecture

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Darren King
Don't forget the Amiga did multitasking years before any other home computer did...remember PC people saying why would you need to do more than one thing at a time on a computer Darren On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 00:52, Alastair Scott wrote: > Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (09/05/2002 1

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Darren King
Man this email made me feel old. I can't believe there are computer users who don't remember the Amiga! Darren On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 20:59, Mark Weaver wrote: > Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Well, only about 8 years of UNIX, not 10. And 18(?) years with > > computers. Don't kno

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 05 September 2002 04:13 pm, you wrote: > Note to that the early flight simulators (and in fact many still > running) use to train professional pilots as well as battle field > simulation software. All ran on Amiga 2000s. Does anyone remember > Battle Chess? Full 3d animation on a si

Re: [expert] Who Broke Sort?

2002-09-05 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 19:06, David Relson wrote: > At 06:50 PM 9/5/02, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > >Ok, it's been a long time since I've needed to do this, and maybe I just > >forgot how. > > > >But: > > > >To sort out duplicate lines in a text file, didn't "sort -u" do the > >trick? Or am I getting fuz

Re: [expert] Who Broke Sort?

2002-09-05 Thread David Relson
At 06:50 PM 9/5/02, Ric Tibbetts wrote: >Ok, it's been a long time since I've needed to do this, and maybe I just >forgot how. > >But: > >To sort out duplicate lines in a text file, didn't "sort -u" do the >trick? Or am I getting fuzzy & old? > >I have a large text file that I receive on a regular

Re: [expert] Strange => Portsentry Security Violations home.english-quest.com.br 09/05/02:04.02 system check (fwd)

2002-09-05 Thread David Relson
Ricardo, You're seeing the results of logcheck, which is run as part of /etc/cron.daily. logcheck searches the system log files for strings from its configuration files, which are in /etc/logcheck/. The messages are classified according to which config file has the matching string. The goa

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 07:29, dh wrote: > On Thursday 05 September 2002 04:16 am, Alastair Scott wrote: > > Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (09/05/2002 11:55) > > > > >James Sparenberg wrote: > > >> Over 10 years on computers not always nix (I miss my Amiga > > >> *grin*) > > >> > >

Re: [expert] Who Broke Sort?

2002-09-05 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 18:50 -0400, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > Ok, it's been a long time since I've needed to do this, and maybe I just > forgot how. > > But: > > To sort out duplicate lines in a text file, didn't "sort -u" do the > trick? Or am I getting fuzzy & old? > > I have a large text file t

[expert] Who Broke Sort?

2002-09-05 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Ok, it's been a long time since I've needed to do this, and maybe I just forgot how. But: To sort out duplicate lines in a text file, didn't "sort -u" do the trick? Or am I getting fuzzy & old? I have a large text file that I receive on a regular basis ( a couple times a week). I need to clean

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 15:12 -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > Wobo, > A Univac computer for me.. and yes pitty the poor individual who > didn't get the cover seated correctly on the card reader. Cards > flying everywhere. (Pity them even more if thier cards weren't > numbered!!) The real

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 14:22, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 13:16 -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > > They still re-make and sell them in Europe. amiga.com .org and .net > > exist and can start you on your journey. What caused the downfall. > > They got bought by Commodor

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 13:16 -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > > They still re-make and sell them in Europe. amiga.com .org and .net > exist and can start you on your journey. What caused the downfall. > They got bought by Commodore. The management of Commedore was the role > model for Enron.

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 05 September 2002 03:24 pm, you wrote: > > Now, If I just knew what an Amiga was... The Amiga was the first true multimedia computer. ;-) -- /\

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 03:59, Mark Weaver wrote: > Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Well, only about 8 years of UNIX, not 10. And 18(?) years with > > computers. Don't know if I would call me a hard-core UNIX head > > (I don't like vi, you see? ;-). > > > > On Wed 2002-09-04 at 12:32:52

RE: [expert] Xfree 4.2 & 3.36 crash during installation -- Test X

2002-09-05 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Hi, Just to confirm! This information below saved my life also with a gf2-integrated! It's simple! Just follow the instructions and you will get it working! With a nice 'splash' of NVidia during X booting! Well, it's not so nice but, it tells you that it

[expert] Strange => Portsentry Security Violations home.english-quest.com.br09/05/02:04.02 system check (fwd)

2002-09-05 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
What could be happening in here? I don't understand why "security violations"... I use Postfix... Is it any misconfig (Postifix)? TIA Ricardo -- Forwarded message -- Subject: home.english-quest.com.br 09/05/02:04.02 system check Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 04:02:04 -0300 Securit

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Thu 2002-09-05 at 12:16:15 +0100, Alastair Scott wrote: > Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (09/05/2002 11:55) > > >James Sparenberg wrote: > >> Over 10 years on computers not always nix (I miss my Amiga *grin*) > >> > >> James > > > >I've been hearing a lot about Amigas and i

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Alastair Scott
dh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (09/06/2002 15:29) >Excellent description, you neglected to mention that except for the >very (very!) earliest of versions it was/is also a fully pre-emptive, >multitasking OS. >The first computer I owned that could draw me away from it as far as >usability was a

RE: [expert] using Highpoint RAID as regular IDE controller

2002-09-05 Thread Mark Stewart
> > > > > > Synopsis: Slaving the Cdrom should be OK. > > > > > > > That makes sense as I recall civileme describing a quite > elaborate soft RAID > > setup on a board with only 2 IDE channels. > > > > But am I remembering correctly that having a slower device (my CDROM is > > ATA33 while the di

Re: [expert] Set up a network from scratch

2002-09-05 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 09:21, Paul Stear wrote: > Hi all, > > I need some help to set my network up please. > > I have 2 machines, one with windows 98SE and the other with Mandrake 8.2. > I have just installed a D-Link DSL-504 adsl router and can connect to the > internet using both machines via

[expert] Set up a network from scratch

2002-09-05 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I need some help to set my network up please. I have 2 machines, one with windows 98SE and the other with Mandrake 8.2. I have just installed a D-Link DSL-504 adsl router and can connect to the internet using both machines via lan cards. The problem is that I cannot see the windows mach

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread kwan
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Mark Weaver wrote: > James Sparenberg wrote: > > Over 10 years on computers not always nix (I miss my Amiga *grin*) > > > > James > > I've been hearing a lot about Amigas and invariably the people always > say they miss them. What was so special about them that they're

RE: [expert] using Highpoint RAID as regular IDE controller

2002-09-05 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 11:39, Mark Stewart wrote: > Hi Lyvim, > > > Synopsis: Slaving the Cdrom should be OK. > > > > That makes sense as I recall civileme describing a quite elaborate soft RAID > setup on a board with only 2 IDE channels. > > But am I remembering correctly that having a slowe

Re: [expert] Postfix and latest RPM

2002-09-05 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 08:13 AM, David Stevenson wrote: [...] > The latest cooker version is 1.11, and I am wondering how stable this > is to > do a rpm -Uvh (I think) on my system. I do not want to lose my config, > although these files are backed up. I don't know about the upgrad

RE: [expert] using Highpoint RAID as regular IDE controller

2002-09-05 Thread Mark Stewart
Hi Lyvim, > > I've got a mainboard equipped with a Highpoint 372 IDE RAID > controller that > > I'd like to use simply as an extra IDE controller (i.e. not > hardware RAID.) > > If I can get this to work I plan on creating a soft RAID setup > between it > > and a (non-boot) partition on my primar

RE: [expert] using Highpoint RAID as regular IDE controller

2002-09-05 Thread Mark Stewart
Hi Robert, > -Original Message- > From: Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mark Stewart > Subject: Re: [expert] using Highpoint RAID as regular IDE controller > > Mandrakesoft have publicly stated they will not support

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question -(getting offtopic)

2002-09-05 Thread dh
On Thursday 05 September 2002 07:24 am, Mark Weaver wrote: > > Alastair > > My GOD! where do I find one of these marvelous machines? I WANT ONE!! > they sound perfectly awesome. I can't help but wonder why in the > world they're not still produced. What caused their downfall? See my other post as

[expert] [Fwd: #9 I128 Rev(0) X problem fixed in 9.0?]

2002-09-05 Thread David Rankin
for some reason the original post didn't get through to the list Original Message Subject: #9 I128 Rev(0) X problem fixed in 9.0? Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 09:43:14 -0500 From: David Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: mandrake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Listmates, With the advent of 9.0

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Thierry TERRIER
Hi dh, I think that you're computer is the most powerful of the world. You're already on 06 oct !!! ;-) dh wrote: >On Thursday 05 September 2002 04:16 am, Alastair Scott wrote: > >>Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>(09/05/2002 11:55) >> >>>James Sparenberg wrote: >>> Over 10 years o

[expert] test

2002-09-05 Thread skidley
I sent a mail earlier and it hasn't shown up yet. Testing to see if this one does. -- "I mean they are gonna kill ya so like if ya give em a quick, short, sharp, shock they won't do it again. Dig it! I mean he got off lightly cuz I would have given him a thrashing. I only hit him once. It was on

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Alastair Scott
Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (09/05/2002 15:24) >My GOD! where do I find one of these marvelous machines? I WANT ONE!! >they sound perfectly awesome. I can't help but wonder why in the world >they're not still produced. What caused their downfall? I'm pretty sure there'll be a fair n

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread dh
On Thursday 05 September 2002 04:16 am, Alastair Scott wrote: > Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (09/05/2002 11:55) > > >James Sparenberg wrote: > >> Over 10 years on computers not always nix (I miss my Amiga > >> *grin*) > >> > >> James > > > >I've been hearing a lot about Amigas and

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Mark Weaver
Alastair Scott wrote: > Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (09/05/2002 11:55) > > >>James Sparenberg wrote: >> >>>Over 10 years on computers not always nix (I miss my Amiga *grin*) >>> >>>James >> >>I've been hearing a lot about Amigas and invariably the people always >>say they miss

Re: [expert] Set up a network from scratch

2002-09-05 Thread Thomas Sourmail
> The problem is that I cannot see the windows machine from Mandrake or > Mandrake from the windows machine. Unless I'm missing something obvious, these settings seem fine. Do you mean you can't even ping 192.168.0.2 from 192.168.0.3 and vice-versa ? Thomas. > DHCP Configuration > Start

[expert] Multiple apps (i.e. xmms, system sounds etc) accessing /dev/dsp - how to?

2002-09-05 Thread Chris
Hi, I think I remember being able to hear both KDE System messages (sound) while playing XMMS, or even run multiple instances of XMMS. Now I can't and XMMS even stops between tracks quit often and says /dev/dsp is busy. Is this a hardware limitation or some other setting in KDE? I'm running M

Re[2]: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hello Alastair, Thursday, September 05, 2002, 9:16:15 PM, you wrote: g speed from a 'feeble' 68000 both because of an optimal ahh memories... this weekend i'm getting out my Amiga 2000 (bet it fires up without any problems) -- Best regards, Colinmailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Alastair Scott
Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (09/05/2002 11:55) >James Sparenberg wrote: >> Over 10 years on computers not always nix (I miss my Amiga *grin*) >> >> James > >I've been hearing a lot about Amigas and invariably the people always >say they miss them. What was so special about them t

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Mark Weaver
Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: > Hi. > > Well, only about 8 years of UNIX, not 10. And 18(?) years with > computers. Don't know if I would call me a hard-core UNIX head > (I don't like vi, you see? ;-). > > On Wed 2002-09-04 at 12:32:52 -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > >>Over 10 years on computers..

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Mark Weaver
James Sparenberg wrote: > Over 10 years on computers not always nix (I miss my Amiga *grin*) > > James I've been hearing a lot about Amigas and invariably the people always say they miss them. What was so special about them that they're so sorely missed? I wouldn't know an Amiga computer i

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Darren King
12 years of unix here... Darren On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 12:30, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: > Hi. > > Well, only about 8 years of UNIX, not 10. And 18(?) years with > computers. Don't know if I would call me a hard-core UNIX head > (I don't like vi, you see? ;-). > > On Wed 2002-09-04 at 12:32:52 -

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 19:30, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: > Hi. > > Well, only about 8 years of UNIX, not 10. And 18(?) years with > computers. Don't know if I would call me a hard-core UNIX head > (I don't like vi, you see? ;-). > > On Wed 2002-09-04 at 12:32:52 -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > >