Re: [expert] floppies

2003-03-23 Thread eric huff
Not sure about linux compatibility, but i recently used one of those little, flash based usb drives (about the size of a key fob). I've seen them listed up to 512MB... Seemed like a great way to transfer data amongst youselves, but too expensive to give away. The cheapest i saw with a 2 second g

Re: [expert] OT: spam filtering in Windows

2003-03-28 Thread eric huff
> And we get our mail from a "foreign" server (sbc=pacbell) Oh, man. I own this computer because my friend got sbc dsl and it installed so much crap (dsl modem "drivers", etc) that he never got anything to work. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakesto

Re: [expert] 3rd Day Recap

2003-04-02 Thread eric huff
> 6) Nitpicks: It would have been nice to have my scroll mouse > automatically detected and configured for web scrolling. The green on Yeah, i though it kind of strange that logitech scroll mice were down in the other category instead of next to the logitech non-scroll mouse... Want to buy your

Re: [expert] [OT]9.1 pre-order status?!?

2003-04-04 Thread eric huff
If you dig enough, the website says they'll ship when the get them, and to expect to get them the end of april. So maybe it will show as "processed" when they get the packs in? - Original Message - From: "stefmit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 4:

expert@linux-mandrake.com

2003-05-29 Thread eric huff
> > 3. The Installer indicates that it will get the latest updates, why > > the heck is this not working yet? > > It's a matter of mirrors, I think, not really of the installer not > working. Yeah, updating during installation has not worked for me on 9.1, but it works fine thru the software up

Re: [expert] change mouse sensitivity?

2003-05-29 Thread eric huff
> In case you haven't realized yet: KDE doesn't have a Control Panel > anymore. It does on 9.1 kcontrol at the command line if you cant find it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] spamassassin & kmail

2003-05-30 Thread eric huff
> Could someone either help me to get spamassassin working with kmail or > direct me to somewhere where I can find some direction? I have a big messy text file of collected spamassassin advice and links, if you want me to post/send it to you. I haven't tried them yet. It's not clean, just a bunch

Re: [expert] spamassassin & kmail

2003-05-30 Thread eric huff
> Could you send it to me as well - I have been looking to do this for > ages - thanks Ok, here's my text file, but i is messy and unorganized. You'll just have to plow through it. Realistically, the below links and excerpts are where you should start, as i believe Derek and Sridhar have it do

Re: [expert] opening links

2003-06-03 Thread eric huff
Anybody have any idea why this would not be sticky? Every few days i have to go in there and tell it to open with dillo eric On Mon June 2 2003 04:55 am, charlie wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 03:23 am, Michael Noble sent this :- > > > I would like to change this to use Mozilla. > > Go into the

Re: [expert] CD burning - reading multisessionin on atapi drive

2003-04-12 Thread eric huff
> a goolge searh for UDF will give you more info than you ever wanted > about reading CDs as multisession, Whew! thanks, huff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] mdk 9.1 lilo corrupt mbr with 80 gb hd

2003-06-10 Thread eric huff
> I have also run XP in > another partition, and crashed it often, then reinstalled it, and it has > never reworked the MBR, just put itself back in with out destruction. Is it "safe" to reinstall 98 and XP? I was always told it would reformat your entire drive (wether you wanted it to or not).

Re: [expert] mdk 9.1 lilo corrupt mbr with 80 gb hd

2003-06-11 Thread eric huff
OK. I was under the impression that microsoft had a feautre that no matter what, would "clean" your entire drive "for your convenience." (in other words, it would make sure no linux was left after they were done with it.) Hopefully i'll never have to find out... > > Is it "safe" to reinstall 98

[expert] Cross posting to Mandrake lists

2003-06-13 Thread eric huff
Hi folks, I've watched this for awhile now, and am certain that if a message is sent to multiple mandrake lists at once, all copies of the message go to the list that shows up first in the to/cc fields. I became sure of it not being a filtering problem when i started receiving double copies of

[expert] I borked my boot partition..

2003-06-14 Thread Eric Huff
ance, eric Previously i posted to newbie. Don't know if any of the following is useful: On Saturday 14 June 2003 06:41 am, Eric Huff wrote: > Hi folks, > > Lesson learned today: no resizing of ntfs partitions because all those > margaritas are keeping you from sleeping... > &

[expert] alphabetizing / sorting seems screwy

2003-06-15 Thread eric huff
Hi Folks, Is there any way to set the default linux alphanumeric order? I can't remember from my unix days anymore, but the last several years i have happily placed _ at the beginning of filenames and directories i wanted to show up first. But that doesn't work. I have noticed it even ignores _

Re: [expert] alphabetizing / sorting seems screwy

2003-06-15 Thread eric huff
On Sunday 15 June 2003 03:13 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:44, eric huff wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > Is there any way to set the default linux alphanumeric order? > > > > I can't remember from my unix days anymore, but the last several years &g

Re: [expert] alphabetizing / sorting seems screwy

2003-06-15 Thread eric huff
ound and see if there's an ASCII sorting setting, but i'm pretty happy with this. Thanks! eric On Sunday 15 June 2003 06:00 pm, eric huff wrote: > On Sunday 15 June 2003 03:13 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:44, eric huff wrote: > > > Hi Folks, >

Re: [expert] alphabetizing / sorting seems screwy

2003-06-16 Thread eric huff
> > I put export LC_COLLATE=POSIX in .bash_profile > > so filemanagers (like rox) would get it > > and also in .bashrc (after /etc/bashrc gets run, since it sets it > > back) so xterms, etc wuld get it. > > > > Whoops: it's a little off. Heres the order: > > > > dot files > > numbers > > caps > > s

Re: [expert] changing fs

2003-06-16 Thread eric huff
> > Hi, i have some partitions with NTFS and i am going to change to > > FAT32. How can i do it under Linux console? > > cp -a the data into another partition, then use mkfs to reformat the > partition to fat32, then mv -a the data back in. On my machine, i have one ntfs partition with all of WinX

Re: [expert] kernels updates !!??

2003-06-17 Thread eric huff
Is this still true (the article is a few years old)? It says you can't update a kernel with software manager. I did last week (since i didn;t know any better), and it worked fine. I can't actually check what they said about lilo because i have since reinstalled. (no, not cuz of the kernel :) e

Re: [expert] I Found my Martians

2003-06-18 Thread eric huff
Ok, now i know i am not going crazier. I have seen this, too, Anne. I was about to look into wether it was my isp. Whenever this has happened, sure enough it's in the archive, and obviously some people got it, but i didn't. I'm glad you mentioned it. How would we go about trying to get the

Re: [expert] Tar Errors

2003-06-19 Thread eric huff
I didn't see the beginning of the thread, but tar doesn't really care what the file is called, that's just for us humans... On Thursday 19 June 2003 04:19 pm, charlie wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 05:41 pm, SoloCDM had this to contribute :- > > > that wouldn't extract > > correctly with "tar -xzvf

Re: [expert] Installation advice

2003-06-28 Thread Eric Huff
This isn't really what you asked, but one thing you will probably want to do is not use kmail. It is so slow on my older macine. Even on my newer (not a great one though) machine: kmail is like 10-20 seconds to startup (since i don't run kde) but sylpheed is ~.5 second to start... I have a

[expert] Fw: Returned mail--"navigator.appVersion.indexOf("

2003-07-08 Thread Eric Huff
Not that people here would fall for this, but it looks like someone is farming this list for virus targets. There was a windows screensaver (.scr) attached to the message. Kinda funny to send a windows file to someone on a linux mailing list... - Begin forwarded message: From:

Re: [expert] NTFS partition only readable by root

2003-07-20 Thread Eric Huff
I'm coming in late here, but if it's any help, here's my nfts line: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,umask=0 0 0 /mnt $ ll total 8 drwxrwxrwx1 root root0 Jul 20 08:31 cdrom/ drwxrwxrwx1 root root0 Jul 20 08:31 cdrom2/ drwxrwxrwx1 root

Re: [expert] Sound problem after MB upgrade

2003-07-28 Thread Eric Huff
FWIW, this is what i had to do on my 1st install of 9.1 (2nd worked ok): 0. Run and save kmix 1. Run the aumix gui (i just type aumix at the cl) 2. Under Mute, "Mute All" is checked (despite the sliders being non-zero). Click "Mute All" to uncheck it (this will actually mute all:

Re: [expert] Dropped packages - Attack?

2003-08-17 Thread Eric Huff
> On the box it says: Transmit Output Power 17dbm (whatever that means), That's 17 decibels above 1 milliwatt, or 10^(17/10) ~= 50mW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] efax formatted files into standard fax?

2003-08-19 Thread Eric Huff
I am not sure, but i think the linux program efax is not compatible with efax the company's .efx file. Has anyone been able to open up www.efax.com docs in linux? I tried before to work this out and couldn't... eric On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:51:26 -0700 James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-26 Thread Eric Huff
> Does this solve the problem that mozilla has with a system that has > multiple printers? Moz seems to only print to default no matter what > and doesn't give you an option to change. (konq to the rescue for > now) I think it is the same in moz, but not sure. In moz firebird: file --> print,

Re: [expert] Is this thing on?

2003-08-26 Thread Eric Huff
> I've been tryin to post to this list for days, but there isn't > anything comin in for it. Is the list working? It's only knida working. Lotsa dropped posts, some posts go to some people, not others, etc... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-26 Thread Eric Huff
> > In moz firebird: > > > > file --> print, then click properties, you can change the print > > command. > > > > I replaced lpr with kprinter (qtcups is linked to it, too). > > > > Makes it slower, but now i can at least print to pdf, etc... > > > > That's exactly how I changed it, but setting m

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-27 Thread Eric Huff
> > I sure would like to get away from kprinter. Hasn't been much of a > > priority, but i'll add this to my "B" list of things to try... > > > Hmm - I don't know how much you can achieve from kmail - I haven't had > > time to play around - but in Mozilla, if you hit Print then > Properties from

Re: [expert] How to remove headers from printouts?

2003-08-27 Thread Eric Huff
> >OTOH, looking at this thread, I've learned that I can print pretty > >well anything direct to pdf, which is definitely worth knowing. > > How much does it cost to do a comparable thing in Windows? I'm just > curious. I have been told that with pdf955 http://www.pdf995.com/ you can do it fo

Re: [expert] Postfix Mail server

2003-08-29 Thread Eric Huff
> > I'm in the process of setting up a new mailhost and plan to chroot > > it; but my current postfix is very anti-spam and documented at > > http://pfortin.com/Linux/PostFix > > > Pierre - is there a link to this on the HOW-TO page? A bit of organization confuses me on the twiki site: I see lin

Re: [expert] twiki, was:Postfix Mail server

2003-08-29 Thread Eric Huff
> > What does everyone else think? > > Just cross-reference them, redundancy *is* a good thing in some cases. Right now there are just 3 tutorial links, so my humble vote would be to move those to the HowTo page, and in their place, have a cross-reference to the HowTo page. Is that what you had

Re: [expert] Postfix Mail server

2003-08-30 Thread Eric Huff
> My understanding was that a tutorial was supposed to be an indepth > lesson on how to do something like ... oh setup postfix. The > HowTo section was supposed to be quick point of info like say how to > make a floppy image, or some other quick tip. I see. I don't think we have stuck to

Re: [expert] What Wiki?

2003-08-30 Thread Eric Huff
> We have a wiki? What URL? Is there any way we could get stuff like this added to the welcome message? I didn't get any response regarding who to contact for list admin stuff... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] What Wiki?

2003-08-30 Thread Eric Huff
> Otherwise, perhaps a few of us could start adding the url to our > sigs? I didn't even have a sig! This is a great idea, Anne. -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Postfix Mail server

2003-08-30 Thread Eric Huff
> I think it is a result of success that it has become difficult in this > way, but to improve it needs a concerted effort. We would probably > need some discussion about criteria for grouping things. I would > suggest that volunteers start with a copy of the existing full index > on a separat

Re: [expert] Postfix Mail server

2003-08-31 Thread Eric Huff
Ok, i am trying to get started at the twikisite (i am EricHuff over there), please tell me if i mess something up...) It was suggested a week or so ago that Johns email RE [newbie]How to Defrag XP Properly, WAS - Re: WineX -- Update! be put in the twiki, since it is a good HowTo. But after pokin

[expert] TWiki organization

2003-09-01 Thread Eric Huff
There was some banter here about organizing the TWiki database that fell under the Postfix subject. (one of us, probably me, hijacked it) Anyway, Anne made a section to discuss it http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/NewIndex Input is requested, so far it has just been Anne and me. Even if y

Re: [expert] urpmi lccked

2003-09-01 Thread Eric Huff
> >There is a problem with the gui frontend to urpmi.addmedia that is > >fixed in an upcoming drakxtools: > > I see the problem, and the proposed fix. The issue now is a catch-22 > one. > > I can't add any sources, so I can't get the new patch to drakxtools to > add sources. See the problem? I a

Re: [expert] (slight OT) Upgrade cycles discussion

2003-09-02 Thread Eric Huff
> looked like most of the crew doesn't realize you can upgrade with > urpmi:-) > > whatever. I'll upgrade a few weeks after release and hopefully swsusp > will start to work on my Vaio laptop. A lot of people have complained of problems while upgrading. Is this not an issue anymore? eric -- Ma

Re: [expert] (slight OT) Upgrade cycles discussion

2003-09-02 Thread Eric Huff
> "What 'av the Romans ever done fer us?!" Trippy. We just watched the old Trek where they encountered "The Romans in the 20th century". -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] (slight OT) Upgrade cycles discussion

2003-09-02 Thread Eric Huff
> > A lot of people have complained of problems while upgrading. Is this > > not an issue anymore? > > I haven't had problems with 8.2 to 9.0 or 9.0 to 9.1 Interesting. You said you upgraded with urpmi. Does that mean you didn't do an "install" and choose upgrade, but let urpmi do the work? Ei

Re: [expert] (slight OT) Upgrade cycles discussion

2003-09-02 Thread Eric Huff
> > Either way, what is the "best" way to upgrade? I started at 9.1, so > > i've never encounter this choice before... > > The beginnings of a tutorial is here. > > http://pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&thold=-1&mode=flat&order=1&sid=7018#32054 Thanks! I added it to our T

Re: [expert] Filter mail: bcc case

2003-09-03 Thread Eric Huff
> for my filters), but what about a mail with my address in the bcc: > field? it's always empty. My headers come in like this, but i imagine this is isp specific: Delivered-To: ehuffy-ehuffy:[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfa

Re: [expert] threading in Kmail...

2003-09-03 Thread Eric Huff
> That's odd. KMail threads beautifully for me if it's a thread that I > leave entire. What version are you using? Mine is 3.1.0 It does also depend on which column you are sorting by, especially if the thread is a day or so old and you may have deleted a parent. -- Mandrake HowTo's & More:

Re: [expert] Did someone else get this also?????

2003-09-04 Thread Eric Huff
> > Following the headers further down the chain, if they are to be > > believed would seem to indicate the origination was a pacbell DSL > > modem(67.122.222.126) which does belong to Pacbell so is probably > > accurate. If anyone on the list is using a pacbell DSL modem and > > has Windows machi

Re: [expert] Don't tell me we have another major annoyance on our hands!

2003-09-05 Thread Eric Huff
> > As if sms wasn't enough > > Oh for the love of $DEITY! LOL! I emailed Vincent to see if he could put us in touch with a list admin. Maybe there isn't knoe right now? -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the content organization discussion: http://mandr

Re: [expert] Don't tell me we have another major annoyance on our hands!

2003-09-05 Thread Eric Huff
> > I've had 3 in the last half-hour. > > not me, Mailfilter caught them all :-) > > I have it running with fetchmail on my client *and* server now, so if > one misses it, the other likely won't! > > I love this game! Will this game show up on the Gaming List? :) -- Mandrake HowTo's & More

Re: [expert] Don't tell me we have another major annoyance on our hands!

2003-09-05 Thread Eric Huff
I didn't get any of these, as far as i know. -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the content organization discussion: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/NewIndex Join the General Wiki Development discussion: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/Dev

Re: [expert] Filter mail: bcc case

2003-09-05 Thread Eric Huff
> Some other mailers will show the BCC list to the > people who are being BCC:ed.) That sucks. -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the content organization discussion: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/NewIndex Join the General Wiki Development discu

[expert] Filter mail: bcc case

2003-09-05 Thread Eric Huff
Olaf, I bcc'd this to you. Maybe if you post the source to the bcc'd message (not the [expert] one), we can find something? eric -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the content organization discussion: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/NewIndex Join th

Re: [expert] Making routine job easier

2003-09-05 Thread Eric Huff
> even better, hit ctrl-r and start to type the command(s), it will > match the letters you type with the most recent matches. That rocks! I stuck it in the twiki where i think it ought to go: HowTo > TipsAndTricks > CLI : http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/CLI Though this might get rear

Re: [expert] VIRUS!!! ( was Re: Approved )

2003-09-05 Thread Eric Huff
> > To: "Expert List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [expert] Mozilla Aqua theme? > > Sent: Fri Sep 05 10:08:57 2003 > > > > > > did not reach the following recipient(s): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri Sep 05 10:08:57 2003 > > > > The e-mail account does not exist at

Re: [expert] Making routine job easier

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
> and don't ferget tab-completion while yer at it... Tab completion is the best ever. Including Esc ! to complete args. > type cd /u[tab]lo[tab]ga[tab] and see where it gets you. /usr/local/games $ ll total 0 :) -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the con

Re: [expert] Making routine job easier

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
> > > type cd /u[tab]lo[tab]ga[tab] and see where it gets you. > > > > /usr/local/games $ ll > > total 0 > > No. Right after the second [tab] you'll have to decide "Where you > wanna go today?" Not for me. What else do yo have that starts with ga? -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://

Re: [expert] Speaking of Wiki's and HOWTO's

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
> I wouldn't want to put people off, but I'm frequently shocked to find > newbies installing cooker packages without any understanding of what > they are taking on. I'll bet a lot of newbies just think that's what Linux is, not realizing we actually have stable releases to choose from. > 'Inter

Re: [expert] Making routine job easier

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
> > /usr/local/games $ ll > > total 0 > > > > :) > > no games?! > > bah! In all these years of computers and people around me playing games, NetTrek, etc, i just haven't gotten into any games since i stopped using my dad's Sinclair. :) (a lot of my friends think i'm strange, too...) -- Ma

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
> There must be a way to get it to look again at this. Does harddrake > run from the cli, and will it allow me to set the graphics card? I > should be able to get to the machine again in around 1/2 hour XFdrake lets you choose video cards, and will run in the cli and in text mode, if necessar

Re: [expert] Making routine job easier

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
> lo. He (and I) have /usr mounted on its own partition, so there's a > /usr/lost+found. Hmmm... I have /usr on its own part, too. Does lost+found only get created when you "lose" something? I don;t think i have ever had a dirty boot on this machine, so i may not have ever had any lost+found mat

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
> OK - I'm in failsafe, logged in as root. I have XFdrake showing a > menu in text mode on screen. I can move around the menu, but I can't > change anything. What am I missing? Here is how it works for me: up down arrow moves in the menu tab moves between menu and quit and do enter pushes

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
> Hi, Eric. Well, I'm not sure whether it was the curry, the wine or > hitting the keyboard harder, but I finally got it to accept my input. LOL! Reminds me of Apu's grace: "Good rice, good curry, good Gandhi let's hurry." -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
> > Reminds me of Apu's grace: > > > > "Good rice, good curry, good Gandhi let's hurry." > > Apu??? He's the Indian owner of the Kwiki Mart on The Simpsons. Having many friends from India makes Apu all the funnier -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Join the c

Re: [expert] I'm in big trouble

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
> > Not to worry - I don't think I've ever watched a complete episode. > > ;-) > > You do watch Enterprise, though...right? :) > *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* This next wednesday the 10th, of course, being the season premier. -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki

Re: [expert] root-tail

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
> > mkfifo top-output > > > > nohup -b >> top-output & > > > > root-tail +whatever parameters you need to pass > > IIRC, the nohup is so that when you close the term that started all > this, the process keeps running, no? That's what i use it for (got the idea from you!) -- Mandrake HowTo's

Re: [expert] Making routine job easier

2003-09-06 Thread Eric Huff
> > > lo. He (and I) have /usr mounted on its own partition, so there's > > > a/usr/lost+found. > > > > Hmmm... I have /usr on its own part, too. Does lost+found only get > > created when you "lose" something? I don;t think i have ever had a > > dirty boot on this machine, so i may not have ever

Re: [expert]OT - was I'm in big trouble

2003-09-07 Thread Eric Huff
> > > *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* > > > > This next wednesday the 10th, of course, being the season premier. > > Uh? Am I missing something? I've been watching on Mondays on Sky1. > I understood that there wasn't going to be another season because it > had not been popular

Re: [expert]OT - was I'm in big trouble

2003-09-07 Thread Eric Huff
> > Whoops. UPN, which is the parent of Trek, shows it on wednesdays > > (and then again on the weekend). > > Other channels that pick it up show it on other days. In the US, i > > think most people get it thru UPN. > > > Are you in the US, Eric? Nah, I'm in California. :) Actually, i have been

Re: [expert]OT - was I'm in big trouble

2003-09-08 Thread Eric Huff
> > Sometimes i log in in the morning (i hear other people read the > > paper?), and occasionally when i take a break at work i log in. > > We do seem to be online at the same time often enough > > > Yes - you seem to be around when I would expect you to be asleep. I > guess that's why I thou

Re: [expert] this one is harmless?

2003-09-09 Thread Eric Huff
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 11:24:05 +0100 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 5:55 am, Charlie wrote: > > Is someone interested in ancestry of :- linux, Linux Mandrake or ? > > > Interesting one, that. Coming through with the Approved subject line > I was immediately suspicio

Re: [expert] md5sum

2003-09-11 Thread Eric Huff
> Back in version 8 and 9 I had the exact same problem! It is the mirror > you are using! I don't know why mirror sites continually get bad > images, but it is true. Try an rsync to another site. So, does rsync help when it is all one file? -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdkl

Re: [expert] Re: Mandrake's visibility

2003-09-16 Thread Eric Huff
Around here (it was Borders i think) Mandrake 9.0 was on the shelf nect to RedHat. I noticed it just before 9.1 came out, and i didn't get the idea it just showed up. Of coure, i live in pasadena, california, 1 mile from where the old US Mandrake office was... -- Mandrake HowTo's & More:

Re: [expert] OT: DRM damged a windows box?

2003-09-16 Thread Eric Huff
> > Is anyone prepared to talk to me off-list about this. My daughter > > wanted to watch dvd's on her win98 computer. Then she got a message > > > > that said'The DVD key exchange for copy protection has failed. > > Playback is not possible.' Now she not only can't play any dvds, > > but sh

Re: [expert] Verisign hijacks .com and .net DNS space

2003-09-17 Thread Eric Huff
> Oh and it seems that Outlook is really affected by this. One of our > people sent an e-mail to 8 of us. One e-mail addy was mistyped. Yep > you guessed it every 5 minutes or so it kept resending the e-mail > because the Verisign site didn't return an error properly. It didn't > stop sendin

Re: [expert] Why is urpmi such a pain in the ...?

2003-09-17 Thread Eric Huff
> Sylpheed-Claws has such a plug-in to tell me when I have mail. > Scared me to death the first time everything flashed. Thought kde > had suffered a cardiac thing. I got a good chuckle out of your post. > I unplugged it. I always have new mail. Hey, so do i :) -- Mandrake HowTo's & More:

Re: [expert] hijacking: was Gopher was something else

2003-09-17 Thread Eric Huff
Ok, Haywire is list nazi on newbie this week, i'll pipe in here. I have seen 3 hijacked threads today. Please, when you want to start a new thread in a mailing list, click new. If you click reply and then change the subject, the email shows up in the middle of the thread. Is there any way to g

Re: [expert] hijacking: was Gopher was something else

2003-09-18 Thread Eric Huff
> > Is there any way to get this sort of thing in the welcome letters? > > I have to admit, i didn't know about hijacking til the 1st time i > > turned threading on and saw my own hijack > > Excellent idea. Maybe something about unsetting 'Reply-To:', as well. > :) I had planned to put a lis

Re: [expert] hijacking: was Gopher was something else

2003-09-18 Thread Eric Huff
> Eric, I still have a text file that I used when asked to reply to the > hijack problem. If you get started on the etiquette page, I'll put > that on if you like. That would be great! Your responses on hijacking have been more complete than mine... Here is the etiquette page: http://mandrak

Re: [expert] boot-time speed-up

2003-09-20 Thread Eric Huff
> There's an interesting article at > > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html?ca=dgr-lnxw04BootFaster That is an interesting article. So, if paralelling speeds things up, doesn't that mean that some processes are waiting for hardware? Or do intel chips actually paral

Re: [expert] boot-time speed-up

2003-09-20 Thread Eric Huff
> > Paralleling obviously works great for human interaction (one web > > page loading while reading another). But if the processes are using > > up all the cpu, paralleling shouldn't help unless there is a piece > > of hardware/peripheral it's waiting for, right? > > > > once the kernel's up, yo

Re: [expert] OOT: very interesting fact about how human interpretwords

2003-09-20 Thread Eric Huff
> > I'm only going to tell you one more time about hijacking threads, > > then I am going to get very, very, very angry. > what do you mean by saying that the author of this email 'hijacked' > the thread? PLEASE be aware, I'm not trying at all to get in any > conflict, I just really don't know wh

Re: [expert] boot-time speed-up

2003-09-20 Thread Eric Huff
> not really... first, we must define what busy is :-) I have an > impatient daughter standing at my elbow speaking of busy... > Processes aren't always bottlenecked by CPU, and the well behaved > ones will let go of CPU when they're waiting on something else. > Say that it's a database startup--

Re: [expert] hijacking: was Gopher was something else

2003-09-20 Thread Eric Huff
http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette > Would a link to one of the many copies of RFC 1855 such as this > one be relevant here? It could be quoted as a more thorough > authority. > > HTML > http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html#3 > > Plain Text > http://www.faqs.or

Re: [expert] boot-time speed-up

2003-09-20 Thread Eric Huff
> If you notice X starts up > even though the entire init process is not complete and in fact > you can actually start logging in before the init is finished. I have noticed that. I wish they would do more multitasking like that. What i didn't realize was that a lot of the startup programs them

Re: [expert] hijacking: was Gopher was something else

2003-09-20 Thread Eric Huff
> > Would a link to one of the many copies of RFC 1855 such as this > > one be relevant here? It could be quoted as a more thorough > > authority. > > > > HTML > > http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html#3 > > > > Plain Text > > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html > > Done, thanks What? No "You got

Re: [expert] hijacking: was Gopher was something else

2003-09-21 Thread Eric Huff
> > > > > Would a link to one of the many copies of RFC 1855 such as > > > > > this one be relevant here? It could be quoted as a more > > > > > thorough authority. > > > > > > > > > > HTML > > > > > http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html#3 > > > Not to be a spoil sport but isn't this a bit much? 6

Re: [expert] hijacking: was Gopher was something else

2003-09-21 Thread Eric Huff
> > > > > > > Would a link to one of the many copies of RFC 1855 > > I personally also prefer the informal. > > But, if someone reads our entire list and gets to a link at the > > bottom, they can, if interested, look into it more. We could > > expand the "The 'rules' of internet usage..." line

Re: [expert] Re: 9.2RC2 on VMware / TWIKI-ing

2003-09-23 Thread Eric Huff
> > Yeah that's me thanks. BTW, just some nitpicking--VMWare should > > be spelled as VMware. Perhaps you may want to change that too? > > http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/VmWare > >In the Twiki if you want something not normally a link to > >become > > a link do this [[this is no

Re: [expert] TWIKI-ing, was 9.2RC2 on VMware

2003-09-23 Thread Eric Huff
> > And only WikiWords work with the treeview commands. > > > > Sooo, a page named VmWare works, VMware doesn't. > Right, but that's only for the page. You can use something like > this: > > [[VmWare][VMware]] which will link to the page VmWare but will > display VMware to the browser (but will

Re: [expert] TWIKI-ing, was 9.2RC2 on VMware

2003-09-23 Thread Eric Huff
> I have one last question. Is there any way to invoke multiple > %TREEVIEW% commands on one page? Maybe it is just a bug, but when > i try, only the first one works. > > I looked around the twiki help, but didn't find an answer.. Well, i looked some more, and it does appear to be a bug: http:

Re: [expert] Att Vincent.

2003-09-29 Thread Eric Huff
> >I preparation for the coming of 9.2, is the proposed Anthill > >bug tracking system going to be available/used? > > This is part of the reason I've been so busy in the last 2 weeks.. > doing some frantic bug squishing in the Anthill code to make it > ready. So, will there be aplace to

Re: [expert] numlock

2003-10-06 Thread Eric Huff
> I have the numlock rpm installed and numlock is enabled during > boot. When I startx though, I lose numlock. I think it used to > work, to tell the truth though, I´ve been too busy to really think > about it. I have the same problem. I think it *might* have started with a recent X update? I u

Re: [expert] ATTN Eric and Anne regarding TWiki

2003-10-07 Thread Eric Huff
> Note this, I'm not complaining one bit. However I'm in a bit of a > quandry in that I can't find > > 1. The pages I put up before. Hmm... Which pages were they? It is possible they were added to other pages cut and paste style, and even more possible that they were moved around. If you do

Re: [expert] [OT - Q] Fwd: Mandrake newsletter: Mandrake Linux 9.2 pre-orders being accepted

2003-10-07 Thread Eric Huff
> I have a question for some of you, who may be closer to the > Mandrake "happenings": it is my understanding that a direct > purchase from Mandrake is much more helpful to them than a regular > store one. >From what i hear, the best way to support them is thru the club and download, if that's an

Re: [expert] numlock

2003-10-07 Thread Eric Huff
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 19:13:47 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. /etc/rc.d/init.d/numlock has to be run on boot. If you boot > into runlevel 5 (multiuser graphical environment) then you have in > /etc/rc.d/rc5.d a link like @S85numlock which points to > /etc/init.d/numlock > > 2

Re: [expert] Sylpheed looses its default settings

2003-10-09 Thread Eric Huff
> I have recently joined the Mandrake Club haveing been a lomg term > SuSE Welcome! > trait. Every time the PC is booted when I open sylpheed for the > first time it always complains that it can't find the address book > and about ecery other time it makes me go through the full first > time setu

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-09 Thread Eric Huff
> I keep jumping between BlackBox and IceWM. Even on a P4 1.3GHz, > 512Mb RAM, I love the quickness of a simple WM. Have you tried http://pekwm.org/ (my favorite) XFCE4 (rpms at http://clevername.homeip.net/xfce4/ ) ? They are also realy fast. XFCE4 is more of a desktop, pekwm is just a wm.

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-10 Thread Eric Huff
> Well, Eric, > > Thanks for the tip, XFCE4 installs just fine under Cooker 9.2, but > it will not run. I installed everything, Xtart cannot see it, it > does not show up as a WM in any other WM menu. I tried from a > terminal within blackbox, I'm at a loss. No error messages, > nothing, just "

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