Dear Nick,
Though I don't actually know the solution to the
problem you are having with KDE lockups, I will
suggest not using a CD-RW drive to play audio
CDs. The read/write heads on a CD-RW are much
heavier than on a standard CD-ROM or DVD-ROM
player because it needs a laser to burn
CDs. Since
Since you're using an Atapi system, one thing
which could be causing your grief is if you have
your BIOS set to cable select the master/slave
drives (as opposed to using jumper
select). Just last week, there was quite a big
discussion on The Register
(www.theregister.co.uk) about a software
Dear George All,
I've also had the same problem, and I'm still
waiting for it to be resolved. I ordered the
download disks and pre-ordered the Powerpack on
October 4. I know that the Powerpack isn't ready,
but I expected the download disks to arrive weeks
ago - so far, nothing has been
Dear Jason,
Which filesystem are you running (ext2, ext3,
Reiserfs, XFS, or ?)? Is it the same filesystem
you were running previously before you upgraded
to 8.1? I've heard some people say that it can
make a huge difference.
- Robert Storey
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Jason M. Kikta wrote:
Is
Re: Sendmail or Postfix config help
Dear Theo,
Linux Journal had an excellent article on setting
up Postfix in their October 2000 issue. The
article is available online. Go to their website
(linuxjournal.com) and use their search engine to
find this article:
Using Postfix for Secure SMTP
Your friend is xconfig, the tool for setting your
kernel options. You don't have to recompile the
kernel to examine the settings, just look at the
menus which are very user-friendly. The menus
will show whatever settings are current, either
stock kernel or custom-built. When you customize
the
Introduction to Unix by Frank G. Fiamingo is
excellent.
Dowload it free from here:
ftp://www-wks.uts.ohio-state.edu/unix_course/unix_book.ps
- Robert Storey
Is there a good online reference guide to all
these basic commands I should know?
Regards,
Brett
You can save yourself a great deal of trouble
(now and in the future) if you learn how to boot
with grub rather than lilo. If you make a grub
boot floppy, you can rescue your system and then
either install grub to the hard drive
(recommended) or resurrect lilo.
Learning how to use grub the first
