Re: X11, VNC performance (was: Linux-Outlook (ouch) question)

2002-04-07 Thread Adam Wendt
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 21:46, Tom Buskey wrote: > http://www.vigor.nu/dxpc/ <-- hard to find DXPC home page It can't be that hard to find when its the first result on google :) Adam * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMA

Re: reading .wps (MS Works) files in linux

2001-03-25 Thread Adam Wendt
Wow thats pretty bad, I was hoping for some perl script to convert them en mass (he has about 50 works documents) Welp guess we'll have to convert them one by one using Word Thanks anyways :) On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Dan Jenkins wrote: > Adam Wendt wrote: > > I can't seem to

reading .wps (MS Works) files in linux

2001-03-25 Thread Adam Wendt
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! np: Delerium - Otherworld now reading: The Big U by Neal Stephenson Adam Wendt -- http://jane.codegrinder.com -- ICQ: 15291367 -- $_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t= map{$_%

Re: AVI/DivX/XMMS(/old Windows Media) question.

2001-02-07 Thread Adam Wendt
> Only problem is that I can't compile it. Under both RH 6.2 and 7.0, I get > "checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ ) works... no > > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler > cannot create executables." > > during the configure stage. Since I do have a c++ com

Re: apt-get probs after perl upgrade

2001-01-28 Thread Adam Wendt
you should use the .debs for perl 5.6 ( perl5.6 AND perl-5.6 are the packages you want to apt-get) just get those and dpkg should be fixed. Also note, when you get the error like that you need to scroll up and also include the errors when it first tries to work on that package, the error you inclu

Re: what to upgrade for the 2.4 kernel

2001-01-23 Thread Adam Wendt
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I was wondering what needs to be upgraded (recompiled) if I install 2.4 kernel > on a debian which comes with 2.2.17. I know that ppp has to be, but I'm sure > there are many other things. Anybody thorough experience with this

Re: next challenge... mail

2000-11-24 Thread Adam Wendt
> > also... what's a good backup strategy? I have an Orb drive on my > > network... I could back this up to an orb disk via the network, but how, > > exactly? > > > tar -cpf - / | ssh server "cd /mountpointofdrive; tar -xpvf -" I would suggest adding a 'l' option to the first tar so that you w

Re: where to buy networking cable

2000-10-28 Thread Adam Wendt
phone = adam = On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Thomas M. Albright wrote: > Home Depot has what you need. I don't know what the blocks are called, > but i call them ice cubes. :) > > On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Adam Wendt wrote: > > > I'm trying to set up a network with my fathers compu

where to buy networking cable

2000-10-28 Thread Adam Wendt
ormal price per foot on 10baseT cabling? TIA, = adam = - Adam Wendt Against boredom, even the gods themselves struggle in vain. ~ Nietzche Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://jesus.fuhq.net/

hard drive problems

2000-10-20 Thread Adam Wendt
le to fix this? Thanks = adam = ----- Adam Wendt Against boredom, even the gods themselves struggle in vain. ~ Nietzche Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://jesus.fuhq.net/~adam/ Pub key:http://jesus.fuhq.net/~adam/pubkey.txt Very cool idea: http://www

Re: Package Distribution

2000-08-29 Thread Adam Wendt
If you want to keep everyone happy I suggest you package it 30 bazillion ways, .rpm, .deb, .tar.gz, .sh, etc, etc, etc = adam = - Adam Wendt Against boredom, even the gods themselves struggle in vain

If this had been an actual emergency...

2000-08-23 Thread Adam Wendt
Works fine for me :) (and you wonder how I knew it worked fine? *g*) = adam = - Adam Wendt Against boredom, even the gods themselves struggle in vain. ~ Nietzche Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage

Re: hrm...ports!

2000-08-17 Thread Adam Wendt
Have you tried "lsof|grep 20012"? It doesn't always work but alot of the time it will tell you exactly what program is listening on that port. = Adam = - Adam Wendt Against boredom, even the

Re: partitioning

2000-08-02 Thread Adam Wendt
> On systems with small memory I normally go with smaller swaps. On > systems with a single disk I don't bother to cut anything other than / > and swap. I agree that on a small system with single disk you don't need to make a bunch of partitions but a few is sometimes a good thing. This is what

Re: Weird problems after resizing

2000-07-20 Thread Adam Wendt
ts of messing around I just "rm " "mkpart logical ext2 " rebooted and it was fixed. I'm not sure if I got the problem in the first place by something I did wrong or a bug in 1.2.3. Thanks anyways ;) = Adam = ===== | Adam

Weird problems after resizing

2000-07-19 Thread Adam Wendt
py to provide it. = Adam = ===== | Adam WendtICQ: 15291367 | | Greenville, NHEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://jesus.fuhq.net/~adam/ | | Pub key: http://jesus.fuhq.net/~adam/pubkey.txt | |

Re: Console Resolution

2000-07-11 Thread Adam Wendt
At Lilo type " vga=ask" which will give you a list of different "resolutions" to choose from. You can also add a line to /etc/lilo.conf "vga=ask" and Lilo will automaticly ask you each time. If you find one option that you like best you can change "ask" to the option you like on both the Lilo prom

Re: Fwd: MD5 hash question

2000-07-06 Thread Adam Wendt
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Paul Lussier wrote: > > In a message dated: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 14:27:19 CDT > Thomas Charron said: > > > Actually, scratch that, I was on crack. After looking, we're using SHA1 > >digests, *NOT* MD5. Ryan, crack me in the head later.. > > > > In our case, we're using Dige

Re: RAM (was: What distro ...)

2000-07-06 Thread Adam Wendt
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Jeffry Smith wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Adam Wendt wrote: > > > On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Adam Wendt wrote: > > > > On a side note, I have some RAM and I'm not sure what type it is.

Re: RAM (was: What distro ...)

2000-07-06 Thread Adam Wendt
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Adam Wendt wrote: > > On a side note, I have some RAM and I'm not sure what type it is. Its > > smaller than SIMM and it fits in my socket 3 mobo, anyone want to take a > > guess at what type of RAM it is

Re: What distro (or even OS) to install

2000-07-06 Thread Adam Wendt
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Jeffry Smith wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Adam Wendt wrote: > > > On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Chad R. Henry wrote: > > > > > On 6 Jul 2000, at 12:58, Adam Wendt wrote: > > > > > > > I'm putting together a box to be my firewall/g

Re: What distro (or even OS) to install

2000-07-06 Thread Adam Wendt
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Chad R. Henry wrote: > On 6 Jul 2000, at 12:58, Adam Wendt wrote: > > > I'm putting together a box to be my firewall/gateway to the > > internet. Right now I only have a 85meg hard drive so I was hoping you > > guys could give me some suggestio

What distro (or even OS) to install

2000-07-06 Thread Adam Wendt
I'll need PPP and some form of ipmasq/nat plus support for whatever network card I put in there (probably some old ISA card). Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks, = Adam = ===== | Adam WendtICQ: 15291367 | |

Re: A&E Special

2000-06-14 Thread Adam Wendt
major incidents that people have gotten away with that the government won't tell us about. Well, my final opinion is that the show was atleast good for a laugh = Adam = = |Adam Wendt ICQ: 15291367

ansi color codes

2000-05-31 Thread Adam Wendt
ideas? =Adam= ===== |Adam Wendt ICQ: 15291367 | |Greenville, NH Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |http://jesus.fuhq.net/~adam/ | | Very cool idea: | |http://www.processtree.com/?sponsor=

Problems sending email to @aol.com adresses in pine

2000-05-24 Thread Adam Wendt
y 2000 15:08:19 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 15:08:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam Wendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Sender: adam@localhost To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: blah In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Adam We

web design rates

2000-05-22 Thread Adam Wendt
king god knows where or just pulling something out of my head. Thanks, =Adam= ===== |Adam Wendt ICQ: 15291367 | |Greenville, NH Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |http://jesus.fuhq.net/~adam/ | |

Re: poor video performance

2000-05-04 Thread Adam Wendt
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Farrell Woods wrote: > Hi folks, > > Anyone have a guess as to why video performance is sub-par on my 400MHz > P-III Compaq Deskpro EN? It has a built-in ATI Rage Pro with 8MB of > memory, so I'm using the Mach64 server (3.3.6, under RH6.2). > > Some quicktime videos view

cdrom weirdness

2000-04-29 Thread Adam Wendt
First off, I'll tell you what made all this come about. I decided to try out debian. I've had alot of problems getting back to a functional system, some of what I still have to get working sound and sorting out this cdrom weirdness. Ok, so I recompile my kernel about 1234234623 times until I SEEM

Re: ARGGGG: cd problems

2000-04-25 Thread Adam Wendt
gt; On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Adam Wendt wrote: > > I downloaded and burned a iso image for Debian slink. The cd boots but I > > can't mount it I'm not going to install unless I know that I can mount > > the cd later. I also had an error while burning durning the fixa

ARGGGG: cd problems

2000-04-25 Thread Adam Wendt
I downloaded and burned a iso image for Debian slink. The cd boots but I can't mount it I'm not going to install unless I know that I can mount the cd later. I also had an error while burning durning the fixating stage: cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: retryabl

Re: A major security issue?

2000-04-21 Thread Adam Wendt
Thanks to all who answered, the article in the bugtraq archives seems to give enough information. I think I'll use the S2=255 trick to fix it but now I need to figure out where in all my config files I can change the modem initialization string. I use Redhat 6.2 and I used linuxconf to set up my p

A major security issue?

2000-04-20 Thread Adam Wendt
I've found that if I type +++ATH0 (thats ===ath0 with ATH being in caps and === being +++ (i'm very paranoid about typing it out)) in an email or icq message or irc chat or telnet or anything that is using my ppp0 connetion it will automaticly disconnect my modem and I have problems getting back o

Re: Too funny!

2000-04-17 Thread Adam Wendt
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Paul Lussier wrote: > > In a message dated: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:16:38 EDT > Benjamin Scott said: > > >On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Niall Kavanagh wrote: > >> I myself remember my first computer: A VIC20. No real operating system, > >> just BASIC. And I used to whistle into a rotary

Re: CD's to pass out PLUS: cd burning problems

2000-04-13 Thread Adam Wendt
> I can get blank CDRs in bulk (no jewel cases) for about $0.85/disc, so > 100 blanks is about $85. With my hardware (2x), 100 copies of RH > would take about 63 hours. A 4x burner would do that in about 31.5 > hours, and an 8x burner would do it in about 16 hours. My friend bought a bunch of c

Re: xmms problems

2000-04-07 Thread Adam Wendt
Check the permissions on /dev/dsp (usually a link to /dev/dsp0) make sure the user you are trying to play mp3s with has permission to write to /dev/dsp0 or give xmms root permission (not always a good idea but can be done with 'chmod 4775 ' (i think). I have this same problem each time I reinstall

key repeat delay/speed

2000-04-04 Thread Adam Wendt
How can I adjust how soon a key starts repeating after I hold it down and how fast it repeats? I need to make the response time faster so I can impove my ksirtet high score ;-) =Adam= ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL

running stuff at system boot

2000-04-04 Thread Adam Wendt
My goal is to be able to run some 'tail -f's distributed.net client and seti@home client on tty9-12, how do I go about setting those up? I'd asume I need to edit /etc/inittab but i'm not sure how. TIA, =Adam= ** To unsubscribe from this l

scsi cards

2000-04-01 Thread Adam Wendt
Hi, I'm looking to get an old SyQuest EZ drive working and sense its SCSI and my computer is IDE I need a scsi card so my first question is, anyone have any luck getting EZ drives running in linux? (so I don't go out and buy a scsi card if it's not going to work) and second, any suggestions on a g

Re: swapping delete and backspace

2000-03-28 Thread Adam Wendt
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Derek Martin wrote: > On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Adam Wendt wrote: > > > Here's another inconsistancy between my old working system and my new > > fscked up system. Emacs (emacs-nox) does some strange stuff with the > > delete and backspace keys whe

swapping delete and backspace

2000-03-28 Thread Adam Wendt
Here's another inconsistancy between my old working system and my new fscked up system. Emacs (emacs-nox) does some strange stuff with the delete and backspace keys when run in an xterm (works fine in virtual terminal) So basicly I have to use the delete key to edit text while the backspace key s

Re: compile problems

2000-03-27 Thread Adam Wendt
I fixed the problem, I needed to install a few rpm packages, namely glibc-devel ;-) =Adam= On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan wrote: > >My problem so far is that when it tries to link some stuff i get the > >message: > > > >/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lm > What does ldconfig -v say? > Fer

more compile problems

2000-03-27 Thread Adam Wendt
It seems that problem compiling I had wasn't just related to QT, I can't seem to link anything. I was running configure for ncftp and it couldnt find -lc Any ideas? =Adam= ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

compile problems

2000-03-26 Thread Adam Wendt
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mar 26 12:35:31 2000 Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 12:16:15 -0500 (EST) From: Adam Wendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: compiling problems Hi, after reinstalling my whole system, and the 10 hours of problems that entailed (we won't go

Re: Help!!!

2000-03-24 Thread Adam Wendt
se a trial and error. >It's not very much fun, but it learns you a good lesson (sic.). > >On 24 Mar 00, at 10:59, Adam Wendt wrote: > > > Partition Magic shows > > volume type > > c: check failed > > *: extended > > *:

Re: Help!!!

2000-03-24 Thread Adam Wendt
ing hda5, >If you have partition magic, I would run it and check your partition table. > >Adam Wendt wrote: > > I was minding my own business, playing The Sims in windows and I got this > > wonderful idea to run defrag and scandisk all went well until I tried to > >

Help!!!

2000-03-23 Thread Adam Wendt
I was minding my own business, playing The Sims in windows and I got this wonderful idea to run defrag and scandisk all went well until I tried to boot into linux and BAM! I get something like this: Partition Check hda: hda1 hda2 < >(now hda1 is windows and hda2 is the extended partition

Re: nntp, usenet, etc.

2000-02-25 Thread Adam Wendt
Sort of related to this subject... Has anyone who uses TIAC and their news server been having problems with it? I can't get a list of groups off of it. I telnet to it and try 'list active' and it just freezes and won't give me any output though all other commands work. None of my news reader progr

Re: Reply addresses [was Re: MySQL question]

2000-02-24 Thread Adam Wendt
I agree, pine does a wonderful job of asking me if i want to use the reply-to or To; field. Keep it! -Adam- On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Chuck MacKinnon wrote: > I feel that the reply to field is fine as is...If I want to reply to just > the original poster I will just change the To: field myself. Mu

nntp, usenet, etc.

2000-02-24 Thread Adam Wendt
I've been pondering this for a while and haven't been able to find any sufficient answers. How exactly does Usenet work? I mean there's all these servers where people can connect and post messages and download messages and somehow all these servers (in theory) syncronise with each other but thats

Re: Slash who?

2000-02-23 Thread Adam Wendt
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Paul Lussier wrote: > In a message dated: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 07:21:08 EST > Adam Wendt said: > > >Somewhere in the past 24 hours my script that grabs slashdot headlines and > >puts them in my root menu > > Can I see this? :) It's based on

Re: Slash who?

2000-02-23 Thread Adam Wendt
OMG IT JUST LOADED! Go check now before it dissapears again! -Adam- On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Adam Wendt wrote: > Somewhere in the past 24 hours my script that grabs slashdot headlines and > puts them in my root menu actually connected and pulled some headlines > down but sense

Re: Slash who?

2000-02-23 Thread Adam Wendt
Somewhere in the past 24 hours my script that grabs slashdot headlines and puts them in my root menu actually connected and pulled some headlines down but sense then its updated its self again with a blank file cause it can't connected ;-( I really have no idea whats up but i'm going to die if I

Re: Problems with fetchmail..I think

2000-02-21 Thread Adam Wendt
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Derek Martin wrote: > Maybe, but not without seeing your fetchmailrc and some of the error > messages! > > -- > Derek D. Martin | Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator Here's my .fetchmailrc # Configuration created Mon Feb 21 13:49:11 2000 by fetchmailconf set pos

Re: Redhat Install on 27 GIG IDE

2000-02-21 Thread Adam Wendt
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Matt Herbert wrote: > > Hey everybody, > > After an awesome quake 3 LAN party this weekend :), one of my friends > decided he wanted to try linux on his system. I excitedly agreed to > help him install Red Hat 6.1. To my surprise and disappointment, I > couldn't get it in

Re: Problems with fetchmail..I think

2000-02-21 Thread Adam Wendt
Hm the plot thickens, if you notice that my last message says it was from [EMAIL PROTECTED] which it shouldn't [EMAIL PROTECTED] is that account and my user account on my computer is adam -Adam- On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Adam Wendt wrote: > Here's my minor problem I set

Problems with fetchmail..I think

2000-02-21 Thread Adam Wendt
Here's my minor problem I set up fetchmail to get my email from the billyjoeray account on pop.netzero.net so that I could use pine instead of some program like netscape mail that does it all itself. All was fine until I logged in as root and found that I had 300 and some odd messages from [EMAIL

repartitioning software

2000-02-15 Thread Adam Wendt
I've never partitioned/resized my hard drive in linux before but I want to so I'm looking for suggestions on what the best (most stable) linux app is for resizeing partitions. -Adam- __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access an

Re: RealPlayer and Linux

2000-02-14 Thread Adam Wendt
I just use this url and it works fine: rtsp://206.190.54.105/waaf.ra?StreamID=7516 -Adam- __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html **

perl question

2000-02-14 Thread Adam Wendt
First off does anyone know of an email list thats dedicated to just asking stupid questions about how to do stuff in perl so that I don't have to bother the list with my questions? but until someone answers the first question I might as well ask a second one Whats the best way in perl to run

Re: perl tutorials online

2000-02-12 Thread Adam Wendt
Scratch that. I found the perl section of informit.com and now I'm reading Sams Teach Yourself Perl 5 in 21 Days. -Adam- On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, you wrote: > Could someone suggest some good online sources for learning perl? I've been > shuffling through CPAN but I really haven't found much but "20

perl tutorials online

2000-02-12 Thread Adam Wendt
Could someone suggest some good online sources for learning perl? I've been shuffling through CPAN but I really haven't found much but "20 minute" tutorials and advanced information. I had been reading something like "Learn perl in 21 days" back when informit.com was pbs.mcp.com but they don't hav

Re: perl/scripting problems

2000-02-12 Thread Adam Wendt
Thank you all for responding, I hadn't thought about find and now that I know what xargs does I"m sure i'll be using it in the future ;-) -Adam- On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, you wrote: > -=> I've got two related but separate things I need to do. > -=> 1) Recursivly assend into a directory and remove fi

perl/scripting problems

2000-02-12 Thread Adam Wendt
I've got two related but separate things I need to do. 1) Recursivly assend into a directory and remove files that are under a certain size (lets just say 5k) 2) Recursivly assend into a directory and move all the files of a certain pattern (*.html) to one directory I'm working on learning bash

and another thing.....

2000-02-11 Thread Adam Wendt
relating to proccesses. What exactly is a zombie proccess, how does it affect me, and what can I do to get rid of them? TIA -Adam- __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.htm

rpciod

2000-02-11 Thread Adam Wendt
Whats rpciod? I had uninstalled the packages that used/provided sunrpc and so I did a quick ps aux|grep rpc to see if anything like that was still running i killed one thing off but rpciod wont die, I'm sure if I restarted it wouldn't be back but I'm working on a nice uptime ;-) This may be rela

Re: set up x video drivers

2000-02-11 Thread Adam Wendt
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, you wrote: > I am in the process of re-installing x (red hat 6.0) on my system and I > remember that you can use setup or xf86config to configure the video card. > there is a third command to set up the video card that runs as a graphic > based utility and not a text base util

RE: SETI@home team

2000-02-11 Thread Adam Wendt
If you update to the latest version it comes with an xsetiathome binary which you run on top of setiathome to get the graphics. -Adam- On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, you wrote: > Does anybody know if a version of this with the screensaver is available for > Linux? Seems all the UNIX stuff was just text.

Re: DDoS detector

2000-02-11 Thread Adam Wendt
I actually tried the program mostly because I just wanted to try it and I really don't care what it "really" does. I ran it in an xterm and it started to lag me (as a program which is checking the entire harddrive should) but then X froze and then 15 minutes later it unfroze and and the program ha

Re: DDoS detector

2000-02-10 Thread Adam Wendt
Sunrpc is part of nfs right? Do I need sunrpc for anything other than nfs? On a somewhat related note whats the rpm command to tell me what package a specific file is from? -Adam- On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, you wrote: > Mike, > > Thanks for posting that! The web site mentions that the crackers are u

Re: building an rpm

2000-02-10 Thread Adam Wendt
I just asked about this yesterday ;-) http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/index.html -Adam- On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, you wrote: > I need to build an rpm anyone have pointers to the best docs? > > thanks > -joe __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE

making rpms

2000-02-08 Thread Adam Wendt
I love compiling stuff but I also like the ease of querying/removing/installing rpm packages so what I'd really like to do is compile my own rpm packages. I know I can go and download src.rpm packages and --rebuild them but what about something where someone hasn't already made one. So on to my m

Re: Request for weekend Linux training

2000-02-08 Thread Adam Wendt
UGH!!! sorry list ahah typed it up and then hit send without changing To: haha On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, you wrote: > Hi, > I'm interested in your sons situation because I am a 17y old who has been using > Linux for about 2 years now. I'm also seriously considering starting to teach > linux classe

Re: Request for weekend Linux training

2000-02-08 Thread Adam Wendt
Hi, I'm interested in your sons situation because I am a 17y old who has been using Linux for about 2 years now. I'm also seriously considering starting to teach linux classes (I'm already teaching my 11y old sister and my best friend). What level of training is your son interested in? How much co

Re: any graphical program in root window?

2000-02-08 Thread Adam Wendt
On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, you wrote: > Hi, > >Is it true what i've heard that you can make any regular graphical > >program displayi in the root window? > Of course you can. Programming is not a magic. Damnit! You had to go and ruin all my preconceptions ;-) > > If so how do you do it? And can you

any graphical program in root window?

2000-02-07 Thread Adam Wendt
Is it true what i've heard that you can make any regular graphical program displayi in the root window? If so how do you do it? And can you interact with it also? TIA -Adam- __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email a

Re: i want ripples!

2000-02-06 Thread Adam Wendt
UGH! I hate E, its so bloated! Thats rather hypocritical of me considering I want useless ripples at the bottom of my screen. haha -Adam- On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, you wrote: > IIRC, Enlightenment does this! I'm pretty sure it was some WM, but it's > been quite a while since I was messing around wit

i want ripples!

2000-02-06 Thread Adam Wendt
I know this is pretty stupid but I've been searching all over the place trying to find the program I used to have that would make the bottom of my screen ripple like a reflection of the stuff above it. And I was wondering if anyone on this list might know what its called. If your going to recomme

Re: midi problems

2000-02-02 Thread Adam Wendt
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: > Try doing an "lsmod" at the command prompt to see if there are modules > loaded for sound and/or the MPU-401 driver (I think it is "uart401", but I'm > not sure). Heres the informative part of lsmod: opl3 13896 0 (unused) opl3sa2

Re: SMP and SMB... Still

2000-02-02 Thread Adam Wendt
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: > Well, trying to recompile the kernel was a bust. The make's didn't work. Instead I >installed the RPM which includes SMP support. Or at least I think I did. I did > an RPM -i linux-rpm*, or something close to that and it did it's thing. I rebooted >and watc

Re: Mandrake V7 Source?

2000-02-02 Thread Adam Wendt
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: > Allright. I finally finished messing around with other stuff and went to recompile >the kernel to enable Symetric MultiProcessing and check on what is setup > for SMB (System Message Block). SMP is to enable my second engine. SMB is to try >to connect to M$ m

Re: midi problems

2000-01-31 Thread Adam Wendt
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote: > Okay, what you've got is the MPU-401 driver on that address. As I said > before, I'm pretty sure MPU-401 is for external MIDI devices only (I could be > wrong). The OPL-3 driver is also trying to use that address, which makes me > think that you have a choice

Re: midi problems

2000-01-31 Thread Adam Wendt
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote: > > at bootup i get this message: > > opl3: I/O port 0x388 already in use > > That is probably your problem. 0x388 is used by sound cards a lot, and OPL3 > is definitely a synthesis engine. Do a "cat /proc/ioports" to see if you > can't find out what is using p

Re: Windows File Sharing

2000-01-31 Thread Adam Wendt
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote: > Unrelated but I'd love to hear comments. I was trying to show off MP3's > under Linux instead of Windows. Windows get's all flaky if anything else is > going on and I assumed Linux, like OS/2, could handle it fine. I tried to > install the latest XMMS but it fa

midi problems

2000-01-31 Thread Adam Wendt
Speaking of getting a sound card working.. My Yamaha OPL3-SAx soundcard is detected fine by sndconfig and works for most everything I want it to do, the only problem is I can't seem to play midi files. When I try 'playmidi somemidifile.mid' I get: playmidi: No playback device found. I

Re: Help! Sound

2000-01-31 Thread Adam Wendt
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote: > Hi, > >I need some advice on how to get my sound card running. > > If you have a pnp card, you have to do the following: > pnpdump>>/etc/isapnp.conf > Then you have to edit that file, meaning that you have to uncomment a few lines > (ACT Y) also. Which io, irq

Re: scsi emu problems

2000-01-26 Thread Adam Wendt
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: > If I remember correctly, part of the problem is that you no longer want > to reference your cdrom via /dev/hd(x). On my system here, (similar > setup - IDE cdrw) once you've recompiled the kernel, you want the change > the /dev/cdrom link from /dev/hd(x) to /dev/

scsi emu problems

2000-01-26 Thread Adam Wendt
Hi, I've had a cdwriter for a while but I hadn't bothered to get it set up for linux because I hadn't had much luck getting recompiled kernels to work. But I decided to try once more and this time the only configuration change I made was to turn SCSI emu on and turn IDE/ATAPI CDROM support off th

Re: Settingthe font for xterm/aterm

2000-01-24 Thread Adam Wendt
aterm is amazing, it can do transparencies like eterm but uses much less resources. And as far as I can tell it can do most anything else you'd ever want it to do in the way of displaying. I was eventually able to figure how to find all the fonts and now I'm in my midst of desiding which one I li