Re: Playing DVDs on Linux

2002-07-26 Thread Bill Mullen
ing the Gatos "ati.2" driver. IIRC, VideoLAN can use several different display methods depending on the capabilities it can discern from the X config; on my MDK 8.1 system (which has no DVD, and Cirrus Logic video), it uses SDL for the video display

Re: automated installation

2002-07-26 Thread Bill Mullen
ce, but as > you say, sometimes it is just a matter of taste. Interesting. Mandrake puts Apache's default root in /var/www/html, and I have it symlinked on one system to /home/apache, to make it easier to backup/preserve-across-update the files, so I gather that I&#x

Re: Playing DVDs on Linux

2002-07-25 Thread Bill Mullen
www.videolan.org/libdvdcss/download.html Libdvdread site: see Ogle homesite. HTH! -- Bill Mullen 3:41am, 2002-07-25 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: procmail and IMAP (was: What do people use ...)

2002-06-25 Thread Bill Mullen
message in the inbox, runs it through a procmail recipe file, and > stores the result relative to the IMAP server. Sure, it would not be as > efficient as doing it server-side, but for cases like this, where procmail > couldn't run on the server even if the admins let you, it could be han

Re: What do people use to listen to web radio under linux? (fwd)

2002-06-25 Thread Bill Mullen
that firm's platforms to at least approach what's readily available for x86, or instead develop an existing codebase into their own product (ala Darwin, a commendable effort so far, from what I've seen of it). Anything less is a

Re: Ok to mount ext3 fs as ext2 (read-only)?

2002-06-06 Thread Bill Mullen
atever To remove said journal before mounting as ext2: tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/whatever && e2fsck /dev/whatever HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 6, 2002 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: NFS issues

2002-06-06 Thread Bill Mullen
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, t wrote: > hopefully itll be of some use to anyone perusing the archives.. Well, I haven't yet dabbled in NFS configuration, so *I'm* certainly going to hang on to it ... thanks for the tips! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: fetchmail with pop3s?

2002-06-04 Thread Bill Mullen
ifference, the server is an > Exchange server. It does, indeed. :) What you need to see is this: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-FAQ.html#S2 HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 3, 2002 * To unsubscri

Re: ISP Recommendations?

2002-04-26 Thread Bill Mullen
nux clients, but his overall experiences with tech support at Bit-Net were excellent, fwiw. A quick scan of their POPs show numbers in Manchester, Nashua, and Milford, so hopefully one or more of them are local to you. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: RH 7.2 GRUB Help

2002-04-02 Thread Bill Mullen
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Bill Mullen wrote: > Find the GRUB equivalent (or switch to LILO), and you're in business. :) A quick examination of the GRUB docs ("info grub"), specifically the "DOS/Windows" section, gives the following syntax: map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0)

Re: RH 7.2 GRUB Help

2002-04-02 Thread Bill Mullen
ot;Hey, I'm not on C:, I'm not going anywhere." The LILO entry means that when booting this o/s, first swap the drives in the BIOS so that this o/s thinks that *it* is on hda, and the *other* disk is hdb. Find the GRUB equivalent (or switch to LILO), and you're in bus

Re: Apache server attbi question

2002-04-02 Thread Bill Mullen
he packets never arrive to be forwarded. Perhaps something similar is going on there. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apr 2, 2002 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: Apache server attbi question

2002-04-02 Thread Bill Mullen
r the change from MediaOne. It just works. I have a new domain, less than a week old, using DNS from Granite Canyon; I just set up a CNAME record to point to my attbi hostname, and all is well. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apr 2, 2002 **

Re: Linux Success And Less

2002-03-14 Thread Bill Mullen
nies > > using Linux for very specific things, and others for very general > > purposes. > > > > Maybe telling us more about who this VP is, and what he's looking for > > and *why* will help us provide you with the data you need. > > > > Thanks. > > *

Re: Linux Rescue Boot CD

2002-03-06 Thread Bill Mullen
your fstab under that (/usr becomes /mnt/usr, etc.). If you're doing this, as so often happens, because of a trashed MBR, you can chroot /mnt and re-run LILO, and you're all set. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mar 6, 2002 **

Re: XINE with sound?

2002-03-06 Thread Bill Mullen
e to get & install libdvdcss, as per the instructions. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mar 6, 2002 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: linux/windows security

2002-02-13 Thread Bill Mullen
s more, if you're a newbie, I'll remote admin it for you until you get up to speed, too. One of the best features of Linux, IMHO, is how it can give new life to systems that M$ would tell you are merely useful as doorstops now. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feb 13, 2002

Re: Interesting Newbie article at CentraLUG.org

2002-02-13 Thread Bill Mullen
you're assembling ... "Why doesn't this part tell me where it goes?" "It can't possibly need all these gears, can it?" ... :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feb 13, 2002 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: Interesting Newbie article at CentraLUG.org

2002-02-12 Thread Bill Mullen
Newbies can call me if they want; I'll toss around ideas with anyone, or walk them through an install or whatever ... but I won't make it sound easy. It isn't. But it's doable, and it can become easier. It's just more different than they expected - because it's better

[OT] Now here's a guy who *really* needs Linux ...

2002-01-19 Thread Bill Mullen
while we're waaaay off-topic Go Pats! :-) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jan 19, 2002 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: daemon-mode fetchmail failures

2001-12-29 Thread Bill Mullen
oblem > > or have any ideas about what could be wrong? > > > ***** > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > * > -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dec 29, 2001 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: Glue partitions together?

2001-12-16 Thread Bill Mullen
pon -a"). Short of all that, I'd at least make darned sure that I had a backup of the data on /dev/hda7 that I had complete faith in. :) As for /etc/lilo.conf, change it & run lilo at your leisure, if at all. You migh

Re: CD burners

2001-12-15 Thread Bill Mullen
bble together a parallel-port HD (read: movable from system to system), and if we could somehow get the thing to work - any thoughts, people? HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dec 15, 2001 * To unsubscribe from this list, sen

Re: Fwd: Info request

2001-12-14 Thread Bill Mullen
ss again and can now adjust the passwords for the other users. Some systems disable the boot-to-single-user-mode-w/o-password feature as a security precaution (on Mandrake 8.x, the Bastille firewall script gives this as an option). If this has been done on that box, he's bumming. :) HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dec 14, 2001 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: does this make any damn sense at all?

2001-12-05 Thread Bill Mullen
gular POP? Are there any restrictions based on IP address on the POP daemon (that haven't been updated since AT&T recently made a bunch of IP subnet number changes)? Does it listen on something other than standard POP port 110? Any recent changes to the POP daemon config, or mayb

Re: Older Machines

2001-12-05 Thread Bill Mullen
;recycling" with a number of contacts, so their inventory > goes up and down. > > located near, and on East side of Bellavance Beverage in Nashua. > -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dec 5, 2001 * To unsubscribe

Re: ext3

2001-12-03 Thread Bill Mullen
. A nice little discussion of some of the relative merits of each of those 3 vs. ext2 is at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/81/en/ref.html/ext2fs.html#AEN3150 -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dec 3, 2001 * To unsubscribe from

Re: Debian on a laptop?

2001-11-30 Thread Bill Mullen
I just may not have found it yet). :) HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nov 30, 2001 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: Aliases

2001-11-26 Thread Bill Mullen
than root's) to white on blue, and in all subsidiary shells (other than root's) to white on magenta. Handy to know when one more Ctrl-D will log you out. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nov 26, 2001 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: Format for ext2 from FAT

2001-11-25 Thread Bill Mullen
errors etc. Any hints ? Here's one: man mkfs HTH -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nov 25, 2001 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: more ls command

2001-11-15 Thread Bill Mullen
etc/bashrc file. In Mandrake 8.1, it looks like this: alias ll='ls -FAhl --color=auto' -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nov 15, 2001 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: Screensavers

2001-11-10 Thread Bill Mullen
ard of GNHLUG. As this friend and I are both Linux users, we are at least two who will benefit from your plug of the group. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nov 10, 2001 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: apt-get

2001-11-07 Thread Bill Mullen
Packaging, for Software Manager. If at a console, type "man urpmi". The mirror I'd use for Mandrake 8.0 packages is: ftp://jungle.metalab.unc.edu and the directory there is: /pub/linux/distributions/mirror/mandrake2/Mandrake-old/8.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/ HTH -- Bill Mullen [EMAI