On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Tony Lambiris wrote:
>
> Too long?? I can get Debian installed on a system in about 5 minutes, and thats WITH
> the reboot.
Wow! I gave up after two weeks. I'm having MUCH better luck with Slackware.
>
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> To u
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> OK, and I'm really not trying to stir up trouble...
>
> I use Netscape for sole reason that it's not MS/IE. Call me paranoid but I've been
> in this field a long time to know that once MS has established a "solid base"
> (recently declared a monopoly) it will us
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> >One of the more notable examples is for the Alpha. The Digital
> >c89 compiler produces code through an optimizer. Then the
> >assembler does peephole optimization. And then the linker
> >does global dead code removal. All it means is that the days
> >of writ
My KDE desktop has just developed an odd symptom. The "shortcuts: on the
dektop have disappeared. If any KDE experts want to discuss this offline I'll
post a summary to the list.
TIA
TomR
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Anybody know what CONFIG_AEDSP16 in the kernel config does ? It's in the
Sound section ?
Thanks
TomR
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"Somebody once told me that in basketball you can't hold the ball and run.
I got a basketball and tried it and it worked just fine. He obviously didn't
On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> strcmp() never returns a char, it always returns a signed integer.
> (specifically and int). Whether the compiler generates the exact same parse
> tree depends on the compiler and lexer.
> tom r wrote:
Oops, you are exactly right, my mistake. st
Can anybody explain the real difference between highlighting some text with the
mouse and then going to a different window and hitting the middle mouse button
to paste the text, and highlighting some text, going to the edit menu bar menu,
selecting "copy" and then going to a different window and
On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> No, they're exactly the same.
I just recently read a C FAQ that points out that if the right template is in
scope, so that the compiler knows that strcmp returns a char* they are not
merely equivalent but REALLY exactly the same. Same parse tree is generated,
News you can use!
Staples sells these little packets of stickers called "SuperShapes" one of
which is called Playful Penguins. They're the spitting image of Tux (we're
definitely talking copyright violation here) about 600 stickers, smaller than a
dime for about $3.00. Just the thing if you'r
This may (I hope it does) have an obvious answer, but it's not obvious to me.
I have a bunch of stuff running on my system and I know how to nice 19
seti@home and stuff, but I'd also like to nice -19 whatever it is that handles
the mouse. Before I embark on a long painful set of experiments, d
I agree, it is a bad thing. Most of the April fools jokes I've seen have been
much better.
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> uh oh - this means holes - as is the red hat way.
>
> ~kurth
>
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On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
> Yesterday, Charles Farinella gleaned this insight:
>
> > I need a new soundcard.
> > These are my requirements:
> > 1: It must play sounds from both speakers.
> > 2: It must fit in an ISA slot.
> > 3: It must work in Linux.
> > Does anyone ha
To All
My message to this group about multiple replies was meant as information only.
I did not intend to start a flame war. Once I learned the behaviour of this
list, I knew how to reply to this list or to individuals on this list. As far
as I know there are only two behaviours and I'm cababl
is more complete than Red Hat. BTW: RPM is similar to Digital's setld.
> tom r wrote:
I'm thinking of replacing my Red Hat with Caldera just because Redhat seems to
think that they can assume it's a Redhat world. I want everyone to assume
that they can't assume anything ab
Folks,
If you reply to the list, you don't really need to copy me also. So far three
people have sent helpful suggestions and I've received two copies of each.
I'd also be VERY happy to accept private email and then inform the list of just
the interesting answers and what was going on. I know
I'm trying to install the ViaVoice run time rpm and I'm getting
error: failed dependencies:
libXm.so.1 is needed by ViaVoice_runtime-2.0-1.0
Trouble is I've got this library in
/usr/local/lib/libXm.so.1
/usr/local/LessTif/Motif1.2/lib/libXm.so.1
Does anybody have the original 2 (or was it 3) floppy image of Doom ? I'm
talking about the original shareware version. Please reply by private email if
you have it, or are also interested in it. I'll keep related traffic off of
this list.
Thanks
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Hello all
I am about to start what I expect to be a very time consuming project to find
out why my 16 bit SB Pro sound card won't let me do 16 bit sound input under
linux. While I don't claim to have done all of the easy research into this,
I've done enough that I think this mail to the list is
Anybody care to guess why my X10 software (heyu in this case) works under gdb
but not otherwise ?
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On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, Randy Edwards wrote:
> > Anyone got this working? One of the women here in the office is trying to
> > listen to the song at www.hamsterdance.com, and it keeps telling her to
> > download the plug in, which she's done, repeatedly. Since I don't really use
> > sound, I'm kind
I submitted this question to /. and it was declined. Maybe this group has
better taste.
What problems am I asking for if I try to have both KDE and GNOME installed at
the same time ? Will the libraries clash ? Will I have header file
incompatibilities ? Will something else go wrong ? Can I
This is why I think replies should go to the whole list.
My understanding of Linux just doubled thanks to this...
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Heard you've got a new munchkin... what's the deal?
>
> I've got a giant zit under my lip, it hurts like hell dude...
>
>
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
> Allan Sherman wrote:
>
> > Oooops... I intended to say
> >
> > "ls -l" OR "ls -al"
> >
> > (the "a" includes hidden files)
> >
> > In Unix, I just use "ll" but that is apparently not a standard alias in
> > Linux.
>
> I think you mean HP-UX... th
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> As long as we seem to be voting, I'd like the reply to go to the
> individual by default:
>
> 1. It would be more convenient for me because I send private
> replies at least as often as I post (and at that my posts *still*
> usually aren't well enough
Oh yeah,
In addition to the minor device number for the 16 bit audio device. I can't
remember the command to create a device. Could anyone clue me in ?
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Could someone with a working 16 bit /dev/dspW device send me the minor number ?
Thanks
TomR
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> >Alright, so I investigated this question a little bit more:
> >Test: 102,400,000 Megabytes to IDE disk, with Pentium 166 or something like
> >that.
> >So the timings with mmap:
> >Write: ~28 sec
> >Reading: ~20 sec
> >
> >With read/write, the speed-up stronlg
In an effort to give something back to this group (which is interested in Open
Source issues) I offer this link to a white paper from a company that *sells*
(not free) software as source code. This is a point of view I've never seen
expressed anywhere outside of my tiny mind. I've not finished
Please excuse a "not necessarily linux" question, but who wants to share
opinions/experience on the virtues of mmap ing a file as opposed to opening it
? I'm about to start work on a project where the local custom is to mmap input
files and I'm not so sure that's a good idea (the files and 100s o
Does anybody have a tool that can grab a set of html pages given one link ?
Several times I've found a bit of documentation that I'd like to have but it
only exists on the web as a set of hypertext documents. I'd like something
that could start at the table of contants and fetch all of the re
Has anyone had any luck with kvoicecontrol ? It is supposed to provide a voice
recognition control facility under KDE. The documentation with it says that
the microphone calibration is fixed, but I'm having exactly the problem
described. I'm wondering if anyone else has tried it.
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On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> But I want to have jobs posted on the list! As long as they're jobs for places
> that use Linux. I might be looking soon
I agree with this. There is enough resistance to Linux still out there that
Linux jobs are IMHO a valid topic for discussion on this l
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Following is a from my /var/log/messages file:
>
> Jan 28 10:17:03 space pppd[808]: pppd 2.3.7 started by root, uid 0
> Jan 28 10:17:03 space pppd[808]: Using interface ppp0
> Jan 28 10:17:03 space pppd[808]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cua1
> Jan 28 10:
On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> 00038501 here at 22:58 est, Rick's mail was timestamped 1812.
> So the momentary rate seems to be 74/288 petitions/min. which means
> that goal of 2,000,000 is a few hours away yet :-)
>
> Hopefully the rate curve will be more exponential than linear!
at 11:
On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> In a message dated: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 17:08:44 EST
> "Lee D. Rothstein" said:
>
> >THe format was MIME Base64 encoding.
> >
> >My trusty MIME decoder, decoded it. I'll forward it.
>
> Interesting, mine didn't :(
Nor mine. Very odd.
John Gilmore once observe
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, tom r wrote:
> > Can someone point me toward a simple explanation of the significance of
> > Gnome verus KDE?
>
> Same as Ford verus Chevy. Some love one, some love the other, some hate
> both, some don't c
Can someone point me toward a simple explanation of the significance of Gnome
verus KDE ? Will a Gnome app work with KDE and vice versa ? While I'm at it,
what .wav recorders and editor do folks use/like ?
TIA
TomR
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