Re: ftp issues

2002-11-14 Thread Gavin Laking
rtache in the long run by compressing the file before you download it- save yourself bandwidth, and by downloading the compressed version you can ensure that no other user will attempt to write to it. GL - -- Gavin Laking - Web Development Daemon http://www.gavinlaking.co.uk - -- -BEGIN PGP

Re: Gui - Gnome - Kde

2002-10-24 Thread Gavin Laking
ou'll find out more on those than we could ever imagine to cover here. GL - -- Gavin Laking - Web Development Daemon http://www.gavinlaking.co.uk - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9uBY4aMak7Ylvm3ARAsagAJ96NfKEp1Hdw0Ht6/vBei9pCzO9UQCeNhEy mPQ

Re: PPP connection TO ISP with PAP authentication

2002-07-07 Thread Gavin Laking
er for yourself if you do get this working. Something I did was make a small one line script containing the '/usr/blah blah' line above, and place it in a new directory called 'connect' off my /home/myusername directory. The script name was 'ispname' and I chmod'd

Re: Security question

2002-07-01 Thread Gavin Laking
I want to learn something new, I type the subject area into a search engine like Google. I've found over the last couple of years that action alone usually brings up an abundance of information. You could try: http://www.google.com/linux http://www.rootprompt.org/ http://www.linuxsecurity.co

Re: Recovery help (Maybe OT)

2002-06-28 Thread Gavin Laking
ut I suggest that you make a backup now whilst you are up and running and give your system the once over just to be sure. I would hate for you to come back in a few days time and tell us that you lost precious data because something wasn't quite right with your replaced setup. :-( Hope I'

Re: Recovery help (Maybe OT)

2002-06-27 Thread Gavin Laking
d running import/copy over the files that you require from your backup. In most cases that should be a handful of files from the /etc directory that you *may* have edited, and your /home directory. Good Luck, and don't go executing naughty commands like that again! :-) G -- Gavin Laking

Re: Reg:gcc

2002-06-26 Thread Gavin Laking
doesn't mean parent. It means "this". ../ means parent. It doesn't mean "this". Finally, rename 'a.out' to something you will recognise- having a disk full of 'a.out's can get confusing :-) (rename = mv) Hope that helps, G -- Gavin Laking

CPU Utilization & Priorities

2002-06-26 Thread Gavin Laking
duced ladder. Any light on this matter would be great, and links to resource where I can learn more (so you can type less) are much appreciated. :-) Thanks for your time, G -- Gavin Laking 1:34pm up 20:07, 3 users, load average: 0.08, 0.85, 0.88 http://www.gavinlaking.co.uk/ -- -