WWW development - another good example against M$

2003-03-28 Thread Oliver Ob [o.b./RSi/TRSi/NSD]
Hello folks, short time, short go today: I need a web design program for Linux (I use Suse 7.3 here) which can use the files from NETOBJECTS FUSION 7 (Winsuck) Explanation for those who are interested: I ran into installing the NOF 7 pack, and it requires that god-damn Win Internet Explorer 5.5

Re: Lilo and NT-Safeguard -NO Diskdrive available on Toshiba!-2

2003-01-27 Thread Oliver Ob
Riley Williams : > > Hi Oliver. Hi Riley, sorry, we better both calm down. But please understand my situation. I am fumbling with this shit without success since 6 months already. So bare with my temperament and dont take it too serious :-) > > There is some problem here. I had been using my mac

Re: Lilo and NT-Safeguard -NO Diskdrive available on Toshiba!-

2003-01-27 Thread Oliver Ob
Riley Williams schrieb: > > Hi Oliver. > > > There is some problem here. I had been using my machine dualbooting > > with Lilo for NT and Linux. Worked like a charme. > > > > But now my company uses SAFEGUARD and that thing needs the mbr for NT, > > I have not done this before and ask for your ad

Multiple CD Changer

2002-07-19 Thread Oliver Ob
Hello, how can I mount a 6-CD-Changer into my tree? It is /dev/hdb But how can I distinguish those 6 slots? Mount them each? Best regards! -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤=Oliver@home= *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/Olli/olli.html I I http://www.

Question about "find -exec"

2002-07-18 Thread Oliver Ob
I want to find and list all files with *.snm ending. find /mnt/c/ -name *.snm -exec ls does not work, the man page does tell me french fries. What am I missing? -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤=Oliver@home= *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/Olli/olli.html I

MP3 Info

2002-07-09 Thread Oliver Ob
Having, let's say, a dir called /mp3 full with say 10 .MP3 files, how do I get information on how long the tracks are each (meaning in minutes and seconds) and also a summary on the total length of these 10 files (also mins and secs). How do I do that from the *console* ? Hope there is a solutio

ISO Image

2002-07-09 Thread Oliver Ob
This is what I would like to do: Updating a backup then burn new. I copied the old cd using dd=if... of=/image.iso Now I mounted that iso mount -o loop -t iso9660 image.iso /mnt/image It is there, no problems till here. Now it is mounted rw (according to mount) I want to copy one file INTO it

Security

2002-07-09 Thread Oliver Ob
Hi Linuxers... I would like to learn more about "Linux and security". What (useful links also appreciated) sources for reading and mailinglists can you advise? Thanks! -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤=Oliver@home= *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/Olli/olli.html

Security question

2002-07-01 Thread Oliver Ob
Hi Linuxers... I would like to learn more about "Linux and security". What (useful links also appreciated) sources for reading and mailinglists can you advise? Thanks! -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤=Oliver@home= *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/Olli/olli.html

Automatically play an audio CD (resent b/c/o no solution yet)

2002-06-26 Thread Oliver Ob
Is there any way to simply have some background (console) task AUTOMATICALLY play that cd in background as soon as I put that cd into the drive? How do I do that? (console solutions please!) === thanks, also text pointers appreciated. cda is running (started with cda on)

Re: A _small_ replacement for midnite commander / mc

2002-06-24 Thread Oliver Ob
Haines Brown schrieb: > > Oliver, > > I'm no expert, but I believe that the command line small editor that > easily fits on a diskette would be ed for Linux. It has vi-like > commands. Don't know size (perhaps 50 Kb). > > Your distribution may have it. Try entering > > $ ed --help > > to

A _small_ replacement for midnite commander / mc

2002-06-15 Thread Oliver Ob
I am fiddling with boot diskettes and found that the entire MC is a little large, isn't there a SMALL clone? A small one that uses SHORT libraries is needed! like under dos in the 90s: we had norton c., sure, but loads of clones with less than 100 kilobytes doing _almost_ the same. i find lynx

[AUDiO] MP3 playing

2002-06-09 Thread Oliver Ob
Hallo list, I installed SUSE 7.0 for my Jukebox server. Soundblaster works fine, NFS also. No problems here. Even wavplay runs LONG wavs just fine (tested with a 9 MB long wav file) Now regarding MP3s I got a problem. mp3blaster, which seems to apparently have a larger read-ahead than mpg123,

[SLE] [AUDiO] ANDREW-SMITH's Mp3-Jukebox PM -6th and last try-

2002-06-09 Thread Oliver Ob
was having > mail server problems. Anyway, I have attached the email I attempted to send. > > I hope this helps, > > Andrew > > -Original Message- > From: Oliver Ob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 09 July 2001 12:19 > To: Andrew Smith > Subject: [AUD

[SLE] Windows emulator for Linux - here WINE again -6th try-

2002-06-09 Thread Oliver Ob
Greek Geek schrieb: > > Hi All & Austin, > > who typed > > It has been a while since I have tried WINE. Tell me/us, what games you > are running & what tweaks yall made-if any? > > Will it run Civ II or Red Alert or WordPerfect 8/9??? I would like to run these applications which I have so

DAMN SORRY!

2001-07-20 Thread Oliver Ob
Hi mates, I strongly apologize for my damn Winsuck Netscape which bugged me again and sent out some mails 3 times or alike. I hate "Mozilla Status 0009" god, I hate it! -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤=Oliver@home= *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Linux Applications In General

2001-07-20 Thread Oliver Ob
Hi folks, this might at first sound strange, but so far I have not found any text like this and I am sure this would help the newbies a lot on their first steps because "the net is vast and infinite" :) and applications are that many and time to test them all is far too short... Anyhow, what I w

Precise LENGTH of files WITH sub-dirs

2001-07-20 Thread Oliver Ob
Hi mates, this is about a routine I would like to call "DIRLEN", it should output me the EXACT length and amount of files in the specified dir and its sub-dirs. du -hs * has not brought me much further. maybe some bash expert has an idea how to maybe pipe "ls" to some filter. the problem with d

Re: How mount a music cd.

2001-07-20 Thread Oliver Ob
pa3gcu schrieb: > > On Saturday 14 July 2001 21:42, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez wrote: > >Hi Folks. > > > >Please, i wanna ask if anybody know the way to mount a music compact > > disk. > > You dont mount a music cd you simply place it in the cdrom tray close the > door and push the button

[SCSi] Adaptec AVA 1502 iSA Controller

2001-07-20 Thread Oliver Ob
Now this is annoying, Adaptec answers NOT or only rubbish like "contact your dealer where you purchased it" - and I bought it via the net... har har big joke... Then, I have not found this controller or pointers to its doc in the net. Short: Problem is: How do I get that thing to work under L

[SHELL] Directory commands (here: options)

2001-07-20 Thread Oliver Ob
Ok this is the 3rd try now, I hope someone opens his mind and is capable of helping me out with maybe a script or at least a pointer to a file or also any appreciated idea: I wrote: /// I set some aliases like alias $='ls -alX', and now I am experiencing that I do not get what I wanted. I wou

[SHELL] Directory commands (here: options)

2001-07-20 Thread Oliver Ob
Ok this is the 3rd try now, I hope someone opens his mind and is capable of helping me out with maybe a script or at least a pointer to a file or also any appreciated idea: I wrote: /// I set some aliases like alias $='ls -alX', and now I am experiencing that I do not get what I wanted. I wou

Re: NTFS PARTITIONS

2001-07-11 Thread Oliver Ob
"Gopakumar C.E" schrieb: Man, how should I pronouce yer name? :-) > I am working in a company in India. I badly want to Almost the same for me, I am working for an international bank. > install Linux on my machine. But it is the comapny > policy that we SHOULD have WIN2k on our machine > (poooh)

Re: install on NTFS

2001-07-11 Thread Oliver Ob
Philips schrieb: > > Greg Partin wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > Is it possible to install Mandrake 7.2 on a system with NTFS as its file > > allocation method? If not, is it possible to switch to FAT without having > > to reinstall everything? Thanks and much obliged. > > > > ;-) Got

Re: [SLE] How do mount my cdr0m

2001-07-09 Thread Oliver Ob
Togan Muftuoglu schrieb: > > * Jeff Tanner; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07 Jul, 2001 wrote: > > what is the commaX-Mozilla-Status: 0009 > > > > > mount /cdrom > -- > Togan Muftuoglu Hey Togan! :-) Does that not work only when you defined target path in /etc/fstab? Then I would advise to use mount /

[SHELL] Directory commands (here: options)

2001-07-09 Thread Oliver Ob
I set some aliases like alias $='ls -alX', and now I am experiencing that I do not get what I wanted. I would like the appearance of the LS output to be like under good old dos with "doscmd=/o:gen" or "dir /o:gen", that is directories sorted in a-z order FIRST, then the a-z sorted FILES. Any

Re: [SLE] VMWare

2001-07-09 Thread Oliver Ob
Now, that we have come again into VMWare topics, I sum up my questions like this: 1.] Does anybody of you run "Steinberg's Rebirth 338" Sound Editor under Linux Emulation Environment (VMW/Wine) ? Version 1.o and 2.oo I find, some may explain this, the knobs move far to slowly for e

[SHELL] Directory commands (here: options)

2001-07-09 Thread Oliver Ob
I set some aliases like alias $='ls -alX', and now I am experiencing that I do not get what I wanted. I would like the appearance of the LS output to be like under good old dos with "doscmd=/o:gen" or "dir /o:gen", that is directories sorted in a-z order FIRST, then the a-z sorted FILES. Any

Re: [SLE] How do mount my cdr0m

2001-07-09 Thread Oliver Ob
Togan Muftuoglu schrieb: > > * Jeff Tanner; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07 Jul, 2001 wrote: > > what is the command to mount my cdrom? > > > > > mount /cdrom > -- > Togan Muftuoglu Hey Togan! :-) Does that not work only when you defined target path in /etc/fstab? Then I would advise to use mount /d

Re: [SLE] VMWare

2001-07-09 Thread Oliver Ob
Now, that we have come again into VMWare topics, I sum up my questions like this: 1.] Does anybody of you run "Steinberg's Rebirth 338" Sound Editor under Linux Emulation Environment (VMW/Wine) ? Version 1.o and 2.oo I find, some may explain this, the knobs move far to slowly for e

Re: [SLE] Tar/Gz Options, Question:

2001-07-04 Thread Oliver Ob
Richard Witt schrieb: > > I have just tgz'ed a new archive, say image.tgz. > > > > No problem with that, everything worked fine. > > But: How can I see the # of files inside the archive. > > tar -tvf does not give that number. > > >Try: > > tar -ztf image.tgz | wc > >The first numbe

Tar/Gz Options, Question:

2001-07-04 Thread Oliver Ob
Hi mates, now that I have searched and tried everything that came into my mind, I will now ask you: I have just tgz'ed a new archive, say image.tgz. No problem with that, everything worked fine. But: How can I see the # of files inside the archive. tar -tvf does not give that number. I have n

[SLE] [B00T] Weird Linux Panic on Boot - no idea? 3rd try

2001-07-04 Thread Oliver Ob
d not significant study to find out what part of the kernel (presumably) was generating this. Good luck! -Original Message- From: Oliver Ob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 3:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLE] [B00T] Weird Linux Panic on Boot - no idea? 2nd tr

Re: Boot Disc Construction Time Again

2001-07-02 Thread Oliver Ob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Oliver Ob wrote: > > > Hi mates, > > this is for some boot disk concerns. > > > > I want to learn how to create my own Linux boot disk using which > > I can run a REAL TIGHT linux from this disk. > &g

Re: Boot Disc Construction Time Again

2001-07-02 Thread Oliver Ob
Philips schrieb: > > Oliver Ob wrote: > > > > Hi mates, > > this is for some boot disk concerns. > > > > I want to learn how to create my own Linux boot disk using which > > I can run a REAL TIGHT linux from this disk. > > > > Any pointer

Re: Boot Disc Construction Time Again

2001-07-02 Thread Oliver Ob
Richard Adams schrieb: > > On Sun, 01 Jul 2001, Oliver Ob wrote: > > Hi mates, > > this is for some boot disk concerns. > > > > I want to learn how to create my own Linux boot disk using which > > I can run a REAL TIGHT linux from this disk. > > > >

Boot Disc Construction Time Again

2001-07-01 Thread Oliver Ob
Hi mates, this is for some boot disk concerns. I want to learn how to create my own Linux boot disk using which I can run a REAL TIGHT linux from this disk. Any pointer to valueable texts, what I plan is this: Boot Linux incl. Network Run insmod ppa for my ZiP-parallel drive Is there enough p

Re: [SHELL] Directory commands (here: options)

2001-06-18 Thread Oliver Ob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Oliver Ob wrote: > > > I set some aliases like alias $='ls -alX', and now I am experiencing > > that I do not get what I wanted. > > > > I would like the appearance of the LS output to be like und

Re: [SLE] mp3blaster

2001-06-18 Thread Oliver Ob
Mads Martin Jørgensen schrieb: > > * Damon Register <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Jun 15. 2001 10:47]: > > Has anyone on this list used mp3blaster? I am using SuSE 7.1 and > > have installed mp3blaster from the SuSE installation CD. The program > > starts but when I play any song, it only makes funny no

[SHELL] Directory commands (here: options)

2001-06-10 Thread Oliver Ob
I set some aliases like alias $='ls -alX', and now I am experiencing that I do not get what I wanted. I would like the appearance of the LS output to be like under good old dos with "doscmd=/o:gen" or "dir /o:gen", that is directories sorted in a-z order FIRST, then the a-z sorted FILES. Any

Re: [BOOT] Lilo and Nt4 2nd try

2001-04-28 Thread Oliver Ob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > well not quite. we used that from win95 on. installed on c: moved to > > d: and ran it from just there. > > same with os/2. someone made it to use the /boot/os2_d.b sector with > > lilo and there we were. thus, with nt it should work also! > > True, sort of. The f

Re: [BOOT] Lilo and Nt4 2nd try

2001-04-27 Thread Oliver Ob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Oliver Ob wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > I finally did what we announced last week: I copied my NT4 onto my > > Linux harddrive > > win98 is hda1 > > linux is hda2 > > swap is hda3 > >

Re: scandisk

2001-04-24 Thread Oliver Ob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > > How to I scan a hard disk, to ensure that there are no bad sectors? Also, if > there a 'defrag' for linux, or is this not X-Mozilla-Status: 0009ck this one helps you a lot here. CHEERS! -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤=Oliver@home= *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ Also,

Re: scandisk

2001-04-24 Thread Oliver Ob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > > How to I scan a hard disk, to ensure that there are no bad sectors? Also, if > there a 'defrag' for linux, or is this not necessary? > man fsck this one helps you a lot here. CHEERS! -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤=Oliver@home= *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ Also, w

Re: HowTo: Execute a command during boot.

2001-04-21 Thread Oliver Ob
Sanchet Surendra Dighe schrieb: > I did not mean the runlevel #. There is some number after 'S' in the > script-name. eg - S80sendmail. > > I do not know the significance of the number 80 and what is the > convention followed to give those numbers. As Neil Hart said, > it could be -- "The number