Automatic disconection by KPPP

If you are, like me, prone to forgetting that you are connected to the net and want to save a bit on useless conection and phone charges, here is how to configure KPPP to chuck you out after a given time without any IP activity: KPPP => Setup => Accounts => Edit => Dial => Customize pppd argume

sending control characterss to a printer ?

I'm in the middle of writing a small gawk script that sends the content of a text file to the printer, in character form, to fill in a printed form. Query: is there a way, similar to Basic's LPRINT CHR$(27);CHR$(41), to send control chars to the printer from gawk ? TIA, Ron the Frog, programm

Re: Au secours, je suis dans la M..... (was Superblock adresses ?)

I was honoured by a missive from Sanchet Surendra Dighe that said : > One doubt - how does it crib about /dev/hdc. Sorry, dropped the "1" when copying theerror message (must have left numlock off) >You said that you > had interchanged the primary and secondary IDE cables. Those will > be your

Au secours, je suis dans la M..... (was Superblock adresses ?)

I'm in deep S. I have been working on the computer of Her Who Must Be Obeyed, and when re-booting, had a problem: No system; had a closer look, I had mixed up the primary and secondary IDE cables. I unmixed them, rebooted, and now the partition with her home dir wont mount, she's loosing

Software for monitoring cpu temperature ?

I now have and all-singing-all dancing new motherboard, with all mod cons and a CPU that monitors its own temperature. Of course, the software for doing this runs only under Windoze. Anyone know of a Linux prog that does the same ? TIA, Ron the Frog, on the slowly cooling banks of the Paragua

Replicating users ?

I have converted the local Anglican Church Bishop to Linux: His Grace was worried about pirated software being used on the diocese's computers, and I pointed out to him the perfect answer: Avoid the Gates of Hell, run Linux ;-) So I have now been volunteered to install Linux as the new compute

Disk usage

Hi all, I've been trying to find a way to get, for each sub-directory of a given directory, the total amount of disk-space used up by that sub-directory and all its sub-sub-directories. Is there a way to do this with du , Or any other way ? I dont need/want the breakdown with all the sub-sub

More printing problems.

HEEEPPP!! I am trying in vain to print from SO5.2, and feel I am slowly going mad. I have installe the printer when I installed Mandrake 7.2; the test-page prints, and I print wothout problem from KWord or KSpread. The printer as installed is listed in /etc/cups/printers.conf If I open

Printing from Staroffice 5.2 under CUPS ?

I am (trying to) configure the printer fro SO 5.2 but have not so far even managed to print a test page. I found a printer in the list offered by SO, but dont know what to indicate as the print command (lpr -Plp ?) for printing under Cups. Any idea ? TIA, Ron, on the bbanks of the Paraguay R

Re: Sites with hardware compatibility lists ?

On Tuesday 27 February 2001 23:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I do say old chap "What are you trying to do?" and when you say decide > "What are you trying to decide?" > > What do you want reference to? setup? quality? cost? compatibility? > instruction book? personal experiences? > > It might be

Sites with hardware compatibility lists ?

I had some in my bookmarks, but as good bookmarks go, they went ;-) I now have to decide on a SOYO SY6VBA 133 Mother board. Anyone would be kind enough to point me in the the right direction ? TIA, Cheers from the balmy shores of the Paraguay River. Ron. -- Never le

Error in time-zone def file

I could not understand, last sunday, why the time on my machine was wrong by one hour. Until I noticed it no longer indicated PYST (Paraguay Summet Time) but PYT. We had moved back to "normal" time. Only problem is that Paraguay only changes back from summer time at the end of March, so it se