Re: How to pick a distro?

2005-04-07 Thread Ulrich Fürst
James Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A couple of ways to adress this: 1) find a distro with a good support > community (e.g., Ubuntu is a newbie-oriented distro with a really > active forum) and ask about your hardware there ahead of time. This > presumes you know what kind of hardware is in

Re: BroadBand Connection

2005-02-27 Thread Ulrich Fürst
"Peter H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the enclosed floppy in the package is a driver for Linux > cnpro2~1.gz > > Where do I copy that driver to on my HD I'd copy it to /usr/local/src/ there upack it and cd into the new directory. Then compile it. But isnt't there a README nearby the cnpro2

Re: Running X programs from bash w/ framebuffer

2005-01-12 Thread Ulrich Fürst
Jeremy Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will try this, but am curious what the purpose of the -- :0 and the > -- :1 are. Is this in the man pages for X? Could this possibly be the "--" stands for "end of the options and the :0 or :1 is the (virtual) display to start on. > for running mor

Re: Running X programs from bash w/ framebuffer

2005-01-11 Thread Ulrich Fürst
Jeremy Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may seem really newbieish, but I have been running Gentoo for > quite some time now. > > Is it possible to forego X altogether, and run things like firefox, > thunderbird, etc through the framebuffer from a bashprompt, rather > than starting X and

Re: Do not delete files by mistake (was Re: retrieval)

2005-01-03 Thread Ulrich Fürst
Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 02 January 2005 09:32, Ulrich Fürst wrote: > > or you can put the following into your .bashrc > > alias rm='mv --target-directory=/root/Desktop/Trash $1 ' > > I dont have the origanal message anymore to

Do not delete files by mistake (was Re: retrieval)

2005-01-02 Thread Ulrich Fürst
joy merwin monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > its really a trivial thing. just alias rm to rm -i in your > .bashrc > or you can put the following into your .bashrc alias rm='mv --target-directory=/root/Desktop/Trash $1 ' Ulrich - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe l

Re: accessing email via POP3

2004-12-01 Thread Ulrich Fürst
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 18:19:23 +0100 (CET) "J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Ulrich Fürst wrote: > > > On 30 Nov 2004 15:54:46 EST > > [EMAIL PROTECTED](Karthik Vishwanath > > Adv03) wrote: > > > My .fetchmailrc > > > look

Re: accessing email via POP3

2004-12-01 Thread Ulrich Fürst
On 30 Nov 2004 15:54:46 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karthik Vishwanath Adv03) wrote: > My .fetchmailrc > looks like this: > - > set daemon 10 it's seconds you're giving as an argument. So that is: "poll every 10 seconds" > poll newdoc.dartmouth.org and options no dns keep As far as I know you