Gnome Calendar configuration

2001-07-12 Thread brownh
Apologize for a really petty question. I tried out Gnomical Calendar (Gnome Calendar 1.4.0) applet, and got hooked (entered in a lot of appointments). But suddenly for no apparent reason, the background color of the Day View's off hours and the Week View background turned to a deep blue, making t

RedHat upgrade breaks ghostscript

2001-07-09 Thread brownh
When I upgraded RH 7.0->7.1, I experienced a partial loss of postscript functionality, although normal ASCII printing OK. a) For example, emacs prints an ASCII file, but not when that file is sent to PS printer buffer. Error: "Can't find (or open) initialization file (kfvflib.ps)." b) printtool

Re: swap relocation

2001-07-06 Thread brownh
Mike, Worked like a gem. swapon/swapoff was entirely new to me. Thanks! Haines KB1GRM > On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:15:43PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > fdisk shows that still have a partition with ID82 and identified > > as swap. > > Look at /etc/fstab for swap entries. [...] > Of

swap relocation

2001-07-05 Thread brownh
I did an upgrade from RedHat 7.0 to 7.1, and when I should have clicked Skip I inadvertantly clicked OK to accept the old partitioning. Instead, the result was that I created a hugh swap file within /usr. fdisk shows that still have a partition with ID82 and identified as swap. So which swap am

Re: growing swap file

2001-06-28 Thread brownh
Rick, I know you will be receiving expert advice, but thought I'd pass along my own experiences that will suggest what you experience is normal. I've got 128 Mb RAM and run RH 7.0. If I start and continue to run too many piggish apps, I begin to use swap. The Linux memory model is not like that

Re: growing swap file

2001-06-28 Thread brownh
Rick, I know you will be receiving expert advice, but thought I'd pass along my own experiences that will suggest what you experience is normal. I've got 128 Mb RAM and run RH 7.0. If I start and continue to run too many piggish apps, I begin to use swap. The Linux memory model is not like that

Re: reading/converting hex characters

2001-06-24 Thread brownh
> quoted-printable is a pretty common MIME encoding for HTML. I bet > browsers do understand it: www4mail does, IIRC. Oops. Sorry, my mistake. I should have specified that rmail lacks this capability, and I clouded the issue by bringing in HTML, which only happens to apply to a specific case.

Re: reading/converting hex characters

2001-06-24 Thread brownh
Lawson, > That looks to me like MIME Content-Type: text/plain; > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable, as seen by an MUA that > is either not MIME-aware, or is trying to deal with mail that has > been handled by an MTA that is not MIME aware and has stripped the > MIME mail headers out. I

reading/converting hex characters

2001-06-24 Thread brownh
I receive e-mails containing hex characters, and need some way to covert them to Latin characters. Here's a sample: =C8=AB=C7=F2=BB=AA=C8=CB=CD=C5=BD=E1=C6=F0=C0=B4=A3=AC=D2=BB=C7=D0= =B7=C7=B9=B2=D7=E9=D6=AF=A1=A2=C5=C9=B1=F0=C1=AA=BA=CF=C6=F0=C0=B4=A3=AC =A1=A1=A1=A1 =D4=DA=D6=D0=B9=B2=CC=E5=D6

Re: mail/news client

2001-06-23 Thread brownh
There's innumerable mail clients, and a lot depends on just what you want to do. For speed and efficiency, I happen to prefer rmail under emacs. For news, I use gnus under emacs, but suspect there's an easier way. -- Haines Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.hartford-hwp.com KB1GR

oscilloscope applications

2001-04-21 Thread brownh
Anyone know of an open software or inexpensive application to use the computer as an oscillscope under Linux? More broadly (and more apropos to the list), how does one locate specific applications for Linux such as this? Haines Brown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe li

emacs rmail attachments

2001-04-18 Thread brownh
I asked this question some time ago, but the answers all addressed gnus, not emacs' rmail utility. So let me try again: Is it possible to attach a binary to an rmail message under emacs? According to my GNU emacs book, emacs does not support binary file attachments, although one can insert an ASC

Re: WP for Console

2001-04-17 Thread brownh
Sean, Sorry to see that you are not getting much response to your question, and so I'll venture to pipe up despite my very real limitations. There have been some survey-reviews of the question. Sorry I don't have any citations other than www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/1762/1/ . It consi

Re: Backup Software

2001-04-17 Thread brownh
alex, I'm sure you will get many recommendations. Probably designing an appropriate script for tar is the appropriate way to go. If you insist on a GUI, there are some decent commercial products. My experience is limited to Bru, which seems just fine. There can be some technical problems associa

user launching as root

2001-03-09 Thread brownh
I have a little puzzle. User would like to start some backup software that must be run by root. This happens often enough so that it would be convenient to put a launcher in Gnome Panel's menu. I assume the answer is to create a string that will su itself to root by issuing the password, and the

Re: KOffice dependencies

2001-03-04 Thread brownh
In the note I just sent out, the command I'd need to delete a batch of applications should have been: rpm -e -nodeps app1 app1 app3 ... Sorry about that ommision. Haines Brown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL P

Re: KOffice dependencies

2001-03-04 Thread brownh
Ken, Your reply cast a lot of light on the situation, but also led me into making a judgement, for which I need encouragement. To recap, I want to upgrade from KD1 to KDE2 as a prelude to an installation of KDEOffice. Attempts to use rmp -Uvh on the KDE2 packages simply returned dependency erro

Re: KOffice dependencies

2001-03-03 Thread brownh
I received very generous help from several people, but nevertheless can't get to first base installing KDE. 1. ran rpm -qip kdelibs*.i386.rpm I have version 2.0.1, but not installed 2. Downloaded a set of stable KDE packages from SourceForge, for Red Hat 7.0. (arts, kdeaddutil, and kdesdk n