Re: Starting Window Manager

2003-02-17 Thread Michael
At 07:01 p.m. 18/02/2003, you wrote: I have just installed VMware on my Widows 2000 PC at work. I can logon and then type startx to get into KDE How can I go straight to the login manager? Do you mean the graphical login? If so, edit /etc/inittab and change the runlevel to 5 by altering the

Re: Soon to be improved Terminator...

2003-02-17 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi Chris USB modem's are still winmodems.. so getting them going can be hassle. (if at all..IMHO). Mahesh > Hi there, > > My Dick Smith Electronics 'Terminator 1100' linux PC > is about to > get better... > > The terminator has an S3 Savage4 integrated AGP 4x > video chip, but this > chip is n

Starting Window Manager

2003-02-17 Thread Robert Fisher
I have just installed VMware on my Widows 2000 PC at work. I can logon and then type startx to get into KDE How can I go straight to the login manager? -- Robert Fisher http://www.fisherfamily.orcon.net.nz

Re: MandrakeUpdate - found no updates??

2003-02-17 Thread C Harland
Strange kde 3.0.5a should be there for download. So you went menu > configuration > packaging > Mandrake Update. It then asked you for the root password? Enter the password and up pops a box "I need to contact a mirror..." Click yes. It then either gives you

Soon to be improved Terminator...

2003-02-17 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there, My Dick Smith Electronics 'Terminator 1100' linux PC is about to get better... The terminator has an S3 Savage4 integrated AGP 4x video chip, but this chip is not supported by MesaGL or the XFree86 DRI or Utah-GLX projects, so there is no 3D hardware acceleration for graphics. 2D works

Re: How do I limit mem cache size?

2003-02-17 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Don't bother about it. What you're trying to do gives you no tangible benefit if you did manage to do it. Linux uses all memory not allocated by processes as disk buffer. Be glad about it. Of course, if one process suddenly allocates all memory (and more) your dis

Re: OT compression (Re: apparent file system bloating)

2003-02-17 Thread Martin Baehr
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:21:13PM +1300, Helmut Walle wrote: > Gifblast > normally gave me a size reduction between 10 and 30 percent - yes, > well, not that much, but as I said, for already compressed data. indeed that is quite impressive actually. > Re images, there is one more trick: true col

OT compression (Re: apparent file system bloating)

2003-02-17 Thread Helmut Walle
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Martin Baehr wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 12:48:59PM +1300, Wesley Parish wrote: > > I've just checked, and there is a file mvs38j.tar.gz, and it clocks in at > > 407.2 MB, but the mvs38j directory clocks in at 419.2 MB. > > > > So much for gzip's compression ratio - I am

Re: ssh through closed network with proxy server?

2003-02-17 Thread Nick Rout
there IS a win32 version of bouncer! On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 19:19:25 + Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:20:19PM +1300, David Zanetti wrote: > > I ran httptunnel for some time, and I found my ssh sessions would > > occasionally have issues, stalling and/or jus

Re: ssh through closed network with proxy server?

2003-02-17 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:20:19PM +1300, David Zanetti wrote: > I ran httptunnel for some time, and I found my ssh sessions would > occasionally have issues, stalling and/or just stop working. I also > noticed it generated a large number of requests, which is less than ideal > if you're trying to

Re: ssh through closed network with proxy server?

2003-02-17 Thread David Zanetti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > If bouncer supports proxies, it should be possible to set up the sshd on > any port outside $corporate - correct? Having to set up sshd for bouncer > on port 443 at home can be a stopper id there's a web s

Re: apparent file system bloating

2003-02-17 Thread Martin Baehr
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 12:48:59PM +1300, Wesley Parish wrote: > I've just checked, and there is a file mvs38j.tar.gz, and it clocks in at > 407.2 MB, but the mvs38j directory clocks in at 419.2 MB. > > So much for gzip's compression ratio - I am deeply disappointed. the compression ration depe

Re: ssh through closed network with proxy server?

2003-02-17 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> > How does this bouncer thing someone mentioned work? > > Similar to httptunnel, but using the CONNECT method. Thanks for the explanation Dave. I found that the uni network lets me connect to web servers on any port, but I have to use a proxy. E.g. wget http://canvas.gnome.org:65348/pybliogra

Re: How do I limit mem cache size?

2003-02-17 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Don't bother about it. What you're trying to do gives you no tangible benefit if you did manage to do it. Linux uses all memory not allocated by processes as disk buffer. Be glad about it. Of course, if one process suddenly allocates all memory (and more) your disk buffer size drops to zero. Nothi

How do I limit mem cache size?

2003-02-17 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there, One quick question before I get 3 hours sleep and go back to work... I have 256MB of RAM in my linux box, but for some reason the memory cache always chews all the available RAM after a while of loading software. I am often left with only 4-5MB of free physical space. Then loading of un

Re: apparent file system bloating

2003-02-17 Thread Wesley Parish
I've just checked, and there is a file mvs38j.tar.gz, and it clocks in at 407.2 MB, but the mvs38j directory clocks in at 419.2 MB. So much for gzip's compression ratio - I am deeply disappointed. Wesley Parish On Monday 17 February 2003 09:51 pm, you wrote: > u...am I missing something or

Re: apparent file system bloating

2003-02-17 Thread Nick Rout
u...am I missing something or could there be quite a bit in /herc370/? Ie not in either subdir? On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:22:03+1300 Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My system's Mandrake-Linux 9.0. > > My files systems are /boot = xfs, / and /usr = reiserfs, and /var and > /home are

apparent file system bloating

2003-02-17 Thread Wesley Parish
My system's Mandrake-Linux 9.0. My files systems are /boot = xfs, / and /usr = reiserfs, and /var and /home are ext3. Recently I was brought up short by its claim it had no more space. I investigated and found for example, /herc370 claimed, when queried by the properties option of the kde menu

Re: Cars and power and mp3 players

2003-02-17 Thread Andrew Errington
> > My car MP3 player was built on a standard Pentium 100 mobo with a > > soundblaster card. I built my own 12V AT-style PSU. > > M 12 V power supply m > > How do you deal with variable output from the supply? What about > powering off - how does the machine shutdown gracefully? The supp