Re: File resume in linux?

2003-03-22 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 18:16, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Hi there, [ ... ] > Theres 20 minutes of wasted modem transfer involvedtime I do not > wish to waste by reloading part of a file I already have...just cause > the stupid Aussie server biffed me off originally! ;^\ Were are into Open GL game

Re: Problem downloading big files...

2003-03-22 Thread Col
Chris Wilkinson wrote: Hi there, Jason wrote: I use gFTP and have never had any problems resuming...I recommend it highly. Thats all fine, but I'm initiating these d/l's via http... Netscape 7.01 appears to be the culprit, as it seems to think if a download connection is closed from the sour

Re: Problem downloading big files...

2003-03-22 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there, Jason wrote: I use gFTP and have never had any problems resuming...I recommend it highly. Thats all fine, but I'm initiating these d/l's via http... Netscape 7.01 appears to be the culprit, as it seems to think if a download connection is closed from the source then the files must be c

Re: Problem downloading big files...

2003-03-22 Thread Jason
I use gFTP and have never had any problems resuming...I recommend it highly. Cheers Jason Philip Charles wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Chris Wilkinson wrote: Hi there, I'm having trouble downloading large gzip files from places like sourceforge. For example a 20MB gzipped OpenGL game I tried to

Re: Problem downloading big files...

2003-03-22 Thread Philip Charles
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm having trouble downloading large gzip files from places like > sourceforge. For example a 20MB gzipped OpenGL game I tried to grab > today 'Finished' after 8MB (Ark tells me the gzip is incomplete, with > the expected 'premature EOF'

Re: File resume in linux?

2003-03-22 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there, David Zanetti wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Chris Wilkinson wrote: On a related matter...once I have a partial file, how do I go back and download the rest of it, without overwriting the part I already have? The -c switch to wget will do th

Re: File resume in linux?

2003-03-22 Thread David Zanetti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > On a related matter...once I have a partial file, how do I go > back and download the rest of it, without overwriting the part > I already have? The -c switch to wget will do the trick, for anything which

File resume in linux?

2003-03-22 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there, I posted about partially completed downloads a short while ago... On a related matter...once I have a partial file, how do I go back and download the rest of it, without overwriting the part I already have? I remember I could do this with ftp files under a Solaris term years ago, but ri

Problem downloading big files...

2003-03-22 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there, I'm having trouble downloading large gzip files from places like sourceforge. For example a 20MB gzipped OpenGL game I tried to grab today 'Finished' after 8MB (Ark tells me the gzip is incomplete, with the expected 'premature EOF' etc...) I'm using Netscape 7.01 (Download Manager says f

Re: Broken system - ok now

2003-03-22 Thread John Ascroft
Yes, I just renamed the entire .nautilus directory and logged back on, and it created a working set of files for me. Since all the other users were working ok I could assume that it was something in my directories. Thanks for the help, it is quite difficult being this early on the learning curve.

Re: Slow startup

2003-03-22 Thread Michael
Turn off init services you don't need. There's plenty that start up by default that you'll never use. At the command line try "ntsysv" ... if you prefer to use GUI you'll find a tool somewhere that lets you turn services on and off. Things you _probably_ don't need or use: httpd, isdn, pcmcia,

Re: Broken system

2003-03-22 Thread Chad
check /tmp or home/user/tmp for a lock file. You could use move to transfer every thing out of them and then try runing Nautilus if you can't work out which file it is. Chad > On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, John Ascroft wrote: > > directory which contains some XML files, none dated today and a > > thumbn

Re: Broken system

2003-03-22 Thread Tim Wright
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, John Ascroft wrote: > directory which contains some XML files, none dated today and a > thumbnails directory which doesn;t seem relevant. > > Any ideas where to look to sort ou Nautilus? Unfortunatly Nautilus isn't working at the moment for me (aaah, Debian Unstable---but I u

Re: Broken system

2003-03-22 Thread John Ascroft
Yes, thanks. I have fixed up Mozilla, and also logged on as another user and found that Nautilus works fine except when i try to run it form my own account. But I can;t find any file to remove/change. under .nautilus there is one file (which is an old firsttime file from the install) and a metafil

Re: Broken system

2003-03-22 Thread Tim Wright
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, John Ascroft wrote: > The boot process detected that it was an abnormal restart and mentioned > deleting 5 orphan subblocks. I didn;t do a full file system check at > that point. The system came up apparently ok but... There are two things that can go wrong when you have to r

Re: Slow startup

2003-03-22 Thread Paul
A faster hard drive will help but I dont think you can do much apart from use an older version of KDE, or dont use KDE at all nad use ion instead. Ion and X take 6 seconds to start up on my machine. -Paul On Saturday 22 Mar 2003 9:22 pm, Daniel Fone wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am running Mandrake 9

Broken system

2003-03-22 Thread John Ascroft
Help! I am running redhat 8. I came in this morning and found the machine (an IBM laptop) with the disk whirring and the screen blank. It wouldn't wake up, so I restarted it. The boot process detected that it was an abnormal restart and mentioned deleting 5 orphan subblocks. I didn;t do a full f

Slow startup

2003-03-22 Thread Daniel Fone
Hi guys, I am running Mandrake 9.0 on a 300MHz machine with 128Meg RAM. Just recently it seems to have really slowed down during the startup process. After I have logged in, it just sits for a time before the KDE 3.0 splash/loading screen displays. Would anyone have any idea how to optimize the

Re: making use of old equipment

2003-03-22 Thread Andre Renaud
> A little trial and error should fix the problem. If you can get the > bios to see the HDD as say a 500 MB drive then you can get the kernel > loaded. Once Linux is running it by-passes the bios and sees the drive > as it actually is, 10 gig. One thing to note is that the kernel must be within t

Re: Hubs, Routers, Switches, and Bridges

2003-03-22 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Sat 22 Mar 2003 15:06:58 NZST +1200, Tim Wright wrote: > My understanding (for Ethernet) is this: That's about my understanding too. Quote from a textbook on the topic: "switch is a marketing term for fast". A layer-2 switch is a fast bridge, a layer-3 switch is a fast router. Switch is an in

Re: making use of old equipment

2003-03-22 Thread Philip Charles
On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Wesley Parish wrote: > I am attempting to revive an old 1994-era PC for use with an semi-official > selinux distro based on RedHat 7.x. > > The BIOS won't recognize the (second-hand) 10 GB drive I'm hoping is still > usable, for obvious reasons. Does anyone know how to "decei

making use of old equipment

2003-03-22 Thread Wesley Parish
I am attempting to revive an old 1994-era PC for use with an semi-official selinux distro based on RedHat 7.x. The BIOS won't recognize the (second-hand) 10 GB drive I'm hoping is still usable, for obvious reasons. Does anyone know how to "deceive" the BIOS so it reads the hard drive? Or alte