Re: Major blunder (X stuff)

2004-12-27 Thread Steve Holdoway
Rob Wood wrote: Hi I have been labouring long and hard to get X system working on my practice box (486+Tiny). I made a lot of progress and got all the *.tar.gz files decompressed and extracted into their appropriate directories. I followed readme.tinyX to the letter and did /locate /to ensure

Re: Language recommendation

2004-12-27 Thread Andy Leach
Alasdair Tennant wrote: Here's a VERY rough script I wrote recently. ImageMagick is very short on help for newbies. This method should work just as well in a Windows script. I am working on a Tcl/Tk version (which should also work on Windows). thanks for your script Alasdair, amazingly I am

Re: Major blunder (X stuff)

2004-12-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:28, Rob Wood wrote: > Hi > I have been labouring long and hard to get X system working on my practice > box (486+Tiny). > > I made a lot of progress and got all the *.tar.gz files decompressed and > extracted into their appropriate directories. I followed readme.tinyX to > t

Major blunder (X stuff)

2004-12-27 Thread Rob Wood
Hi I have been labouring long and hard to get X system working on my practice box (486+Tiny).   I made a lot of progress and got all the *.tar.gz files decompressed and extracted into their appropriate directories.  I followed readme.tinyX to the letter and did locate to ensure that all req

Re: List files in directory created on specified date

2004-12-27 Thread Steve Holdoway
Steve Holdoway wrote: David Kirk wrote: How do I list files created in a directory on a specified date? You can use the find command with -exec ls {} \; Unfortunately you can't search on when a file was created. Your options are: -atime - when the file was last accessed -ctime - when the

Re: List files in directory created on specified date

2004-12-27 Thread Steve Holdoway
David Kirk wrote: How do I list files created in a directory on a specified date? You can use the find command with -exec ls {} \; Unfortunately you can't search on when a file was created. Your options are: -atime - when the file was last accessed -ctime - when the file's status was last

Re: List files in directory created on specified date

2004-12-27 Thread David Kirk
> How do I list files created in a directory on a specified date? You can use the find command with -exec ls {} \; Unfortunately you can't search on when a file was created. Your options are: -atime - when the file was last accessed -ctime - when the file's status was last changed -mti

Judy & Lindsay questions

2004-12-27 Thread Rob Wood
Hi Both, Can I strongly reccomend a spare PC to practice Linux on so you don't mess up your working system. I have done this several times and have learned this lesson the hard way. This way you can still use e-mail and web on the working system to get things sorted out.   A spare PC is the w

List files in directory created on specified date

2004-12-27 Thread Ross Drummond
How do I list files created in a directory on a specified date? ls -l |grep 'Dec 28' works but I want the output to be in short format. Cheers Ross Drummond

Re: Funny Error Message

2004-12-27 Thread Martin Bähr
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:45:39AM -0800, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed) > Does anyone know what this means? your program crashed mid-flight and the pilot took the emergency exit. greetings, martin. ps: since you thought the error was funny,

Re: Judy & Lindsay questions

2004-12-27 Thread Dale Anderson
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 11:03 +1300, Andrew Errington wrote: No you cant they wont send more than 3 (iirc) keys for 'evaluation' purposes.(unless of course you want to reregister all the time) Cheers Dale. > > Andy > > PS VMWare is free, but you need a licence key. A 30-day trial key is free,

Re: Judy & Lindsay questions

2004-12-27 Thread Andrew Errington
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:46, you wrote: > On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:44, Judy & Lindsay Roberts wrote: > > Unfortunately, I am going to have to stick with the Live CD version at > > present, as my wife isn't going to agree to installing a Linux > > partition on the HDD. If you just want to play with dif

Re: Judy & Lindsay questions

2004-12-27 Thread Steve Holdoway
Judy & Lindsay Roberts wrote: Unfortunately, I am going to have to stick with the Live CD version at present, as my wife isn't going to agree to installing a Linux partition on the HDD. It's Live CD or nothing for the time being, so that's where I'll need assistance Rob. Rob Wood wrote: Hi Bot

Re: Judy & Lindsay questions

2004-12-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:44, Judy & Lindsay Roberts wrote: > Unfortunately, I am going to have to stick with the Live CD version at > present, as my wife isn't going to agree to installing a Linux partition > on the HDD. Never heard of insurrection? ;-) Wonderful stuff. You could save the MBR for wi

Re: Funny Error Message

2004-12-27 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Because I have always been using Linux in German I did not know what Segmentation Fault means. Paul Swafford wrote: It probably has issues with operating in a temporal distortion field, I know my filters definitely chucked your futuristic message in my trash bin. No actually this error has noth

Re: Judy & Lindsay questions

2004-12-27 Thread Nick Rout
try knoppix On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 00:44 +1300, Judy & Lindsay Roberts wrote: > Unfortunately, I am going to have to stick with the Live CD version at > present, as my wife isn't going to agree to installing a Linux partition > on the HDD. It's Live CD or nothing for the time being, so that's wh

Re: Funny Error Message

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Swafford
It probably has issues with operating in a temporal distortion field, I know my filters definitely chucked your futuristic message in my trash bin. No actually this error has nothing to do with your system time being somewhat incorrect. Q1. define "sometimes" Q2. where did you get the SuSE 64bit

Re: Funny Error Message

2004-12-27 Thread Matthew Gregan
At 2004-12-28T09:53:42+1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:45, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > > Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed) > > > > Does anyone know what this means? > > Your program has attempted to access a section of memory which has not > been all

Re: Judy & Lindsay questions

2004-12-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:47, Rob Wood wrote: > Mandrake in my experience is reasonable to set up with a modem as long as > you have an external serial or USB modem and not internal PCI or ISA type > (these things depend on Windows), although it takes a bit of work. Just to clarify. There are 4 or 5 m

Re: Funny Error Message

2004-12-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:45, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > On my system (SuSE 9.2 64 bit) sometimes programs (abuse, Thunderbird > with wrong configuration) crash down. When I start them in a > konsole-window I get the following message: > > Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed) > >

Funny Error Message

2004-12-27 Thread Robert Himmelmann
On my system (SuSE 9.2 64 bit) sometimes programs (abuse, Thunderbird with wrong configuration) crash down. When I start them in a konsole-window I get the following message: Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed) Does anyone know what this means? -- Happy Hacking +---

Re: Linux PDAs

2004-12-27 Thread algo
http://familiar.handhelds.org/ Hugo Vincent wrote: Hi everyone, Just wondering if anyone uses Linux PDAs - Zaurus or iPaq converted to Linux? Is there a user group/mailing list for that? Cheers, Hugo.

Linux PDAs

2004-12-27 Thread Hugo Vincent
Hi everyone, Just wondering if anyone uses Linux PDAs - Zaurus or iPaq converted to Linux? Is there a user group/mailing list for that? Cheers, Hugo.

Re: Judy & Lindsay questions

2004-12-27 Thread Judy & Lindsay Roberts
Points taken. I'm a bad sleeper, so end up on the computer at all hours and read what I can. I wasn't able to get Ubuntu to write anything to the USB stick. The fact that Ubuntu found it, does that not necessarily mean that it mounted it? Robert Fisher wrote: On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:47, Rob

Re: Judy & Lindsay questions

2004-12-27 Thread Judy & Lindsay Roberts
Unfortunately, I am going to have to stick with the Live CD version at present, as my wife isn't going to agree to installing a Linux partition on the HDD. It's Live CD or nothing for the time being, so that's where I'll need assistance Rob. Rob Wood wrote: Hi Both, I am a newbie myself strugg

Re: Xstuff and other things

2004-12-27 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 20:21, Rob Wood wrote: > Chris, > I am causing some confusion here. I have Ubuntu on my laptop, What sort of machinery? > which > although I have some problems with it, just installed like a dream, less > problems than with XP, but Ubuntu doesn't like the laptop hardware. It >

Re: Judy & Lindsay questions

2004-12-27 Thread Robert Fisher
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:47, Rob Wood wrote: I'm sure > other members of the group will do much better. > > Good luck - Woodsey Just thought that I would comment that this list goes a bit quiet over the Christmas - New Year holiday period so don't get too frustrated that you do not get many sugge

Re: Language recommendation

2004-12-27 Thread Alasdair Tennant
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 07:42:35 +1300 Andy Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The ImageMagic utilities do just that. > >You'll need just a few lines of shell script. Here's a VERY rough script I wrote recently. ImageMagick is very short on help for newbies. This method should work just as well in

Judy & Lindsay questions

2004-12-27 Thread Rob Wood
Hi Both, I am a newbie myself struggling with various problems so I probably can't help much but I will try. Mandrake in my experience is reasonable to set up with a modem as long as you have an external serial or USB modem and not internal PCI or ISA type (these things depend on Windows), a