OT - Linux Distros Timeline

Hi Folks, It would be safe to safe that I am more of your passive viewer to this group. To be honest, it is usually 3 or 4 days between visits to the folder where the filter moves these type of messages to. And even then it could be longer if someone or something else takes my attention away. C

OT: Suse 9.1 Pro dist for sale

Hi folks, I have Suse 9.1 Pro Update for up for offer as it has become surplus to requirements. The Update version of the dist is less the printed manuals although the manuals are on DVD in PDF format. Any reasonably offer considered, reply to my e-mail address. It is surplus as I have install

Re: xmule for SuSe 9.2

On Wednesday 15 December 2004 20:41, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > Jamie Dobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Try here

Re: USBstick

I had an issue whereby I pulled the device out without 'unmount'ing first. Next time I plugged it in I got the 'not valid block device' error. Windows 2k and Xp was still able to recognise it but I had to reformat it by 'mkfs -t ' to get Linux things back in order. On Monday 12 July 2004 17

Re: Another Newbe Suse 9.1 problem

Just finshed installing Suse 9.1 pro. Installed from scratch, and then selectively moved the /home dirs back, i.e. mail folders, bookmarks, documents etc. I've upgraded from Suse 8.2 and so far, love the changes. The only issue I had was installing Firefox after the fact , I had to run as root

Re: Telstra cable

I am on Suse 8.2 running Suse Firewall 2 connecting from my Linux box straight to the Motorola SB5100 'Surfboard' cable modem. I am very comfortable with this solution, but I do : - apply all the security patches. - frequently monitor my logs and disk usage - maintain good admin practices (e.g.

Re: query on cdroms, cdrs

I've got a 16xDVD & 32x10x4 CDRW on the same channel and have don't have an issue. The only thing I would not do is copy CDs using the DVD as the source directly to the CDRW as the target. But then I cannot recall that I have had a need to do this anyway :-) D. On Thursday 04 March 2004 09:32,

Re: latest SCO activity in NZ ???

And then there is the firm down under On Friday 05 March 2004 10:46, Patrick Dunford wrote: > Stuart Johnsen wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Has anyone heard the latest about what SCO is up to here in NZ ?? > > According to the following article; > > > >

Re: disabled drive

If you have created the set of magic emergency disks, you'll be able boot off that which in turn will start the rescue version of partition magic. You'll be able to unhide the partition after that. On Thursday 05 February 2004 23:16, Nick Rout wrote: > what do you mean disable? did you delete

Re: anyone running kde 3.1.3

Updated last weekend without a hitch and I have not encounted any hitches to date. Cheers, Darrell.

Re: Problem downloading big files...

Interesting, Konqueror 3.0.4 (KDE patched to 3.0.5) has a resume feature. I can only assume the feature was introduced into this later version. On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:23, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm having trouble downloading large gzip files from places like > sourceforge. For e

Re: checking rpms

If you want to go through the install to see what it would do, but without actually installing any files, then include the option '--test', e.g. rpm --install --test package_file. Cheers, Darrell. On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:08, you wrote: > how do i check individual rpms are ok? I know they are

Re: Nuked MDK 9.0...

Hi there, I might be a litte late with this one but : There should be something noting the issue in your /var/logXFree86.0.log file. I am running Suse but am trusting the Mandrake dist is placing the log files into similar destinations. It should give you a pretty good idea of the extact issue

Re: Mandrake 9.0 installed users

Hi there, I am new to Christchurch and am living in Hornby but am running Suse 8.0. If I can be of any help anyway drop me a message. As another option, have you looked into running Turboprint. The link is as follows: . Cheers, Darrell. On Thu, 06