Re: Gentoo Installfest (in Robert's garage)

2005-03-23 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Which install docs? Robert Himmelmann said: Am I right in thinking that you mean 9PM? No no. 9 am. With decent hardware and a pre read of the install docs (to give you an understanding) you should have a decent system running by mid afternoon. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is

Re: ethereal's icon

2005-03-23 Thread Robert Himmelmann
an do). It's time for me to get over myself and get on with it... -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain fortune's Contribution of the Month to the Animal Rights Debate: I'll stay

Re: ethereal's icon

2005-03-23 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Unfortunatly only with "necessary security updates". That is why I am still running kernel 2.6.8. But once they even gave us a KDE3.3 upgrade for free. Don't worry Chris, so does SuSE -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is something that everybody wants to have read an

Re: Gentoo Installfest (in Robert's garage)

2005-03-22 Thread Robert Himmelmann
As this is my first installfest does any-one know about how long it will take? Am I right in thinking that you mean 9PM? I am happy to start about 9. It is probably best if Nick Chris and I set up our servers, tables, whiteboards etc. first. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is

Re: Paste in Emacs

2005-03-22 Thread Robert Himmelmann
en in Emacs under console. When I start emacs (not XEmacs) in a graphical session I can not use yank (C-y) to paste text I copied from another application or paste copied (M-x) text in other applications. Is there any way of doing that -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is something

Paste in Emacs

2005-03-22 Thread Robert Himmelmann
When I start emacs (not XEmacs) in a graphical session I can not use yank (C-y) to paste text I copied from another application or paste copied (M-x) text in other applications. Is there any way of doing that? -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is something that everybody wants to have

Re: Gentoo Installfest (in Robert's garage)

2005-03-22 Thread Robert Himmelmann
opposed to the more cramped version last year. This time we will be able to swing a cat, although we may need to BYO cat. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain fortune's Contribution of t

Re: Gentoo Installfest (in Robert's garage)

2005-03-22 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Robert Himmelmann wrote: I will come if I can. I have a Yakumo laptop with 1Gb Ram, an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ and a 40Gb Hd. At the moment I am using double boot with SuSE's Grub for SuSE and Windows XP. That would be triple boot later. For comleteness: I also have a DVD-RW-RAM-burner, 10

Re: Gentoo Installfest (in Robert's garage)

2005-03-21 Thread Robert Himmelmann
I will come if I can. I have a Yakumo laptop with 1Gb Ram, an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ and a 40Gb Hd. At the moment I am using double boot with SuSE's Grub for SuSE and Windows XP. That would be triple boot later. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is something that everybody wan

Re: links in /windows

2005-03-20 Thread Robert Himmelmann
administrator because there was a recursive directory structure. After writing a note to myself I tried to delete the directory under windows which surprisingly worked. That was my personal crash-course in hardlinks. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is something that everybody wants to have read

Re: links in /windows

2005-03-20 Thread Robert Himmelmann
irectories. (I needed some time to find that out) -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain fortune's Contribution of the Month to the Animal Rights Debate: I'll stay out of animals&

Re: Gentoo

2005-03-19 Thread Robert Himmelmann
their own purposes. Steve -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain fortune's Contribution of the Month to the Animal Rights Debate: I'll stay out of animals' way if they'

Re: Gentoo

2005-03-19 Thread Robert Himmelmann
ot partition someplace in gentoo and use a symlink for /tmp. I think more modern versions of mount also let you mount a directory again somewhere else, effectively providing this kind of shift. Volker I will try it. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is something that everybody want

Re: Gentoo

2005-03-19 Thread Robert Himmelmann
SuSE-partition as /tmp for Gentoo? I have 5Gb free under SuSE. I was going to buy an external HD but they are a bit more expensive than I can afford. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain

Gentoo

2005-03-19 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Has anyone got the latest Gentoo CD's? or better a DVD if it exists. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain fortune's Contribution of the Month to the Animal Rights Debate: I&#

Gentoo

2005-03-19 Thread Robert Himmelmann
entoo? Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain fortune's Contribution of the Month to the Animal Rights Debate: I'll stay out of animals' way if they'll stay out of mine. &

SOLVED: Restarting a tty-session

2005-03-16 Thread Robert Himmelmann
awned by the init process. You can kill the getty and init will spawn another. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain To be is to do. -- I. Kant To do is to be. -- A. Sartre Yabba-Dabba-Doo! -- F. Flinstone

Restarting a tty-session

2005-03-16 Thread Robert Himmelmann
imes don't react any more. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain To be is to do. -- I. Kant To do is to be. -- A. Sartre Yabba-Dabba-Doo! -- F. Flinstone

Re: Fix Up evening - 12 March.

2005-03-14 Thread Robert Himmelmann
My Mobilitiy Radeon 9600 still does not work properly. I once tried to install the driver with the result that I had to set everything back by using a SuSE 9.0 LIVE Eval. (By the way: Has anybody Knoppix 3.7? I could bring a disk) -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is something that

Re: A 'Puter Funny

2005-03-12 Thread Robert Himmelmann
lonely users, why does it take so long? -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain To be is to do. -- I. Kant To do is to be. -- A. Sartre Yabba-Dabba-Doo! -- F. Flinstone

Re: Server down?

2005-03-07 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Did you install Java or Python? I would certainly like an account. I like playing around with networks but that is very difficult if you have only one box. Any CLUG member can have an account, for the asking. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is something that everybody wants to

Re: Server down?

2005-03-07 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Sounds intresting. What do you use it for? Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain To be is to do. -- I. Kant To do is to be. -- A. Sartre Yabba-Dabba-Doo! -- F

Re: Server down?

2005-03-06 Thread Robert Himmelmann
From what I read in the messages before horse seems to be an ssh-terminal-server. Is that right and is ther any website about it? Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain To be is to do

Re: How do I allow remote connections to X under SuSe 9.2?

2005-02-27 Thread Robert Himmelmann
on'. VNC should also be better for slow conections bcause you can use jpeg for compression. Thanks Volker, I'll have a look later on. I basically just want to be able to run an X session from my Windows box as if I was at the Linux box (which will be headless) Happy Hacking, Robert Hi

Re: Little emacs query

2005-02-27 Thread Robert Himmelmann
It is auto-fill (M-x auto-fill-mode). Seems to work. Thanks. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gnu.org/phil isndsophy/free-sw.html A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain To be is to do

Re: SuSE 9.2 & FC3 cheap (?)

2005-02-26 Thread Robert Himmelmann
course, all this info is readily available at suse.com, so I don't quite understand why people keep on posting what they think they've heard may have been said is possibly included in the maybe there is a box. Sometimes the obvious is not as obvious as it seems. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelm

Little emacs query

2005-02-26 Thread Robert Himmelmann
When i type C-n in emacs and I am in the middle of a line which is longer than the screen I do not go to the next part of that line one row lower (as in OOo and kwrite) but to the next line. Is there any way to change this? I can't find it in the options (F10 o C t) Happy Hacking, R

Re: SuSE 9.2 & FC3 cheap (?)

2005-02-26 Thread Robert Himmelmann
The full SuSE-version includes two double dvds. One with sources and one with binaries. I think it costs more than 100$. Stundent- and upgrade-versions are cheaper. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html A classic is

Re: Low-level cmd under Python

2005-02-22 Thread Robert Himmelmann
In Java many easy things are more difficult than elsewhere but many difficult things are easier than elsewhere. I don't miss goto because I have never used it before. Java was the first language I learned. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gn

Re: Low-level cmd under Python

2005-02-21 Thread Robert Himmelmann
I found it. Thanks. Something like readline and curses are the only things that Java really lacks. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read

Low-level cmd under Python

2005-02-21 Thread Robert Himmelmann
. Handle all key-events (->, <-, C-c, M-x) This is nothing serious but just for fun. If anybody wants to know why I don't use a gui: I have already done so in Java and want to try something else. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fre

Re: Email ettiquette rant

2005-02-21 Thread Robert Himmelmann
This must have been before I came here. Where about in the archives can I find this conversation? I heartily agree. But we've covered this before, ad nauseum. Thanks for the painful reminder. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy

Re: It's available now, was Re: New electronic Linux Mag

2005-02-19 Thread Robert Himmelmann
have windows. That is why I have to use acroread 6/7 on windows.) Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain To be is to do.

Re: It's available now, was Re: New electronic Linux Mag

2005-02-19 Thread Robert Himmelmann
On my system acroread can't even display simple files generated by latex rightly painful isn't it? Actually acroread v5.10 does seem to read it fine. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Democracy is a government

Re: New electronic Linux Mag

2005-02-18 Thread Robert Himmelmann
I have waited now for some days and nothing has arrived. Maybe I was late. Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- /usr/bin/fortu

Re: New electronic Linux Mag

2005-02-15 Thread Robert Himmelmann
ric too, maybe just a co-incidence. http://www.tuxmagazine.com PS I didn't mean this to sound like an advert, and I have no association beyond being a subscriber :-) -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Democracy is a g

Re: Newbie - wanting to backup Ubuntu settings

2005-02-15 Thread Robert Himmelmann
py (: ). I've spent most of my life behind 80x24 character monitors, where the command line is your favourite deity ( and, to be honest, I do prefer it ), but if it were that good, then why invent a mouse? My $0.02, Steve -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See

Re: Newbie - wanting to backup Ubuntu settings

2005-02-14 Thread Robert Himmelmann
, no prejudices against young people. ;) I think the KDE idea of the F2 activated single line cli to be just wonderful. Good to see the Gnome folks have taken it up too. You always could map your own function keys in X. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell. Cheers, Steve -- Happy Hacking,

Re: Linux users excluded again

2005-02-14 Thread Robert Himmelmann
hnologyreview.com/articles/stallman0500.asp"; for some comments from rms about e-books. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.

Re: 64Mb RAM

2005-02-14 Thread Robert Himmelmann
olleague want to do with his antiquity? -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -

Re: Newbie - wanting to backup Ubuntu settings

2005-02-14 Thread Robert Himmelmann
dir you are SOL without going on the "diploma course" which you will discover at:- man find have fun. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Democracy is a government w

Re: Where is my camera mounted?

2005-02-14 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Robert Himmelmann wrote: Barry wrote: Using gphoto from Mandrake8.2 I could plug my camera into a usb port and it is seen immediately i load gphoto. Also in xwc i could go to /dev/usb/ and see the device file (dc2xx) appear and disappear as I turned the camera on or off. In Mandrake10 the camera

Re: Where is my camera mounted?

2005-02-14 Thread Robert Himmelmann
e of camera is it and how does it work under windows/Mac? Some cameras are also configurable in terms of the protocol. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Democracy is a government where you can say what you

Re: Useful sudo commands?

2005-02-14 Thread Robert Himmelmann
r that part you could also use chmod +s and a nice desktop-icon. That might reduce the frustration (on both sides) about wrong spelling. Andy -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Democracy is a government where you ca

Re: Wiki - please contribute to the campaign to get Jim to change the theme

2005-02-13 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Douglas Royds wrote: Robert Himmelmann wrote: Crao looks better than wikipedia or creativecommons. The icons in the bar with the search button and the ones in the layer on the bottom of the page could use some descriptions or tooltips. Expect from that it's perfect! I assume by "

Re: More virtual cmd sessions

2005-02-12 Thread Robert Himmelmann
he lower ones. Security doesn't bother me very much. I think I have done more damage to my system than any virus/cracker/worm. Volker -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Democracy is a government where you can say w

Re: More virtual cmd sessions

2005-02-12 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Lee Begg wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:26, Robert Himmelmann wrote: Is there a way to redifine what xdm occupies or can I use tty8-12? I also didn't find anything about tty10. Have a look in /etc/syslog.conf and look for a line with /dev/tty10. I changed that to /dev/tty9. And adde

Re: Permission to run a server

2005-02-12 Thread Robert Himmelmann
ent in the PATH. Some time ago I changed the PATH for root to the one I used as normal user to include java 5. I added /sbin and /usr/sbin. When I try to use "--cap CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE" I only get "Segmentation fault". pin would have told you too. Volker Happy Hacking,

Re: More virtual cmd sessions

2005-02-12 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Lee Begg wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:26, Robert Himmelmann wrote: Is there a way to redifine what xdm occupies or can I use tty8-12? I also didn't find anything about tty10. Have a look in /etc/syslog.conf and look for a line with /dev/tty10. Syslog might be writing (some of) it&#

Re: Wiki - please contribute to the campaign to get Jim to change the theme

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Himmelmann
tried Firefox 1.0, konqueror and lynx. They all worked fine. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- /usr/bin/fortune

Re: More virtual cmd sessions

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Himmelmann
can I use tty8-12? I also didn't find anything about tty10. On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 18:27 +1300, Robert Himmelmann wrote: I make a lot of use of using text-sessions with C-M-F<1-6>. I use one for emacs with a python program I am just writing, one for testing it, one with the pytho

Re: Permission to run a server

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:40, Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 18:35 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:33, Robert Himmelmann wrote: Is there a way (s/expect/apart/ from suid) to allow normal users to run a server that listens on

Re: Permission to run a server

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Lee Begg wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:08, Robert Himmelmann wrote: I am developing a FTP-server in Java. When I try to start ot as a normal user I get "java.net.BindException: Permission denied". As root it runs perfectly. Is there any way to allow users to start servers (if possib

More virtual cmd sessions

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Himmelmann
to text-sessions? Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- /usr/bin/fortune

Permission to run a server

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Himmelmann
I am developing a FTP-server in Java. When I try to start ot as a normal user I get "java.net.BindException: Permission denied". As root it runs perfectly. Is there any way to allow users to start servers (if possible only on one port)? Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use fre

Re: TRON

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Himmelmann
uot; - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free s

Re: A new toy

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Himmelmann
#x27;Could not get DNS address' came out. I haven't had a chance to play with it yet, but it all looks promising. I was running a 3GHz machine with 1GB RAM, so I wouldn't have noticed if there were performance problems. I allocated a 128MB swap and 128MB RAM. -- Happy Ha

Re: Linux security - newbie

2005-02-08 Thread Robert Himmelmann
of a problem, but it can be an issue on bigger systems. = This e-mail has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by CommArc Cube Server -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-s

Re: [Fwd: [pchelpers] serious bug in Firefox causes loss of all bookmarks]

2005-02-08 Thread Robert Himmelmann
lla/firefox//prefs.js". www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=13 Ekhart -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- /usr/bin/fortune

Re: Linux security - newbie

2005-02-07 Thread Robert Himmelmann
e all know the stories. I think 4 minutes is the latest figure for Windows XP SP1 without firewall or antivirus. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you

Re: In Evolution make all ISP's download email-newbie question

2005-02-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
he internet through xtra can't connect to the server. The way to get round this issue is to go into http://xtramail.xtra.co.nz and set forwarding to your working address. Yuri -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann Use free software only. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Demo

Re: linux on the desktop making inroads...

2005-02-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Jim Cheetham wrote: On Feb 5, 2005, at 7:46 PM, Robert Himmelmann wrote: I once used an iMac with OS X. During the start it displayed no information, there was no commandline, no choice, in what desktop environment I wanted to use and only IE and safari. The best thing about the GNU/Linux

Re: linux on the desktop making inroads...

2005-02-04 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Martin Bähr wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 02:51:20PM +1300, Robert Himmelmann wrote: For many people that might be good, but if we follow this we would probably end up with something like a mac. why would that be a bad thing? The strong side of GNU/Linux is that it is fully

Re: Telecom cutting my throat

2005-02-04 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Welcome to the quasi-monopolistic country we call New Zealand - where the government lacks the spine to do anything at all that might anger the company who (in theory) they gather the most tax from. Australia is looking better and better to me all the time at the moment (the USA actually would be

Re: Gentoo installation-fest?

2005-02-03 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Carl Cerecke wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:11:41 +1300 (NZDT) Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: luxury, the first computer i used had to be bootstrapped with a hex keypad then loaded from hand fed punch cards or a paper tape reader. the output was a row of led's until you

Re: Gentoo installation-fest?

2005-02-03 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:17:26 +1300 Robert Himmelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ati Radeon 9600 Mobility. Ati does not supply any support for laptop Xorg does now have support for the mobility chips IIRC. I did some research on laptops at the end of last year, but d

Re: Gentoo installation-fest?

2005-02-03 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, February 3, 2005 10:12 pm, Robert Himmelmann said: alternatively, ditch windows, or get a second hard drive, they really are not hugely expensive (or do you have a laptop?) exactly I am currently experimenting with qemu. that will not solve your space

Re: Gentoo installation-fest?

2005-02-03 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:12, Robert Himmelmann wrote: There are some things left I can not (yet) run with GNU/Linux: Flash, 3D, my SD-cardreader, iTunes, ArcSoft Panorama Maker For the last one you might be interested in these WWW Sites: http

Re: Gentoo installation-fest?

2005-02-03 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, February 3, 2005 9:19 pm, Robert Himmelmann said: Ok, you can do that with a 80Gb hardisk. I have only 40Gb and half of them are used by windows. This setup is also a bit to difficult for me because I have to format either windows or GNU/Linux every few months because

Re: External USB drive enclosures (was Re: Gentoo installation-fest?)

2005-02-03 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Andrew Errington wrote: For a good summary of prices and availability of PC components in New Zealand go to www.pricespy.co.nz Thanks, that gives a good impression. Is there any good and (GNU/Linux-) friendly retail store here in ChCh? I would prefer to have an address I can go to in case o

Re: Gentoo installation-fest?

2005-02-03 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Ok, you can do that with a 80Gb hardisk. I have only 40Gb and half of them are used by windows. This setup is also a bit to difficult for me because I have to format either windows or GNU/Linux every few months because some part doesn't work properly anymore. I am not sure why but after some ti

Re: Gentoo installation-fest?

2005-02-02 Thread Robert Himmelmann
ackup. How much does a small one with USB or Firewire cost and where can I get it? I have about 7Gb of data: Some thousand pictures, a 1Gb school project, some legal mp3's and some things for java (especially eclipse). On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:08, Robert Himmelmann wrote: About how much

Re: Gentoo installation-fest?

2005-02-02 Thread Robert Himmelmann
) reliable and has a really nice graphical interface. On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:11, Robert Himmelmann wrote: Nick Rout wrote: Anyway, just an indication of interest is all i'm after at this stage. I might come just for watching and helping. I have always been using SuSE and so I

Re: linux on the desktop making inroads...

2005-02-02 Thread Robert Himmelmann
rob wrote: Greetings, Someone said that using IE is normal because it is there, on the PC when you plug it in. The average user doesn't really know what it is and what alternatives there are. He just wants to get online to see the football results or whatever. It is the more accomplished user, mayb

Re: linux on the desktop making inroads...

2005-01-31 Thread Robert Himmelmann
For many people that might be good, but if we follow this we would probably end up with something like a mac. The strong side of GNU/Linux is that it is fully configurable and that those people who know what they are doing can get the most out of their boxes. The best would be something that co

Re: Gentoo installation-fest?

2005-01-30 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Nick Rout wrote: Anyway, just an indication of interest is all i'm after at this stage. I might come just for watching and helping. I have always been using SuSE and so I don't have any experience with a 'real' installation. I would like to try Gentoo, but my 40Gb-laptop-hd is already filled w

Re: linux on the desktop making inroads...

2005-01-30 Thread Robert Himmelmann
I think it would be best to have free versions of every program. Unfortunately that is a bit too idealistic, and so what you are saying is right: Commercial software is better than nothing. Volker Kuhlmann wrote: I suppose most windows-users don't pay for most of the software they should pay fo

Re: linux on the desktop making inroads...

2005-01-30 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Maybe, but I'm unconvinced. There's a market for both, and open source doesn't deliver any interactive encyclopedia like the one I was referrring to. However you missed the point: Companies are starting to not only release their products for 'blows but also for Linux. The com

Re: linux on the desktop making inroads...

2005-01-29 Thread Robert Himmelmann
There has been a Linux version of the Duden dictionary some years ago. Might be that it was only in German and only for SuSE but at least they tried it. I personally think that the combination wikipedia/google is much better than any normal encyclopedia. Especially the mathematical and scientif

Re: Hint for the Day - sux doesn't

2005-01-28 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Doesn't this do the same as kdesu? kdesu might also be a bit safer because it uses only the current display and displays a dialog for the password there. Happy Hacking, Robert +---+ |If you don't know what 'Happy Hacking' means, read | |the

Re: Clug

2005-01-22 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:44, Robert Himmelmann wrote: Is there a good emacs-book somewhere on the net ? I have read the inbuild tutorial but it covers only the basics. Thanks, I found exactly what I needed. Happy Hacking, Robert

Re: OT: Python book "Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner"

2005-01-22 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Robert Himmelmann wrote: I began programming with "Java for Dummies" published by MITP when I was about 13. I think Java is good for beginig with because it has a clear structure. "Java for Dummies" is a bit out of date, but I teaches the basics. It is also not very

Re: SuSE 9.2 disks

2005-01-21 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Rob Wood wrote: Hi, I downloaded the SuSE mini installation iso as recommended. I will probably then go for the DVD version. Is this DVD the personal or the advanced version? (Not that I think I need the advanced, - just curious). The personal version does not include things needed for programmin

Clug

2005-01-21 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Is there a good emacs-book somewhere on the net ? I have read the inbuild tutorial but it covers only the basics. Happy Hacking, Robert +---+ |If you don't know what 'Happy Hacking' means, read | |the book 'Free as in Freedom', published und

Re: Advance notice - Feb 8 meeting

2005-01-19 Thread Robert Himmelmann
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:44, Robert Himmelmann wrote: About what time and where will the meeting be? Unfortunatly I still have to go to school. The meeting will be at 7:30 pm in the St. Albans Community Recource Centre - to give it its full name. The address is 1047 Columbo St. It's a

Re: SuSE 9.2 disks

2005-01-19 Thread Robert Himmelmann
rob wrote: I have always wanted to try out SuSE as I like German technology. Those guys won't stop 'til they get it right. (I think it's German?) Thanks for the compliments :) Happy Hacking, Robert +---+ |If you don't know what 'Happy Hacking' mea

Re: IR and Palm

2005-01-19 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Yup, you surely can. I use a serial Actisys IR200L+ but other magic is about. Once you have the ircom module loaded and have run irattach, then the /dev/ircomm0 device exists and this can be used for linking to /dev/pilot That was not precisely what I meant. The thing I am trying to do is transfe

IR and Palm

2005-01-19 Thread Robert Himmelmann
When I put my palm near a M$ Windows XP computer with IR-connection it is displayed as a computer to which I can send files. This is quite usefull because hotsyncs are not very easy and take some time. Can I somhow use IR for file-transfers on linux (SuSE 9.2)? Happy Hacking, Robert +-

Re: Advance notice - Feb 8 meeting

2005-01-18 Thread Robert Himmelmann
About what time and where will the meeting be? Unfortunatly I still have to go to school. I might be able to arrange to miss a part of the day but I also have to think about getting there. I don't want to miss the meeting Happy Hacking, Robert +--

Re: suse

2005-01-17 Thread Robert Himmelmann
david merriman wrote: You could try this: "Novell offers free SuSE 9.2 download. Not time limited, fully installable" http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20727 I think you should consider buying or copying it. I used about 5 gb on my system and when you have the CDs you can reinstall it quite ea

Re: Python & Emacs

2005-01-17 Thread Robert Himmelmann
It's probably being caused by the fact that your Python program has a shebang at the beginning specifying a symlink (or some other form of indirection, e.g. using /usr/bin/env) to the Python interpreter. That was it. When I delete or change the first line it's working. Thanks. Happy Hacking, Ro

Python & Emacs

2005-01-17 Thread Robert Himmelmann
I am learning Python and trying to improve my emacs-skills. When I edit a .py-file in emacs and press C-c C-c (Excecute Buffer) I get the message "Wrong type argument: seqencep, cpython". Anyone knows what that means? Happy Hacking, Robert +---+ |

Re: VMWARE LUG offer ......

2005-01-13 Thread Robert Himmelmann
I would also be intrested in a copy. Then I could finally abandon my windows partitions and try a second distro. I would also write some comments. Happy Hacking, Robert +---+ |If you don't know what 'Happy Hacking' means, read | |the book '

Re: OT Horse activity summary

2005-01-10 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Nice, I learned some intresting new commands. Thanks. For those who care - here's a summary of all the commands entered on horse. Parameters were stripped off, so all pings are counted together. Happy Hacking +---+ |If you don't know what 'Happ

Re: Which RSS aggregator/reader?

2005-01-09 Thread Robert Himmelmann
What RSS aggregator do you recommend? I would prefer a GNOME/GTK-based client. I have looked at the websites Straw, Blam and Liferea but they all look quite immature - I would be surprised if there is not a more mature RSS client for GNOME! There is one in Firefox and Thunderbird (www.mozilla.org)

Re: OT: Python book "Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner"

2005-01-08 Thread Robert Himmelmann
I don't like the idea of "easy programming languages". Something you can use later and for useful programs is better. I think that's more encouraging than some nice output or games and creating something usefull is what programming is mostly about. And Python isn't a useful language I find

Re: OT: Python book "Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner"

2005-01-06 Thread Robert Himmelmann
I began programming with "Java for Dummies" published by MITP when I was about 13. I think Java is good for beginig with because it has a clear structure. "Java for Dummies" is a bit out of date, but I teaches the basics. It is also not very thick and not a big investion. Afterwards I read the

Re: Allowing a normal user to run a command (shutdown) as root

2005-01-04 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Hugo Vincent wrote: Hi everybody, I set up a PC for my parents to do their email on, with Mandrake 10 and Firefox/Thunderbird, but for some reason, their is no Shutdown item on the menu. I can't remember how to allow the normal user to run /sbin/shutdown as root (something in /etc/sudoers perhap

Re: Java & Eclipse 3.1

2004-12-30 Thread Robert Himmelmann
I have solved the problem. I installed the version 3.0 which came with my distro. It wanted some libraries which I installed. Unfortunatly I don't remember which ones. Afterwards I started 3.1M3-gtk64 and it was running. Thanks for your help, you kept my trying. Happy Hacking +-

Re: Java & Eclipse 3.1

2004-12-29 Thread Robert Himmelmann
You didn't mention your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. As a test, try executing the following (in the same shell you'll launch Eclipse from) just before running the Eclipse launcher. $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/home/robert/Documents/Programme/eclipse/eclipse:/home/robert/Documents/Programme/e

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