Since when does xcdroast require 1024x768?
I've been using xcdroast for ages... now all of the sudden it's requiring
1024x768 before it'll run!
I don't think I have EVER changed my screen resolution above 800x600...
tire, old eyes... you know?
Anyway... do I have to change it or is there a kd
Leon A. Goldstein wrote:
>Ken Moffat asked:
>
>
>>As an aside, has anyone compared speeds of OpenOffice (or StarOffice) on
>>Linux (whichever distro!) verses Windows (whichever variety!)??? I'm
>>just curious.
>>
>>
>>
>
>OK, you asked for it. Here are start-up times (seconds) for SO 5.
Collins wrote:
>Who has a simple howto on maintaining Slack? I'm thinking of
>something with a database of installed packages, of course.
>
>
>
I thought that was 'pkgtool'. Am I mislead again?
As root in a terminal type 'pkgtool' and have a look
around the installed packages.
Ken
Ken Moffat asked:
>
> As an aside, has anyone compared speeds of OpenOffice (or StarOffice) on
> Linux (whichever distro!) verses Windows (whichever variety!)??? I'm
> just curious.
>
OK, you asked for it. Here are start-up times (seconds) for SO 5.2 and a
couple of other apps. The system i
On Sunday 30 June 2002 06:39 pm, you wrote:
> When a commercial client talks to me about Linux. They mean Red Hat and I
> don't attempt to persuade them any different. I wouldn't even bring up
> Slack, Gentoo or now even Caldera or SuSE.
>
> But the real enemy is none of those and you know who I m
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 23:05:03 -0400
begin dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:
> begin David A. Bandel's quote:
>
> | I started on Slackware (this was before RH even existed). What I
> | liked about it was it looked and felt almost exactly like my Ultrix
> | and SUN OS 4 (Solaris 1.x) boxes
dep wrote:
>begin Leon A. Goldstein's quote:
>
>| Add some RAM and see what happens. My "son of lab rat" system is a
>| Pentium 233, originally with 64 MB of EDO RAM. I obtained two 64
>| MB EDO DIMM's cheap and goosed up total RAM from 64 MB to 160 MB.
>| Hoo Haa! KDE 2.x is a RAM hog. I'd
begin David A. Bandel's quote:
| I started on Slackware (this was before RH even existed). What I
| liked about it was it looked and felt almost exactly like my Ultrix
| and SUN OS 4 (Solaris 1.x) boxes did (SUN switched to SySV w/ SUN
| OS 5, aka Solaris 2.x). Openwin anyone? Thank God for
Just my 2 cents. win4lin seems to work fine, too, if you need to use some
windows apps. All depends what you are up to. Of course, you are still using
windows, but it will help to have that crutch during a transition, IMHO. Of
course, getting win4lin installed is not always easy, either.
Joel
>
For palm sync, jpilot is what I use and it works great. Back end is pilot-link
so if the client has the newest palms there may be a little config, but not
much. The jpilot list is pretty active and the folks there are responsive.
For quickbooks, gnucash? Kapital isn't there yet... He could al
On Monday 01 July 2002 09:56 am, Michael Hipp espoused with vigour:
> I have a client that is considering switching to Linux on his desktops.
> Yippee! Here's the app list we have to replace:
>
> Windows XP -> Red Hat 7.3 Pro
> MS Word -> StarOffice 6.0
> MS Excel-> "
> MS PowerPnt -> "
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 19:58:25 -0600
begin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:
> On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 20:28:31 -0500 "David A. Bandel"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [ rest snipped ]
>
> > Thank God for CDE (not-so-Common Desktop Environment)
>
> It's my understanding that xfce has inten
Nope,
Missed that one too. I'll put it in tomorrow. I am just real tired
right now
Thanks 8-)
stayler
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 21:29:22 -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
>I had this same problem with XP.
>Did you add:
>use client driver = yes
>to the share definition?
>
>Joel
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On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 20:28:31 -0500 "David A. Bandel"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[ rest snipped ]
> Thank God for CDE (not-so-Common Desktop Environment)
It's my understanding that xfce has intended from its inception to
look a lot like CDE.
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On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:56, Michael Hipp wrote:
> I have a client that is considering switching to Linux on his desktops.
> Yippee! Here's the app list we have to replace:
>
> Windows XP -> Red Hat 7.3 Pro
> MS Word -> StarOffice 6.0
> MS Excel-> "
> MS PowerPnt -> "
> MS Outlook -> Evol
I had this same problem with XP.
Did you add:
use client driver = yes
to the share definition?
Joel
> It all working except Win2K and XP refuse to show the printers as
> available evnthough they are and can be prited to by the offending
> machines. Must be more MS FUD.
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On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 20:06:17 -0400
begin dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:
> begin Michael Hipp's quote:
>
> | I'm curious. What do you find attractive about Slackware? What
> | causes it to stand out so above the others?
>
> it takes other people's system resources seriously, and but fo
[ snips ]
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 20:06:17 -0400 dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> begin Michael Hipp's quote:
>
> | I'm curious. What do you find attractive about Slackware? What
> | causes it to stand out so above the others?
>
> it takes other people's system resources seriously, and but for
>
On Sunday 30 June 2002 07:06 pm, dep wrote:
> begin Michael Hipp's quote:
> | I'm curious. What do you find attractive about Slackware? What
> | causes it to stand out so above the others?
>
> it takes other people's system resources seriously, and but for
> bsd-style init scripts sticks to the
Well,
The final outcome goes something like this.
The items in Diagnose where no help, even the command line changes for
the print commabd never seemed to work. The issue was an item in the
smb.conf file that didn't appear in any examples that I found with the
exception of one that I found on G
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 18:56:45 -0500
begin Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:
> I have a client that is considering switching to Linux on his desktops.
> Yippee! Here's the app list we have to replace:
>
> Windows XP -> Red Hat 7.3 Pro
> MS Word -> StarOffice 6.0
> MS Excel-
Michael Hipp wrote:
> I have a client that is considering switching to Linux on his desktops.
> Yippee! Here's the app list we have to replace:
>
> Windows XP -> Red Hat 7.3 Pro
> MS Word -> StarOffice 6.0
> MS Excel-> "
> MS PowerPnt -> "
> MS Outlook -> Evolution (???)
> MS Access
begin Leon A. Goldstein's quote:
| Add some RAM and see what happens. My "son of lab rat" system is a
| Pentium 233, originally with 64 MB of EDO RAM. I obtained two 64
| MB EDO DIMM's cheap and goosed up total RAM from 64 MB to 160 MB.
| Hoo Haa! KDE 2.x is a RAM hog. I'd suggest downgradi
begin Michael Hipp's quote:
| I'm curious. What do you find attractive about Slackware? What
| causes it to stand out so above the others?
it takes other people's system resources seriously, and but for
bsd-style init scripts sticks to the fhs.
| My (unlearned) impression is it's the one wit
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 18:21:20 -0400 dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> begin Collins's quote:
>
>
> | 4) You are very right. I haven't been in the linux game longer
> | than a few years. In that span of time I haven't reached that
> | enlightened state of bliss where I believe that I know the
I have a client that is considering switching to Linux on his desktops.
Yippee! Here's the app list we have to replace:
Windows XP -> Red Hat 7.3 Pro
MS Word -> StarOffice 6.0
MS Excel-> "
MS PowerPnt -> "
MS Outlook -> Evolution (???)
MS Access -> (keep a Win machine handy???)
Qui
dep,
I'm curious. What do you find attractive about Slackware? What causes it to
stand out so above the others?
My (unlearned) impression is it's the one with a face only a mother could
love. And will never be anything more than a curiousity. So in that way,
it's arguably no different than Ge
forgot that...thx.
Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> because it uses the current directory to figure it out. it assumes that you
> are in /some/path/package-x.x.x
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dep wrote inter alia:
> i have a little p-166 64-meg machine here, and when i pop
> in the otherwise identical w2k drive performance just blows the doors
> off an equivalent linux installation. by "equivalent" i mean with a
> full-desktop, not some stripped-down thing. any msoffice application
begin Collins's quote:
| 1) You have a fanatic allegiance to a set of standards that no one
| anywhere has completely implemented and seem to have a (from my
| standpoint) somewhat naive belief that implementation of the fhs is
| some sort of magic bullet that will guarantee world dominance for
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 11:59:44 -0700
"Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You didn't say whether you wished to keep KDM, or use XDM. THis is
> kinda important, as if you remove *all* of KDE, you'll lose KDM too, and
> then you'll be forced to either do without a login manager and start
> x
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 19:27:02 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Hermann-Josef Beckers) wrote:
> Hi Collins,
>
> thank you for your answer. Using -t does the trick, but can I trust
> my data on that partition. Or does anybody know how much i should
> wipe out?"dd if=/dev/zero of=/partition bs=512 count=200
This may be too obvious, or taken care of already, but did you change
the filesystem type in /etc/fstab?
++ kevin
On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 07:27:02PM +0200, Hermann-Josef Beckers wrote:
> Hi Collins,
>
> thank you for your answer. Using -t does the trick, but can I trust my data
> on that par
[ severely snipped ]
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 14:35:34 -0400 dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> begin Collins's quote:
>
> | What, exactly, are the benefits to be gained from enforcing the
> | fhs?
>
> consistency, so that there is a meaning to the word "linux" beyond
> the kernel.
>
>
> | You ke
You didn't say whether you wished to keep KDM, or use XDM. THis is
kinda important, as if you remove *all* of KDE, you'll lose KDM too, and
then you'll be forced to either do without a login manager and start
xfce manually for each user.
Also, if you go with XDM, then each user will have no c
m.w.chang wrote:
>
> ./configure \
> --prefix=/usr \
> --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh \
> --with-pid-dir=/var/run \
> --libexecdir=/usr/lib/ssh \
> --with-pam \
> --with-tcp-wrappers \
> --with-ipv4-default \
> --with-lastlog \
> --wi
dep wrote:
> while i'm at it -- and if no one responds, i'll send this part out
> standalone -- i've been beating myself bloody over the last few
> months trying to get a linux machine to work with the ethernet data
> ports now commonly found in hotel rooms. i fear that these are set up
> larg
begin Collins's quote:
| What, exactly, are the benefits to be gained from enforcing the
| fhs?
consistency, so that there is a meaning to the word "linux" beyond the
kernel.
| gentoo has a mature interpretation of the fhs (there are
| nothing but interpretations at present), installs in a v
begin Richard R. Sivernell's quote:
| Guru help needed
|
|I have a installed Easerver system up. But no gui as something
| is wrong with kde. What I want to do is remove kde from the system
| totally and use xfce. I want to use xfce so I can have all of the
| terminal window & browser/ ftp d
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>
> BTW, I think the sxs on openssh needs to be updated with the privilege
> separation option.
write it up when you're done and send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . we'll
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On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 23:24:39 -0500 "Richard R. Sivernell"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Guru help needed
>
>I have a installed Easerver system up. But no gui as something is
>wrong with
> kde. What I want to do is remove kde from the system totally and use
> xfce. I want to use xfce so I
Hi Collins,
thank you for your answer. Using -t does the trick, but can I trust my data
on that partition. Or does anybody know how much i should wipe out?
"dd if=/dev/zero of=/partition bs=512 count=200" wasn't enough. The
partition has 1 Gig. Mount keeps complaining, when I use the informatio
[ snips ]
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 12:28:55 -0400 dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> begin Collins's quote:
>
> | We agree to disagree.
>
> interesting. i have a little p-166 64-meg machine here, and when i
> pop in the otherwise identical w2k drive performance just blows the
> doors off an equiva
[ snips - to split up a very large topic ]
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:46:39 -0400 dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> begin Collins's quote:
[ Slackware ]
> | An excellent choice, especially if you run xfce. The install is
> | easy, and it seems to be pretty stable. ... My big problem with
> Slac
begin Collins's quote:
| We agree to disagree. My WIN98 system runs great on K6/II 300MZ
| 128Meg. A little slow for Photoshop stuff, but AOK for M$Office
| stuff; same system ran Linux AOK. My laptop at work is a Compaq
| 800Mz 256MZ model, and it really needs 512M to run WIN2K properly,
|
Guru help needed
I have a installed Easerver system up. But no gui as something is wrong with
kde. What I want to do is remove kde from the system totally and use xfce. I
want to use xfce so I can have all of the terminal window & browser/ ftp
downloading capability to manage my server & I wa
begin Collins's quote:
| Also, one remaining point. I thought Redhat was complient, since
| the FHS seems to have adopted almost intact the Redhant filesystem
| and maintenance (RPM) structure. Care to expand on the
| differences?
well, yeah, to the extent that i can. as i understand the his
[ snips - split a large topic into smaller chunks ]
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:46:39 -0400 dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> begin Collins's quote:
>
> | Since the current market for PCs is 1G+ (now pushing 2G+) with
> | minimum 128Meg (often 256 Meg), it don't see this as a deal
> | breaker. Sor
[ snip - split up a very large topic ]
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:46:39 -0400 dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> begin Collins's quote:
> | Also, I though moving kde and gnome away from /opt
> | used to be a prime requirement of the FHS. When did that change?
>
> it never was the case. claims that i
begin Collins's quote:
| Also, I though moving kde and gnome away from /opt
| used to be a prime requirement of the FHS. When did that change?
it never was the case. claims that it was were based on a spectacular
misreading of the fhs. those who misread it took it to mean that
anything the d
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 16:12:49 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Hermann-Josef Beckers) wrote:
> I'm trying to switch a partition from reiserfs to ext2 or ext3. Both
> fdisk and diskdrake do as I tell them to do (get no errors, rebooted
> as told). But whenever I try to mount the partition, all I get is
>
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 07:10:19 -0700 Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Collins wrote:
>
> >My big problem with Slack or
> >debian or anything that doesn't adhere to the Mandrake/Redhat/ELX
> >RPM framework is maintenance, and Slack (IMO) just doesn't have the
> >necessry depth in its upgrade
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 07:07:22 -0700 Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Collins wrote:
>
> >I wasn't able to get my printer
> >working (invested 2+ days before signing off), but otherwise Slack
> >was AOK.
> >
> A bit off topic, but I got my printer (HP840C) working using
> apsfilter. Did yo
I'm trying to switch a partition from reiserfs to ext2 or ext3. Both fdisk
and diskdrake do as I tell them to do (get no errors, rebooted as told). But
whenever I try to mount the partition, all I get is
"Wrong filesystem-type, invalid options oder superblock of /dev/hdc6 is
defect ..."
NOw
Collins wrote:
>My big problem with Slack or
>debian or anything that doesn't adhere to the Mandrake/Redhat/ELX RPM
>framework is maintenance, and Slack (IMO) just doesn't have the
>necessry depth in its upgrade offerings.
>
>
>
It's possible to convert rpms using rpm2tgz.
Ken again
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Collins wrote:
>I wasn't able to get my printer
>working (invested 2+ days before signing off), but otherwise Slack was
>AOK.
>
A bit off topic, but I got my printer (HP840C) working using apsfilter.
Did you happen to try it?
Ken
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On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 07:58:45 -0400 dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> begin Ken Moffat's quote:
> | dep wrote
> |
> | >redhat is not fhs-compliant. if it were, i'd be using it.
Sorry for the confusion, I really thought (my mistake) that Redhat was
the prime mover in this FHS stuff - a sort of end
done...
m.w.chang wrote:
> oops.. the hongkong mirror got 2.2.2 only.. well..
> going for 2.2.5...
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checkinstall gave me this:
This package will be built according to these values:
1 - Summary: [ Package created with checkinstall 1.5.1 ]
2 - Name:[ source ]
3 - Version: [ source ]
4 - Release: [ 1 ]
5 - License: [ GPL ]
6 - Group: [ Applications/System ]
7 - Architecture: [ i386 ]
oops.. the hongkong mirror got 2.2.2 only.. well..
going for 2.2.5...
m.w.chang wrote:
> I followed the sxs on caldera-fanly samba. it worked... :)
>
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./configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc/ssh \
--with-pid-dir=/var/run \
--libexecdir=/usr/lib/ssh \
--with-pam \
--with-tcp-wrappers \
--with-ipv4-default \
--with-lastlog \
--with-privsep-user=nobody \
I followed the sxs on caldera-fanly samba. it worked... :)
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begin Ken Moffat's quote:
| dep wrote
|
| >redhat is not fhs-compliant. if it were, i'd be using it.
|
| What do you use?
right now -- and by this i really *do* mean for the moment -- a
severely hacked SuSE 7.2 on my production machine, and a collection
of various other distros on other machi
On Sunday 30 Jun 2002 04:21, dep wrote:
> begin Collins's quote:
> | I can only thank my lucky stars that I have stumbled on a distro
> | that is not slavishly complient to the FHS, read: the Redhat
> | approach.
>
> redhat is not fhs-compliant. if it were, i'd be using it.
what *do* you use, p
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 18:24:41 -0600
Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled intuitively:
>I can only thank my lucky stars that I have stumbled on a distro that
>is not slavishly complient to the FHS, read: the Redhat approach.
Actually, Redhat is not compli
dep wrote
>redhat is not fhs-compliant. if it were, i'd be using it.
>
>
What do you use?
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