Re: New graphical login manager wdm

2003-02-21 Thread el lodger
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 05:11:41 -0700 Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A user on another group pointed out this package, and I like it. Wdm is based on xdm, but it allows you complete choice of Session type, reboot or shutdown, etc. from the gui login panel. Collins, I assume you don't use

Re: Cursor over links in web pages

2003-02-21 Thread Joel Hammer
I came across another solution to this problem (below in the old email), so I thought I would pass it on. This may seem simple, but it is all new to me. Instead of making the entire image the anchor for the url for the next image, use the map option in html to make only a small area of the image

Re: New graphical login manager wdm

2003-02-21 Thread Collins
On Thursday 20 February 2003 05:50 pm, el lodger wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 05:11:41 -0700 Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A user on another group pointed out this package, and I like it. Wdm is based on xdm, but it allows you complete choice of Session type, reboot or shutdown, etc.

Re: linux like Alpha4 relational database?

2003-02-21 Thread Tim Wunder
On Thursday 20 February 2003 11:38 pm, someone claiming to be Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone here ever use Alpha IV under OS/2? Used it under DOS and Winders 3.1, never OS/2... It was a full featured relational database... quite nice and handy... Easy as pie to setup inventory applications,

RE: linux like Alpha4 relational database?

2003-02-21 Thread kbb0927
It's not free, but I feel quite nice. Rekall from the Kompany. I will run under Linux or winblows. It use python as a scripting language (which BTW I have no clue how to program, but I'll learn). And it can interface postgresql, mysql, or xbase! You can do forms, queries, copies, create and edit

linux like Alpha4 relational database?

2003-02-21 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone here ever use Alpha IV under OS/2? It was a full featured relational database... quite nice and handy... Easy as pie to setup inventory applications, etc... I was wondering if anyone has found a Linux equivalent, perhaps front-ending for mysql? I've got a project being pushed my way and

Re: New graphical login manager wdm

2003-02-21 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Collins wrote: % FYI, % % A user on another group pointed out this package, and I like it. Wdm is based % on xdm, but it allows you complete choice of Session type, reboot or % shutdown, etc. from the gui login panel. % % The home page is : http://voins.program.ru/wdm/ %

Re: New graphical login manager wdm

2003-02-21 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: % How does this fit in with xfce - aren't they both window managers? It's a display manager, like xdm, kdm, and gdm... Kurt -- Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency. -- Richard Nixon

Re: Kmail fails after KDE 3.1 update from SuSE site

2003-02-21 Thread Tom Wilson
Hey, Have you tried to run if from a prompt to see if it runs? Are you trying to launch it from the quick launch panel? If it runs from the prompt, look at the preferences on the Kmail icon in the quick launch panel (assuming thats where you are trying to open it from) and look at the execute

Re: Kmail fails after KDE 3.1 update from SuSE site

2003-02-21 Thread Tom Wilson
Hey, Have you tried to run if from a prompt to see if it runs? Are you trying to launch it from the quick launch panel? If it runs from the prompt, look at the preferences on the Kmail icon in the quick launch panel (assuming thats where you are trying to open it from) and look at the execute

Sorry all.....

2003-02-21 Thread Tom Wilson
For the multiple posts. Having some mail issues here this morning. Tom Wilson McSwain Carpets -- Hark ye, Clinker, you are a most notorious offender. You stand convicted of sickness, hunger, wretchedness, and want. -- Tobias

Re: linux like Alpha4 relational database?

2003-02-21 Thread Rick Sivernell
Jerry I got a cd copy of SleepyCat software. If memory serves me correctly, it is a Berkley database system. I got it through a Linux rag I beleive. URL http://www.sleepycat.com. Hope this is of some help. I have not used it or even loaded it on to a system yet. cheers -- Rick Sivernell

disk fun

2003-02-21 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
This is interesting: When I have some images (over 587000 of them) on a ext3-format partition, they take 19737878 bytes (19.7 GB). When these same files are on a vfat partition, they take 27154592 (27.1 GB). Same images. Just copied freshly to the windows disk, so there is no fragmentation. I

Re: disk fun

2003-02-21 Thread Net Llama!
E...roger, this it the 8th copy of this that i've received from you today. On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: This is interesting: When I have some images (over 587000 of them) on a ext3-format partition, they take 19737878 bytes (19.7 GB). When these same files are on a vfat

Re: disk fun

2003-02-21 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Friday 21 February 2003 10:53 am, Net Llama! wrote: E...roger, this it the 8th copy of this that i've received from you today. Only one copy here On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: This is interesting: When I have some images (over 587000 of them) on a

Re: New Step

2003-02-21 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: My Iomega Clik info was replaced. Although I see no problems with the replacement, I did not think mine was so very bad. OK, maybe a bit KDE-centric, but no one ever complained or asked for a less GUI version. It is not really a problem. I was just surprised at the

Re: disk fun

2003-02-21 Thread Tim Wunder
On 2/21/2003 11:14 AM, someone claiming to be Bruce Marshall wrote: On Friday 21 February 2003 10:53 am, Net Llama! wrote: E...roger, this it the 8th copy of this that i've received from you today. Only one copy here I've gotten several (looks like 6). Hasn't this happened

Re: disk fun

2003-02-21 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: On 2/21/2003 11:14 AM, someone claiming to be Bruce Marshall wrote: On Friday 21 February 2003 10:53 am, Net Llama! wrote: E...roger, this it the 8th copy of this that i've received from you today. Only one copy here I've gotten

OT Re: disk fun

2003-02-21 Thread Tim Wunder
On 2/21/2003 12:14 PM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: On 2/21/2003 11:14 AM, someone claiming to be Bruce Marshall wrote: On Friday 21 February 2003 10:53 am, Net Llama! wrote: E...roger, this it the 8th copy of this that i've received

How much is too much?

2003-02-21 Thread Lee
Trying to install SUSe 8.1 on a trip;e boot system with Win98, Mandrake 9.0. Have three cdrom type devices on the box a DVD/CD Burner hdb, a dvd/cdrom combo reader hdc, and a cdburner hdb. On the Mandrake every thing works fine. On install Mandrake set up the icons as CDROM1,2,3. Each works

Re: How much is too much?

2003-02-21 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:25:37PM -0500, Lee wrote: Trying to install SUSe 8.1 on a trip;e boot system with Win98, Mandrake 9.0. Have three cdrom type devices on the box a DVD/CD Burner hdb, a dvd/cdrom combo reader hdc, and a cdburner hdb. On the Mandrake every thing works fine. On install

Re: disk fun

2003-02-21 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 04:09:44PM +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: This is interesting: When I have some images (over 587000 of them) on a ext3-format partition, they take 19737878 bytes (19.7 GB). When these same files are on a vfat partition, they take 27154592 (27.1 GB). Same images. Just

Re: disk fun

2003-02-21 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: Interesting. I wonder what the most and least efficient linux fs is for many small files. In some of my data collection systems, this is a common file type. Others will have this and some files that are quite large. But never as many very large

Re: disk fun

2003-02-21 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
Interesting. I wonder what the most and least efficient linux fs is for many small files. In some of my data collection systems, this is a common file type. Others will have this and some files that are quite large. But never as many very large files. --

Re: How much is too much?

2003-02-21 Thread Lee
They're IDE without SCSI emulators. I get the same resulrt even when I install the SUSe system first right after the Win 98. Wjen I look at the properties under the icons they're listed as /dev/cdrom (the dvd/CD reader), /dev/cdrecorder1 (DVD burner), and /dev/cdrecord2 (crrom burner)

Re: Scripting KDE Menu Additions and Removals

2003-02-21 Thread James McDonald
Thanks Roger, Thats exactly what I needed. Roger Oberholtzer wrote: I had a nice long answer for this, and, for the first time, sylpheed froze and I lost it. Damn. Global menu definitions are stored in files in $KDEDRR/share/applnk, and mime definitions are in $KDEDRR/share/mimelnk. The files

Re: How much is too much?

2003-02-21 Thread Jim Bonnet
They're IDE without SCSI emulators. I get the same resulrt even when I install the SUSe system first right after the Win 98. Wjen I look at the properties under the icons they're listed as /dev/cdrom (the dvd/CD reader), /dev/cdrecorder1 (DVD burner), and /dev/cdrecord2 (crrom burner)

Re: Linux choking on large files

2003-02-21 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 07:26:26PM -0500, Brian Witowski wrote: I recently began having problems transferring large files to my COL 2.4.18 kernel and Samba 2.22. I first noticed the problem when a large email attachment got hung in the queue. I tried to flush it but it was locked for sending.

Linux choking on large files

2003-02-21 Thread Brian Witowski
I recently began having problems transferring large files to my COL 2.4.18 kernel and Samba 2.22. I first noticed the problem when a large email attachment got hung in the queue. I tried to flush it but it was locked for sending. (I use my server as a mail relay for my network, along with

Re: New Step

2003-02-21 Thread Net Llama!
On 02/21/03 14:20, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: Roger Oberholtzer wrote: My Iomega Clik info was replaced. Although I see no problems with the replacement, I did not think mine was so very bad. OK, maybe a bit KDE-centric, but no one ever complained or asked for a less GUI version. It is not really

Config a laptop network

2003-02-21 Thread Alan Jackson
Here's a sys-admin question for you experts. A fellow at work has 10 Linux laptops he uses for portable training classes for Geophysical software. Right now he and a clerk are configuring and loading each one manually, one at a time. What would be the recommended simple, low-cost solution to both

Re: Kmail fails after KDE 3.1 update from SuSE site

2003-02-21 Thread kbb0927
Yes, I ran it from command line and got segmentation fault. Keith B. Tom Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, Have you tried to run if from a prompt to see if it runs?  Are you trying to launch it from the quick launch panel?  If it runs from the prompt, look at the preferences on the Kmail

Re: Config a laptop network

2003-02-21 Thread Andrew Mathews
Alan Jackson wrote: Here's a sys-admin question for you experts. A fellow at work has 10 Linux laptops he uses for portable training classes for Geophysical software. Right now he and a clerk are configuring and loading each one manually, one at a time. What would be the recommended simple,

Re: Linux choking on large files

2003-02-21 Thread David A. Bandel
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:26:26 -0500 Brian Witowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently began having problems transferring large files to my COL 2.4.18 kernel and Samba 2.22. I first noticed the problem when a large email attachment got hung in the queue. I tried to flush it but it was

Re: Config a laptop network

2003-02-21 Thread Net Llama!
You didn't say which distro, but Redhat's kickstart will do the job nicely. There's also SystemImager http://www.systemimager.org/ On 02/21/03 19:18, Alan Jackson wrote: Here's a sys-admin question for you experts. A fellow at work has 10 Linux laptops he uses for portable training classes for

Re: disk fun

2003-02-21 Thread stayler
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 22:10:46 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: Interesting. I wonder what the most and least efficient linux fs is for many small files. In some of my data collection systems, this is a common file type. Others will have this and some files that are quite large. But never as many

Re: linux like Alpha4 relational database?

2003-02-21 Thread Jack Berger
I think the Berkley database system is a couple of levels lower than what he's looking for. From a paper on that site: It is also important to understand what Berkeley DB is not. It is not a database server that handles network requests. It is not an SQL engine that executes queries. It is not a

Re: OTHAPPY B-DAY KURT!

2003-02-21 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, DOUGLAS HUNLEY wrote: % I know I'm probably a day late (or early) but I know it's around here soon, so Happy B-Day! Two days early: on February 23rd, I'll be 29 again. ;-) Thanks for the congratulations. My father sent his condolences. ;-) Kurt -- When a fellow says, It