Re: OT Compaq file system??

2003-02-28 Thread dep
begin Tony Alfrey's quote: | After further quizzing, the floppy seems to be about 8 years old, | but . . . | it says Sony High Density MFD-2HD. I have some old 720k | macintosh disks that say MFD-2DD ( double density ). It | certainly acts like 720k (which my box also cannot open or |

Xfree86 4.3.0...

2003-02-28 Thread Jerry McBride
I'm running the new Xfree86 4.3.0 code over here and I am very impressed. Glxgears is cranking out 51066 frames per 5sec and 10201 frames per second. About double of what I was getting from 4.2.99.4... Also, one small nit to report. I run TWM as my default window manager... used to be a simple

Re: Updated Step

2003-02-28 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pam R spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: On Thursday 27 February 2003 23:25, Nobody wrote: Douglas Hunley has just updated http://www.linux-sxs.org/index2.html to incorporate the following: Updated to include Klaus\' idea about new

Re: Updated Step

2003-02-28 Thread Tim Wunder
On 2/28/2003 8:36 AM, someone claiming to be Douglas J Hunley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pam R spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: On Thursday 27 February 2003 23:25, Nobody wrote: Douglas Hunley has just updated http://www.linux-sxs.org/index2.html to

Re: [linux-elitists] RedHat drops the other shoe

2003-02-28 Thread Tom Wilson
I seen this yesterday. I don't know if it is hard evidence, but I think the rumblings are getting louder. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,904685,00.asp --Tom Wilson On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 22:04, dep wrote: begin Lee's quote: | Now the son of Caldera (SCO) | wants to sue everybody

Re: Updated Step

2003-02-28 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Pam R wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 23:25, Nobody wrote: Douglas Hunley has just updated http://www.linux-sxs.org/index2.html to incorporate the following: Updated to include Klaus\' idea about new info box Hate to be picky, but I can't read the last couple of

Re: Xfree86 4.3.0...

2003-02-28 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Jerry McBride wrote: Also, one small nit to report. I run TWM as my default window manager... used to be a simple left click and my main menu would popup and I could read the options and click on what I wanted to execute. Now, with 4.3.0 I find that opening a menu presents

Re: Updated Step

2003-02-28 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: How about changing the text a little. May I sugest: The brainchild of Mike Andrew for the intended purpose of promoting Caldera OpenLinux, the Linux StepByStep site is currently distribution agnostic. Hundreds of people contribute to the site, and it is

Re: OT Compaq file system??

2003-02-28 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, dep wrote: i don't suppose that you have anything like a dos machine with the nice old dos norton utilities on it . . . this would let you take a good look at the floppy and yank off anything that's there. If dd can't find anything, then this is a media problem, and not a

anyone with IBM DB2 experience?

2003-02-28 Thread Net Llama!
I've just inherited a DB2 server (on linux) that has never been backed up, or had any maintanence performed on it. I'm fairly green in the DB2 realm, and was wondering if anyone had any pointers on the easiest means of dumping/backing-up the DB (and then how to restore from said dump), and also

Re: OT Compaq file system??

2003-02-28 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Friday 28 February 2003 06:23 am, Net Llama! wrote: On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, dep wrote: i don't suppose that you have anything like a dos machine with the nice old dos norton utilities on it . . . this would let you take a good look at the floppy and yank off anything that's there. If dd

Re: OT Compaq file system??

2003-02-28 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Friday 28 February 2003 03:56 am, dep wrote: snip i don't suppose that you have anything like a dos machine with the nice old dos norton utilities on it . . . this would let you take a good look at the floppy and yank off anything that's there. We sent off all of the old machines for

Re: [linux-users] Moving to Sylpheed from PMMail

2003-02-28 Thread harley7
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:34:21 -0800 (PST) stayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well it seems the promised Linux version of PMMAil is pretty much a piece of Vaporware so I'm looking to transfer some of my old PMMail folders to Sylpheed. PMMail uses directories and a somewhat strange way of tagging

Re: Moving to Sylpheed from PMMail

2003-02-28 Thread stayler
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 03:10:00 -0300, Federico Voges wrote: You should be able to do some kind of recursive script to convert your whole folder tree from PMMail to Sylpheed. I don't use Sylpheed, so I don't know how it stores the mails/folders. Wow, Thanks a bunch! Just what the doctor ordered!

Re: [linux-elitists] RedHat drops the other shoe

2003-02-28 Thread Bill Campbell
servers? User Friendly has some interesting things to say about this sort of thing this week: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030228 Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX

Re: anyone with IBM DB2 experience?

2003-02-28 Thread Net Llama!
If i stop the DB, sure, i could use a filesystem driven backup mechanism. I guess that i should have been more clear, i need a method of backing up or dumping a live DB. Something similar to the imp/exp commands that Oracle uses, or pg_dumpall that Postgresql uses. thanks. On Fri, 28 Feb 2003,

DSL modem using linux box as a router.

2003-02-28 Thread kbb0927
Hello, Anyone out there set up a linux box to act as a router using a DSL modem that could offer some tips? I will be upgrading my sister's router from a Dial up ISP to Verizon DSL service. Of course, I had to initially set it up under windblowz, but want to switch it back to linux as a router.

Re: DSL modem using linux box as a router.

2003-02-28 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone out there set up a linux box to act as a router using a DSL modem that could offer some tips? I will be upgrading my sister's router from a Dial up ISP to Verizon DSL service. Of course, I had to initially set it up under windblowz, but

Re: anyone with IBM DB2 experience?

2003-02-28 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:36:47 -0500 (EST), Net Llama! wrote: I've just inherited a DB2 server (on linux) that has never been backed up, or had any maintanence performed on it. I'm fairly green in the DB2 realm, and was wondering if anyone had any

Re: anyone with IBM DB2 experience?

2003-02-28 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Federico Voges wrote: On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:36:47 -0500 (EST), Net Llama! wrote: I've just inherited a DB2 server (on linux) that has never been backed up, or had any maintanence performed on it. I'm fairly green in the DB2 realm, and was wondering if anyone had any

Re: DSL modem using linux box as a router.

2003-02-28 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:10:19PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Anyone out there set up a linux box to act as a router using a DSL modem that could offer some tips? I will be upgrading my sister's router from a Dial up ISP to Verizon DSL service. Of course, I had to initially set it

Re: fetchmail problems

2003-02-28 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:32:27PM -0600, Alan Jackson wrote: I'm having an e-mail problem. I have DSL, and Col 3.1.1. I've been running successfully for a long time, and now things are beginning to fail. Early this week I lost phone service for a few days, and during that time, I had to reboot

Re: DSL modem using linux box as a router.

2003-02-28 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone out there set up a linux box to act as a router using a DSL modem that could offer some tips? I will be upgrading my sister's router from a Dial up ISP to Verizon DSL service. Of course, I had to initially set it up under windblowz, but want to switch it back to

Re: fetchmail problems

2003-02-28 Thread Alan Jackson
To answer my own post... Apparently Caldera's security update for fetchmail included turning on SSL which my ISP doesn't support. I downloaded the latest version, compiled without SSL support, and now everything is working. Sigh. On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:32:27 -0600 Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Lib dependencies again

2003-02-28 Thread Tom Wilson
Hi all, In my efforts to get the latest version of Webmin on my proxy server(RH8 box), I'm trying to upgrage a box to openssl-0.9.6g-1 from openssl-0.9.6b-28. I built the rpms from source and when I did the upgrade option it gave me a laundry list of programs that depend on libcrypto.so.2 and

RE: Document Mananagement

2003-02-28 Thread Wil McGilvery
Thanks for everyone's input. Regards, Wil McGilvery Manager, Digital Media 416-744-7191 416-716-3964 (cell) 1-888-622-3729 416-744-0406  FAX www.LynchDigital.com -Original Message- From: Net Llama! [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 10:13 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: DSL modem using linux box as a router.

2003-02-28 Thread kbb0927
Lonnie, AFAIK, yes it uses PPPoE. I gues I have 2 issues here: 1. Make sure I set the DSL setup 2. Make sure I get the firewall back up afterwards. Regards, Keith B. Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone out there set up a linux box to act

Re: DSL modem using linux box as a router.

2003-02-28 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lonnie, AFAIK, yes it uses PPPoE. I gues I have 2 issues here: 1. Make sure I set the DSL setup Then you need to make sure that you have PPPoE support in the kernel. You might also want to checkout Roaring Penguin for an easy to install PPPoE

Re: anyone with IBM DB2 experience?

2003-02-28 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, All I have is one of those developerWorks CDs. And it has DB2 v7, not v8. Just found this on IB web: http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/download/product.jsp?s=cid=TDUN-49 EVGUsb=rcat=datafam=rs=S_TACT=S_CMP=q=Enter+search+textk=anypf=

Re: [linux-elitists] RedHat drops the other shoe

2003-02-28 Thread Lee
On Thursday 27 February 2003 22:04, dep wrote: begin Lee's quote: | Now the son of Caldera (SCO) | wants to sue everybody who uses linux. might you point to even the faintest evidence that any of the above accusation is even remotely true? As my read mail dumps when I llleave Kmail I

Re: Xfree86 4.3.0...

2003-02-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:24:06 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Jerry McBride wrote: Also, one small nit to report. I run TWM as my default window manager... used to be a simple left click and my main menu would popup and I could read the options and click

Re: Email fun: talking to pop server

2003-02-28 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 07:00:04PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: I have occasion to talk directly to my email server (POP 3) with telnet when an email just hangs up with fetchmail and I have to dele the item manually. So, I would like to know how, when using telnet to talk to my POP server, I can

Re: Something Like Adobe PageMaker for Linux

2003-02-28 Thread David Aikema
On February 25, 2003 07:33 am, Jason Joines wrote: We have a user that uses Adobe PageMaker and other similar stuff and her win machine constantly crashes. We would like to move her to Linux but need to find a similar product for her to use first. Any ideas? How about PageStream

Interesting XFS note

2003-02-28 Thread Collins
I know that most people on this list consider XFS to be rock-solid reliable, but I keep reading from time to time that it is not perfect. Excerpt from a recent posting on Gentoo. - From C. Candell [EMAIL PROTECTED] You need to emerge xfs-sources for support XFS of

Re: Interesting XFS note

2003-02-28 Thread Net Llama!
All i'm taking from this excerpt is that something is very badly broken in the way that Gentoo impliments XFS. Unless there's some explanation on what an 'emerge' would do that is possible on other distros? On 02/28/03 20:42, Collins wrote: I know that most people on this list consider XFS to

Re: Interesting XFS note

2003-02-28 Thread Collins
On Friday 28 February 2003 09:44 pm, Net Llama! wrote: All i'm taking from this excerpt is that something is very badly broken in the way that Gentoo impliments XFS. Unless there's some explanation on what an 'emerge' would do that is possible on other distros? The emerge has nothing to do

Re: Interesting XFS note

2003-02-28 Thread Ted Ozolins
Net Llama! wrote: All i'm taking from this excerpt is that something is very badly broken in the way that Gentoo impliments XFS. Unless there's some explanation on what an 'emerge' would do that is possible on other distros? Heck, I'm using XFS on Gentoo (1.4 final pre) I've had a few