Re: XFS filesystem revisited

2003-11-20 Thread Collins Richey
locking up) I booted to the liveCD and ran xfs_check and xfs_repair if > necessary. What Gentoo failed to mention is that xfs_repair tells me if > there is pending information in the log and that I need to mount and then > umount the partition. I do that, the data is committed

XFS filesystem revisited

2003-11-20 Thread Collins Richey
hem) can lose a good deal of data if the system goes down unexpectedly." ... [ other fs desciptions ] It is interesting that this recommendation is only present for XFS among the journaled filesystem choices. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday

Re: Apache log probe?

2003-11-20 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 21:35:47 -0800 "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/19/03 21:07, Collins Richey wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 18:56:39 -0800 Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Collins Richey wrote: > >

Re: Which file system am I using?

2003-11-20 Thread Collins Richey
file system of choice? > man is your friend. mke2fs -j /dev/xxx create a new ext3 fs tune2fs -j /dev/xxx convert an ext2 to ext3 fs (add the journal) -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today

Re: Apache log probe?

2003-11-19 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 18:56:39 -0800 Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Collins Richey wrote: > > >On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:37:56 -0800 "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >wrote: > > > > > > > >>On 11/19/03

Re: Apache log probe?

2003-11-19 Thread Collins Richey
6.htm An even better friend is plastic or cold hard cash to sign up! I'll pass until I'm employed again. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. ___

RedHat losing customers?

2003-11-19 Thread Collins Richey
e been screwed, and it won't happen again." Is Novell/SUSE the only linux offering that does not have a death wish? -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. __

Re: One reason why I should have a Linux laptop

2003-11-19 Thread Collins Richey
r admin than window imo. > Please clarify: you were maybe expecting something different from windows??? -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. ___

Re: [InterLUG] AOL now in the Linux PC business

2003-11-19 Thread Collins Richey
; > > http://www.aolcheckout.com/aol-pc/aol01.asp?srccode=subp1b447695&vc > > >id=a1 > > > > No Linux there... > > Not only that, it's "AOL Optimized". Translated: does nothing and slowly. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your h

Re: Problems printing out PDF files

2003-11-19 Thread Collins Richey
file, > here is what I get with gv. > > Error: /invalidfont in -dict- [[ snipped ] What version of acroread and other software (kernel, xft, etc.). -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you hav

Hooray

2003-11-18 Thread Collins Richey
LinuxToday (Nov 18, 2003, 20:00 UTC) (4004 reads) (10 talkbacks) (feedback) "But in a filing yesterday the SCO Group gave a strong hint that while it anticipates riches from IP licenses, its current business is falling apart..." -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your

Re: xfce4 build error

2003-11-17 Thread Collins Richey
startup-notification-1.0/libsn indicates that this is a part of x11-libs/startup-notification. For now, emerge startup-notification. Not quite sure why xfce4 is looking for this or why it's not listed as a dependancy in the ebuild(s). I suggest you search and then open a bugzilla report for this.

Re: SO 7: importing postscript

2003-11-17 Thread Collins Richey
to try this myself, but I'm stumped. How are you importing a .ps file under OO? I only get it to open as the actual PS code (text version). -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. __

Re: virii

2003-11-16 Thread Collins Richey
t; for M$ > > with this header: > > I receive only one a few weeks ago sent to my wife's email address; none to my own address. Being a wary M$ user, I dispatched it forthwith to the trash. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the

Re: TextMaker

2003-11-15 Thread Collins Richey
hute. You gotta love the installation - simplicity personified. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROT

Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-14 Thread Collins Richey
binary installed via a standard gentoo package. Other than this I can give Firebird 0.7 a clean bill of health, well almost. I do encounter the occasional url with a webpage that doesn't format very well, but that's probably due to some ie6-specific stuff in the page. In your case, Myl

Re: way

2003-11-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:27:46 -0500 dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > quoth Collins Richey: > | I'm too much of an email/etc youngster to understand shortcuts like > | > | :-) and ;-) > | > | My google searches have produced no results. > | > | Where are

Re: way

2003-11-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:42:40 -0500 Bruce Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 14 November 2003 9:19 am, Collins Richey wrote: > > :-) and ;-) > > > A smile (on its side) and a smile with a wink. > Many thanks to all who responded. As usual, I'm wa

Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-14 Thread Collins Richey
the once-and-future-browser, it would seem that improvements are to be expected. I've been using Firebird since it's early days, and it's quite good. Nevertheless, 0.7 has more of a propensity to "just go poof" (TM) than earlier versions; segfault I presume. Perhaps I shoul

A First Look: Next-Generation Debian Installer

2003-11-14 Thread Collins Richey
FYI Some "Breaking News".. A First Look: Next-Generation Debian Installer http://www.linmagau.org For those of you who aren't familiar with the site, it's work bookmarking. linmagau issues a lot of informative howto reports. As a side note, they are quite debian-centric.

way

2003-11-14 Thread Collins Richey
I'm too much of an email/etc youngster to understand shortcuts like :-) and ;-) My google searches have produced no results. Where are these defined? -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be tha

Re: rms: 'i'm clueless, dammit!'

2003-11-14 Thread Collins Richey
ty. Ever the diplomt; I would have said because he is an a##hole. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAI

Re: gentoo news

2003-11-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 07:06:32 -0500 Bruce Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 13 November 2003 22:58 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > > Gentoo for PowerPC G5 now available > > Posted on 11 November 2003 by pvdabeel > > > > We're proud to announce the

Re: [EmperorLinux-os-RedHat] do not use : GLIBC update packages ( from Red Hat Network)

2003-11-13 Thread Collins Richey
visionist historians, ok? > > Indeed. GCC 2.96; glibc 2.0.7; NPTL; problems running RPM on kernel > 2.5. Shall I continue? > I'm curious. Until last year I had avoided RH like the plague. Were these glitches only for desktop users, or did they propagate all the fubars to the

gentoo news

2003-11-13 Thread Collins Richey
Gentoo for PowerPC G5 now available Posted on 11 November 2003 by pvdabeel We're proud to announce the availability of the Gentoo for PowerPC G5 32-bit LiveCD. ISOs are now available on our main OSU mirror. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday an

Re: [EmperorLinux-os-RedHat] do not use : GLIBC update packages ( from Red Hat Network)

2003-11-13 Thread Collins Richey
visionist historians, ok? > > Indeed. GCC 2.96; glibc 2.0.7; NPTL; problems running RPM on kernel > 2.5. Shall I continue? > I actually had fairly good results with fedora and RH7.3, but RH does have a few well recorded problems. Oh well, someone on the list used to fault me for

Re: rms: "i'm clueless, dammit!"

2003-11-13 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:10:33 -0500 dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stallman's GNU/Linux operating system ... > > "I am concerned about long-term entrenched confusions such as referring > to a version of our GNU OS as 'Linux' RMS get stuffed! -- Co

Re: SUSE Linux 9.0 Professional Update - night 1

2003-11-13 Thread Collins Richey
t combination of software to break things, even those things that have been thoroughly tested. Your alternative is the Debian approach, where nothing is declared stable until its too old to be of current interest and operational on every architecture that debian supports. -- Collins Richey - Denv

Re: Fedora getting some bad reviews

2003-11-13 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:03:00 -0600 Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Collins Richey wrote: > > > If my memory serves me correctly, fedora is using the same philosophy that > > RH used in the past. RH releases (at least until very recently) have always > >

Re: Fedora getting some bad reviews

2003-11-13 Thread Collins Richey
recently) have always needed more time in the oven. This is one reason I prefer the gentoo model - incremental releases (that usually aren't too painful) over a long period. Unlike the RH approach, gentoo doesn't mark a new compiler release as stable for common use until most all packages

Re: StarOffice 7 user question

2003-11-13 Thread Collins Richey
took 20+ seconds to initialize. OO 1.1.0 takes 5.5 seconds on initial startup, 3.5 seconds on subsequent startups. On prior versions, there was a substantial difference between source-compiled code (10+ hours and 5 Gig temporary space, ouch) and binary code from OO, but this is less noticeable now th

another warm fuzzy from M$

2003-11-12 Thread Collins Richey
p computer." I read that twice before I realized they weren't joking. Makes you want to run out and buy an XP machine right now . -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no toda

Re: SUSE Linux 9.0 Professional Update - night 1

2003-11-12 Thread Collins Richey
man has two sons, an optimist and a pessimist. For Christmas he gives the pessimist a bright shiny new bicycle. The pessimist scowls - it will probably break or get stolen or I'll scrape my knee. He gives the optimist a sack of horse turds. The optomist grins from ear to ear - I know there'

Re: Novell buys SuSE!

2003-11-11 Thread Collins Richey
nd stop of a thread very easily. I don't have an Outhouse server to try, thank the good lord. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. ___ L

Re: RHEL & Fedora Comparison

2003-11-11 Thread Collins Richey
y enough it works. I made the mistake of signing up (for a day or two) for the fedora email list. Lots of good info, but 400 posts a day! Bleeding edge? No way! There's nary a 2.6 kernel in sight. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the w

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-11 Thread Collins Richey
oked perfect with textmaker. > I've gone both ways OO->Doc and vice versa. The key to getting good results (for me at least) is to have identical fonts. If you are going to do this on a regular basis, you really need a copy of the Windows fonts available to OO. -- Collins Richey -

MS cart before the horse

2003-11-11 Thread Collins Richey
- Windows architecture. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://

Re: Love on board

2003-11-11 Thread Collins Richey
(Ahh, the memories of my early newbiness.) > Speaking of which, I was wandering through a MicroCenter store just yesterday and found a copy of Caldera OpenLinux between the RedHats and SuSEs. Shades of yesteryear. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the

Re: Love on board

2003-11-11 Thread Collins Richey
parent: In spite of the fact that Ian Murdock runs the show, the only reference on their home page to GNU-bleeding-linux is in a link to a news article! There is hope. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no toda

Re: Braindead Windows

2003-11-11 Thread Collins Richey
to be half as > big as it is supposed to be. > Just another proof of the maxim: If you don't know sh*t, you will be put in charge of those who do. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be t

SB PCI 16 (ens1371) sound card with alsa (workaround)

2003-11-11 Thread Collins Richey
sable. What I have to do is modprobe snd-ens1371 rmmod snd-ens1371 modprobe snd-ens137 I don't know whether this is a bug with alsa or with devfsd, but at least I have a workaround. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the

Re: Braindead Windows

2003-11-10 Thread Collins Richey
k on Windows and even uses Gimp (yes, Virginia, there is GTK+ and Gimp for Windows!) for all his graphics work. The audience he is marketing his software to would have relatively little use for linux. You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's

Re: textmaker for very little money, tuesday only

2003-11-09 Thread Collins Richey
for reponse from user groups re open source products, but IMHO a commerical provider needs to have a little better response than this. Perhaps I'll try again or try to buy it during the Karnival madness. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill

Re: KDE/Netscape Lockup

2003-11-08 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 21:42:47 -0800 Shawn Tayler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 07:33:34 -0700 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > professed: > > > Hmmm! I'm using the same nvidia driver, but no lockups. I do, however, > > get a lot of er

Re: Kernel config question

2003-11-07 Thread Collins Richey
modules_install? > I would recommend you do bzImage modules and modules_install in every case. I confess that I've gotten spoiled on the 2.6 kernels where very little additional work is done if you change a few config parameters and then remake, but I presume the same applies for 2.4 ker

Re: icewm anyone

2003-11-07 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 08:01:31 -0700 Myles Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Collins Richey wrote: > > > 1. I'm already on 2.3.16, so I don't know about previous speeds - it doesn't > > get any better than instantaneous . > > ?? 2.3.16? Is this an Ic

Re: icewm anyone

2003-11-07 Thread Collins Richey
;seems' to be much quicker than previous releases. This is > really a solid WM IMHO, especially for those that don't need a lot of > bloat to go with their wm. > > Nate > > --- Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone else use icewm? I&

Re: KDE/Netscape Lockup

2003-11-07 Thread Collins Richey
96 driver > Hmmm! I'm using the same nvidia driver, but no lockups. I do, however, get a lot of error messages in /var/log/messages from the crappy nvidia driver. Are you using framebuffer? There are a lot of reported problems (mostly on 2.6 kernels) with nvidia and framebuffer. -- Co

Re: question

2003-11-07 Thread Collins Richey
s? > Yes, can you spell 'no response', unless you pay $30/hour for MS support? -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. ___ Lin

icewm anyone

2003-11-06 Thread Collins Richey
nything in the config files that actually enables this, so of course I get no sounds. Any clues? -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. ___ L

Re: question

2003-11-06 Thread Collins Richey
ost recent reincarnation). People usually respond with help instead of making you feel like a dummy. I can't remember how often I've been amazed by my lack of knowledge. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of to

Re: /lib/modules - rh7.3 vs rh8.0

2003-11-06 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 12:43:19 -0800 Bob Hemus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Collins Richey wrote: > > >On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 09:45:33 -0800 Bob Hemus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Gentle Folks, > >> I was able to get COL and RH 7.3 to use my

Re: /lib/modules - rh7.3 vs rh8.0

2003-11-06 Thread Collins Richey
you will need to generate a new kernel .config with the appropriate options and regenerate kernel and modules. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. __

Re: question

2003-11-06 Thread Collins Richey
s that there is a problem with some of the files in /etc/pam.d/ - were any of these replaced recently? check /etc/password and /etc/group to verify that the root user is really in group wheel. HTH. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries o

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-05 Thread Collins Richey
t: Re: Star Office 7 > > > > >> Oh, I just turned 57 here > >> in Sept. Hope to die doing two things, ... Sex & Computers Hmmm! This is a new concept. Maybe a PDA? -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yeste

Re: a good knoppix mirror

2003-11-04 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:09:36 -0700 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 07:41:15 +1100 James McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Collins Richey wrote: > > > Does anyone have the url for a responsive knoppix mirror? > >

AutoUpdate

2003-11-04 Thread Collins Richey
Just found on freshmeat an interesting download and update package for RPM based systems that does dependency checking. http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~gerald/ftp/autoupdate/index.html -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-04 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 20:12:26 -0500 Bruce Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 04 November 2003 20:00 pm, Joel Hammer wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 08:01:31AM -0700, Collins Richey wrote: > > > Only negative experience. Since I get really good results

Re: backup windows partition (fat)

2003-11-04 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 17:28:28 -0800 Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Collins Richey wrote: > > >On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 06:48:16 -0800 Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Mike Reinehr wrote: > >> > >>

Re: Novell buys SuSE!

2003-11-04 Thread Collins Richey
minent player in the linux marketplace, or they'll go under. I'm betting on the former. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. ___ Lin

Re: backup windows partition (fat)

2003-11-04 Thread Collins Richey
ge to save the win98 partition, swap out the drive, reboot and fdisk, then restore the image to the new drive. win98 comes up just fine. Unfortunately, after all is said and done, I only gained 2 gig! My spare drive wasn't as large as I remembered . Oh well, I'm sure I'll be doing t

Re: a good knoppix mirror

2003-11-04 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 07:41:15 +1100 James McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Collins Richey wrote: > > Does anyone have the url for a responsive knoppix mirror? > > > > I would like to refresh my copy, but every mirror I try seems to transfer > > about 3

a good knoppix mirror

2003-11-04 Thread Collins Richey
Does anyone have the url for a responsive knoppix mirror? I would like to refresh my copy, but every mirror I try seems to transfer about 3 bytes per minute. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be

Re: Novell buys SuSE!

2003-11-04 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 18:05:48 +0100 Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 09:15:25 -0700 > Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm one of those somebodies! With Novell's customer network and SUSE's > > fine l

Re: Novell buys SuSE!

2003-11-04 Thread Collins Richey
;s fine linux products, this is a marriage made in heaven. Eat your heart out SCO! -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. ___ Linux-users m

Re: Star Office 7

2003-11-04 Thread Collins Richey
anyone used SO7? Any impressions? Tips? > Only negative experience. Since I get really good results with OpenOffice, I would never pay even $.02 for Star Office. You, on the other hand, may find some particular feature that makes the departure from open software worthwhile. -- Collins Richey

Re: backup windows partition (fat)

2003-11-03 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 20:39:20 -0800 Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Collins Richey wrote: > > Is there an easy way to backup a windows partition then restore it later > > without gimping anything that windows requires? > > > > I have a small hda (hda1 is

backup windows partition (fat)

2003-11-02 Thread Collins Richey
not needed) then replace hda with a much larger disk, restore the win98 stuff, redo grub, etc. Booting without hda is no problem, since I have a grub boot disk. I just want to avoid the pain of reinstalling win98 (mucho yucky, worse than configuring sendmail). -- Collins Richey - Denver

BarbieOS anyone?

2003-10-23 Thread Collins Richey
Ok, who'll be first to try BarbieOS 1.0? It's debian based; if it's named gnu/barbie, I'll puke. http://linuxtoday.com/developer/2003102400226NWCY -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no toda

Re: test message

2003-10-23 Thread Collins Richey
; dep > > Writing takes no time. It's finding something to say that takes forever. If a tree falls in the forest with no woman present, is the man still at fault? -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the

Re: Gentoo's "emerge" ported to Slackware 9.1

2003-10-22 Thread Collins Richey
t; -- > burns > And, if it's anything like to original portage, it's good sh*t! -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. ___ Li

Re: Gentoo's "emerge" ported to Slackware 9.1

2003-10-21 Thread Collins Richey
; Our French friends might be offended! -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/

Re: 'smbmount' hangs

2003-10-21 Thread Collins Richey
> > If you ever get around to compiling a new kernel... check out the 2.60 series. > > Quite nice. > Is compiling a kernel more work that screwing around with apps that don't work properly on an older kernel? Second vote for 2.6 ke

Re: A real Gentoo Nugget!

2003-10-21 Thread Collins Richey
. > > And the benefit of emerging this would be? Since I can browse this anytime, why do I need it on my harddrive? -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. ___

Re: Irritating Spam/Worm(?)

2003-10-18 Thread Collins Richey
39038.rad.tsai.es [195.235.39.38]) > > > So, assuming that I wanted to follow up on this, do I send an email to > the administrator of that block? Would it do any good ? > > Regards, > pascal chong > Maybe, maybe not. There's always the possibility that this is th

Re: yet another .pdf question

2003-10-17 Thread Collins Richey
WinBlast machine to convert the file to .doc or something else. It looks like there is a free version. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. _

Re: I need a distro recommendation!

2003-10-17 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 18:57:29 -0700 Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Collins Richey wrote: > > > > >One final shot on this. Leon, I know you have used libranet for a long time. > > > >Does libranet get around the "debian stable = hopelessl

Re: I need a distro recommendation!

2003-10-17 Thread Collins Richey
sound during installation on my P4 box, also with > i810 sound. > You can always gor the Knoppix route too. > One final shot on this. Leon, I know you have used libranet for a long time. Does libranet get around the "debian stable = hopelessly antequated" problem pretty we

Re: I need a distro recommendation!

2003-10-17 Thread Collins Richey
sound during installation on my P4 box, also with > i810 sound. > You can always gor the Knoppix route too. > Having once tried true debian myself (what a POS), I have to agree with Leon. If you want debian, get libranet. The other possibil

Re: I need a distro recommendation!

2003-10-17 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:39:19 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Collins Richey wrote: > > Lycoris (Debian based) is supposed to be good also, but once again not free. > > Unless they really changed direction, Lycoris is based on

Re: I need a distro recommendation!

2003-10-17 Thread Collins Richey
ven't tried the later for-pay versions. Now that apt2rpm (sp?) is available to automate RPM stuff, you could stay up to date fairly easily. On the other hand, for a relatively knowledgable user (aye, there's the rub), my second choice would be Slackware. Particularly now that SWARET(sp?)

Re: Has open software gone nuts?

2003-10-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:10:36 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Collins Richey wrote: > > http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/14/cz_dl_1014linksys.html > > > > This type of legal-schmegal wrangling is what we expect from SCO and its

Has open software gone nuts?

2003-10-14 Thread Collins Richey
http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/14/cz_dl_1014linksys.html This type of legal-schmegal wrangling is what we expect from SCO and its brethren. It smells no better when it comes from OSS. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow

Re: SMPEG SOLVED

2003-10-12 Thread Collins Richey
rry about this . I might want a different approach on a server, but for a PODU (plain ole desktop user), it's great that when I install a package everything necessary is installed. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you

Re: Nvidia and kernel 2.4.6?

2003-10-10 Thread Collins Richey
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:03:56 +1000 James McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Collins Richey wrote: > > >On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 00:45:39 +1000 James McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >wrote: > > > > > > > >>Ken Moffat wrote: > >>

Re: Nvidia and kernel 2.4.6?

2003-10-10 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:47:23 -0600 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 00:45:39 +1000 James McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > > Anyone using kernel 2.4.6 with Nvidia drivers? Just

Re: Nvidia and kernel 2.4.6?

2003-10-10 Thread Collins Richey
or 2.6 support... so looks like it's the > XFree86 drivers or nothing. > No, no! Works just fine on 2.5.x through 2.6.0-test6 (several months now). I'm using nvidia-kernel-1.0.4496-r3 and nvidia-glx-1.0.4496, but I've heard that the next lower versions will work also. These ar

Re: Stupid RPM, or just me???

2003-10-10 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:51:56 -0400 Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/10/2003 9:27 AM, I believe that James McDonald wrote: > > > Collins Richey wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 18:25:36 -0500 Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &

Re: Stupid RPM, or just me???

2003-10-10 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:27:17 +1000 James McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Collins Richey wrote: > > >On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 18:25:36 -0500 Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Could somebody tell me what I'm doing wr

Re: RH9 and xedit

2003-10-09 Thread Collins Richey
t; >>older one? > > > > > > > > > RH-7.3 does. I know i could try copying the binary, but i'm just puzzled > > > as to why its missing. > > > > > > > Hmmm... > > FWIW, it's there in RHL 8.0. > > /usr/X11R6/bin/xedit &

Re: SCO Woes III: 6 weeks later. I still can't buy a license from SCO.

2003-10-09 Thread Collins Richey
> your sales force for incompetence. > I can certainly believe all of the above (incompetence+lying). Darl would have to fire himself first. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.

Re: Stupid RPM, or just me???

2003-10-08 Thread Collins Richey
st be learned. That being said, any package manager that does not do dependancy resolution is borken, from my perspective. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no toda

Re: sharing an inbox in kmail

2003-10-04 Thread Collins Richey
for family to respond with items of interest to both of them. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Mozilla Java Plugin

2003-10-03 Thread Collins Richey
gins but have tried several .so files > that I could find in the j2re folders, to no avail. Can anyone assist? Put the following link in /path/to/mozilla/plugins javaplugin_oji.so -> /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so Adjust the reference as required for y

Re: TEST

2003-10-03 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:02:59 +0100 Terence McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 07:37:54 -0600 > Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Of course. A bare TEST message (with or without [please] ignore) simply > > means reply with wis

Re: TEST

2003-10-03 Thread Collins Richey
post? Am I really remembering that, or have I not had enough coffee, yet? > Of course. A bare TEST message (with or without [please] ignore) simply means reply with wiseass remarks! -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorro

Re: TEST

2003-10-03 Thread Collins Richey
t; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Can't resist! Currently you can't access your old data from XP. Merely wait until your XP is cracked, and then you won't be able to access anything. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tom

M$ lawsuti as seen on Slashdot

2003-10-02 Thread Collins Richey
an, say, automobiles?" They probably won't get anywhere with the lawsuit, but at least someone other than linux enthusiasts is beginning to notice what a POS M$ software is. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you ha

Re: recording wavs (or aiffs)

2003-10-01 Thread Collins Richey
read/write. > > > > Excuse me denseness but I tried last night to do this using various > parameters with the mount command but failed miserably. > > the partition I would like to remount is on dev/hdb2 > > what should the command look like ?mount try: mount -w /d

Re: from an sco press release today

2003-09-29 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:45:53 -0400 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, it was worse. Yep, time to retire this thread or move to general. The gentleman with the mustache will appear any time now! -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of

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