[OT] themes.org

2001-12-19 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Does anyone know what's up with themes.org? Since they switched the interface, there seem virtually no skins/themes availble any more when you click their items.. It gives me 2 mozilla skins, and 3 gkrellm skins. But if you browse everything together, there are a lot more, only without

Re: [SLE] [OT] themes.org

2001-12-19 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 12:16 am, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Does anyone know what's up with themes.org? Since they switched the interface, there seem virtually no skins/themes availble any more when you click their items.. It gives me 2 mozilla skins, and 3 gkrellm skins. But if you

Re: Win95 replacement

2001-12-19 Thread Declan Moriarty
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 15:33, you wrote: Ok, I have received several replies and greatly appreciate the help and suggestions. Now I don't know whether to feel silly or glad. While re-doing all of the step that I have taken so that I could write down the messages, I was able to start

Re: koffice-1.1.1

2001-12-19 Thread Marcus Meissner
What has stopped me was the download of koffice-1.1.1 for Caldera. It is compiled for 2.1; yes I know they have not released rpms for 2.2, but why release it at all, its a minor release and its meant to run on 2.2 ? I am at a loss to follow the thinking at Caldera these days. I would be

Re: OTHapppy B-day Doug

2001-12-19 Thread David A. Bandel
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 21:42:17 -0500 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 20:31:29 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:47:32 -0500 Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Computer games don't affect kids, I mean

Re: OTHapppy B-day Doug

2001-12-19 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 07:19:16 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 21:42:17 -0500 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm. As I read this, I'm sitting in a darkened room munching MMs and listening to my favorite album over and over again. ???

Re: more rpm ooops ot

2001-12-19 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 08:49 pm,Collins Richey wrote: snip Then I discovered gentoo, snip Ah bliss! end of almost a rant Doesn't sound like a rant, sounds like it works. Does this mean that there are others besides RH, Caldera, Mandrake, SuSE (like Doug's favorite Redmond Linux) that

any DNS gurus?

2001-12-19 Thread Douglas J Hunley
I need help debugging a CNAME and other data error.. takers? -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view.

Re: any DNS gurus?

2001-12-19 Thread kwall
Douglas J Hunley wrote: % I need help debugging a CNAME and other data error.. takers? No guru, but I'll take a stab at it. K -- The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity. ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at

Re: Printer Recommendations

2001-12-19 Thread Mike Andrew
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 00:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the inkjet drivers are binary only -- BFD); combine support with price and features, and Lexmark won hands down over Epson. Your comment has to be respected. A week is a long time in Linux? My comments are about 6 months stale. --

Re: TID Re: ssh public key

2001-12-19 Thread Mike Andrew
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 03:23, Net Llama wrote: What if I have a dish washer? That's ok. If you're a Mormon or Muslim. -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: Kernel build 2.4.16

2001-12-19 Thread Net Llama
--- Richard R. Sivernell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lonni kernel.org has this: Stable Version: 2.4.11 at their dl site ( ftp ) ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.4/modutils-2.4.11.tar.gz I can get it today if you think it would help, that is no proble. any special

Re: [OT] themes.org

2001-12-19 Thread Net Llama
--- Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what's up with themes.org? Since they switched the interface, there seem virtually no skins/themes availble any more when you click their items.. It gives me 2 mozilla skins, and 3 gkrellm skins. But if you browse everything

Linux takeup

2001-12-19 Thread Mike Andrew
Folks, I've just come back from the Netherlands and I think many of you would be interested in the following (mercifully brief) observations I made while there. Europeans on this list would correct me, but these are impressions from an outsider. RS6000's are the name of the game. IBM have a

Re: Downloading behind a firewall with gnutella

2001-12-19 Thread Dave Anselmi
David Aikema wrote: I've got to agree with you that file transfers at least are slow. I know my sister has a tendency to run bearshare in windows at times and there seems to be about 60-90% overhead when running the program. This leads me to my next question, is there any way to limit the

Re: any DNS gurus?

2001-12-19 Thread Dave Anselmi
Douglas J Hunley wrote: I need help debugging a CNAME and other data error.. takers? Ask away. I happen to have the O'Reilly book here. The book says your zone file is broke (bet you knew that). You've given a name a CNAME record (made an alias), and also other records which is illegal

Re: Linux takeup

2001-12-19 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 05:05:21 +1130 Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, I've just come back from the Netherlands and I think many of you would be interested in the following (mercifully brief) observations I made while there. Europeans on this list would correct me, but these are

Re: OT cool site

2001-12-19 Thread Andy Mathews
Ronnie Gauthier wrote: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl -- Ronnie == snip Ronnie, Seems this has been around for a while. Check: http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ (Another guy here directed me to this) Andrew Mathews ___ Linux-users

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-19 Thread Tim Wunder
Previously, Net Llama chose to write: I just noticed this project on Freshmeat called make uninstall. It does exactly as its name describes, allows you to cleanly uninstall packages that have been installed via the make install command. I haven't yet tried it out, but here's where you can

Re: Kernel build 2.4.16

2001-12-19 Thread Keith Antoine
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 08:05, Richard R. Sivernell enunciated: is that acpi not apic I do not find acpi is ups support Yes you did say that but make real sure you do need them, mine is disabled. -- Keith Antoine aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-19 Thread Aaron Grewell
I use checkinstall all the time, and I really like it. It doesn't do all the things that a custom-built rpm can do (dependencies, for instance) but if all you want is to be able to easily uninstall a tarball installation it's great. On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 15:54, Tim Wunder wrote: Previously,

Re: more rpm ooops ot

2001-12-19 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 05:23:42 -0800 Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2001 08:49 pm,Collins Richey wrote: snip Then I discovered gentoo, snip Ah bliss! end of almost a rant Doesn't sound like a rant, sounds like it works. Does this mean that there are

Re: Linux takeup

2001-12-19 Thread Collins Richey
[ snips ] On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 05:05:21 +1130 Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, I've just come back from the Netherlands and I think many of you would be interested in the following (mercifully brief) observations I made while there. Europeans on this list would correct me, but

Re: Linksys Wireless Troubles

2001-12-19 Thread David A. Bandel
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 16:15:32 -0800 Vern W Heesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream: [snip] What card? The linux-wlan-ng stuff will NOT work on hermes cards. All cards that run the hermes chipset (Orinoco and a pile of others) run WEP. Try this: iwconfig eth# key

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-19 Thread kwall
Net Llama wrote: % I just noticed this project on Freshmeat called make uninstall. It % does exactly as its name describes, allows you to cleanly uninstall % packages that have been installed via the make install command. % % I haven't yet tried it out, but here's where you can get it: %

Re: another rpm ooops

2001-12-19 Thread Keith Antoine
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 00:10, Tony Alfrey enunciated: On Monday 17 December 2001 09:24 pm,Keith Antoine wrote: snip Many newer rpms will not work with that version 3.6 is the least theey work with. Thanks. The LlamaDude sent me out to get a 3.0.6 from the SxS. I looked at

Re: OT cool site

2001-12-19 Thread kwall
Andy Mathews wrote: % Ronnie Gauthier wrote: % % telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl [snip, trim, clip] % Ronnie, % Seems this has been around for a while. Check: % http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ (Another guy here directed me to this) % % Andrew Mathews Andrew, Excellent. Thanks for the link!

Re: any DNS gurus?

2001-12-19 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Dave Anselmi babbled on about: The book says your zone file is broke (bet you knew that). You've given a name a CNAME record (made an alias), and also other records which is illegal since the NS will follow the CNAME record to the cannonical name. Other records for the alias aren't

Re: Linux takeup

2001-12-19 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Michael Scottaline babbled on about: do their students get used to using? One of te key to MS success in the US is the near ubiquitous presence in the school systems [yes some schools use Macs, but increasingly it seems many more are moving to M$. I know; funny you should say that...

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-19 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Tim Wunder babbled on about: Is it anything like Checkinstall? I was reading a little about that today. It's supposed to allow you to use rpm to keep track of things you install via tarball. Anyone on list use it? I use checkinstall all the time! wouldn't admin a box without it. HOWEVER, make

Re: more rpm ooops ot

2001-12-19 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Collins Richey babbled on about: (like Doug's favorite Redmond Linux) that are beginning to assemble I've never used redmond... I like SuSE or linuxfromscratch... I just forwarded that piece cause I know several on here like/use/develop redmond -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net)

Re: make uninstall

2001-12-19 Thread kwall
Douglas J Hunley wrote: % Tim Wunder babbled on about: % Is it anything like Checkinstall? I was reading a little about that today. % It's supposed to allow you to use rpm to keep track of things you install % via tarball. Anyone on list use it? % % I use checkinstall all the time! wouldn't

Fwd: Which One?

2001-12-19 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
Forwarded from a newsgroup, but I'd like to know what you all think.. I've copied the author. Please continue to copy on replies... ,--- Forwarded message (begin) Subject: Which One? From: Kurtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 23:44:35 -0500 I am a SysAdmin, but

Re: more rpm ooops ot

2001-12-19 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:45:38 -0500 Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins Richey babbled on about: (like Doug's favorite Redmond Linux) that are beginning to assemble I've never used redmond... I like SuSE or linuxfromscratch... I just forwarded that piece cause I know

Re: Fwd: Which One?

2001-12-19 Thread Collins Richey
[ snips ] On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:06:27 -0500 Douglas J. Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forwarded from a newsgroup, but I'd like to know what you all think.. I've copied the author. Please continue to copy on replies... ,--- Forwarded message (begin) Subject: Which One?

Re: Fwd: Which One? [long]

2001-12-19 Thread Dave Anselmi
Douglas J. Hunley wrote: Forwarded from a newsgroup, but I'd like to know what you all think.. I've copied the author. Please continue to copy on replies... ,--- Forwarded message (begin) Subject: Which One? From: Kurtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 23:44:35

Re: Linux takeup

2001-12-19 Thread Dave Anselmi
Douglas J Hunley wrote: funny you should say that... *every* (and that is NOT an exaggeration) school district I've been in has been *entirely* mac-based. in fact, our district just spent *oodles* replacing every computer in the district with grape imacs.. (ugly fricking things). they act

Re: Linux takeup

2001-12-19 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 08:49 pm, Dave Anselmi wrote: Of course, I'm not sure what use computers are in schools, outside of computer science classes (for students, anyway, faculty is a different story). But that's another rant and I'm not an educator so I'll spare you... Dave Good

Re: another rpm ooops

2001-12-19 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 06:21 pm,Keith Antoine wrote: snip On Monday 17 December 2001 09:24 pm,Keith Antoine wrote: snip Many newer rpms will not work with that version 3.6 is the least theey work with. snip As I said the other day add the paths to /etc/ld.so.conf and then

koffice 1.1.1

2001-12-19 Thread Collins Richey
Well, half of the stuff in kword doesn't work, and they've enable lots of debug messages. Jeez, it was slow enough before. plonk - removing now. I'll stick with open office. -- Collins Richey Denver Area - 12DEC2001 - WWTLRD? gentoo_rc6 k2.4.17-pre8+ext3+xfce+sylpheed+galeon