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A
s Corollary:
"Murphy was a hopeless optimist!"
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>
Was it Mike Andrew who wrote on Wednesday 09 January 2002 08:02:
> A minor bug exists in kde 2.2 when starting.
Don't tell them - they'll only write another 5 megs of code :-/
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ran for a while
with NT on d: and '95 on c: with linux out of that particular frame. Also, if
your first partition is linux, windoze usually survives because it's ignored
when the drive letters are being handed out. c: has to be on a primary,
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Video= AGP S3 Trio, w/8MB RAM, PS/2 mouse.
Realtek 8029 pci bus network card. Award BIOS
56K external modem on /dev/ttyS1. PS/2 mouse.
/dev/hda=2.5 Gig Maxtor 82560A4 drive(windoze 95)
/dev/hdb=6.4 Gig Fujitsu MPC 3064AT Drive (boot, swap, root)
Unu
ls, I'm
informed. I might add my son doesn't use these, he just has some of them and
has done the research.
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Experience is
in the BIOS, (If possible)
whereupon it should be settable to com 2. Otherwise just take it on faith
that if it were in a pc with com 2 disabled or absent, yours could be set up
on com 2, whereas a winmodem could not. Which was what I tried to tell the
guy, who has probably lost interest long ago
Was it Net Llama who wrote on Sunday 06 January 2002 22:05:
> --- Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2. Winmodems are CPU hungry and slow your beast down. Get the external
> > one,
> > or an expensive card (At least 6 chips usually, vs ~3 for a winmo
are CPU hungry and slow your beast down. Get the external one,
or an expensive card (At least 6 chips usually, vs ~3 for a winmodem). If it
doesn't configure as com 1 or 2, it's not a real modem.
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rch/mips/sgi/kernel/indy_int.c
Doug:
Are these quotes from REAL source code in use somewhere?
What gives anyone the interest to dig them out?
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run at full speed by the op
system because they're iffy at top whack, and the software plumps for
reliability. Who wants a 'maybe' hard drive?
Your chipset also becomes a question here as the drive access and chipset
integrity are often linked. What does 'lspci' r
andwered the phone and given me a fresh location to point it to. It's
just as well I'm only taking this Slightly Seriously.
>
I take it there's nothing I can do to police the behaviour of that
particular company as regards their 'net access, then.
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Was it Keith Antoine who wrote on Friday 04 January 2002 08:33:
> One call initrd after a recompile.
> Get the update files downloaded and installed. I can see the GUI for it but
> no idea how to use it.
GUESSING /sbin/mkinitrd? The other strange spot to watch is
/etc/rc.d/ini
letting go?
3. Can I complain www.getfreeinternet.co.uk anywhere else?
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that Life gives you - AFTER all
back, and to get rid of them altogether,
while maybe making things difficult for them in passing. They, however only
get paid for the site, and have ignored requests to remove it. Where do I go
from here?
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. The MBR is 512 bytes long, so
the memory creaks out.
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ing
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plan to.
I have forwarded the link to a colleague who does.
The banks are poison in this country, but I haven't fopund a way around them
yet :-/.
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gnome.
I thought the idea behind /opt for programs was that you could update your
system without touching it; This never works anyhow unless you have gigabytes
of libraries and nothing ever breaks compatability.
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d in places. So they said
"We can't do all of that this release, but we're moving in that direction"
That gets them out of it for a few years. AFAIK only SuSe boasts a fully LSB
compliant distro. Did they write the standard? ;-)
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Was it Collins Richey who wrote on Monday 31 December 2001 11:41:
> On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 09:39:30 +0000 Declan Moriarty
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Was it Collins Richey who wrote on Sunday 30 December 2001 00:36:
> > > Well, my beloved gentoo distro has bec
hat far without a crash? ;-)
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Thay have you testing for them (e.g. crashtester, 'cooker')
before they will do that.
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. Less it under xterm, and I get that
:-o. The cent sign ¢ (Altgr_c) comes out fine :-(. Oh well, the mystery
continues.
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Experience is
on windoze is a non runner for some other
technical, interesting, but frustrayting reason, so that rules out the
approach of the windoze cp1252.
What I can't find is a download that gets me to update my fonts here. Any idea
where there's a patch that works?
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line too.
tty4
# Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too.
tty5
# Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too.
tty6
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allfile, btw is 'unlessable' crap.
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Rec
ome bloatware, with
gratuituous gobbling of resources, poor performance, and I feel Mozilla is
also. When will those guys learn to stop writing code? I haven't seen one
complaint looking for a later version of either, but later and bigger
versions come and come.
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xcept a kde developer, and even they might suggest
something similarly drastic.
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t
rdon of my ignorance, but have you tried /dev/scd0? It seems to
work for me.
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Success covers
hod of removing the original
> kernel etc. Or will I break something if I just go in and delete it.
>
> Cheers
I would remove the rpm (rpm -ev ?), after, I repeat after getting your new
one singing. Then allow for the fact that lilo.conf is screwed, edit it and
run lilo again.
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> The best single approach is... gte a copy of WorksStation 3.1 and do the
> upgrade option. You get all the upgraded utilities, glibc, kernel, etc...
> upgrading to a newer kernel is a dream.
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lanation of what they do.
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control
panel, no crap allowed, no tsrs, minimum of games - 2 years since last
reinstall). and THAT couldn't even ping itself. But we were saved by a .bat
left there file to remove it, which undid the crap, and even fixed the other
machine.
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k to my loggin prompt.
>
> I also did perform the kill pid of kdm but there was no process to
> kill
>
> Im currently using a webmail interface from browser so I hope the
> wordwrap aint too awfull.
>
> TIA for any ideas.
>
>
>
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hardware is, and read the help. Set goals; implement them
using dual boot, and never reinstall windoze.
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On Friday 21 December 2001 22:21, you wrote:
> May you each and all enjoy a refreshing Holiday and abundant New Year.
> Tom
BAH! HUMBUG! ;-)
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Where next?
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sn't good enough. There is a question mark as to why it wouldn't
start from a boot floppy was probably a dud floppy - install floppies are
doubly fussy for some reason.
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about RPM. AFAIK, rpm only knows about
> what rpm installs. If you've loaded a lib via tarball, rpm won't know
> about it.
The problem is that rpm probably wants that file to be somewhere else. Find
that, and a symlink fixes it. There are real fancy options with rpm which
migh
s the hd, check the jumpers (It should be slave). Check if
the red line goes to pin 1 on the m/b and on the hd. Tell us what you find.
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started. I hear everyone going on about galeon -
I mean to look at that too, but I haven't had the time.
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That's in the preferences. Did you check them as the right user?
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that Life gives you - AFTER all you
offer the address of
an alternative superblock
# badblocks will check the disk blocks. Use switches. With that history, I'd
back up anything you want off the windoze side NOW!!
e2fsck can be run to call badblocks.
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ood. Prove the floppy
works. Prove the cdrom works. Something you're taking for granted is letting
you down.
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that L
thing is that it's a handy tool. They don't want to go to linux, and I don't
particularly want their package - I just want that sort of handy tool.
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Who? What? and more importantly where is it
now?
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hing, and pages by
guys who own one and praise or attack it.
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pies and install it to the hard drive. -Tom
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that Life give
e days lie as fluently as politicians to the system.
At a guess, the problem is different interpetations of the same lies (You get
this sort of thing with Lilo occasionally too). Formatting the disk a track
or two smaller might work around it.
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Appli
. If I ask Tom (from tomsrtbt) he'll tell me to build one. (Groan)
I'm sure you've fingered it. To quote Fagan: "I think I'd better think it out
again"
OK, to plan B then - the upgrade.
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deas, I can use text mode, but would like to use the kde consol.
My approach would be to get some port singing, stick a mouse on that. Beware
that sometimes you're expected to have gpm running, and sometimes (Like on
this Mandrake system) there's a mouse server in X which doesn't
Well, I can.
How the (expletive deleted) do I get Bugzilla's bookmarks into Opera?
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On Monday 10 December 2001 17:07, you wrote:
> > Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > % Speaking of which, does anyone have a recommendation for a good WYSIWYG
>
> HTML Editor?
Have you eliminated screem? Try that
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copies - same error,
same line. Someone tried to install windows and failed. I imagine this is
betraying a fundemental hardware inadequacy. Whassat?
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Anything! Mandrake seems to be sweeping the reviews just now and 8.1 is
recently out. There are a lot of 'drakes' in it (Harddrake, rpmdrake, etc)
Ignore them if they get on your nerves.
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On Monday 10 December 2001 20:46, you wrote:
> Declan Moriarty wrote:
> > You've all heard of pc upgrades; I've just fluttered a few quid
> > on a downgrade. Exact specs (Intel)'386, 4MB, 40MB HD, ISA bus, cga (sub
> > hercules) orange screen.
>
t - fine, but inscrutable and
difficult to modify; mulinux - d/l'ed something, got past the tar command but
hung on the make, and lost intest 'cos I got busy. I don't mind a console
only interface, but a version of X would be better
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dud something. Time for the M$ solution
(delete & reinstall). Lastly, don't take all of this as gospel; I'm an
electronic hardware type, with no authority on software issues.
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andard installs broke. Reiser could be installed in a
nonstandard way which allocated more space, and jfs was dropped because we
could break it, and there was nothing could be done about it..
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you don't need.
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On Saturday 08 December 2001 15:36, you wrote:
> I would start
ith the crap,
unfortunately. Avoid the 6326 video chip at all costs - ditto the 5513/5591
combination. Some of the later ones (630 and 730) I have heard praised by
some who should know. What chips are you contemplating??
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have to be competent (not me) or work very hard at it.
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n 3.x rpms
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On Wednesday 05 December 2001 21:33, you wrote:
&g
though. We're going
over to the euro here in a month, and it would be nice.
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d
this improves access times - particularly if you have all on one partition
and greatly varied directory size. It only tackles the whole disk, and
unmounted at that. I can chase it up if you're mad interested.
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e 2.1.1; The Icewm is 1.0.7-4. Any ideas (he asks hopefully)?
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would not work with an AMI
wheel mouse adaptor, which would work on every machine except the one I
needed it for.
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you can where the mouse or the error is
(e.g. try /dev/mouse, /dev/psaux, /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1, etc)
Keep us informed.
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way it should. SuSe is also very fond of farting about with modules.conf.
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Here's a link out of interest on this latest windoze virus; m$ outlook again!
http://antivirus.about.com/library/weekly/aa112401a.htm
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files would be comfortable in windoze. M$ Outlook again? And
from memory, .scr is a screensaver, not an audio format
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Experience i
TW, and quite friendly to guys who can't solder
or design ;-). Just think if electronmics was left as the preserve of those
who could; You'd probably have no pc ;-)
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nd all he likes, and just point the service at his current isp.
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nly looks something in Outlook
(Is that how you spell it?). "Wouldn't you like if your computer had this
button?", or that sort of thing.
The best answer for that I have discovered to date is to inform them that I
forgive them their e-mail; not scientific or organised at a
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 12:32, you wrote:
> Declan Moriarty wrote:
> > I tried
> > mount /dev/hdb7 - bad superblock
> > e2fsck -p /dev/hdb7
> > It spits me back a notice saying "Try e2fsck -b 8193"
> > I tried for copies in 8K increments up to 491
scue this a while
back, but they're saved on the dud partition :-(
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Archives, Digest
everything, so you'd never know what's going on. I gave up on KDE - they
didn't know when to stop writing code :-(.
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Expe
I went over to slocate, and found it handy. Find is like the Oracle at Delphi
;-)
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than internet so I am able to surf internet via his server.
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Experience is like a comb,
I managed to get linux onto my SiS m/b
at all. Mine (5513, 5591, and onboard 6326) is about as bad as they come.
grep -r SiS /usr/src/linux/ makes interesting reading
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, I
think) 'What this contains, what it does not contain, biography of anyone who
ever maintained it, history of dialup systems from Faraday, etc.
Then check each thing it suggests.
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