Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 01:45, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 01:26:54 -0400 > Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > Go easy, Charles; this is the newbie list and we don't know anything > > about him. > > I meant no offence to him personally only to his usage of applications. > > Were there no

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard

2004-08-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 22:58:04 -0700 Asa Rossoff wrote: > It sounded more like an attack than information about OE > vulnerability, from here... All views are subjective, be it mine, yours or Joe Hill's. The fact that such Is So neither contradicts nor in any way offers deterrence from the observa

RE: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?

2004-08-05 Thread linuxstuff
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Len Lawrence Sent: Thu 8/5/2004 10:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject:Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router? On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 18:50:22 +0100 Kevin Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- big

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard

2004-08-05 Thread Asa Rossoff
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 06:15:54 +0100 Tomas Tudja wrote: Sorry, I didn't understand a word of the second part of your post :> It means that regardless of What you are using as a firewall OE is itself intrinsically non-secure and is the method of choice for the proliferation o

Re: [newbie] seti@home install/setup

2004-08-05 Thread Len Lawrence
On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:37:00 -0500 Chuck MATTSEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- snip snip snip > As it happens, TkSETI is what I ended up going with, and it's quite > easy to use, I've found, now that I've got the program itself going. > :*) (There are days when I /need

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 01:26:54 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > Go easy, Charles; this is the newbie list and we don't know anything > about him. I meant no offence to him personally only to his usage of applications. Were there no linux MUA which I believed to be either equivalent, not to mention supe

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 06:15:54 +0100 Tomas Tudja wrote: > Sorry, I didn't understand a word of the second part of your post :> It means that regardless of What you are using as a firewall OE is itself intrinsically non-secure and is the method of choice for the proliferation of All virus and worms f

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 01:08, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 05:09:48 +0100 > Tomas Tudja wrote: > > > BTW I am using winxp2k2, because I like it :> > > Since I am in the mood and no one else has stated it if you are so > enamored of xp2k2 what the fuck are you doing on a MandrakeLI

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Tomas Tudja
I am on this list, because I am using mdk linux on several other machines including my home pc and need to learn about it a lot. I like winxp2k2, but there are lot of other things I use gnu/linux for. Sorry, I didn't understand a word of the second part of your post :> Tomas Tudja 136 Church Road

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 05:09:48 +0100 Tomas Tudja wrote: > BTW I am using winxp2k2, because I like it :> Since I am in the mood and no one else has stated it if you are so enamored of xp2k2 what the fuck are you doing on a MandrakeLINUX list. If your communication of choice relies on XP the falsify

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Tomas Tudja
Hello Julie My first language is slovak :>. I like to have to systems by the hand and vmware is the good tool for it, but u will need not a new machine, but a very good machine. I am running on dual CPU, 1G memory, RAID1 array machine. With vmware you are cutting performance from host computer, s

Re: [newbie] Aterm

2004-08-05 Thread RickS
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:09:33 +0200 Marc Hultquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does anyone know atem really well ? I am basically trying to do a >few things with it, and then obviously when I have figured it out, >I will add it into my fluxbox menu as a

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Julie Sloan
Tomas Tudja wrote: 1. you really are not? I can't believe that :> ! Well, 1) I haven't been here very long (just today) ...and 2) I'm 99.9% sure you speak english better than I speak your first language. 2. I am running winxp2k2 in vmware virtual machine. Vmware is running on mdk10.1. Connectio

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Tomas Tudja
BTW I am using winxp2k2, because I like it :> Tomas Tudja 136 Church Road N17 8AJ London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hysteria.sk/catcher -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tomas Tudja Sent: 06 August 2004 05:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Tomas Tudja
1. you really are not? I can't believe that :> ! 2. I am running winxp2k2 in vmware virtual machine. Vmware is running on mdk10.1. Connection between winxp2k2 and mdk is safe, because mdk connection to network is firewalled. I am using mdk as a gateway for winxp2k2 running on a virtual machine. It

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive

2004-08-05 Thread Asa Rossoff
Todd Slater wrote: I'm auctioning some hard drives and I want to wipe them and format them. I had all kinds of trouble creating boot floppies for some reason--even though no errors were reported I couldn't boot them. I ended up having success with making a bootable cd. So I'm using autoclave to wip

Re: [newbie] Configuring CD-ROM for both gnome-toaster and Totem

2004-08-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 05 August 2004 11:14 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: > In order to use gnome-toaster to burn CDs, I appear to need > "hdc=ide-scsi" in my kernel parms, and then I specify /dev/scd0 as the > recording device.   I tried without this, setting the device to > /dev/cdrom, and gnome-toaster just loc

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Julie Sloan
Tomas Tudja wrote: Are really everybody upset because of me? I just wanted to demonstrate the topic. I though it will be a good help for the people to understand the problem. I'm not :) BTW what is wrong with outlook? Aha even I can answer that. Outlook Express is the most virus-prone program

[newbie] modem problems - speak slowly please

2004-08-05 Thread Julie Sloan
Hi - my first post to this forum. I've been trying to inhale all the information out there and so far have made it through just a few of the info & man pages. I'm on mandrake 10.0 official, got both KDE and Gnome running (but trying to make this work from the KDE GUI) dual booting with WinXP

Re: [newbie] TightVNC ssh

2004-08-05 Thread Dan Gordon
On Thursday 05 August 2004 08:41 am, J. Gregory Croes wrote: > Hallo, bryan. > > How can I setup Tight VNC ssh on my mandrake box? I will prefer an > gui installation. If not can you show me an easy way to installed via > commandline? I am a newbie. Forgive me if my question sucks. > > Gregory Her

[newbie] Configuring CD-ROM for both gnome-toaster and Totem

2004-08-05 Thread Guy Rouillier
In order to use gnome-toaster to burn CDs, I appear to need "hdc=ide-scsi" in my kernel parms, and then I specify /dev/scd0 as the recording device. I tried without this, setting the device to /dev/cdrom, and gnome-toaster just locked up during power calibration. But with that parm set, I can't

Re: [newbie] How to determine that Firestater is running?

2004-08-05 Thread Dan Gordon
On Thursday 05 August 2004 09:06 pm, you wrote: > > You really have me confused now Dan :( Attached is my firewall.sh > file from /etc/firestarter. To me it seems to have rules already in > it. I turned iptables back on, checked at grc.com and its all the > same, 21, 23, 80 open, rest closed. I

[newbie] TightVNC ssh

2004-08-05 Thread J. Gregory Croes
Hallo, bryan. How can I setup Tight VNC ssh on my mandrake box? I will prefer an gui installation. If not can you show me an easy way to installed via commandline? I am a newbie. Forgive me if my question sucks. Gregory Want to buy your Pack o

Re: [newbie] seti@home install/setup

2004-08-05 Thread et
On Thursday 05 August 2004 06:29 pm, et wrote: > On Thursday 05 August 2004 01:52 pm, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Okay, I'm feeling even denser than usual today. Could someone point > > me to a good, comprehensive site for all things SETI unde

Re: [newbie] seti@home install/setup

2004-08-05 Thread Len Lawrence
On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 12:52:14 -0500 Chuck MATTSEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Okay, I'm feeling even denser than usual today. Could someone point > me to a good, comprehensive site for all things SETI under Linux? I > know it's a CLI version,

Re: [newbie] seti@home install/setup

2004-08-05 Thread et
On Thursday 05 August 2004 01:52 pm, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Okay, I'm feeling even denser than usual today. Could someone point > me to a good, comprehensive site for all things SETI under Linux? I > know it's a CLI version, and there are variou

Solved (WAS: Re: [newbie] seti@home install/setup)

2004-08-05 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck MATTSEN wrote: | Okay, I'm feeling even denser than usual today. Could someone point | me to a good, comprehensive site for all things SETI under Linux? I | know it's a CLI version, and there are various monitoring programs | for it (including g

Re: [newbie] port 22 : Connection refused

2004-08-05 Thread Johan Sch
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:25:31 -0500 Hoyt Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 05 August 2004 14:29, Johan Sch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have the following hardware and OS'ses.. > > > > Gateway .. running Suse 9.0 with a firewall setup > > Laptop .. running Suse 9.1 with a firewall setup.

Re: [newbie] port 22 : Connection refused

2004-08-05 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 05 August 2004 14:29, Johan Sch wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following hardware and OS'ses.. > > Gateway .. running Suse 9.0 with a firewall setup > Laptop .. running Suse 9.1 with a firewall setup. > > Workstation .. running Suse 9.1 with no firewall. > Same workstation .. running Man

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 05 August 2004 14:16, John Richard Smith wrote: > Bryan Phinney wrote: > >On Thursday 05 August 2004 10:39 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>Bryan, > >>I've made a floppy version of dban, but tell me if I accidentally > >> left it in my A drive and booted up on it, it wouldn't atually

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-05 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 05:47, German Guillot wrote: > On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 03:25:10 +1000, Stephen Kühn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Now I'm led to wonder, are you using kcron to setup the cron job - and > > is the user YOU or root or system? > > I'm not using kcron - I don't even have it. In m

Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?

2004-08-05 Thread Len Lawrence
On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 18:50:22 +0100 Kevin Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- big snip --- > > > > Hi Len > > With blueyonder your ip will be dynamic, so it changes regular unless > you specify you want a static one, not sure how much it cost though. > the Dhcp manages your clien

RE: Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Josenildo Marques
Em Qui, 1998-12-31 às 21:34, Tomas Tudja escreveu: > German, you are right... Now I see, what is the prob;lem here :> > > To everybody: a didn't want to be sarcastic or "too smart"... It is just > my english (only 3 months of practice), so sorry guys > > Communication in my native language is a b

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread frankieh
Can you please fix your date? At the moment its showing: 1/1/1999 7:34 AM which means your posts appear under about 2000 others. rgds Franki Tomas Tudja wrote: German, you are right... Now I see, what is the prob;lem here :> To everybody: a didn't want to be sarcastic or "too smart"... It is just m

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-05 Thread German Guillot
On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 12:58:40 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you say, running two X servers is overkill for what you want. I am > trying to remember something - there is a "dummy" X server package, or > something like that, for faking an X server. It may be part of th

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-05 Thread German Guillot
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 03:25:10 +1000, Stephen Kühn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now I'm led to wonder, are you using kcron to setup the cron job - and > is the user YOU or root or system? I'm not using kcron - I don't even have it. In my home dir I have a text file called, appropriately (or confusi

Re: [newbie] port 22 : Connection refused

2004-08-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Johan Sch wrote: Hi, I have the following hardware and OS'ses.. Gateway .. running Suse 9.0 with a firewall setup Laptop .. running Suse 9.1 with a firewall setup. Workstation .. running Suse 9.1 with no firewall. Same workstation .. running Mandrake 10.0 with no firewall. I can ssh gateway . la

[newbie] port 22 : Connection refused

2004-08-05 Thread Johan Sch
Hi, I have the following hardware and OS'ses.. Gateway .. running Suse 9.0 with a firewall setup Laptop .. running Suse 9.1 with a firewall setup. Workstation .. running Suse 9.1 with no firewall. Same workstation .. running Mandrake 10.0 with no firewall. I can ssh gateway . laptop. I can s

RE: Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Tomas Tudja
German, you are right... Now I see, what is the prob;lem here :> To everybody: a didn't want to be sarcastic or "too smart"... It is just my english (only 3 months of practice), so sorry guys Communication in my native language is a bit different like in english, but I am working hard on it Toma

Re: [newbie] Aterm

2004-08-05 Thread Job Evers
Eterm is a pretty robust alternative you might want to take a look at. "Eterm -O --buttonbar 0 --cursor-text-color white --shade 50 -c gray -f white -b gray" That gets me what I need at least On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Marc Hultquist wrote: MH: Does anyone know atem really well ? I am basically trying

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Tomas Tudja
Sorry, wrong signature... Actually my address at summer time is Tomas Tudja Huskova 65 04023, Kosice Slovak Republic Or Tomas Tudja Orgovanova 323 076 01, Zemplinske Hradiste Slovak Republic Now you can wonder :> And please stop this silly flamewar BTW, You can find out that I am not a rocke

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 05 August 2004 10:39 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Bryan, I've made a floppy version of dban, but tell me if I accidentally left it in my A drive and booted up on it, it wouldn't atually wipe my entire drive without asking me first would it ? As far as I kn

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Tomas Tudja
Mhm... That's too much for me... Maybe I need to stop sitting at my computer... You was speeking deeply to my soul... I think I'll kill myself... :> Are really everybody upset because of me? I just wanted to demonstrate the topic. I though it will be a good help for the people to understand the pr

Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?

2004-08-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Len Lawrence wrote: When I first connected to broadband using DHCP, BlueYonder would change my hostname every few days, which meant my having to edit the /etc/hosts file by hand (names like dhcp285), but some time ago this changed and the hostname has remained fixed at x1-6-00-05-5d-47-9a-4a ever

Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?

2004-08-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Kevin Ferguson wrote: Hi Len With blueyonder your ip will be dynamic, so it changes regular unless you specify you want a static one, not sure how much it cost though. the Dhcp manages your clients automatically locally on your network. How far have you progressed then with the router? Are th

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
German Guillot wrote: I'll check out xauth, though it seems a bit of overkill to have two X servers running, just for this little toy. It'll teach me something new, though. I changed my run level to 3 and logged in again. I see that I own a process called xinit, but top shows me that X is run by ro

[newbie] seti@home install/setup

2004-08-05 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Okay, I'm feeling even denser than usual today. Could someone point me to a good, comprehensive site for all things SETI under Linux? I know it's a CLI version, and there are various monitoring programs for it (including gkrellm, which is what I'd lik

Re: [newbie] Program to convert wma files into mp3 ones

2004-08-05 Thread Paul Smith
Job Evers wrote: On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Paul Smith wrote: PS: obu wrote: PS: >> Is there some program to convert wma files into mp3 ones? PS: >> PS: > #!/bin/bash PS: > mplayer "$1" -ao pcm -vc null -vo null PS: > lame --r3mix audiodump.wav "`basename "$1" .wma`.mp3" change the options on lame. Take

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-05 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 02:12, German Guillot wrote: > Well, damnit. No, you're not missing anything, but I obviously am. I > have a little script just like yours. I create a crontab with a task > for it. It just doesn't work. Other scripts with other commands (cat, > for example) are run by cron fr

Re: [newbie] How to set up a wireless router?

2004-08-05 Thread Kevin Ferguson
Len Lawrence wrote: On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 11:17:31 +0100 Kevin Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 02:40:20 +0100 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Mate I'm with blueyonder, register your wireless router on blueyonder, before you use it. I guess you

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-05 Thread German Guillot
On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 10:47:57 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The display manager will be running as root. But when a suer logs in, > it turns ownership over th the user. If you use run level 3, then the > user owns the X server from the start. You can also do things like

RE: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-05 Thread Bill Shirley
Do you set and export the DISPLAY variable? >From an xterminal run: env | grep DISPLAY to see what it is set to. I would think that if you do startx as root then the crontab would have to be root's. Also, if your cron job fails you should get email. Check that for errors. Test your script.

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Bill Shirley wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of German Guillot Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 9:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 08:29:16 -0400, Bill Shirley <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-05 Thread German Guillot
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 01:42:10 +1000, Stephen Kühn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok...just for giggles and grins, I just created a small script to fire > up Galeon (/home/stephen/bin/start_galeon) :: > > > #!/bin/bash > > /usr/bin/galeon http://freshmeat.net > > exit > > > Fired up kcron as my

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Tony S. Sykes
I think it was from a real data recovery company, talking about the DOD standards. Digging deep in my memory (ouch!) I think it is the residual charge in the bit can be available for a long time, so formatting does not change it completely, the overwriting it clears something and changes the cha

RE: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-05 Thread Bill Shirley
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of German Guillot > Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 9:29 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user > > > On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 08:29:16 -0400, Bill Shirley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Bill Shirley wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# cat testg #!/bin/sh export DISPLAY=:0.0 echo $DISPLAY /usr/bin/galeon #/usr/bin/mozilla Works for me! Bill Are you running X as the same user? If user bill logs in to the DM, or runs startx, user joe can not connect to the X server without a LOT

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 05 August 2004 11:36 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > I can't remember where I read it, but the securest way to wipe the data is > to put random data in each bit, you need to do this numerous time to get to > each standard, one standard is 30 another 60 times (not sure the correct > amount of

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
German Guillot wrote: On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 20:22:44 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bill Shirley wrote: Try putting in the script: DISPLAY=:0.0 at the top after #!/bin/sh HTH, Bill This only works if you are running the X server. If another user is running X, yo

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 05 August 2004 10:39 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Bryan, > I'm made a floppy version of dban, but tell me if I accidentally left it > in my A drive and booted up on it, it wouldn't atually wipe my entire > drive without asking me first would it ? As far as I know, it would not. T

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-05 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 01:20, German Guillot wrote: > On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 01:06:05 +1000, Stephen Kühn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Maybe I walked in late in the thread here - but I'm trying to NOW figure > > out what y'all tryin to do - is it that you want cron to open a browser > > for you fo

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Tony S. Sykes
I can't remember where I read it, but the securest way to wipe the data is to put random data in each bit, you need to do this numerous time to get to each standard, one standard is 30 another 60 times (not sure the correct amount of times). The reason you use random data is due to the way the b

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-05 Thread German Guillot
On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 01:06:05 +1000, Stephen Kühn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I walked in late in the thread here - but I'm trying to NOW figure > out what y'all tryin to do - is it that you want cron to open a browser > for you for a specific URL and that's all? Yep, that's it. I'm startin

Re: [newbie] Program to convert wma files into mp3 ones

2004-08-05 Thread Job Evers
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Paul Smith wrote: PS: obu wrote: PS: >> Is there some program to convert wma files into mp3 ones? PS: >> PS: > #!/bin/bash PS: > mplayer "$1" -ao pcm -vc null -vo null PS: > lame --r3mix audiodump.wav "`basename "$1" .wma`.mp3" change the options on lame. Take a look at: http

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-05 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 00:54, German Guillot wrote: > On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:18:36 -0500, Hoyt Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You might try: > > '/usr/bin/galeon weather.com' (or whatever site you want) > > Yeah, tried that too. I think I've tried everything short of changing > security s

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-05 Thread German Guillot
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:18:36 -0500, Hoyt Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You might try: > '/usr/bin/galeon weather.com' (or whatever site you want) Yeah, tried that too. I think I've tried everything short of changing security settings in the X server, but I'm not going down that route. Anyw

[newbie] Subject "No Subject"

2004-08-05 Thread Hoyt Bailey
Using kmail with 2.6.3-7. I just tried to create a new folder to insert an email. The clicking on Folder generated a Sig 11 crash of kontact. When I restarted kontact the email I was interested in had become blank with No Subject Unkown Wed Dec 312 1759 1969. This is not the first time I h

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 05 August 2004 07:25 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: Should read DOD. I think that NSA promulgates standards which then become published DoD standards but the NSA itself, doesn't publish standards. For anyone that actually wants a quick Linux tool to do this, see: htt

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-08-05 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 05 August 2004 08:32, C. Tresenriter wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:52:00 -0500 > > Hoyt Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have simular problems. One you didn't mention when you hit the > > play button and any other button then nothing works the gui > > remains on screen and canno

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Dobrescu Mihai
Hello, I hate to reply to this. I would be concerned of my data security if I'd have been NASA. But I'm not. If you want to erase some data, try a wipe! I'm sad to see somebody confusing open source (== open minded) to illegal activities. I've never imagined somebody so fly... Being m$ competitiv

RE: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Tony S. Sykes
I have to wonder why a rocket scientist would post his full home address on a mailing list? Rather than just the area. It's just begging for junk mail sign up's. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Charlie Mahan > Sent: Thursday, August 05,

[newbie] Batch rename .ogg

2004-08-05 Thread Lee Wiggers
I just dl'ed a flock of tunes from a site in .ogg format. All have proper tags. Title, artist, album. A sample filename: 02-the_first_ladies_of_jazz_-_those_sweet_words_192_ogg_cbr.ogg Does anyone know of a prog to rename a batch of .ogg's such as this to: NorahJones - ThoseSweetWords.ogg or

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On August 5, 2004 00:31:12, Tomas Tudja wrote: > Hello, > Format, fill with big files (movies) until there will be no space left > and format again. If electron microscope guys (probably there are much > cheaper ways to read data from disk only twice f

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-05 Thread German Guillot
On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 20:22:44 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Shirley wrote: > > > Try putting in the script: > > > > DISPLAY=:0.0 > > > > at the top after #!/bin/sh > > > > HTH, Bill > > > This only works if you are running the X server. If another user is > runni

Re: [newbie] mdk specific rpm site ?

2004-08-05 Thread Thereidos
Dnia czw 5. sierpnia 2004 08:20, Marc Hultquist napisał: > I remember awhile back there was a site mentioned on the list which stored > mdk specific rpms and source rpms ? Can someone please send me the url ? or > a url of a similar site ? > > Kind Regards I don't know what exactly you have on you

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-05 Thread German Guillot
On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 20:14:21 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or you script can start something like: > > #!/bin/bash > # > PATH=/bin;/usr/bin;/home/ger/bin > > Another way you can do it is to define variables for all your commands > at the start of the script, and then us

Re: [newbie] Cron doesn't run for user

2004-08-05 Thread German Guillot
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:57:55 -0400, Bill Shirley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try putting in the script: > > DISPLAY=:0.0 > > at the top after #!/bin/sh Thanks for the suggestion. It desn't work, though, unfortunately. Germán. Want to buy you