Re: [newbie] Modem is busy

2000-10-16 Thread Austin L. Denyer
I have problem to make my connections to the internet to work using my portable PC. Each time I launch kppp, I have the following message : "Sorry, the modem is busy" What is that ? I've never had any problem with my other computers running Linux, but it's the first time I install Linux

Re: [newbie] Power Save

2000-10-12 Thread Austin L. Denyer
I want to use the PowerSave - functions my machine got, but do not know any programs / configurations who let me do it. Do anybody know about such things? I have a Compac Presario 5726, with ability to "sleep" when it run Windows, si I hope there is anything like it in Linux. I have an

Re: [newbie] Release date for 7.2

2000-10-10 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Why don't we just wait for a few more days and . What is "a few days more"? When can we expect it? I have to grin about this all... Why is everyone so eager to get to the next generation of Mandrake? Are so many people so unsatisfied with the current version? I'm happily chugging

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-07 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Of course it is. I also noticed (but not sure yet) that vs. 3 in Linux is faster than 2.4 in Linux. That's surprising. Seti's own figures state that 3.0 takes 40% longer than 2.4, as it does a lot of additional processing. Regards, Ozz.

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-07 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Strike one for bloatware, I agree. I once set up a 50-user stock control system running on a low-end 486 with 16Mb RAM with Novel NetWare 3.12... I know about that too. And indeed. Netware 3.12 would run on that, but not on much less. Never underestimate Novel NetWare. I used

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-07 Thread Austin L. Denyer
That's surprising. Seti's own figures state that 3.0 takes 40% longer than 2.4, as it does a lot of additional processing. Hmm... that is strange indeed. This because I am getting more and more convinced that it is at least not slower. And I checked, I was running the i686 version of 2.4

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-06 Thread Austin L. Denyer
With klseti, click on the + button to add an instance. It will show you a dialog box. Click the browse button, and select the directory that setiathome is running in. Click OK, and give it a name in the box over the path. Click OK again, et voila! Thanks, Your instructions were

Re: [newbie] KPPP and No Dialtone

2000-10-06 Thread Austin L. Denyer
The commas would not help. The problem is that when there are messages waiting, the dialtone changes. The modem does not recognize this other dialtone, hence the 'no dialtone' error. Adding x3 to the modem init string should work - that tells the modem not to wait for a dialtone. Regards,

Re: [newbie] KPPP and No Dialtone

2000-10-06 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Ozz, I put in the X3 in the initialization string, still no dialtone when I have a message on voice mail. Should it be Capital X or lower case x for the X3? I am trying to find out from Cox Cable if there is a nother way to signal voicemail other than the stutter tone. What is your current

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-06 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Strike one for bloatware, I agree. I once set up a 50-user stock control system running on a low-end 486 with 16Mb RAM with Novel NetWare 3.12... I know about that too. And indeed. Netware 3.12 would run on that, but not on much less. Never underestimate Novel NetWare. I used to have

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-06 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Hey Ozz et al, I am running seti-stuff too since quite a while. I got the version 3 software just this morning, and it is running no problem. I got the i686 which is very compliant with my Pentium-II/400. A work unit is completed in abour 12 hours here. Envy!! I'm running AMD-K6/2-380

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-06 Thread Austin L. Denyer
I am running seti-stuff too since quite a while. I got the version 3 software just this morning, and it is running no problem. I got the i686 which is very compliant with my Pentium-II/400. A work unit is completed in abour 12 hours here. I think they made a mistake by slowing down the

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-06 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Out of interest, how long are the work units taking on your machine? Mine is a little under 20 hours on an AMD K6-2 at 380Mhz. I am sure that many manual writers are competing in some form of obfuscation project... Happy ET hunting! Regards, Ozz. The AMD K6-2 at 400 Mhz is

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-05 Thread Austin L. Denyer
I run Seti@home constantly and there's nothing wrong at all. Mine is an AMD K6-233. So what's your point? What I'd like to know is the command that he's using to start the program. Everything about Seti@home comes ready to go right out-a the box. All you have to do is untar it to it's home

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-05 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Well, my first install from the Seti@home website was still in the files. That may be why I was getting a core dump. Not sure. Anyway, accessing the file by using the correct path and adding "-nice N " the whole shebang started up again and is currently sitting at "baseline smoothing". I

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-04 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Need some help from the list from users of Setiathome. I am trying to start in a new file and use the -nice 19 command and also the -verbose. I get all the way to the point where it asks where my computer is located and I enter "3" for home(without the quotes of course) and I get a core

Re: OT [newbie] Off-topic posts.

2000-10-03 Thread Austin L. Denyer
I know z80 asm. I need my reference chart of course, but I have writen programs. Anyone here managed to get windows 95 to run on an amstrad with a z80 and 64k ram? I have. I had to rewrite the gui part so it would run. There were no drives, but it did have a working start menu. It used a

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-03 Thread Austin L. Denyer
The only use I found for self modifying code was speed. example in basic: do a=key if a=27 then beep:end If a=64 then beep:beep:end if a=65 then beep:beep:beep:end loop change to: 11 change_next_line_to "goto "+key+1 goto 11 28 beep:end 65 beep:end 66 beep:end If you can

[newbie] Re: OT assembler [was Antique systems]

2000-10-03 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Holy hanna Ozz! come on man! talk more assembler to me! maybe I'm sick, but I really like that language. First of all, it is only fair to say that it is a LOONG time since I last used assembler. Like, 13 years ago... Secondly, I feel that if we continue this assembler thread (which I'm

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-03 Thread Austin L. Denyer
I was doing work on an IBM System/3 in those days, as well as on an old Burrought B-7700. The Burroughs could only be fed through punched cards (always racing to get the optical reader which was 40 times faster than the mechanical one! ;-) for the average user, there were no keyboard

Re: [newbie] Long wait times when starting applications

2000-10-03 Thread Austin L. Denyer
I read MANY places, including the manual with Mandrake that you should set SWAP file to the ammount of ram on your system. SInce you got 128 ram you should have it set to 128. Not sure if that is the problem. But apps load fine for me and i got 256 ram with swap set to 256 Interesting.

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-02 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Unfortunately for you, most companies today, and even Linux developers, would not like such practices among their programmers. For the same reason that a good programmer comments their code. Are you always going to be there to fix problems? I don't think so. 9 out of 10 developers would

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-01 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Ha! I know tricks like that one too! I had a machine like that, and wrote a simple but functioning accounting system in it :) One of my colleagues once tried to write a program to calculate the performance characteristics of large-bore oil hoses, and ran out of memory on a 16k machine. I

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-01 Thread Austin L. Denyer
For an example of tight (and I mean TRICKY TIGHT! ) aquire and reverse engineer the original Microsoft BASIC. What had been around 48K on the PDP-11 was packed into a 4k ROM. A trully brilliant bit of optimising of existing code segments. Neat! My record was re-writing a set of

Re: [newbie] Hackers/crackers

2000-10-01 Thread Austin L. Denyer
I have a scale: Hacker elite advanced hacker good hacker Basic hacker script kiddie who knows their a script kiddie-I am here, boardering basic hacker. Adv script kiddie Script kiddie Wannabe Of course, those rate only skill. They say nothing about how the hacker/cracker

Re: OT [newbie] Off-topic posts.

2000-09-30 Thread Austin L. Denyer
be moderated. If not then anything that even vaugely relates should be fine. When people start telling others what they can or can't talk about then things just go to hell w/ flame wars etc. A new list is great but minor snip Maybe I'm missing the obvious here, but what the fsck is

Re: OT [newbie] Off-topic posts.

2000-09-30 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Thank you Ozz...very well put. I'm glad that someone has finally said it and it couldn't have been said any better. I live in the States and I definately don't want to hear about this crap on the list. It's all ya hear about in the stinkin news all the time. Enough already! Thanks for the

Re: [newbie] Telneting

2000-09-30 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Sorry for butting in with a dumb question, isn't a hacker, like you said, a very passionate and devoted programmer - BUT Isn't a *cracker* is someone who breaks into computers maliciously? Please update my database if the info I typed is not correct. You are correct Sir. I just

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-09-30 Thread Austin L. Denyer
and the old blue alphanumeric vacuum fluorescent display using hex code, cpu instrucitons, accumulator register, BC register, and all those other little wierdo registers. then we moved on to using CPM. then dos--eww. On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Austin L. Denyer wrote: It also helps

Re: OT [newbie] Off-topic posts.

2000-09-29 Thread Austin L. Denyer
So run your email through a filter before downloading it? Combine that with serious bitching at your phone company for being overpriced. For a start, I would have to download at least the headers (which are often several k) in order to filter. Secondly, International roaming rates are

Re: OT [newbie] Off-topic posts.

2000-09-29 Thread Austin L. Denyer
No you don't. Just set your email host up with the filters you want. It's not at all hard unless you have a retarded server. *shrugs* Which is fine if your ISP allows it (I do not have my own permanent mail server yet). It's not just about OT messages. If a list is moderated then fine let

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Okay I have been watching this thread and I just can't resist :-) Let's all join forces (and I do believe that there is a sufficient number of us) and everyone vote (write-in ballot) for the Gov of Minnesota -- Jesse "The Body" Ventura giggle Trust me, no one thought he was going to win

Re: [newbie] Seti@HOME

2000-09-28 Thread Austin L. Denyer
(*) I surely hope they will find some inteligence out there: there must be inteligence SOMEWHERE in the universe, and there surely ain't much of it on this planet ;-) With the current level of sh!t about politics going on here, I'm beginning to wonder if you'd find much of it on this list

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Austin L. Denyer
snip a whole load of sh!t about politics with zero relevance to the list You guys are fixing to become the latest additions to my draconian kill file. CUT IT OUT ALREADY!! Regards, Ozz.

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Please. Stop this thread. Or go to egroups and start a mailing list for this. I just pulled mail and deleted over 25 messages about this haggle over politics. I don't care about it. Would you like to have 25 messages per day about the traffic problems in our country? Paul, from

Re: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100]

2000-09-28 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Thanks for the info! That's an interesting concept. I just went to the Linux Expo here in Brazil and they had a great talk by the founder of the LTSP on diskless terminals. Seems like it has a bunch of advantages, particularly in the coprporate/educational setting. -Paul The biggest

Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question

2000-09-22 Thread Austin L. Denyer
I have ME on one of the computers here and it sucks something fierce. I had in mind three reasons for using WinME: 1. The new mpg encoding 2. Driver updates so I wouldn't have to search around for them 3. The registry roll back feature. It just completely fails on 3 -- I get a damn

Re: [newbie] Is it my imagination or------

2000-09-22 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Netscape has some nasty memory leaks especially for people who use forms a lot (web mail) and on systems without enough memory it can, and often does flood all avail memory until the box crashes. Tell me about it. The last time NutScrape crashed on me it locked X tighter than a duck's a$$

Re: [newbie] Typing special characters

2000-09-21 Thread Austin L. Denyer
On UK keyboards it is the second ALT key (the one to the right of the space bar). Sorry, didn't explain it very well - I'll try again: The 'ALT' key to the left of the space bar is just called 'ALT'. The 'ALT' key to the right of the space bar is called 'ALT-GR'. This on a UK keyboard. My

Re: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many ap ps?)

2000-09-20 Thread Austin L. Denyer
This will normally happen if you select packages that exceed the disk space you have ... 100% = all of the selected packages if its less that 100% you did not have enough room to install everything ... it tells you right on that screen =) Even if you DO have room, it doesn't

Re: [newbie] Supported PCMCIA cards?

2000-09-20 Thread Austin L. Denyer
As i'm considering purchasing a laptop i'd like to know if there's a list of PCMCIA cards supported by Linux. Try www.linhardware.com. They list hardware (including PCMCIA) known to work with Linux, along with links to any additional drivers you may require. Regards, Ozz.

Re: [newbie] partition plan -- workable?

2000-09-19 Thread Austin L. Denyer
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Austin L. Denyer wrote: Of course, the biggest problem with these new big drives (I see that Hitachi are selling 72Gb drives on buy.com for $146, and I've seen 80Gb (I think Maxtor)) is that although one can buy the drives cheaply enough, how the heck does one back

Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question

2000-09-19 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Quick question. I am running 7.1 on a 4gig hard drive. I would like to add another hard drive and install Windows ME on the other one. Can I dual-boot between two hard drives?? If so, has this created any problems? You CAN dual-boot between two different hard drives. However, Windoze expects

Re: [newbie] Let me go!!!!

2000-09-18 Thread Austin L. Denyer
gee whiz guys.. I keep telling you to not give these directions out... if they want off of this list, they (really I sware, and I look just like Bill Gates, so every one should believe me) just send 10 dollars (US) to every one who posts within 24 hours (better make that 48 hours) of your

Re: [newbie] windows porting question

2000-09-18 Thread Austin L. Denyer
I have a few programs that are windows based that I wish to run in linux. Is there any easy way to run them in or port them over to linux. Wine might do it, depending on the application. Otherwise, VMWare can run virtually ANY windoze package - Windoze actually runs in a window on your

Re: [newbie] hdd space

2000-09-18 Thread Austin L. Denyer
How can I get the amount of hdd spaced used and how much is left on my machine(multiple hdd's) Try df - this shows usage/free by partition. For example, this is the output of df on my laptop: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda9 1.7G 1.1G 497M 70% /

Re: [newbie] Manual

2000-09-18 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Does anyone have power_base-en-A4.ps.gz off the page: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fdoc.php3 that can email it to me? Whenever I try to download it, the connection drops down to 0 Kb/s and sits for hours. Where would you like it mailing to? I see that you are using a yahoo address -

Re: [newbie] vmware

2000-09-18 Thread Austin L. Denyer
First off I would like to say to all that I appreciate the responce from my posting in regards to the windows program porting. The general concesses was that vmware is the best. anyway I was just wondering if there was a eval version included on the mandrake 7.1 cd or do I have to buy to

Re: [newbie] partition plan -- workable?

2000-09-18 Thread Austin L. Denyer
What a hard drive. That got my thinking of the old 500mi drive I had to use to build a new system recently. And even the old 40 meg drives I have. And look at what one had to pay for them back then. It wasn't that many years ago I was paying $150 for a 40Mb drive. I upgraded to a (then

Re: [newbie] Network StarOffice Install

2000-09-17 Thread Austin L. Denyer
When I downloaded the StarOffice 5.2 from Sun, the download was named "so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin". When I executed this, the installation was a local installation. I have several users of the workstation. The StarOffice instructions were to run "Setup /net" from the CD-Rom for a network

Reverse engineering (was Re: [newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100)

2000-09-17 Thread Austin L. Denyer
IBM was trying to do something similar, but Phoenix reverse engineered (first successful (in court) reverse engineering ever?) the motherboard BIOS chip. That act began a chain of events that resulted in PCs as we know them. Have any of you wondered about the "reverse engineering" clause in

Re: [newbie] scheda sonora (plus translation)

2000-09-17 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Ciao Iacopo. Non posso aiutarlo con il vostro problema tecnico, ma ho tradotto il vostro alberino in inglese in moda da potere capire il resto della lista il vostro problema. Scusare mi Italiano - Io lavore in Italia per solo dieci meze - Io parlo solo un poco Italiano... To the rest of you

Re: [newbie] RE: seti

2000-09-15 Thread Austin L. Denyer
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Trevor Reynolds wrote: I don't do it graphically. I use a perl script called multiseti.pl. Its parameters let me do all I need; -status to show what it is doing -connect to send the processed units and get new ones -work to run seti on the units And it can be

Re: [newbie] RE: seti

2000-09-15 Thread Austin L. Denyer
If your Linux and Win machines are networked it is very easy to install and configure DCHP so that both machine can share your DSL conection. I also have a USB DSL modem and that is how I set-up my system. Unfortunately the machines are NOT networked. I wish they were. However, until

Re: [newbie] RE: seti

2000-09-15 Thread Austin L. Denyer
I'll take a look at the scripts from the site and see if I can decypher what's going on in them, then let you know. Mark Thanks - much appreciated. Regards, Ozz.

Re: [newbie] RE: seti

2000-09-15 Thread Austin L. Denyer
The script I use is something I downloaded at www.linuxapps. Just search for multiseti and it is bound to show up. If not, let me know and I will send it over to you. Ok, I went to www.linuxapps.com and could only find something called mseti - a tcl script. The other thing is, how the blazes

Re: [OT] [newbie] Napster Server IP Address Wanted

2000-09-15 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Sorry, but I just couldn't resist. I am 100% against this whole Napster thing. I think the whole mess is a HUGE copyright infringment. I don't know about other countries, but in the UK I could take music CDs out from my local library, just like a book. Are they guilty of copyright

Re: [newbie] Star Office Network Install

2000-09-14 Thread Austin L. Denyer
When I downloaded the StarOffice 5.2 from Sun, the download was named "so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin". When I executed this, the installation was a local installation. I have several users of the workstation. The StarOffice instructions were to run "Setup /net" from the CD-Rom for a

Re: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100]

2000-09-14 Thread Austin L. Denyer
All this about Star Office got me curious, so I timed it: System: AMD K6-3, 400 Asus p5A-b RAM = 192 (64 + 128 ) HDA = WD 13.6GB HDB = WD 30.7GB SWAP = 128mb OS = SUSE 6.4 - "Practically Everything" option (HDA is almost full) So, from starting to move the cursor to the KDE panel icon

Re: [newbie] RE: seti

2000-09-14 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Ok, what you do is this: Install all the SETI files into their own directory. If you want the graphical version then from a terminal session within X run ./setiathome -graphics ./xsetiathome the -graphics tells it to format it's output for the graphical front end (xsetiathome). As Abe said,

Re: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100]

2000-09-13 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Linux is fast with 128 megs. It is much faster with 256 and when you put 384 in it really starts to cook. I imagine that a 'hammer with a gig of ram would pretty much do everything right as the thought to do it first crossed your mind. Imagine a world where X and netscape don't push

Re: [newbie] Canon BJC-6000

2000-09-13 Thread Austin L. Denyer
P.S.: Any Canon people out there reading this, please direct your flamethrowers at your marketing department. I'm sure your techs are smart enough to create the drivers, but marketing hasn't told management there's profit in Linux yet it seems. Tell me about it. I've got a Canon BJC-80.

Re: [newbie] Learning Linux?

2000-09-13 Thread Austin L. Denyer
As a fairly competent Windows user, what is the best method of learning Linux? Is it to just learn about performing tasks as they occur, (ie unzipping and installing programs etc) or to go through a book like "Linux for Dummies" for example chapter by chapter? All of the above. I would also

Re: [newbie] MS Linux

2000-09-13 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Thank you for posting both of your responses twice. I couldn't undersand the first time you said it, but the second time really cleared it up for me. Are you sure it was his fault? The list server has been randomly vomiting multiple copies of posts for months now... Regards, Ozz.

Re: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100]

2000-09-13 Thread Austin L. Denyer
you have my condolences Ozz. But hey, you can take your linux box with you where ever you go! I have to sit at home in front of my desk to use it. That's a definately worth it trade off. How long does it take you to boot StarOffice? I can go make a coffee while it loads on mine

Re: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100]

2000-09-13 Thread Austin L. Denyer
it actually takes about a minute. I've got a duron 600 machine with 256M of ram. envy It takes my machine 23 hours and 19 minutes to process a data block for seti but I only run seti in windows at the moment. Presumably it will be quite a bit faster in linux. You betcha! Regards, Ozz.

[newbie] Re: [newbie] Solicitar información

2000-09-13 Thread Austin L. Denyer
The mandrake lists are available in several different languages - you select which one when you subscribe via the website, although I did not see a Spanish one. I think the thing that irks most is that the guy states in his e-mail that he also speaks English and Italian. If he can speak English

[newbie] Re: [newbie] Solicitar información

2000-09-13 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Si usted puede entender inglés entonces porqué no POSTE en inglés - esto es una lista inglesa. Hay versiones de esta lista en otros lenguajes - cheque el website de Mandrake. Respeto, Ozz. (If you can understand English then why not POST in English - this is an English list. There are versions

Re: [newbie] Installing packages

2000-09-12 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Doug McGarrett wrote: You could still use RPM. From a terminal window: $ rpm -Uvh foo-2.0-1.i386.rpm --doug What's the Uvh for? U = Update v = verbose (tells you what it's doing) h = hash (prints hash marks as it runs so you can see it's working and not hung). Regards, Ozz.

Re: [newbie] 1 last question

2000-09-11 Thread Austin L. Denyer
I was just wondering if anybody knew of a mailer or place to post questions regarding samba if I can't get the answer out of the howto's or from this mailer. I believe there is a samba mailing list at www.samba.org. Regards, Ozz. PS - Please fix your line lengths...

[expert] Copying files from within iso9660 image to hard drive.

2000-09-11 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Hi Guys. I'm looking to install Mandrake 7.1 onto my laptop. In the absence of a CD burner, or enough disk space on my laptop, I decided to perform the following kludge: 1. Download the two iso images for Mandrake 7.1 from Mandrake's website onto my Wife's PC. 2. Boot her machine into Linux

[newbie] Reiser FS / ISO9660

2000-09-09 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Hi Guys. First of all I'd like to thank everyone who responded with their views regarding the Reiser FS. It was very informative, and has convinced me that I want it! Thanks again. Now, on to my next problem. In the absence of a CD burner, or enough disk space on my laptop, I decided to

[expert] Reiser FS

2000-09-08 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Hi Guys. After a painful experience with NutScrape crashing (again!) and taking X with it (requiring a hard reset that blew away half my system) I'm looking to re-install Mandrake. However, I'm gonna give 7.1 a try this time. What are the pros and cons of the Reiser FS? I know that it can

[newbie] LiLo Labels

2000-09-07 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Hi Guys. I have been making some cosmetic changes to my lilo settings, and could use a little help. Basically what I have done is this: I changed the lilo boot message to say "Where do you REALLY want to go today?" (this works) I then changed the labels from 'linux' to 'heaven', and 'win' to

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-09-06 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Or like my school useing a 700mhz system for word processing, and not allowing me to install some games. But they did let the pokénuts install a 5 minute recording of 'the pikachu song' to play on startup. I had a similar problem a few years ago with one of the companies I worked for. I

Re: [newbie] Modem Problems

2000-09-06 Thread Austin L. Denyer
I am also a fan of das blinkenlights. :) I even know what some of them are for, at least on my Modem Blaster. Scary! ;) LOL! I actually have the original "warning" that 'das blinkenlights' came from posted over my computer! I used to have it over my servers at work too... I'd better shut

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-09-05 Thread Austin L. Denyer
I mostly agree with you but =) i use CS from way back in the day when CS was for computer geeks, and when it was a good service. when i started on computers i never called a tech line once, got all my support thru CS, especially for Logitech (spelling?) products. it was great. i

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-09-04 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Why not? CompuServe can be made to run on an OS/2 box. If you look hard enough, there are even software that alow you to connect to AOL under linux, though I don't remember where. So, if people are writing software to allow AOL to run on a linux box, someone is/has probably developed

Fw: [newbie] ISP

2000-09-04 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Sorry - meant to send this to the list, but sent it personally instead. My apologies to Chris, who will now get two copies... You use what you have access to. Some of us don't have multipule choice regarding ISP's or cable TV for that matter. It took 7 years to get cable TV up here in

Re: [newbie] AGH!! Linux not ready for prime time (OS/2 user) OT

2000-09-02 Thread Austin L. Denyer
serious snipping Wow, you guys either have really cheap rent or expensive ram!!! Back then (early 90s) we were paying 80ukp per megabyte. This equates to about 130usd. My rent at that time was 220ukp (about 350usd) a month for a single bedroom apartment. Even today, prices for computer

Re: [newbie] AGH!! Linux not ready for prime time (OS/2 user) OT

2000-09-01 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Well, when I tried it (which was a good few years ago now) Windoze 3.1 was king, Win95 was still a dream project called Chicago, a college student called Linus Torvalds had just started releasing a (then very basic) Minix/unix clone on an unsuspecting world, and my 486 with 8megs of

[newbie] Parallel port upgrade of Linux.

2000-09-01 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Hi. I'm running Mandrake 7.0-2 on my laptop. I would like to upgrade to 7.1 for the improved USB support. My previous installation was done by downloading the files from their website onto a FAT32 partition (I have a Win98 dual boot) and doing a HD install. Unfortunately I do not have the

Re: [newbie] AGH!! Linux not ready for prime time (OS/2 user)

2000-08-31 Thread Austin L. Denyer
OS/2 was not as hot as it could have been. I seem to recall having to set up endless parameters in config settings for every application. This was WAY beyond the novice. Wow. I didn't have to do any of that. My workstation had it preinstalled, but I found settings were easier to

Re: [newbie] linux freezes when close laptop cover

2000-08-29 Thread Austin L. Denyer
My linux Madrake 7.1 freezes when I close my laptop. Is this normal? I thought Linux was ulta-stable. I have a Dell Inspiron 7500. I have an Atlas Flyer that used to give a black screen of death on opening the cover again. However, if I closed the cover and re-opened it, everything was

Re: [newbie] AGH!! Linux not ready for prime time (OS/2 user)

2000-08-29 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Jeff Malka wrote: Well...maybe Linux isn't for everyone, but then no OS is for everyone, IMO. Choice is good... It is, but for an OS to survive it must attract and "keep" a sufficient audience, Otherwise it might have the same fate as OS/2 which is also an excellent multiuser

Re: [newbie] X setiathome

2000-08-21 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Hi, Has anyone successfully installed the X setiathome screen. I have just downloaded the text version as I could not get the X version to work at all. I am using Mandrake 7.1 now. Thanks in advance Hi Andrew. I'm running Seti@Home myself. In order to run

[newbie] Dependency Problem

2000-08-17 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Re-set due to bounce... Hi. I am trying to install modutils-2.3.14-1.i386.rpm but I'm getting the following error: Dependency Problem: /sbin/is_depmod_necessary is needed by initscripts-4.72-13mdk Does anyone know where I can get this file? Regards, Ozz.

Re: [newbie] *delicate cough* - some constructive suggestions

2000-08-15 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Hi guys. I must admit that I am sending much of my e-mail from root. You are correct in that this is generally a Bad Thing. However, I am making so many changes to my system at the moment, many of which have to be done as root, that it is impractical to keep changing. Once I have got this

Re: [newbie] modem

2000-08-14 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Collin Schroeder wrote: hi my name is collin I am having trouble installing my us robotics 56k internal voince fax modem. when I use hardrake and detect isa devices it says that it detects a modem but under kppp I am unable to dial in. I know the modem uses com2 and irq3 under windows but

Re: [newbie] Wrong Kernel Reported

2000-08-14 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Cindy Bartorillo wrote: I just took a deep breath and updated my kernel from the 2.2.15-4 that came with my brand-new Mandrake 7.1 to the 2.2.16-9 that the Update feature said I needed. As recommended I downloaded the rpm's myself and installed them by hand. Everything seems to have gone

Re: [newbie] Wrong Kernel Reported

2000-08-14 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Cindy Bartorillo wrote: My lilo.conf reads: image=/boot/vmlinuz which is a link to the new kernel. So I figured I shouldn't have to change anything. Does lilo need to be rerun anyway? I'd really like to understand what goes on here. Yes, lilo does indeed need to be rerun anyway.

[Fwd: Undeliverable: Re: [newbie] modem]

2000-08-14 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Aug 2000 12:42:58 +0100 From: "Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Collin Schroeder wrote: hi my name is collin I am having trouble installing my us robotics 56k internal voince fax modem. when I use hardrake

[newbie] Mail Bounces

2000-08-14 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
I don't know about you guys, but my last few posts have been bouncing... Regards, Ozz.

Re: [newbie] *All coughed out*

2000-08-14 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
You are right - I made a typo for hda4 - that should have read hda5. It is hda4 that does not exist on this system. Thank you for pointing out my error. Regards, Ozz. "L. H. LOO" wrote: PMJI, I thought you should have a hda5 partition ? But I could be wrong, since I am such a "sin kek"

Re: [newbie] *All coughed out*

2000-08-13 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Romanator wrote: I must have spent half a day formatting and repartitioning. Windows 95, Windows 98 require a single DOS partition for M$ Setup to continue. I always make a single FAT partition just in case. For some bizarre reason, if you have multiple paritions with FAT32, Win98 will not

Re: [newbie] Freshmeat?

2000-08-11 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
It's freshmeat.net, NOT .com Regards, Ozz. A V Flinsch wrote: On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, you wrote: Works fine for me. Has anyone else besides me had trouble getting to Freshmeat.com the past few days? I have been having problems on and off for the past week. It seems to depend on

Re: [newbie] Install to a laptop without a CD drive?

2000-08-11 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Carjam wrote: Yes. It is expensive. It is also free, if you know where to look. Not sure how much it costs for an official copy. Interlink, however, is free. It comes with dos, and it is technically illegial to download or distribute it. But it is not for sale anywere, so your not doing

Re: [newbie] Linux resources online

2000-08-05 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Anybody else on this list old enough to remember when the "suits" didn't run things, and games/software were ported to every single platform, just because they could/it was neat? Circa '80's with names like Tandy, Atari, Amiga, etc, etc,... ;-) Oh yes - those were the days! nostalgia

Re: [newbie] Where is the serial number for Boot Magic installation?

2000-08-05 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Romanator wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Boot Magic but the installation is prompting me for a serial number. Look on the sticker. It came on a CD with: "The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook" I would like to check out this boot loader for my Linux MDK7.1 and WinNT4. Where can I

Re: [newbie] Star Office Install

2000-08-05 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Tim wrote: Hi all, Just spent FOREVER downloading Star Office 5.2 from the Sun site ("only" 100 MB ... dunno why it took all day. My ISP will blame net-congestion, Sun would blame my ISP ... in any case the file's here). Me too - I'm on a 56k modem ;-( It's a file ending in .bin I can

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