Re: [newbie] kmail (was: No Subject)

2001-10-25 Thread Dan Ray
. This is the beauty of Open Source, after all; I could get myself a copy with that function hacked into it.. -- Dan Ray Director Custom Applications Triangle Research, Inc. http://www.triangleresearch.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] kde2.2 broke Konqueror Flash plugin

2001-08-28 Thread Dan Ray
that I maybe didn't get? -- Dan Ray Director Custom Applications Triangle Research, Inc. http://www.triangleresearch.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] apache!

2001-08-21 Thread Dan Ray
. If that file exists, the server won't build an automatic index, but will instead show your (empty) default page. -- Dan Ray Director Custom Applications Triangle Research, Inc. http://www.triangleresearch.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Configure, make and make install MPlayer problems

2001-07-23 Thread Dan Ray
Roman-- Well, I can't for life of me figure out why the MPlayer tar ball is not configuring. Has any one else been succesful in configuring, make and make install MPlayer in LM8? I had a couple of problems, which I fixed, and then it configured and installed great. Say more about is not

[newbie] What's kapm-idled?

2001-07-22 Thread Dan Ray
Every now and then gkrellm reports that my CPU is totally pegged for some length of time. I see from 'top' that the culprit is something called 'kapm-idled'. Guessing from the second word of that, I'd say it's a daemon that's preventing kapm from running while the machine is in use. So, two

Re: [newbie] AVI player in mdk8?

2001-07-20 Thread Dan Ray
--help' for the exact syntax of that. The resulting binary executes fine, despite the admonition not to bother sending bug requests. -- Dan Ray Director Custom Applications Triangle Research, Inc. http://www.triangleresearch.com

Re: [newbie] GeForce2 MX

2001-07-19 Thread Dan Ray
out once I get home and put my hands on the machine. So hopefully my luck will be better than yours was. I'll be sure and post any successes I have and the steps that led to it! -- Dan Ray Director Custom Applications Triangle Research, Inc. http://www.triangleresearch.com

Re: [newbie] GeForce2 MX

2001-07-19 Thread Dan Ray
the conflicting components, and reinstall NVIDIA_GLX? Any other thoughts or opinions? -- Dan Ray Director Custom Applications Triangle Research, Inc. http://www.triangleresearch.com

[newbie] Picky sound questions

2001-07-17 Thread Dan Ray
of winamp with no problem. Under Linux, though, when I close XMMS, I get all the sounds queued up since XMMS got its lock on the sound card. These are both more like annoyances than actual complaints. Still, maybe there's an easy fix... Thanks! -- Dan Ray Director Custom Applications Triangle

Re: [newbie] Making shutdown indiscriminant

2001-07-13 Thread Dan Ray
shutdown or reboot the machine remotely. If it was a production server I don't think I'd be real happy about that... sudo is sort of tricky to set up, but I found that if I take my time with the docs, it all came clear. -- Dan Ray Director Custom Applications Triangle Research, Inc. http

Re: [newbie] .htaccess ?

2001-07-13 Thread Dan Ray
, though, it makes more sense to put the contents of your .htaccess file into this directive. Use of per-directory config files has significant performance ramifications. See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#allowoverride for more about the AllowOverride . -- Dan Ray Director Custom

Re: [newbie] deleting contents of a file

2001-07-10 Thread Dan Ray
with this the permissions are preserved. So maybe he's seeing something we're not. -- Dan Ray Director Custom Applications Triangle Research, Inc. http://www.triangleresearch.com

Re: [newbie] deleting contents of a file

2001-07-10 Thread Dan Ray
both be simple stdout redirects into oldfile? Shouldn't both have the same effect on oldfile's permissions? -- Dan Ray Director Custom Applications Triangle Research, Inc. http://www.triangleresearch.com

Re: [newbie] deleting contents of a file

2001-07-10 Thread Dan Ray
Jan-- echo -n myfile this tells 'echo' not to follow the (empty) string with a newline, so the resulting file is zero length. Aha! Just what I didn't know I was looking for! This command is my new nominee for best way to do it. -- Dan Ray Director Custom Applications Triangle Research

Re: [newbie] deleting contents of a file

2001-07-09 Thread Dan Ray
that in some fonts... -- Dan Ray Director Custom Applications Triangle Research, Inc. http://www.triangleresearch.com

[newbie] Keyboard repeat rate?

2001-07-02 Thread Dan Ray
How would I adjust the repeat rate of my keyboard? I've found that in KDE's configuration, under peripherals there's a keyboard config program where I can turn OFF key repeat, but what I really want is for it to just repeat after a longer delay. Any pointers? -- Dan Ray Director Custom

Re: [newbie] ATI Rage 128 freezes X?

2001-06-26 Thread Dan Ray
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Re: [newbie] ATI Rage 128 freezes X?

2001-06-26 Thread Dan Ray
On Tuesday 26 June 2001 12:50 pm, I wrote: Tom--   DefaultColorDepth 24 Have you tried setting 16 bpp? I don't have an ATI card, but most cards work best with 3d accel if you use 16. For many like 3DFX cards, it's a must. I'll try it, thanks. That did it! Thank you! -- Dan