[newbie] mkisofs - data cd's with directories

ayer without having to jump all over the disc. -- -------- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMA

Re: [newbie] reading Troff document

uot;man" pages which are written in that format. Also handy would be something to view postscript output, such as "gv". Normally something like: $ groff -T ps | lpr would print one of these documents out. > --Angus -- -

Re: [newbie] How big is a block ?

bit more than you gave him. :) -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Games recommendation

if you like the French card game "mille bornes" :). > Julie -- -------- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMA

Re: [newbie] Games recommendation

ption. Right atlantik :) -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Help Compiling C++ with Emacs

ike if you did it from another terminal, more or less. So it's not really an emacs vs. c++ issue. What you'll need to do is to urpmi (install) the g++ compiler. > ~ Ayn -- ------------ David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] turbotax?

to make it work, but most of the time it would sit there and stare at me, reporting that acrobat was not found (it is there) but launching it anyway - where its initial splash screen would come up and then it would go to sleep. -- -----------

Re: Fwd: [newbie] first linux install: double clicking 'home' doesn't do anything

get when you try installing these files? > Michael, linux day one Welcome.. ! -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patte

Re: [newbie] Hardware Questions

ith a good and useful other distro to try for testing, or for other uses. > Amy -- -------- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [E

Re: [newbie] what to do with non-contiguous files?

em will be utterly devoid of fragmentation; for that, you probably want to switch to an even better filesystem, such as reiserfs. -- -------- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

although I do use Windows machines at work sometimes :(. And why are .com files even supported anyway? Those things are holdovers from CP/M, for god's sake. -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letti

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

to Mepis. In short, I'm very happy with it. -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

end to try and cram a great deal of functionalilty into that one cd-rom, and on Knoppix many of the binaries are compressed, which adds to the load time on slower machines. > -- ------------ David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

quick. http://www.mepis.com/ -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users

easier just to change clients? -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Mortgage Payment Calculation program?

ous spreadsheets, which is another option if you're a do it yourselfer. OpenOffice calc does have the functions you need (PMT, PV, FV, etc.) > Dennis M. linux user #180842 -- ------------ David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 20:11:37 +0200 Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is a Barbie-doll PC more childish than a Windows PC ? Not if it runs linux. :) -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks fo

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

t; ! (In fact, her Just don't get her one of those barbie-doll computers (hot pink color) :). (duck) > Kaj Haulrich. -- -------- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

t year of 9th grade / high school). Derive of course can be used for less advanced things too :). > Kaj Haulrich. -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

e I looked. The command line version is lisp-based and clunky as hell, but the X11 version is a little more polished.) > Kaj Haulrich. -- -------- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL P

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

rned out to be a three month wait. -- -------- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Trouble installing 10.1

anaged to get RC1 up and running a few weeks ago - and over the weekend I bittorented RC2 and the md5sums match and etc. -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3

reports I've read, installing X.org is not very difficult. But then it's in 10.1 >cooker. -- -------- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

The main reasons for doing this is flexibility and to have more space available. And, you don't need a swap partition on each drive, but balancing them across multiple drives may prove beneficial. -- David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] 10.1 rc1 mini cd install

aste the commands to a console. -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

hw do you have? Try www.linux.org/groups - you might find a linux user group near your area. (Mars excluded at the moment) :) -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

ust a few minutes. But I don't foresee that you would have difficulty just viewing pdf files from other sources. -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

"more" functionality -- in other words, this is builtin to "man". You can page back and forth, skip to a specific keyword or phrase in the page (/word) by using the / forward slash key. It's something I long ago got addicted to. -- ---------

Re: [newbie] W32.Netsky -> Linux really better protected than windows?

ack and watch your system fry." viruses should really be installed in /usr/local... > stephen kuhn - proprietor -- -------- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Cannot ping Mandrake 10

ily allow your system to be able to be ping'ed from outside your domain. > Brenda Bell > Henniker (the only one on earth) brrr. or maybe i'm a bit premature. :) -- ------------ David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] Burning Cue/Bin images

had a problem with the resulting images. For instance: # cdrdao write --device ATA:1,0,0 --driver generic-mmc --speed 4 videocd.cue The use of the cue file automagically puts the associated .bin file on the disk. -- ----------

Re: [newbie] Wireless driver

there :(. > Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Won't play MIDI

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:39:00 -0300 Josenildo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Em Dom, 2004-07-11 às 23:53, David E. Fox escreveu: > Let me know how it goes. I've done it before with 9.2 and it worked. > I'm about to do it again on 10.0 No go (at least for the fir

Re: [newbie] Won't play MIDI

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:39:00 -0300 Josenildo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=979 Thanks Jose! I will check it out... -- -------- David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] rosegarden - no sound

tmp]$ aconnect 129:0 65:1 Connection failed (Invalid argument) [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ aconnect 128:0 65:0 Connection is already subscribed We see from that the only thing it's taking is a connection from port 128 (i.e. rosegarden) to port 65 (the Wavetable) -- despite that, there is no s

Re: [newbie] rosegarden - no sound

acts. It's not 100% but I don't think I'll be able to do any better than this without checking for possible kernel problems. No matter what I do in Rosegarden, I can't seem to connect it with the onboard wavetable. -- -----------

Re: [newbie] Lasme probs

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 00:30:28 -0700 Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > has anyone gotten lame to work with the 2.6 kernal? lame runs fine here with an older 2.6.x-tmb kernel. What are the issues? -- ---- Dav

Re: [newbie] .bashrc

st to just do "source .bashrc". -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PRO

Re: [newbie] rosegarden - no sound

don't see anything that's related to synth in alsamixer nor in kmix. > -Frans (puzzled) -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [newbie] Mirror recommendations for urpmi?

gt; Regards; > Hoyt -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Mirror recommendations for urpmi?

e of those European mirrors. -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] rosegarden - no sound

32016 0 usbcore 107740 4 hid,uhci_hcd rtc13112 0 reiserfs 251508 4 sd_mod 16800 0 aic7xxx 202448 0 scsi_mod 116280 5 sg,sr_mod,st,sd_mod,aic7xxx -- ---------

Re: [newbie] Purchase enquiry

For what it's worth, I've had very good use from a Toshiba SD-1312 combo DVD/CD-RW drive. > Terry -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 10 without creating CDs

urse. That's how I got by without a CDRW and only one available disk in the 9.x days ;) - just loopback mount the other ISOs off of /mnt/cdrom somewhere, and then make urpmi point to those mount points as sources. > e. > > > -- ----------

Re: [newbie] New box No Joy

box is over three years old now, has never had a heating problem, thanks in part to the couple of large case fans it's got. > Lanman -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting

Re: [newbie] Video Editing and Video Capture software

your device - but you didn't mention what device you were indending to use. > -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files

me of assembly courses I took in the 80s where the instructor was quick to point out that a MOV instruction didn't go out and physically move the bits from point A to point B, but did a copy. Here, have some left over oxide from my hard disk :). --

Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files

egate the # of lines you get all but the last # of lines in the file, rather than the last # lines of the file. You probably then want to use 'head' for the first 17 lines and 'tail' for the last 17. -- ---------

Re: [newbie] Cinelerra

n source, the source is on sourceforge. Yes, it's plf for somewhat obvious reasons but anyone can get the source code and compile it, at least in theory. -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting m

Re: [newbie] Can I install my own program on my web host

me. > Aha. A bit more complicated that I thought ;). -- -------- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] burning an iso

#x27;t "official" more like CE. -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PR

Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files

r 'tail'. Those are designed for this purpose. sed will work too, but is more generalized. But, automation via a for loop is what you're looking at doing. i.e. 'head -17 file.htm' would print all but the first 17 lines of the file. > magnet -- --------

Re: [newbie] Can I install my own program on my web host

g to have some kind of Web interfacing to Octave? Or, are you just trying to install the program somewhere else? If the latter, it is possible, provided you have permission somewhere to write the package to. -- ------------ David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy

d simply type "linux single root=/dev/hdaX" (or something like that) at the linux prompt, when booting from CD. That functionality seems to be missing from Mandrake. -- ------------ David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] Cinelerra

MMX stuff :(. http://aleron.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/heroines/cinelerra-1.2.0-1.i386.rpm if you're interested :) You'll need an XFree compatibility library, but it'll let yuo know that. > Linus -- -

Re: [newbie] sound mixer for kde ISA card

d who had one of those Mozart sound system cards. We were able to get the sound card configuration working fine using sndconfig (after selecting some Compaq configuration, for some reason) and I think we tried kmix. > Todd -- --------

Re: [newbie] Can't preview files in KDE 3.2

what have you. > Jose Troncoso -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [newbie] CD problem

Microsoft Free missed a comma there somewhere :) -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [

Re: [newbie] cd mount problem

ilesystem, but ISO 9660 is the most common.) > Mike -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic pat

Re: [newbie] Cinelerra

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:02:07 -0700 "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's building now (found one dependency, needed texinfo) but may take > a while. 1ghz athlon here. :) (later) It built (you need gobs of RAM, as once I saw gcc taking up ~100 megs on

Re: [newbie] Debian's Apt-Get or Redhat's RPM ???

ecommended for instance with their KDE packages and such. > derek -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic

Re: [newbie] Cinelerra

uilding now (found one dependency, needed texinfo) but may take a while. 1ghz athlon here. :) -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic pat

Re: [newbie] Cinelerra

hat f.i. with gimp sometime back (. -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Debian's Apt-Get or Redhat's RPM ???

something called "synaptics" - I am not sure of the exact spelling, since a google search gave me mostly results for some touchpad device. -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Email Client

s for its keys. But for most stuff nowadays, I prefer using sylpheed, declawed :). I tried sylpheed claws and I didn't like it all that much. > Sir Robin -- ------------ David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] Sound

other files on your system. su to root, type 'draksound &' in a console, and you should then be able to set your card up. > Teilhard -- ------------ David E. Fox Th

Re: [newbie] Sound

's configured separately through draksound. -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [E

Re: [newbie] Sound

iki.fi or installable via your contrib sources. > Teilhard. -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magne

Re: [newbie] defraging

> stephen kuhn - owner -- -------- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Mozart Sound System / legacy

nn ooo uuu :) -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 Official, when?

e done, and then urpmi them up to final update status? -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] MP3 Burning

format" is just an iso9660 with a bunch of mp3 files stored. See my other post. If by any chance you've got a Sony player, I've been happily making and playing mp3 disks for it for nearly a year. > Mikkel -- --------

Re: [newbie] MP3 Burning

are some options which enable Rockridge / Joliet / whatever. -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic

Re: [newbie] XFree86-DRI

ight be on sourceforge, so I checked, and sure enough, it's there, but I could not get the CVS to work, because I could not determine any module names to check out, and the directions just say to co "modulename". -- --------

[newbie] Option "glx" missing

ssing. I'm running a Matrox Millenium II. -- -------- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMA

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted

is test passes, you're practically assured of a rock-solid system. If not, well, caveat emptor ;). ps. a new Mersenne prime has been found per that site. -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting

Re: [newbie] mp3gain

lly a lot of variation in volume on these types of things and mp3 -> wav -> normalize is not at least for this the best way to go as I'm burning the mp3s to data CDs, 100+ episodes at a time :). -- --

Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes

ening, have you done any experimenting with 'sox' and its 'earwax' option? -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic pat

Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes

y happy with it for two reasons - one, it's very fast, and two, it's the only method, so far that I've found, that'll decode variable-rate mp3s. -- -------- David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes

On Sun, 9 May 2004 17:01:37 -0400 Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > alt.binaries.sounds.ogg > alt.binaries.sounds.lossless > > But shhh. Too late; I overheard something. > Todd -- --------

Re: [newbie] My school board is considering moving to Linux!

le for) and customer service/escalation issues. -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

On Mon, 03 May 2004 02:46:17 +1000 Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 15:09, David E. Fox wrote: > If you're going to browse for binaries, don't use PAN; use > "getbinnews" instead. Not a hog at all. Very fast. Steve - great. I

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

et :), obviously their machines are going to have to keep up, regardless of which OS is being used. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

present, otherwise we wouldn't have to see boatloads of spam supporting something being the only "legal" dvd copying program around. -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

y did, I'd likely convert to ogg in a heartbeat, but since much of what I get is mp3 in the first place, I might as well keep it that way :). -- -------- David E. Fox T

Re: [newbie] X server crash

2 megs is simply not enough resolution to run 1024x768 at 32bpp. OTOH, 2 megs was enough for the big iron 370 I first learned programming on at the local community college. But it was kinda painful. -- ------------ David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] Reverse of diff

uot;(]//g' case "$1" in -i) shift sed " y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/ $strippunc " ${1+"$@"} | gawk -- "$awkscr" ;; *) sed "$strippunc&quo

Re: [newbie] Slow openoffice

s, generating a wierd error message I wasn't able to figure out. But at least in 10.0 final, it works. :) -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Thanks, re: OK...I need an external modem...any suggestions?

L, and my current motherboard has no ISA slots, so I tossed it out :(. > Laura -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns

Re: [newbie] Happy May Day!

Of course, May Day isn't really communistic, sort of a European version of our Labor Day, I suppose. > -- > JoeHill -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

I run inside KDE. > Miark -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Seti on Mandrake 10

ually 24/7 for nearly three years now. I get close to 3 results per day here on this old 1000 mhz clunker :). Really, there are no issues running it on Mandrake 10.0 vs. any other version. > Paul -- ------------ David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] SETI

give some unused > bandwidth? http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu is their main site, and the client software is available for download (incl. Linux clients of course). Getting set up is rather simple, just follow the prompts. JRH -- -----------

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

an outhouse anyway? Is it an Islam thing :)? -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Decent Audio Track Ripper?

fly. But speaking from experience, cdparanoia works just fine for me, and then I use lame to encode the tracks. > Christophe -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letti

Re: [newbie] Today's cooker updates and KDE 3.2.1 (bye bye)

on another thread on this group... > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic

Re: [newbie] rar compression software

> Job Evers -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on

Re: [newbie] Broken Shift Key

t my local LUG a few years ago - he said he washed the keyboard in the dishwasher, after taking it apart carefully of course, and then allowing it to dry, it worked... -- ------------ David E. Fox Tha

Re: [newbie] Broken Shift Key

re cheap) I used to have limited keyboard life too but luckily this cheap keyboard (Micro) purchased at Central Computer has lasted three years. It's filthy. :) The one I had before didn't even last a week :(. -- ----------

Re: [newbie] .mpv + .mpa to .bin + .cue

to appropriate CD-sized chunks, but that's not all that useful IMHO when the desired output is SVCD or VCD. > JoeHill -- David E. Fox Thanks for let

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