[newbie] mkisofs - data cd's with directories

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Re: [newbie] reading Troff document

to view postscript output, such as gv. Normally something like: $ groff -T ps filename | lpr would print one of these documents out. --Angus -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

, 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 Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Games recommendation

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Re: [newbie] Games recommendation

bornes :). Julie -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

Re: [newbie] How big is a block ?

. :) -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

Re: [newbie] turbotax?

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. -- David E. Fox

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

these files? Michael, linux day one Welcome.. ! -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Hardware Questions

for testing, or for other uses. Amy -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

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

want to switch to an even better filesystem, such as reiserfs. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

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Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

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 Thanks for letting me [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

with it. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

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

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 letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

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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 for letting me

Re: [newbie] Mortgage Payment Calculation program?

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 Thanks for letting me [EMAIL

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

of course can be used for less advanced things too :). Kaj Haulrich. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

her one of those barbie-doll computers (hot pink color) :). (duck) Kaj Haulrich. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns

Re: [newbie] Trouble installing 10.1

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]change magnetic

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

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

version is a little more polished.) Kaj Haulrich. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.3

cooker. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

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. -- David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

difficulty just viewing pdf files from other sources. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

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]change magnetic

Re: [newbie] 10.1 rc1 mini cd install

to a console. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

on each drive, but balancing them across multiple drives may prove beneficial. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL

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

really be installed in /usr/local... /pedant stephen kuhn - proprietor -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Cannot ping Mandrake 10

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 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: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=979 Thanks Jose! I will check it out... -- David E. Fox Thanks

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 first part) -- there is just nothing

Re: [newbie] rosegarden - no sound

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. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] rosegarden - no sound

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 sound output at all. -- David E. Fox

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? -- David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] .bashrc

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 22:22:29 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from that same console/shell window just type in bash. that starts another subshell. probably easiest to just do source .bashrc. -- David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] rosegarden - no sound

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Re: [newbie] Mirror recommendations for urpmi?

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Re: [newbie] Mirror recommendations for urpmi?

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Re: [newbie] Purchase enquiry

, 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]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] rosegarden - no sound

0 reiserfs 251508 4 sd_mod 16800 0 aic7xxx 202448 0 scsi_mod 116280 5 sg,sr_mod,st,sd_mod,aic7xxx -- David E. Fox Thanks

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 10 without creating CDs

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. -- David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] Video Editing and Video Capture software

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Re: [newbie] New box No Joy

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 me [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Cinelerra

for somewhat obvious reasons but anyone can get the source code and compile it, at least in theory. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change

Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files

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. -- David E. Fox Thanks

Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files

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 :). -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] burning an iso

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

complicated that I thought ;). -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

Re: [newbie] Cinelerra

.i386.rpm if you're interested :) You'll need an XFree compatibility library, but it'll let yuo know that. Linus -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy

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 Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

? 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 Thanks for letting me [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files

. 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 -- David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] sound mixer for kde ISA card

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 -- David E. Fox

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

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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 one source file). I installed

Re: [newbie] cd mount problem

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Re: [newbie] CD problem

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

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Re: [newbie] Email Client

nowadays, I prefer using sylpheed, declawed :). I tried sylpheed claws and I didn't like it all that much. Sir Robin -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

spelling, since a google search gave me mostly results for some touchpad device. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Cinelerra

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Re: [newbie] Cinelerra

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

Re: [newbie] Sound

. su to root, type 'draksound ' in a console, and you should then be able to set your card up. Teilhard -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change

Re: [newbie] Sound

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Re: [newbie] Sound

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[newbie] Mozart Sound System / legacy

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Re: [newbie] defraging

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Re: [newbie] XFree86-DRI

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. -- David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] MP3 Burning

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Re: [newbie] MP3 Burning

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 -- David E. Fox Thanks

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 Official, when?

to final update status? -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted

. If not, well, caveat emptor ;). ps. a new Mersenne prime has been found per that site. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns

[newbie] Option glx missing

. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- XF86Config

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

/escalation issues. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

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 -- David E. Fox

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

very fast, and two, it's the only method, so far that I've found, that'll decode variable-rate mp3s. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change

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

experimenting with 'sox' and its 'earwax' option? -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your

Re: [newbie] mp3gain

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 :). -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change

Re: [newbie] X server crash

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 Thanks for letting

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

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 Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

supporting something being the only legal dvd copying program around. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

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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 got it. Will give it a try. I just wish I

Re: [newbie] Reverse of diff

${1+$@} | gawk -- $awkscr ;; esac end script Sir Robin -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

, so I tossed it out :(. Laura -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

Re: [newbie] Slow openoffice

final, it works. :) -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

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

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

Re: [newbie] SETI

://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 -- David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] Seti on Mandrake 10

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 Thanks

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

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Re: [newbie] Happy May Day!

version of our Labor Day, I suppose. -- JoeHill -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Decent Audio Track Ripper?

experience, cdparanoia works just fine for me, and then I use lame to encode the tracks. Christophe -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change

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

Christi, Texas -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

Re: [newbie] rar compression software

than wait for someone more experienced to post the file and do this all over again? -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns

Re: [newbie] Re: Follow-Up: About your Internet connection problems

dead giveaway. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk

Re: [newbie] rar compression software

On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 10:24:20 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the latter, unrar with unrar e file.part01.rar Todd - thank you. It was that simple. Really it threw me for a loop. Todd -- David E. Fox

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

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Re: [newbie] Broken Shift Key

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 :(. -- David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] Broken Shift Key

washed the keyboard in the dishwasher, after taking it apart carefully of course, and then allowing it to dry, it worked... -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED

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