Re: [newbie] QUESTION

2001-04-27 Thread David E. Fox
mp at least for me that I probably will be able to hang onto this newer system for quite a long time. If I just went to a PIII I might have ended up going to something faster in six months or so. Of course, your needs might be different. --------

Re: [newbie] rebuild src.rpms with athlon optimizations

2001-04-27 Thread David E. Fox
.org. Please let me know what version of gcc is in Mandrake 8.0; I'd be interested in verifying whether it really knows about the Athlon or not. > Abe David E. Fox Thanks for lettin

Re: [newbie] Hey Ex Windows Users: How to read message log via clicking on Home

2001-04-27 Thread David E. Fox
at you want to do). Have you tried 'sndconfig'? ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---

Re: [newbie] Requesting hardware advice for AMD based machine. jrt

2001-04-27 Thread David E. Fox
k speeds. (Don't get a P4 - it's far too expensive and it's crippled, from what I've read on the techie sites. AMD should show a TV commercial where the blue guys are in casts.) :) But to characterize VIA chipsets as "death traps" is going overboard, IMHO. ---

Re: [newbie] Requesting hardware advice for AMD based machine. jr

2001-04-27 Thread David E. Fox
ink/fan, of course) so it's probably cool in there. It's usually a pretty hardworking box, running setiathome + other things all the time. > Mike ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting

[newbie] Re: [expert] 2D Video Card

2001-04-26 Thread David E. Fox
uper super high resolutions like 1600x1200 or whatever. ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---

Re: [newbie] Telnet

2001-04-21 Thread David E. Fox
hacks like PC Anywhere. > T. Holmes -------- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---

Re: [newbie] invoking bash scripts

2001-04-16 Thread David E . Fox
xt even though I'm not working right now :(. 'echo' is a built in for bash, but there is also a command 'echo'. According to the echo manpage, -n just doesn't give a trailing new line. --

Re: [newbie] Re: I want Micro-EMACS (fwd)

2001-04-16 Thread David E. Fox
> Len Lawrence @ The Thistle Foundation ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---

Re: [newbie] Tape backup

2001-04-15 Thread David E. Fox
n SCSI ones. > Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Registered Linux user 183185 ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic pa

Re: [newbie] What is the file kcore?

2001-04-15 Thread David E. Fox
talk to the kernel. The only way it can grow is for you to add more physical RAM to your system. > Charles ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]chan

Re: [newbie] Re: I want Micro-EMACS

2001-04-14 Thread David E. Fox
d the emacs-X11 package. > Len Lawrence @ The Thistle Foundation ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---

Re: [newbie] Dual processor MB ?

2001-04-14 Thread David E. Fox
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Re: [newbie] cc1plus?

2001-04-09 Thread David E. Fox
2.95.2-12mdk gcc-2.95.2-12mdk gcc-c++-2.95.2-12mdk gcc-g77-2.95.2-12mdk > cclay ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [newbie] locked cd roms

2001-04-09 Thread David E. Fox
ystem. Since I'm running off of a boot floppy with 2.4.2, it just bypasses that (since it can't find the modules). It may not be 100% what's supposed to happen but it works. ------------ David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] RH6 Mozilla src.rpm fails

2001-04-09 Thread David E. Fox
things that I had to install manually - things like aclocal, automake, gettext, etc. At one point I think even 'patch' was not installed. > Benjamin ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting

Re: [newbie] cc1plus?

2001-04-09 Thread David E. Fox
l compiler parts live. In that directory there should be a file 'cc1plus'. > cyberclay David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---

Re: [newbie] Partition Corrupted.

2001-04-07 Thread David E . Fox
pfile This sets up, formats, and attaches a 64 meg area called swapfile as additional swap space. If you want to make it available on boot, then you'll also need to add it to your /etc/fstab. -- ---------

Re: [newbie] Creating Calendars

2001-04-07 Thread David E . Fox
. But it's been around for years on Linux (predates it in fact) and you can probably find style files to do what you want. -- -------- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Word doc reader in linux?

2001-04-06 Thread David E . Fox
ifer Davis > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---

Re: [newbie] Printing in WordPerfect

2001-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
ript, and have WordPerfct print through lpr or cups. ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---

Re: [newbie] New PC

2001-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
http://www.linuxdoc.org) to connect your new linux box to the other system. Mail server, should you want to do that, would be better done on the Linux system. > L=FAcio Costa. ------------ David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] Floppy flopped, Linux hosed

2001-03-19 Thread David E. Fox
up the mess, and then reboot. > chmod: /var/run/random-seed: No such file or directory > touch: /var/lock/subsys/random: No space left on device /var should be on its own filesystem for the same reasons - you can't afford to let this run out of space. -- ----------

Re: [newbie] can 't install on ASUS A7V133

2001-03-19 Thread David E. Fox
down like crazy and I can't get it to go... ;( Steve- - -------- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---

Re: [newbie] Example using tee command

2001-03-17 Thread David E. Fox
[EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, that should suffice to mai the output, but what about the file? Insertion of a 'tee' just before the 'mail' part of that command line should do the trick: tail -20 /var/log/syslog | grep foobar - | tee - >wowie | mail -s "output" [EM

Re: [newbie] stupid useless program talk

2001-03-10 Thread David E. Fox
irectly with a user over the internet. Unfortunately, not everyone has a real direct internet connection, or is running Linux :). -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Greetings

2001-02-02 Thread David E. Fox
with package managers, and there are quite a few graphical front ends for you to try out (gnorpm, kpackage, etc.) > -Brad Lathem -------- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [newbie] ISA PnP modem won't respond

2001-01-21 Thread David E. Fox
g with the modem through 'minicom' which should be installed on your system. It's a terminal-based comm program which is pretty easy to use. At least you should be able to type out somehting like "ATDT xxx' to see if the modem dials. > Miark -- -

Re: [newbie] Is the Korn shell freeware?

2001-01-21 Thread David E. Fox
ther variant with loads of extensions called the 'Z shell' (zsh) included on the Mandrake CD. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---

Re: [newbie] I want MicroEMACS

2001-01-21 Thread David E. Fox
for 'microemacs' and it came up with one hit. Look for it via anonymous ftp at ftp.ac-grenoble.fr/ge/Office/microemacs-5.03.tgz. It is likely you'll have to compile it yourself. > Miark -- ------------ David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] Juno ISP in Linux?

2001-01-15 Thread David E. Fox
;s that simple. -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---

Re: [newbie] -C code=

2001-01-15 Thread David E. Fox
able to put it somewhere else because of permissions. If you're doing script development, make a private bin directory off of your $HOME, and put your stuff in there, and add $HOME/bin to the $PATH. > Rick -- --------

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 and Mime Types

2001-01-13 Thread David E. Fox
the shell prompt. -- -------- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---

Re: [newbie] MP# encoder?

2001-01-13 Thread David E. Fox
. If I look at the system in another window using ps etc. I can tell that a few processes get created by this but they stay in sleep mode for the duration. I filled out a problem report with the MusicMatch people. -- -----------

Re: [newbie] gcc compiler - no such file ...

2001-01-13 Thread David E. Fox
l it (rpm -i XFree86-devel-*.i586.rpm as root). > Jose -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---

Re: [newbie] Sound recorder?

2001-01-08 Thread David E. Fox
variety of edits on it. -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---

Re: [newbie] Just a simple question

2001-01-08 Thread David E. Fox
t sort of thing :) -- ------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---

Re: [newbie] MP# encoder?

2001-01-08 Thread David E. Fox
to use a different glibc than the one I had. I was running Redhat 6.0 (more or less) at that time. I will give it another try with Mandrake 7.2. -- ---- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL

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