Re: [newbie] Kernel

1999-12-20 Thread Paul Benjamin
I had a teacher that called your current state as the dawn of knowledge. Not all things are easy. Destroying old habits is the hardest. When you have hundreds or thousands of people who like to code make a system you should not be surprised that they are lousy technical writers. I think it is

Re: [newbie] Any Linux web server to recommend ?

1999-12-20 Thread Paul Benjamin
I think that you meant: http://squishdot.org/ or http://www.zope.org/ http://www.zope.org/Resources/Info From what I understand Slashdot hasn't released their source code in quite a while. Squishdot can build a similar looking site, so can Zope. I haven't actually used it but it does look

Re: [newbie] LILO

1999-12-09 Thread Paul Benjamin
FDISK/MBR You will probably have to reinstall NT. NT has it own stupid boot loader, even Windows 2000, I hate it. On Wed, 8 Dec 1999 20:34:40 -0500, "Corky Ashford" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone know how to remove Lilo boot loader ? i've taken linux off and loaded NT but i can't

Re: [newbie] Lots of problems on install

1999-12-03 Thread Paul Benjamin
The answer to question one is SCSI emulation. I wrote up what I did to get it to work on my PC. http://www.midkan.com/paulb/mycdr.htm PBen On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 23:28:00 -0700, Dan Ferris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First is this, I have an HP CDRecorder Plus IDE cdrecorder on /dev/hdd. I would

Re: [[newbie] Macmillan Mandrake Books (was Mouse Driver screwup in KDE)]

1999-11-26 Thread Paul Benjamin
Yes it would be against the copyright laws to copy to your personal FTP site. Please read the license, they are copyrighted by McMillain Digital Publishing, NOT GPL. So be sure that your lawyers are much better than theirs! If you had bought the Mandrake 6.5 (sic) in the retail channel in

Re: [newbie] Segmentation Faults?

1999-11-02 Thread Paul Benjamin
Are you using the static linked version or a dynamic link version. If Dynamic which version of the lib are you using? I got the static link version to work but back then I had Mandrake 5.3 and they didn't have a version for the glib used in 5.3 I haven't upgraded since then since they are

Re: [newbie] How to market Linux?

1999-10-20 Thread Paul Benjamin
I have been thinking about this lately also. Marketing of small computers is an interesting and complex task. Here is some stuff I came across: http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/JohnZedlewski/JohnZedlewski4.html http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/JohnZedlewski/JohnZedlewski1.html In fact I

Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip

1999-09-28 Thread Paul Benjamin
Are you using Gnome, KDE, or something else for your desktop?

Re: [newbie] KDE Libraries... Where?

1999-09-28 Thread Paul Benjamin
I agree I have been starting to relearn C and learn the *nux way of doing things. It is kind of discouraging when the Qt examples that were installed with Linux-Mandrake will not compile. (Oh no! "hello world" doesn't work? I think something is wrong!) At least when you are following the

Re: [newbie] Large HDD how to partition??

1999-09-27 Thread Paul Benjamin
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 18:07:30 -0500, "Michael Seltenright" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm planning to replace my current 8 gig Windows HD with a 20 or 27 gig drive. I know that LILO has a problem with drives that have more than 1023 cylinders. How should I partition this drive so that I can

Re: [newbie] KDE Libraries... Where?

1999-09-27 Thread Paul Benjamin
I was told that the Qt Lib is in the /usr/lib and the headers are in the /usr/include/qt. This will cause all kinds of headaches for KDE development since it is not the standard place that Qt and SuSE expects. I haven't even written hello world yet in Linux but I have compiled a few source tar

Re: [newbie] scsi emulation

1999-09-15 Thread Paul Benjamin
I have written up what worked for me. Go to: http://www.midkan.com/paulb/mycdr.htm I hope that it will clear up a few things. At least it worked for my CD-R. PBen On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:53:59 -0700 (PDT), "R. David Whitlock" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hrm. OK, here's one I don't

Re: [newbie] Multimedia performance

1999-09-14 Thread Paul Benjamin
I am sorry. The development on this chip set should have gone in to maintenance mode by now. I would suggest a log at the change logs and see if anything has been added in the last few revisions. It also might be worth looking in the config file to see if there is an option for acceleration.

Re: [newbie] scsi

1999-09-13 Thread Paul Benjamin
If you are talking about SCSI emulation to burn some CDs check out my web site. I wrote up what I did to get it to work. The URL is: http://www.midkan.com/paulb/mycdr.htm PBen On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 03:49:57 -0400, Ralph|byte-runner| [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Can someone plz give me the

Re: [newbie] Multiple CPU (2 Celerons or one Pent-3)

1999-09-06 Thread Paul Benjamin
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 09:03:13 +0800 , Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few more questions. Overclocking a Celeron - I know a lot has been written about this in a lot of places but 1 quick question - I know overclocking voids the Intel warranty (in fact I think running dual-Celerons

Re: X11Amp (was --Re: [newbie] C++ compiler error when loading programs)

1999-09-05 Thread Paul Benjamin
Take a look at http://www.freeamp.org/ they claim to support streaming. I haven't tried this yet but I have been meaning to. PBen On Sun, 05 Sep 1999 10:48:25 -0400, Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it support streaming via URL? I like to listen to Geeks In Space, but don't want to

Re: [newbie] 32 Bit Video Cards

1999-09-02 Thread Paul Benjamin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I checked at www.iomagic.com and the 3d/ep does use a Permedia 2 chip set. I had a Diamond Fire Pro 1000 in my last PC that also used a Permedia 2. SuSE and Elisa developed the XFree86 driver for that chip set. You might need to get the RPM off of

Re: [newbie] Repost url to linux realplayer g-2

1999-08-29 Thread Paul Benjamin
http://www.real.com/products/player/linux.html Please be sure to read and follow the directions on the download page. I works ok for me but I don't use it that much. On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 12:42:51 -0600, Rick Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've lost the site. Can someone repost the location

[newbie] QTDIR enviroment?

1999-08-28 Thread Paul Benjamin
HELP! I am trying to install the krecorder program to do some simple recording to a wave file. The problem is that the precompiled one I downloaded crashes with a segmenation fault. The autor must have expected that because he say just recompile the source code in the tar. The makefile failes

Re: [newbie] Thanks Steve Axalon / HP8100CDR/RW - MYCDR.HTM

1999-08-26 Thread Paul Benjamin
Sorry for the HTML but I have started to work on updating my web page and I thought I would stick a few of the thinks I have had to do to get Linux to work my way on it. It still needs some work but maybe it will help you. Just skip the : ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom Since you already have a

Re: [newbie] kernal modules - video4linux - FM tuner - dev/radio

1999-08-23 Thread Paul Benjamin
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 01:13:52 -0600 (MDT), Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I need to run as root: isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf This one gets handled automaticly in rc.sysinit You are right about that. Since I didn't have any ISA cards before I didn't have a /etc/isapnp.conf until

Re: [newbie] kernal modules - video4linux - FM tuner - dev/radio

1999-08-22 Thread Paul Benjamin
I figured out what I did wrong. I needed to run isapnp. So I ran "pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf" and modified the results of that and saved it. That would reserve the 0x0330 I/O port for the card, no IRQ or DMA used. So I need to run as root: isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf modprobe videodev.o

[newbie] kernal modules - video4linux - FM tuner - dev/radio

1999-08-21 Thread Paul Benjamin
OK I have looked under every rock I can think off, I can't get my Cadet FM tuner card to work. Russel Kroll has a web page at: http://linux.blackhawke.net/cadet.html He says that he has done a v4l driver. So how do I get it to go? I looked at the official v4l homepage at: