Re: [newbie] graphics question

2005-02-13 Thread Richard Urwin
correctly. This may mean editing makethumbs.sh and learning about XML/FO, but you might get lucky and only have to configure makethumbs correctly. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] upgrade 8.2 to 10.1: Error, some other host already uses address 127.0.0.1.

2005-01-26 Thread Richard Urwin
, some other host already uses address 127.0.0.1. I may be way behind the boat here, but it sounds like the entry in /etc/hosts for 127.0.0.1 does not use the same hostname as you have selected for your machine. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy

Re: [newbie] I just love it

2005-01-22 Thread Richard Urwin
. culatr2da = see you later today See I can get cryptic also:) Don't get too hung up on the command line. You can always open the floppy icon and the home icon on your desktop and drag the file from the floppy to your home. -- Richard Urwin

Re: [newbie] Installing kbluetooth

2005-01-15 Thread Richard Urwin
others tell you how worthwhile it is. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] konqueror and info

2005-01-03 Thread Richard Urwin
that telling Konqueror info:make does exactly what it says on the tin. It turns a nightmare into a dream. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] 8.2 Instilliation crashes On Partition check

2005-01-02 Thread Richard Urwin
for a small consideration. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-01 Thread Richard Urwin
to exist on my system - ideas, anyone? No help here. I afraid. HTH, Happy New Year. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Looking for a program to compare the contents of directories

2004-12-28 Thread Richard Urwin
or directory -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Output of 'ls -l ...'

2004-12-19 Thread Richard Urwin
and they have a size like any other file. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] The effect of 'chgrp' is not pemanent?

2004-12-19 Thread Richard Urwin
that. But please don't. What are you trying to achieve? There has to be a better way. By the looks of the directory permissions you have selected a high security level. Most of mine are drwxr-xr-x. If that's your problem then it would be safer to reduce the security level or just work within it. -- Richard

Re: [newbie] Re: The effect of 'chgrp' is not permanent?

2004-12-19 Thread Richard Urwin
for. Not having used it myself, I don't know how close. chroot may also be worth looking at, but I think it's too restrictive. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] win- linux

2004-12-18 Thread Richard Urwin
list I can't believe that no one suggested Mandrake Move: our very own Live CD. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3#move Oh. Right oh! Forgot ALL about Mandrake. Is THAT what we run here? Oh yes... Works so well we forget all about it. -- Richard Urwin

[newbie] Color Prompts in bash - Pierre Fortin or anyone else

2004-12-05 Thread Richard Urwin
the attachment. The process looks fairly easy - just hit the action link. It looks like the page could do with a tutorial as well. I might get around to that. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] TWiki - Plea for help!

2004-11-14 Thread Richard Urwin
dies down, if you want a hand developing a more robust backup scheme let me know. Unfortunately I don't have a copy of anything I added. Fortunately I haven't added anything in a while and it's no great loss anyway. -- Richard Urwin Want

Re: [newbie] TWiki - Plea for help!

2004-11-14 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 14 Nov 2004 10:40 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 14 Nov 2004 09:47, Richard Urwin wrote: Unfortunately I don't have a copy of anything I added. Fortunately I haven't added anything in a while and it's no great loss anyway. I think that it may be an idea for me to post

Re: [newbie] Do newest flat screen (non-LCD) monitors work on Mandrake?

2004-11-13 Thread Richard Urwin
are the plug, and the monitor being plugplay. This monitor is plugplay, and appears to use a standard VGA plug. If your video card can produce a dot clock above 110MHz you should have no problem. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Help with a makefile

2004-11-12 Thread Richard Urwin
target further down, as in: all: myapp . . . myapp: myapp.c myapp.h gcc -o myapp myapp.c . . . -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] Do newest flat screen (non-LCD) monitors work on Mandrake?

2004-11-12 Thread Richard Urwin
is well above the dot rate of the monitor you should have no problem, but by well above I mean something like ten times or more. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

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

2004-11-12 Thread Richard Urwin
of various obscure files, to try to sort out exactly what problem you're having. The threads can be quite long, and they don't all end in a resolution, but many do. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Is Abba safe?

2004-11-12 Thread Richard Urwin
, but just try to play/sing it. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Linux Fact or Fiction

2004-10-23 Thread Richard Urwin
to the black-hats. We cannot become complacent. Every element of security is important. The TheRegister link posted by Derek Jennings is very interesting and useful. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] GTK2 PDF reader

2004-10-12 Thread Richard Urwin
let me use my scrollwheel! gpdf may be lacking in some functionality, but for what it's made for, reading PDF's, it does it very well and it's nice to look at :-) I use xpdf, but it's ugly too. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] A question to the talented

2004-10-07 Thread Richard Urwin
is on the distribution disks. Or investigate bootp and tftp - boot as a thin client. The first is probably the way you want to go. IIUC, it expects to have an FTP server out there with the distribution on, so you'd have to set that up, but I've not done either myself. -- Richard Urwin

Re: [newbie] old_mmap libfontconfig.so.1

2004-10-02 Thread Richard Urwin
a path, such as $PATH and $LDPATH, but it's my understanding that shared libraries are looked up in a database. Have you tried running ldconfig? In fact ldconfig -v may give you useful information. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] iso

2004-09-30 Thread Richard Urwin
?..Hhhhep...Melv in Nobody's mentioned yet that you don't burn iso's like you may normally be doing. Ignore the window where you pull in all the files. Usually there's a file selector on the burn pane where you put the name of the file. -- Richard Urwin

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-26 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 26 Sep 2004 1:52 am, Erylon Hines wrote: On Saturday 25 September 2004 03:37 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: | I think Which was told off and had to publish a retraction not so | long ago for publicly giving that bit of advice. | | Some things to bear in mind: | 1. If there's an earth

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-25 Thread Richard Urwin
. The button on the front of an ATX case leaves power to some parts of the motherboard. If there isn't a rocker switch on the PSU, you can not leave it plugged in without having an external switch somewhere. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] What the hell is promiscuous and how do I turn it off?

2004-09-15 Thread Richard Urwin
all packets for analysis (for example, for monitoring network usage). Normally a NIC will only receive packets that are addressed to itself. By putting the NIC in promiscuous mode it will receive all packets that it sees, no matter how they are addressed. -- Richard Urwin

Re: [newbie] MS an economic vampire

2004-09-14 Thread Richard Urwin
came up with the DMCA. Probably something to do with where your head office is based. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Question about Software

2004-09-13 Thread Richard Urwin
think the absolutely correct definition is that it is accessed through a web browser. In the great majority of cases that means it is web-server based, but it could be java/javascript/VB. See http://www.soronlin.org.uk/geekquiz.html as an example of such. -- Richard Urwin

Re: [newbie] HHGTTG - Tertiary Phase

2004-09-13 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 13 Sep 2004 1:05 pm, michael higgins wrote: mplayer -playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/media/hitchhikers_trail.ram IE, mplayer works fine with it. Thanks for that. I notice that Douglas Adams is on that trailer; ...this is my kill Arthur Dent body... -- Richard

Re: [newbie] tar.gz files

2004-09-12 Thread Richard Urwin
could regret. It happened to me couple of times before... Good recommendation, and yes, I've, uh, had some problems with that before too. One reason that my root terminal sessions have red backgrounds. But, of course, not su'd sessions. -- Richard Urwin

Re: [newbie] cons -make replacement.

2004-09-12 Thread Richard Urwin
problem with using the date across a network. If you're looking into this sort of thing, you may want to check out ant. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] How does one print man pages.

2004-09-12 Thread Richard Urwin
. And it's still inferior to man -t sensors|lpr (because that puts in the correct headers and footers) -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] Format NTFS?

2004-09-12 Thread Richard Urwin
from hell on a friend's PC, and this thing was worth its weight in gold. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Nvu rpms

2004-09-09 Thread Richard Urwin
of which is at http://www.soronlin.org.uk/ -- Richard Urwin ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? page title=Soronlin.org.uk menu caption=home file=index/ body p Welcome to Soronlin. On the left you will see a set of navigation buttons for pages in this site. On the right you will see notes and links

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-04 Thread Richard Urwin
to just cross link the two to provide additional ports ? Yes. Not a problem. These days switches are getting so clever you don't even need a cross-over cable. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Completely out of space - major problem!

2004-09-04 Thread Richard Urwin
in Jurassic park does exist out there somewhere, can't remember what it's called now, and it doesn't let you do anything either. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Can't log in

2004-09-04 Thread Richard Urwin
manual pages?) Type passwd username into a root console. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Richard Urwin
service this way, than under Windoze. That's using a modem, right Tom? I don't need any of that adsl-start stuff. The user-id etc. stuff would be handy though. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Richard Urwin
thread. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Richard Urwin
. IIRC, here in the UK, ADSL is PPoA and cable is PPoE. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-01 Thread Richard Urwin
that allows no evil traffic to even get as far as your machine. Try the reviews on http://www.adslguide.org.uk/ http://www.adslguide.org.uk/reviews/ -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Existential Linux Question

2004-08-29 Thread Richard Urwin
he was working on a singe machine, he had the BIOS and the C compiler already, and the shell was available. But he had to implement a fair proportion of the POSIX system calls before they would run under his new OS. -- Richard Urwin Want

Re: [newbie] Screenshots

2004-08-21 Thread Richard Urwin
to learn than MS Windows? -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Screenshots

2004-08-21 Thread Richard Urwin
as the console and hide the computer away somewhere. Better, if you get an 8-way serial i/f, you can have a terminal in every room. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] (OT) The Bat

2004-08-15 Thread Richard Urwin
of their headers. The Bat! is an email app for Windows, unfortunately not for *nix, because by all accounts it's excellent. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club

Re: [newbie] Monitoring quantity of internet usage

2004-07-17 Thread Richard Urwin
trouble getting it up and running. http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] MS Wants The Skin Off Our Backs!!

2004-07-17 Thread Richard Urwin
any more, because they aren't reading a password from your cyber-ware. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] backed up files

2004-07-10 Thread Richard Urwin
. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] The Most Popular Programming Language in Linux

2004-07-08 Thread Richard Urwin
to each other. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Floppy Problems

2004-07-07 Thread Richard Urwin
0 Jul 5 18:30 floppy/ The output of ls -l/dev/fd* would be useful too. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Programming Technique

2004-07-07 Thread Richard Urwin
://jyogee.tripod.com/books/recommended_c_style_and_coding_standards.htm -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Programming Technique

2004-07-07 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 15 May 2004 8:46 pm, EE wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 21:33, Richard Urwin wrote: On Wednesday 07 Jul 2004 8:41 am, EE wrote: One of things that I have been looking for some time is general programming tutorial-Coding techniques i.e how to arrange code, naming convention

Re: [newbie] The Most Popular Programming Language in Linux

2004-07-07 Thread Richard Urwin
: a compiler Bash: creating a connection graph from a network capture. (Taking one ASCII stream and generating another.) Expect: automating the control of a microcontroller programmer (serial port protocol). -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Video mode not supported

2004-07-07 Thread Richard Urwin
the keypad + and - keys in combination with Ctrl-Alt to change resolution, so hitting Ctrl-Alt-keypad(-) may get you a lower resolution that your monitor can display. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Richard Urwin
it exceeded 24gb. http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewarticleartid=222 Or if that splits badly: http://tinyurl.com/2ph56 -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files

2004-06-19 Thread Richard Urwin
, but did have: DCA - Dump And Clear Accumulator TCA - Two's Complement Add Storing the contents of the accumulator cleared it, and to load it you added something to it. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge

2004-06-17 Thread Richard Urwin
, and it's hard to credit that such a bug hasn't been found. I don't doubt what you say about the RAM, you're probably right that it was something else. All I know for sure is I nearly lost my cool (imagine that)! It would make my hair stand up. What's it like in the Twilight Zone? -- Richard

Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge

2004-06-16 Thread Richard Urwin
of them in a bad state. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files

2004-06-14 Thread Richard Urwin
When sed is not quite powerful enough, you should start learning awk. Other commands that are very useful are cut and tr. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club

Re: [newbie] printing - man files info files.

2004-06-13 Thread Richard Urwin
. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Brazil Decries Government Use of Linux

2004-06-09 Thread Richard Urwin
On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 1:45 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 08 June 2004 07:27 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: snip www.sysinternals.com give away a screensaver that gives authentic blue screens (with the right modules and other data listed) and then shows the reboot followed

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Brazil Decries Government Use of Linux

2004-06-08 Thread Richard Urwin
it only runs on Windows. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux Tutorial

2004-06-06 Thread Richard Urwin
-linux.pdf -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux Tutorial

2004-06-06 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 06 Jun 2004 9:02 pm, aron wrote: And Rute Tutorial and exposition http://freshmeat.net/redir/rute/9186/url_homepage/rute.2038bug.com download tit in HTML or .tar.gz form Or just urpmi rute It's on the 9.2 CDs, probably on 10.0 too. -- Richard Urwin

Re: [newbie] Strange boot options

2004-06-05 Thread Richard Urwin
of 1 3/4 days I have X at 19k, and several desktop (xfce) processes at 1-3k. Anything increasing constantly might be a problem. I'm using 9.2 with 320M of memory. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Blueetooth network with Mandrake how ??

2004-05-28 Thread Richard Urwin
: http://bluez.sourceforge.net/contrib/HOWTO-PAN -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop

2004-05-28 Thread Richard Urwin
. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] OT: annoying spam filters

2004-05-24 Thread Richard Urwin
. In any group of 200+ people, you have to expect that at least a few would be heartless net-nazi's like me. ;-} You might also consider whether all 200 recipients should be able to see all the other addresses. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Threaded messages in KMail??

2004-05-24 Thread Richard Urwin
pressing the new message option instead of reply. :) If adding the RE: yourself is too much trouble, Outlook has the same brain-dead behaviour. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Eric's Ultimate Solitaire

2004-05-24 Thread Richard Urwin
if you can get them to help you narrow down the problem. For instance which libraries it uses, and which versions of those libraries it has been tested against. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-23 Thread Richard Urwin
the capability bits on the executable. I don't know if the tools are in place yet to set it up though. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] archiving large files

2004-05-20 Thread Richard Urwin
onto a second CD. If I do this, how do I restore the original file. I don't have a network or second hard drive option for backup at the moment. TIA Paul Does this help? http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewarticleartid=222 -- Richard Urwin

Re: [newbie] Confused about domain names

2004-05-18 Thread Richard Urwin
venus.soronlin.org.uk That's worked faultlessly so far. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] XFCE4

2004-05-18 Thread Richard Urwin
. rxvt -e /bin/bash --rcfile myrcfile Where myrcfile contains: source ~/.bashrc cd mydirectory Note: I haven't tested this. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Floppy under 10CE]

2004-05-18 Thread Richard Urwin
of alignment, and this may then allow you to write floppies on that drive. But you might not be able to use them on any others... Try swapping the drive, they're dead cheap. Might also be the controller on the Mobo, of course. -- Richard Urwin Want

Re: [newbie] Nvidia xfree86 and mdk 10

2004-05-18 Thread Richard Urwin
, add a line like this: #Option IgnoreDisplayDevices CRT, TV And tell it to ignore the devices you don't want to use. Without the # ? -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] writing sms

2004-05-10 Thread Richard Urwin
port.) The caveat is that scmxx is written for a Seimens phone, and using anything else is at your own risk. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] System Slowdown

2004-05-07 Thread Richard Urwin
and rebooted which of course cleared out the problem. The system had been up for right at 30 days with 9.0. Anyone want to take a guess at what may cause this? Run ntop. I've found one of the Samba clients grabbing huge amounts of memory after about three weeks. -- Richard Urwin

Re: [newbie] System Slowdown

2004-05-07 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 07 May 2004 7:37 am, Richard Urwin wrote: Run ntop. I've found one of the Samba clients grabbing huge amounts of memory after about three weeks. Not clients, components. Must not post first thing in the morning. -- Richard Urwin

Re: [newbie] Happy May Day!

2004-05-02 Thread Richard Urwin
! -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

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

2004-05-02 Thread Richard Urwin
a feeling Australians wont see much due to it being daylight.) It rises between 8:20 and 9:10 in Britain. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] X server crash

2004-05-02 Thread Richard Urwin
. ... (II) ATI(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 2048 kB You should manage 64k colours (16bpp) at 1024x768, or 24bpp at lower resolutions. How much video memory do you think the board has? -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] X server crash

2004-05-02 Thread Richard Urwin
doesn't support it. Good to see you're working again though. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] review of updating proceedures

2004-05-01 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 01 May 2004 12:39 pm, Thinker wrote: 5. After the update is complete, type 'alt+F1' then, reboot the machine. I think you mean F7. It is not necessary to reboot unless you have just installed a new Linux kernel. -- Richard Urwin

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

2004-04-25 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 25 Apr 2004 3:58 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Besides, I'm a traditionalist; sendmail has been part of *NIX for quite a long time and well, I don't see why it SHOULDN'T be used because of it's, well, age...(g) You don't bother with the M4 macros then, Stephen? -- Richard Urwin

Re: [newbie] Another Xfce convert!

2004-04-25 Thread Richard Urwin
, then the window with focus doesn't move up the stack until you click in it. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

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

2004-04-25 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 25 Apr 2004 10:15 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 19:04, Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 25 Apr 2004 3:58 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Besides, I'm a traditionalist; sendmail has been part of *NIX for quite a long time and well, I don't see why it SHOULDN'T be used

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Does this bloke work for Microsoft FUD specialists?

2004-04-25 Thread Richard Urwin
. A worm could probably just write itself into that folder. With Linux an email virus/worm cannot destroy the system easily, but they can subvert it. And that is what most new viruses/worms try to do. Now is not the time to rest on our laurels. -- Richard Urwin

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

2004-04-24 Thread Richard Urwin
? Postfix can be a problem in 9.2 because it installs a non-functional mailman. Solution is to configure mailman or just uninstall both and reinstall Postfix. I didn't have a problem with 9.1final though, although I might have just selected different install options. -- Richard Urwin

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

2004-04-24 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 24 Apr 2004 11:49 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 21:47, Richard Urwin wrote: 9.1? Why? Postfix can be a problem in 9.2 because it installs a non-functional mailman. Solution is to configure mailman or just uninstall both and reinstall Postfix. I didn't have

Re: [newbie] trying xfce4 - help

2004-04-21 Thread Richard Urwin
menu appears as on entry in the right click menu. You'll have to ask him how he did it though if you want to stick with the compiled version. My best tip: load the command line applet and add it to the panel. You'll soon wonder how you survived without it. -- Richard Urwin

Re: [newbie] wc

2004-04-21 Thread Richard Urwin
, postscript or what-have-you) that showed conversations between machines as lines between labelled boxes. Then someone else pointed out that two sed invocations and a tr could be replaced by a simple awk script. I love Linux. To blow your mind: man awk -- Richard Urwin

Re: [newbie] Automatically mount a USB drive

2004-04-21 Thread Richard Urwin
. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart!

2004-04-18 Thread Richard Urwin
eterm to kmail for example. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Simple home network

2004-04-12 Thread Richard Urwin
HiFi used to pick up Radio Moscow until I removed one of the earths.) Your earth wiring could pick up an induced voltage from a nearby lightning strike and fry equipment that would otherwise be safe. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Some system messages [OT]

2004-04-09 Thread Richard Urwin
] richard]$ ping of.angels ping: unknown host of.angels [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard]$ man -k nudist.attire nudist.attire: nothing appropriate Have a play with the enclosed program while working hard. -- Richard Urwin raven Description: application/shellscript

Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes

2004-04-09 Thread Richard Urwin
. Is it possible that you transfered the bad one in ASCII mode rather than Binary mode? If so konquerer could be identifying it as text. Or it might be that it just happens to have some magic sequence of bytes, such as no bytes above 127 in the first bit of the file. -- Richard Urwin

Re: [newbie] IP address converter?

2004-04-08 Thread Richard Urwin
the nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn form. I need the xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx form. Why? using the MAC address is very rare. What are you trying to do? There is probably a better way. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

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