Re: [newbie] graphics question

2005-02-13 Thread Richard Urwin
g that can be converted to pdf 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

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
;t understand. One of them is: > > Error, 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 __

Re: [newbie] I just love it

2005-01-22 Thread Richard Urwin
o go back to school or something. > 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

Re: [newbie] Installing kbluetooth

2005-01-15 Thread Richard Urwin
the label say on those CDs? If they are 10.1 Community Edition it may be worth upgrading. Since I am still using 9.2 I'll let 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
g a hyper-linked document is ten times worse. It was a great relief to find 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

Re: [newbie] 8.2 Instilliation crashes On Partition check

2005-01-02 Thread Richard Urwin
here and someone might burn you a set 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
r of your anti-virus app. > As I mentioned, klamav claims to be able to quarantine messages > containing viruses and worms but the component klammail doesn't seem > to exist on my system - ideas, anyone? No help here. I afraid. HTH, Happy New Year. -- Richard Urwin _

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

2004-12-28 Thread Richard Urwin
diff: b/d/f: No such file 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] Re: The effect of 'chgrp' is not permanent?

2004-12-19 Thread Richard Urwin
but not quite what you're looking 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 Mand

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

2004-12-19 Thread Richard Urwin
ectory 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 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
The fifth field is the file size; directories are just files 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] win- linux

2004-12-18 Thread Richard Urwin
systems. > > > > This being a Mandrake 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 y

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

2004-12-05 Thread Richard Urwin
update 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 Mandr

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

Re: [newbie] TWiki - Plea for help!

2004-11-14 Thread Richard Urwin
r the cracking. Now, I make every backup > based on dates. When the panic 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

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

2004-11-13 Thread Richard Urwin
The important bits are the plug, and the monitor being plug&play. This monitor is plug&play, 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 _

Re: [newbie] Is Abba safe?

2004-11-12 Thread Richard Urwin
Think of the children, man! > -- cmg Actually ABBA music is technically highly complex. It comes out sounding mushy, 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] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-12 Thread Richard Urwin
and ask you the contents 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

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

2004-11-12 Thread Richard Urwin
the monitor's pass-band. So long as the maximum dot clock of the graphics board 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 __

Re: [newbie] Help with a makefile

2004-11-12 Thread Richard Urwin
" first. So the effect is just to build "myapp". It avoids having to place the default target first in the file, which you may not want to do for reasons of your own. The "myapp" should match another target further down, as in: all: myapp . . . myapp:

Re: [newbie] Linux Fact or Fiction

2004-10-23 Thread Richard Urwin
n without that it is still useful 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 Servi

Re: [newbie] GTK2 PDF reader

2004-10-11 Thread Richard Urwin
t do as good a > job at rendering as gpdf: > > http://www.freeyourmachine.org/acroread.png > > The UI *sucks*, it doesn't even let me use my scrollwheel! > > gpdf may be lacking in some functionality, but for what it&#x

Re: [newbie] A question to the talented

2004-10-06 Thread Richard Urwin
loppy, which 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 m

Re: [newbie] old_mmap & libfontconfig.so.1

2004-10-02 Thread Richard Urwin
lot of files 'looking' and again, for > heaps of times. I don't know how the shared library resolution code works; I would expect a lot of these for stuff that follows a path, such as $PATH and $LDPATH, but it's my unde

Re: [newbie] iso

2004-09-30 Thread Richard Urwin
hing > wrong?..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

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 m

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-25 Thread Richard Urwin
very long and hard before I decide to connect myself to the case with a piece of wire. Another word of warning: some PSUs do not have an off switch. The button on the front of an ATX case leaves power to some parts of the motherboard. If there

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

2004-09-15 Thread Richard Urwin
at captures and saves 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.

Re: [newbie] MS an economic vampire

2004-09-13 Thread Richard Urwin
; Xandros, those that, like Mandrake, aim at pleasing the user, not > some draconian and corrupt legislators who came up with the DMCA. Probably something to do with where your head office is based. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your P

Re: [newbie] HHGTTG - Tertiary Phase

2004-09-13 Thread Richard Urwin
Arthur Dent body..." -- 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
to a lot of you, sorry about that. I 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

Re: [newbie] Format NTFS?

2004-09-12 Thread Richard Urwin
rable. I can well recommend this CD; I've just gone through the diagnostic/repair process 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] How does one print man pages.

2004-09-12 Thread Richard Urwin
hanks but I beleive this suggestion was made long ago. 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? G

Re: [newbie] cons -make replacement.

2004-09-12 Thread Richard Urwin
course, and there is a genuine 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? G

Re: [newbie] tar.gz files

2004-09-12 Thread Richard Urwin
kage with the urpmi suite. > > cause it is quite possible to > > simply forget that you're running as root and do something you > > could regret. It happened to me couple of times before... > > Good recommendation, and yes, I've, uh, had some problems w

Re: [newbie] Nvu rpms

2004-09-09 Thread Richard Urwin
compliant document. Example enclosed, the final version of which is at http://www.soronlin.org.uk/ -- Richard Urwin 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 to pages outside this site. Highlights

Re: [newbie] Can't log in

2004-09-04 Thread Richard Urwin
cure. (Who writes those manual pages?) Type passwd 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] Completely out of space - major problem!

2004-09-04 Thread Richard Urwin
7;visualize' your file system, you can't actually do any operations on > the file(s)/system though. The application 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

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-04 Thread Richard Urwin
D-link . Is it then possible 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 Ser

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Richard Urwin
ust put > > DSL in for my sister using Pipex, and they are not Linux hostile > > like some other ISPs. (Good prices too) > > > > derek > > Just one point - depending upon provider, protocol might be PPPoE. IIRC, here in the UK, ADSL is PPoA and cable is PPoE. --

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Richard Urwin
absolutely no effect on the TCP/IP networking, (that you need to know about.) MCC in no way translates it. I can go into more detail if you want, but this probably isn't the right 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
sl-start', and terminated > with 'adsl-stop'. It's easier to enable aDSL 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

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-01 Thread Richard Urwin
's should get them through it. > There is a lot of support for it out there. It won't be as easy as > the NetGear but it's all about choice. The other nice thing about ethernet routers is that you can have a firewall up that allows no evil traffic to even get as far as your ma

Re: [newbie] Existential Linux Question

2004-08-29 Thread Richard Urwin
nd finally an assembler. Now you can discard the other computer and use the simple operating system that you have to extend itself. It is possible to do all that work by hand, but it ties your brain in knots, and it hasn't been done that way since the fifties. Linus had it a bit easier, s

Re: [newbie] Screenshots

2004-08-21 Thread Richard Urwin
ux to use a dumb terminal 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.m

Re: [newbie] Screenshots

2004-08-21 Thread Richard Urwin
that seem to be easier 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] (OT) The Bat

2004-08-15 Thread Richard Urwin
r and the > same number is in both 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

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

2004-07-17 Thread Richard Urwin
;ll find that all those doors that open automatically by pushing them (bank, office, home) don't work 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] Monitoring quantity of internet usage

2004-07-17 Thread Richard Urwin
s only available in CVS, there are several dependencies and no real tutorial. Having said that I had no real 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] backed up files

2004-07-10 Thread Richard Urwin
ile generation numbers. Of course that only made it harder, but still possible, for someone in the George world to open the file and make it unavailable to MaxiMOP. MaxiMOP would then tell its user that the "File Has Mysteriously Disappeared." -- 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
us, and there are other sets of languages that are similarly close 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] Video mode not supported

2004-07-07 Thread Richard Urwin
itor (they seem to have a tighter spec.) You can use 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

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

2004-07-07 Thread Richard Urwin
nguages would have been disasterous. C: 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

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

Re: [newbie] Programming Technique

2004-07-07 Thread Richard Urwin
Fpikestyle.html http://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] Floppy Problems

2004-07-07 Thread Richard Urwin
here is mine below. > > drwxrwxrwx 0 root root 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] partition suggestions?

2004-06-28 Thread Richard Urwin
tmare to restore when it exceeded 24gb. http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=222 Or if that splits badly: http://tinyurl.com/2ph56 -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files

2004-06-19 Thread Richard Urwin
d no MOV instruction, 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 S

Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge

2004-06-16 Thread Richard Urwin
It would make my hair stand up. What's it like in the Twilight Zone? -- 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] Slightly large whinge

2004-06-16 Thread Richard Urwin
at, a soft reboot does not reset the PCI devices, so you could end up with one 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.mandra

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

2004-06-13 Thread Richard Urwin
lp: man -t subject | lpr This has the advantage of retaining the bold and underline attributes, which the "col -b" command strips. -- 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 list

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

2004-06-08 Thread Richard Urwin
oot followed by a checkdisk with massive hard disk errors and another blue screen and so on. Great fun. Unfortunately 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
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.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux Tutorial

2004-06-06 Thread Richard Urwin
nux/intro-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] Strange boot options

2004-06-05 Thread Richard Urwin
turers! You're right in that it shouldn't be constantly thrashing the disk, but Derek is correct that most of memory is always used for disk caching, so it isn't obvious. Try: $ top and give it the commands: fuOu Check the nFLT column (page fault count.) With an uptime of 1 3/4 days I

Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop

2004-05-28 Thread Richard Urwin
the one you can foul up; it is four bytes separated by periods. -- 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] Blueetooth network with Mandrake how ??

2004-05-28 Thread Richard Urwin
Main/BlueTooth and then this link: 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] Eric's Ultimate Solitaire

2004-05-24 Thread Richard Urwin
the software producer and see 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

Re: [newbie] Threaded messages in KMail??

2004-05-24 Thread Richard Urwin
le till I started to examine headers and > figured it out. Oh, and I did it myself too 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 _

Re: [newbie] OT: annoying spam filters

2004-05-24 Thread Richard Urwin
P's have > policies against mass mailing, definitely have policies against > unsolicited mass-mailing and in most cases will cancel a user account > rather than risk being labeled spam-friendly. > > In any group of 200+ people, you have to expect that at least a fe

Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-23 Thread Richard Urwin
nel there might be a better way by setting 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

Re: [newbie] archiving large files

2004-05-20 Thread Richard Urwin
he remaining portion 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=modload&name=Sections&file=index&

Re: [newbie] Nvidia xfree86 and mdk 10

2004-05-18 Thread Richard Urwin
ou specify the nvidia driver, 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 Wan

Re: [newbie] Floppy under 10CE]

2004-05-18 Thread Richard Urwin
error. The file on the floppy has a new date and a > size of 0! > > I'm baffled. We're in the process of moving and I just don't have a > lot of time to spend on this problem anymore. When all else fails it might be a hardware error. Try formatting a floppy on the machine, the drive might be out 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 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
way I can see is to specify a specific .bashrc file for bash. rxvt -e /bin/bash --rcfile myrcfile Where myrcfile contains: source ~/.bashrc cd mydirectory Note: I haven't tested this. -- Richard Urwin Want to

Re: [newbie] Confused about domain names

2004-05-18 Thread Richard Urwin
server notsaying.soronlin.org.uk - My IP address, ie my router [EMAIL PROTECTED] - MX to notsaying.soronlin.org.uk (priority 10) and ISP mailserver (priority 20) Router: Passes SMTP (TCP port 25) to mercury Internal: mercury.soronlin.org.uk 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] writing sms

2004-05-10 Thread Richard Urwin
ooks like a serial port, in fact I think scmxx expects a serial 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

Re: [newbie] System Slowdown

2004-05-06 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. -- Ri

Re: [newbie] System Slowdown

2004-05-06 Thread Richard Urwin
nt ahead 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 wee

Re: [newbie] X server crash

2004-05-02 Thread Richard Urwin
he default install 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] X server crash

2004-05-02 Thread Richard Urwin
acement of hardware cursor image > area. >... >(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 __

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

2004-05-02 Thread Richard Urwin
ight between 8pm and 10pm (probably BST, = GMT-1) from anywhere in Europe, Africa, Asia or Australia. (I have a feeling Australians wont see much due to it being daylight.) It rises between 8:20 and 9:10 in Britain. -- Richard Urwin Want

Re: [newbie] Happy May Day!

2004-05-02 Thread Richard Urwin
ain were holy and nothing to be ashamed about. Hooray, Hooray! It's the First of May! Outdoor sex begins today! -- 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. -

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

2004-04-25 Thread Richard Urwin
are just saved under the user's home. 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 tim

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,

Re: [newbie] Another Xfce convert!

2004-04-25 Thread Richard Urwin
put from the terminal window, which would never be covered by > another window (think Xfce's panel layer set to "Top"). If you set focus to follow the mouse, then the window with focus doesn't move up the stack until you click in it. -- 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

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

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

2004-04-24 Thread Richard Urwin
ution 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Automatically mount a USB drive

2004-04-21 Thread Richard Urwin
either version is a lot better than nothing. -- 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] wc

2004-04-21 Thread Richard Urwin
a network capture file and produced a picture (gif, 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 Li

Re: [newbie] trying xfce4 - help

2004-04-21 Thread Richard Urwin
nline manual. If you install from Charles' source the Mandrake 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. Yo

Re: [newbie] Calgary gets smart!

2004-04-18 Thread Richard Urwin
. Many applications obey both standards, but some don't. I find that I cannot paste from 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
may create an earth loop, which is basically an antenna. (My 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 _

Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes

2004-04-09 Thread Richard Urwin
hat 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Some system messages [OT]

2004-04-09 Thread Richard Urwin
nual entry for woman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 Descript

Re: [newbie] How to create UTF-8 encoded text files?

2004-04-08 Thread Richard Urwin
On Thursday 08 Apr 2004 8:23 pm, Arys P. Deloso wrote: > Can anyone point me to the right direction in creating/editing a text > file with UTF-8 encoding? www.jedit.org Damn fine editor, and it does UTF8, 16 and a lot more. You'll need the Sun or IBM Java runtime though. -- Ri

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