Hi Folks,
I have three questions that I can't seem to figure out with Mandrake 8.2.
1.) How do I change the name of my machine? While I was installing
Mandrake, I didn't put in a name, and the default was dhcppc5. I would
like to change it to something more suitable.
2.) How do I edit
Western
Digital drives are by far the worst you can get. Thanks for the
heads-up on Western Digital. I have been using WD hard drives for
the past five years and have never had any
problems. I had once WD 8 gig IDE
drive run a file and print server for more than 100
straight days without a
So, It's not exclusively a linux programmers language ?
The others use it too.
It's better for some things like internet use perhaps ?
One of the many great things about Perl is it can run just about anywhere.
Perl is used
on Windoze NT, Win2000, Linux. Solaris, etc. It has even been ported
Hi John,
Perl is a scripting language that comes standard with almost every major
Linux
distribution, including Mandrake. It's probably the most popular programming
language on the Internet. Perl can be used for many things from system
administration
to processing HTML forms. If you want more
Good afternoon folks,
I've been running Mandrake on an old PIII 500 desktop for
the past two weeks and everything seems to be working fine,
except for when I go to shutdown (Halt). When I shutdown the
box and Mandrake goes through it's process, a command
KillAll pops up and then I get a failed
I can't seem to get my CD player to play music. I
know that my sound card works because I can hear
the sample sounds when I configued by AWE32 sound card with
sndconfig, but when I slip in a CD and try to use
the CD Player in KDE, I can't get any sound. The
Player recognizes the CD and shows the
I'm here, but I just joined this list 20 minutes ago. It does seem a bit
slow, especially for a Linux newbie list.
- Steve
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Josh McCaffrey wrote:
Anybody left on the list? I start to wonder what's going on if
I don't receive any mail for 3 days...
