Have you taken a look at VIM? Its GUI version of VI.
Barry
On Fri, 27 July 2001, Kevin Fonner wrote:
I know I asked this question once and got some reponses but if it ok I
would like to just check once more but being a little clearer. Perhaps
I am contaminated coming from the windows
I spend more time in Staroffice5.2 simply because I take my documents back to Word.
Kwork imports just fine and works quite well. But, the limited 'Save As' options
leaves me hanging when I want to take a document back to the office.
Barry
On Mon, 25 June 2001, Benjamin Sher wrote:
On Sat, 21 July 2001, João Coimbra wrote:
Hi all
How can I kwnow the version of kernel that I have in the Linux?
Try 'uname -a'
Barry
I tried to print a small JPEG from GIMP and got random character trash that comes with
an incorrect printer configuration. GIMP was set for PS which I believe my Epson
SC-850 should have handled just fine. I'm running MD 8.0 and have the printer setup
through Cups. Suggestions?
Barry
I don't have a copy of the Powerpack, so I haven't tried to install apps
from it. I am curious as to whether you can install using the Software
Manager program?
Barry
On Mon, 11 June 2001, Romanator wrote:
Hi everybody,
Well, I just received the new Powerpack and I cannot get it
I was doing some price comparisons on CD-ROM Burners (similar spec'd
Plextor and Yamaha IDE drives). When I go to a site like pcprogress.com, I get
a $204.00 price while on pricewatch.com I see OEM units listing for $142-150.
I was wondering if there is any real quality difference between the
You should check out http://www.eskimo.net
They provide nation wide dial up service as well as ISDN and DSL support.
There are also shell accounts for those the have a need.
Barry :-)
On Tue, 03 April 2001, Jennifer Davis wrote:
I doubt you wil find any and it's sad as most of the techs
You may still be able to get the CD from http://www.lsl.com.
I believe it goes for $1.89.
Barry :-)
On Thu, 29 March 2001, Jennifer Davis wrote:
You will find that abiword, which comes with 7.1 and 7.2 is pretty good
too.
A 99MB download of Star Office may be too much for some
You can extract it with tar by using
tar -xvvIf filename.bz2
There is also a bz2 utility that will do that as well.
Barry :-)
On Thu, 01 March 2001, DRX wrote:
I have a file which ends with the suffix .bz2 How do I unzip it? I
have tried with commands like "bunzip" (in analogy
The first time I had that problem, I had to go into the BIOS and set the
time there. Then it was into the KDE Control Center to set time relative
to my local time zone.
Barry :-)
On Mon, 26 February 2001, "Cory Weber" wrote:
ok, I have Mandrake Linux 7.0, and a small problem, it keeps
I have had to download some things to a temp directory and run update from there. The
cups 1.1.6 update gave me some dependancy problems. I had to download the missing
files and update from temp.
Barry :-)
On Tue, 20 February 2001, Dennis Myers wrote:
Does the same thing to me with the
On Mon, 15 January 2001, AL wrote:
Hi!
Just installed LM 7.2 but can't get the pppd working. How do I set it
up?
Under Windows 2000 the modem is in COM4. In LM 7.2 it is /dev/modem. Is
this right?
Thanks for your help!
Try /dev/ttyS3 and see if it comes up then.
Barry :-)
On Tue, 16 January 2001, "GrUnTiE GoOdInE" wrote:
Just wondering if anyone can point me two a web page that lists Linux
Compatable modems??
Thanks
_
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at
This wasn't a new question, so I pulled this up from the archives.
Hope it helps.
Barry :-)
From: Sridhar Dhanapalan
Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing KDE to Gnome
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 22:19:51 -0800
How do
Try K- Applications- File Tools- File Manager (Super User Mode)
Barry :-)
On Wed, 10 January 2001, Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear friends:
Is there a menu item in KDE 2.0 which would allow me to launch Konqueror
as root (with a dialog box asking me for my root password) so I can
access my
If he is using the graphical user login, he can select it or any of the others from
there.
Barry :-)
On Thu, 11 January 2001, "Ronald J. Hall" wrote:
My brother is using v7.2 of Mandrake, and currently it boots up into KDE. He
wants to know how to switch it so that he can boot into
Try this and see if that doesn't bring it back:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
You could substitute auto for vfat.
Barry :-)
On Thu, 14 December 2000, "Donnie Green" wrote:
I just loaded up Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and the floppy drive will not mount.
The error
The general opinion I have heard here is to do your back ups
and go for a new install. Apparently the differences
between 7.1 and 7.2 are simply too great for a simple upgrade
to overcome.
Barry :-)
On Fri, 08 December 2000, Nemeth Lorant wrote:
Hi!
I tried to upgrade my Mandrake 7.0
Mark,
A search of www.linuxsecurity.com turned up the following link for installing
Tripwire:
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/docs/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edition-1_3.pdf
Hope that helps.
Barry :-)
On Tue, 05 December 2000, Mark Weaver wrote:
Ok...I was really intrigued by the mention
On Thu, 30 November 2000, Mark Weaver wrote:
LILO forever...grub sounds like a fat, gooie worm that squirmed out from
under a log to be breakfast for a Robin.
--
Mark
Mark - Resistance is futile, you WILL be assimilated
Barry :-))
On Tue, 21 November 2000, Marcia wrote:
Barry, No, I have not tried the updates for Kups. How would I do that
exactly? I am quite a newbie still with some things. I never did an
update yet. Thank you. Marcia
It's fairly straight forward.
Log in on your ISP.
Click on the Updates icon (or
I agree that care is needed when making reference to books. The development
of Linux is moving so fast, most are already presenting dated material by
the time they hit the streets. I think my first question would be how do
you use your machine, i.e. are you the kind of person that opens up a
On Thu, 02 November 2000, Larry Marshall wrote:
Check your 'man swap' and you will find they say 128 MB. You can have up
to 8 swap partitions (16 according to the LPI study guide).
Uhm...under what conditions? Swap isn't a single number, it's dependent
upon OS use of swap space, the
I've got 128MB of RAM and the Swap is only 96MB. When I was running
Caldera Open Linux 2.2, I never saw any of it being used. When I installed
Mandrake 7.1, swap utilization came up to 2-3%. I suppose if were doing
some heavy development work and creating huge programs, I would see it go up.
On Mon, 30 October 2000, Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear Barry and friends:
You advised me to create a javarc file. Please provide step-by-step
instructions for the whole process of installing JDK for SO52, precisely
what directory to install it in (/usr pr soffice/user?), etc. and how to
It comes with KDE 1.1.2
Barry :-)
On Wed, 25 October 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what version of kde comes with mandrake 7.1
kde or kde2
if it is kde what is the difference between kde and kde2?
where can I get a rpm of kde2
Regards
Mike Freeman
Embrace
I have not heard of voice mail causing this problem, but call
waiting sure does. Just for grins, try '*70' followed by the
number. The only way you may know for sure that it works
would be to have someone call while you are on line.
Barry :-)
On Thu, 05 October 2000, Dennis Myers wrote:
I don't have any screen shots I can forward, but you
could look at 'info grub' which is the manual (I'm still
trying to figure out how to print it out. It's stuffed
into a couple *.bz2 files.) Another excellent resource is -
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.html
I hope these help.
Roger,
I think someone may have said this already, but you can open up your terminal
and type "gnucash" or "cbb" (without quotes) and check out either program.
Barry :-)
On Mon, 18 September 2000, Roger Sherman wrote:
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Roger:
Check out gnucash. Version
I'm using 2.0.4 which I have come to like quite a lot.
It was quite a transistion from Managing Your Money to
Moneydance, but I have become accustomed to the
differences. I don't know what the transistion was
like for Quicken users.
Moneydance 3.0 alpha build 141 is out, but I wouldn't
Thats great. I've downloaded the .tar and have been going over the readme's and the
IPChains HowTo. Do I have to compile the kernel under Mandrake 7.1 to
enable IPChains, or can I do it from Drakconfig?
Barry :-)
On Tue, 12 September 2000, Dennis Myers wrote:
Barry, In a word yes. I
The MAC comes from a set of numbers/letters that each manufacturer gets for
their hardware. This gives each card (ethernet for example) a unique address
that is programmed into the firmware of the card and is traceable to the manufacturer.
It is the fundamental address used in routing. Unless
On Thu, 06 July 2000, Mike Perry wrote:
I knew that slip would come back to haunt me. Restart 'kde' and the Star Office
show up under the "Personal" menu bar.
Barry
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