On Sun, 01 Aug 1999, you wrote:
For those of us that don't yet have access to ADSL or a T1
connection you might want to try the following.
2 - Turn off Van Jacobsen compression for PPP. In the PPP
argument box of KPPP add 'novj'.
For us muddlers, what exactly does this do? I ask only
I would recommend newbies cruise the discount and closeout racks of your local
B.Dalton and other bookstore chains.
For $10, I got a copy of Dave Taylor's _Teach Yourself UNIX in a Week_. He
gave us Elm, among other goodies, and he's an excellent writer. I've found the
SAMS books
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, you wrote:
I installed a theme and now my background changes between the theme
background and another background at seemingly random times. Why?!?
settings-desktop-background. In the lower part is a "random" checkbox.
Uncheck it, apply, OK.
Try the parrots
I ran into a bit of difficulty that had the same symptom. I found (guessed)
that VanJacobson compression will not work with my ISP. Put the "novj" line
without the quotes into the options file, or into the kppp setup and see if
that helps. It might.
Mark
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, you wrote:
I
They're Type1 fonts that came with Corel Draw for Windows. I'm not sure
there's a public location for them to point to.
I'd appreciate any help with the PS
fonts.
If you could point me at the offending fonts I will have a look.
I just did this. I'm assmuming you're using mdk6 from a cheapbytes.com CD.
First, back up the configuration file /etc/X11/XF86Config. Something like this:
cp /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config.original
My install left me hanging with only the 75dpi fonts, install the 100dpi fonts.
Make
I'm seeing the same effect with the Mandrake 6 distro under both fvwm and kde,
and it occurs at all resolutions.
Whenever I move a window, it develops ghost windows that are displaced about
one inch to the left, right, and top. They appear and disappear rapidly,
giving a flash effect. As soon
I made a 3 Gb /opt in a separate partition and place this kind of stuff into
it. That way, when I upgrade, I just leave that partition alone and I don't
have to reinstall apps.
As far as WordPerfect goes, it must not be installed as root, otherwise it
creates icky security holes. The exact
A couple of weeks ago I saw the InfoMagic Workgroup Server still available on
cheapbytes. I still use it, yes it is great.
for a while. An old system based on ipfwadm might be available from
infomagic... Their excellent but discontinued workgroup server software.
Petey wrote:
I
WalMart was blowing out the HP 697C for $98. Haven't given it a complete
workout, but it doesn't look bad.
On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, you wrote:
%_Hello Everyone,
I am buying a printer next week and I am wondering if anyone can suggest a
printer. I want one that works with Linux.
It's looking for resolv.conf, not resolv.config .
First copy your existing resolv.conf to resolve.conf.orig,
then ediit resolv.conf to contain:
domain yourdomainname
search your isp name
nameserver primary names erver at isp
nameserver secondary name server at
I've run into a glitch on my Mandrake Linux system, and I'm wondering if it's a
DNS problem or just Netscape wierdness.
I've got a standard dialup server using diald to trigger the modem. When I
search for an outside URL using Netscape on RH52, the modem will dial, the
internet connection will
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