On Tue 3/1/2005 3:31 PM Lorin Pino wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 22:17 +0200, Duncan Anderson wrote:
>> Martell, Larry wrote:
>>
>> >On Monday 28 February 2005 09:26 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >>Julie Sloan wrote:
>
ems to be random while unix is
orthogonal and deterministic. I swear I think there a random number generator in
windows and when you boot it that determines how it will function that day ;-)
But I learn so much new stuff every day ... and I have managed to bring in 2
linux boxes here
(and I've
Something like this could never happen in unix.
-larry
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Title: [newbie] laptop batteries
Paul Kaplan wrote:>
> Does anyone have a recommendation for a reliable,
inexpensive source of> replacement laptop batteries?
I've been very happy with:
http://www.notebook-battery-for-less.com/
-larry
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>
>> Martell, Larry wrote:
>> Anyway, here's my question: If I want to send data out a
>> serial port, I can just do "cat file > /dev/ttya". How can I do
>> the same thing with a USB port? I don't see any entries in
end data
out a
serial port, I can just do "cat file >
/dev/ttya". How can I do
the same thing with a USB port? I don't see any
entries in
/dev that look like the USB ports.
Thanks!
-larry
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> I suppose you live in the US, so what charset do you use in KMail ?
>
> Kaj Haulrich.
Hi Kaj,
I can see them all and I am in the US with the following charsets
listed in
Kmail composer: us-ascii, iso-8859-1, iso-8859-1 (locale), and utr-8.
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Hi all...
I need to make my cursor more visible, big screen and bad eyes.
I know the latest XFree86 lets you change this using size, themes and
environment variables, but I cannot locate the appropriate Mandrake
configuration spot.
Any body out there know?
Larry Johnson
Hi all...
I installed the Xwindow documentation, and it's in
/docs, but how do you view
it? It's not .html or text.
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It's Bering-uClibc based on imbedded Linux.
I have an old Pentium with a 10 gb disc that's been running nonstop for over
five years.
It's as reliable as an anvil.
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uring boot, I
decided to go with a clean install to "fix" those annoyances, and that's when
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> -Original Message-
> From: WaltFrampus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004
I don't want to start a big X vs. Y thread here, I'm sure there are many
features of SuSE that are better than Mandrake, but here I'm focusing on the
problems I had with SuSE that basically made it unusable for me as a
desktop.
Look forward to working with the Man
Josenildo Marques wrote:
I have not only erased Linux from my precious computer, but I've also
come back to Windows, the best operating system ever ! Linux experience
is, to say the least, disappointing and frustrating. I'm feeling so much
better that I can't avoid giving you this piece of advic
>
> From: Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2004/01/07 Wed AM 06:55:45 EST
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Canon i470D Printer Driver?
>
> On Tuesday 06 Jan 2004 7:07 pm, Larry Varney wrote:
> >I have just purchased the Canon i47
I have just purchased the Canon i470D printer. Mandrake 9.1 has lots
of drivers for Canon printers, but none specifically for this model.
Is there one that is compatible? I have tried a couple, and the pages
come out 1/4 the normal size!
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On Friday 28 February 2003 08:20, Robert Golovnyov wrote:
>
> Does the KMail support redirecting messages or can I only forward them?
Yes. You can redirect or bounce both via a menu item or automatically via
filters.
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On Saturday 22 February 2003 09:00, Larry Williams wrote:
> On Saturday 22 February 2003 06:08, Gil Katz wrote:
> > On Saturday 22 February 2003 07:22, Larry Williams wrote:
> > Stephan the answer to your 2 q is no and i'll be tahnkfull if you will
> > e-mail them
On Friday 21 February 2003 03:35, Gil Katz wrote:
> Hi
> when ever i try to connect to telnet 127.0.0.1 port i get
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> in /etc/hosts.allow i wrote
> telnet : 127.0.0.1
> what should i do?
> Gil
Hi Gil.
I get the sa
On Thursday 20 February 2003 23:55, g wrote:
> Larry Williams wrote:
> > My memory is slowly returning. I had to load the
> > ftape.o module to use the drive.
>
> do you and femme know each other? lol.
LOL. Nah. I'm not stoned, I'm old.
Want to buy your Pac
On Thursday 20 February 2003 15:52, Chris wrote:
> I put in a pre-recorded cd in my drive a bit ago, clicked on the cd icon
> and got a box that said I don't have enough permissions to open /mnt/cdrom,
> tried my other drive, got the same. A cd that I've recorded mp3's on works
> just fine. Why w
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 21:04, g wrote:
> Larry Williams wrote:
> > I used to have an old Jumbo 250 installed and working with a 3.x or 4.x
>
> 4 cms jumbo 250 tape drives that i have are
> floppy tape drives and i use ftape for them.
Yes, you are correct. My memory is sl
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 19:30, Mark Berry wrote:
> Hi
> Has anyone any experience of setting up a IDE tape drive? I have a HP
> Colorado "Travan" which is recognised as /dev/hdg but there are no
> entries in /etc/fstab so I can't mount it.
I used to have an old Jumbo 250 installed and working
On Monday 17 February 2003 03:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> G'day,
>
> as the sub says, I get no audio when playing VCDs in Xine.
> Audio works fine in XMMS, but in Xine I get video ok but
> no sound.
> Clicking on the config tool and then to the audio tab reveals
> the "audio driver to use" is se
On Saturday 15 February 2003 01:39, Robert Wideman wrote:
> My issue is resolved. i had tried this before but didnt work at the
> time
> rpmdrake has 755 permissions on it by default. I had to change this to 775
> AND add the user to wheel group. Also i checked the groups out by "group
> use
On Saturday 15 February 2003 11:13, tuija wrote:
> Thanks emacs shows up, but if I try to reply some message
> emacs doesn't go to inbox in that particular message.
> Emacs shows plain new window? I would like to integrate emacs in to
> Kmail same as I can integrate it to Mutt, when I write muttrc
On Saturday 15 February 2003 12:53, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> Keeping it on top is another issue - that depends on the WM you're
> using. If you're using KDE, you should be able to right-click the
> icon/name in the taskbar and choose SHOW ON ALL DESKTOPS (or something
> similar - I'm in Fluxbox now an
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 06:52, p s wrote:
> Sorry if this is stupid, I am completely new to linux.
>
> I have tv card manli tv with chip SAA7134. It is not
> automaticaly recognized by mandrake (in the hardware
> list I can see the chip, with module:unknown). I wrote
> by hand 'modprobe saa7134
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 18:16, Todd Slater wrote:
> That helps, thanks for the explanation, Larry. I'm just going to keep on
> thinking it's magic that it knows to open that file before it does the
> other stuff that comes before it. I always assumed it was linear, left to
Re: Fwd: [newbie] Ethernet over USB?
From:
Larry Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date:
Tue, 4 Feb 2003 21:00:29 -0800
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 18:15, David Reynolds wrote:
> Am I using the wrong list for this inquiry? I am not sure if I am barking
> do
On Sunday 02 February 2003 14:10, FemmeFatale wrote:
> My b/f is a windows MCSE. Fine. In windows you run as root anyway. Even
> on 2k I run as an Admin.
>
> Now he says he sees no diff from that to running as Root in linux.
>
> I can't give him any better argument for not doing so other than it
On Sunday 02 February 2003 16:37, Richard J wrote:
> When I play a cd through my computer, I am having to have the volume from
> the player and on the speakers on full to hear anything, and even then it
> is not very loud. How can I change this?
My guess is that you have your CD volume turned dow
On Friday 31 January 2003 23:43, fifner the dragon wrote:
> How do I set up my connection sharing to share the connection with one
> computer (192.168.0.3) but not with another (192.168.0.2)?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Fifner
The way I would do it would be with iptables. If you are able to share yo
ou
will have to restart your network service, whcih can be done as root by
typing "service network restart"
Cheers,
Larry
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I didn't use
adjectives, I guess). And many thanks for any assistance you can offer.
Larry
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libraries aren't part of the new package).
So unless I can upgrade my printer (which may happen in the next month along
with a system upgrade), I'm open to alternative print spoolers, or PDQ if I
can properly configure Samba.
Thanks,
Larry
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On Saturday 25 January 2003 09:43, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 4:50 pm, Larry Williams wrote:
>
> I didn't notice the model number in your header. I'm sorry to say that I
> think you are unlucky here. HP are pretty good at providing linux drivers,
>
On Saturday 25 January 2003 09:11, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 4:50 pm, Larry Williams wrote:
> > Hi All.
> >
> > I'm new to this list, and I've checked the archives and tried all the
> > suggestions I've found, but I am still unable to
ugh a raw file is sent and
application/octet-stream is enabled in both mime.* files.
Any thoughts? Should I consider PDQ or find and install some other lp daemon?
If so, what print system should I define in Samba?
Thanks in advance,
Larry
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I've started playing with, and really like, Enlightenment as a desktop
environment, and with Rox as a file manager, I think I've found a combination
with which I'm happy. It seems to be quite fast/light/configurable, more so
than the window manager(s) that come with KDE/Gnome.
I do somewhat m
ngly easy. :-)
Thanks,
Larry
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On Wednesday 11 September 2002 12:47 am, s wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 September 2002 11:40 pm, Larry Theden wrote:
> > Having migrated from Mandrake 8.1 to 8.2 to 9.0 RC1 to (now) RC2,
> > I'm getting tired of re-configuring Kmail. I move my Mail folder,
> > but where doe
Having migrated from Mandrake 8.1 to 8.2 to 9.0 RC1 to (now) RC2, I'm getting
tired of re-configuring Kmail. I move my Mail folder, but where does Kmail
keep settings like filters, folder properties, etc.?
Thanks,
Larry
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ware? (I've seen spam assassin
mentioned, and vaguely recall others).
> its pretty easy to setup postfix and there are a ton of online docs about
> it. (postfix.org)
>
> postfix is far easier and more secure..(and smaller and much faster) then
> sendmail.
I'll keep that in mi
What advantage is there to setting up procmail/sendmail/etc., as opposed to
simply running Kmail, Evolution, or any of a dozen other mail apps?
Thanks,
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ve of, "Eh, wot, I'm burning 3 CDs
a week at the current rate, maybe I'll just have a wait." What am I
overlooking? :-)
Thanks,
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It couldn't be so easy that it's really expecting "login" instead,
could it?
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> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:48:30 -0500
> Hanan Shargi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>Why dont we people post in what part of the world r we ??
>>
>
Just about 10 miles due south of Cincinnati, OH.
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ving to attach the
>>camera directly, or just stick with Windows for those times when I need
>>to use a card reader.
>>
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ttach the
camera directly, or just stick with Windows for those times when I need
to use a card reader.
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ognize things, such as with this latest card
reader I have, it becomes a game of which will win first, frustration or
you. That first reader of mine sort of was recognized, as a 1-gig scsi
hard drive, but it didn't work out as a card reader. And this last
(emphasis on last) one, jus
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sda wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 10:26:34AM -0500, Larry Varney wrote:
>
>> I picked up a book, "PHP Fast & Easy Web Development", by Julie C.
>>Meloni, and it comes with a CD co
s it as a client? I assume that I should be able to do
> something like that especially since freeciv sets up server/client on my
> machine.)
>
> If someone could point me in the right direction, it would save me wading
> through tons of documentation that assumes I have Apache up-
em in /etc/fstab. For example,
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto user ,
The key word there is "user".
Larry
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Hi everybody,
I got my problem with a 1996 bios and Lilo fixed by not using Lilo.
Installed Grub instead and it is happy.
Thanks to everyone who responded.
Larry
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partition
table. I thought
that perhaps Linux didn't like the way MaxBlast created the partitions so I
used a Win98
boot disk and fdisk to create the two Windows partitions. Tried to install
Linux again today
and still get the LIL thing.
Is there a way around this?
Thanks,
Larry
Want to b
I haven't been able to get my SimpleTech Flashlink to work with Mandrake
8.1 - it keeps getting identified (after modprobe) as a 1 gig scsi drive,
even without a card in it. I suspect that the fact that it's a combination
reader, for both Compact Flash and Smart Media, might be the problem. At
l
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> Ack Typo
> mknod -m a+rw /dev/hdd4 b 22 68
>
> is what it should be
>
> major 22 is ide channel secondary minor 64+partition number is slave
> drive and partition number combined.
>
ns have numbers.
>
>
>
>
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ope that someone steers me in the right direction so that I can
>>use these things. It's tough being a Linux evangelist when you can't get
>>the system to let you use something, and yet it's automatically loaded
>>in Windows!
>>
>
> Try mounting as /dev/sda1
g a Linux evangelist when you can't get
the system to let you use something, and yet it's automatically loaded
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I have just today upgraded from 8.0 to 8.1, and it's getting to the
point where I'll be surprised when the install *doesn't* go smoothly!
But I have a similar question about USB devices. Mine were recognized by
Mandrake, as seen by running USBViewer. It picked up my SmartMedia /
CompactFlash
y after you've got
a system up and running? Should I boot from the boot disk and add a
parameter telling it of the new amount of RAM? (That would be 'Linux
append="mem=384", right?) Or should I just reinstall?
Thanks!
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s though it were walking down that street,
GIMP is great. If you want to draw a picture of an elephant walking down a
street, however, you need a different program and there isn't a good one in the
Linux world.
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e necesary files for me
Have you run aumix? I found that 8.1 defaults to very low volume settings.
Adjusting the volumes (and saving) using aumix fixes the problem.
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.
Do you think my shadow or passwd file has gotten corrupted?
They look ok on inspection with less.
Could I delete the shadow file? Should I?
If that doesn't work delete the passwd file?
I'm way out of my depth here - please help!
Larry Alkoff
Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
Wan
lled iptables from DrakConf which downloaded and installed iptables version
1.2.1-4mdk.
I have not found a later version.
I can't see why the startup script should call iptables-restore with non-existant
parameters unless there was some kind of version mixup.
Any idea what's wrong?
Thanks Larry Alkoff N2LA
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Option "ChordMiddle"
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Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated.
The system is substantially unusable right now except in console mode.
Thanks, Larry Alkoff
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and line kind of guy.
Thanks, Larry Alkoff N2LA
Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
Hi,
Can anyone tell me where I can get a public domain copy of 'make'.
Thankx.
Larry
ead to the selection for choosing the default user?
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> I only subscribed today. I can do without that kind of help.
Fred, I dare say that you'll not likely have to worry about getting any
kind of help from either myself or Tom. Good luck with Linux; it's a
great operating system.
Cheers --- Larry
w
> boot disk somehow? Can't find anything in the archives or in the other help sites
Jump into your bios and set things up so you can boot off the CD and do
that.
Cheers --- Larry
don't do HTML I'm happy to say.
Cheers --- Larry
get past that, though there may be one. If you want to
read a bit about how to do the mount, check man mount and look for the
"loop" option.
Cheers --- Larry
time of a fresh install, which means it's a lot faster doing it
that way than to do the upgrade which would be a hope and a prayer in my
view going from 7->7.2 because so much stuff has changed.
Cheers --- Larry
megs. Smile while you're growling over
having bought part of the operating system.
Cheers --- Larry
95 stuff for your C++ compiler but
personally I wouldn't put 2.96 on my machine right now. Depends on your
tolerance for the bleeding edge I suppose. Just realize that in the Linux
world, you have to make that decision and the farther out on the edge you
go the more often you're going to be rebuilding and reinstalling stuff
Cheers --- Larry
ronosenlightenment is on the 2nd (extension) CD.
Since you're unwilling to say it (grin) Alan, I will. The extension CD
doesn't come in the Walmart package.
Cheers --- Larry
as your
desktop and Enlightenment is added as the window manager.
Cheers --- Larry
Yep...the first thing newbies need to do is find out that their winmodem
won't connect them. I guess this is a feature :-)
Cheers --- Larry
> What's the difference between ' / ' and ' /root '?
/ is the base directory off which all other directories branch (presuming
they're on that partition). /root is the home account for the root user.
Cheers --- Larry
buggy
software. Why should be be pleased to find that the distro people are
doing exactly the same thing? They would do well to follow the example of
those developing the kernelslow is good.
Cheers --- Larry
linux Distro I
used has a nice looking Netscape that has colors. Mandrake has this boring grey
Again, there's a problem with your setup as it's nice and colorful here.
Cheers --- Larry
Linux
is failing to pass muster in that third category. If the Linux market is
the saavey computer computer user market than this isn't a
problem. Otherwise, both the developers and marketeers are failing
miserably.
Cheers --- Larry
ic as what
you or anyone does with Windows is irrelevant here.
Cheers --- Larry
> There's also OpenOffice on cooker mirrors:
> /packages/mandrake-devel/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/
> openoffice-6.0.5-1mdk.i586.rpm (47mb)
Have you tested these Tom? I thought they were saying that they were
pretty flakey right now in terms of the compile scripts.
Cheers --- Larry
This is all separate from personal .netscape files and
deleting them doesn't fix it.
Cheers --- Larry
n probably get them from the Mandrake
mirrors. I was referring to the source code.
Cheers --- Larry
just select them and that works too.
> to run their monitor at max specs. Monitors weaken with age, and
Kinda like me.
Cheers --- Larry
d
Applix that can't be denied or understated. While I'm not against
commercial software, I suspect we'll see some really significant
development going on with SO code in the next year or so.
Cheers --- Larry
end
up with a 48mb memory limit which is well below the standing RAM in most
of our current machines.
> What I get from all this Larry is that for the i386 based machines, the general
> rule of thumb is double the RAM up to 128MB of swap. If your resource
> monitoring shows a high usea
've done come up 250meg and I generally drop it down to 200 without any
problems. On my own machines I use Partition Magic and set it for
whatever I want.
Cheers --- Larry
program, email tool, and Netscape open (I often have
this situation) you'll probably see more swap usage :-) But I think
that's the point. The notion that swap "should be" 128m or "twice your
RAM" is pure folly. Swap demands, as you well know, is dependent upon
memory usage.
Cheers --- Larry
ion table
before Mandrake install will work. I can't say whether that's true or
not.
cheers --- Larry
ing run, etc. If you
auto-allocate a 128m memory machine using Mandrake installer it
will give you 250m of swap.
Cheers --- Larry
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