Re: [newbie] stupid mandrake won't launch realplaer 8

2001-07-09 Thread steve campbell
Well assuming you installed it from the rpm ...realplay should be in.. /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay so either you installed the wrong one or you fscked it up. So it isn't stupid mandrake that YOU don't want to listen to, it is stupid lusers IT doesn't want to listen to. On Monday 09 July

Re: [newbie] *.GZ

2001-07-05 Thread steve campbell
The way I hear ityou should never open a .gz under windows On Thursday 05 July 2001 18:43, Boliver Allmon wrote: I finally got the files by using the HTML download format, and telling the computer to open it from its present location. WinRAR opened it and I told it to extract it to my

Re: [newbie] mini linux distro recommendations

2001-07-04 Thread steve campbell
Just wonderingdoes anyone know of a floppy distro with reiserfs support? I use toms boot disc and while it is great for hacking my friends broken windows, I can't actually use it on my own Linux..ironic huh? :) On Wednesday 04 July 2001 06:03, Brandon Caudle wrote: www.loaf.org

Re: [newbie] ./ .... why?

2001-06-27 Thread steve campbell
Yeah there is one very good reason, it is called security. lets say you DO add ./ to you PATH in bash_profile. All a nasty person has to do is write a shell script called ls that contains the line rm -rf / and save it in a directory on your machine, say /etc. next time you are in /etc and type ls

Re: [newbie] Sound recording

2001-06-17 Thread steve campbell
On Sunday 17 June 2001 16:11, L.V.Gandhi wrote: In windows music jukebox can take input from mic, line in or mixer and record the song. Is there any software, preferably GUI, based in linux. When I used grecord, it needs source only from line in. Even when line input is there, it couldn