Re: [newbie] Perl error message on locale

2000-12-13 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 13 December 2000 06:03 am, you wrote: Denis, Try re-installing the gedit rpm again. it appears as though when the program installed the setup process did not complete properly. That or you could hunt down the config file that this program is reading from and manualy reset the

Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition THANKS!!.

2000-12-13 Per discussione Holly Henry-Pilkington
[snippage of the swap discussion for brevity :) ] I remembered reading something recently about the old salt of making swap equal to the size of your RAM being outdated. As I got to this stage in the thread, it struck me where. I actually bought the package for 7.2 because my burner was on the

Re: [newbie] Linux-Keys

2000-12-13 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
You are correct, it is a function of the shell. By default, most Linux distros give you bash, which does implement this feature. Perhaps you are running another shell that does support this. Try typing "bash" at a console to load bash. Now type some other commands (to put some stuff in the

Re: [newbie] DSL

2000-12-13 Per discussione Joe Lore
I have been very busy at work and have not had time to even turn on my home system. I will try your suggestions this weekend and let you know. I appreciate the follow up. Thanks Joe - Original Message - From: Glenn Johnson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Re:[newbie] Changing KDE to Gnome

2000-12-13 Per discussione Roger Sherman
Blackbox is faster than both :-) On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Alexander Arzberger wrote: I am new to Mandrake and this list and I´ve tried to change Mandranke´s default KDE2 (too slow) to the faster Gnome Desktop, but there´s no menu item to do

Re: [newbie] printing in StarOffice (again)

2000-12-13 Per discussione Terry C
Now that I'm home; here's the printer error message: Error /undefined in rce %stopped_;ush --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- fa lse 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec 2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval--

[newbie] PHP in Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-13 Per discussione Michael O'Henly
Hi... Is PHP enabled by default in 7.2? I'm asking because when I point to an index.php file, it's displayed as plain text. The way I understand it, PHP can be loaded dynamically (as a DSO module), compiled into Apache, or run as a CGI. In the Mandrake httpd.conf, the lines that would cause

Re: [newbie] MD7.2 Stability

2000-12-13 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Get the KDE 2.0.1 bugfix. It should be available via MandrakeUpdate. Try other environments, like GNOME, to see whether the problem is KDE-specific or not. The problem could be ReiserFS-related, but it's more likely to be a problem with KDE. On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:07, Hektor Meyer wrote: Hi.

[newbie] Linuxconf in DrakConf does nothing

2000-12-13 Per discussione Eric Hall
Hey, y'all...new to Linux and this list, but not to computing. Quick question: regardless of the user I'm logged in as (root, for instance), clicking Linuxconf in DrakConf greys it out for a split second before returning to it's normal state. All the other options in DrakConf work just fine...

Re: [newbie] Spaces in names

2000-12-13 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
Mark Weaver wrote: Ok...since you've said I will believe it. But then how does one navigate to these dir's that have spaced names, or how would one open such a file from a command line? Every time I've ever tried this, with the exception of doing it with Wine (and even then most times it

Re: [newbie] Word Perfect 8

2000-12-13 Per discussione Len Lawrence
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Adrian Smith wrote: Thanks Adrian. That is encouraging. Hey, but you do know about poetry. hey Len -- i noticed you mentioning Applix below. i installed Applix Office 5 on my 7.1 7.2 boxes with no problems and no seg faults when it runs. and the printing under

[newbie] CDRW problems cont'd

2000-12-13 Per discussione Dennis Myers
[root@localhost dennis]# ls -l /dev/cdrom1 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Dec 13 20:26 /dev/cdrom1 - scd0 [root@localhost dennis]# Here is what I see when listing the dev, does anyone see a probable cause for why I can not access the writer as user? I'm baffled. help ! --

Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition.

2000-12-13 Per discussione tabanna
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Roger Sherman wrote: How much of a difference did you notice? I have 64 meg RAM, and am strongly considering adding 128 more...will it be worth the time and money? __ If you have several apps open, say netscape, spreadsheets + graphics, then, believe

Re: Re:[newbie] Changing KDE to Gnome

2000-12-13 Per discussione tabanna
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: (as I have an antique and slow machine, I'd be interested to switch to the fastest DE) WindowMaker {GnuStep}{Gnome} ___ ~ this is very slim, fast, and, Rock_Steady :) best wishes -- sent on Linux 100% Virus

Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition.

2000-12-13 Per discussione tabanna
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Adrian Smith wrote: how to (if you even can) tell linux to use or not use the swap. swapon -s will show you details of swap partitions swapon /dev/[whats_your_swap_part] will turn it on swapoff /dev/[whats_your_swap_part] will turn it off

Re: [newbie] Linuxconf in DrakConf does nothing

2000-12-13 Per discussione Eric Hall
-- Eric (the Deacon remix) http://www.firekite.com Flames spewing from his pointy little head -michael- warns all who read that the above url points to a website which won't allow entry without IE 5.5 service pack 1 whatever that is! Heh...nah, it's just recommended because NS chokes

[newbie] Opera for Linux

2000-12-13 Per discussione Jay
Just letting you know that Opera beta 4 is out for Linux. http://www.opera.com/linux/ -- Jay ~May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend~ http://www.mrsnooky.com

Re: [[newbie] securing Mandrake]

2000-12-13 Per discussione ed
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I'm not sure if this is the correct place to be asking this, as I'm having no hardware config or install problems, but I need a bit of advice on making Mandrake more secure. I have already gone through and commented out various stuff in

RE: [newbie] Spaces in names

2000-12-13 Per discussione Bill Shirley
Anyone ever used the tab key on the command line? Type command (like: cat) and then type the first few characters of the file name and hit tab to auto complete the name. Works with files with spaces in them. Also, works after typing a few characters of a command. HTH, Bill -Original

Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition.

2000-12-13 Per discussione tabanna
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: you prob'ly wouldn't even need a /swap. __ my desktop 'puter with 128 mb RAM , usually only reports, that, it is using about 300k of Swap { swaps mounted are abt 230 mb } best wishes -- sent on Linux

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