On Mon, 28 May 2001, mp wrote:
hy!
consider cable or t1, 56k is very slow.
regards,
mp
That would be nice - if we had cable...
T1 would be even better, but even if it were available, I don't think I
really want to pay over $1,500 per month US for the privilege
of reading this esteemed
On Saturday 26 May 2001 15:29, you wrote:
Sorry guys for asking so much. I am trying to buy a
new system and want to make sure that it Linux-ok.
Anyone knows a good modem that work fine with Linux?
I'm using an Actionrtec 56k internal pci, cost ~$70 at WalMart,
of all places. It
A note for those who, like me, found Mandrake 8.0
and KDE just too slow to be usable.
Today I loaded RedHat 7.1 (Seawolf), and things are fast enough.
i.e. an xterm comes up in 2 seconds, kwrite in 3., and
Konqueror in 7. Compare these to 15 - 45 second times
I was experiencing with
On Tue, 22 May 2001, you wrote:
Please let us know as soon as you have the disk
optimizer available for testing, I'll be happy to test
it for you. I am using and IBM 7200 RPM ATA 100 hard
drive and I'm not getting the performance I should
from it yet.
TC
I wonder if the new kernel is
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Mike wrote:
thanks to everyone who has helped me with this. i've now managed to extract
the tar file but the instructions say to add the location of the sdk to the
PATH settings. Where do i find path to modify it?
i'm slowly but surely getting the hang of this. Looking
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Ujang wrote:
I've downloaded few applications with extension tar.gz but dont
really know how to install it. I understand that there's command to
install it. Could someone guide me how to install the applications
under linux?
My PC running Linux Mandrake 7.1.
If you
On Fri, 18 May 2001, dfox wrote:
I wrote:
If I open all programs I am going to use, then switching between them
seems reasonably fast. However, if one of them needs to open a new window,
Does this happen independently of how many windows are already open, or
what window manager is being
On Sat, 19 May 2001, you wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to setup a new USR 56k modem on my system (LM 7.2)
Which USR 56k modem?
If it's the Performance Pro modem (about $80) then it should work.
If it's the Internal FaxModem, (about $40) then it clearly states
'Designed exclusively for the
On Sat, 19 May 2001, you wrote:
No it is not a winmodem according to USR it is model 5687-03 which is
controller based.
Then look here for instructions:
http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/5687-03.html
Regards,
Irv
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Dave wrote:
Well, it's still strange -- my ThinkPad is a 300MHz Celeron with 64 MB
RAM, and it runs both KDE 2 and Gnome just fine. Your system should be
able to do as well, from a hardware standpoint. Is it possible that even
though the correct X driver is installed,
On Fri, 18 May 2001, you wrote:
What would be the proper entry in /etc/fstab to automatically mount my
windoze partition from hde? I would like to at least have read access to
be able to access files.
Is this correct?
/dev/hde1/mnt/windows ext2defaults 1 2
I think
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Dwight Follick wrote:
Hi
I've recently been trying to load Mandrake 8.0 on my machine (I'm fricken
sick of Windoze) and when I'm in the installation trying to configure the
XFree86 4.03 part, it tests out my card and it freezes when it switches
screen modes or
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Ari Dias wrote:
Hello people, I have a question!
Why my linux mandraki 8.0 is so slowly that i cant use it!
i have a k6 500mhz!!!
tks
I had the same problem, KDE was so slow that I couldn't get any work done.
When I posted this to the KDE list, all I got was flames, but
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Dave wrote:
I ran into a similar problem with Mandrake 7.2. The problem/solution
turned out to be that Mandrake had detected and chosen a generic X video
driver for my video card, but that generic driver worked very poorly with
my card. Once I changed to the proper
On Thu, 10 May 2001, RK wrote:
I got my Mandrake 8 set last week from Cheapbytes - they're pleasant to deal
with, and quick.. They send an acknowledgement of your order, and, as promised,
another e-mail when the cd's go out the door. I had mine in 2 days, using
USmail!
Regards,
Irv
That's
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Dave wrote:
Yes, this is a hoax. Been around for a while, actually.
Dave
I fully expect Microsoft to come out with a version of Linux sooner
or later. It will be 'user friendly' - but just enough different so that
only Microsoft programs will run well on it.
Having
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Hello all,
There is something wrong with kfm's ftp function. It used to be (in mandrake
5.3) that I can do:
ftp://myusername@myserver/
And I'd be able to ftp to and fro with impunity - as long as I stuck to my
user's access rights.
However, in
On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, you wrote:
I'm using the KDE Mail Client. Is there anyway to make it check the pop server
every so many minutes?
File/Settings/Network tab/Incoming mail
click on an account, click the modify button, and click the
box marked Enable Interval mail checking.
Now, as to how
On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, you wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
u should be able to open a terminal window and type "deskswitch"
then just select the desktop you want : )
Thanks 4 trying to help, but it doesn't recognize deskswitch as a
command. Not even as root.
Any other suggestions?
On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, you wrote:
What version are you running? I am intrigued enough to want to
duplicate your situation
You'll probably have to type switchdesk-kde
to get back to kde. (Mine tries to default to switchdesk-gnome,
which results in a file-not-found error.
Irv
ption
esac
copy it, save it as, for example, lschoice, and chmod u+x so that you can
execute it by typing ./lschoice
HTH
Irv Mullins
On Wed, 07 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Hello , When I open kppp , I get this error message -
/etc/resolv.config is missing ! Ask your system
administrator to create a non-empty file that has appropriate
read and write permissions . What must I do ?
Write one. As root, go to /etc, and with pico
On Tue, 06 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Actually, DSL is just as vunerable as any other form of TCP/IP transport.
On the windows platform (believe it or not) there are security measures
in place, and some you can tighten your self like unbinding fileshareing
from the inet interface. Your just as
Hi;
When using KDE/KFM with SuSE, I could drag and drop files
from my desktop to various www directories (to which I have passwords).
Using KDE/KFM and Mandrake, when I do this, it writes a zero
length file to the directory. The names get there, but no data is
transferred. If I bring up a
Does anyone know why, when you try to use
terminal (super user, kdesu) you get a password dialog,
in which every key pressed is echoed three times?
Example: if root password were pig, you would type
pig, and see echoed: * (9 starz)
and an invalid password message. Of course it's
On Tue, 06 Jul 1999, you wrote:
It is intentional, confuses people who like to stare over shoulders
Well, it would be nice if, in addition to confusing snoops, it would
actually allow super-user access.
It doesn't.
That, of course, is the problem.
Irv
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Irv Mullins wrote
On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, you wrote:
%_Hi.
Just recently installed mandrake 6.0 (workstation) got the kkkp working
after resetting the pnp modem's jumper. The modem is on COM2 and using IRQ 3.
The problem I have is Netscape is about 3-4 slower that it was in windows.
Even file downloading. But
On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, you wrote:
It is secure, If you keep it that way and do not mess with things you do not
know about. Don't change things if you do not know what it can do to your
system..
That's not really an answer to the question, nor is it accurate.
The question was - why can someone
On Thu, 01 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Hello folks,
I've just moved to Venus. Everything looks fine. Everything works. Or so it
seemed. I think there's something wrong with kfm's ftp function. It seems
broken. I can download from ftp sites ok. But I cannot upload. (yes, I have
upload rights to
On Thu, 01 Jul 1999, you wrote:
Hello folks,
I've just moved to Venus. Everything looks fine. Everything works. Or so it
seemed. I think there's something wrong with kfm's ftp function. It seems
broken. I can download from ftp sites ok. But I cannot upload. (yes, I have
upload rights to
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