Re: [newbie] How to search for greatest # of incidences? Now OT

2003-06-30 Per discussione Jan Wilson
ticket. You are still paying 50% of each ticket for an incredibly unlikely chance to win, and it is hard to believe that you actually get twice the entertainment buying two tickets, compared to the entertainment from buying one. It then starts to look like gambling ;-) -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin

Re: [newbie] ACPI - ohhh no what have I done...

2003-06-21 Per discussione Jan Wilson
, it probably means that you don't have write permissions in the directory. I would then switch to a different console (or xterm) and fix the ownerships/permissions, and then save the file. If there is an easier way, I don't know it. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal

Re: [newbie] I borked my boot partition.. (Hijacked)

2003-06-14 Per discussione Jan Wilson
. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Hard and soft links

2003-06-13 Per discussione Jan Wilson
determines who can do what. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Ownership thing

2003-06-07 Per discussione Jan Wilson
of it. The copy will then be owned by her. If she has write privileges in the directory, she can then delete the old file. When you start thinking the Unix way is actually fairly consistent (which it is) then you're One Of Us ;-) -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Per discussione Jan Wilson
using chattr, but I don't think that would work either. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Perl Script in Background

2003-05-27 Per discussione Jan Wilson
* Cody Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030527 19:15]: How do i tell a script (perl script) to start in the background and stay running? If you are running it from the command line, put a space and an ampersand after the name of the Perl script, like: myscript -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin

Re: [newbie] broken fonts display

2003-03-26 Per discussione Jan Wilson
robust in this area. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200

2003-02-26 Per discussione Jan Wilson
longer, and cost several thousand dollars in license fees ;-) -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want

Re: [newbie] Graphics formats

2003-02-24 Per discussione Jan Wilson
compression. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] OT(?) Mutt Pine email clients

2003-02-06 Per discussione Jan Wilson
that is more powerful than pico, that comes with pine. Some people, myself included, try to avoid pine because it isn't GPL. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg

[newbie] Regular expressions (was: Vi vs Emacs)

2003-02-06 Per discussione Jan Wilson
'em. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-05 Per discussione Jan Wilson
vim is extremely powerful, virtually universal in the *nix world and available for virtually all platforms, with a steep but very short learning curve (the modes thing), and I like it a lot. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-05 Per discussione Jan Wilson
you can take more advantage of the GUI environment but still be comfortable when trying to edit your XF86Config-4 file to get your GUI working again ;-) -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize

Re: [newbie] IceWM themes don't stay

2003-01-02 Per discussione Jan Wilson
changes to this session, but not save any. Restart will make IceWm read its configuration files and begin again. It somehow does this without closing your programs that are running! Windows would have to completely reboot, right? ;-) -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] spadmin

2002-12-28 Per discussione Jan Wilson
spadmin that linked to soffice, but then you ran soffice, instead of spadmin. That accounts for getting the OOo setup instead of spadmin. Also, I think root needs to run spadmin. HTH -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz

Re: [newbie] VNC

2002-12-16 Per discussione Jan Wilson
. Could it have to do with the fact that win98 has tightVNC installed, not VNC? Do you have a VNC server on the Win98 box? -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz

Re: [newbie] Graphic formats, was: OT? LBA and CHS

2002-12-08 Per discussione Jan Wilson
cost $10K US per year PLUS 1% of any sales from the website! -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML

Re: [newbie] HD size

2002-12-08 Per discussione Jan Wilson
. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Text in OOo and Gimp

2002-12-08 Per discussione Jan Wilson
/ -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Gimp

2002-12-07 Per discussione Jan Wilson
* John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021207 06:12]: Can someone point me how to correct red-eye from my pics in gimp. http://carol.gimp.org/other/sloth/diary/redeye.html LOTS of good stuff on gimp.org! -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College

Re: [newbie] M9.0 and OpenOffice

2002-11-21 Per discussione Jan Wilson
/program/scalc and wait at least a minute before you give up. If these things work then you can set up menu items if they somehow didn't get made. If not it was a faulty installation. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com

Re: [newbie] OT: Rendering spreadsheet cells

2002-11-12 Per discussione Jan Wilson
, and then use Paste Special to paste only strings wherever you want it. Is this what you meant? If you don't really want a string but a numeric value (instead of a formula) you can copy the formula you gave and Paste Special as numbers. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] CD-RW problem

2002-11-09 Per discussione Jan Wilson
the ambiguity, so it stops to let you fix it. You could simply change 'Card1' to 'C1' and/or 'Card2' to 'C2' and it should work OK. This may be an oversimplification, but I bet it will work. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com

Re: [newbie] The Gimp

2002-11-03 Per discussione Jan Wilson
to get what you want. Undo (Ctrl+Z) is your friend ;-) -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want to buy

Re: [newbie] UMAX 1220U was: HP ScanJet 3200C

2002-10-27 Per discussione Jan Wilson
-1.0.9/ and ftp://ftp.mostang.com/pub/xsane/respectively. For information: http://xsane.org/ I installed those, and it works fine. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize

Re: [newbie] resizing photos

2002-10-01 Per discussione Jan Wilson
into the GIMP. Maybe the mogrify in 9.0 will make this unnecessary. But it's still a LOT faster than resampling them all in the GIMP. One day I'll write a Perl-Fu for it ;-) -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal

Re: [newbie] chcase

2002-09-26 Per discussione Jan Wilson
/bday/' *.jpg Hope this helps. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] 2 displays (X-Servers), one monitor, how do I switch?

2002-09-10 Per discussione Jan Wilson
to the console, and then Alt+F8 will return you to the X screen you started with :1. In other words, the F7-F10 refer to X screens :0 to :3, respectively, no matter which console you initiated them from. It's still great, because you can start different window managers in each X screen ;-) -- Jan

Re: [newbie] help please, keyboard rreeppeeaattiinngg

2002-09-05 Per discussione Jan Wilson
8.2 a lot of times, and have never had this problem with a variety of keyboards, from brand new to ones with a lot of key names rubbed off (old). Never had this problem. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal

Re: [newbie] Perl

2002-07-11 Per discussione Jan Wilson
better for learning ... I haven't really tried it), or even JavaScript if you do any web page designing. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user

Re: [newbie] Grep..?

2002-07-01 Per discussione Jan Wilson
Ctr cp92.qif:PSenator Inn Conference Center cp.qif:PThe Senator Inn Conf Ctr cp.qif:PSenator Inn cp.qif:ASenator Inn Conference Cente -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize

Re: [newbie] Samba is not working in 8.2

2002-05-13 Per discussione Jan Wilson
help you build a firewall that works with your situation. It would be nice if it worked out of the box but that just isn't going to happen, at least in my experience. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town

Re: [newbie] Linux User Groups

2002-03-27 Per discussione Jan Wilson
be appreciated. Thanks Bill Nash. Google is your friend. Search for Linux user groups and you'll get LOTS of stuff. There's even a howto or two that apply, and an organization or two. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com

Re: [newbie] Running Open Office more directly

2002-03-10 Per discussione Jan Wilson
on one line, take out the \ ) make sure there is a line that says something like export PATH The good thing about this is that other things will be less likely to mess with your path. Of course, if Mandrake decides you need something else in your path, you'll have to add it manually. -- Jan Wilson

Re: [newbie] Running Open Office more directly

2002-03-09 Per discussione Jan Wilson
, but it is a development build, and NOT the release candidate for OOo 1.0. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, SQL, Perl, HTML

Re: [newbie] thin clients with linux as terminal server

2002-02-22 Per discussione Jan Wilson
floppies. If you have a specific dedicated thin client in mind, well, maybe. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, SQL

Re: [newbie] random number in bash

2002-01-05 Per discussione Jan Wilson
How about expr $RANDOM % 35 + 1 Seems to work here ... not sure about the quality of the pseudorandom number, but might be OK for your purpose. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize

Re: [newbie] Apache config, was Help

2001-11-19 Per discussione Jan Wilson
LAN Look at the included documentation and let us know if you get stuck. Thanks again, Frank McKenna You'll find this list to be among the very best support groups around. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz

Re: [newbie] Help

2001-11-18 Per discussione Jan Wilson
special directory actions or restrictions. Let us know what you want to DO with Apache and we can give you some tips on setting it up to do that. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize

Re: [newbie] Easier reading

2001-11-09 Per discussione Jan Wilson
in each reply, and there are those of us who still pay high costs for very limited bandwidth. Judging by experience, though, you'll never get people to agree on either approach. The only thing you can get agreement on is that people SHOULD edit quotes down to the bare minimum. -- Jan Wilson

[newbie] weird symlink (was: mount umount cdrom (Audio CD Solution))

2001-10-25 Per discussione Jan Wilson
? -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, SQL, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] POP3

2001-10-24 Per discussione Jan Wilson
. For details, man fetchmail -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, SQL, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Digital Camera use with Linux

2001-09-25 Per discussione Jan Wilson
/100OLYMP -P BTW, gphoto2 recognized and identified the camera just fine. It's just that the documentation is pretty skimpy ... type gphoto2 without any arguments and it will give you a short help summary ... that's most of what you get for help (no man page). -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin

Re: [newbie] CDRW compatability

2001-09-11 Per discussione Jan Wilson
it was over one year from manufacture date, I had to fax them my invoice. They subsequently LOST my fax, and after many emails back and forth I finally gave up and bought a Yamaha to replace it. The Yamaha works fine. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior

Re: [newbie] grep -r *.c doesn't find files

2001-08-24 Per discussione Jan Wilson
the pattern *.c in ... well, nothing. You gave it no files to look for, so it is waiting for standard input. With the subject you gave, you probably want find instead of grep. Whichever you want, try man grepor man find -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin

Re: [newbie] Apache Question

2001-07-30 Per discussione Jan Wilson
, let us know what it says. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, SQL, Perl, HTML

Re: [newbie] HTML differences in Konqueror, Mozilla, Nautilus, Netscape, etc

2001-07-29 Per discussione Jan Wilson
when he found out that people may be resizing their browser windows, messing up the table layouts he had worked so hard on. He assumed everyone would be using 800x600, full screen MSIE. ;-) -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com

Re: [newbie] Got a question...

2001-07-16 Per discussione Jan Wilson
a sample one in: /usr/share/vim/vimrc (in Mdk 8.0). -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, SQL, Perl, HTML

Re: [newbie] deleting contents of a file

2001-07-10 Per discussione Jan Wilson
myfile this tells 'echo' not to follow the (empty) string with a newline, so the resulting file is zero length. I just tested this on Mdk 8.0 to be sure. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize

Re: [newbie] Weird no such file or directory message

2001-06-26 Per discussione Jan Wilson
run it. -- Jan Wilson _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Community College| |:' Corozal Junior College Corozal Town, Belize | /' Central America Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ http://www.corozal.com

Re: [newbie] need tool to trim file names to 31 characters

2001-03-05 Per discussione Jan Wilson
$was to $base$ext"; print " because it already exists.\n"; } else { if ( rename($was, "$base$ext") ) { $filecount++; } else { print "Error renaming $was to $base$ext\n"; } } }; if ( $filecount ) {

Re: [newbie] VMware Tools ver. 2.0

2000-04-27 Per discussione Jan Wilson
ry virtual floppy disk. Anyway, follow the installation instructions verbatim and it should work. The install instructions on my computer are at: /usr/lib/vmware/help/ToolsInstall.htm You can also access this from the help button on the virtual machine. -- Jan Wilson _/*];

Re: [newbie] path

2000-04-17 Per discussione Jan Wilson
our system. For this reason some recommend using symlinks or typing the full path. They must type faster than I do ;-) -- Jan Wilson _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Community College| |:' Corozal Junior College Corozal Town, Belize | /' Central America Visit o

Re: [newbie] changing font

1999-12-29 Per discussione Jan Wilson
* Ed Santiago [EMAIL PROTECTED] [991226 22:12]: In Linux Mandrake 6.1 how do you change the font size from the default of 75dpi to 100dpi? Try http://mandrakeuser.org/ and in the "X" section, "Fonts on X" or "Why Do Look Fonts So Ugly (sic)" ... those instruction

Re: [newbie] Shutdown Rights

1999-12-29 Per discussione Jan Wilson
wn" for details on this. -- Jan Wilson _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Community College| |:' Corozal Junior College Corozal Town, Belize | /' Central America Visit our Corozal site |_/ http://www.corozal.com