Re: [newbie] Hopefully a relatively easy question

2002-01-03 Per discussione Travis Olds
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Paul Zarson wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1010123373-11608-3344 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 How do I recursively search through directories to find a file, when what I want returned is the location, not the file

Re: [newbie] kapm-idled?

2001-12-03 Per discussione Travis Olds
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, NDPTAL85 wrote: In top what is kapm-idled and why is it taking up all of my CPU time? Is it just marking how much idle CPU time there is? Not quite its actually the kernels advanced power management process. What normally happens when your machine is idle, has nothing to

Re: [newbie] Strange Directory Listing

2001-11-20 Per discussione Travis Olds
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, R C wrote: Hi All, I was playing around in the terminal located in the bottom window of konqueror, issuing commands, and generally looking around and trying to get comfortable using a terminal. I gave the following command: ls -aop -in my home directory. One

Re: [newbie] web page woe's

2001-11-13 Per discussione Travis Olds
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can connect to it on a small local network (3 winblows systems and a mandrake server) by typing in the ip of the local address (192.xxx.x.x) or the external ip(24.x.x.x)but as soon as I try to connect from out side ie work there is no trace. no

Re: [newbie] Mapping keys in Gnome/Sawfish Mandrake 8.0

2001-08-23 Per discussione Travis Olds
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Keith Christian wrote: Where can I find info for mapping keystrokes (e.g. Alt-F4 to close a program, Alt-Tab to switch among windows, etc.) ? Gnome control center. Sawfish window manager - shortcuts Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Swap Space

2001-08-16 Per discussione Travis Olds
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has me curious. If I don't need much swap, should I not make much swap? Or is there no upper limit? If it's the more the marrier, why not always just make, say, 500MB? The point of swap space is to allow you to have more programs `running'

Re: [newbie] Permissions help

2001-07-24 Per discussione Travis Olds
runnable by root. Thanks for your input, i'm a relative newbie trying to figure out these permissions. Scott -- Travis Olds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Student Jacaranda Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Adelaide