Re: [newbie] terrible browser fonts

2001-05-29 Per discussione Skip Montanaro
, so I can't take this particular step. My assumption from this is that there is a bug in Mandrake 8.0 that they ought to fix with an update somewhere down the line. Can anyone confirm or deny my assumption? Thx, -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098

Re: [newbie] EMACs: How save after editing a text area?

2001-05-29 Per discussione Skip Montanaro
understand JavaScript. I suspect you are going to have to use another browser to view that page. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098

[expert] Re: [newbie] Re: Reply-To header needed

2001-05-27 Per discussione skip
Skip, no offence, but it's not up to you what goes in the headers and what doesn't, if you're following the RFC rules. Regardless, your reason for offering what should and shouldn't be done has proven in the past as a bad solution. The choice to choose what should

Re: [newbie] Reply-To header needed

2001-05-26 Per discussione skip
you to easily edit headers, get a mail user agent that works well with editors like Emacs or vi. I happen to use VM, a standard package bundled with Emacs and XEmacs, but I'm sure there are others that provide similar features. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098

RE: [newbie] OT: Intel Performance

2001-05-25 Per discussione skip
degradation if it's not getting almost all its data from cache. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098

Re: [newbie] OT: Intel Performance

2001-05-24 Per discussione skip
two machines (well, on your Linux machine at least). -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098

Re: [newbie] kmail configuration or list?

2001-05-24 Per discussione skip
:' if it differs from 'reply-to:' and wasn't used to format the 'to:' field). Example 1. If I send a message to you with these headers: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Skip Montanaro) and you execute reply to sender

Re: [newbie] kmail configuration or list?

2001-05-24 Per discussione skip
irvm The mail server should be re-configured to put the listserver irvm address in the from field - see, for example, the Topica lists. No it shouldn't. See my previous message. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098

Re: [newbie] Page cannot be displayed

2001-05-23 Per discussione skip
is in /etc/named.conf. I am not running named, but I have fast connections to the net. It may be that named isn't started by default in Mandrake. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098

Re: [newbie] orinoco wireless cards

2001-05-23 Per discussione skip
the wireless mailing list archives: http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/wireless/ for discussion about such things on a list more focused on wireless networking. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8 with Orinocco Wavelan card

2001-05-22 Per discussione skip
/whatever and came across a wireless mailing list you might want to keep an eye on: http://lists.samba.org/listinfo/wireless So far I haven't solved my problems either, but that seems to have the traffic/information information about the OriNOCO card. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] RE:problems setting up telnet, ftp and ssh on Mandrake Linux

2001-05-22 Per discussione skip
thathost. Consult the tcpdump man page for more details on filter expressions. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098

Re: [newbie] Lucent Wavelan (Orinoco) with residential gateway.

2001-05-17 Per discussione skip
that looked like network name or password in the wvlan_cs config page. Any suggestions? You might also take a look at the iwconfig command if you're not familiar with it. I suspect you can make all the necessary settings with it, but I have no experience with it. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Lucent Wavelan (Orinoco) with residential gateway.

2001-05-17 Per discussione skip
with no success. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098

[newbie] Lucent OriNOCO card with Mandrake 8.0 and Apple AirPort Base Station?

2001-05-16 Per discussione skip
mobility with the laptop... :-( Any pointers appreciated. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098

Re: [newbie] cable modem - attenuator - bad md5sums

2001-05-13 Per discussione skip
trying to download them as plain text and hosing up literal newline or carriage return characters in the process. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098

Re: [newbie] Chmod chown and files with spaces in their names..

2001-05-13 Per discussione skip
. -type f -printf '%p'\n | xargs chmod 644 -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098

Re: [newbie] Who sells Mandrake distributions?

2001-05-11 Per discussione skip
Alan SkipYou asked who carries the boxed sets. I said that LSL Alan would have the Macmillan 8.0 boxed sets as soon as they are Alan available. They are not yet available. What is available in the Alan 8.0 release is the GPL CD's and that's what costs $3.78. Be Alan

[newbie] Who sells Mandrake distributions?

2001-05-10 Per discussione skip
here recommend a vendor (or vendors)? Thanks, -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098

Re: [newbie] Who sells Mandrake distributions?

2001-05-10 Per discussione skip
of printed manuals or support (should I need it - I do have a few nits I'd like someone to address). -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098

Re: [newbie] chown and chmod

2001-05-09 Per discussione skip
-a '!' -type f I guess that qualifies as a script. Slap a shebang on it and away you go... -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098

[newbie] any drivers for wireless networking in Mandrake 8.0?

2001-05-08 Per discussione skip
Does Mandrake 8.0 support any wireless networking (802.11b) cards out of the box? If not, are there drivers available on the net to support any cards? Thx, -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098

Re: [newbie] I screwed something up - ~/.bash_profile is never read

2001-05-08 Per discussione skip
on what happened. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098

Re: [newbie] Military time on clock under 8.0...

2001-05-08 Per discussione skip
. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098

[newbie] laptop running 8.0 hangs during shutdown...

2001-05-07 Per discussione skip
is a 3Com 589 PCMCIA ethernet card. Nothing like this happened when I was runnin 7.1, so I sort of assume it's not a hardware problem. Any ideas? -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098

[newbie] kapm-idled - what is it why does it chew up my CPU?

2001-05-06 Per discussione skip
I just upgraded from Mandrake 7.1 to 8.0 a few days ago. I notice that when the system is otherwise idle a process calling itself kapm-idled runs, consuming 75-80% of the CPU. Top shows its size as 0. What is it? Thanks, -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098