Re: [newbie] partitioning limbo (as in Purgatory, not the dance)

2005-01-04 Per discussione Todd Slater
commercial games with my family Generous Whack Ok. Here's how I would plot/plan this out. whack Sympa burping today? This is about the 50th copy of this message I've received today. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] webdav

2004-12-31 Per discussione Todd Slater
GET HEAD OPTIONS Require valid-user /LimitExcept /Location The best tutorials I found for setting up webdav were these: http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/10825_2176771_2 http://questier.com/howto.html#CAL Todd

Re: [newbie] imap setup

2004-12-28 Per discussione Todd Slater
the former we'll need more info on exactly what you're trying to achieve. Todd -- Reclaim the flag: http://www.pbs.org/now/commentary/moyers19.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Xfce4 settings question

2004-12-27 Per discussione Todd Slater
a line to /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4 (in mine, your location might be different like /etc/xdg/xfce4). Just take a peek inside that file and you'll see where different things are started. Just add a line with iconbox and you should be good to go. Todd

Re: [newbie] The effect of 'chgrp' is not pemanent?

2004-12-19 Per discussione Todd Slater
the need to have your entire system group owned by a simple user. Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. Better to su when you need to, or learn how to set up sudo. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Tying down to one only email client

2004-12-18 Per discussione Todd Slater
if the mozilla forum you refer to is Usenet or online) Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] How to compare two files?

2004-12-17 Per discussione Todd Slater
and tell what lines are different from one another? Rodolfo, That would be the diff command. man diff for more info. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

[newbie] mplayer streaming ASF

2004-12-16 Per discussione Todd Slater
isn't an issue. Does anything below stand out? Would somebody be willing to test the stream to see if it's playable? Gracias, Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] todd]$ mplayer http://stream1.emmisaustin.com/kgsr-fm MPlayer 1.0pre5try2-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices K6-2 501.7

Re: [newbie] SOLVED mplayer streaming ASF

2004-12-16 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:38:49PM -0500, Todd Slater wrote: Mdk 9.1 MPlayer-1.0pre5try2 (from source) all win32 codecs I'm trying to play a stream from KGSR radio with mplayer. I can play it at work on a Windows box with WiMP. When I try here it just hangs. If I wait long enough I get

Re: [newbie] mplayer streaming ASF

2004-12-16 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:10:45PM -0500, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:38:49 -0500 Todd Slater wrote: I'm trying to play a stream from KGSR radio with mplayer. I can play it at work on a Windows box with WiMP. When I try here it just hangs. I can play it here using

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-15 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 07:32:54PM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote: Is anybody else on this list getting bombarded with virus laden e-mail from a particular ip address in Australia? Whoever it is is sending to the address that I use for the Mandrake lists, so I am thinking it may be one of our

Re: [newbie] /bin/sh: bad interpreter

2004-12-12 Per discussione Todd Slater
denied. Any ideas? Paul, You don't need both sh and ./ so try either sh LinuxInstaller.bin or ./LinuxInstaller.bin or even /full/path/to/LinuxInstaller.bin Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] KDE CD

2004-12-08 Per discussione Todd Slater
? Regards, Danesh Daroui That's the disc 4 that Mandrake won't give away; you'll have to join the club or buy a box set to get it if I understand correctly. But if you're going to be running a server you don't want KDE anyway, right? Todd Want

[newbie] Gnome-games?

2004-12-08 Per discussione Todd Slater
After futzing around with gnome in Slackware and Ubuntu I've come to enjoy a few of the gnome games. I can't find them in 10.1 Official DE and the machine is not on a network so I can't set up urpmi--can somebody verify whether tetravex etc. are available in contrib or some place? Thanks! Todd

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Per discussione Todd Slater
? Is version 10 more stable ? Thanks, Danesh Daroui Go back to FC3, then. Cheers, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:05:08PM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:44:56PM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Spam assassin with Thunderbird

2004-12-03 Per discussione Todd Slater
. I'm pretty sure SA requires you to have procmail set up and working; bogofilter can work when called directly from an MUA but I prefer to use procmail with it as well. In any event, I don't think it's hard to set up SA. Have you read the README and INSTALL files? Todd -Original Message

Re: [newbie] DVD Burners

2004-11-30 Per discussione Todd Slater
it was going to be made available at the end of November ... Todd -- Reclaim the flag: http://www.pbs.org/now/commentary/moyers19.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] DVD Burners

2004-11-30 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:40:11PM -0500, Todd Slater wrote: BTW, when will 10.1 official be available for us cheap bastards? I thought it was going to be made available at the end of November ... OK, talking to myself, I just hit aolm and see that the iso's are starting to be made available

Re: [newbie] The Bat - Mozilla ?

2004-11-28 Per discussione Todd Slater
=110472highlight=import+mail+bat HTH, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Converting MP3 to wav

2004-11-23 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 08:42:35PM +0100, Anders Lind wrote: Hello again, another question, is there a software to convert MP3 to wav with...I tried using XMMS but it seems that the plugin that is supposed to be there for it is not. Try mpg123. Todd

[newbie] /home/user permissions

2004-11-23 Per discussione Todd Slater
I just noticed that all user directories in /home allow group and other read access. Shouldn't the default setting for /home/user be -rwx--? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] /home/user permissions

2004-11-23 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 04:51:43PM -0500, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:06:00 -0500 Todd Slater disseminated the following: I just noticed that all user directories in /home allow group and other read access. Shouldn't the default setting for /home/user be -rwx--? Ya, I

Re: [newbie] Help requested getting Apache virtual servers going

2004-11-22 Per discussione Todd Slater
or error_log? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Apache or Mandrake permissions problems?

2004-11-16 Per discussione Todd Slater
/user (unless you're tightening it up). You might try turning on the /home/*/public_html option in httpd.conf and just testing a user. If you can do that ok, then your problem might not be permissions but your VirtualHost entry. Todd Want

Re: [newbie] Configure Kmail for Hotmail without 3rd party software!

2004-11-16 Per discussione Todd Slater
. I thought it a good idea to check who owns that domain before feeding it a username and password. hot2pop.com is also available if you're interested. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] XFce4.2 RC1

2004-11-15 Per discussione Todd Slater
occupying my time lately. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] OT ssl certs

2004-11-15 Per discussione Todd Slater
I recently bought an ssl certificate for a domain and everything is cool with browsing the site with https://. Now I'm reading up on Courier IMAP and using SSL with it--can I use the same certificate for web and IMAP, or do I have to buy another one? Todd -- Name that tune #14: There's a room

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-12 Per discussione Todd Slater
want to mess with upgrading on account of server stuff. Who on the list would win the prize for running the oldest version of MDK? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club

Re: [newbie] MSN Gaming Zone with Linux?

2004-11-02 Per discussione Todd Slater
Gaming Zone. Sevatio My sister-in-law had a similar problem. The whole family swore they'd never use IE again, but my sis-in-law apparently likes to play cards on MSN. It wouldn't work with Mozilla. She switched to Yahoo games, which did work with Mozilla. Still virus-free. Todd -- Name

Re: [newbie] Command deleting one of two equal lines in a file

2004-10-31 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 09:40:00AM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands) that looks into a file and delete one line if there are two equal? uniq is the closest thing I know, but it requires lines to be sorted. Todd -- Name that tune #2

Re: [newbie] [OT] Apache and users cgi

2004-10-27 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:16:40PM +0800, frankieh wrote: Todd Slater wrote: I am hosting a few sites for friends that need cgi access. I read something about cgi scripts shouldn't be in the web document root for security purposes--people being able to read them as text. I turned on cgi

[newbie] [OT] Apache and users cgi

2004-10-26 Per discussione Todd Slater
is not secure? What's the standard practice for doing this with users and virtual hosts? Todd -- Name that tune #4: I said, There is no justice! as they led me out the door; and the judge said, This isn't a court of justice, son, this is a court of law

Re: [newbie] RSS feeds reader

2004-10-20 Per discussione Todd Slater
with Dillo. There's also Firefox's Live Bookmarks and/or Sage (for regular reading Sage is better), and Opera's recent efforts include RSS capability, though I'm not crazy about the interface. Good luck, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] ProFTPD?

2004-10-14 Per discussione Todd Slater
believe what you're looking for is the DefaultRoot directive. You may need to set up a group that has write access to /var/www/html and set default root to ~ (chroot/jail) for all users *except* members of your new group. Don't hold me to it cause it's been awhile since I messed with proftp. Todd

Re: [newbie] Apache and blocking Referrer spam

2004-10-13 Per discussione Todd Slater
have issues with comment spam but not referrer spam, but if I understand Bryan's strategy it will not block comment spammers, right? WordPress has some nice comment spam-fighting features built in, but I have yet to find the perfect blogging software. Todd

Re: [newbie] Apache and blocking Referrer spam

2004-10-13 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:36:26AM -0400, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 13 October 2004 08:36, Todd Slater wrote: I have issues with comment spam but not referrer spam, but if I understand Bryan's strategy it will not block comment spammers, right? WordPress has some nice comment spam

Re: [newbie] how to move mail from KMail (MDK10) to windows

2004-10-10 Per discussione Todd Slater
the bounce feature available in most MUA's. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Sharing address-books

2004-10-04 Per discussione Todd Slater
the nightlies) have a roaming profile that can be updated via FTP or WebDAV, but that leaves you SOL for mail. HTH, Todd -- Zinn-Chomsky 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] adding windowmanager to login

2004-10-03 Per discussione Todd Slater
down the correct path? I'm sure its easy but I just can't seem to locate the problem. I believe the NAME you gave in wmsession.d is case-sensitive, so in kdmrc you have AfterStep where is should be AFTERSTEP. At least I think. Todd -- If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we

Re: [newbie] adding windowmanager to login

2004-10-03 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 05:41:06PM -0500, Chris wrote: On Sunday 03 October 2004 05:28 pm, Todd Slater wrote: So, can someone lead me down the correct path? I'm sure its easy but I just can't seem to locate the problem. I believe the NAME you gave in wmsession.d is case-sensitive, so

Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?

2004-10-01 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 07:31:20AM -0400, Lanman wrote: LX, whack Lyvim is one of the few who maintains a relatively even composure compared to some of us and constantly offers help, suggestions and tactful nudges as to list etiquette instead of attacking newbies or welcoming them with

Re: [newbie] gDesklets

2004-09-29 Per discussione Todd Slater
or join a list for gnome support. If I'm wrong, I'll be sure to post another rant. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Helix vs. Real Player?

2004-09-29 Per discussione Todd Slater
and a handful of these two nations' most powerful telecommunications companies. After all, what is said on one end is never exactly the same as what comes out on the other. Todd -- Name that tune #22: No caffeine, no protein, no booze or nicotine

[newbie] OT - Mac OSX anyone?

2004-09-28 Per discussione Todd Slater
Anyone on the list use a Mac with OSX? I'm about to get one at work and was wondering how easy it is to use the FreeBSD under the hood--such as for installing apps I'm accustomed to like vcdimager, instiki, and others. Todd -- Name that tune #7: A lot of people don't have much food

Re: [newbie] normalizing mp3 files across directories

2004-09-24 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:16:51 +, PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 12:27 -0400, Todd Slater wrote: You should just be able to point to all of your directories from the command line, such as normalize -m /path/to/dir1/*.wav /path/to/dir2/*.wav snip many thanks

Re: [newbie] normalizing mp3 files across directories

2004-09-23 Per discussione Todd Slater
with something like find /top/level -type f -iname '*.wav' and use those results as input to normalize. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat

2004-09-20 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 02:34:45PM -0500, Eric Scott wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 19:04, Carroll Grigsby wrote: For all of us anti-MS folks, here's Bob Cringely's latest: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040916.html -- cmg Lol, ranks right up there with

[newbie] OT - stereo vs. puter cd players

2004-09-19 Per discussione Todd Slater
, but it just hangs with all sorts of problems. So, why the diff? Any way to rip it from my stereo's cd? (Technics SL-PG480A) Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] Organizing the information got from mailing lists

2004-09-13 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:22:38PM +0200, Thereidos wrote: W li?cie z nie, 12-09-2004, godz. 20:16, Todd Slater pisze: How about your own personal learning wiki? Instiki is really good for this, I've set one up here: http://wiki.webonaire.com/cheatsheetki/ http://www.instiki.org

Re: [newbie] Organizing the information got from mailing lists

2004-09-12 Per discussione Todd Slater
, Paul How about your own personal learning wiki? Instiki is really good for this, I've set one up here: http://wiki.webonaire.com/cheatsheetki/ http://www.instiki.org Todd -- Name that tune #12: Let's stop off at the Metroplex, that little dancer's got some style; she's the one I'll be waiting

Re: [newbie] fuji finepix in LM10

2004-09-12 Per discussione Todd Slater
here. Todd -- Zinn-Chomsky 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Nvu rpms

2004-09-09 Per discussione Todd Slater
the topic and putting in your own is called hijacking. It messes up threads for those of us who sort by threads, and your message is often unlikely to be read by those that can help because if it's part of an irrelevant thread, I typically delete the entire thread with a keystroke. Thanks! Todd

Re: [newbie] Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

2004-09-08 Per discussione Todd Slater
instead.VO: [dxr3] Error opening /dev/em8300 for writing as well! Bailing. Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device. snip I always specify -vo x11 when running mplayer. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Terrorist Alert! Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Per discussione Todd Slater
Since Eric and Joe seem to be asleep ;) http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:01:02PM +1200, warren wrote: Hi all, I using Mandrake 10.0 and have just rebooted my computer to discover that i have no mandrake control center / open

Re: Terrorist Alert! Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:19:30AM -0500, flesh.99 wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:13:27 -0400, Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since Eric and Joe seem to be asleep ;) http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:01:02PM +1200

Re: [newbie] mail command in shell script: how to attach a file?

2004-09-02 Per discussione Todd Slater
quotas on a remote server) (resending because I didn't see it come through--apologies for dupes) Have it read the file using I/O redirect ( and ) mail -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] /name/of/file.txt Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] A little OT - iRiver iHP-140

2004-08-31 Per discussione Todd Slater
option. (got mine for $50) Todd -- Name that tune #22: No caffeine, no protein, no booze or nicotine. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-31 Per discussione Todd Slater
terrible, to generalize like that, yes. He should have specified *Americans* ;-) My wife is quick to point out that she is American, even though she is not a US citizen ;) Todd -- Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. -Noam Chomsky

Re: [newbie] Archives

2004-08-30 Per discussione Todd Slater
to the archives. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] dvd autoplay non totem

2004-08-29 Per discussione Todd Slater
, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Batch Resizing of icons.

2004-08-26 Per discussione Todd Slater
/folders have spaces in them. Todd -- Anybody but a Republican or Democrat 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Batch Resizing of icons.

2004-08-26 Per discussione Todd Slater
man sed or info sed. Thanks Hoyt. Will give it a shot and send you any info I find or the command that works for your information. sed is a stream editor and will not work with images. Todd -- Name that tune #21: I live in the ghetto, you just come to visit me around election time

Re: [newbie] Another question about scripts at start-up

2004-08-25 Per discussione Todd Slater
environment? Thanks in advance, XFce4 and others I think look in ~/Desktop/Autostart. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Per discussione Todd Slater
. Some of the other apps you mention might be in the same category but I don't know--just wanted to point out that there are 2 kinds of free. In Windows it's much harder to find free (both kinds) of software. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Burning files to a cd from the console

2004-08-24 Per discussione Todd Slater
://www.sharkysoft.com/tutorials/linuxtips/cdcommands/ I'm also making a site of command line stuff that I'm always forgetting on a wiki; you're welcome to contribute as you learn: http://wiki.webonaire.com/cheatsheetki Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Screenshots

2004-08-21 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 08:58:07AM -0500, Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 00:38:24 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://clevername.homeip.net/2004_08_21-00_33_35.png Todd, I get the message clevername.homeip.net could not be found Working on the server

Re: [newbie] Boot from UsB or Firewire.

2004-08-20 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:05:09PM -0700, Ayoub890 wrote: Hi, Can LM10 be booted from a USB or Firewire HD? Thanx, Ayoub As long as your BIOS supports it. Todd -- rm -rf Whitehouse/Bush Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Screenshots

2004-08-20 Per discussione Todd Slater
-to-death stuff) :-D http://clevername.homeip.net/2004_08_21-00_33_35.png Look out, it's over 300K. And no windows for you to see :) Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] Number of occurrences of each word in a text file

2004-08-19 Per discussione Todd Slater
) There's probably more n better ways to do it, but that should work. Modify to suit your needs, like if you want to distinguish between A and a. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Number of occurrences of each word in a text file

2004-08-19 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 07:37:25AM -0600, Russ Kepler wrote: On Thursday 19 August 2004 06:45 am, Todd Slater wrote: 2. Get unique words to count from masterwordlist. uniq masterwordlist uniqwords 3. Count the number of times a word in uniqwords appears in masterwordlist

Re: [newbie] Number of occurrences of each word in a text file

2004-08-19 Per discussione Todd Slater
remember right, the command you want it wc. Close, but wc only returns the number of bytes, words, or lines in a file, not the number of occurrences of individual words. Todd -- Name that tune #2: Turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening

Re: [newbie] newbie archive

2004-08-17 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 05:57:51PM -0400, Paul Kaplan wrote: Can anyone provide a link to an up to date archive of the newbie mailing list. TIA Paul I have the best luck with http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbier=1w=2 Thanks for asking. Todd

Re: [newbie] w, who, users -- where are they?

2004-08-12 Per discussione Todd Slater
]$ w 11:18:53 up 11:06, 0 users, load average: 0.13, 0.33, 0.30 USER TTYLOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] clint]$ who [EMAIL PROTECTED] clint]$ users [EMAIL PROTECTED] clint]$ Thanks, Clint What security level are you running? Todd -- Name that tune #19

Re: [newbie] Auto-completion for the command line

2004-08-11 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:47:26PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Is there some program to provide auto-completion for the command line (bash)? What exactly are you looking for? Thanks, Mikkel. I looking for a way of getting auto-completion according to history.

Re: [newbie] Installing on Compaq Presario 900 laptop

2004-08-11 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:02:19PM -0700, Jason Riker wrote: Todd, I've had success installing Mandrake on both the Presario 710 and 2110. The only problem I had was ACPI and MDK10 has corrected that nicely, although Fedora has slightly better ACPI support (fans respond more to system

[newbie] Installing on Compaq Presario 900 laptop

2004-08-10 Per discussione Todd Slater
releases--RH8, MDK 8.2-9.0. I'm just wondering if it might be easier now with a newer release, and if anybody here has gotten MDK running on one of these machines. Todd -- If those in charge of our society--politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television--can dominate our

Re: [newbie] Switch to text mode

2004-08-08 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 08:58:15AM -0400, Ankit Malik wrote: How to switch to text mode /sbin/init 3 isnt working for me You change the default init level in /etc/inittab. Todd -- Name that tune #1: Is there gas in the car? Yes there's gas in the car! I think the people down the hall know

Re: [newbie] .ogg serial numbers

2004-08-07 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 01:58:40AM +, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 08:42:32 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 07:25:01AM +, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all Anyone know how to strip a serial number from an .ogg? I have two gb that I

Re: [newbie] Image viewers that display GIMP .xcf format files?

2004-08-07 Per discussione Todd Slater
for you. If you're in a directory of images, you can do: display 'vid:*' to display a thumbnail sheet of all files. Middle-clicking displays the image full-size. If you want to just show jpg's, the command would be display 'vid:*.jpg' You get the idea. HTH, Todd -- Anybody but a Republican

Re: [newbie] .ogg serial numbers

2004-08-06 Per discussione Todd Slater
, like vorbiscomment (cli) or easytag (gui). Todd -- Name that tune #16: I've got plenty of java and Chesterfield Kings, but I feel like crying. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

[newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive

2004-08-04 Per discussione Todd Slater
; is there a linux-based tool (bootable floppy or cd) I can use to format the hd? What flavor should I format it as? Do I need anything other than fdisk? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] a program to email upon website changes?

2004-08-03 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 01:47:00PM -0400, g2 wrote: Clint, Todd, Thanks for the suggestions. I will check out the scripting tools you mentioned, however they will probably be beyond my skill level. Regarding Mozilla's ability to watch a website, yes I have explored that feature. BTW, my

Re: [newbie] Bad signatures

2004-08-02 Per discussione Todd Slater
? Sounds like a good match to me :) Todd -- Zinn-Chomsky 2004 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] who and users

2004-07-31 Per discussione Todd Slater
like those are things programs that might be disabled with high security. Maybe it would work as root? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] a program to email upon website changes?

2004-07-30 Per discussione Todd Slater
to write a bash script to do what you want--retrieve the page with wget, compare it to the last version by running diff or something, if there's no change do nothing, if there is email yourself an alert. Todd -- Name that tune #13: When they said come down I threw up

Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me

2004-07-28 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 07:26:06AM -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote: No you didn't you just don't read things like I do. PCI = Politically Incorrect. Maybe it should be /PC or PC/Not or maybe PIC. Whatever! How about: ! PC Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me

2004-07-27 Per discussione Todd Slater
, how's about some dancing girls and more images of Tux? Or maybe that cute little Linspire ditty AND some dancing girls, or some Linux links and some dancing gir,..You get the idea! Grin! Naked dancing girls? Tux is naked, is he not? Todd

Firefox TinyURL extension, was Re: [newbie] Link to cd backup tutorial

2004-07-27 Per discussione Todd Slater
shortened url's that are great for forwarding to friends and lists, something like http://tinyurl.com/22hlv. The extension also saves the sites you've tinyurl-ed. Not to criticize Graham, just a tip! Todd -- Name that tune #11: What if the artists ran the TV, all the ads would be for fine scotch

Re: [newbie] Linux OS Installers

2004-07-27 Per discussione Todd Slater
active. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???

2004-07-26 Per discussione Todd Slater
in obviously /apache/ and your htdocs will be in /apache/htdocs/ ! If you use the Mandrake packaging system then the root is in fact /var/www/html. I would assume a user compiling Apache from source would have enough sense to know how to configure it! Todd

Re: [newbie] rpm build/checkinstall errors

2004-07-25 Per discussione Todd Slater
would suggest), you need to configure and make first. So, ./configure ./make su checkinstall HTH, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] XFCE4 looks like KDE...huh?

2004-07-21 Per discussione Todd Slater
haven't set it up from scratch for so long that I just don't know. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Installing a .jar file

2004-07-21 Per discussione Todd Slater
the full path to its location; on my machine it's /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_01/bin/java. You could probably set up a link in ~/bin or /usr/bin if you wanted. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] OT on mobos and chipsets

2004-07-20 Per discussione Todd Slater
as expensive as I expected. Now off to learn about the different AMD cores and see which one gives the most bang for the buck. Todd | I'm thinking about building a new computer. My needs are | pretty typical home user stuff. I want to network it (haven't | decided on wired or wireless yet

Re: [newbie] Grip on Mandrake 10

2004-07-18 Per discussione Todd Slater
. If you don't need the tunes for a portable player, I'd recommend sticking with ogg anyway; it's better and free. Todd -- Name that tune #2: Turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] OT on mobos and chipsets

2004-07-16 Per discussione Todd Slater
500MHz amd now, I just need a project.) TIA, Todd -- Name that tune #2: Turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] Configuring Klipper to launch Firefox?

2004-07-16 Per discussione Todd Slater
($url,new-tab) else $browserPath $url fi exit If you have a pre-0.9 version of firefox, you should drop the -a. Todd -- Name that tune #20: Do you take me for a fool do you think that I don't see that ditch out in the valley that they're digging just for me

[newbie] [OT] Keyboard support

2004-07-09 Per discussione Todd Slater
the programmable mouse buttons. A keyboard and mouse shouldn't require drivers, should they? Todd -- Name that tune #4: I said, There is no justice! as they led me out the door; and the judge said, This isn't a court of justice, son, this is a court of law

Re: [newbie] [OT] Keyboard support

2004-07-09 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 02:58:51PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Todd Slater wrote: Well, sorta OT--I'm looking to get a keyboard and mouse for my kids that are better (ergonomically) than adult-sized keyboards and mice. The manufacturer lists Windows or Mac as requirements, but I'm

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