Re: Linux & Electronics

2002-11-19 Thread Duane Clark
Thomas Ribbrock Hm, something screwed up the threading, otherwise I'd have seen this mail earlier... ;-) On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:43:43PM -0800, Duane Clark wrote: Manuel Camacho wrote: Actually no. I wrote the lines below - please check your quoting... Oops sorry. Because of the

Re: Linux & Electronics (was: wine in general (my 2 cents))

2002-11-19 Thread Duane Clark
Thomas Ribbrock wrote: It's xpcb. It's ok, but last time I used it I found it not quite a match for a 'professional' layout program along the lines of PADs or Eagle. The latter is available for Linux, but too expensive for home use. > ... Eagle comes in three versions. A free version, a "cheap"

Re: Linux & Electronics

2002-11-18 Thread Duane Clark
Manuel Camacho wrote: > Out of interest: What programs are used for EDA (e.g. schematic > capture, PCB layout, etc.)? Last time I checked (which is a while > ago), there didn't seem to be that much out there... I didn't notice this message originally (too much volume on this list)... For basic sc

Re: wine in general (my 2 cents)

2002-11-15 Thread Duane Clark
Manuel Camacho wrote: Is Window$ a necessary evil??? Unfortunately, so far, for Engineering applications, I think so. > ... I would distinguish between various engineering disciplines. In the world of electronics, there seems to be a strong trend towards Linux. Almost every major and many mi

Re: combining two postscript files

2002-10-01 Thread Duane Clark
On 01-Oct-2002/11:59 -0500, Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I need to combine/merge two fairly large postscript files created in the >gimp into one multi-page document for printing on a duplex printer. I >have googled for an hour or so and while I have learned quite a bit >about post

Re: netscape-7.0 and realplayer8

2002-09-09 Thread Duane Clark
Aly wrote: > Hello, > ... > You would have better luck using Mozilla 1.1 for those pop-up windows > in the options you can say donot open restricted windows, I think that > this is in the preferences section of the Mozilla Edit menu. Netscape > would prefer to have this happen to you the

Re: More on apples text files

2002-09-06 Thread Duane Clark
On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 10:48 AM, Blake Thornton wrote: > I'm running into problems with sharing text files between macs and my > linux machine. The problem seems to be that on linux my text files > have end of lines (\n) and on the mac text files have something else > (shown as '^M

Re: Linux graphing utility or program

2002-09-06 Thread Duane Clark
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 09:00:47AM -0700, Robert Vaughn wrote: > We are looking for a graphics charting library or > program or utility for Linux. For example, we would > like to take numbers that are stored in a CSV text > file and crunch them through whatever graphics program > to produce

Re: adsl at startup

2002-07-17 Thread Duane Clark
Duane wrote: > Since the original poster does have roaringpenguin, I remember that when > I first installed it, there was a problem with what configuration file > it was using. I think I had some confusion with the configuration file > created by RH prior to the installation of roaringpenguin.

Re: adsl at startup

2002-07-17 Thread Duane Clark
Anthony wrote: > ADSL works on RH72 and later out of the box. No need to use > roaringpenguin. Check out the Getting Started and Customization docs in > the Support section of the RH web site. > Err, well in my case, the RH72 version worked fine, but the RH73 version was constantly dropping and

Re: Adding tahoma font to X

2002-07-06 Thread Duane Clark
Vidiot wrote: > Does anyone have a good listing for tahoma and tahomabd in which to place > into the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/fonts.dir file? > cd into the webfonts directory, and type "mkfontdir". That will create the fonts.dir file for you. ___

Re: Linux compatability with AMD Athlon XP 2200...

2002-07-05 Thread Duane Clark
I wrote: > You probably want to install and run hdparm > Arg. Of course I meant lm_sensors there. Duane ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Linux compatability with AMD Athlon XP 2200...

2002-07-05 Thread Duane Clark
Andrew Benton wrote: > I am planning on building a computer with the AMD > Athlon XP 2200+ 1.8 GHZ processor and I am wondering > if I will be able to run linux on it. I specifically > am looking at the ASUS A7V333 Motherboard which > supports PC2700 DDR SDRAM and has an integrated > Promise 2027

Re: DSL on RH

2002-06-20 Thread Duane Clark
David wrote: > On Wednesday 19 June 2002 11:52 pm, Kevin Myers wrote: > >> For pppoe, look at the RoaringPenguin pages, >> http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/ The docs are good and I am using it >> now. Setup couldn't be easier! (Be careful, the distro is broken in the 7.2 >> package, use the rp

Re: cdrom problems

2002-06-13 Thread Duane Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My cdroms are ide drives one a slave to the hard drive and one is with a > superdisk They are seen as scsi drives. can't mount them can eject the > trays. Was able to install rh 7.2 but thats it. I also tried sndconfig > for sound the right driver wasn't there but wa

RE: redhat 7.3 and performance

2002-06-13 Thread Duane Clark
Okay, maybe I am dragging this out a bit... Gordon wrote: > On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 08:30, Adam Ellis wrote: > >> This is a good thread...I'm all ears on performance enhancement techniques. >> Regarding your question about sendmail...you can stop that from starting up >> using the Service Configur

Re: redhat 7.3 and performance

2002-06-11 Thread Duane Clark
Petri Somerkari wrote: > > The case is not that I want screaming fast desktop, but I feel I want at > least something that is as fast as ms-winXP. At the moment RedHat is not > coming close to that. Booting still takes minutes and even opening > applications like terminal or mozilla takes nea

Re: How do I find out if wine is running.

2002-04-28 Thread Duane Clark
Kjetil wrote: > I have not setup wine.conf.I get this error. > wineserver:chdir /root/.wine :No such file or > directory. > I have mounted the windows drive and tried to run some > windows programs. Please DON'T run wine as root!!! It is alpha software, with many bugs. The version of wine that c

RE: Major update on 7.1 disrupts fonts, keyboard.. what the..

2002-03-20 Thread Duane Clark
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > An example: Previous to update, pressing bckspc while in insert mode > in vim would delete to the left, moving the cursor to left. Now I > get ^? with the same action. I don't know why that broke, but I fix it by doing this: # stty erase '^?' I use

Re: mkisofs

2002-02-21 Thread Duane Clark
Ezra Nugroho wrote: > I just read the man page for mkisofs, but I am not very clear about > something yet. > I don't have a burner on my linux box, so I want to make an iso image to be > burned somewhere else. > If I want to make an iso image of a directory should I type: > > mkisofs -r -o file

Re: more cd burning questions

2002-02-20 Thread Duane Clark
Brandon wrote: > Right, you definitely don't want to turn off IDE support. Not only >> would it prevent your CD-ROMs from working, but your floppy and hdd >> wouldn't work either. [:)] (Unless they happen to be SCSI.) >> > > Heh, in which case all this ide-scsi stuff wouldn't be necessary. [

Re: more cd burning questions

2002-02-19 Thread Duane Clark
Brandon Dorman wrote: > [root@localhost sbin]# ./insmod loop > insmod: loop: no module by that name found > [root@localhost sbin]# > [root@localhost sbin]# ./insmod sg > insmod: sg: no module by that name found > [root@localhost sbin]# ./insmod sr_mod > insmod: sr_mod: no module by that name foun

Re: more cd burning questions

2002-02-19 Thread Duane Clark
Brandon Dorman wrote: > I ran dmesg again just now and actually got more information. here is > about the cd drives: > hdc: MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8584A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > hdd: PHILIPS CDD3610 CD-R/RW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Thats good, and > > and then later > > hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM dri

Re: more cd burning questions

2002-02-18 Thread Duane Clark
Brandon Dorman wrote: > I've recompiled the 2.4.17 kernel with ide-scsi > support and stuff, and it sees my drive. Okay, what "and stuff"? And as modules or into the kernel? Let us know what you did with ide-cd, scsi, ide-scsi, sg, and sr. Before I go much further, you might want to take a lo

RPM upgrade philosophy

2002-02-15 Thread Duane Clark
Howdy, I am a little curious about the "philosophy" of doing upgrades with RPM. For example, I just did the "New initscripts packages..." upgrade. Since I had slight modifications to a couple of files (for example, mods to /etc/init.d/network, because my DSL pppd connection needed to be shu

Focus behavior

2002-01-26 Thread Duane Clark
Having recently upgraded from 6.2 to 7.2 (yea, I took my time doing that), there is one change that is really irritating me. In enlightenment, I had things set up so the focus follows the mouse, but does not raise the windows. Windows were only raised when I clicked on the border. Now with sa

Re: Redhat-list digest, Vol 1 #3479

2002-01-03 Thread Duane Clark
Szemerédy wrote: > Hello! > I did not receive #3479! > Consider yourself lucky, since it was more than a MB! I suspect your ISP bounced it for being too big. Duane ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailm

Re: Problems getting RH 7.2 to boot properly

2002-01-03 Thread Duane Clark
Silviu wrote: > > Please pardon me, but when exactly did it seem to you like a > good idea to post a mail of about 1MB in size to this group ? > > While I agree with that sentiment, there is also no excuse for the Redhat-list to pass along messages like that. This list uses "mailman" to ru

Re: StarOffice and PDF

2001-12-06 Thread Duane Clark
Fernando wrote: > Hi Duane, > >> > I have some slideshow presentations created using StarOffice, and I'd >> > like to convert them to PDF. Looks easy -- just print to file and run >> > ps2pdf from gostscript. >> > >> > But the end result is that all slides get rotated by 90 degrees. >> >> I wou

Re: StarOffice and PDF

2001-12-04 Thread Duane Clark
Fernando wrote: > I have some slideshow presentations created using StarOffice, and I'd > like to convert them to PDF. Looks easy -- just print to file and run > ps2pdf from gostscript. > > But the end result is that all slides get rotated by 90 degrees. If I > use xpdf or gv, that's easy -- jus

Re: Fonts on RH7.2 - Netscape VS Kconquerer

2001-12-02 Thread Duane Clark
On Monday 03 December 2001 04:50 am, ethan wrote: > Is there any reason why my Netscape fonts and Kconquerer display fonts > seem different for the same webpage despite my having installted > windows fonts and if so, is there a way to ensure the same display - > ie. Kconquerer display = Netsca

RE: ntp status

2001-11-27 Thread Duane Clark
Mike wrote: > I use ntp from a CRON command line every 6 hours. It leaves a trail in > /var/spool/mail/root > It is a little puzzling what you are doing here. NTP is a daemon, and should remain running once started, unless there is a problem. > > -Original Message- > From: Bret Hug

RE: ntp status

2001-11-26 Thread Duane Clark
Mike wrote: > I use ntp from a CRON command line every 6 hours. It leaves a trail in > /var/spool/mail/root > It is a little puzzling what you are doing here. NTP is a daemon, and should remain running once started, unless there is a problem. > > -Original Message- > From: Bret Hug

Re: single PLIP installation disk

2001-03-08 Thread Duane Clark
Leonard wrote: > I seem to remember to have come accross a single bootnet floppy with PLIP > already integrated, but I can't remember where this was. Anybody seen such an > image around? No problem if it's for an older RedHat release, I just need to > have a look at it. > Thanx in advance, H

Re: Mirroring a HD for offline backup

2001-01-29 Thread Duane Clark
a backup should be always be tested before there is an emergency. > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Duane Clark wrote: > > > Perhaps unplug your primary drive, plug your mirror in its place, and > > try booting. Depending on how you made your mirror, you might not even > > need the flop

Re: Mirroring a HD for offline backup

2001-01-29 Thread Duane Clark
Perhaps unplug your primary drive, plug your mirror in its place, and try booting. Depending on how you made your mirror, you might not even need the floppy. But in either case, you can now make your mirror bootable, and not worry about the floppy. Once it is bootable, put it back as the secondary

Re: httpd.conf

2001-01-23 Thread Duane Clark
Jeremy Sudderth wrote: > Hello everyone, > > This is an easy question to answer so I hope you can help. > > My httpd.conf file is corrupted and I need a generic copy. I don't want to > reinstall apache, and all I need is the file. > > This will teach me not edit config files during the rolli

Re: Boot issue. INIT cannot execute etc/rc.d/sysinit

2001-01-21 Thread Duane Clark
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Patrick Lacchia wrote: > Guess what? I stupidly added 3 lines to etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. It looked safe, > you just open the file with gnupad, add the lines, save. Safe until the next > time you reboot and find out that you can't use RedHat 6.2 anymore. During > the launch I now

Re: Ramen worm

2001-01-19 Thread Duane Clark
John wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Duane Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 2:54 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Ramen worm > > > > > > For professional sys-admins caught by this, I

Re: Ramen worm

2001-01-19 Thread Duane Clark
> There are those who say that previous Red Hat releases were full of > holes caused by the way Red Hat set things up in a default > install... Welp... lemme repeat myself: > > "...the sys-admin's who get busted had better look to their own > professionalism instead of blaming Red Hat!" The tools

Re: IRQ sharing - was no route to host?

2001-01-19 Thread Duane Clark
> My take on IRQ sharing is: unless you have seperate channels (as with IDE, > etc), everything bound to the interrupt will be interrupted at the same > time... which will cause problems in many cases.. I had 2 things on the > same IRQ one time on accident.. one of them was my sound card.. the sou

PLIP installation of RH ?

2001-01-17 Thread Duane Clark
Howdy, I was attempting to do an installation of RH 6.2 on an old laptop (NEC Versa 33) using network installation via PLIP (the parallel interface). I created the network boot floppy and booted off it, and when it asked for the network device, I selected the PLIP device. But then it generates un

Re: RH7 and CD Writer

2001-01-17 Thread Duane Clark
Massimo Alonzo wrote: > Hi, > > I have a courious problem with RH7, my IDE cd writer (Philips CDD 3610) > doesn't work. > > It works with Win and with RH6.2. > > I use cdrecord and each time I try to burn an audio cd I get always the > same error : > " retryable error ." > and the oper

Re: xcdroast question

2001-01-12 Thread Duane Clark
Bob Hartung asked: > Question about xcdroast use: > If I master a CD by linking to a series of directories I cannot figure > out how to make xcdroast keep the directory/subdirectory structure on > the cd. Instead it throws all the rpm's & files into one large > directory that is root on the cdr

Re: No DPMS under X in RH7.0 ?

2001-01-11 Thread Duane Clark
Mike wrote: > I have RH7.0 w/2.4.0 kernel installed on a new Athlon box. For some reason > I get no auto powersave via DPMS when running X. The monitor does shut off > when I'm not running X however. Also if I connect to this box remotely > after the dpms off time, 'xset q' tells me the monitor i

Re: No ATAPE CDR or SCSI Tape after RH 7 reinstall _ideas?????

2001-01-10 Thread Duane Clark
Bob wrote: > Okay, > Seems like we have two threads going under one subject header. Anyway, > I have recompiled 2.2.16-22 and now have a scsi cdrw reported and made a link > between /dev/cdrom and /dev/sr0. I can mount the cdrom. No module dependency > errors are noted at boot. > > Howev

Re: No ATAPE CDR or SCSI Tape after RH 7 reinstall _ideas?????

2001-01-09 Thread Duane Clark
> > > > > One thing that will help with this part is to execute "dmesg", and post > > > any lines that appear to apply to disks. This gives a lot of very useful > > > info about how the system recognizes devices and what drivers are > > > loaded. > > sorry should have done before.:) > okay they s

Re: No ATAPE CDR or SCSI Tape after RH 7 reinstall _ideas?????

2001-01-09 Thread Duane Clark
> Update, > I have removed the original kernel-2.2.16 source and headers, > reinstalled and recompiled with the attached configuration file. I > still receive the error on boot: > >unresolved dependencies in /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/scsi/sd_mod.o Did you look in the file /lib/modules/2.2.16

Re: Drive Imaging

2001-01-09 Thread Duane Clark
Duane Clark wrote: > > Peter wrote: > > Duane Clark wrote: > > > > > Greg Wright wrote: > > > > cp /dev/hdx /dev/hdx where x is a different drive should copy > > > > everything, cannot comment on flaws though... > > > > >

Re: Drive Imaging

2001-01-09 Thread Duane Clark
Peter wrote: > Duane Clark wrote: > > > Greg Wright wrote: > > > cp /dev/hdx /dev/hdx where x is a different drive should copy > > > everything, cannot comment on flaws though... > > > You will notice that the copy command he was using specified raw d

Re: Drive Imaging

2001-01-08 Thread Duane Clark
Samuel Flory wrote: > Samuel Flory wrote: > > > In any event. Wouldn't it be easier to do a "cp -ax / /mnt/tmp"? > > Sure you could use a complex tar or cpio command, but why? > > > opps should be "cp -ax / /home /mnt/tmp" Yeh, one thing I occasionally grumble about with Unix/Linux (I'm a re

Re: Drive Imaging

2001-01-08 Thread Duane Clark
Gary Nielson wrote: > Linux Journal recently had a way to copy disks: > >tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /dir/to/copy/to; tar xvf - ) > > c = create > > l = stay on local file system (don't cross >filesystem boundaries) > >f = file (the next argument is

Re: Drive Imaging

2001-01-08 Thread Duane Clark
cmead wrote: > > Greg Wright wrote: > > > Look in the archives for various answersbut > > > > > > cp /dev/hdx /dev/hdx where x is a different drive should copy > > > everything, cannot comment on flaws though... > > > > This would indeed copy the disk. But your new 40 GB disk would magical

Re: Drive Imaging

2001-01-08 Thread Duane Clark
Greg Wright wrote: > Look in the archives for various answersbut > > cp /dev/hdx /dev/hdx where x is a different drive should copy > everything, cannot comment on flaws though... This would indeed copy the disk. But your new 40 GB disk would magically become a 10 GB disk!, and the only w

Re: How to install Dlink SM56PCI SpeakerPhone Modem

2001-01-03 Thread Duane Clark
Tratik Ajmera wrote: > Hi, > > I have RedHat Linux 6.2. I have Dlink SM56PCI SpeakerPhone Modem (Motorola SM56 > Chipset). This is internal Modem. > > HOw can I configure it on Linux. & where can I find driver for this Modem. > > Thanks, > Pratik Ajmera I am afraid you are out of luck. There a

Re: Powerpoint viewer

2001-01-03 Thread Duane Clark
Calamity wrote: > Duane Clark wrote: > > > > David Brett wrote: > > > Will this work with Linux? > > > > The PowerPoint Viewer 97 does run under the current version of Wine > > under Linux, and operation has improved considerably in recent months.

Re: Powerpoint viewer

2001-01-02 Thread Duane Clark
David Brett wrote: > Will this work with Linux? The PowerPoint Viewer 97 does run under the current version of Wine under Linux, and operation has improved considerably in recent months. But this is definitely alpha stuff; be prepared for it hanging up your video - make sure you remember the Ctrl

Re: Good CD burning software?

2001-01-02 Thread Duane Clark
Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > > Turns out it's hdd. That improved things; xcdroast now says it can read > from the CD-RW drive, but it still can't write to it. > > Glen Did you try burning a CD as root? I have not used xcdroast, so I can't comment on that part. But unless you muck around with perm

Re: Modem and Printer Configuration

2000-12-30 Thread Duane Clark
George Trapkov wrote: > It's not a WinModem. I can see it under PCI devices. I > looked at the list and it is not listed as WinModem. > When I start printtool and try to test the printer it > is looking for lpr. Where do I find this package? > George What list are we talking about here? A quick

Re: MOZILLA - where are you?

2000-12-20 Thread Duane Clark
Vidiot wrote: > >If it makes a difference, I am running behind junkbuster proxy. It got > >everything else right AFAICT. > >Hal B > > Run Netscape 4 and I'll bet that it is correct. > > MB Nope. Running Netscape 4.76 behind Junkbuster gives me the same 127.0.0.1

Re: Netscape 6 follies

2000-12-18 Thread Duane Clark
Ted Gervais wrote: > Netscape and RedHat.. Just wondering if you are a way to view streaming > media and other such stuff that one runs across while using > Netscape. Maybe you found a way to do that too? I would appreciate knowing > as I am stuck right now. Site locations etc would be helpful

Re: Booting failure

2000-12-17 Thread Duane Clark
sure that was after installing Linux and having this problem. Fortunately, it is my backup computer. My main computer (these are used in my business) works great - and is much faster, though I am still running RH 6.1 on it. Duane > > --- Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Booting failure

2000-12-17 Thread Duane Clark
Bret Hughes wrote: > Duane Clark wrote: > > > On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Huiyuan Ma wrote: > > > > > Hi,I have a funny problem while booting the redhat > > > 7.Whenever it boots,it shows an error message of > > > 'loading error' and stops,but if

Re: Booting failure

2000-12-17 Thread Duane Clark
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Huiyuan Ma wrote: > Hi,I have a funny problem while booting the redhat > 7.Whenever it boots,it shows an error message of > 'loading error' and stops,but if I strike the return > key and try several times,it simply works.Why? I cannot say why this is happening, but I have th

Re: Best backup system/plan for maximum safety - what do y'all do?

2000-12-15 Thread Duane Clark
Jonathan Wilson wrote: > Howdy, > > Now that we've spent a good deal of time setting up our system of servers, it's > occurred to us that we should be dome something more rigorous then once a week > manual "cp -a /etc /backup/$DATE" > > First off, we do NOT want to buy a commercial app like Arie

Re: StarOffice aborts on rh7.0 (UPDATE)

2000-12-15 Thread Duane Clark
Carey F. Cox wrote: > Please recall that I have been having problems with running StarOffice > and having it abort abruptly at start up. I reinstalled it yet again, > but this time I decided to let root do a local install after the /net > install. When logged in as root, soffice came up fine. No p

Re: Making a CD

2000-12-10 Thread Duane Clark
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote: > I have downloaded Oracle 8.1.7 for linux in a tar.gz file... > > I then extract the files via. > > tar -zxvf thefile > > I end up with the files and directory tree on disk... > > what I would like to do is get this onto a CD after it's been > decompresse

Re: Please clarify error messages

2000-12-06 Thread Duane Clark
D. W. Piper wrote: > I've just spent the last couple of days wading through on-line > documentation and mail list archives to no avail. > > Throughout the day we get two-line error messages appearing both on the > console, and in /var/log/messages, such as the following: > > kernel: lookup_b

Re: RH Notebooks

2000-12-04 Thread Duane Clark
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Tundra wrote: > I am looking for a mid to upper level range notebook that satisfactorily runs > RH. My preference, although not a necessity, would be to purchase a notebook > preloaded with RH which is appropriately configured (including modem). > Alternatively, a purchase of

Re: I feel like such a Newbie

2000-11-19 Thread Duane Clark
Thornton wrote: > > Hi all, I've been using RH 6.0 for over a year and reading this list > > for about the same time. Finally, I've got an external modem and wanna > > try using the internet from Linux (don't get me started on buying an > > expensive machine only to find out most of the comp

Re: PCB Design? (was: OT - PCB's)

2000-11-16 Thread Duane Clark
The only commercial native Linux schematic and PCB design software that I am aware of is Eagle from CadSoft: http://www.cadsoft.de/ I've recently purchased the PCB portion and so far it seems to work pretty good. A free version is available that just limits the design to a two layer, 4x3 inch bo

Re: cdrom-mount issue

2000-11-10 Thread Duane Clark
Tundra wrote: > I recently purchased a CD-rw device. I installed it. The CD subsequently was > able to be mounted properly and info read off of appropriate type of CD's. It > also > played music correctly. > > I tried that night to enable its "write" feature that night. I was unsuccessful. > >

Re: News Groups - Off topic

2000-11-09 Thread Duane Clark
Christopher W Aiken wrote: > > I have RH 7.0 both at home and at work. I use "slrn" to > read several news groups, again both at home and at work. > > I had to change ISP's and now I can not read my new ISP's > news groups from work because they don't authenticate users > unless they use a "dia

RE: hdparam (was Re: Linux Network Performance...)

2000-11-04 Thread Duane Clark
Charles Galpin wrote: > I'm not trying to play dumb or anything. I realize it's newer technology > which has higher maximums. I guess I'm really just surprised that a > controller/disk combination which is supposed to have a maximum rate of > 80MB/sec only gets 13 MB/sec in practice :(. I paid wa

Re: vger

2000-10-18 Thread Duane Clark
Cristian wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Arggg... text only please. > > Hy, > > About half a year ago it was a list called = > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I tried it again now and it seems it dissappeared. It was a general = > newbie list, nomater what linux distribution on

Re: graphing software question

2000-10-09 Thread Duane Clark
Another very good (but free) graphing package that is widely used in the engineering and scientific world is "grace". I will admit I have not tried to use it for plotting equations, but it has a very comprehensive "command interpreter" that it appears would do this relatively easily. Might be wort

Re: CD Burners and 6.2

2000-09-12 Thread Duane Clark
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Mikkel wrote: > On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Peter (XTRA) wrote: > > > Hi > > > > is there a simple way to use kernald or the likes to replace > > HP 7500 IDE Burner to a scsi device so it'll be seem by > > xcdroast to use, I believe there is a way to do something like > > ide-cdrom

Re: CD Playing and burn

2000-09-11 Thread Duane Clark
> I used the CD-Writing-HOWTO document to configure my HP > 7200 CD-RW which now works flawlessly. At first I > thought I needed to reconfigure the kernel, but you > just need to run a few modules like ide-scsi and add a > few lines to your /etc/conf.modules like this: > > #added as per CD-WRIT

Re: mounting cd and cdrw

2000-09-03 Thread Duane Clark
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Spunk S. Spunk III wrote: > Okay, > so my dmesg does report that it's seeing my Yamaha CD-RW as sr0 but it also sees it >as hdc. > Is this the conflict? and if so how do I fix it? (I did turn off IDE ATAPI support >in the > kernel). Either way, when I do a mount -t > iso9660

Re: cdrecord / module loading help needed

2000-09-03 Thread Duane Clark
lee wrote: > there I go again quoting those howto's :) lol > no seriously thats exactly right thanks for correcting that..up too late i knew > better... sorry about that gent whom i was addressing.. :) I did not mean for my message to sound quite as sharp as it came out - sorry. In my exp

Re: cdrecord / module loading help needed

2000-09-02 Thread Duane Clark
Lee wrote: > ... > just make sure you've got the scsi emulation etc. settings to Y as the howto > suggests.. > > ALSO: > you must insert the following into /etc/profile ( starting with test and > ending with cdrecord -scanbus ) > - > > test `whoami` = 'root' |

Re: cdrecord / module loading help needed

2000-09-02 Thread Duane Clark
> I'm trying to get my IDE CD burner working using cdrecord, and as usual, not > as simple as the documentation suggests. The first step is to type > 'cdrecord -scanbus' and figure out what the device, LUN, etc. is, but when I > do it it just says > "No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI dri

Re: mounting cd and cdrw

2000-09-02 Thread Duane Clark
Spunk wrote: > I just installed a yamaha cdrw which in order to get working, I had to > turn off CDROM IDE services in my kernel and use SCSI emulation instead. > Well after a lot of work, I got the cdrw working but now I find I can't > mount any CDs at all. I changed my /etc/fstab cdrom entry fro

Re: setting partitions

2000-08-31 Thread Duane Clark
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Jim Travnick wrote: > Not using hda2 or hda3 for anything these are just what RH set it all up as. > Right now the drive has four partitions on it for windows I delete them and > start with what I thought would be fresh. dont want win. on this system at > all its the kids old

Re: re-partitioning

2000-08-31 Thread Duane Clark
Mark wrote: > Hi folks, > > I know that we have beat this topic up for a while. I just want to clarify > an issue. I've just gotten a new HDD and want to take my RH 6.2 > installation and > > tar the partitions onto the new drive (easy) > delete existing partitions from old drive, (also

Re: Linksys network card config?

2000-08-27 Thread Duane Clark
Vidiot wrote: > After many hours of everything than can go wrong going wrong, I got a > couple of Linksys LNE100TX cards, one of which will go in right now > for the DSL connection and the other for the in-house network. > > The problem is that the system sees the new card, it won't configure a >

Re: Suggested CD-RW Drive

2000-08-16 Thread Duane Clark
Rick Forrister said: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I was thinking Yamaha too, what type of scsi card would you recommend > > for an internal scsi drive? > > Actually, another drive I'd recommend is a Plextor. I'm using their > 8/20 drive in my machine, after trying others. I tend to feel that

Re: lilo crc error

2000-08-07 Thread Duane Clark
"eric clover" wrote: > > morning, > i was having sig11 errors when i was compiling the new 2.4.0 kernel, and i > was told to run a test on my ram. i got and ran memtest86. now my puter > locks up and when i reset it it gets to lilo then says it is decompressing > the vmlinux and returns a crc err

Re: UDMA

2000-07-01 Thread Duane Clark
Morsal wrote: > Hi, > How do i set UDMA settings permanent in RH 6.2? > > I've tried to add it to the rc.local file but still it doesn't enable UDMA > at startup. Please give me a detailed answer to this question. > > /Morsal You should probably investigate why commands in rc.local are not work

RE: STrange problem... [SOLVED]

2000-06-28 Thread Duane Clark
Thomas wrote: > Hermm... I feel like a ninny... > > It was a corrupted inbox... I moved all the messages out to another folder, > and the Inbox was still 2M! > > Deleted, & refired, everything seems to be working fine... (Duh!) I am also seeing this odd behavior. Unlike others have frequentl

Re: cd writing

2000-06-24 Thread Duane Clark
Steve Lee wrote: > i both a new cdrw 8x at writing > cdrecord says writing at power of 6 > when i write, while i have a 8x writer. > is that correct? > but it also say writing at 8x so i'm a little > confused? > explain. please. > ... > ATIP info from disk: > Indicated writing power: 6 > Is n

Re: Gnome messed up writing to cds!

2000-06-21 Thread Duane Clark
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Gary Nielson wrote: > I justed to update people on the list about what I've discovered about my > problems with running cdrecord on my new Linux box. At first, I had no > problems, then I was unable to erase re-writable cds or complete the > process of writing to recordable cd

Re: Starting Netscape Messenger only.

2000-06-19 Thread Duane Clark
Manuel wrote: > Danny wrote: > > -Did you follow the instructions I gave you exactly? > > Yep. > > > - Are you sure you did click on OK instread of cancel > > Yep. Actually, it is the way it is set up right now. I mean, if I open > the menu right now, it comes that what it is selected to start

Re: Leaving the computer on

2000-06-15 Thread Duane Clark
CH wrote: > Tom wrote: > > The monitor is the power hungry beast in the configuration, but if you have > > a "green" monitor and take advantage of all the power saving features, you > > don't need to turn it off, it will do that by itself. > > Unless you have a computer with a huge power supply a

Re: Leaving the computer o

2000-06-15 Thread Duane Clark
Tom wrote: > It's easy. When does a light bulb fail? When you turn it on. Why? All > those cold, low resistance circuits draw a lot of current at turn on, there > are mechanical as well as electrical stresses on all those junctions, to > say nothing of the trauma to capacitors. > > The monito

Re: Schematic Entry

2000-06-14 Thread Duane Clark
Thomas Ribbrock wrote: > Hi all, > > quick one: Does anybody out there have recommendations on a good program > for schematic entry? Preferably something that can export a netlist or > DXF or suchlike and - if possible - free/Open Source. > I've been browsing around SAL (http://SAL.KachinaTech.CO

RE: CD Players, was Inserting Audio CDs makes...

2000-06-08 Thread Duane Clark
Joe Kelch wrote: > I've got an Acer 50X cdrom too, but I also have a built in to the > motherboard Yamaha DS-XG compatible sound system. Although the > standard xcdplay doesn't seem to recognize the disk, when I put an > audio cd in the drive a different player pops up and seems to work > fin

Re: CRON Question - Help Please

2000-06-08 Thread Duane Clark
> Im trying to do a backup job to my Jaz Drive with cron and Im having > difficulty. The command Im using is: > > 38 08 * * 1 find /home/* -print | cpio -orcvdumB > /mnt/jaz > > I keep getting " broken pipe " > > Any help would be greatly appreciated I do a very similar thing, but I use the m

RE: OT: FW: Blast Rocks Microsoft Office in S. Africa

2000-06-02 Thread Duane Clark
Duane wrote: > More then he should have. So I would like to apologize for just fanning the flames with that previous post. In retrospect, I would prefer not to have sent it. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

RE: OT: FW: Blast Rocks Microsoft Office in S. Africa

2000-06-02 Thread Duane Clark
Wow, I did not realize that extreme political correctness was required on this list. And this coming from me who considers myself a flaming liberal. Accusing the guy of promoting terrorism, or anything remotely close is just rediculous. It was an incredibly tasteless attempt at a light comment. L

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